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This book focuses on urban development in Shanghai over the past four decades, which is composed of two major development processes—the development of new spaces and the renewal of old ones. Seeking to bring the concept of space back into social analysis, the book...
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Springer
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2023-11-14
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This book explores the author's ten-year ethnographic journey in different locations in Shanghai. His immersion in China’s art world is grounded in a topology of places and new ways of writing and deploying history today. The ethnographic approaches to experiencing,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-11-13
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This open access book examines the ways that consent operates in contemporary culture, suggesting it is a useful starting point to respectful relationships.This work, however, seeks to delve deeper, into the more complicated aspects of sexual consent. It examines the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-11-11
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This book tells the stories of Indian immigrants in Germany, including Blue Card holders and students categorized as highly skilled migrants, as well as others choosing shadow migration pathways in order to leave the country. It investigates their motivations for...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-11-10
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This book presents the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Signal Processing and Information Communications (ICSPIC 2023), which was held in Singapore, on February 25-27, 2023. The conference aims to provide a leading international forum for researchers,...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-11-10
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Have you ever considered how mobile media change what we see, hear and pay attention to, or how they alter our movement through the city? Over the last decade, mobile media and communication technologies have become deeply integral to our perception and bodily...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2023-11-10
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Encyclopedia of Archaeology, Second Edition, Three Volume Set covers the standing of archaeology as a scientific discipline, how archaeology is practiced, both in the field and in the lab, provides an archaeological geographical overview encompassing all continents and...
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Academic Press
Parution :
2023-11-10
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This open access book considers the concept of the hinterland as a crucial tool for understanding the global and planetary present as a time defined by the lasting legacies of colonialism, increasing labor precarity under late capitalist regimes, and looming climate...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-11-09
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This book focuses on our increasing dependence upon Big Tech to live, manage, and enjoy our lives. The author examines how we freely exchange our personal data for access to online platforms, services, and devices without proper consideration of the implications of this...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-11-09
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Since the very beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, with mass media and social media playing a key role, anti-vax protests have received sustained attention. The first comments often pointed at the heterogeneity of the events, whose participants seemed to belong to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-11-09
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'This book is heaven. Elspeth Barker writes like no one else'OLIVIA LAING'Deserves to be permanently on the bedside table - to cheer, reassure and inspire'OBSERVER'Gothic, poetic and exuberantly funny. What a pleasure it was to read'ESTHER FREUD'Joyous, startling,...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2023-11-09
Collection :
W&N Essentials
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If you want to know your ichthyosaur from your iguanodon, and your belemnites from your brachiopods, strap in for this whirlwind tour of the highlights of palaeontology Life as we know it now has a long history, buried beneath the ground. Palaeontology is the science of...
Editeur :
Summersdale
Parution :
2023-11-09
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Das „K“ in „K-Pop“ steht nicht einfach für „koreanisch“. Es ist ein Branding, ein Corporate Design, ja ein globaler ästhetischer Trend. Neben K-Popmusik und K-Dramen formieren auch Food-, Mode- und Beauty-Produkte die sogenannte Hallyu („Koreanische Welle“). Wie es...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-11-09
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This is an open access book. Technology is changing everything. As digitization, advanced analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) sweep across industries and geographies, they aren’t just reshaping the competitive landscape; they’re redefining the...
Editeur :
Atlantis Press
Parution :
2023-11-08
Collection :
Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research
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Network research has recently been adopted as one of the tools of the trade in archaeology, used to study a wide range of topics: interactions between island communities, movements through urban spaces, visibility in past landscapes, material culture similarity,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-11-08
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Network research has recently been adopted as one of the tools of the trade in archaeology, used to study a wide range of topics: interactions between island communities, movements through urban spaces, visibility in past landscapes, material culture similarity,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-11-08
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This book examines the lethal risks faced by police and traffic officers in Aotearoa New Zealand. It tracks lethal risk volume and type across 134 years of the New Zealand Police/Nga Pirihimana o Aotearoa’s 137-year existence. Using data gathered from public...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-11-08
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Is the future about to close in, or is it open to new horizons? For anthropologist Tim Ingold, the root of our difficulty in facing up to the future lies in the way we think about generations. We imagine them as layers, succeeding one another like sheets in a stack....
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Polity
Parution :
2023-11-08
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This book is a highly original exploration of what life could and should be. It juxtaposes a philosophical enquiry into the nature of the good life with an ethnography of people living in a small Irish town. Attending carefully to the everyday lives of these people,...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2023-11-08
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