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Georg Simmel, as well as being a major philosopher, is one of the founding figures of sociology whose work is comparable in importance to that of Marx, Weber, and Durkheim. His writings on money, metropolises, and modernity have inspired generations of thinkers for over...
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Polity
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2019-07-12
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This volume brings together current research on young people, (non)religion, and diversity, documenting the forms young people’s stances may take and the social or spatial contexts in which these may be formed. The social contexts studied include the family, school, and...
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Springer
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2019-07-11
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Boundaries of Religious Freedom: Regulating Religion in Diverse Societies
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In Why Do People Sing? Paddy Scannell explores some of the mysteries at the heart of vocal communication. What explains the communicative musicality of the voices between parent and child as a baby learns to talk? Can readers of fiction hear the voices of authors and...
Editeur :
Polity
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2019-07-09
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From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce White supremacy and deepen social inequity. Benjamin argues that automation, far from being a sinister story of racist...
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Polity
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2019-07-09
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This insightful volume examines key research questions concerning police decision to arrest as well as police-led diversion. The authors critically evaluate the tentative answers that empirical evidence provides to those questions, and suggest areas for future...
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Springer
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2019-07-06
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This book covers the methodological, epistemological and practical issues of integrating qualitative and socio-anthropological factors into archaeological modeling.This text fills the gap between conceptual modeling (which usually relies on narratives describing the...
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Springer
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2019-07-04
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Computational Social Sciences
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This volume explores the phenomenon and trend of cultural buildings by investigating 10 typical cities in China from the first, second, and third tiers, and from the Chinese diaspora. Each grand theater design was the result of a high-profile international competition...
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Springer
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2019-07-04
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This book describes how those individuals who are often most marginalised in postcolonial societies draw on age-old, non-western knowledge systems to adapt to the hardships characteristic of unequal societies in transformation. It highlights robust indigenous pathways...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-07-03
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International courts and other actors are increasingly taking into account pre-existing social structures and inequalities when addressing and redressing human rights violations, in particular discrimination against specific groups. To date, however, academic legal...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-07-03
Collection :
Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht
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The book is the first and general report of a series of six that reviews the practice of “China Dream” policy by the Zhejiang provincial government. “China Dream” is one of the most important state policies established by the present Chinese government and how to...
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Springer
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2019-07-03
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Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path
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The theme of this book is the cultural construction in Zhejiang Province under the guidance of “China Dream” policy. It reviews the profound history of traditional culture in Zhejiang, and concludes with the modern practice and achievements by the local...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-07-03
Collection :
Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path
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This book presents an overview of the problem of urban violence in Caracas, and specifically in its barrios. It helps situate readers familiar or not with Latin American in the context that is Caracas, Venezuela, a city displaying one of the world’s highest homicide...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-07-02
Collection :
The Latin American Studies Book Series
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Death Across Cultures:Death and Dying in Non-Western Cultures, explores death practices and beliefs, before and after death, around the non-Western world. It includes chapters on countries in Africa, Asia, South America, as well as indigenous people in Australia and...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-07-01
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This book is the first to give a comprehensive and detailed overview of the complete geography of Slovenia in English. Only very few countries, even considerably larger ones, can boast the landscape diversity found in Slovenia since the Alps, the Pannonian...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-07-01
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World Regional Geography Book Series
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This book presents the operational use of remote sensing in municipalities for urban planning purposes. Through a unique study among more than 70 cities and institutions in 41 countries, it reveals the remaining gap of knowledge and awareness for remote sensing data,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-07-01
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Geography
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This book presents archaeological research conducted within the Highlands of Sicily. Results of an archaeological survey in the Madonie mountain range, in northern Sicily, supported by a chronological and cultural grid, drawn by the excavation of Vallone Inferno, deal...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-06-29
Collection :
UNIPA Springer Series
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This book explores how Japanese cities have transformed since the 1950s by describing housing and urban planning policies, urbanization processes, and maps with GIS analysis. It also discusses how housing vacancies have increased in shrinking Japanese cities, with case...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-06-27
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This handbook provides an in-depth exploration of the entire journey of postgraduate research in the social and behavioural sciences, from enrolment to its culmination in the form of a thesis, dissertation or portfolio, and beyond. It is written in an accessible and...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-06-27
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FBI Special Agent Jeff Rinek had a gift for getting child predators to confess. All he had to do was share a piece of his soul . . .In the Name of the Children gives an unflinching look at what it's like to fight a never-ending battle against an enemy far more...
Editeur :
Quercus
Parution :
2019-06-27
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This book identifies, diagnoses and evaluates social and economic processes taking place in the rural areas of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) states in the last 25 years and affecting the immediate future, with a particular focus on their spatial diversity. It...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-06-26
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