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This book by eminent author Jasbir Jain explores the many ways the diaspora remembers and reflects upon the lost homeland, and their relationship with their own ancestry, history of the homeland, culture and the current political conflicts. Amongst the questions this...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-09-13
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The former deputy mayor of New York City tells the story of the city's comeback after 9/11, offering lessons in resiliency under the most trying of circumstances, and a model for the rejuvenation of any city. Deputy Mayor Daniel L. Doctoroff led New York's dramatic and...
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PublicAffairs
Parution :
2017-09-12
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This essential career guide equips new professionals and doctoral students with a robust foundation for a long and satisfying career in psychology and other behavioral health professions. Taking a proactive intervention prevention approach to career planning and...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-09-10
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This is the Proceedings of the International Workshop Heritagebot 2017 that was held in Cassino, Italy in September 2017. The papers cover a wide range of disciplines connected with Cultural Heritage, from humanistic fields up to engineering designs through legal...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-09-07
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This book, based on the Chinese dream and its basic principles, global significance, path of implementation and practical requirements, systemically explains China’s Four-Pronged Comprehensive Strategy. The Four-Pronged Comprehensive Strategy is the strategic concept of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-09-06
Collection :
China Insights
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The Pedagogy of Violent Extremism is the first critical analysis of violent extremism via the lens of pedagogical development that considers the nation as an all-encompassing learning environment. Presented through a critical perspective on violent extremism resulting...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-09-06
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This edited volume brings together perspectives on embodied queerness within the complicated parameters of hegemonic normativities, biopolitics and social-religious governmentalities. Queering Paradigms VI offers queer interventions, explores value-production in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-09-06
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This book gives a comprehensive introduction to intercultural communication in the era of globalization. The reader is introduced to essential concepts in the field, different theories and methods of analysing communication, the importance of verbal and nonverbal...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-09-06
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This book highlights the intersection between theory and lived experience, academic description and the personal narrative of Lou Sullivan. Sullivan puzzled in his diaries over the conundrum of his desire to transition from female to male in order to be a gay man. The...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-09-05
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This book applies philosophical and critical textual scholarship to the traditional Islamic narrative in an attempt to distinguish between its historical and interpretive elements. It allows the narrative to be preserved with due respect for its significance and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-09-05
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Religious Studies
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The classic, New York Times-bestselling book on the psychology of racism that shows us how to talk about race in America. Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth clustered in their own groups. Is this self-segregation a...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2017-09-05
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This book could save your life: Protect yourself from violence and learn survival skills for dangerous situations with this essential guide from a former military intelligence officer.In a civilized society, violence is rarely the answer. But when it is, it's the only...
Editeur :
Little, Brown and Company
Parution :
2017-09-05
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Nasty women, unite—and read this compendium of fascinating quotations about powerful women through history. “My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today. I knew it then as purpose.”...
Editeur :
Union Square & Co.
Parution :
2017-09-05
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This practical breakthrough introduces a robust framework for family and couples therapy specifically designed for working with difficult, entrenched, and court-mandated situations. Using an original model (the System for Observing Family Therapy Alliances, or SOFTA)...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-09-04
Collection :
Focused Issues in Family Therapy
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This book aims to provide fresh perspectives on Vattimo and Zabala’s groundbreaking foundational text, Hermeneutic Communism, from 2011. The contributors to this collection of essays explore various facets of Vattimo and Zabala’s “anarchic hermeneutics” and “weak...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-09-04
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This book examines the neighborhoods of New York City to determine to what extent planning in New York addresses Sustainable City Principles (SCPs). Part I looks at the background to planning urban areas in the face of global urban changes. These changes (i.e....
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-09-01
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This timely book takes seriously the idea of understanding how our social world – and not individual responsibility or the healthcare system – is the primary determinant of our health. Kathryn Strother Ratcliff puts into practice the "upstream" imagery from public...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2017-08-31
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This book traces Latin American migration to Europe since the 1970s. Focusing on Amsterdam, London, and Madrid, it examines the policies of integration in a comparative perspective that takes into account transnational, national, regional and local levels. It examines...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-08-29
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This book offers the first comprehensive and in-depth exploration of the way Chinese humor fits into broader discourses on Chinese identity and modernity in an increasingly globalized world throughout the period of modern China. It brings together the expertise of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-08-28
Collection :
The Humanities in Asia
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This book explores the planning knowledge that can be gleaned from the experiences of the urban poor, a group frequently affected by floods. Further, it examines the relationship between lifeworld analysis and adaptation planning through the sociology of knowledge,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-08-23
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