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This open access book explores the lives and careers of migrating artists with the purpose to understand how they make use of their migrant-networks and how this process interacts with decisions they make about immigration and career development. Situated at the...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-09-23
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This book examines the relationship between sacred landscapes, indigenous knowledge, ethno-culture, and natural resource management. The volume contributes to the existing literature on landscape studies and cultural geography by examining local perceptions toward...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-09-20
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This volume outlines various religious practices followed across the global south and highlights their correlation to sustainability. It features more than 30 chapters from scholars across diverse disciplines, including philosophy, economics, ethics, theology,...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-09-20
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One of bell hooks' foundational works introduced to the UK for the first time.'With the emotion of poetry, the narrative of a novel, and the truth of experience, bell hooks weaves a girlhood memoir you won't be able to put down?or forget. Bone Black takes us into the...
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Dialogue Books
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2024-09-19
ePub
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6,49€
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The identity of Taiwan is a matter of intense local and international debate. This book shows how engineers helped produce two distinct visions of the land of Taiwan and its people, elevating the value of engineering as a career path in the process.The book...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-09-19
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This book discusses the need to establish social work for Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) with an emphasis on the emerging role of effective and sustainable social interventions for the control and elimination of NTDs.
NTDs are a group of infectious diseases...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-09-19
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Social Work
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“This is a must-read for anyone concerned with where we are today and looking for a better path forward.” ?Steve Wozniak, Co-founder, Apple Inc. Big Tech is driving us, our kids, and society mad. In the nick of time, Restoring Our Sanity Online presents the bold,...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2024-09-18
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Over the past thirty years, humanity has made a huge mistake. We handed over to big tech decisions that have allowed them to build what has become our "space of the world" – the highly artificial space of social media platforms where much of our social life now unfolds....
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Polity
Parution :
2024-09-17
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This book analyses of public participation in the different development stages of urban renewal in Macao. Three types of participation are summarized from practice, analyzed their characteristics. And then develops a framework and a set of standards of participation...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-09-16
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This is an open access book.
Integrated art, also known as composite art, is an art classification that refers to the art formed by the synthesis of several art forms, such as songs combining poetry and music, architecture combining painting and sculpture, drama...
Editeur :
Atlantis Press
Parution :
2024-09-14
Collection :
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
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This volume offers a comprehensive exploration of the environmental challenges and innovations shaping our world. It represents a collective effort to understand and address the pressing issues that define our era, from climate change to resource management. Through a...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-09-14
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This book argues that, given the complex nature of the urban environment, we cannot find one optimal solution to reducing environmental injustice, in part because there is no singular cause. Environmental injustice emerges in particular settings because of the combined...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-09-13
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This book offers fresh critical insights to the field of cultural and museum resources, aiming to explore its transformation and utilization from the cultural value theory.This book for the first time examines the current situation of cultural and museum resources in...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-09-13
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The definition of power varies across disciplines. Social scientists tend to deal with social power, philosophers of technology with the relation between technology and society, and ecologists with the relation between natural and social power. Concepts of power and...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2024-09-11
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From the author of For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts, a celebration of the women at the heart of Latine families Born into a large, close-knit family in Nicaragua, Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez grew up surrounded by strong, kind,...
Editeur :
Seal Press
Parution :
2024-09-10
ePub
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14,99€
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This compact book relies on the story of two intertwined Jewish immigrant families to tell a multigenerational Jewish story about the interplay between public/social policy, cultural categories, and the lived experience of working class immigrant Jews from Eastern...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-09-10
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Social Policy
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In a deeply personal follow-up to his #1 bestseller This is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends about Racism, a modern media iconoclast faces a test of faith—and reveals how such tribulations can make us stronger, as individuals and as a nation. Renowned...
Editeur :
Little, Brown and Company
Parution :
2024-09-10
ePub
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12,99€
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During the twentieth century, especially during World War II, female geologists were potrayed as having a glamourous and unique job. Newspapers, the oil industry, and other publications published stories about the glamorous working geologist, comparing them to...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-09-09
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This book offers a new vision on urban gun violence that focuses on public space-centered concepts, events, and research. It builds on our existing knowledge base by viewing a "slice" of this problem through celebratory and solemn occasions and how violence at these...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-09-09
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How can we make media anti-racist? The rise of the far right, the impacts of Covid-19, and the mediated evidence of racist police violence have challenged the dominant complacency that racism was a thing of the past. We are now witnessing the renewed anti-racist...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2024-09-09
Collection :
The Manifesto Series
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