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The amount of data produced, captured and transmitted through the media has never been greater. But for this data to be useful, it needs to be properly understood and claims made about or with data need to be properly scrutinized. Through a series of examples of...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2019-11-04
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Man’s best friend, domesticated since prehistoric times, a travelling companion for explorers and artists, thinkers and walkers, equally happy curled up by the fire and bounding through the great outdoors—dogs matter to us because we love them. But is that all there is...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-11-01
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In this book Jeffrey Alexander develops a new sociological theory of social crisis and applies it to a wide range of cases, from the church paedophilia crisis to the #MeToo movement. He argues that crises are triggered not by objective social strains but by the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-11-01
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This book focuses on the archaeological and historical research on the seaport heritage of galleon navigation in Asia-Pacific region. It reconstructs the Manila Galleons’ era of early maritime globalization, established and operated by Spanish navigators from the 16th...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-10-31
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The Archaeology of Asia-Pacific Navigation
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Migration moves people, ideas and things.Migration shakes up political scenes and instigates new social movements. It redraws emotional landscapes and reshapes social networks, with traditional and digital media enabling, representing, and shaping the processes,...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2019-10-31
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The aim of this book is to reflect on ''vernacularity'' and culture. It concentrates on two major domains: first it attempts to reframe our understanding of vernacularity by addressing the subject in the context of globalisation, cross-disciplinarity, and development,...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-10-29
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This comprehensive manual provides a user-oriented overview of U.S. Census data and demographic methods for redistricting applications. It addresses current issues and concerns accompanying the creation, adjustment, and evaluation of election districts and plans that...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-10-29
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A moving chronicle of who belongs in America.Like so many American factory towns, Lewiston, Maine, thrived until its mill jobs disappeared and the young began leaving. But then the story unexpectedly veered: over the course of fifteen years, the city became home to...
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PublicAffairs
Parution :
2019-10-29
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Visual Communication: Understanding Images in Media and Culture provides a theoretical and empirical toolkit to examine implications of mediated images. It explores a range of approaches to visual analysis, while also providing a hands-on guide to applying methods to...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2019-10-28
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Cet ouvrage analyse la participation associative des jeunes en France et en Italie dans le contexte européen contemporain (articles en français et en italien).
Editeur :
Harmattan Italia
Parution :
2019-10-28
Collection :
Harmattan Italia
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Cet essai sociologique présente les résultat d'une enquête comparative conduite entre Milan et Rotterdam sur la citoyenneté urbaine, en prenant compte notamment des dimensions de l'espace et du genre (en anglais).
Editeur :
Harmattan Italia
Parution :
2019-10-28
Collection :
Harmattan Italia
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The Making of Migration addresses the rapid phenomenon that has become one of the most contentious issues in contemporary life: how are migrants governed as individual subjects and as part of groups? What are the modes of control, identification and partitions that...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2019-10-28
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At a time of intense theoretical debates in urban studies, the research practices underlying such theories have not received the same attention. This original and creative text interrogates the methodological underpinnings of contemporary urban scholarship, with...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2019-10-28
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Das Buch untersucht das menschenrechtliche Verbot der Diskriminierung aufgrund der Rasse einschließlich der Schutzvorschriften gegen Hassrede und beleuchtet umfassend die relevanten Entscheidungen unterschiedlicher nationaler und internationaler Gerichte. Es folgt dabei...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-10-25
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Comparing Canada and the Americas: From Roots to Transcultural Networks covers the Americas in a comparative perspective spanning from the 19th century to the 21st century. It explores socio-cultural dynamics changing considerably in the Americas, which are...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-10-25
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To analyse social and behavioural phenomena in our digitalized world, it is necessary to understand the main research opportunities and challenges specific to online and digital data. This book presents an overview of the many techniques that are part of the fundamental...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-10-25
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Over the past 20 years there has been increased research traction in the anthropology of childhood. However, infancy, the pregnant body and motherhood continue to be marginalised. This book will focus on the mother-infant relationship and the variable constructions of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-10-25
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In recent political debates there has been a significant change in the valence of the word “experts” from a superlative to a near pejorative, typically accompanied by a recitation of experts’ many failures and misdeeds.In topics as varied as Brexit, climate change, and...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-10-24
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Dieser Band gibt Impulse sowohl für den gesamtgesellschaftlichen als auch den innermuslimischen Diskurs über Geschlechterverhältnisse im Islam, indem er das Narrativ feststehender Geschlechterrollen hinterfragt. Die Beiträge analysieren u.a. historische und gegenwärtige...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-10-24
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A revised and updated edition of the leading introductory text on the geography of economic life, from the local to the global Economic Geography is an engaging and accessible introduction to the different ways modern economic geographers understand, analyze, and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2019-10-23
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