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Featuring folklore, symbology and practical rituals alongside ancient crafts and modern techniques this beautifully illustrated book contains over 50 creative ways to use the gifts of the natural world to make charms, talismans, amulets, altars and much more. These...
Editeur :
Welbeck
Parution :
2021-10-28
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This book traces and analyses the role of heritage in the urban transformation of the city of Cape Town. By looking at discourses of heritage and urban design, the book shows how Cape Town positions itself as an emerging global city in the context of a series of global...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-10-27
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This book offers a new way of looking at the geographical spaces occupied by urban squares, proposing a different perspective on European urban squares.This might strike one as a bold statement, but it should first and foremost be taken literally. The photographs in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-10-27
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This book gathers selected high-quality research papers presented at the Sixth International Congress on Information and Communication Technology, held at Brunel University, London, on February 25–26, 2021. It discusses emerging topics pertaining to information and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-10-26
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This book provides a full scale description and discussion of science, technology, society, cross-cultural communication and modernity and is presented at a level that makes it accessible to the interested academic. Starting with the historical overview, the text...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-10-26
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This book addresses questions about theories of heritage, its methodologies of research, and where its boundaries lie with tourism, urban development, post-disaster recovery, collective identities, memory, or conflict.This book is a collection of heritage studies from a...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-10-26
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This volume examines the evolution of the concept of diaspora since the advent of Diaspora Studies in the 90s, specifically vis-à-vis other concepts: transnationalism, cosmopolitanism, creolization. The essays depict the discontinuities of diasporic experience, but also...
Editeur :
Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée
Parution :
2021-10-26
Collection :
Horizons anglophones
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Continuing the series on Diasporas, Cultures of Mobilities, ‘Race’, this second volume extends existing scholarship by exploring a range of multidisciplinary perspectives on the diasporic condition. Embodiment, memory and intimacy form three core themes through which...
Editeur :
Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée
Parution :
2021-10-26
Collection :
Horizons anglophones
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Reflecting current debates in the intersecting fields of African American Studies and African Diaspora, these critical essays and case studies explore the articulation between the fluctuating concepts of ‘race’ and Diaspora and the negotiations of identities across...
Editeur :
Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée
Parution :
2021-10-26
Collection :
Horizons anglophones
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In Crossroads of Jewish Bratislava, the author identifi es several key junctures that determined the history of Jews in Bratislava between the 19th and 21st centuries, especially in terms of their culture and way of life. The fi rst part of the book (History) provides...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-10-26
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This book provides an insightful sociological study of the shrinking Japanese population through a regional variation perspective as it varies significantly by municipality, even within the same prefecture. Using demographic data on municipal levels, the book identifies...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-10-25
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This book enumerates the unique challenges, barriers, needs, and trauma of being an African American in the United States, and at the same time highlights what needs to be done to improve and foster the mental health healing of this population.This includes practical...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-10-25
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The 1960s (a.k.a. the 60s) remains a terrain of contemporary politics—with the values of the period embraced or rejected, as well as differently interpreted. Popular culture (movies, television) is an important means to understand and analyze the political issues and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-10-25
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This book attempts to introduce the theory of system science and engineering technology into the geographic research of urban-rural transformation, reveals the level-structure-function of urban-rural transformation, and promotes the scientific research on urban-rural...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-10-25
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This book offers a multidisciplinary and comprehensive approach to understand the trends and issues of development, governance, and dynamics of gender in the South Asian region. It familiarizes the reader with the quantitative as well as qualitative aspects of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-10-23
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This book seeks to break new ground, both empirically and conceptually, in examining discourses of identity formation and the agency of critical social practices in Malaysia. Taking an inclusive cultural studies perspective, it questions the ideological narrative of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-10-23
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Fascinating - PrimaEngaging and informative - GuardianAgatha Christie is one of our most beloved authors - a storyteller unparalleled in her clever plots and twisting tales. But Agatha was also a forensic expert; in each of her books she employs an expert weaving of...
Editeur :
Sphere
Parution :
2021-10-21
ePub
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Einen völlig neuen Zugang zu dem komplexen sozialen Phänomen Mafia bietet dieses Buch: Neben Ursprung, Organisation und Vorgehen der Mafia untersucht die Autorin Anita Bestler vor allem die enge Verbindung zwischen der organisierten Kriminalität und der Politik. Dabei...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-10-19
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This book analyzes the experiences of women living and working across the busiest and most transited frontier in South America, the Paraná Tri-Border Area (TBA), between Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. From a feminist approach, it shows how, in these territories, the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-10-19
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Neural networks as the commonly used machine learning algorithms, such as artificial neural networks (ANNs) and convolutional neural networks (CNNs), have been extensively used in the GIScience domain to explore the nonlinear and complex geographic phenomena. However,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-10-18
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