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The contributions in this collection underline the vibrancy as well as complexity that characterizes the study of American literature and culture in the twenty-first century with regard to the exploration and understanding of ethnicity and gender.The book aims at...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-02-10
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This book presents a historical panorama of the Polish avant-garde in Berlin from 19th century historical avant-garde until the recent art. Looking at specific artistic strategies and development of modernist paradigm both in the pre- and post-Second World War period...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-02-10
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Privacy on the internet is challenged in a wide variety of ways - from large social media companies, whose entire business models are based on privacy invasion, through the developing technologies of facial recognition, to the desire of governments to monitor our every...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2020-02-06
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This book seeks to unravel the changes in rural governance sparked by state-led programs, evaluate the programs’ implementation, and refine the interpretation of governance theory with new empirical material from rural China. When it comes to rural issues in...
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Springer
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2020-02-06
Collection :
Springer Geography
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American Studies has witnessed the emergence of major freeways, as well as more obscure lanes, while featuring ideological collisions during the last decades of the 20th century and at the beginning of the present millennium. The volume undertakes to contribute a...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-02-06
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Nobody deals with challenging subjects more interestingly and compellingly than Adam Rutherford, and this may be his best book yet. This is a seriously important work' BILL BRYSON'A fascinating and timely refutation of the casual racism on...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2020-02-06
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This book provides a critical reflection on automated science and addresses the question whether the computational tools we developed in last decades are changing the way we humans do science. More concretely: Can machines replace scientists in crucial aspects of...
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Springer
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2020-02-05
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This book gathers contributions from researchers and practitioners that foster user-centric, cross-modal and sustainable transport systems in Europe. It reports on cutting-edge approaches discussed within the project MOBILITY4EU, a Coordination and Support Action funded...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-02-05
Collection :
Lecture Notes in Mobility
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The book studies the “Manchurian immigrants” from many important aspects suchas agricultural operation, education, religion, and women’s issues. It contains thefollowing features: first, readers can get deeper understanding on the “Manchurianimmigrants” policies by...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-02-04
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This book explores diverse parent-child relationships from around the world, drawing on connections between culture and parenting values and challenges. It identifies parenting practices within various countries’ unique historical, political, and cultural backgrounds,...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-02-04
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American culture is more sexually liberal than ever. But compared to men, women's sexual pleasure has not grown: Up to 40 percent ofAmerican women experience the sexual malaise clinically known as low sexual desire. Between this low desire, muted pleasure, and...
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Seal Press
Parution :
2020-02-04
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The essays incorporated into this volume share an ambitious interest in investigating death
as an individual, social and metaphorical phenomenon that may be exemplified by themes
involving burial rituals, identity, and commemoration.The disciplines represented are...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-02-04
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The debut book from a celebrated artist on the urgent topic of street harassmentEvery day, all over the world, women are catcalled and denigrated simply for walking down the street. Boys will be boys, women have been told for generations, ignore it, shrug it off, take...
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Seal Press
Parution :
2020-02-04
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A new, fully-revised and updated edition of the leading introduction to social movements and collective action – covers a broad range of approaches in the social sciences. Now in its third edition, Social Movements is the market-leading introductory text on collective...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2020-02-03
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This book codifies, describes, and contextualizes group rituals and individual practices from world religious traditions. At the interface of religious studies, psychology, and medicine, it elucidates the cultural richness of practices and rituals from numerous world...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-02-03
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This book is an extensive and thorough exploration of the ways in which the middle class in India select their spouse. Using the prism of matchmaking, this book critically unpacks the concept of the 'modern' and traces the importance of moralities and values in the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-02-01
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This open access book collects the major discussions in divorce research in Europe. It starts with an understanding of divorce trends. Why was divorce increasing so rapidly throughout the US and Europe and do we see signs of a turn? Do cohabitation breakups...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-01-30
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?This book gathers research and writings that reflect on traditional and current global issues related to art and aesthetics, gender perspectives, body theories, knowledge and learning. It illustrates these core dimensions, which are bringing together philosophy,...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-01-29
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This book argues that in the digital era, a reinvention of democracy is urgently necessary. It discusses the mounting evidence showing that digitalisation is pushing classical parliamentary democracy to its limits, offering examples such as how living in a filter bubble...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-01-29
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A political scientist explains how the American immigration system ran off the rails -- and proposes a bold plan for reform Under the Trump administration, US immigration agencies terrorize the undocumented, target people who are here legally, and even threaten the...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2020-01-28
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