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This open access book is a 2022 Nautilus Gold Medal winner in the category "World Cultures' Transformational Growth & Development". It states that the societal fault lines of our times are deeply intertwined and that they confront us with challenges affecting the...
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Springer
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2021-03-30
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This book explores and analyses women’s participation in local urban governance in West Bengal, India. It is developed from empirical research with in-depth understanding of ground situations of freedom, functioning and obstacles of women councilors in India. The...
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Springer
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2021-03-30
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This book offers a resourceful collection of essays examining recent efforts to respond to the challenges of planning, management and conserving landscapes in contemporary Iran, the home of Persian gardens. Drawing on selected recent studies, the chapters discuss the...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-03-30
Collection :
The Urban Book Series
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Comprising of 18 sub-ethnic groups the indigenous communities, or better known as the Orang Asli, located in the Peninsular Malaysia, is a unique community in terms of their culture, lifestyle, and heritage. The life of the Orang Asli, popularly referred to as...
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Springer
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2021-03-30
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In recent years, there has been increased attention garnered toward activism in sport within the United States.In 2016, Colin Kaepernick’s activist act of taking a knee during the national anthem before National Football League games sparked a nationwide debate on the...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-03-29
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This open access book investigates the link between income inequality and socio-economic residential segregation in 24 large urban regions in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America. It offers a unique global overview of segregation trends...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-03-29
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Um EU-Politik innerhalb Deutschlands zu vermitteln, haben sich EU-Professionals in Think Tanks, Stiftungen, Vereinen und Agenturen herausgebildet. Wie sie professionelle Zuständigkeit und Deutungsmacht im politischen Kontext deklarieren und legitimieren, ist Gegenstand...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-03-29
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Revised, Extended, and Extensively Updated Text Uses Historical Geographical and Thematic Approach to Provide Undergraduates with a Firm Foundation in Human Geography Drawing on nearly three decades of instructional experience and a wealth of testing pedagogical...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2021-03-29
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Advances in Longitudinal Survey Methodology Explore an up-to-date overview of best practices in the implementation of longitudinal surveys from leading experts in the field of survey methodologyAdvances in Longitudinal Survey Methodology delivers a thorough review of...
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Wiley
Parution :
2021-03-26
Collection :
Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics
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Today, as cities undergo rapid and dynamic transformations, riddled with uncertainties about the future, the roles of urban planning and urban planners lie in one of these new crossroad moments. Climate change, urban migration, social inclusion, health emergencies and...
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Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2021-03-26
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During the Victorian period, naturally wet spaces – marshland, rivers and the sea – were construed as feminised loci, articulating contrasted visions of Woman as the angelic Undine or the demonic Siren. This essentialised the concept of feminine fluidity at the same...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-03-26
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In today’s world where reality is simulated, societal relations are increasingly virtualized and social relations have started to be realized in digital environments. Individuals gaining belonging in the virtual universe by adopting digital identity produce daily life...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-03-26
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This book approaches Lin-Manuel Miranda’s groundbreaking cultural production of Hamilton: An American Musical as a rhetorical text with implications for contemporary U.S. politics. The contributors to this volume utilize training in rhetorical criticism and performance...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-03-25
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As convicted serial killer Steve Wright pleads guilty to the murder of Victoria Hall, read the book that exposed the truth about a national tragedy: by the journalist who broke the story and the UK's 'Number One Expert on Serial Killing' - with full details of the...
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Sphere
Parution :
2021-03-25
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The definitive and explosive account of a harrowing murder case that has shocked BritainPeter Tobin was already serving a life sentence for murder when he was charged with the murder of two young women - Vicky Hamilton and Dina McNichol, in November 2007. Both girls...
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Sphere
Parution :
2021-03-25
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The book begins with a discussion of Lipset-Rokkan's theory of cleavages and its continuations.The author's interpretation of this theory is applied to a historical context: the communist system that divided society into communist and anti-communist sides. They survived...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-03-24
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Understanding Digital Societies provides a framework for understanding our changing, technologically shaped society and how sociology can help us make sense of it. You will be introduced to core sociological ideas and texts along with exciting global examples that shed...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2021-03-24
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Seit den 1960er Jahren steigt in Europa die Zahl der jüdischen Kulturerbeprojekte. Im Gedenken an die Schoa suchen Nichtjuden die Relikte der Vergangenheit zu bewahren und lassen dabei nicht selten die gegenwärtigen jüdischen Gemeinden außer Acht. Die Autorinnen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-03-24
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W.E.B Du Bois is widely considered one of the most accomplished and controversial African American intellectuals in U.S. history. A pioneering historian, sociologist, political economist, and civil rights activist, his masterpiece The Souls of Black Folk remains one of...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-03-23
Collection :
Key Contemporary Thinkers
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Both theoretically informed and empirically rich, Youth Urban Worlds explores how urban cultures affect political action amongst youth. Argues that urban cultures challenge the very meaning and contours of the political process Includes ethnographies, delving into the...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2021-03-23
Collection :
IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
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