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A "persuasive and essential" (Matthew Desmond) work that will forever change how we look at life after prison in America through Miller's "stunning, and deeply painful reckoning with our nation's carceral system" (Heather Ann Thompson).Each...
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Little, Brown and Company
Parution :
2021-02-02
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The definitive reference work with comprehensive analysis and review of peer production Peer production is no longer the sole domain of small groups of technical or academic elites.The internet has enabled millions of people to collectively produce, revise, and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2021-02-02
Collection :
Handbooks in Communication and Media
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This book calls for a multidimensional and comprehensive approach to reduce the number of school shootings, rather than the simplistic unidimensional strategy that is commonly advocated. Based on meta-analyses examining which variables are most often related to positive...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-02-01
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This book presents the state of the art for the studies of strategies and tactics for the procurement of preys in Argentina in different regions and chronologies (from the end of the Pleistocene until historic moments). The chapters are related to the performance of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-01-28
Collection :
The Latin American Studies Book Series
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Birth is a throw of the dice. The consequences last a lifetime.We like to think of Australia as the land of the 'fair go', a land of choice and equal opportunity. But behind the facade of meritocracy lies an uncomfortable truth: much of your life is already decided by...
Editeur :
Hachette Australia
Parution :
2021-01-27
Collection :
On Series
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An “indispensable” (Nation) examination of why "doing what you love" is a recipe for exploitation, creating a new tyranny of work in which we cheerily acquiesce to doing jobs that take over our lives. You're told that if you "do what you...
Editeur :
Bold Type Books
Parution :
2021-01-26
ePub
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The sensational true story of George Dinning, a freed slave, who in 1899 joined forces with a Confederate war hero in search of justice in the Jim Crow south. “Taut and tense. Inspiring and terrifying in its timelessness.”(Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer...
Editeur :
Little, Brown Spark
Parution :
2021-01-26
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This book is part of a broader attempt to decolonize colonial histories and understandings about Indigenous peoples and their relationships with their territories, and argues that the land ethos of "being part of the land," specifically among the Mayan community of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-01-25
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In this book 25 authors from the Global South (19) and the Global North (6) address conflicts, security, peace, gender, environment and development. Four parts cover I) peace research epistemology; II) conflicts, families and vulnerable people; III) peacekeeping,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-01-25
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This book explores the role of gender in the recognition of an individual’s legal capacity. It discusses the meaning of the right to legal capacity and its two core elements – legal personhood and legal agency. It then analyses historical and modern denials of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-01-25
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This volume shows that the emergence of computational social science (CSS) is an endogenous response to problems from within the social sciences and not exogeneous. The three parts of the volume address various pathways along which CSS has been developing from and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-01-22
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We live in the age of fitness. Hundreds of thousands of people run marathons and millions go jogging in local parks, work out in gyms, cycle, swim, or practice yoga. The vast majority are not engaged in competitive sport and are not trying to win any medals. They just...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-01-22
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Der historischen Ritualforschung ist die Eigenschaft des Menschen, Gruppen zu formen und in diesen kollektive Identität zu entwickeln, seit langem bekannt. Die vorliegende Studie untersucht die kulturellen Praktiken Prozession und Heiltumsweisung auf ihre Bedeutung für...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-01-22
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All people around the world are directly or indirectly under the influence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which appeared in China in December 2019, and the COVID-19 pandemic caused by it. This pandemic, which is still ongoing, has infected over 40 million people and killed...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-01-21
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Considering that the press is one of the fundamental elements of democracy, this book investigates how the political agenda has been presented in the print media in Turkey. By using agenda setting and framing theories, this book analyzes the conference "Ottoman...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-01-21
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Why are the arts and humanities under attack? And how can they fight back?
Historically these fields have suffered from a lack of prestige due to the utilitarian perspective of the «developed» world. While such utilitarian views have not been entirely fair on this...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-01-21
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Media Representations of African American Athletes in Cold War Japan addresses the cross-cultural dialogue between Black America and Japan that was enabled through sports during the Cold War era. This topic has hitherto received little scholarly attention in both...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-01-21
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What, exactly, is understanding? And how do people create, maintain, and manipulate states of understanding via communication? This book addresses these questions, drawing on interdisciplinary scholarship in cognitive science, communication, psychology, and pragmatics....
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-01-21
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As demographics change and the southern American region grows more multicultural, clashes between mentalities and contemporary population realties increase. Somalis in the Neo-South: African Immigration, Politics and Race offers a balanced and insightful look at Somalis...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-01-21
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Sprache im Sinne der Wirklichkeitsstrukturierung oder gar -konstruierung steht im Mittelpunkt des sogenannten linguistic turn. Auf der anderen Seite istSprache selbst aber auch ein Kulturartefakt. Sie entwickelt sich als Produkt der menschlichen Evolution und ist als...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-01-21
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