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This book brings together perspectives on maritime and underwater cultural heritage (MUCH) in selected countries around the Indian Ocean rim that are linked by the historic and Arabian maritime trade routes. It explores how selected countries have adapted maritime...
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Springer
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2020-12-15
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This open access book brings together a unique set of comparative data from Western and Central Europe on how contemporary families live, and discusses the similarities and differences in family lifestyles in this region. The empirical data comes from the authors‘...
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Springer
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2020-12-14
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SpringerBriefs in Sociology
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This edited volume is about the rekindled investment in the figure of the first president Julius K. Nyerere in contemporary Tanzania. It explores how Nyerere is remembered by Tanzanians from different levels of society, in what ways and for what purposes. Looking into...
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Africae
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2020-12-14
Collection :
Africae Studies
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Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania have minorities from the Indian sub-continent amongst their population. The East African Indians mostly reside in the main cities, particularly Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar, Mombasa, Kampala; they can also be found in smaller urban centres...
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Africae
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2020-12-14
Collection :
Africae Studies
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This edited volume brings to light how much the development of the mountains of East Africa relates to their surrounding fast-growing towns and cities. The contributors, most of them geographers from both East Africa and France, explore three cases: Mount Kenya (Kenya),...
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Africae
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2020-12-14
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Africae Studies
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This book explores how a society accepts and utilizes a system of archives to improve the quality of people’s lives at each level of community, organization, and government.This is the first book that examines the political, economic, and social background that has...
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Springer
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2020-12-12
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This edited volume highlights the geographies of six European Mediterranean countries: France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Turkey and Greece. The book provides a balanced overview on what the geographers of these six countries have investigated and reflected in recent...
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Springer
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2020-12-11
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Springer Geography
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This brief examines 36,263 homicides in Chicago over a 53-year study period, 1965 through 2017, at micro place grid cells of 150 by 150 meters.This study shows not only long-term historical patterns of homicides in Chicago, but also places that historical context of...
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Springer
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2020-12-10
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This edited collection of data and perspectives takes a fresh approach to gun violence prevention by addressing the question, “why are we losing the war on gun violence in America?” Although successes and failures in the prevention of gun violence are examined, it is a...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-12-09
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This open access book adopts a rights-based approach to shed light on the different legal and policy instruments that have been developed to implement circular migration policies in the EU, and their consequences for the rights of migrant workers....
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Springer
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2020-12-09
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A comprehensive account of the myriad ways that sex and crime interact in contemporary social life, sensitively confronting topics such as nationhood, abortion, child sexual exploitation, war, disability, pornography, and digital cultures. To explain how sex and crime...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2020-12-09
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This Brief describes a reality based approach to use-of-force training in law enforcement, an area of growing importance. It explains what scenario-based training is, how it works to improve police-community relations, and provides a guide for how the training...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-12-08
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This handbook presents a collection of high-quality, authoritative scientific contributions on cross-border migration, written by a carefully selected group of recognized migration experts from around the globe. In recent years, cross-border migration has become an...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-12-07
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This Open Access book explores heritage conservation ethics of post conflict and provides an important historical record of the possible reconstruction of the Bamiyan Buddha statues, which was inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage List in Danger in 2003 as “Cultural...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-12-07
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This book presents a thorough discussion of utility cycling, cycling in the urban environment, and everyday mobility. It is based on large survey answered by 14,000 participants in the bike to work action in Switzerland, and quantifies the various dimensions of utility...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-12-07
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
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This unique volume explores the relationship between music and crime in its various forms and expressions, bringing together two areas rarely discussed in the same contexts and combining them through the tools offered by cultural criminology. Contributors discuss a...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-12-07
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Das Forschungsfeld der Transkulturalität und Interkulturalität reicht von literatur- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Fragen über philosophische und ästhetische Ansätze.In diesem Sammelband setzen sich Vertreterinnen und Vertreter unterschiedlicher Disziplinen mit der Frage...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-12-07
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Nürnberg, Frankfurt und Regensburg erscheinen in Reisebeschreibungen römisch-katholischer Geistlicher als interkonfessionelle Stadträume. Die spezifisch konfessionellen Wahrnehmungen der Reisenden eröffnen vielfältige Perspektiven auf Raum als kulturell und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-12-07
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Adopting a practical perspective, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the Directives adopted by the European Union concerning the rights of and safeguards for suspected and accused persons in criminal proceedings.
It is the result of a collaboration between...
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Springer
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2020-12-05
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This book examines the role, history and function of public libraries in contemporary societies as motors that drive development. It analyses through case studies, how contemporary libraries have been redesigned to offer a new kind of public space while also reshaping...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-12-04
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