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Born Liquid is the last work by the great sociologist and social theorist Zygmunt Bauman, whose brilliant analyses of liquid modernity changed the way we think about our world today. At the time of his death, Bauman was working on this short book, a conversation with...
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Polity
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2018-11-26
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The majority of citizens in the world today do not trust their political representatives, the mainstream political parties, the established political institutions or their governments. This widespread crisis of legitimacy underlies a series of dramatic changes that have...
Editeur :
Polity
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2018-11-26
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How can colorblindness – the idea that race does not matter – be racist? This illuminating book introduces the paradox of colorblind racism: how dismissing or downplaying the realities of race and racism can perpetuate inequality and violence. Drawing on a range of...
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Polity
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2018-11-26
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This study transcends the homogenizing (inter-)national level of argumentation (‘rich’ versus ‘poor’ countries), and instead looks at a sub-national level in two respects: (1) geographically it focuses on the rapidly growing megacity of Hyderabad; (2) in socio-economic...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-11-20
Collection :
Springer Climate
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This book provides a rare integrative interpretation of government-enterprise relations in China, offering readers a comprehensive understanding of the topic. Focusing on the government and its principal goals, it describes the transition of government-enterprise...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-11-19
Collection :
Social Development Experiences in China
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Innovation is often presented as one of the main catalysts for more sustainable and inclusive development. In the agricultural and food sectors, innovation is characterized not only by specificities arising from its relationship to nature, but also from the wide...
Editeur :
QUAE
Parution :
2018-11-19
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Built on 'the bend in the Red River', Hà N?i is among Southeast Asia's most ancient capitals. Over the centuries, it took shape in part from a dense substratum of villages. With the economic liberalisation of the 1980s, it encountered several obstacles to its expansion:...
Editeur :
IRD Éditions
Parution :
2018-11-18
Collection :
Atlas et cartes
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This book considers how the termination of life might be accepted in the view of a general obligation to protect life. It features more than 10 papers written by scholars from 14 countries that offer international comparative empirical research. Inside, readers will...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-11-16
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This work investigates inequality and social exclusion in contemporary Chinese society, specifically in the context of urbanization, migration and crime. Economic reforms started in the late 1970s (post-Mao) fuelled a trend of urbanization and mass migration within...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-11-15
Collection :
Springer Series on Asian Criminology and Criminal Justice Research
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Gemma Hartley wrote an article in Harper's Bazaar in September 2017 called 'Women Aren't Nags - We're Just Fed Up', which instantly went viral.The piece, and this book, are about 'emotional labour', i.e. the unpaid, often unnoticed effort and work that goes into keeping...
Editeur :
Yellow Kite
Parution :
2018-11-15
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This book presents the history of natural history dioramas in museums, their building and science learning aspects, as well as current developments and their place in the visitor experience. From the early 1900s, with the passage of time and changes in...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-11-14
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A clear-eyed look at the history of American ideas about motherhood, how those ideas have impacted all women (whether they have kids or not), and how to fix the inequality that exists as a result. After filing a story only two hours after giving birth, and then getting...
Editeur :
Seal Press
Parution :
2018-11-13
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This book adopts a refreshing approach by examining Hokkien theatre in a region connected by maritime networks, notably southern Fujian, Taiwan, Kinmen and Singapore. It considers how regional theatre is shaped by broader socio-cultural and political contexts and the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-11-13
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New and updated English translation of the highly successful book on digital media This book introduces readers to the vast and rich world of digital media. It provides a strong starting point for understanding digital media’s social and political significance to our...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2018-11-13
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A veteran science reporter's investigation into the fascinating and distinctive nature of women's friendships In Girl Talk, New York Times science reporter Jacqueline Mroz takes on the science of female friendship -- a phenomenon that's as culturally powerful as it is...
Editeur :
Seal Press
Parution :
2018-11-13
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This volume expands understandings of crafting practices, which in the past was the major relational interaction between the social agency of materials, technology, and people, in co-creating an emergent ever-changing world. The chapters discuss different ways that...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-11-09
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This book tries to answer the question how different communities in such an arid area as the Iranian central plateau could have shared their limited water resources in a perfect harmony and peace over the course of history. They invented some indigenous technologies as...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-11-09
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From Out of the Binders co-founder Lux Alptraum, a controversial look at women, sex, and lying -- why myths about women's deceit persist, how they came to be, and ultimately why we must trust women When we talk about sex, we talk about women as mysterious, deceptive,...
Editeur :
Seal Press
Parution :
2018-11-06
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Dieses Buch bietet einen Einblick in die Soziologie, ihre Theorien und Methoden. Rudolf Richter erklärt, wie die Soziologie Individuen und ihre Beziehungen zueinander betrachtet, und zeigt auf, wie diese Wechselwirkungen zu Gewohnheiten und Regeln, zu Systemen und...
Editeur :
Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2018-11-05
Collection :
Für Dummies
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This book critically engages with the study of theatre and performance in colonial India, and relates it with colonial (and postcolonial) discussions on experience, freedom, institution-building, modernity, nation/subject not only as concepts but also as...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-11-03
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