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In the fields of management and organization, there is an ongoing debate about different ontological assumptions about people in and around organizations, and the dangers of self-fulling prophecies, i.e., the phenomena in which unsubstantiated, unethical, or...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-09-23
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Disembodiment examines self-destruction, self-injury, and self-endangerment as actions that express the injustices and indignities of the life conditions of impoverished, dispossessed, and dominated peoples. Author Banu Bargu troubles the dominant approach that treats...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-09-20
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This book delves into the complexities of masculinity, mental health, and cultural identity among young Bangladeshi-Canadian men. Employing an anthropological, intersectional approach, it scrutinizes the interplay of neoliberal ideologies, Islamic values, and diasporic...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-09-20
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This book examines the relationship between sacred landscapes, indigenous knowledge, ethno-culture, and natural resource management. The volume contributes to the existing literature on landscape studies and cultural geography by examining local perceptions toward...
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Springer
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2024-09-20
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In recent years, gold-standard experimental evidence on the benefits of reading fiction has exploded. Why do we love stories from books, TV and movies, and videogames? What do fictional stories have to do with stories from real life? How do stories impact our own and...
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Oxford University Press
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2024-09-20
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This volume outlines various religious practices followed across the global south and highlights their correlation to sustainability. It features more than 30 chapters from scholars across diverse disciplines, including philosophy, economics, ethics, theology,...
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Springer
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2024-09-20
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One of bell hooks' foundational works introduced to the UK for the first time.'With the emotion of poetry, the narrative of a novel, and the truth of experience, bell hooks weaves a girlhood memoir you won't be able to put down?or forget. Bone Black takes us into the...
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Dialogue Books
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2024-09-19
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The identity of Taiwan is a matter of intense local and international debate. This book shows how engineers helped produce two distinct visions of the land of Taiwan and its people, elevating the value of engineering as a career path in the process.The book...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-09-19
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This book discusses the need to establish social work for Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) with an emphasis on the emerging role of effective and sustainable social interventions for the control and elimination of NTDs.
NTDs are a group of infectious diseases...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-09-19
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This book is a practice-based exploration of the politics and poetics of replacing colonial placenames with Indigenous ones. From a horizon of case-studies in Western Australia, the study develops a lively dialogue with international critical toponymy theory and with...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-09-19
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This two-volume work brings together studies focusing on the Greek realities of class as they appear in and through the Greek media realm. Critically engaging with traditions of class analysis, it brings to light various class perspectives and their explanatory power...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-09-19
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The growth and adoption of social media has significantly impacted the writing and publishing landscape, challenging traditional concepts of authorship and prompting a re-evaluation of how authors present themselves in digitally social spaces. This book explores how...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-09-19
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“This is a must-read for anyone concerned with where we are today and looking for a better path forward.” ?Steve Wozniak, Co-founder, Apple Inc. Big Tech is driving us, our kids, and society mad. In the nick of time, Restoring Our Sanity Online presents the bold,...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2024-09-18
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Over the past thirty years, humanity has made a huge mistake. We handed over to big tech decisions that have allowed them to build what has become our "space of the world" – the highly artificial space of social media platforms where much of our social life now unfolds....
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2024-09-17
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This book analyses of public participation in the different development stages of urban renewal in Macao. Three types of participation are summarized from practice, analyzed their characteristics. And then develops a framework and a set of standards of participation...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-09-16
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Die Beiträge dieses Bands kartographieren das soziologische und kulturwissenschaftliche Feld in Bezug auf Drogen und die mit ihnen verbundenen sozialen, gesellschaftlichen und politischen Praktiken.Die Neuauflage wurde um einen Teil über Drogen und Rassismus erweitert...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2024-09-16
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In öffentlichen Diskussionen wird jungen Arbeitnehmenden häufig eine veränderte Arbeitseinstellung zugeschrieben. Anders als vorherige Generationen scheinen sie unter dem Schlagwort Work-Live-Balance einen Ausgleich verschiedener Lebensbereiche aktiv anzustreben. Der...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2024-09-16
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Integrated art, also known as composite art, is an art classification that refers to the art formed by the synthesis of several art forms, such as songs combining poetry and music, architecture combining painting and sculpture, drama...
Editeur :
Atlantis Press
Parution :
2024-09-14
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This volume offers a comprehensive exploration of the environmental challenges and innovations shaping our world. It represents a collective effort to understand and address the pressing issues that define our era, from climate change to resource management. Through a...
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Springer
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2024-09-14
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This book argues that, given the complex nature of the urban environment, we cannot find one optimal solution to reducing environmental injustice, in part because there is no singular cause. Environmental injustice emerges in particular settings because of the combined...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-09-13
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