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Tweening the Girl challenges the argument that the tween market began in the mid-1990s. It was actually during the 1980s that young girls were given the label «tweens» and were heralded by marketers, and subsequently the news media, as one of «capitalism’s most valuable...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2013-07-01
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This book is a very concise introduction to the basic knowledge of scientific publishing. It starts with the basics of writing a scientific paper, and recalls the different types of scientific documents. In gives an overview on the major scientific publishing companies...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-06-28
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
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This highly topical book is a concise and accessible account of the relationship between technology and work. Firstly, it reviews and critically assesses a variety of recent approaches to the social and cultural dimensions of technology. Secondly, it examines the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-28
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This book describes the shortage of girls and women in present day China and focuses on two important features: the sex imbalance in childhood and youth, and the excess mortality of women at various stages of their life. The author analyzes the causes and the processes...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-06-26
Collection :
INED Population Studies
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This introductory textbook offers a concise and lucid account of the main developments in contemporary feminist thinking, and demonstrates the centrality of feminist thought to all areas of intellectual enquiry. In a wide-ranging discussion, Evans argues that most...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-26
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In this book Hilary Rose develops new terms for thinking about science and feminism, locating the feminist criticism of science as both integral to the feminist movement and to the radical science movement.
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-26
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What are the relations between feminism and history, feminist politics and historical practice?What are the connections between gender and class?What part have racial identities and ethnic difference played in the construction of Englishness? Through a series of...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-26
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The discussions about the ethical, political and human implications of the postmodernist condition have been raging for longer than most of us care to remember. They have been especially fierce within feminism. After a brief flirtation with postmodern thinking in the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-26
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26,00€
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"Rai subjects the projects of both national development and globalization to searching scrutiny through a gender lens. Her emphasis on the intersection of gender and other forms of inequality is very timely. An excellent text for a wide range of courses in politics,...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-26
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67,80€
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Taylor develops a geohistorical argument which focuses on the periods and places of modernities, offering a grounded analysis of what it is to be modern. He identifies three 'prime modernities' which have defined the development of our modern world: today's consumer...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-26
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Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds This book is about the central figure of our contemporary, 'liquid modern' times – the man or woman with no bonds, and particularly with none of the fixed or durable bonds that would allow the effort of self-definition and...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-26
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21,60€
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Modern civilization, Bauman argues, promised to make our lives understandable and open to our control. This has not happened and today we no longer believe it ever will. In this book, now available in paperback, Bauman argues that our postmodern age is the time for...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-26
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Sociology is concerned with modern society, but has never come to terms with one of the most distinctive and horrific aspects of modernity - the Holocaust. The book examines what sociology can teach us about the Holocaust, but more particularly concentrates upon the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-26
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Market Society provides an original and accessible review of changing conceptions of the market in modern social thought. The book considers markets as social institutions rather than simply formal models, arguing that modern ideas of the market are based on critical...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-26
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This book examines the different ways in which order has been achieved in world affairs with a view to understanding current political dilemmas and opportunities. International Ordersbegins by distinguishing between world order and international order in the spirit of...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-26
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The new study provides a fresh and timely reassessment of the political philosophy of Hannah Arendt. While analysing the central themes of Arendt's work, Phillip Hansen also shows that her work makes a significant contribution to contemporary debates. Specifically,...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-26
Collection :
Key Contemporary Thinkers
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The sexual revolution: an evocative term, but what meaning can be given to it today? How does 'sexuality' come into being and what connections does it have with the changes that have affected personal life on a more general plane? In answering these questions, Anthony...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-26
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Hayek has been one of the key liberal thinkers of the twentieth century. He has also been much misunderstood. His work has crossed disciplines - economics, philosophy and political science - and national boundaries. He was an early critic of Keynes, and became famous in...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-26
Collection :
Key Contemporary Thinkers
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This book is a brief introduction to the study of society, which may be read without any previous knowledge of the social sciences. Each chapter addresses a fundamental question about people in their various arrangements. The book begins by asking: what do people need...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-26
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In this new book, Bauman examines how we have moved away from a 'heavy' and 'solid', hardware-focused modernity to a 'light' and 'liquid', software-based modernity. This passage, he argues, has brought profound change to all aspects of the human condition. The new...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-26
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