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This very practical book helps professionals and students to engage critically with their practice by addressing mental capacity and adult safeguarding. Its accessible and easy to navigate format include key topics surrounding assisted decision making, deprivation of...
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Learning Matters
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2020-04-23
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This book offers a major new account of modern capitalism and of the ways in which value and wealth are created today. Boltanski and Esquerre argue that capitalism in the West has recently undergone a fundamental transformation characterized by de-industrialization, on...
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Polity
Parution :
2020-04-22
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This volume provides an overview of cyber economic crime in India, analyzing fifteen years of data and specific case studies from Mumbai to add to the limited research in cyber economic crime detection. Centering around an integrated victim-centered approach to...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-04-22
Collection :
Springer Series on Asian Criminology and Criminal Justice Research
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'Why are you making this about race?' This question is repeated daily in public and in the media. Calling someone racist in these times of mounting white supremacy seems to be a worse insult than racism itself. In our supposedly post-racial society, surely it’s time to...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-04-22
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This book explores the hybridity of urban identities in multiple dimensions and at multiple scales, how they form as catalysts and mechanisms for urban transitions, and how they develop as city branding strategies and urban regeneration methods. Due to rapid...
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Springer
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2020-04-21
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Our contemporary societies place more and more emphasis on the singular and the unique. The industrial societies of the early 20th century produced standardized products, cities, subjects and organizations which tended to look the same, but in our late-modern...
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Polity
Parution :
2020-04-21
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The first three editions of this bestselling book have established A Social History of the Media as a classic, providing a masterful overview of communication media and of the social and cultural contexts within which they emerged and evolved over time.This fourth...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-04-20
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The SAGE Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies navigates our understanding of the historical, political, social and cultural dimensions of childhood. Transdisciplinary and transnational in content and scope, the Encyclopedia both reflects and enables the wide...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2020-04-20
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This brief offers a unique and innovative account of the role of internet and digital technologies in human smuggling and trafficking. It explores new illegal paths through the web by analyzing how traffickers and smugglers use the visible and dark web during...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-04-20
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This book illuminates the importance of threat on the representation of everyday life, from an interdisciplinary perspective. Divided into three parts, the book sets out by addressing the conceptual aspects of threat and by opening views on phenomena and social...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-04-18
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This book focuses on the latest developments in behaviormetrics and data science, covering a wide range of topics in data analysis and related areas of data science, including analysis of complex data, analysis of qualitative data, methods for high-dimensional data,...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-04-17
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In this short and provocative book, cultural studies scholar Angela McRobbie develops a much-needed feminist account of neoliberalism. Highlighting the ways in which popular culture and the media actively produce and sustain the cultural imaginary for social...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-04-17
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Wherever love and death meet there is grief. It affects us all regardless of ethnicity, age, class, or sexual orientation. Grief is universal – it has endured across time, societies and cultures from the earliest human communities to the present day. But the way we...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-04-17
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Émile Durkheim’s major works are among the founding texts of the discipline of sociology, but his importance lies also in his immense legacy and subsequent influence upon others. In this book, Philip Smith examines not only Durkheim’s original ideas, but also reveals...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-04-17
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The concept of intersectionality has become a central topic in academic and activist circles alike. But what exactly does it mean, and why has it emerged as such a vital lens through which to explore how social inequalities of race, class, gender, sexuality, age,...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-04-17
Collection :
Key Concepts
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How should we talk about desire, power and equality in the wake of the #Me Too debate? For Carolin Emcke, bestselling author and winner of the German Peace Prize, the debate demonstrates one thing above all: a conversation about abuse and sexuality has emerged that can...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-04-17
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This book makes valuable theoretical, empirical, and methodological contributions to the study of overseas doctoral students’ cross-cultural adaptation.
Focusing on Australia, one of the top three destinations for Chinese students, this book seeks to understand how...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-04-15
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This provocative account of our immigration system's long, racist history reveals how it has become the brutal machine that upends the lives of millions of immigrants today.Each year in the United States, hundreds of thousands of people are arrested, imprisoned, and...
Editeur :
Bold Type Books
Parution :
2020-04-14
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A witty, inspiring reckoning with the ancient Greek and Roman myths and their legacy, from what they can illuminate about #MeToo to the radical imagery of Beyoncé.The picture of classical antiquity most of us learned in school is framed in certain ways -- glossing over...
Editeur :
Wildfire
Parution :
2020-04-14
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Daniela Blaschke geht der Frage nach, welche Gesellschaftsreferenz der Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) von Unternehmen zugrunde liegt. Ihre Analyse von CSR als strukturelle Kopplung im Sinne Luhmanns rückt sogenannte CSR-Initiativen, die als Netzwerke zwischen...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-04-13
Collection :
AutoUni – Schriftenreihe
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