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Urban Regeneration — A Manifesto for transforming UK Cities in the Age of Climate Change explores and offers guidance on the complex process of how to transform cities, continuing the unfinished project of the seminal 1999 text Towards anUrban Renaissance. It is a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-02-28
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Many people today, both Christians and non-Christians, are confused about or unaware of the essentials of Christian faith. In this book, Anna Wierzbicka takes a radically new approach to the task of communicating "what Christians believe" to the widest possible...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-02-28
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This open access book discusses socio-environmental interactions in the middle to late Holocene, covering specific areas along the ancient Silk Road regions. Over twenty chapters provide insight into this topic from various disciplinary angles and perspectives, ranging...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-02-27
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Im Internet stehen dem Journalismus zahlreiche Möglichkeiten der Beobachtung seiner Publika zur Verfügung. Mario Haim geht der Frage nach, ob und inwiefern sich solche Informationen – Klick- und Share-Zahlen etwa – auf Redaktionen, Journalistinnen und Journalisten sowie...
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Springer VS
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2019-02-27
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The essays in this volume discuss the various approaches to New Materialism in Sociology and Philosophy. They raise the questions of what New Materialism consists of and whether it in fact should be considered a radical change in Social Theory. Are the ideas of a...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2019-02-27
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This book addresses the question: how can we talk about race in a world that is considered post-racial, a world where race doesn’t exist? Kamaloni engages with the tradition of everyday racism and traces the process of racialisation through the interaction of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-02-27
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On the eve of the financial crisis, Jacob S. Hacker wrote "the policy book of the year" (E.J. Dionne, Jr., Washington Post), demonstrating and explaining the hidden story of growing economic insecurity. In this fully revised and updated second edition, he brings his...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-02-27
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Das Buch beschäftigt sich aus religionssoziologischer Perspektive mit dem Wirken Amin al-Husseinis während seiner Kooperation mit dem NS-Regime zwischen 1933 und 1945. Zunächst werden die ideologischen und politischen Vorbedingungen der Zusammenarbeit erörtert,...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2019-02-27
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This book presents an important discussion on urbanization and sustainable soil management from a range of perspectives, addressing key topics such as sustainable cities, soil sealing, rehabilitation of contaminated soils, property rights and liability issues, as well...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-02-26
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Why are Australians anxious and pessimistic?Who or what has caused our loss of trust in Australia?Why has a feeling of powerlessness crept in for so many? Has the luck really run out for the lucky country?And what can we do to get it back? Every generation believes its...
Editeur :
Hachette Australia
Parution :
2019-02-26
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This book contains a collection of projects and scenarios dealing with new risks from emerging technologies, future peace keeping operations, and water distribution issues by combining analysis with dialogue. Special attention is paid to the methodology of narrative...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-02-26
Collection :
Zukunft und Forschung
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This book pursues an interdisciplinary approach to open a discourse on innovative methodologies and practices associated with narrative and metaphor. Scholars from diverse fields in the humanities and social sciences report on how they use narrative and/or metaphor in...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-02-26
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This volume includes fourteen essays by eminent sociologists in memory of Ramkrishna Mukherjee (1919–2017), the last of the founding architects of sociology in India. It also includes two interviews with Ramkrishna Mukherjee by senior sociologists. The essays cover...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-02-26
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This two-volume handbook provides readers with a comprehensive interpretation of globality through the multifaceted prism of the humanities and social sciences. Key concepts and symbolizations rooted in and shaped by European academic traditions are discussed and...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-02-26
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This book illustrates and explains the consequences of neoliberal reform on rural economies. Based on an ethnographic case study of coastal fisheries in Iceland, it poses the following questions: How are rural fishers navigating liberal capitalism? And how are new...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-02-25
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This book investigates how persuasion relates to values in self-improvement literature, revealing the discursive practices used to persuade and engage their readers, and construct a credible persona. The author adopts a corpus-driven approach that encompasses an...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-02-25
Collection :
Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse
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This book gathers international and interdisciplinary work on youth studies from the Global South, exploring issues such as continuity and change in youth transitions from education to work; contemporary debates on the impact of mobility, marginalization and violence on...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-02-25
Collection :
Perspectives on Children and Young People
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Throughout the world, divisive monuments, ceremonies, and processions assert and reinforce claims to territory, legitimacy, and dominance. These contested symbols and rituals strengthen and lend meaning to communal boundaries; confer and renew identities; and inflame...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-02-25
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In today’s world, numbers are in the ascendancy. Societies dominated by star ratings, scores, likes and lists are rapidly emerging, as data are collected on virtually every aspect of our lives. From annual university rankings, ratings agencies and fitness tracking...
Editeur :
Polity
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2019-02-25
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This book explores the leading role that cities can play in shaping progressive policies in collaboration with various stakeholders. It examines the timing of such shifts to progressivity in cities, the interactions that enable progressive actions to be developed and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-02-25
Collection :
ARI - Springer Asia Series
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