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This edited volume examines how opportunities to realise children’s rights and the experience of childhood itself have been changed by the pandemic. It brings together the voices of leading scholars, policy advisors, psychologists, charities engaged in empowering...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-09-16
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The book sets out to examine the concept of 'chav', providing a review of its origins, its characterological figures, the process of enregisterment whereby it has come to be recognized in public discourse, and the traits associated with it in traditional media...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-09-15
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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...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-09-15
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This open access book provides a unique research perspective on life course transitions. Here, transitions are understood as social processes and practices. Leveraging the recent “practice turn” in the social sciences, the contributors analyze how life course...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-09-14
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Angesichts großer Herausforderungen hat utopistisches Denken aktuell Konjunktur. Dass Utopien, mit ihren Vorstellungen einer idealisierten Zielgesellschaft, mit den Grundzügen einer Offenen Gesellschaft nicht vereinbar sind, hat bereits Karl Popper in seinem Buch ‚Die...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2022-09-13
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This open access book offers a compelling account of everyday life, livelihoods, and governance in post-apartheid South Africa among the urban poor and marginalized, anchored in and through a critique of the concept of informality, or living outside of the state, its...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-09-13
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This memoir that "will take your breath away" chronicles a harrowing journey through homelessness and poverty in New York City, followed by a turbulent experience in foster care (Jeanette Walls, New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle).This...
Editeur :
Legacy Lit
Parution :
2022-09-13
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This book is the first to apply systematic palaeopathological, archaeological and historical investigations (using bones as a focus as well as other supporting lines of information) to Chinese osteological materials in order to answer the question about the origins of...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-09-13
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SEMI-FINALIST FOR THE 2023 THURBER PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOR • “A fiery cultural critique.” —Kirkus Reviews • “…a powerful, beautifully written, and utterly important book.”—New York Journal...
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Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2022-09-13
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Innovation, Wachstum und Optimierung sind normative Grundlagen des Designs, der Technologie, der Wirtschaft, der Gesellschaft und der Kultur. Unter dem Vorzeichen der Digitalisierung zeichnen sich neue ›Optima‹ ab, in denen Menschen zum Bestandteil entgrenzter...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2022-09-12
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This book explores the dynamics of the socio-cultural baggage that Indian indentured migrants took with them to the Caribbean island of Trinidad and how they have since become a vibrant diaspora community, namely the Indo-Trinidadians. It combines social history with...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-09-12
Collection :
GeoJournal Library
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This book advocates the application of holistic and humanistic approaches in elderly care and services to achieve the goal of ageing with dignity in Hong Kong and Asia. It responds to the needs of an increasing ageing population that has to deal with related health...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-09-12
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Im Buch werden zum ersten Mal die vielfältigen Forschungsergebnisse zum Wissenstransfer auf die gehobene Gastronomie übertragen. Anhand vieler praktischer Beispiele aus der Gastronomie werden unter anderem folgende Fragen beantwortet: Was ist eigentlich...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-09-12
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Mit Ausbruch der Covid-19-Pandemie beobachten wir plötzlich gravierende Veränderungen des sozialen Lebens, die die aktuelle Situation als tragisches Krisenexperiment fungieren lassen – ein Experiment, das sich besonders auch im Hinblick auf die Konzeptualisierung von...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2022-09-12
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Digital technologies are now central to the machinations of capitalism. How are they giving rise to new forms of capital accumulation and domination? And in what terms are these changes being promoted and justified by a new and incredibly powerful elite? This book takes...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2022-09-12
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Mining was one of the primary elements of colonial enterprise in Australia and a factor in movement on colonial frontiers. In the second half of the 19th and early 20th century, mining—particularly of gold—saw transformations of the land itself, as well as in the way...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-09-12
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This handbook offers a collection of scholarly essays that analyze questions of reproductive justice throughout its cultural representation in global literature and film. It offers analysis of specific texts carefully situated in their evolving historical, economic, and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-09-10
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This book delves into a critical and comprehensive analysis of Mtukudzi’s legacy, as an outstanding musician who anchored his music on cultural identity specifically through the artistic manipulation of language. As a cultural worker, his remit extended beyond...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-09-10
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Based on interviews conducted with parents of trans and gender diverse children in the UK, this book presents an account and analysis of the love, support, and advocacy involved in parenting trans and gender diverse children. Mikulak explores how parents negotiate and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-09-08
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This book critically examines the association between the notions of crisis and migration in the context of Latin America, and from three different perspectives: first, it analyzes the discourses based on the concept of crisis employed by the media, academic...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-09-08
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