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This book systematically reviews the over 100-year history of Shanghai's trade, tells the legend of Shanghai's century-old trade, summarizes the development of Shanghai's trade, extracts its trade characteristics, and promotes the urban spirit of Shanghai.
This...
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Springer
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2025-11-19
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This book explores how Earth Sciences including Geosciences can be reimagined to serve people in a world increasingly shaped by planetary-scale anthropogenic change (PSAC), commonly referred to as the ‘Anthropocene’. The authors...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-18
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This book explores how spontaneous volunteers disrupt the politics and practices of managing the movement of life seekers. Drawing on rich empirical material from the 2015 Greek refugee crisis, it reveals how these unaffiliated actors challenge humanitarian systems...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-18
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In this edited volume, leading scholars and experts explore the extraordinary potential of diaspora communities in driving economic growth, shaping foreign policies and fostering global connections with India’s approach, offering a compelling case study.In an...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-17
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This book explores the development process of the agricultural areas in the central plains of China under rapid urbanization, especially the changes in the daily lives of rural residents. Taking the Jianghan Plain as the study case, this book summarizes the rural...
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Springer
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2025-11-17
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This book explores how public history, a field developing globally, is gaining attention in Japan and being incorporated into existing Japanese academic studies and practices. Public history in Japan is conducted through an interdisciplinary approach, involving not only...
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Springer
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2025-11-17
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This book provides a timely and essential exploration of masculinity and boyhood in the contemporary online and offline world. It critically examines the pressures faced by young men and boys, unpacking themes such as mental health, sexual behaviours and violence, while...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-17
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Die Bespielbare Stadt geht weit über den gebauten Raum hinaus – sie ist ein lebendiger sozialer Raum.Die Bespielbare Stadt entsteht im Zusammenspiel verschiedener Akteur:innen: Kinder, Jugendliche und Erwachsene als Spielende, die Spielregeln definierende...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2025-11-17
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This book pushes beyond the focus of murder mysteries in British detective fiction to illuminate elements of what is perhaps the next most pertinent subgenre: stories of burglary and theft. Chapters cover work including E. W. Hornung's Raffles stories, Sherlock Holmes's...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-17
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This book examines how gendered life stories act as interventions that unsettle the boundaries between private experience and public life. From the testimonies of women whose accounts of gender violence have forced a reckoning with institutional silence, to the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-16
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The second edition of From Dust to Ashes brings up-to-date this classic text investigating the replacement of burial by cremation in England and Wales. Cremation was promoted seriously in 1874 but the first cremation did not take place until eleven years...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-16
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Offering a critical, comprehensive, and holistic discussion of the validity of human rights inside and outside of religious communities, this book explores the relationship between religious communities, abstract “religion”, and human rights from an ethical...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-16
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This book provides a detailed look into the social world of infants and toddlers and explores the consequences of that environment on learning and socio-emotional development. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork and systematic observation in a rural community in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-16
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This book explores three core themes centered on civilizations and their interactions. First, it addresses theoretical issues of "dialogue among civilizations," with Zhao Dingxin using "embeddedness" to examine key topics like dialogue subjects, contextual specifics,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-15
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This book examines the socially segregated Santals, a tribal community that migrated from various parts of Bengal and its neighbouring states of Bihar, Orissa, and Jharkhand to Kolkata, a city currently driven by capitalist-consumerist forces that pose a challenge in...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-11-15
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This book examines the evolution of the female lyric body in Western culture through the figure of Helen of Troy, focusing on the Hispanic literary archive and its evolving strategies for representing her and her cultural doubles, here defined as Helen-like bodies. It...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-15
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This open access handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the concept of just green transitions and its key dimensions. With a specific focus on the Western Balkans and other key European regions, it explores the core policy thematic areas at the heart of the just...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-15
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The monograph titled New Methods for Measuring Inequality by Analyzing Assortative Mating offers a comprehensive account of the methods and models proposed in the literature for measuring the degree of sorting into couples with the aim of identifying patterns in...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-11-15
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Der interdisziplinäre Sammelband erkundet erstmals das dynamische Zusammenspiel von Literatur und Podcast – einem bislang kaum erforschten Gegenwartsphänomen. Im Fokus stehen Podcasts als neue Bühnen literarischer Kritik, Erzählung und...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-11-15
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Against the background of great expectations associated with the application of big data and artificial intelligence in medicine, various voices have claimed that individuals have a moral obligation to make their data and tissue available for research. This obligation...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-15
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