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This volume is a compilation of new original qualitative and ethnographic research on pimps and other third party facilitators of commercial sex from the developed and developing world. From African-American pimps in the United States and Eastern European migrants...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-01-03
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Sexual Offending presents the latest theory and research relating to the social cognition, emotion, and motivational goals of individuals who have committed sexual offences. Explores how individuals who have committed sexual offences perceive the world and themselves,...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2017-01-03
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-10%
40,95€
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The economic liberalization of India, changes in global structures, and the rapid emergence of India on the global landscape have been accompanied by the dramatic rise in popular, public, and elite discourses that offer the promise to imagine India. Written mostly in...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-01-02
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This book explores how to tackle the challenges of urbanization through international lessons in sustainable development and smart growth strategies. As readers will discover, smart growth offers an approach to urbanization with the aim to: improve the efficiency of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-12-31
Collection :
GeoJournal Library
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This book explores the adaptation processes of German-speaking immigrants and their descendants into New Zealand’s predominantly Anglophone society. Specifically, it considers the experiences and long-term consequences of the migration of more affluent European...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-12-31
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This book, stemming from an international conference, mainly explores the “private sphere” of minority cultures. To date, insufficient attention has been paid to ethnic minorities’ sense of subjecthood, e.g. their construction and articulation of self-understanding...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-12-28
Collection :
The Humanities in Asia
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'Business-as-usual' has been transformed across the music industries in the post-CD age. Against widespread hype about the purported decline of the major music labels, this book provides a critique of the ways these companies have successfully adapted to digital...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2016-12-27
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This book is about the rise of digital labor. Companies like Uber and Amazon Mechanical Turk promise autonomy, choice, and flexibility. One of network culture's toughest critics, Trebor Scholz chronicles the work of workers in the "sharing economy," and the free labor...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2016-12-27
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Global Urban Politics: Informalization of the State In what ways has global urbanization affected the political process? This book offers a reflection on the transformations of urban politics worldwide in the past four decades, from interpersonal street-level politics...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2016-12-27
Collection :
Urban Futures
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Through historical and comparative research on the immigrant rights movements of the United States, France and the Netherlands, Cities and Social Movements examines how small resistances against restrictive immigration policies do – or don’t – develop into large and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-12-27
Collection :
IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
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67,80€
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In this book leading cultural anthropologist Anton Blok sheds new light on the lives and achievements of pioneers who revolutionized science and art over the past five centuries, demonstrating that adversity rather than talent alone was crucial to their success. Through...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2016-12-27
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Saisonales Gemüse aus dem Bioladen, Carsharing und Ökostrom: Konsumierende, die bewusst dem Leitbild der Nachhaltigkeit Genüge leisten wollen, verfolgen mit ihren Kauf- und Lebensstilentscheidungen ökologische und soziale Prinzipien.
Die Autorin setzt sich in ihrer...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-12-26
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This volume presents a conceptual, historical, anthropological, and sociological review of how culture affects our experience and expression of romantic love. What is romantic love and how is it different from and similar to other kinds of love? How is romantic love...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-12-24
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This volume explores methods used by social scientists and human biologists to understand fundamental aspects of human experience. It is organized by stages of the human lifespan: beginnings, adulthood, and aging. Explored are particular kinds of experiences - including...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-12-21
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Die Beiträge dieses Sammelbandes behandeln ausgewählte Facetten der gemeinsamen Geschichte Deutschlands und Koreas in Geschichte und Politik, Lebensumständen und Migration sowie Kultur und Lebenswelten. Beide Länder verstehen sich jeweils als das Herzstück Europas und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-12-21
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Public relations is, by design, the least visible of the persuasive industries. It operates behind the scenes, encouraging us to consume, vote, believe and behave in ways that keep economies moving and citizens from storming the citadels of power. In this important...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2016-12-20
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Gender, Politics, News: A Game of Three Sides explores the role of gender in the broader processes of political communication The only contemporary book focusing on the relationships between gender, politics, and news media which takes a global perspective An analysis...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-12-20
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108,95€
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This comprehensive reference work presents an in-depth analysis of juvenile justice systems across the world. The second edition of this Handbook has been updated with 13 new chapters, now covering a total of 34 countries, across North and South America,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-12-20
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The end of the world is a seemingly interminable topic Ð at least, of course, until it happens. Environmental catastrophe and planetary apocalypse are subjects of enduring fascination and, as ethnographic studies show, human cultures have approached them in very...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2016-12-20
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Climate change, natural disasters, and loss of biodiversity are all considered major environmental concerns for the international community both now and into the future. Each are damaging to the earth, but they also negatively impact human lives, especially those of...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2016-12-20
Collection :
Gender and Global Politics
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