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The study of migration is and always has been an interdisciplinary field of study, vast and vibrant in nature. This short introduction to the field, written by leading historians of migration for student readers, offers an acute analysis of key issues across several...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-23
Collection :
What is History?
ePub
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Over the past decades Europe has witnessed fundamental changes of its population dynamics and population structure. Fertility has fallen below replacement level in almost all European countries, while childbearing behavior and family formation have become more diverse....
Editeur :
Springer
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2013-04-22
ePub
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The Politics of Media Policy provides a critical perspective on the dynamics of media policy in the US and UK and offers a comprehensive guide to some of the major points of debate in the media today. While many policymakers boast of the openness and pluralism of their...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-22
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-7%
20,40€
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Women's Human Rights: Seeking Gender Justice in a Globalising Age explores the emergence of transnational, UN-oriented, feminist advocacy for womens human rights, especially over the past three decades. It identifies the main feminist influences that have shaped the...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-22
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-7%
20,40€
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Politicians and the political process, even in ostensibly democratic countries, can be deadly. James Gilligan has discovered a devastating truth that has been "hiding in plain sight" for the past century - namely, that when America's conservative party, the...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-22
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-10%
20,99€
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Winner of the American Sociological Association's 'Distinguished Book Award' in the Religion category. For most of us, “Apocalypse” suggests the cataclysmic end of the world. Yet in Greek “apocalypse” means “revelation,” and the real...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-22
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Winner of the American Sociological Association's 'Distinguished Book Award' in the Religion category. For most of us, "Apocalypse" suggests the cataclysmic end of the world. Yet in Greek "apocalypse" means "revelation," and the real subject of the Book of Revelation...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-22
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-60%
62,20€
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What constitutes a causal explanation, and must an explanation be causal? What warrants a causal inference, as opposed to a descriptive regularity? What techniques are available to detect when causal effects are present, and when can these techniques be used to identify...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-04-22
Collection :
Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research
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In this ambitious new book, Henrietta Moore draws on anthropology, feminism and psychoanalysis to develop an original and provocative theory of gender and of how we become sexed beings. Arguing that the Oedipus complex is no longer the fulcrum of debate between...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-22
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-7%
21,50€
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How did anxieties about crime and deviance emerge in the modern world, first in Europe and then in America?How did they come to occupy centre-stage in the ongoing drama played out in public discourse? And how have theories of crime and deviance related to the actual...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-22
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-8%
26,00€
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How adequate are our theories of globalisation for analysing the worlds we share with others? In this provocative new book, Henrietta Moore asks us to step back and re-examine in a fresh way the interconnections normally labeled 'globalisation'. Rather than beginning...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-22
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-10%
24,30€
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The modern world is faced with a terrifying new ‘disease’, that of ‘obesity’. As people get fatter, we have come to see excess weight as unhealthy, morally repugnant and socially damaging. Fat it seems has long been a national problem and each age, culture and tradition...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-22
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-10%
24,30€
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In this extensively revised edition, Steve Fenton updates his concise and accessible introduction to ethnicity, drawing on new published work and recent social and historical changes. Discussing an extended range of theorists and illustrations from around the world,...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-22
Collection :
Key Concepts
ePub
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-7%
20,40€
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This book provides a short and accessible introduction to the field of gender history, one that has vastly expanded in scope and substance since the mid 1970s. Paying close attention to both classic texts in the field and the latest literature, the author examines the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-22
Collection :
What is History?
ePub
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The sexualization of girls has captured the attention of the media, advocacy groups and politicians in recent years. This prolific discourse sets alarm bells ringing: sexualization is said to lead to depression, promiscuity and compassion deficit disorder, and rob young...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-19
ePub
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This timely and engaging book challenges the conventional wisdom on media and scandal in the United States. The common view holds that media crave and actively pursue scandals whenever they sense corruption. Scandal and Silence argues for a different perspective. Using...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-19
Collection :
Contemporary Political Communication
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-69%
62,20€
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The sexualization of girls has captured the attention of the media, advocacy groups and politicians in recent years. This prolific discourse sets alarm bells ringing: sexualization is said to lead to depression, promiscuity and compassion deficit disorder, and rob young...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-19
PDF, ePub
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-65%
50,90€
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We spend more time shopping than doing anything else, after sleep and work. So why is it not taken more seriously? The answer: we take shopping for granted. Indeed, culture can only ‘work’ by being taken for granted. This paradox – that what is most familiar, like...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-19
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-69%
50,90€
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‘Society' is one of the most frequently used words in public life; it is also a foundational term in the social sciences. In our own time, however, the idea has never been so much in dispute and so little understood. For some critics, society is simply too consensual...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-19
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-70%
56,50€
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Throughout human history people have moved across national borders. With the advent of globalization, they are now moving in record numbers in search of greater security or better livelihoods. Diasporas have become an ever important and visible presence in the modern...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-19
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-69%
62,20€
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