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Candice Brathwaite's much-anticipated second book about all the things she wishes she'd been told when she was young and needed guidance.I Am Not Your Baby Mother was a landmark publication in 2020. A thought-provoking, urgent and inspirational guide to life as a Black...
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Quercus
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2021-07-08
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'You'll be moved by the brave women in Awakening' Malala Yousafzai'Awakening goes where no book has gone before. Inspiring, insightful, profoundly moving' Hillary Rodham ClintonAll over the world, #MeToo inspired generations of women to fight in new ways for their...
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Virago
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2021-07-08
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Karen Pirie
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'Elegant and multi-focal. Glorious!' Simon Garfield'It will make you look at specs with fresh eyes' New Statesman'Lively, engaging and admirably wide-ranging' The Times'Fascinating' ObserverThe humble pair of glasses might just be one of the world's greatest inventions,...
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Little, Brown Book Group
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2021-07-08
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***RECOMMENDED AS ONE OF THE TIMES' BEST SCIENCE BOOKS OF 2021'With all the talk about testosterone in sex, sports and politics, we need a good explanation of the science and its implications, and this one is outstanding.' STEVEN PINKER, bestselling author of The Blank...
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Cassell
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2021-07-08
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This book discusses the urbanization of China and identifies four major features of ethnic minority mobility partners over the last twenty years: the three-stage peripheral-to-core transition pattern; the escalating decline of the urban minority population in the...
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Springer
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2021-07-07
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SpringerBriefs in Geography
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Die Publikation analysiert die komplexe Textsorte Informations- und Ratgeberbroschüren zum Nachbarrecht. Es liegt die Hypothese zugrunde, dass mit dieser Textsorte nicht nur Informationen vermittelt, sondern durch die Emittenten auch eine Verhaltensbeeinflussung auf...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2021-07-06
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This book, written decades into the HIV epidemic, reflects critically on the idea that the socially excluded populations often focused on in HIV research are in fact difficult to access and reach. The author broadly applies the concept ‘hard to reach’ to...
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Springer
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2021-07-05
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Social Aspects of HIV
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The book highlights the root cause of human trafficking and analyses how factors of vulnerability affect the marginalized, especially during and after a disaster. Human trafficking like other studies on disaster research, needs to be tackled from various perspectives...
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Springer
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2021-07-05
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A guide to journalistic ethics for today’s digital technologies With contributions from an international panel of experts on the topic, News Media Innovation Reconsidered offers a guide for the revitalizing of the ethical and civil ideals of journalism. The authors...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2021-07-05
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COMPANION TO URBAN AND REGIONAL STUDIES Indispensable overview and timely coverage of the major issues, debates, and research topics in urban and regional studiesCompanion to Urban and Regional Studies offers an up-to-date view of the rapidly growing field, exploring a...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2021-07-05
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This book addresses the issue of Sikh women’s education in Punjab within the larger discourse of women’s education in India. It focuses on the role of the Sikh Kanya Mahavidyalaya (SKM)—one of the most important educational institutions established in the nineteenth...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-07-01
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Housing in the Margins offers a theoretically informed and empirically detailed exploration of unruly housing practices and their governance at the periphery of Berlin. An original empirical contribution to understanding housing precarity in the context of the German...
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Wiley
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2021-07-01
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IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
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Housing in the Margins offers a theoretically informed and empirically detailed exploration of unruly housing practices and their governance at the periphery of Berlin. An original empirical contribution to understanding housing precarity in the context of the German...
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Wiley
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2021-07-01
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IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
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Bioarchaeology has relied on Darwinian perspectives and biocultural models to communicate information about the lives of past peoples. This book demonstrates how further theoretical expansion—a thoughtful engagement with critical social theorizing—can contribute...
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Springer
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2021-06-30
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This book focuses on American political discourse connected to war, dissent, and empathy. Through interdisciplinary methods of history, politics and media studies, the book examines ways in which American self-identity alters as a consequence of media portrayal of human...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-06-28
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Right from the origins of cinema, countless films and television dramas have offered sensational and seductive representations of young people's lives. Youth is typically associated with energy, idealism and physical beauty, but it is often represented as both troubled...
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Polity
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2021-06-28
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We live in a time of great uncertainty about the future. Those heady days of the late twentieth century, when the end of the Cold War seemed to be ushering in a new and more optimistic age, now seem like a distant memory. During the last couple of decades, we’ve been...
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Polity
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2021-06-28
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This book presents the state-of-the art in the analysis of animal movements in the past and its implications for human societies. It also addresses the importance of animal activity and mobility for understanding past human societies and past human-animal relationships...
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Springer
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2021-06-28
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Witches, fairies, unicorns, giants, dwarves, gnomes, and talking animals. Folk tales feature many magical creatures and larger or smaller than life entities and are great for pastime activities. What if such enchanted beings are replaced by familiar figures of kings,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2021-06-28
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This book is an in-depth account of people’s cultural and religious life in the Jammu region of Jammu and Kashmir, India. It brings out the significance of Sufi and deity shrines as alternative places of worship that give meaning and purpose to people’s lives. It...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-06-26
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