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This book examines the state of art in disability studies, focusing on the Indian context, as well as the broader South Asian situation. It presents interdisciplinary perspectives on the basic idea, evolution, practices and challenges of researching and teaching...
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Springer
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2020-04-02
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This book examines how pacemakers and defibrillators participate in transforming life and death in high-tech societies. In both popular and medical accounts, these internal devices are often portrayed as almost magical technologies. Once implanted in bodies, they do not...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-04-02
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Health, Technology and Society
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Il risveglio, ? meglio la rinascita, di studi sull’antica Puteoli è un dato acquisito, troppo noto per essere ancora celebrato.Il 1977 ha visto da un lato il Convegno Internazionale dell’Accademia dei Lincei sui Campi Flegrei, dall’altro ha salutato la nascita della...
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Publications du Centre Jean Bérard
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2020-04-02
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Études
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Das Buch stellt dar, wie christliche Glaubenssätze so zu interpretieren sind, dass sie in der modernen Lebenswelt sinnhaft erscheinen. Was das Denken und Glauben von Menschen in der Postmoderne bestimmt, lässt sich brennspiegelhaft in den Zeugnissen der populären Kultur...
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Springer VS
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2020-04-01
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This book explores terrorism and security issues from feminist perspectives, putting gender and androcentrism at the heart of its analysis. It argues against traditional research approaches to political violence, and terrorism in particular, that are dominated by the...
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Springer
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2020-04-01
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One of the earliest sources of humanity's religious impulse was severe weather, which ancient peoples attributed to the wrath of storm gods. Enlightenment thinkers derided such beliefs as superstition and predicted they would pass away as humans became more...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-04-01
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From paddy wagon to rush hour, New York City has given us a number of our popular words and phrases, along the way fashioning a recognizable dialect all its own. Often imitated and just as often ridiculed, New York English has its own identity, imbued with the rich...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-04-01
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Holy sites are often at the center of intense contestation between different groups regarding a wide variety of issues, including ownership, access, usage rights, permissible religious conduct, and many others. They are often the source of intractable long-standing...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-04-01
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The female gaze is used by writers and readers to examine narratives from a perspective that sees women as subjects instead of objects, and the application of a female gaze to male-dominated discourses can open new avenues of interpretation. This book explores how...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-03-31
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They're labelled as selfish, as 'deliberately barren', and sometimes as crazy old cat ladies, but increasingly women are choosing to be childfree. Over the next few decades couples without children are set to outnumber those who have them. Tory Shepherd looks at how...
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Hachette Australia
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2020-03-31
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On Series
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Stop. Listen. Step outside the echo chamber.How do we step outside our own echo chamber to understand others? What are we losing when we share fewer and fewer national moments? The new media is enabling despots and disempowering democracy. So when every opinion seems to...
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Hachette Australia
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2020-03-31
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On Series
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Renowned barrister, ethicist and human rights advocate Julian Burnside QC's grandparents lived in a world of handsome cars, elegant tennis parties and coiffed women. As a five-year-old, he saw privilege before he heard the word or learned its meaning. In this powerful...
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Hachette Australia
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2020-03-31
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On Series
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This handbook provides a global perspective on contemporary demographic theories and studies of marriage and the family. Inside, readers will find a comprehensive analysis that enables demographic comparison between and across international borders.
Coverage is...
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Springer
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2020-03-31
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This book reexamines Chinese sociology's point of departure and boundaries of western sociology from a new academic perspective, and offers a new definition of the essence and mission of sociology, drawing and critically reflecting on the ideological and theoretical...
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Springer
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2020-03-31
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Empires of Antiquities is a history of the rediscovery of civilizations of the ancient Near East in the imperial order that evolved between the outbreak of the First World War and the 1950s. It explores the ways in which Near Eastern antiquity was redefined and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-03-31
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Empires of Antiquities is a history of the rediscovery of civilizations of the ancient Near East in the imperial order that evolved between the outbreak of the First World War and the 1950s. It explores the ways in which Near Eastern antiquity was redefined and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-03-31
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Können bisherige kriminologische Theorien und Erkenntnisse auf die Regeln des digitalen Raumes übertragen werden? Dieses Buch vereint Beiträge von Autoren aus verschiedenen Bereichen der Kriminologie und anderen Kriminalwissenschaften, die dieser wichtigen Frage...
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Springer VS
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2020-03-31
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There has been growing concern about the gradual segregation of Muslims living within the United Kingdom. Since the 2001 riots in the north of England, several government reports identified the lack of social integration as a critical factor. This book explores how and...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-03-31
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With his trademark eloquence and humour, Robert Dessaix, one of Australia's eminent writers, tackles humbug in the modern world-the tide of mumbo jumbo where words fall short of what they mean and motivations are not always what they appear.
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Hachette Australia
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2020-03-31
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On Series
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How is hate shaping our society? When nationalist populism has the capacity to threaten social cohesion, it's time to question the powers at play. On Hate is an urgent call for citizens to defend democracy against extremism. 'A searing analysis of hate, and what happens...
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Hachette Australia
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2020-03-31
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On Series
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