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This open access book discusses how, and to what extent, the legal and institutional regimes and the socio-cultural environments of a range of European countries (the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Italy, Switzerland and the UK), in the framework of EU laws...
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Springer
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2021-04-21
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This open access book examines how childhood social disadvantage influences young-adult demographic decision-making and later-life economic and well-being outcomes.This book in particular focuses on testing whether the consequences of childhood social disadvantage for...
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Springer
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2021-04-21
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Feedback wird im breiteren Sinne als Rückkopplung verstanden, nicht nur als verbale Rückmeldung. Rückkopplung ist das Rückführen der Wirkung auf die Ursache – und die verblüffenden Effekte sind in allen Lebensbereichen anzutreffen.Der Wissenschaftsautor Jürgen Beetz...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-04-20
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Contemporary Health Studies provides an accessible introduction to current issues and key debates in understanding and promoting health. Its up-to-date, global focus places a strong emphasis on the social, political and environmental dimensions of health. Part One sets...
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Polity
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2021-04-20
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This publication aims to investigate the nature of social life in public and urban spaces in the cities of the Middle East, considering the value of environmental approaches. It aims to develop a better understanding of the patterns of social interactions and activities...
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Springer
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2021-04-20
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Environmentalists devote little attention at the moment to the size and growth of the human population. To counter this neglect, the monograph (i) includes original graphs showing population size and growth since 1920 in the world as a whole and the United States;...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-04-19
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SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace
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This book advances the understanding and modelling of sensemaking and cultural processes as being crucial to the scientific study of contemporary complex societies. It outlines a dynamic, processual conception of culture and a general view of the role of cultural...
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Springer
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2021-04-19
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Trauma and its consequences are social phenomena. Coming from a working-class family and raised in a small, rural Southern area, this author's narrative offers a unique style of life history reporting whereby the author uses her academic standpoint to situate her life...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-04-19
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This book follows on previous works addressing sustainable development research in the Asia-Pacific region. It mainly focuses on India, a country currently facing immense challenges in the form of climate change, rapid urbanisation, and population pressures in its...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-04-16
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In the wake of the MeToo movement, revelations of sexual assault and harassment continue to disrupt sexual politics across the globe. Reports of widespread misconduct—in workplaces from doctors’ offices to factory floors—precipitate firings, legal actions, street...
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Polity
Parution :
2021-04-16
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Essential writings from classical and contemporary sociological theorists engagingly introduced and brought to life for students This Concise Reader in Sociological Theory contains excerpts from the writings of a wide range of key theorists who represent the dynamic...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2021-04-16
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This book introduces the Japanese urban food desert (FD). Currently, Japan has the most rapidly aging society in the world, with a shrinking population and food desert issues in connection with the isolation of the elderly people from their families and local...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-04-15
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>CLASSIFY, EXCLUDE, POLICE ‘Laurent Fourchard’s deep, first-hand knowledge of the history and contemporary politics of Nigeria and South Africa forms the basis of an insightful and compelling analysis of how states produce invidious distinctions among their people and...
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Wiley
Parution :
2021-04-14
Collection :
IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
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THE POLITICS OF INCREMENTAL PROGRESSIVISM ‘Ungovernable neoliberal post politics assemblage metropolis from the South? No.This book shows innovative redistributive policies, regulation, and social participation recently in São Paulo, although gradually, slowly, and...
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Wiley
Parution :
2021-04-14
Collection :
IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
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From a leading prison abolitionist, a moving memoir about coming of age in Brooklyn and surviving incarceration—and a call to break free from all the cages that confine us. Marlon Peterson grew up in 1980s Crown Heights, raised by Trinidadian immigrants. Amid...
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Bold Type Books
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2021-04-13
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Rather than providing a global solution to the problem of abortion —to abort or not to abort—this volume sheds light on different but equally critical dimensions of abortion in global debate and practice. The aim is to elaborate on different value systems and...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-04-13
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As the end of December draws near, Facebook routinely sends users a short video entitled ‘Your Year on Facebook’. It lasts about a minute and brings together the images and posts that received the highest number of comments and likes over the last year. The video is...
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Polity
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2021-04-13
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Urban planning is not just about applying a suite of systematic principles or plotting out pragmatic designs to satisfy the briefs of private developers or public bodies. Planning is also an activity of imagination, with a stock of wisdom and an array of useful methods...
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Polity
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2021-04-13
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Study the science of all of us Anthropology is the organized study of what makes humans human. It takes an objective step back to view homo sapiens as a species and ask questions like: Given our common characteristics, why aren’t all of us exactly the same? Why do...
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For Dummies
Parution :
2021-04-13
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This contributed volume offers a holistic understanding of social work practice in deprived communities through its thematization of understanding deprived communities globally, the development of competencies for social work practice in and with deprived communities,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-04-12
Collection :
European Social Work Education and Practice
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