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This brilliant new book by one of Europe's leading social thinkers throws light on the global power games being played out between global business, nation states and movements rooted in civil society. Beck offers an illuminating account of the changing nature of power...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-10-15
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-8%
28,30€
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Every day around the world there are dozens of protests both large and small. Most groups engage the local police, some get media attention, and a few are successful. Who are these people? What do they want? What do they do to get it? What effects do they ultimately...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-10-15
Collection :
Cultural Sociology
ePub
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In his major investigation into the nature of humans, Peter Sloterdijk presents a critique of myth - the myth of the return of religion. For it is not religion that is returning; rather, there is something else quite profound that is taking on increasing significance...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-10-15
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-65%
62,20€
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This book will suggest new agendas for identity and heritage studies by means of presenting contentious issues facing archaeology and heritage management in a globalized world. The book is not only present the variability of heritage objectives and experiences in the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-10-15
ePub
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New York Times best-selling author Stephen Mansfield was witness to much of the modern history of the Kurds. In this riveting account, Mansfield movingly tells the stories of the people who have fashioned one of the greatest economic and cultural resurrections in human...
Editeur :
Worthy Books
Parution :
2014-10-14
ePub
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Wie können Museen von einem kulturellen Engagement älterer Menschen profitieren? Welche Motive und Erwartungen haben ältere Menschen und welche Barrieren sehen sie bei der Aufnahme und lernenden Bewältigung eines Engagements? Mit diesem Buch werden erstmalig in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-10-14
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This book provides insightful sociological analyses of Japanese demography and families, paying attention not only to national average data, but also to regional variations and community level analyses. In analyzing Japanese family issues such as demographic changes,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-10-14
ePub
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Providing a unique blend of cases, concepts, and essential readings The Social Movements Reader, Third Edition, delivers key classic and contemporary articles and book selections from around the world. Includes the latest research on contemporary movements in the US...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-10-13
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Readers in Sociology
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Offre spéciale
-9%
33,95€
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This book provides a detailed, up-to-date snapshot of Australian family formation, answering such questions as ‘what do our families look like?’ and ‘how have they come to be this way?’ The book applies sociological insights to a broad range of demographic trends,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-10-13
ePub
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Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015More than three decades of economic growth have led to significant social change in the People?s Republic of China. This timely book examines the emerging structures of class and social stratification: how they are interpreted...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-10-13
Collection :
China Today
ePub
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-7%
20,40€
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This book traces the history of the baby-boomers, beginning with an explanation of the cause of the post-war baby boom and ending with the contemporary concerns of ageing boomers. It shows how the baby-boomers challenged traditional family attitudes and adopted new...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-10-10
Collection :
INED Population Studies
ePub
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In this important new book the leading philosopher Jacques Rancière continues his reflections on the representative power of works of art. How does art render events that have spanned an era? What roles does it assign to those who enacted them or those who were the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-10-10
PDF, ePub
Offre spéciale
-57%
39,60€
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The detective story, focused on inquiries, and in its wake the spy novel, built around conspiracies, developed as genres in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. During the same period, psychiatry was inventing paranoia, sociology was devising new forms of...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-10-10
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Offre spéciale
-58%
62,20€
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By bringing together top-notch demographers, sociologists, economists, statisticians and public health specialists from Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America to examine a wide variety of public and private issues in applied demography, this book spans a wide range of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-10-09
Collection :
Applied Demography Series
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The March 11 disaster in 2011, known as the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, caused extensive damage in various sectors. Through the recovery process, special lessons are being learned and applied in the affected region. This book attempts to draw lessons from...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-10-08
Collection :
Disaster Risk Reduction
ePub
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This book provides a unique blend of social and biomedical sciences in the field of low fertility and reproductive health. It offers a significant contribution to understanding the determinants of low fertility mostly in East Asia, including an assessment of the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-10-07
Collection :
International Studies in Population
ePub
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Thin on the Ground: Neandertal Biology, Archeology and Ecology synthesizes the current knowledge about our sister species the Neandertals, combining data from a variety of disciplines to reach a cohesive theory behind Neandertal low population densities and relatively...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-10-02
Collection :
Foundation of Human Biology
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Offre spéciale
-10%
154,95€
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Family Problems: Stress, Risk, and Resilience presents an interdisciplinary collection of original essays that push the boundaries of family science to reflect the increasingly diverse complexity of family concerns in the modern world. Represents the most up-to-date...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-10-01
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Offre spéciale
-10%
71,95€
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During the past 10 years following the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, invaluable lessons have been learned and great changes have been observed. Immediately after the disaster, the second World Conference on Disaster Reduction was held in Kobe, Japan, and formulated the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-09-29
Collection :
Disaster Risk Reduction
ePub
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This book concerns the Beijing Hutong and changing perceptions of space, of social relations and of self, as processes of urban redevelopment remove Hutong dwellers from their traditional homes to new high-rise apartments. It addresses questions of how space is humanly...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-09-25
ePub
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