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This book examines the paradoxes, challenges, potential and problems of urban living. It understands cities as they are, rather than as they may be marketed or branded. All cities have much in common, yet the differences are important. They form the basis of both...
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Springer
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2013-09-26
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GeoJournal Library
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For hundreds of thousands of years our ancestors have walked these isles burying, dropping and throwing away their belongings, and now these treaures lie waiting for us, keeping their secrets until we uncover them once more.Every year, hundreds of vaulable artefacts are...
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Headline
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2013-09-26
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??This book uses a multi-methods study of incarcerated youths to examine the pathways to gang involvement, the drug distribution system and hierarchy within gangs, levels of traumatic stress and depression among gang-involved youths, and other mechanisms of control and...
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Springer
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2013-09-25
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When it comes to 'power', it can often feel as if everyone is talking about it, yet no one appears to have given it any thought. Well, not quite. In this original and timely book, Mitchell Dean provides a characteristically thoughtful and incisive analysis that aims to...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2013-09-25
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This book discusses ethnography from the three points of view of Emerging Methodologies, Practice and Advocacy, and Social Justice and Transformation, with an over arching emphasis on researchers' and participants' worldviews. While these three thematic threads cut...
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Springer
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2013-09-24
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Every four days there are a million more people on the planet. More people and fewer resources. In this timely work, Alan Weisman examines how we can shrink our collective human footprint so that we don't stomp any more species - including our own - out of existence....
Editeur :
Little, Brown Book Group
Parution :
2013-09-24
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This book addresses a rich corpus of contemporary narratives by authors who have come to Italy as migrants. It traces the figurative commonalities that emerge across these diverse texts, which together suggest the shape and substance of what might be termed ‘migrant...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-09-24
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This collection of new essays by scholars from across Europe focuses on the key theoretical and historical questions within the rapidly growing field of Iberian studies, which is taken by the authors to mean the methodological consideration of the Iberian peninsula as a...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-09-24
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Das Buch stellt eine immer noch wenig bekannte Fachdisziplin vor. Vor gut 125 Jahren entstanden, hat sich die Afrikanistik längst von ihren frühen kolonialwissenschaftlichen Fesseln befreit. Sie bietet heute – auf sprachwissenschaftlicher Grundlage – einen modellhaften...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-09-24
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London’s Trafalgar Square is one of the world’s best known public places, and during its relatively short history has seen violent protest, imperial and royal spectacle and wild national celebration. This book draws together scholarship on national identity, cultural...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-09-24
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Contemporary impressions of Islam – especially in the post-9/11 world – are creating daunting challenges for Muslims everywhere. Muslim women, because of their specific mode of attire, seem to be at the forefront of the growing skepticism surrounding Islamic education....
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-09-24
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This volume brings together the most up to date analyses of civil society in Africa from the best scholars and researchers working on the subject. Being the first of its kind, it casts a panoramic look at the African continent, drawing out persisting, if often...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-09-21
Collection :
Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies
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????Since the 1960s, in comparison to other ethnic and gender groups?, a higher rate of depression and suicide ideation has been documented for Latina girls. This Brief offers a concise summary of contemporary research on this critical topic.
Among the considerations...
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Springer
Parution :
2013-09-20
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This volume explores the forms of knowledge generated by exoticizing the subject studied. It analyzes monogamy in Western cultures from a cultural distance. First, from the cultural perspective of a Kenyan writer who underlines the moral evils unwittingly generated by a...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-09-20
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Anthropology
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This work reports on a real adventure in earth science and conservation, dealing with the UNESCO’s emergency activities implemented in Bamiyan (Central Afghanistan) for the recovery and rehabilitation of the cliff and niches after the destruction of the two famous Giant...
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Springer
Parution :
2013-09-20
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?? ?This brief examines the influence and prestige of scholars and works in the field of Criminology and Criminal Justice, as well as changes in influence and prestige over a period of 25 years, based on citation analysis. Methods of measuring scholarly influence can...
Editeur :
Springer
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2013-09-20
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Criminology
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Most incidents of urban unrest in recent decades - including the riots in France, Britain and other Western countries - have followed lethal interactions between the youth and the police. Usually these take place in disadvantaged neighborhoods composed of working-class...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-09-19
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Despite its inherent joys, the challenges of parenting can produce considerable stress. These challenges multiply—and the quality of parenting suffers—when a parent or child has mental health issues, or when parents are in conflict. Even under optimal circumstances, the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-09-18
Collection :
Mindfulness in Behavioral Health
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In recent years, more and more scholars in the world feel interested in the topic of human right protection status in China. This book hopes to serve as a window through which its readers will have a better understanding of theory and practice of human rights protection...
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Springer
Parution :
2013-09-18
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How did a scrawny black kid -- the son of a barber and a domestic who grew up in Harlem and Trenton -- become the 106th mayor of New York City? It's a remarkable journey. David Norman Dinkins was born in 1927, joined the Marine Corps in the waning days of World War II,...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2013-09-17
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