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This ethnography takes the reader into the Australian suburbs to learn about food, eating and bodies during the highly political context of one of Australia’s largest childhood obesity interventions. While there is ample evidence about the number of people who are...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-03-18
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This collection of essays engages with the current resurgence of interest in the relationship between American pragmatism and communication studies. The topics engaged in this collection of essays is necessarily diverse, with some of the figures discussed within often...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-16
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This book offers a much-needed analysis of how young people understand and navigate their lives as workers, family members and political actors in an era of uncertainty, Brexit and Trump. Drawing on the latest and most seminal international research and the unique...
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Springer
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2019-03-16
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Perspectives on Children and Young People
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This book draws upon the work of Georg Simmel to explore the limits, tensions and dynamism of social life through a close analysis of the works produced in the final years of his life and reveals what they might still offer some 100 years later. Focusing on the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-15
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A broad and accessible introduction to national and transnational media Transnational Media: Concepts and Cases provides a clear and engaging overview of media communication from a global and a region-based perspective. Rather than focusing on just complex theories and...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2019-03-15
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The definitive and first major text on personas in contemporary culture Modern social media and communication technologies have reshaped our identities and transformed contemporary culture, revealing an expanded and intensified reforming of our collective online...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2019-03-15
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Stefan Walter analysiert Einträge in Poesiealben, die die seltene Möglichkeit bieten, Wertvorstellungen einer Bevölkerung abseits reaktiver Umfragen über einen langen Zeitraum zu untersuchen. Die Auswertung von mehr als 2800 Einträgen in Alben aus der DDR und...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2019-03-15
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This book offers an essential introduction to the phenomenon of shrinking cities in China, highlighting several case studies, qualitative and quantitative methods, and planning responses. As an emerging topic in urbanizing China, cities experiencing population loss have...
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Springer
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2019-03-15
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This book relates stories of everyday life revolving around small-scale urban gardens in Central Havana and focusing particularly on that of Marcelo, a seventy-four-year-old revolutionary and gardener. The urban gardens are contested spaces: though monitored and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-03-15
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Women’s Manga in Asia and Beyond offers a variety of perspectives on women’s manga and the nature, scope, and significance of the relationship between women and comics/manga, both globally as well as locally. Based on the activities since 2009 of theWomen’s MANGA...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-14
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The American Jewish Year Book, now in its 118th year, is the annual record of the North American Jewish communities and provides insight into their major trends.The first two chapters of Part I include a special forum on "Contemporary American Jewry: Grounds for...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-03-14
Collection :
American Jewish Year Book
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Discover the fascinating stories behind 38 iconic women of colour, all of them ground-breakers, risk-takers and game-changers. Whether they are sportswomen, scientists, activists or superstars, every one of these women has been a trailblazer in their field, and deserves...
Editeur :
Summersdale
Parution :
2019-03-14
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A multidisciplinary, authoritative outline of the current intellectual landscape of the field. Over the past three decades, the term ‘diaspora’ has been featured in many research studies and in wider theoretical debates in areas such as communications, the humanities,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2019-03-14
Collection :
Global Handbooks in Media and Communication Research
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This book provides an original overall account of the history of sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where the first sociology course as part of a conventional university degree programme in the UK was taught. Thus, the book is unique in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-14
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Discover the fascinating stories behind 38 queer icons, all of them ground-breakers, risk-takers and game-changers. Whether they are activists, sportspeople, scientists or superstars, every one of these people has been a trailblazer in their field, and deserves to have...
Editeur :
Summersdale
Parution :
2019-03-14
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"Perez Velazquez has written a little gem that I advise reading to anyone persuing a scientific career, as well as for the general public interested in the sociological aspects of science. It alerts the reader about the rise of a new type of scientist, buried in...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-03-13
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This book presents a socio-historical analysis of the Somali Muslim diaspora in Johannesburg and its impact on urban development in the context of Somali migrations in the Southern African Indian Ocean region from the end of the 19th Century to today. The author draws...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-13
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Ausgangspunkt des vorliegenden Bandes ist der einzigartige historische Moment des Anarchismus in den ersten Jahrzehnten des 20. Jahrhunderts in Bezug nicht nur auf seine politische, sondern vor allem auf seine kulturelle Bedeutung. Anarchismus wurde zum...
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Springer VS
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2019-03-11
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Questioning Performance Measurement: Metrics, Organizations and Power is the first book to interrogate the organizational turn towards performance metrics critically. Performance measurement is used to evaluate a diverse range of activities throughout the private,...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2019-03-11
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The Varieties of Grounded Theory explores the range and depth of grounded theory methodology, and the ways in which discussions in the field have developed and expanded in recent years.
In this SAGE Swift, Anthony Bryant provides a jargon-free overview of grounded...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2019-03-11
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