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This book charts the historical development of 'forensic objectivity' through an analysis of the ways in which objective knowledge of crimes, crime scenes, crime materials and criminals is achieved. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, with authors drawn from law,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-11-28
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Palgrave Histories of Policing, Punishment and Justice
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This Open Access book is an anthropological urban study of the Emirate of Dubai, its institutions, and their evolution. It provides a contemporary history of disability in city planning from a non-Western perspective and explores the cultural context for its...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-11-28
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The book is the first systematic study of the beginnings of psychoanalysis on Polish lands in Galicia (Austria-Hungary) and Congress Poland (Russia) during the partitions of Poland in the years between 1900 and 1918.The birth of the movement was presented on a broad...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-11-28
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Dynamics and Stochasticity in Transportation Systems: Solutions for Transportation Network Modeling breaks new ground on the topics, providing consistent and comprehensive coverage of steady state equilibrium and dynamic assignment within a common strategy. The book...
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Elsevier
Parution :
2019-11-27
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This book not only seeks to theoretically analyze the concept, chief characteristics and framework of “social mentality”, but also explores the influence of social mentality on such elements of social functioning as individuals, groups, societies, markets and countries,...
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Springer
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2019-11-27
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Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path
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This collection examines LEGO from an array of critical and cultural studies approaches, foregrounding the world-renowned brand's ideological power and influence. Given LEGO’s status as the world’s largest toy manufacturer and a transnational multimedia conglomerate,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-27
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This edited volume contains sixteen chapters by eminent scholars on one of the largest migration corridors in the world i.e., between South and South-East Asia and the Gulf region. Asia’s trade and cultural contact with the Gulf date back to ancient historical times....
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Springer
Parution :
2019-11-27
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The objective of this study is to understand the perceptions, beliefs, and influencing factors that may lead to different fertility outcomes among young women in Nicaragua, a country with one of the highest adolescent fertility rates in Latin America.The results are...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2019-11-27
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Doris Gräber gibt in ihrer metaphernanalytisch angelegten Arbeit einen Einblick darin, wie Sozialarbeitende in Flüchtlingswohnheimen die täglichen Herausforderungen ihrer Arbeit meistern, wie sie mit unlösbaren Dilemmata umgehen, und welchen Auftrag sie in Bezug auf die...
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Springer VS
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2019-11-27
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This book is based on the research performed for the Replacement of Neanderthals by Modern Humans Project. The central issue of the project is the investigation of possible differences between the two populations in cognitive ability for learning. The project aims to...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-11-27
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This book enters as a corrective to the tendency to trivialize and (mis)appropriate African American language practices. The word ratchet has entered into a wider (whiter) American discourse the same way that many words in African American English have—through hip-hop...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-27
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An ethnographic study on Design Thinking, this book offers profound insights into the popular innovation method, centrally exploring how design thinking’s practice relates to the vast promises surrounding it. Through a close study of a Berlin-based innovation agency,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-11-26
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This pivot considers the emergence and functioning of the migration industry and commercialization of migration pathways in Asia. Grounded in extensive fieldwork and building on empirical data gathered through interactions and interviews with brokers, agents and other...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-11-26
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Only in the last decade have climatologists developed an accurate picture of yearly climate conditions in historical times. This development confirmed a long-standing suspicion: that the world endured a 500-year cold snap -- The Little Ice Age -- that lasted roughly...
Editeur :
Basic Books
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2019-11-26
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Why do you throw a coin into the Trevi Fountain and make a wish?
This book links cultural memory with the materiality of the Trevi Fountain as historical monument and uses this perspective to examine its imagery in art, literature, film and music, concluding with the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-11-26
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In diesem Buch wird die Perspektive der soziologischen, psychologischen und gesundheitswissenschaftlichen Netzwerkforschung für die Erklärung des Zusammenhangs zwischen sozialen und gesundheitlichen Ungleichheiten fokussiert.Unterschiedliche theoretische und methodische...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2019-11-25
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The SAGE Handbook of Propaganda unpacks the ever-present and exciting topic of propaganda to explain how it invades the human psyche, in what ways it does so, and in what contexts.
As a beguiling tool of political persuasion in times of war, peace, and uncertainty,...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2019-11-25
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The study deals with Industrial Symbiosis (IS), a term used to describe a network of diverse organizations that make use of different by-products to improve their facility to achieve common goals, improve environmental conditions or improve business and technical...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2019-11-25
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This new English translation of François Jullien’s work is a compelling summation of his thinking on the comparison between Western and Chinese thought. The title, From Being to Living, summarises his essential point: that western thinking is obsessed by – and...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2019-11-25
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Conviviality has lately become a catchword not only in academia but also among political activists. This open access book discusses conviviality in relation to the adjoining concepts cosmopolitanism and creolisation. The urgency of today’s global predicament is not only...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-25
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