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The figure of the «Muslim» woman or girl performs a crucial role in far-reaching socio-political debates in Germany. Indeed, such figures challenge the boundaries of gender equality and secularism and contest notions of tolerance and integration.The (in)visibility of...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2019-07-29
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The imperative of happiness dictates the conduct and direction of our lives. There is no escape from the tyranny of positivity. But is happiness the supreme good that all of us should pursue? So says a new breed of so-called happiness experts, with positive...
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Polity
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2019-07-26
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The pace of modern life is undoubtedly speeding up, yet this acceleration does not seem to have made us any happier or more content. If acceleration is the problem, then the solution, argues Hartmut Rosa in this major new work, lies in “resonance.”The quality of a human...
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Polity
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2019-07-26
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Is being colorblind the most effective way to address overt and covert racism in schooling today? Should educators pretend that race doesn’t matter? Award-winning sociologist Laurie Cooper Stoll argues that, as long as society is stratified along racial lines, taking a...
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Polity
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2019-07-26
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This book discusses the unknown and remote urban experiment of modernist social practices and dreams of a better tomorrow. It describes the history of the Warsaw Housing Cooperative not as a historical relic or a single case study, but instead analyses this...
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Springer
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2019-07-25
Collection :
The Urban Book Series
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This volume offers a critical examination of the later philosophical views of Vladimir Solov’ëv, arguably Russia’s most famous and most systematic philosopher. It offers a philosophically informed approach to this pivotal figure and to his era. Inside, readers will...
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Springer
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2019-07-24
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This book in religious studies uses a Malaysian apostasy case study as a platform to investigate and discuss the broader radicalisation of apostates on social networking sites. It provides new insights into the emerging phenomenon of how social media tools are harnessed...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-07-23
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Religious Studies
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This book compares consumer behavior in two nineteenth-century peripheral cities: Melbourne, Australia and Buenos Aires, Argentina. It provides an analysis of domestic archaeological assemblages from two inner-city working class neighborhood sites that were largely...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-07-23
Collection :
Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology
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*ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2019*'Addictive ... a jaw-dropping read' STYLIST'Explosive ... Definitely one for the beach' ELLE'Paints a fascinating picture of an eccentric egomaniac who rails against all authority ... gripping stuff' SUNDAY...
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Quercus
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2019-07-23
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This book offers unique insights into modern African architecture, influenced by modern European architecture, and at the same time a natural successor to existing site-specific and traditional architecture. It brings together the worlds of traditional site-specific...
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Springer
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2019-07-22
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This book provides a detailed account of transnational practices undertaken by Indian ‘high-tech’ workers living in the United States. It describes the complexities and challenges of adapting to a new culture while clinging to tradition. Asian-Indians represent a...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-07-20
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Until fairly recently, only serial killers and lunatics had profiles. Yet today, almost everyone is profiled through social media, mobile phones, and a multitude of other methods. But where does the idea of “profiling” come from, how has it changed over time, and what...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-07-20
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This book offers an in-depth case study on the leading international refugee agency, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and its approach to environmentally displaced persons. The author examines the UNHCR on the basis of expert interviews and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-07-18
Collection :
Contributions to Political Science
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This book provides an in-depth analysis of the influence of public policy on sex selection. Three Asian countries were chosen for the comparative policy analysis, namely South Korea, India and Vietnam that share in common a historical legacy of son preference, high...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-07-18
Collection :
Demographic Transformation and Socio-Economic Development
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This book studies the principles of urban spatial organization of historic cities. It can be considered a guide to design, presenting qualitative criteria to satisfy practical needs. The subject is explored through interconnected chapters, each addressing an important...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-07-18
Collection :
The Urban Book Series
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The bitingly funny, eye-opening story of finding work in the automated and time-starved world of hourly low-wage labor. "Nickel and Dimed for the Amazon age" —Salon After the local newspaper where she worked as a reporter closed, Emily Guendelsberger...
Editeur :
Little, Brown and Company
Parution :
2019-07-16
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Newly revised and updated, this landmark anthology offers gripping portraits of American life as seen through the eyes of young women of colorIt has been decades since women of color first turned feminism upside down, exposing the feminist movement as exclusive, white,...
Editeur :
Seal Press
Parution :
2019-07-16
Collection :
Live Girls
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This edited volume seeks to critically engage with the diversity of feminist and post-colonial theory to counter hegemonic Western knowledge in mainstream community psychology. In doing so, it situates paradigms of thought and representation that capture the lived...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-07-13
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This book reports on innovative interdisciplinary research in the field of cultural studies. The study spans the early twentieth to twenty-first centuries and fills a gap in our understanding of how girls’ and women’s religious identity is shaped by maternal and...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-07-12
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The rise of digital technology is transforming the world in which we live. Our digitalized societies demand new ways of thinking about the social, and this short book introduces readers to an approach that can deliver this: digital sociology. Neil Selwyn examines the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-07-12
Collection :
What is Sociology?
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