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If you're intrigued by the question "What makes us human?", strap in for this whirlwind tour of the highlights of anthropologyFrom the first steps of our prehistoric ancestors, to the development of complex languages, to the intricacies of religions and cultures across...
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Summersdale
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2022-09-08
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This book explores the educational experiences of young male Somali students in British schools. Through narrative research, Abdi offers critical insights into the ways in which identities are constructed, challenged and negotiated in the classroom by sharing stories...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-09-08
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In spite of recession, austerity and pandemics, Ireland has demonstrated an extraordinary degree of resilience, becoming one of the most successful economies in Europe and developing into a society remarkably at ease with itself. This book argues that the seeds of this...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-09-08
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This book examines sexual fantasies and their influence on everyday life through the stories of twenty-two men who introduce themselves as bugchasers, i.e. gay men who eroticize HIV. The author defines bugchasing, charts its history and contexts, and considers how it...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-09-07
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Named one of Mother Jones' BOOKS WE NEEDED IN 2022Named one of CrimeReads' BEST NEW TRUE CRIME BOOKS OUT NOW A true-crime story for the post-truth era In the early hours of July 10, 2016, gunshots rang out and a young man lay fatally wounded on...
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PublicAffairs
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2022-09-06
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'The Chaos Machine is an essential book for our times' - Ezra KleinThe Chaos Machine is the story of how the world was driven mad by social media. The election of populists like Trump and Bolsonaro; strife and genocide in countries like Myanmar; the rampant spread of...
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Quercus
Parution :
2022-09-06
ePub
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The focus on concepts of power and domination in societal structures has characterized sociology since its beginnings. Max Weber’s definition of power as “imposing one’s will on others” is still relevant to explaining processes in the arts, whether their production,...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2022-09-05
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This edited book examines key challenges in the digital era and their implications for journalism practice and public debate in emerging media markets. It specifically focuses on evidence from selected Southern and Eastern European countries as they represent cases...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-09-05
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This book introduces important reflections on understanding the meaning of cultural-religious heritage in an international context and their relationship with issues of sustainability at the local community level. Through a holistic approach, the book charts new courses...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-09-03
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The Space Value of Money introduces a fresh and innovative perspective on sustainability and finance. It expands our financial value framework, heretofore built around risk and time, by factoring in space, as an analytical dimension and our physical context.The proposed...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-09-03
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This book proposes an interdisciplinary look at the culture of shame in Central Asia and evaluates its role in the regulation of social and political interactions in the region. Contributors demonstrate how 'uyat' relies on patriarchal and hierarchical gender norms that...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-09-02
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Although many local authorities underline the important role of citizens in climate adaptation, many experience difficulties with organizing citizen participation in a way that is meaningful to both citizens and policymakers. Climate change is for many simply not a top...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-09-02
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The SAGE Handbook of Social Media Research Methods spans the entire research process, from data collection to analysis and interpretation. This second edition has been comprehensively updated and expanded, from 39 to 49 chapters. In addition to a new section of chapters...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2022-09-02
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This volume on the term “Europe” is based on a conference that took place in the winter of 2018 at the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation in Munich. Europe in its complexity, in its character of radical change and its power of fascination is of unbroken...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-09-01
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This book is an unprecedented effort to compare representations and practices of social distinction worldwide and over the centuries. It is based on years of observation in many countries and on the consultation of more than 2 500 multi-disciplinary publications...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-09-01
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'Richardson writes beautifully about his return to the land, about listening to the soil and about understanding the ancient world.' - The SpectatorEach new field is hope, each old one reality.There are things below the surface that pull people together in a shared love...
Editeur :
Cassell
Parution :
2022-09-01
ePub
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Unashamedly a book for the bookish, yet accessible and frequently entertaining, this is the first book devoted to how libraries are depicted in imaginative writing. Covering fiction, poetry, and drama from the late Middle Ages to the present, it runs the gamut of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-09-01
ePub
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This book is concerned with the historical fact of overseas Chinese and ethnic Chinese living in Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and Laos before 1949.
Against the social background of acute class and ethnic conflicts in Yunnan in modern times, many Chinese people had...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-09-01
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?This book offers an exploration of the postcolonial hybrid experience in anglophone Caribbean plays and performance from a feminist perspective.In a hitherto unattempted consideration of Caribbean theatre and performance, this study of gendered identities chronicles...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-08-31
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Wie erreicht man Menschen, denen aus Sicht der Gesellschaft unbedingt geholfen werden sollte, die aber selbst keine Hilfe anfordern? Dieser Frage geht Marlen S. Löffler in ihrer ethnomethodologischen Ethnographie in niederschwelligen Anlauf- und Beratungsstellen für...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2022-08-31
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