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An encouraging, inspiring, and "absorbing" (Jhumpa Lahiri, Pulitzer Prize winner) true story of how a boy from India overcame a difficult childhood and devastating hand injuries and became one of the most prolific cardiac surgeons in U.S. history.An...
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Center Street
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2019-04-16
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This book examines how business, the social sciences, science and technology will impact the future of ASEAN. Following the ASEAN VISION 2020, it analyses the issues faced by ASEAN countries, which are diverse, while also positioning ASEAN as a competitive entity...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-04-15
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Are you looking to understand more about social pedagogy? Wanting to see how you can incorporate these approaches into your practice?
Ali Gardner and Lowis Charfe introduce you to this exciting new approach to UK social work practice that has been shaping care services...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2019-04-15
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This practical book looks at the experiences of children in need who live in state care and the social worker's role in working with them.This is a popular guide to this complex and demanding area of practice. There are chapters on communication and children's rights,...
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Learning Matters
Parution :
2019-04-15
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At the heart of developed societies lies an insatiable drive for wealth and prosperity. Yet in a world ruled by free-market economics, there are always winners and losers. The benefits enjoyed by the privileged few come at the expense of the many. In this important new...
Editeur :
Polity
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2019-04-15
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Dieses Buch untersucht sprachwissenschaftliche und medienspezifische Fragestellungen sowie Herangehensweisen unter dem Aspekt der Medienlinguistik. Die AutorInnen beziehen dabei Ansätze, Konzepte und Methoden weiterer Disziplinen mit ein. Medienlinguistik und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-04-15
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In diesem Buch setzen sich die Autor*innen interdisziplinär und mehrperspektivisch mit Geschlechternormen und deren sozialer Bedingtheit auseinander. «Passing» ist dabei im Leben und Handeln von Menschen unterschiedlich verankert, wirksam und von Bedeutung. Es macht die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-04-15
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This unique volume addresses the financial mechanisms that enable human trafficking - its actors, structures, and logistics. Viewing each stage of the market, human traffickers may need significant financial resources for recruitment, transportation, and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-04-13
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Over the past few years, the cross-disciplinary field of research devoted to family and kinship history in Europe has seen the emergence of an important stream of studies developing wide-ranging comparative perspectives on great spaces and long periods. Their hypotheses...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-04-12
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The book critically examines the high growth trajectory in India, particularly since the late 1980s, a period which is characterized by increasing inequality. Through various studies from the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh -- a state more populous than Brazil and with a...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-04-11
Collection :
India Studies in Business and Economics
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This book aims to reflect on how to translate “queer” in the context of Latin America. Queer theory is becoming consolidated on an international scale as an effort to understand dissident bodies and their inventions. But how can we utilize such a rich body of literature...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-04-11
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Sociology
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This open access book provides a unique study of the complexities and consequences of irregular legal status of Senegalese migrants in Europe. It employs sophisticated quantitative methods to analyze unique life-history data to produce policy-relevant conclusions....
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-04-10
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This book offers ten chapters dealing with Costa Rican traditional knowledge. Each chapter presents a transcription from a talk given to an interdisciplinary audience at Universidad de Costa Rica. The chapters address the links between knowledge and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-04-10
Collection :
Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science
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This book discusses the relationship, interaction and conflict between everyday life and various institutions in a specific village in North China, with a focus on the formal and informal legal systems. It vividly describes the village’s “legal construction problems” as...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-04-10
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A lively and accessible introduction to themes and debates in archaeological theory for students of all levels Archaeological Theory is a relatable, accessible, reader-friendly first step into the world of theory for archaeology students. Recognizing that many students...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2019-04-08
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This book analyses and discusses the use of Islamic terms and symbols in the political party Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC). It is based on interviews with the leading members of the party and on analyses of the party’s official documents. It describes the history of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-04-04
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This book is a collection of essays covering a range of issues related to socioeconomic inequalities and diversities. The authors, leading social scientists of diverse nationalities, represent varied perspectives. The book has essays on multiculturalism, social...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-04-04
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We live in the age of the suicide bomber. The suicide bomb itself takes more lives than any other type of explosive weapon. Moreover, in the last 5 years more people have been killed by suicide attacks than at any other time in history.How has this descent deep into the...
Editeur :
Quercus
Parution :
2019-04-04
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Quiet and polite, obsessively neat, clean and tidy, eight-year-old Tom is unlike any child Maggie has ever fostered before. Tom has been taken into care following concerns that his dad is struggling to cope after the death of Tom's mum. At first, Maggie doesn't know...
Editeur :
Trapeze
Parution :
2019-04-04
Collection :
A Maggie Hartley Foster Carer Story
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What’s with the men in menstruation? This is the question Men in Menstruation: A Social Transaction sets out to answer. From earliest times men have been puzzled and perplexed by the menstrual cycle and have constructed elaborate taboos, superstitions, and practices...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-04-04
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