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Urban High-Technology Zones offers essential planning insights for our increasingly high-tech economy and society, looking at the role the built environment plays, the policy factors that contribute to their formation and growth, quality-of-life impacts of high tech...
Editeur :
Elsevier
Parution :
2023-07-26
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Accountancy is an elite profession, wielding its influence in every step we take in business and political life, from takeover to bankruptcies and from Brexit to war: we need accountants to help us see the bigger picture and to enable us to trust one another in public...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-07-26
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Despite the significance of urban justice in planning research and practice, how just societies and cities can be organised and achieved remains contested. Spatial justice provides an integrative and unifying theory concerning place, policies, people and their...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-07-25
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This book offers insight into the relationship between prehistoric and protohistoric human populations and the world around them. It reconstructs key aspects of the palaeoenvironment – from large-scale drivers of environmental conditions, such as climate, to more...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-07-25
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This book is about the social protection of lower-skilled migrants from Sri Lanka. It reasons out the importance of protecting Sri Lankan migrant workers considering the significant economic contribution of lower-skilled migrant workers and their higher level of...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-07-25
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This book works to unpack and explicate women’s personas. Drawing on global gender studies and feminist research, the author examines how ‘woman’ has been constructed socially, culturally, and politically throughout different historical periods and feminist movements....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-07-25
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This concise book examines the decline and erosion of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) as a dominant political party of Malaysia through the perspective of Ibn Khaldun's theory of asabiyyah and umran. It uses the qualitative method of data...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-07-25
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Kernanliegen des Buches ist es, das Thema der gewollten und ungewollten Kinderlosigkeit fachlich konkreter zu trennen und das Phänomen der gewollten Kinderlosigkeit empirisch zu untersetzen. Das individuelle Lebenskonzept wirkt sich gleichermaßen auf die Möglichkeiten...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2023-07-25
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Der Band bietet eine medientheoretisch ausgerichtete Perspektive auf das Space Race. Analysiert werden Spielfilme, Dokumentationen, Live-Berichterstattung im Fernsehen, Magazine, Briefmarken, Plakate, Konfettiparaden, die das Space Race in je spezifischer Weise ins Bild...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2023-07-25
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Im Mai 2013 wurde eine neue Version des Diagnostischen und Statistischen Manuals psychischer Störungen (DSM-5) veröffentlicht.Im Zuge dessen entstand eine kontrovers geführte Debatte, wo die Grenze zwischen Trauer und Depression zu ziehen ist: Wie, wann und unter...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2023-07-25
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Als eine der wenigen, deutschsprachigen Überblicksdarstellungen zum interdisziplinären Feld der Production Studies bzw. der Cultural Studies of Media Industries, versammelt der Band aktuelle Beiträge der sozial- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Erforschung von...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2023-07-24
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?In diesem Buch rückt das „gute Leben“ im hohen Alter in den Fokus: So ist in den westlichen Industrienationen ein stetiger Anstieg der allgemeinen Lebenserwartung zu verzeichnen. Die gewonnene Lebenszeit geht jedoch nicht automatisch mit einem guten Gesundheitszustand...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2023-07-24
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This book studies children's wellbeing from the perspective of Ethiopian immigrant families in Israel. It examines how the meeting of cultures within families affects relationships, language acquisition and the transmission of cultural heritage across generations after...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-07-24
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Suicide by Proxy became a major societal problem after 1650. Suicidal people committed capital crimes with the explicit goal of “earning” their executions, as a short-cut to their salvation. Desiring to die repentantly at the hands of divinely-instituted...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-07-24
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“He who ruled scent ruled the hearts of men.”
Patrick Süskind, Perfume.
The manufacturing secrets of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, the hero of Süskind’s novel, have been forgotten. Or nearly forgotten. Master perfumer Septimus Piesse (1820-1882) was one of the last to...
Editeur :
Max Milo Éditions
Parution :
2023-07-23
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This book offers in-depth ethnographic analyses of key informants’ interviews on the ecological urbanism and ecosystem services (ES) of selected green infrastructure (GI) in Yoruba cities of Ile-Ife, Ibadan, Osogbo, Lagos, Abeokuta, Akure, Ondo, among others in...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-07-22
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A student union recently estimated that “40,000 students are now prostitutes in France.” The primary cause is the growing precariousness and high cost of student life. This study, carried out in 2006-2007, is a vivid description of the novelty of this form of...
Editeur :
Max Milo Éditions
Parution :
2023-07-21
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This book deals with the geological record and the evolution of ideas concerning the Variscan orogenic belt in France and neighboring regions. Volume 1 is based on a general introduction concerning the imprint of the Variscan period on the geology of France, as well as...
Editeur :
Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2023-07-21
Collection :
ISTE Consignment
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For the first time, a collection of testimonials gives voice to the children of lesbian couples. Sixteen of them answer the questions many people ask: does living without a father pose a problem? Do children of gay couples necessarily become gay or lesbian? Do their...
Editeur :
Max Milo Éditions
Parution :
2023-07-21
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'I wish it was science fiction, but I know it's not' Jaan Tallinn, co-founder of Skype'If you read just one book that makes you confront scary high-tech realities that we'll soon have no choice but to address, make it this one' Washington Post'The best book yet written...
Editeur :
Quercus
Parution :
2023-07-20
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