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This open access book provides worldwide examples demonstrating the importance of the interplay between demography and disasters in regions and spatially. It marks an advance in practical and theoretical insights for understanding the role of demography in planning for...
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Springer
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2020-09-17
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This open access book considers the stories of adolescents and young adults from different regions of the world who use digital media as instruments and stages for storytelling, or who make the media the subject of story telling. These narratives discuss...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-09-17
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Terrorism inspires intense emotions of fear, vulnerability, victimization, and helplessness that breed humiliation and shame and demands for redress by the victims—restoring the wounded honor through revenge and military action. The post-9/11 environment of the "global...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2020-09-17
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Explains the key concepts, theories, and studies in the sociology of the arts—the fully updated new edition of the classic textbook Sociology of the Arts is a comprehensive yet accessible review of sociological approaches to studying the fine, popular, and folk arts....
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2020-09-17
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Dangerous. Sexy. All-American—or rather All-World—Girl. Pin Up! The Subculture is the first book to explore the contemporary international subculture of pin up, women (and men) who embrace vintage style, but not vintage values.
Award-winning filmmaker and author...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2020-09-17
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This book evaluates the impact of situational crime prevention measures implemented by social media platforms to identifying, blocking, and removing content linked to illegal traded medicines. It discusses the extent of social media usage in trafficking of medicines;...
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Springer
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2020-09-17
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Witch's Garden describes over 50 of the world's most powerful magical plants and their uses, mythical and proven.Wise women, apothecaries, witches, herbalists: whatever you call them, those who cultivate plants for their fabled mystical and healing properties have...
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Welbeck
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2020-09-17
Collection :
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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Drawing on untapped archives, as well as aggregating a wide range of existing published sources, this book recalibrates the understanding of women artists’ roles, outputs and receptions in London during what was indubitably a vibrant and innovative period in the history...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-09-16
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Featured in the Financial Times Best Books of the Year 2020
The evidence is rigorously marshalled and the...solutions equally clearly illuminated. A definitive study. - Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator, The Financial Times
In this vital new book, Britain's...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2020-09-16
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This book is about the ways U.S. cities have responded to some of the most pressing political, cultural, racial issues of our time as agentic, remembering actors. Our case studies include New York City’s securitized remembrances at the National September 11 Memorial and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-09-16
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For the last two decades, refugees, like other immigrants, have been settling in newer locations throughout the US and other countries. No longer are refugees to be found only in major metropolitan areas and gateway cities; instead, they are arriving in small towns,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-09-15
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This book focuses on the implementation of slum upgrading projects and the last generation of citywide programmes that define the future urban configuration of informal settlements, from a citywide perspective, in the Earth’s tropical region. The book presents a study...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-09-15
Collection :
Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements
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Brave, clear-eyed, and passionate, Stakes Is High is the book we need to guide us past crisis mode and through an uncertain future.The events of the past decade have forced us to reckon with who we are and who we want to be. We have been invested in a set of beliefs...
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Bold Type Books
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2020-09-15
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"Simultaneously hilarious, poignant, and deeply unsettling." ―The New RepublicA tiny American town's plans for radical self-government overlooked one hairy detail: no one told the bears. Once upon a time, a group of libertarians got...
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PublicAffairs
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2020-09-15
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Clark Atlanta University Whitney M. Young Jr. School of Social Work was founded in 1920 in Atlanta, Georgia, as the Atlanta School of Social Work to prepare social workers for practice in underserved black neighborhoods. Spearheaded by black scholars and progressive...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-09-15
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Die historisch-genetische Theorie verfolgt den Anspruch, die Genese der menschlichen kulturellen Lebensweise aus den naturgeschichtlichen Ausgangsbedingungen und die historisch differenten gesellschaftlichen Organisationsformen in ihrer Strukturfolge erklären zu können....
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2020-09-15
Collection :
essentials
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One moment life was normal, the next, governments around the world were imposing radical lockdowns of their populations. But why were decision-makers so readily ignoring centuries of hard-won civil freedoms? Where was the discussion of ethics and human rights? Why were...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2020-09-14
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Gerlinda Smaus gilt als wichtigste feministische Kriminologin im deutschen Sprachraum. Sie selbst bezeichnet ihren theoretischen Ansatz als einen sowohl materialistischen wie interaktionistischen. Dabei bezieht sie sich stets auf konkrete Praxisbereiche (Kriminalität,...
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Springer
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2020-09-14
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Die Autor*innen stellen die in der empirischen (Evaluations-)Forschung gewonnenen Erkenntnisse über Wirksamkeit und Wirkungen von Lotsen-, Mentoren- und Patenprojekten für Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund dar. Zudem reflektieren sie die Potenziale und...
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Springer VS
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2020-09-14
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This edited collection of first-person stories about risk in the field offers an arsenal of practical examples where fieldworkers have attempted to negotiate the complexities and risks of field research. Field research can be a risky and dangerous journey where the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-09-14
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