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This book focuses on the role of the indigenous system of medicine or traditional medicines in gender selection in India. Issues such as the harmful effects of traditional practices on the health of the woman and the foetus during early pregnancy are explored in this...
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Springer
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2021-07-24
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This book explores in depth the significance of soft skills within engineering education and the profession of engineering and emphasizes the importance of integrating hard and soft skills effectively, thereby enhancing personal acumen. Among the most important soft...
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Springer
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2021-07-24
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This book takes a global perspective to address the concept of belonging in youth studies, interrogating its emergence as a reoccurring theme in the literature and elucidating its benefits and shortcomings. While belonging offers new alignments across previously...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-07-22
Collection :
Studies in Childhood and Youth
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Young people are very often the driving forces of political participation that aims to change societies and political systems. Rather than being depoliticized, young people in different national contexts are giving rise to alternative politics. Drawing on original...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-07-22
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Dieses Fachbuch zieht ein vorläufiges Fazit über die ersten 12 Monate der COVID-19-Pandemie in den verschiedenen Ländern der Welt, die aus nichtmedizinischer Sicht eine Vielzahl von Fragen aufgeworfen hat: Aus der Sicht der Wirtschaft standen die Auswirkungen im...
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Springer Gabler
Parution :
2021-07-21
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The focus of this book is on the experiences of government-sponsored refugees in the early stages of integrating into Canadian society. Combining data gleaned from a longitudinal study of relatively recently arrived refugees in Calgary, Canada, with a close focus on the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-07-21
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Immigrants, migrants, displaced, and diasporic persons: all have been constrained or enabled by borders of some sort. This book explores international cases of how and why such boundaries come to be; who is affected by socially constructed borders; what it means to...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-07-21
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This book maps father failure and redemption through three decades of Hollywood family films, revealing how libertarian notions that align agency with autonomy lead to new conflicts for the contemporary father. The films find resolution to these conflicts through a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-07-20
Collection :
Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
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This edited volume addresses critical issues surrounding higher education access for students of refugee backgrounds. It combines a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives on the challenges, opportunities, experiences and expectations of refugee students,...
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Springer VS
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2021-07-20
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Johanna Schulze untersucht in ihrer Arbeit mithilfe längsschnittlich angelegter Fallstudien und eines Mixed-Methods-Ansatzes die forschungsleitende Fragestellung, inwiefern und unter welchen Bedingungen schulische Medienkonzepte ihr Potenzial als Instrumente der...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2021-07-19
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The Enhancing Resources and Increasing Capacities of Poor Households Towards Elimination of their Poverty (the ENRICH) programme is being implemented by Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation (PKSF), which is a government-established Foundation and implements its programmes...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-07-19
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Vertrauensverluste und Glaubwürdigkeitskrisen von gesellschaftlichen Institutionen sind Ausdruck der Pluralisierung von Werten und Normen und der zunehmenden Verhandelbarkeit, Labilität und Ungewissheit für allgemein und beständig genommener Verbindlichkeiten. Die im...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2021-07-17
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This open access book focuses on how and why digital games and gambling are increasingly intertwined and asks “does this matter?” Looking at how “loot boxes” became the poster child for the convergence of gambling and gaming, Wardle traces how we got here. She argues...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-07-16
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Gemeinhin gilt Afrika in der wissenschaftlichen Betrachtung und in den Reportagen der Massenmedien als „Kontinent in Bewegung" – Bewegung vor allem in Richtung Europa. Dabei ist die öffentliche Diskussion von zwei Fehlannahmen geprägt. Die erste davon besagt, dass ein...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2021-07-16
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Winner of the prestigious Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book in the Field of Media Ecology 2024.
This book explores recreational uses of consumer drones from the lenses of media ecology, mobile communication, mobilities research, and science and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-07-16
Collection :
Geographies of Media
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This is the first book in English to present a comprehensive analysis of the October 2019 social outbreak in Chile and its consequences for the country’s political system. For almost 30 years (1990-2019), Chile was recognized as a model of political and economic...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-07-16
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This edited book set in the context of North East India explores issues concerning symbols, meanings, representations, and social implications of materiality and visuality, as well as the dynamics of power, social reproduction, ideological dominance and knowledge...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-07-16
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Frühjahr 2020: 35 Jahre nach dem Schengener Abkommen standen im Zuge der COVID-19-Pandemie plötzlich Kontrollen und Schließungen verschiedener Grenzübergänge – unter anderem zwischen Deutschland und Frankreich – wieder auf der Tagesordnung. Wie konnte es dazu kommen,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-07-15
Collection :
Räume – Grenzen – Hybriditäten
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From two lawyers at the forefront of the reproductive rights movement, this fully updated book shares bold strategies meant to help restore and expand reproductive and sexual rights. Reproductive freedom has never been in more dire straits. Roe v. Wade protected...
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Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2021-07-13
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This book draws together empirical contributions which focus on conceptualising the lived realities of time and temporality in migrant lives and journeys.This book uncovers the ways in which human existence is often overshadowed by legislative interpretations of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-07-13
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