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This book is a contribution towards a better understanding of the nature of the international crime of human trafficking. It is an impulse towards finding a new way at the international levels, and encouraging cooperation among nations in the fight against human...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-08-23
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From Donald Trump’s use of Twitter, to social media mourning, to cyber-bullying: the evidence of media influence today is all around us. As such, good media research is more important than ever, and crucially, is something all students can and should do. Exploring...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2017-08-21
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This comprehensive book covers the research, theory, policy and practice context of unusual reproduction using third parties. Olga Van den Akker details the psychological adaptation required to continuing changes in public opinion, advances in technologies and new...
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Springer
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2017-08-18
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How does intentionally inflicting damage to material objects mediate the human experience in the prehistoric eastern Mediterranean? For all of the diversity in cultural practice in the civilisations of the Greek mainland and Aegean islands, Crete, Cyprus and the eastern...
Editeur :
Presses universitaires de Louvain
Parution :
2017-08-17
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AEGIS
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A classic work of anthropology that offers a groundbreaking exploration of what culture isNamed one of the 100 most important books published since World War II by the Times Literary Supplement “As an anthropologist, philosopher, political...
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Basic Books
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2017-08-15
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The Mediterranean and the Balearic Islands have always enticed the minds of British travellers. In the first years of the twentieth century, the tourist industry made the islands accessible for a wide number of visitors, who depicted them in pictures and words. In the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-08-15
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The Enlightenment promised humanity a bright future of emancipation which never actuallymaterialized. Instead, our social order is still based on gender inequality, which rests upon afalse conviction: that the individual can be conceived of as separate from community;...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-08-14
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Until now, the academic foundations of media ecology have been passed down primarily in the form of edited volumes, often by students of Neil Postman, or are limited to a focus on Marshall McLuhan and/or Postman or some other individual important to the field. Those...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-08-14
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For the last 40 years, anthropotechnology has concentrated its efforts on the study and improvement of the working and living conditions of populations throughout the world. It guides the actors of the design processes by paying attention to the “human factor”: its...
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Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2017-08-10
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The study deals predominantly with basic questions of Historical Demography that have so far not yet been tackled, as no adequate sources seemed to exist, or the effort for digging into these problems seemed outrageous. Many major gaps are filled in this study, based on...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-08-08
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We all know who The Girl is. She holds The Hero's hand as he runs through the Pyramids, chasing robots. Or she nags him, or foils him, plays the uptight straight man to his charming loser. She's idealised, degraded, dismissed, objectified and almost always...
Editeur :
Virago
Parution :
2017-08-08
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This is the first book to comprehensively cover the historical process leading to Taiwan’s integration with Mainland China in the seventeenth century. As such, it addresses the Taiwan question in the seventeenth century, presenting for the first time the process leading...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-08-05
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Newspapers have long been enthralled by accounts of cute, cuddly, strange, dangerous and endangered beasts, and by extraordinary and sometimes apocryphal narratives of natural phenomena. This study explores the incidence of several such stories in the British press:...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-08-04
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This publication is one of the results of a conference organised in Lisbon in 2011 on the theme of African borders and their relationships with migration and mobility. The selected papers are a sample of the diverse perspectives on the general theme presented at the...
Editeur :
Centro de Estudos Internacionais
Parution :
2017-08-04
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ebook'IS
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As the end result of a multidisciplinary investigation project conducted in Africa (PTDC/AFR/64207/2006, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia), this publication about Poverty and Peace in the Portuguese-speaking African Countries has the purpose, on one hand, of...
Editeur :
Centro de Estudos Internacionais
Parution :
2017-08-04
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ebook'IS
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This volume analyses the quantification of the effect of factors measuring subjective well-being, and in particular on the metrics applied. With happiness studies flourishing over the last decades, both in number of publications as well as in their exposure, researchers...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-08-02
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Happiness Studies Book Series
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This book offers a theoretical intervention into the normative ideals of public space that are deeply rooted in Western urbanism. It disrupts the binaries of presence/absence, inclusion/exclusion by presenting a series of case studies that vividly convey the complexity...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-08-02
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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book presents insights into the lived realities of children with disabilities in primary schools in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It examines specific cultural and societal characteristics of Ethiopia that influence the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-08-02
Collection :
Inclusive Learning and Educational Equity
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This book considers de-marginalization attesting that marginal regions have the potential for de-marginalization and are anchored in developmental terms on the following core themes: nature; tourism; ethnicity and general factors including migration. Adding to the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-08-01
Collection :
Perspectives on Geographical Marginality
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This handbook provides a broad and comprehensive overview of the study of social movements and collective action, discussing the different disciplinary approaches that have developed. In addition to updated discussions of topics that were included in the 1st edition,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-07-31
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