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An audacious and inspiring debut social history that explores how entrepreneurial members of the tight-knit hardcore punk scene within the vibrant heart of Boston cashed in on one of baseball's greatest rivalries. For eighty-six years Boston Red Sox...
Editeur :
Running Press Adult
Parution :
2026-02-10
ePub
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Trans people have been thrust into the spotlight in recent years across the world as never before.Trans groups have become targets of intense online abuse and hostile political and religious campaigns. The media abound with reports on a few glamorous trans women, or...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2026-02-10
ePub
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“A riveting and thoroughly researched chronicle...reminiscent of Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood.” —The New York Times Book ReviewThe gripping story of the Ruby Ridge siege, showing how the historic standoff between federal agents and a...
Editeur :
Little, Brown and Company
Parution :
2026-02-10
ePub
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This is an Open access book which provides a comprehensive framework for identifying monopolistic behaviors in the digital economy, with a focus on discriminatory pricing as one manifestation of these practices. As digital platforms increasingly dominate markets and...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-02-09
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This comprehensive volume offers a critical, socio-demographic examination of the COVID-19 crisis and human mobility in Indonesia. Drawing on data from across the archipelago, it covers the demographic, economic, psychosocial, and socio-political contexts of the...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-02-09
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In recent years, the study of human evolution has made substantial advances—from major fossil and archaeological discoveries to breakthroughs in paleogenetics and analytical methods. Yet, does more data necessarily lead to better science?
This volume challenges...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-02-07
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This book examines environmental law enforcement in the 21st century, tackling urgent challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and transnational environmental crimes. It traces how environmental offenses evolve and shows which legal frameworks address them...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2026-02-07
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This is an open access book. What holds societies together—and what drives them apart? As worry over political polarization and social cohesion intensifies across the globe, this volume explores timely and vital questions of social cohesion and polarization...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-02-07
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Interest in scaling laws has grown since the beginning of the 21st century. In both the social sciences and the natural sciences, there is continued astonishment at the increasing inequalities between large and small cities. While social indicators are often thought of...
Editeur :
Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2026-02-06
Collection :
ISTE Invoiced
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After its Freudian phase, psychoanalysis had to rethink its conception of sexuality. Lacan showed that Freud’s entirely phallic Oedipal logic was not the norm, but only a male norm. Some women adopt it, but many others prefer a logic that is not entirely phallic, in...
Editeur :
Hermann
Parution :
2026-02-05
Collection :
Hermann Psychanalyse
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Social media is proliferating with influencers, but despite their prevalence and the extensive body of scholarship, there is no comprehensive book that frames the historical and contemporary phenomenon of child influencers.Drawing on original empirical ethnographic...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2026-02-04
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15,99€
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This book provides a comprehensive introduction to Jeffrey C. Alexander’s Civil Sphere Theory (CST). It reconstructs the development and key features of this theory and explains why it offers an original and compelling way of thinking about civil society. The book...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2026-02-04
ePub
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18,90€
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Colorism – discrimination based on skin darkness within a racial group – has plagued Black Americans since their first arrival in this country. Although colorism has taken different forms over time, lighter-skinned Black people have always received advantages at the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2026-02-04
ePub
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18,99€
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Technology has advanced significantly over the past 200 years, but have ideas about gender and technology also changed over time? Are modern technologies gendered? In this comprehensive text, Holly Kruse explores how notions of gender and technology have been socially...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2026-02-04
ePub
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18,99€
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The edited volume aims at presenting the various forms of stereotyping. As a matter of fact, such logical inclination is not only perpetrated through common sense and public discourse, but also through regulation and various ethical practices. Law and politics, indeed,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2026-02-03
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This volume presents an original, community-based study of Greek heritage language education in Canada. Through empirical data and stakeholder narratives, it explores the pedagogical, sociolinguistic, and policy dimensions of sustaining minority languages in...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2026-02-03
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This volume explores the complex landscape of disinformation and its broader implications on trust within society. It tackles questions such as: What constitutes disinformation or fake news? What are the ramifications of its detrimental effects? Are we navigating...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2026-02-03
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What does it mean to be deemed promising in an unjust world? The award-winning poet and MIT Distinguished Chair of the Humanities interrogates this question—and offers a more expansive vision of giftedness—in this striking, original work. "Remind[s] us...
Editeur :
Little, Brown and Company
Parution :
2026-02-03
ePub
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This book examines the rise of financial totalitarianism and its profound implications for criminal justice and criminological theory. It explores how the concentration of wealth and social exclusion, driven by corporate CEOs, has altered the role of politics in shaping...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2026-02-03
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This book provides a groundbreaking exploration of gender and migration in the Arabian Gulf, challenging dominant narratives that reduce women's migration to domestic labor and caregiving. It presents a nuanced, interdisciplinary analysis of how women navigate...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2026-02-02
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