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Getting older isn't for the faint-hearted - but it can be a lot of fun.In this candid, uplifting, and funny book, Prue Leith explores the trials and taboos of growing older - along with its unexpected joys. Part memoir and part reflection, Being Old and Learning to Love...
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Short Books
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2026-02-26
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Grounded in her experience as a blackbelt, self-defense instructor, and globally recognized organizer, Rana Abdelhamid offers a bold, urgent roadmap to a safer world. Abdelhamid wants every woman and survivor of gender-based violence to be able to defend themselves, and...
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Algonquin Books
Parution :
2026-02-24
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This book explores the interconnections between biodiversity, cultural knowledge, and resource management in Lanna in Northern Thailand, and Northeast India. By examining traditional practices, economic activities, and gender roles, the book contributes to the...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-02-21
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This book examines the development of global cities in Indonesia and proposes a new paradigm for urban development, grounded in inclusive social development. Inclusive development is defined as a new approach to development by developing an increasingly open...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-02-20
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This book investigates the widespread and persistent human rights violations against Dalits in India, with a focus on the erstwhile central Bihar from 1977 to the present day. Drawing on historical data, field interviews, judicial records, and human rights reports, the...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-02-20
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The book explores the politics of gendered belonging in the South Asian (SA) diaspora through the lens of migration. It focuses on the lives of contemporary postcolonial SA migrants, particularly women, through a critical analysis of select South Asian diaspora...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-02-20
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This book explores how the public problem of the Ukrainian refugees is constructed in political and media discourses, by looking into the public debates, strategic narratives and practices circulated with reference to this crisis. Taking into consideration the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2026-02-19
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A former investigator with the police judiciaire, the author was directly involved in the Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès case. Based on authentic facts, unpublished documents and field observations, this account offers an unprecedented immersion behind the scenes of the...
Editeur :
Max Milo Éditions
Parution :
2026-02-19
ePub
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This book approaches the study from architectural perspectives, analyzing the collection of brochs’ features and classifying them based on regional differences. By identifying regional standard models and hypothesizing design schemes, it reveals insights into the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2026-02-16
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As a transformative thinker of the twentieth century, whose work spanned all branches of the humanities, Michel Foucault had a complex and profound relationship with literature. And yet this critical aspect of his thought, because it was largely expressed in speeches...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2026-02-16
ePub
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This book unpacks the multifaceted ways of living with heritage in contemporary Vietnam. It shows how heritage shapes our community and shines possible directions of pathways to the future(s). It also shows that heritage is something being reconfigured, recombined, or...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-02-16
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This book stakes the claim formally and authoritatively that we have entered the technological era of surfing.This argument suggests that the most significant differentiating characteristic of the modern surf era is the common acceptance of new technological inputs and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2026-02-15
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This book unprecedentedly and systematically puts forward the double helix methodology in think tanks, which is used to explore and answer the questions regarding the pathways and methods to realize the transitions from empirical to scientific research, from discrete to...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2026-02-15
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This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the region's cold desert ecosystems, emphasizing the crucial role geodiversity plays in sustaining both biodiversity and human settlements in this fragile environment. Exploring Geodiversity in Indian Trans-Himalaya: A...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2026-02-14
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This volume, Climate Change and Children's Rights in Zimbabwe: Toward Social Policy-Based Interventions, provides a comprehensive examination of the intersection between climate change and children's rights in Zimbabwe, one of the world's most climate-vulnerable...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2026-02-14
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This book sheds light on various modes and dimensions of the linguistic landscape to fulfill diverse functions, transcending sociolinguistics to integrate with urban public image theory.This integration shapes city images and embodies the personalized innovative spirit...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2026-02-13
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This book provides a contemporary and practical resource for exploring critical social work practices in mental health. It explores how a power analysis can be enacted, through a variety of skills and actions, in order to navigate complex organisational and social...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2026-02-12
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This open access handbook offers a state-of-the-art overview of theoretical perspectives, empirical insights and scholarly debates into the relationship between beauty and inequality: how does beauty shape and reproduce social inequalities, and how does social...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2026-02-12
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This book focuses on the conflicts between Chinese medicine and western medicine in modern Chinese society. It is trying to represent how Chinese medicine used its knowledge of exogenous febrile diseases while practicing western medicine, gradually establishing a set of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2026-02-11
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This book explores multicultural religious interactions in Ancient Central and South Asia. Besides encompassing a vast chronological and geographical range, the themes of this book represent a broad illustration of the current main approaches, methodologies, and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2026-02-10
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