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This book provides an analysis of South African urban change over the past three decades. It draws on a seminal text, Homes Apart, and revisits conclusions drawn in that collection that marked the final phases of urban apartheid. It highlights changes in demography,...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-06-10
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This book highlights major quantitative and qualitative methods and approaches used in the field of urban analysis. The respective chapters cover the background and relevance of various approaches to urban studies and offer guidance on implementing specific...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-06-05
Collection :
Cities Research Series
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This book discusses the intersections between culture, context, and aging. It adopts a socio-cultural lens and highlights emotional, social, and psychological issues of the older adults in urban India. It is set in multiple sites such as Ahmedabad, Delhi, Kolkata, and...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-06-05
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This book uses the concept of the region to introduce traditional Chinese villages in ten typical areas. Most of the villages have been included in the World Cultural Heritage List or the Tentative List and reflect the diversity of rural and traditional life. Richly...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-06-01
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This edited volume informs readers about changing norms and meanings of borders and underlines recent scenarios that shape these borders. It focuses mainly on the Mediterranean and Middle East regions through the following questions: What are the social, cultural,...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-06-01
Collection :
The Urban Book Series
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This book presents a sociological study of the COVID-19 pandemic in the context of India. It invites readers to understand disasters and crises as triggers of radical transformations in society, changing the very nature of every day and the meaning of normal. It...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-06-01
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This open access book explores the historical, cultural and philosophical contexts that have made anti-poverty the core of Chinese society since Liberation in 1949, and why poverty alleviation measures evolved from the simplistic aid of the 1950s to Xi Jinping’s...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-06-01
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This book provides in-depth analysis of the historical, philosophical, anthropological, political and neurobiological reinforcements of fear and the role of fear-on-fear interactions in the construction and maintenance of systems.This text will help systems...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-05-31
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This volume is a collation of postgraduate fieldwork experiences in social research that provides a platform for early career researchers (ECRs) to be open about the hidden labour of doing postgraduate fieldwork.This book documents diverse fieldwork experiences,...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-05-31
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This book is based on the author’s 33 years of intensive fieldwork. It chronicles a major movement that shaped the preservation policy in Japan in the 1980s and 1990s, providing “thick descriptions” of preservationists that are not available anywhere else in English. It...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-05-31
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What does it mean when God is presented as male?What does it mean when - from our internal assumptions to our shared cultural imaginings - God is presented as white?These are the urgent questions Chine McDonald asks in a searing look at her experience of being a Black...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2021-05-27
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This book considers the impact of global climate change, advocating to promote sustainable development from the perspective of low carbon and climate resilience, by reducing carbon emissions in different aspects of urban and regional development. As the world's largest...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-05-26
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This book provides concrete scientific basis that we can conceive the possibility of modifying or even completely canceling aging process, despite the fact that aging is commonly regarded as the result of the overall effects of many uncontrollable degenerative...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-05-25
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Come definire il femminismo, cos’è questo movimento? Non sarebbe preferibile usare il plurale, “femminismi”? E quanto ha coinvolto le donne e appartiene alla conoscenza diffusa?Come ricorda Barbara Mapelli nella sua prefazione, sono questi alcuni degli interrogativi...
Editeur :
Rosenberg & Sellier
Parution :
2021-05-25
Collection :
Questioni di genere
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Per quanto sconfitta e conclusasi in una triste tragedia, la Comune di Parigi del 1871 diede voce a un possibile che si è impresso per sempre nella memoria storica: è concepibile una vita senza rapporti di servitù e sfruttamento, senza il dominio esclusivo del denaro,...
Editeur :
Rosenberg & Sellier
Parution :
2021-05-25
Collection :
La critica sociale
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A “fascinating” and “rare” (National Review) biography of Thomas Sowell, one of America’s most influential conservative thinkers Thomas Sowell is one of the great social theorists of our age. In a career spanning more than a half century,...
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Basic Books
Parution :
2021-05-25
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This book compares how British and Spanish media have covered the French ban on hijab wearing in public schools. Using interdisciplinary approaches ranging from social psychology, semiology, cognitive linguistics and sociology, it seeks to explain how the hijab is...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-05-24
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The globalizing world needs responsible young generations who will be agents of social development; so universities are faced with the need to design innovative educational approaches and include academic learning courses that encourage young students to develop...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-05-24
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Jede Rede über das Wesen Gottes ist Mythologie. Gott lässt sich nur durch seine Handlungen erkennen und nur in Korrelation mit dem Menschen. Die Tiefenpsychologie arbeitet mit den gleichen Ansätzen: Die Handlungen des Menschen zu befreien/erlösen, um sie zur vollen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-05-24
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This volume discusses how different geographical spaces can enhance or hinder the capacity of a variety of organizational settings to achieve economic value creation in the pursuit of sustainable regional development. In order to provide the most comprehensive...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-05-22
Collection :
Sustainable Development Goals Series
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