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Amid all the naysayers, pessimists and finger pointers, an alternative point of view exists, one that is optimistic and forward looking: the vision of entrepreneurs who believe they can change the world with the pursuit and development of badly needed innovations that...
Editeur :
Autrement
Parution :
2022-06-16
Collection :
Essais
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This handbook is unique in its consideration of social and cultural contributions to sustainable oceans management. It is also unique in its deconstruction of the hegemonic value attached to the oceans and in its analysis of discourses regarding what national...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-06-15
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This book is about Madeleine Slade (1892-1982) and Catherine Mary Heilemann (1901-1982), two English associates of Mohandas K. (Mahatma) Gandhi (1869-1948), known in India as Mira Behn and Sarala Behn. The odysseys of these women present a counternarrative to the...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-06-15
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This book centers people of African descent as cultural leaders to challenge the myth that they do not know how or care about managing and preserving their culture. Arts Management, Cultural Policy, & the African Diaspora also presents comparative case studies...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-06-15
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Global Urban Heat Island Mitigation provides a comprehensive picture of global UHI micro-thermal interaction in different built environments. The book explains physical principles and how to moderate undesirable consequences of swift and haphazard urban development to...
Editeur :
Elsevier Science
Parution :
2022-06-15
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The most popular narrative about transsexuality suggests that some people are born in the wrong body – that their bodies do not correspond to their inner experience and that their bodies should therefore be transformed. But in the view of the sociologist and trans...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2022-06-15
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This volume examines how African indigenous popular music is deployed in democracy, politics and for social crusades by African artists. Exploring the role of indigenous African popular music in environmental health communication and gender empowerment, it subsequently...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-06-14
Collection :
Pop Music, Culture and Identity
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Innovative research requires courageous methods. With this in mind, Courageous Methods in Cultural Psychology invites students and post-graduate researchers to develop methods that will let them grasp phenomena of interest more fully. Readers will learn how to use...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-06-14
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This volume presents results from new and ongoing research efforts into the role of nonreligion in education, politics, law and society from a variety of different countries. Featuring data from a wide range of quantitative and qualitative studies, the book exposes the...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-06-14
Collection :
Boundaries of Religious Freedom: Regulating Religion in Diverse Societies
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Soziale Grenzziehungen prägen das Zusammenleben in Städten. Wie diese Einsicht in der quantitativen Stadtsoziologie berücksichtigt werden kann, thematisiert dieser Sammelband. Beispielhaft vermitteln dessen Beiträge die Bedeutung von gruppen- und raumbezogener...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2022-06-14
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Der Band ist dem 2021 verstorbenen polnischen Germanisten Józef Grabarek gewidmet. Diese Sammelmonografie möchte an den Verstorbenen erinnern und gibt einen Überblick über seine Veröffentlichungen. Wissenschaftler polnischer Universitäten beschäftigen sich neben...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-06-13
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Based on the lived experiences of incarcerated persons and staff, this book explores the symbolic significance of prison foodways to normalization, autonomy, identity construction, power, group formation and security. The book also traces the rationalization(s) that...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-06-11
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
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This book provides a foundational look at social virtual worlds from the geographer’s perspective. How can the geographer’s craft be applied to social virtual worlds?This question is addressed through careful analysis of what social virtual worlds are, how interest in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-06-11
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This book is about the human mental capacities that are mostly veiled in the use of language yet can be revealed through music activities. In speech, just one word is articulated at the time, whereas in music different pitches sound simultaneously.This conflict...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-06-10
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Autosoziobiographisches Erzählen hat in der Gegenwartsliteratur Konjunktur. Es hat zum Anspruch, die narrative Darstellung des eigenen Lebens mit der Analyse gesellschaftlicher Problemlagen – oder zumindest deren literarisch verdichteter Beschreibung – zu verbinden. Der...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-06-10
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Das Buch bespricht Formen von Forschungsorientierung mit Berufsbezug in dualen Studiengängen der Sozialen Arbeit / Sozialpädagogik in Form von Studiengangkonzeptionen, hochschuldidaktischer Ansätze sowie institutionalisierter Beratungsangebote.Einzelne Beiträge setzen...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2022-06-10
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This open access book offers a rich and nuanced analysis of digitally networked socialities as culturally meaningful relationships of Touch. Focusing on the ways Touch is practised in everyday social interactions serves as a basis for how Touch is understood as multiply...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-06-09
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This open access book provides an analysis of human actors and their capacity to explore and conceptualise their own agency by being curious, gathering knowledge, and shaping identities in their travel reflections on Asia. Thus, the actors open windows across time to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-06-09
Collection :
Palgrave Series in Asia and Pacific Studies
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Veränderungsprogramme zählen längst zum klassischen Projektrepertoire vieler Unternehmen, Banken, Verbände und Verwaltungen. Ihr Nutzen wird darin gesehen, betriebliche Komplexität auf ein handhabbares Maß zu reduzieren und organisatorische Zwecke im Hinblick auf...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2022-06-09
Collection :
Organisationsstudien
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Die antik griechischen Mythen haben seit Jahrhunderten viele Künstler immer wieder aufs Neue dazu animiert, sie literarisch, bildnerisch, musikalisch oder als Skulpturen darzustellen und zu interpretieren. In Mythen lassen sich jedoch auch anthropologische und...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-06-09
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