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Smoking Geographies provides a research-led assessment of the impact of geographical factors on smoking. The contributors uncover how geography can show us not only why people smoke but also broader issues of tobacco control, providing deeper clarity on how smoking and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-02-09
Collection :
RGS-IBG Book Series
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-62%
67,80€
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Using the case of the Chixoy Hydroelectric Dam in Guatemala, constructed between 1978 and 1983, this book examines the effects of displacement on the former residents of Río Negro, a community forcibly evicted and nearly eliminated by the military and paramilitary....
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-02-08
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Latin American Studies
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Central to human life and experience, habitation forms a context for enquiry within many disciplines. This collection brings together perspectives on human habitation in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, social history, material culture, literature, art and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-02-07
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The book offers an interdisciplinary discussion of the cognitive-semiotic interface between language, literature, and the arts, with a special focus on creativity and imagination. It brings together international contributors suggesting a wide range of innovative...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-02-07
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Featuring a timely presentation of total survey error (TSE), this edited volume introduces valuable tools for understanding and improving survey data quality in the context of evolving large-scale data sets This book provides an overview of the TSE framework and current...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2017-02-06
Collection :
Wiley Series in Survey Methodology
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-10%
114,95€
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This volume will examine the varied roles that women and children play in period of warfare, which in most cases deviate from their perceived role as noncombatants. Using social theory about the nature of sex, gender and age in thinking about vulnerabilities to...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-02-06
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This book investigates image politics during elections and how the political discourse is reflected during the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections in 2012 by the media and the state. It reveals new dimensions of media geography in India and makes image construction and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-02-04
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Using legal arguments consistent with international law, this book explores whether and under which circumstances a State (or States) may establish and militarily enforce safe zones in countries that produce large-scale refugee outflows so as to protect its (or their)...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-02-04
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Law
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Eine aussagekräftige Stichprobe wählen, die richtigen Fragen stellen, ein Experiment professionell vorbereiten, eine Umfrage so gestalten, dass das Ergebnis repräsentativ ist ... Wenn Sie als Psychologe oder Sozialwissenschaftler forschen, gibt es eine ganze Reihe von...
Editeur :
Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2017-02-02
Collection :
Für Dummies
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Das Buch analysiert die Rezeption der Wälder und der Umweltprobleme Siebenbürgens im Zeitalter der Aufklärung. Es erweitert die Hypothese einer allgemeinen Holzkrise um die Feststellung, dass es gegen Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts auch in Siebenbürgen Bestrebungen zur...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-02-01
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This volume presents the current state of knowledge on the osseous projectile weaponry that was produced by Pleistocene cultures across the globe. Through cross-cultural and temporal comparison of manufacturing methods, design, use methods, and associated technology,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-01-27
Collection :
Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology
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Das Buch analysiert aus historischer Perspektive das Verhältnis zwischen Staat und Provinz im südöstlichen Europa. Die internationalen Beiträge erweitern die Ideen des Vorgängerbandes «Provinz als Denk- und Lebensform» um die historische Erforschung von «Provinz». Die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-01-27
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Around the tenth century Jewish merchants from Central Asia arrived in Kaifeng. Welcomed by the Emperor, they integrated into China’s economy, society and culture. They intermarried with their hosts, following patrilocal custom with Chinese wives adopting their...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-01-25
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The aim of the book is to present original and though-provoking essays in human paleontology and prehistory, which are at the forefront of human evolutionary research, in honor of Professor Yoel Rak (a leading scholar in paleoanthropology).? ?The volume presents a...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-01-24
Collection :
Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology
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This book provides a unique perspective on addressing issues of various forms of violence against children from scholars within their own country. Bringing together cross-disciplinary expertise, this volume addresses a vast range of topics related to child abuse and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-01-20
Collection :
Child Maltreatment
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The advent of social complexity has been a longstanding debate among social scientists. Existing theories and approaches involving the origins of social complexity include environmental circumscription, population growth, technology transfers, prestige-based...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-01-20
Collection :
Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation
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This Commentary provides the first comprehensive legal article-by-article analysis of the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). The Convention is the key international human rights instrument exclusively devoted to persons with...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-01-20
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This book examines the life and works of Jane Addams who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (1931). Addams led an international women's peace movement and is noted for spearheading a first-of-its-kind international conference of women at The Hague during World War I. She...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-01-19
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Pierre Bourdieu is arguably the most influential sociologist of the twentieth century, especially since the once common criticisms of his determinism and reproductionism have receded. Now, however, his intellectual enterprise faces a new set of challenges unearthed by...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2017-01-19
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Gender roles, relations, and ideologies are major aspects of migration. This timely book argues that understanding gender relations is vital to a full and more nuanced explanation of both the causes and the consequences of migration, in the past and at present. Through...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2017-01-19
Collection :
Immigration and Society
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