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This book provides an analysis of Latinidad in Latin American and U.S. Latinx films by women and/or LGBTQ directors from 1991 to 2016. Challenging traditional notions of gender roles, family, and national identities, it discusses how film directors are broadening the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-06-27
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This book presents new perspectives on gender-based violence (GBV) in South Africa. It argues that violence against women is a manifestation of unequal gender relations and harmful manifestations of hegemonic masculinity, which are governed by patriarchal beliefs,...
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Springer
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2024-06-27
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The book empirically investigates various tactics, approaches, and digital communities that play a role in the propagation of online hate on social media. I use a mixed method approach involving manual and automated analysis of social media data mostly taken from...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-06-27
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Editeur :
Constable
Parution :
2024-06-27
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Existing literature on women career development focuses on western industrialized countries and gives little attention to regions where patriarchy is prevailing like in North African countries. The limited available research in the region takes a business-oriented...
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Springer VS
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2024-06-27
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This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the empirical and theoretical problems posed by the encounter between law and biology in the twenty-first century. How does biotechnology and new bioscientific knowledge affect our legal institutions, our sense of justice,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-06-26
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This book links Calvinist belief in the Perpetual Assurance of Salvation with self-efficacy for economic success. Certain values are at stake for the success of economic behavior. Since the genesis of modern capitalism, a set of beliefs proper of Calvinism (mainly...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-06-26
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This book explores and sheds light on the contemporary discourse between science and religion. Employing the methodological approach of modern science, Overcoming Reductionism aims to explain natural phenomena not in isolation from philosophical or theological...
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Springer
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2024-06-26
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This book investigates the recent history of the drug market on the dark web and suggests interventions that can be used to curb the trade of illegal products in the internet's underbelly. It outlines the current landscape of this market, highlighting:
• What is known...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-06-26
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This book critically interrogates ‘wellbeing’, a concept that is exploding in popularity across the globe. The collection of essays asks not only how wellbeing can be defined and measured, but what is created and excluded in the process of striving for and articulating...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-06-25
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This book, by noted German sociologist Wilhelm Heitmeyer, analyses capitalist development in Western Europe, with a focus on Germany, since the 1990s and its consequences for open society and liberal democracy. Following Heitmeyer’s long-term interest in extremism, this...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-06-25
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Weltweite Krisenphänomene wie der Klimawandel, der rapide Schwund von Tier- und Pflanzenarten sowie der Verlust wertvoller Böden verdeutlichen, dass sozial-ökologische Transformationen nötig sind – insbesondere in wohlhabenden Staaten wie Deutschland,...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2024-06-25
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This book explores the evolving world of drones through a multifaceted lens, revealing their profound impact on society and visual culture. The comprehensive collection bridges the gap between technology and aesthetics, dissecting the transformative role drones play in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-06-24
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This book informs social work students about the context and potential for burnout in their field experience, their first work with clients, and equips them to recognize, prevent, and address it. With its emphasis on role ambiguity and self-care based on current...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-06-24
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Geographers – and others – have been long aware that landscapes are neither natural or neutral. This is particularly true of landscapes of memory. Powerful groups inscribe such landscapes with both a preferred vision of the past and with sets of idealized societal...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2024-06-24
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Humans are unique among animals for the wide diversity of foods and food preparation techniques that are intertwined with regional cultural distinctions around the world. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Diet explores evidence for human diet from our earliest...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-06-24
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This book examines contemporary culture wars around gender in Italy. Applying methods from European cultural studies, the authors reconstruct the ways in which gender issues have become part of the contemporary culture wars in Italy. Recently the convergence between...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-06-22
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This volume explores violence in bioarchaeological case studies from various cultures, geographic regions, and time periods throughout the Eastern Hemisphere through the lens of Neil Whitehead's concept of poetics. It emphasizes the role and power of performance and...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-06-22
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This volume explores how different forms of Christianity shape people's visions of pasts and futures, and how the transcendent is brought into human time. Beyond conventional discussions around breaks with the past in Christian conversion and future ruptures...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-06-22
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This book uses complexity thinking to explore China’s demography and population-driven geopolitics within and beyond mainland China. From a multidisciplinary perspective, the book is relevant to the debates of Chinese demography studies and politics of contemporary...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-06-22
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