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Dangerous. Sexy. All-American—or rather All-World—Girl. Pin Up! The Subculture is the first book to explore the contemporary international subculture of pin up, women (and men) who embrace vintage style, but not vintage values.
Award-winning filmmaker and author...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2020-09-17
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This book evaluates the impact of situational crime prevention measures implemented by social media platforms to identifying, blocking, and removing content linked to illegal traded medicines. It discusses the extent of social media usage in trafficking of medicines;...
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Springer
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2020-09-17
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Witch's Garden describes over 50 of the world's most powerful magical plants and their uses, mythical and proven.Wise women, apothecaries, witches, herbalists: whatever you call them, those who cultivate plants for their fabled mystical and healing properties have...
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Welbeck
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2020-09-17
Collection :
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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Drawing on untapped archives, as well as aggregating a wide range of existing published sources, this book recalibrates the understanding of women artists’ roles, outputs and receptions in London during what was indubitably a vibrant and innovative period in the history...
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Springer
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2020-09-16
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Featured in the Financial Times Best Books of the Year 2020
The evidence is rigorously marshalled and the...solutions equally clearly illuminated. A definitive study. - Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator, The Financial Times
In this vital new book, Britain's...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2020-09-16
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This book focuses on the implementation of slum upgrading projects and the last generation of citywide programmes that define the future urban configuration of informal settlements, from a citywide perspective, in the Earth’s tropical region. The book presents a study...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-09-15
Collection :
Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements
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Brave, clear-eyed, and passionate, Stakes Is High is the book we need to guide us past crisis mode and through an uncertain future.The events of the past decade have forced us to reckon with who we are and who we want to be. We have been invested in a set of beliefs...
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Bold Type Books
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2020-09-15
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"Simultaneously hilarious, poignant, and deeply unsettling." ―The New RepublicA tiny American town's plans for radical self-government overlooked one hairy detail: no one told the bears. Once upon a time, a group of libertarians got...
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PublicAffairs
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2020-09-15
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One moment life was normal, the next, governments around the world were imposing radical lockdowns of their populations. But why were decision-makers so readily ignoring centuries of hard-won civil freedoms? Where was the discussion of ethics and human rights? Why were...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2020-09-14
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Gerlinda Smaus gilt als wichtigste feministische Kriminologin im deutschen Sprachraum. Sie selbst bezeichnet ihren theoretischen Ansatz als einen sowohl materialistischen wie interaktionistischen. Dabei bezieht sie sich stets auf konkrete Praxisbereiche (Kriminalität,...
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Springer
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2020-09-14
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This volume critiques the current model of the creative economy, and considers alternative models that may point to greener, cleaner, more sustainable and socially just cultural and creative industries. Aimed at the nexus of cultural and environmental concerns, the book...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-09-14
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"Utterly gripping, timely and shocking" PHILIPPE SANDS"Magnificent and heartbreaking" Washington Post"Compelling and disturbing . . . quietly devastating" DAMON GALGUT"This is a book of profound importance . . . A masterpiece" ALEXANDER McCALL SMITHSHORTLISTED FOR THE...
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Maclehose Press
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2020-09-14
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Im Buch wird das Verhältnis zwischen dem Raum und der Kultur reflektiert. Die räumlichen Prägungen (Schlesien, Kärnten, Mähren, Ostpreußen) zeigen jene kulturellen Überschneidungen, die nicht eine Identität, sondern eine existentielle Wohnhaftigkeit des Raumes...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-09-14
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Opening Pathways, Building Bridges explores contemporary skilled migration and the brain drain using a bottom-up approach, based on a case study of Mexican scientists and engineers—or the Brains, as coined by the author—working in the UK. It provides an insight into how...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-09-14
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This book presents oral histories, collective dialogues, and analyses of rural and indigenous livelihoods facing global socio-environmental regime change in Latin America (LA). Since the late twentieth century, rural and indigenous producers in LA, including...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-09-13
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This book presents a novel and innovative approach to the study of social evolution using case studies from the Old and the New World, from prehistory to the present. This approach is based on examining social evolution through the evolution of social institutions....
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Springer
Parution :
2020-09-12
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This book explores the population development challenges in China. It started by analyzing two of the major challenges: designing a suitable family planning policy and dealing with the serious provincial population difference. It then proposes effective measures to...
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Springer
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2020-09-12
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*** THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ***'If we could issue a reading list to 10 Downing Street, I'd put this book near the top.'GUARDIAN'Explosive, timely and urgent'DAILY TELEGRAPH'Revealing, empathetic and timely'JONATHAN FREEDLAND'Brilliant, powerful and hopeful'PHILIPPA...
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Sceptre
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2020-09-10
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This book examines new forms of representation that have changed our perception and interpretation of the humanities in an Asian, and digital, context. In analyzing written and visual texts, such as the use of digital technology and animation in different works of art...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-09-09
Collection :
Digital Culture and Humanities
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This book applies the Total Human Ecosystem as a guiding concept in coastal urban communities to achieve a mutually beneficial relationship between industrial parks and their surrounding wetlands. The early 21st century has been shaped by a need for economic recovery,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-09-09
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Geography
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