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In nineteenth-century Europe, differences among human bodies were understood to be matters of scientific classification. At the height of scientific acceptance, it was unthinkable that race or sex or diagnosis or indigence were invention. Today, however, differences...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-06-17
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The Shikoku pilgrimage, a 1400 kilometre, eighty-eight temple circuit around Japan's fourth largest island, takes around forty days by foot, or one week by car. Historically, Buddhist ascetics walked it without ceasing, creating a tradition of unending pilgrimage that...
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Oxford University Press
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2021-06-17
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Written by 43 authors from Africa, Europe and Latin America, this book presents 19 topics addressing poverty in the context of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), leadership in implementing SDGs, and SDGs in service delivery and local government. As the world has gone...
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Springer
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2021-06-16
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Die Evolution von Gesellschaft führt zu unterschiedlichen Differenzierungsformen, die immer auch als Neu-Arrangierung des Verhältnisses gelesen werden kann, welches die Gesellschaft zum Individuum einrichtet. Diese These wird im vorliegenden Buch mittels zweier Studien...
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Springer VS
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2021-06-16
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This book examines homicide-suicides in a post-communist country in South-East Europe. It presents results regarding risk factors and particularities of homicide-suicides in Romania committed in the period 2002–2013.
The author analyses statistical data from legal...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-06-16
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Organisationen gelten in der heutigen Organisationssoziologie meist als menschheitsgeschichtlich späte Errungenschaften der Moderne. Als vermeintlicher Gewährsmann dieser These wird immer wieder Max Weber angeführt. Doch weder dessen Typus „bürokratischer Herrschaft“...
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Springer VS
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2021-06-16
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The Theory of Love: Ideals, Limits, Futures explores stories about love that recuperate a vision of intimate life as a resource for creating bonds beyond heterosexual coupledom. This book offers a variety of ethical frames through which to understand changing...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-06-15
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This book describes the 1873 voyage of the British explorer Benjamin Leigh Smith, based on the diaries and photographs of Lieutenant Herbert C. Chermside, who joined the expedition of the seas around Svalbard. Chermside’s photographs, long believed lost, have recently...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-06-15
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Historical Geography and Geosciences
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?This cognitive ethnography examines how scientists create meaning about biological phenomena through experimental practices in the laboratory, offering a frontline perspective on how new insights come to life. An exercise in the anthropology of knowledge, this story...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2021-06-15
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Der Band versammelt die thematisch weit gestreuten und höchst vielgestaltigen Schriften von René König zu Fragen der Kriminalsoziologie, der sozialen Kontrolle und des abweichenden Verhaltens. Damit liegt erstmals eine Übersicht seines diesbezüglichen Werkes vor, das...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2021-06-15
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From café culture to home schooling, remote community networks, and smart cities, Wi-Fi is an invisible but fundamental element of contemporary life. Loosely regulated, low-cost, and largely overlooked by researchers, this technology has driven the rise of the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-06-15
Collection :
Digital Media and Society
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Long before the pandemic, economies across the world were in trouble, with growth slowing across the board. This downturn coincided with growing inequality and social exclusion. Rising political dissatisfaction with ruling elites fuelled the rise of populism. Add to...
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Polity
Parution :
2021-06-15
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Capitalism has become so dominant that it is difficult to ever imagine a world in which its injustices and inequalities are not violently present. In this ambitious and compelling book, Oli Mould turns his diagnosis of capitalism's perversions towards defining the new...
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Polity
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2021-06-15
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This book offers an archaeological study on China’s ancient capitals. Using abundant illustrations of ancient capital sites, it verifies the archaeological discoveries with documentary records. The author introduces the dynamical interpretation of each ancient capital...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-06-14
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The sociological imagination and the artistic imagination have been historically intertwined, at once reciprocal and conflicting, complementary and tensional. This connection is nowhere more apparent than in the work of Zygmunt Bauman. His conception and practice of...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-06-11
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A pervasive sense has taken hold that any and all of us are under suspicion and surveillance, walking on a tightrope, a step away from erasure of rights or security. Nothing new for many long-targeted populations, it is now surfacing as a broad social sensibility,...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-06-11
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'A serious - and seriously readable - book about the deep issues that our shallow age has foolishly tried to dodge' - Douglas Murray'A crystal-clear analysis of the multiple failures of "me-first" contemporary liberalism' - Giles FraserFor millennia, philosophical,...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2021-06-10
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Documentation, analysis, and explanation of culture change have long been goals of archaeology. Scientific graphs facilitate the visual thinking that allow archaeologists to determine the relationship between variables, and, if well designed, comprehend the processes...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-06-10
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Documentation, analysis, and explanation of culture change have long been goals of archaeology. Scientific graphs facilitate the visual thinking that allow archaeologists to determine the relationship between variables, and, if well designed, comprehend the processes...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-06-10
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This book provides an analysis of South African urban change over the past three decades. It draws on a seminal text, Homes Apart, and revisits conclusions drawn in that collection that marked the final phases of urban apartheid. It highlights changes in demography,...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-06-10
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