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Employing a novel collaborative transnational methodology, this ground-breaking book presents the first comprehensive and systematic comparison of Mexico and South Africa. Although geographically, historically and diplomatically far apart, Mexico and South Africa are...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2019-11-12
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Between Germany and Russia is a region strewn with monuments to the horrors of war, genocide and disaster – the bloodlands where the murderous regimes of Hitler and Stalin unleashed the violence that scarred the twentieth century and shaped so much of the world we know...
Editeur :
Polity
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2019-11-11
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We think that we live in democracies: in fact, we live in mediarchies. Our political regimes are based less on nations or citizens than on audiences shaped by the media.We assume that our social and political destinies are shaped by the will of the people without...
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Polity
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2019-11-11
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This book analyses modernity and tradition in China today and how they combine in striking ways in the Chinese school. Paul Willis – the leading ethnographer and author of Learning to Labour – shows how China has undergone an internal migration not only of masses of...
Editeur :
Polity
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2019-11-11
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From Aristotle to Heidegger, philosophers distinguished two orders of time, before, after and past, present, future, presenting them in a wide range of interpretations. It was only around the turn of the 1970s that two theories of time which deliberately went beyond...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-11-11
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This book examines urbanization and migration processes in South Asia. By analyzing the socio-economic impacts and infrastructural, environmental and institutional aspects of different conurbations, it highlights conflicts over agricultural land as well as the effects...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-11-09
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This work provides an innovative new look at police ethics, including results from an updated version of the classic Police Integrity Questionnaire, including new social and technological advances. It aims to push the study of police research further, expanding on and...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-11-09
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This book comprehensively examines post-1989 changes to the symbolic landscape of Berlin – specifically, street names, architecture, urban planning and monuments – and links these changes to concepts of contested cultural memory and national identity in Berlin and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-11-09
Collection :
The Urban Book Series
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This book provides comprehensive information on enlargement of methodological and empirical choices in a multidisciplinary perspective by breaking down the monopoly of possessing tribal studies in the confinement of conventional disciplinary boundaries. Focusing on...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-11-09
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Discourses of Southeast Asia presents the latest Southeast Asian research in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). SFL provides a sophisticated social semiotic architecture for exploring meaning in languages and texts in the context of Southeast Asia. This edited...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-11-08
Collection :
The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series
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Women Writing War focuses on the life-writing of the moudjahidate, the women veterans of the Algerian war of independence (1954–1962). The author offers close readings of memoir, testimonial, poetry and drama by Jacqueline Guerroudj, Louisette Ighilahriz, Anna Gréki,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-11-08
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Wall Street and Silicon Valley – the two worlds this book examines – promote the illusion that scarcity can and should be eliminated in the age of seamless “flow.” Instead, Appadurai and Alexander propose a theory of habitual and strategic failure by exploring debt,...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-11-08
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Claudio Magris is one of Italy’s – and Europe’s – most renowned thinkers and writers. He is considered an authority on central European literature and culture and is frequently interviewed about his hometown Trieste, the region called Mitteleuropa and the European...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-11-08
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'In terms of a non-fiction account of how historical and contemporary language has been shaped by women, I really recommend lexicographer Jonathon Green's Sounds and Furies'ELEY WILIAMS, author of The Liar's Dictionary'When it comes to distaff dirtiness, mainstream...
Editeur :
Robinson
Parution :
2019-11-07
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This book brings together the latest research in education in relation to science and religion. Leading international scholars and practitioners provide vital insights into the underlying debates and present a range of practical approaches for teaching. Key themes...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-11-06
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This book provides new insights on the lives of children in street situations by providing analyses from a qualitative perspective on the sociology of childhood. It proposes some insightful perspectives on the current discussion about the rights of children in street...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-11-05
Collection :
Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and Research
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From TV bulletins to social media newsfeeds, the media plays a massive role in shaping the world as we see it. In fact, different media have helped make possible our world of independent nations, binding together disparate communities through shared cultural...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-11-05
Collection :
Why It Matters
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Bolívar Echeverría was one of the leading philosophers and critical theorists in Latin America and his work on capitalism and modernity offers a distinctive account, informed by the experiences of Latin American societies, of the social and historical forces shaping the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-11-05
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This book presents research into the urban archaeology of 19th-century Australia. It focuses on the detailed archaeology of 20 cesspits in The Rocks area of Sydney and the Commonwealth Block site in Melbourne. It also includes discussions of a significant site in...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-11-05
Collection :
Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology
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The SAGE Handbook of International Migration provides an authoritative and informed analysis of key issues in international migration, including its crucial significance far beyond the more traditional questions of immigrant settlement and incorporation in particular...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2019-11-05
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