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This book discusses the fundamentals and practical applications of heritage conservation as an important tool of a city's development. It presents case studies that demonstrate how to achieve a balance between the promotion of tourism industry and the generation of...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-04-27
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The new edition of the bestselling guide to the issues students will encounter in the study of social policy in both the UK and abroad Fully updated and expanded, the sixth edition ofThe Student’s Companion to Social Policy remains the most accessible and comprehensive...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2022-04-27
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Orlando Patterson’s classic study of slavery in Jamaica reveals slavery for what it was: a highly repressive and destructive system of human exploitation, which disregarded and distorted almost all of the basic prerequisites of normal social life. What distinguishes...
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Polity
Parution :
2022-04-27
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This volume presents a collection of essays from experienced crime analysts from around the world. It explores themes relevant to anyone embarking on, or already into a career in crime analysis.
Divided into two sections, this book addresses technical issues central to...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-04-27
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An unlikely friendship, a four-thousand-mile voyage, and an impenetrable frontier—this dramatic odyssey reveals the chaos and cruelty US immigration policies have unleashed beyond our borders.Axel Kirschner was a lifelong New Yorker, all Queens hustle and bravado....
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Bold Type Books
Parution :
2022-04-26
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Dieses Buch wirft einen kritischen Blick auf das Gendern. Wenn Sie sich mit geschlechtergerechter Sprache nicht anfreunden können, finden Sie hier zahlreiche – auch völlig neue – Argumente dagegen. Aber auch als Freund*in des Genderns werden Sie zahlreiche Denkanstöße...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-04-22
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Over the last century, international law has sought to keep pace with sweeping changes that have revolutionised the international community. It has done so in various ways: by developing new fields, adopting new legal instruments, and including new actors and entities...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-04-22
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The book provides empirically-rich case studies of the lives and livelihoods of marginalised ethnic minorities in colonial and post-colonial Zimbabwe, with a specific focus on diverse rural areas. It demonstrates the dynamic and complex relationships existing between...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-04-21
Collection :
Springer Geography
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This book provides the reader with the latest archaeological discoveries of Liangzhu culture for its sophisticated jade artifacts. The structure and contents systematically present that large-scale ritual vessels such as jade cong and bi were originally regarded as the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-04-21
Collection :
Liangzhu Civilization
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The Quarantine Atlas is a poignant and deeply human collection of more than 65 homemade maps created by people around the globe that reveal how the coronavirus pandemic has transformed our physical and emotional worlds, in ways both universal and unique. Along with...
Editeur :
Black Dog & Leventhal
Parution :
2022-04-19
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This book comprises the proceedings of the TEQIP III Sponsored 2nd International Conference on “Gender Equity: Challenges and Opportunities” (2nd ICOGECAO 2020 -Virtual Mode), held at Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, Gujarat, India, from 25 to...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-04-19
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Spending the final chapter of your life in a nursing home is considered, by many, a fate worse than death. Others, however, have found that through enlightened, imaginative care even the frailest of lives can flourish. The key to such a transformation is to replace the...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-04-19
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This book provides an insight into girls’ cultural identities and young femininities through an understanding of tween girls’ dressing in Singapore. The book adopts a girl-centred approach to shed light on the narratives and experiences of young Singaporean girls that...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-04-19
Collection :
Perspectives on Children and Young People
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This book develops a discursive ‘equalitarian’ theoretical framework for studying African mining ecosystem issues and policy interventions. The theory of ‘equalitarianism’ is developed as an alternative to the reductionist approach that has dominated post-colonial...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-04-17
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Over its long history, the concept of ideology has acquired a vast and at times incommensurable roster of meanings: positive and negative, analytic and critical, philosophical, psychological and scientific. But how precisely should we understand and study ideology...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2022-04-13
Collection :
Key Concepts
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Winner of the 24th Korean Sociological Association Book AwardMost theories of modernity are based, explicitly or implicitly, on the development of Western societies since the late medieval period, but these theories are of limited value for understanding the development...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2022-04-13
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Far from its origins in US legal studies in the 1980s, critical race theory has grown to become a leading approach to the analysis of racial inequality around the world. It has courted much controversy along the way, often misunderstood and poorly defined. So what...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2022-04-13
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Through a transdisciplinary perspective, this book examines the complex urban dimension, in front of increasing density, soil consumption, abandoned places, and the recent pandemic which proved megacities particularly inadequate to provide healthy psychophysical...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-04-12
Collection :
Springer Series in Design and Innovation
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THE COMMODIFICATION GAP ‘In an elegant and careful theoretical analysis, this book demonstrates how gentrification is always entwined with institutions and distinctive contextual processes. Matthias Bernt develops a new concept, the “commodification gap”, which is...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2022-04-12
Collection :
IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
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This volume is an annotated edition of Frida Peemüller’s memoirs of her time in German Samoa from 1910 to 1920. In her memoirs Frida Peemüller gives us a unique insight into what was happening in Samoa under the last years of the German administration, under New Zealand...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-04-12
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