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Spaces of New Colonialism is an edited volume of 16 essays and interviews by prominent and emerging scholars who examine how the restructuring of capitalist globalization is articulated to key sites and institutions that now cut an ecumenical swath across human...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-04-13
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This book explores how and why Tokyo has been divided over time in terms of living conditions. First, recent urban discourses that explain the transformation of Tokyo’s urban structure are examined, along with social changes and the expansion of unequal residential...
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Springer
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2020-04-09
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The study of media industries has become a thriving subfield of media studies. It already comprises a diverse intellectual history, a range of fascinating questions and topics, and many theoretical and methodological frameworks.Media Industry Studies provides the...
Editeur :
Polity
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2020-04-09
Collection :
Short Introductions
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This book is the first-ever monograph on clustering patterns in prehistoric settlements. It not only theoretically explains the difference between natural settlement communities and organizational forms for the first time, but also demonstrates the importance of...
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Springer
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2020-04-07
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From an award-winning journalist, a searing exposé of the effects of the mass incarceration crisis on families -- including the 2.7 million American children who have a parent locked up.In The Shadow System, award-winning journalist Sylvia A. Harvey follows the fears,...
Editeur :
Bold Type Books
Parution :
2020-04-07
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This edited volume offers solutions on the challenges of religious pluralisation from a European perspective. It gives special attention to interreligious dialogue and interfaith relations as specific means of dealing with plurality. In particular, the contributors...
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Springer
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2020-04-07
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Barriers to Rebuilding the African American Community explores the major threats and roots affecting both America’s most racially polarized periods as well as the major issues plaguing the African American community. The author provides intelligent insight into the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-04-07
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This book examines the significance of the couple relationship in the 21st century, exploring in depth how couple relationships are changing in different parts of the world. It highlights global trends and cultural variations that are shaping couple relationships. The...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-04-03
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The birth of democracies owes much to the interventions and mobilizations of ordinary people. Yet many feel as though they have inherited democratic institutions which do not deliver for the people – that a rigid democratic process has been imposed from above, with...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-04-03
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This new book by Massimo Recalcati focuses on the psycho-social life of the son. Comparing and contrasting the tragic story of Oedipus by Sophocles and the parable of the prodigal son, Recalcati argues that all common parenting strategies, whether authoritarian or...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-04-03
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This book examines the state of art in disability studies, focusing on the Indian context, as well as the broader South Asian situation. It presents interdisciplinary perspectives on the basic idea, evolution, practices and challenges of researching and teaching...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-04-02
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Il risveglio, ? meglio la rinascita, di studi sull’antica Puteoli è un dato acquisito, troppo noto per essere ancora celebrato.Il 1977 ha visto da un lato il Convegno Internazionale dell’Accademia dei Lincei sui Campi Flegrei, dall’altro ha salutato la nascita della...
Editeur :
Publications du Centre Jean Bérard
Parution :
2020-04-02
Collection :
Études
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This book explores terrorism and security issues from feminist perspectives, putting gender and androcentrism at the heart of its analysis. It argues against traditional research approaches to political violence, and terrorism in particular, that are dominated by the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-04-01
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They're labelled as selfish, as 'deliberately barren', and sometimes as crazy old cat ladies, but increasingly women are choosing to be childfree. Over the next few decades couples without children are set to outnumber those who have them. Tory Shepherd looks at how...
Editeur :
Hachette Australia
Parution :
2020-03-31
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On Series
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Stop. Listen. Step outside the echo chamber.How do we step outside our own echo chamber to understand others? What are we losing when we share fewer and fewer national moments? The new media is enabling despots and disempowering democracy. So when every opinion seems to...
Editeur :
Hachette Australia
Parution :
2020-03-31
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On Series
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Renowned barrister, ethicist and human rights advocate Julian Burnside QC's grandparents lived in a world of handsome cars, elegant tennis parties and coiffed women. As a five-year-old, he saw privilege before he heard the word or learned its meaning. In this powerful...
Editeur :
Hachette Australia
Parution :
2020-03-31
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On Series
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This handbook provides a global perspective on contemporary demographic theories and studies of marriage and the family. Inside, readers will find a comprehensive analysis that enables demographic comparison between and across international borders.
Coverage is...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-03-31
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This book reexamines Chinese sociology's point of departure and boundaries of western sociology from a new academic perspective, and offers a new definition of the essence and mission of sociology, drawing and critically reflecting on the ideological and theoretical...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-03-31
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There has been growing concern about the gradual segregation of Muslims living within the United Kingdom. Since the 2001 riots in the north of England, several government reports identified the lack of social integration as a critical factor. This book explores how and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-03-31
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With his trademark eloquence and humour, Robert Dessaix, one of Australia's eminent writers, tackles humbug in the modern world-the tide of mumbo jumbo where words fall short of what they mean and motivations are not always what they appear.
Editeur :
Hachette Australia
Parution :
2020-03-31
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On Series
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