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An essential history of African American women’s pursuit of political power—and how it transformed America “Elegant and expansive.” —New York Times Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History Named a...
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Basic Books
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2020-09-08
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The co-host of the popular NPR podcast Planet Money provides a well-researched, entertaining, somewhat irreverent look at how money is a made-up thing that has evolved over time to suit humanity's changing needs.Money only works because we all agree to believe in it. In...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2020-09-08
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This book focuses on overlooked contextual factors that constitute the urban creative climate or innovative urban milieu in contemporary cities. Filled with reflections based on interviews with a diverse range of creative actors in various local neighborhoods in Tokyo,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-09-08
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Die zukünftig geplante Etablierung von sozialen Robotern in den Alltag bringt die Frage mit sich, wie diese von den Nutzern wahrgenommen werden.Die eingeschränkte Performanz der Maschinen macht diese als physikalisch-mechanistische oder gar reaktive Objekte geltend.Die...
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Springer VS
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2020-09-08
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Owing to the proliferation of screens and networked culture, young fans have moved beyond being simply media consumers. Today they are content interpreters and creators—living in a remix culture, reconstructing transmedia narratives, and interacting with culture...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2020-09-08
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This book is an invitation to question conventional and often misleading visions of globalization. No problem is global by nature: issues are transformed by the action of claims-makers to become ‘problems’ debated in supra-national forums, triggering policy choices and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-09-07
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Doing Fandom presents a body of knowledge essential to football fandom research, and the study of gender, space, emotions and culture more generally. The analytical framework follows the theory of practice, drawing on three acclaimed sociological concepts to expand...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-09-07
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This edited collection investigates the relationship between gender and authority across geographical contexts, periods and fields.
Who is recognized as a legitimate voice in debate and decision-making, and how is that legitimization produced? Through a variety of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-09-07
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This book explores criminal justice responses to Sudanese Australians, crime and victimization. Based on research in four major Queensland communities, it adopts a multi-faceted approach to capture the ‘voices’ of various interest groups. Challenging the concept that...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-09-07
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SpringerBriefs in Criminology
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Social media has fundamentally changed communication and interaction in today's society. Apart from being used by individuals, it is also omnipresent in public sector organisations such as the armed forces.
This book examines the opportunities and risks associated with...
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Springer
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2020-09-07
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Modernist urbanism seems progressive, even Utopian: design for a better world through a democratic and humane built environment. But two currents undermine this vision from within: an Arcadianism which turns to a rural idyll as retreat from change and the effects of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2020-09-05
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Migration across Europe's external and internal borders has introduced unprecedented sociocultural diversity, and with it, new questions about belonging, identity, and the incorporation of others into extant and emergent groups and communities. Bringing together leading...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-09-05
Collection :
Global Diversities
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This book presents new conceptual and methodological approaches to studying religiosity in Europe. From her unique background of working with the Church of Sweden statistics and official statistics on the increasing religious diversity in Sweden, Willander illustrates...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-09-04
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Over the past forty years, media education research has emerged as a historical, epistemological and practical field of study. Shifts in the field—along with radical transformations in media technologies, aesthetic forms, ownership models, and audience participation...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2020-09-04
Collection :
Global Handbooks in Media and Communication Research
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This edited collection takes a timely and comprehensive approach to understanding Turkey’s television, which has become a global growth industry in the last decade, by reconsidering its geopolitics within both national and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-09-03
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The phenomenal growth of penal confinement in the United States in the last quarter of the twentieth century is still a public policy mystery. While there is unanimous condemnation of the practice, there is no consensus on the causes nor any persuasive analysis of what...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-09-03
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In the Anthropocene age there is a need for unifying the relationships between people, planet and technology, their interactions, experiences and impacts across ecosystems.In response to this need, this book introduces unifying bridging concepts informational waves and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-09-03
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A FINANCIAL TIMES, I PAPER AND STYLIST BOOK OF THE YEAR'In his absorbing book about the lost and the gone, Peter Ross takes us from Flanders Fields to Milltown to Kensal Green, to melancholy islands and surprisingly lively ossuaries . . . a considered and moving book...
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Headline
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2020-09-03
Collection :
Planet Omar
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"Of all the things in the world to worry about, why would anyone put the right for women to be rude at the top of the list? It's a fair question. Happily, there is a very simple answer. Because I believe that an inability to be rude is one of the biggest issues which...
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Trapeze
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2020-09-03
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More than fifty years after the beginning of the Women's Movement, women are still not "making it" in traditionally male careers.Women start their careers on parity with men but generally end them far earlier, having achieved less status, lower compensation, and less...
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John Murray Business
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2020-09-03
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