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We live our entire lives in an information society, but too frequently feel like we are rushing to catch up with the latest technological changes. Despite the overwhelming influence of information networks and their potential as tools for social change, many find it...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2026-02-02
ePub
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The book makes an original contribution to a corporeal-phenomenological and sociological approach to architectural research. The author draws on theoretical frameworks such as the work of Helmuth Plessner and New Phenomenology by Hermann Schmitz, both of which are...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2026-02-02
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Combines anthropology’s four subfields to explore what it means to be human Introduction to Holistic Anthropology invites students to rediscover anthropology as Franz Boas once envisioned it — a unified discipline that integrates biological, historical, linguistic, and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2026-02-02
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-8%
37,95€
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This book is the second of a series of five volumes that analyze and denounce the gender-based inequalities and violence faced by Latin American female social scientists in academic settings.This volume is dedicated to Argentina and offers a rigorous feminist...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2026-01-31
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This edited collection is an essential resource for understanding contemporary Indigenous-settler relations across three major settler colonial contexts, bringing together First Nations and settler scholars, practitioners, artists and community organisations from...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-01-31
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This book explores the intersection of densification and urban renewal in the context of China’s new urbanization, with a particular focus on social sustainability. It shifts the discussion from a citywide perspective to the community level, emphasizing a...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2026-01-30
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This edited volume examines how the arts and sciences have had to adapt, engage, confront, and even alter research, teaching, and community service because of modern media. The book describes how academics work with and through the media in their daily and professional...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2026-01-29
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This open access volume analyses the conditions needed for greater participation of children in social change and development, focusing on Nordic countries. With the idea that citizens of future societies are best placed to envisage their ideal future, and that...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2026-01-28
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This masterful guide to the social determinants of health has become a go-to text for understanding the role that social factors play in the experience of health and many diseases. In this updated edition, preeminent medical sociologist William C. Cockerham offers the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2026-01-28
ePub
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-17%
22,99€
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This volume explores the complex nature of religiosity among deaf and hard-of-hearing adolescents attending residential schools in Poland. Drawing on psychological models of religion, particularly Stefan Huber’s multidimensional approach, this study examines both...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2026-01-28
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This book focuses on the submerged Pre-Pottery Neolithic C settlement of Atlit-Yam (dated to the end of the tenth millennium to end of the ninth millennium BP). Located off the Carmel coast of Israel, it is the earliest and best preserved of 23 submerged prehistoric in...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2026-01-28
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A comprehensive analysis of urban retail and consumption transformations across diverse global and under-represented contexts In an era defined by rapid urbanization, technological innovation, and shifting consumption patterns, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the City,...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2026-01-27
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Geography
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-10%
168,40€
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In an eye-opening exploration of the most powerful force that drives our species, Kinsey Institute Director Dr. Justin Garcia illuminates the mysteries of how we date, mate and navigate our love lives. "The best book on modern mating.” - David M. Buss, author...
Editeur :
Little, Brown Spark
Parution :
2026-01-27
ePub
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For readers of Kink and What My Mother and I Don't Talk About, an anthology from a bestselling author that redefines the way we think about menopause—"leaves you feeling informed, empowered, and more connected to yourself and others on the journey"...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2026-01-27
ePub
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During the 2011 uprisings across the SWANA region, the development of new media technologies and the work of diaspora activists played pivotal roles in amplifying demands for political change. In Syria, where the revolution ultimately led to the recent fall of the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2026-01-26
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This book examines the critical intersection of demographic ageing and climate change in Bangladesh, including comparison with other Asia countries. Located in the dynamic delta system of Southeast Asia, Bangladesh is constantly exposed to extreme weather events, the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2026-01-24
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This book expands on how Indonesia supports the achievement of global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by providing an in-depth examination of how the SDGs can be localized, not only at the national level, but also down to the grassroots level, for villages in...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2026-01-24
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This book deals with the issue of integrating science into democratic decision-making, emphasizing the need to balance the epistemic qualities of science with democratic values. The central question is not whether to rely on science, but how to do so effectively without...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2026-01-24
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This book offers a comparative and multidisciplinary examination of the formulation and implementation of public policy within the Nordic region. It seeks to present these efforts within the context of a frequently understudied area of the world which, nonetheless, is...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2026-01-23
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The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet investigates how intelligence–human and artificial–manifests under conditions of secrecy, hostility, and concealment.Departing from Chinese science fiction writer Liu Cixin’s dark forest theory, which frames the universe as a...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2026-01-22
Collection :
Theory Redux
ePub
Offre spéciale
-13%
11,99€
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