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It has long been recognised that clients with addiction problems need a skilled and thoughtful response when they come into contact with social services. However, students often find that policy and the law surrounding working with drug, alcohol and substance misusers...
Editeur :
Learning Matters
Parution :
2013-10-14
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The Posthuman offers both an introduction and major contribution to contemporary debates on the posthuman. Digital 'second life', genetically modified food, advanced prosthetics, robotics and reproductive technologies are familiar facets of our globally linked and...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-10-14
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56,50€
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Typical food is an in-vogue topic, embodying issues such as current trends in food globalization and European Union policies on agriculture and trade. It is, however, striking how little is known about its history. This book, inspired by the conference La tipicità nella...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2013-10-14
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This book is in part a response to the attempts of governments to address increasing concerns over such environmental issues as the impact of climate change; carbon emissions; pressures from overpopulation of cities; coal seam gas extraction and depleting natural...
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Springer
Parution :
2013-10-13
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This book provides a unique empirical study of criminal trials in China. Western observers such as the media, politicians and the legal scholars alike, have rarely had the exposure to the vast majority of the ordinary criminal trials in China.A number of legal reforms...
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Springer
Parution :
2013-10-12
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New biotechnologies have propelled the question of what it means to be human – or posthuman – to the forefront of societal and scientific consideration. This volume provides an accessible, critical overview of the main approaches in the debate on posthumanism, and...
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Springer
Parution :
2013-10-11
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Sociology began as a historical discipline, created by Marx, Weber and others, to explain the emergence and consequences of rational, capitalist society. Today, the best historical sociology combines precision in theory-construction with the careful selection of...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-10-10
Collection :
What is Sociology?
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In this groundbreaking book, Akbar Ahmed, one of the world's leading authorities on Islam, who has worked in the Muslim world but lives in the West, explains what is going wrong in his society by referring to Islamic history and beliefs. Employing theological and...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-10-08
Collection :
Themes for the 21st Century
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Framed in relation to diaspora this collection engages with the subject of how cultural difference is lived and how complex and shifting identities shape and respond to spatial politics of belonging. Diaspora is understood in a variety of ways, which makes this an...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-10-07
Collection :
International Perspectives on Migration
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This book explains harmonisation techniques that can be used in survey research to align national systems of categories and definitions in such a way that comparison is possible across countries and cultures. It provides an introduction to instruments for collecting...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-10-07
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In this book, an international team of environmental and social scientists explain two powerful current change-engines and how their effects, and our responses to them, will transform Earth and humankind into the 22nd-century (c.2100).This book begins by detailing the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-10-07
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Women express more emotion than men, but do they also experience more emotion than men? Are emotions represented differently in men and women’s brains? What are the origins of gender differences in emotions – are we born different or is it socialization that renders us...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-10-04
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The hunt for beneficial owners is on. Like an elephant, the beneficial owner hides in the jungle of complex legal structures, waiting to be discovered by eager prosecutors. But what lies behind this metaphor? What is a Beneficial Owner? Is beneficial ownership a right?...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-10-02
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A transformational approach to overcoming the divisions between feminist communities While many feminist and queer movements are designed to challenge sexism, they often simultaneously police gender and sexuality -- sometimes just as fiercely as the straight,...
Editeur :
Seal Press
Parution :
2013-10-01
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How does the contemporary reader make sense of the life and writings of such an icon as Dietrich Bonhoeffer? The essays in this volume seek to address this question by carefully examining the social, cultural, religious and intellectual locations that inform the Sitz im...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-10-01
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Migrant Memories provides an innovative perspective on the power of cultural memory and the influence of cinema on the Italian diaspora in Britain. Based on extensive interviews with Southern Italian migrants and their children, this study offers a fresh understanding...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-10-01
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The book forms a monograph of the local culture of the old Polish Livonia, practically absent in contemporary humanistic research. It includes historical and anthropological recapitulation of the phenomenon, but it also tries to describe cultural mechanisms...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-10-01
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The study of pre-Hispanic societies focuses not only on their most remarkable aspects—their technological developments, military exploits, political events, and economic achievements—but also on the everyday phenomena through which their ideology ...
Editeur :
Cacciani, S.A. DE C.V.
Parution :
2013-10-01
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This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of why taxpayers behave the way they do. It reveals the motivations for why some taxpayers comply with the law while others choose not to comply. Given the current global financial climate there is a need for governments...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-09-30
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In June 2013, after lengthy and complex negotiations the EU adopted the recast “asylum package” which represents a significant step forward in the future development of CEAS.In this timely study Velluti provides fresh insights into recent legislative and judicial...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-09-30
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