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This book explores how the labour and leisure lives of people in contemporary rural China have been structured and transformed, discussing the changing dynamics of power relations both between and within genders, and in local (village and family/household) and remote...
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Springer
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2020-08-28
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This open access book presents and discusses current issues and innovative solution approaches for land management in a European context. Manifold sustainability issues are closely interconnected with land use practices. Throughout the world, we face increasing conflict...
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Springer
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2020-08-28
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Human-Environment Interactions
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This book investigates why and how cycle and walking paths can help to promote the regeneration of marginalized areas facing depopulation and economic decline. In addition, it offers a broad overview of recent scientific research into slow tourism and...
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Springer
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2020-08-28
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Research for Development
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Dieses Sachbuch räumt mit Mythen rund um eine gesunde und ausgewogene Ernährung auf, denn was ist schon die richtige Ernährung? Veganismus, Steinzeitkost, Clean Eating – Spezial-Diäten sind beliebt. Ob sie auch gesund sind, erfahren sie in diesem Buch, einer Sammlung...
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Springer
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2020-08-28
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Offers a clear view of the utility and place for survey data within the broader Big Data ecosystem This book presents a collection of snapshots from two sides of the Big Data perspective. It assembles an array of tangible tools, methods, and approaches that illustrate...
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Wiley
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2020-08-27
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Wiley Series in Survey Methodology
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"This is the Indiana Jones of international business." Csaba Toth An unvarnished, story-driven, practical guide to working across cultures. The book features real stories of companies going global and highlights the realities of doing business overseas in a...
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John Murray Business
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2020-08-27
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Kaum eine Persönlichkeitsstörung ist in ihrer gesellschaftlichen Wahrnehmung so negativ konnotiert und mit Kriminalität so eng assoziiert wie die Antisoziale Persönlichkeitsstörung. Mit zunehmendem Einzug des Begriffes der „psychischen Störung“ in die Gesetzgebung und...
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Springer
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2020-08-25
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A fresh argument for rioting and looting as our most powerful tools for dismantling white supremacy.Looting -- a crowd of people publicly, openly, and directly seizing goods -- is one of the more extreme actions that can take place in the midst of social unrest. Even...
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Bold Type Books
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2020-08-25
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This carefully curated collection of the writings and speeches of W. McNeil (Mac) Lowry will provide significant information about and insight into a remarkable period in the second half of the twentieth century, when the foundations of the arts as they now exist in the...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2020-08-20
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'A horrific story superbly told' - Irish TimesThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks meets Get Out in this landmark investigation of entrenched racism at the core of the heart transplant race. In 1968, Bruce Tucker, a Black man, went into Virginia's top research hospital...
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Quercus
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2020-08-20
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Like all empires, the Soviet Empire was also based on the distinction centre–periphery. Although the Soviet Empire no longer exists, relationships between centres and peripheries still shape realities in the region. The book analyses the relevance of this distinction...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-08-20
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This book discusses and analyzes past and ongoing national urban policy development efforts from around the globe, particularly those that can lead the way toward smart and green cities. In view of the adoption of the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,...
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Springer
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2020-08-17
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This brief extends studies on how corporations respond to scandals by examining the evolution of the accounts that corporate agents develop after a scandal becomes public. Guided by the theory of accounts and a recently developed perspective on crisis management, its...
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Springer
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2020-08-17
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This book gathers the author’s interviews with twenty leading sociologists from various fields at nine different prestigious universities in the USA, including their viewpoints, anecdotes and experiences in the world of sociology. Each chapter presents an interview with...
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Springer
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2020-08-13
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This book offers a comprehensible overview of the statistical approach called the person-centered method. Instead of analyzing means, variances and covariances of scale scores as in the common variable-centered approach, the person-centered approach analyzes persons or...
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Springer
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2020-08-13
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The ubiquity of the internet and social media has influenced the lives of people across the globe, including young people involved in street gangs and troublesome youth groups. This development raises important questions about the causes, features, and consequences of...
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Springer
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2020-08-13
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This book examines regional responses to marginality by highlighting social innovation, local capacity and new path formations in what are often seen as economically weak regions where policy and institutional considerations play a key role. Divided into three parts, it...
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Springer
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2020-08-13
Collection :
Perspectives on Geographical Marginality
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This open access book describes how elite studies theoretically and methodologically construct their object, i.e. how particular conceptualizations of elites are turned into research practice using different methods for collecting, dealing with and analyzing empirical...
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Springer
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2020-08-12
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Methodos Series
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This edited volume offers state-of-the-art research on the dynamics of contemporary fertility by examining the implications of the economic and social forces that are driving the rapid change in fertility behavior, and the changing context, determinants, and measurement...
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Springer
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2020-08-12
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A broad examination of the rise of nationalism, populism, xenophobia, and racism throughout the world The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism provides expert insight into the complex, interconnected factors that are influencing patterns of...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2020-08-12
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