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Dispossession describes the condition of those who have lost land, citizenship, property, and a broader belonging to the world. This thought-provoking book seeks to elaborate our understanding of dispossession outside of the conventional logic of possession, a ...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-03
Collection :
Conversations
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WINNER of the 2015 ICA Outstanding Book Award This path-breaking book explores how solidarity towards vulnerable others is performed in our media environment. It argues that stories where famine is described through our own experience of dieting or or where solidarity...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-03
PDF, ePub
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-69%
62,20€
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Work is, and always will be, a central institution of society. What makes a capitalist society unique is that it treats the human capacity to engage in labor as a basic commodity. This can be a source of dynamism, as when innovative firms raise wages to attract the best...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-03
Collection :
Economy and Society
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‘Today the smallest details of our daily lives are tracked and traced more closely than ever before, and those who are monitored often cooperate willingly with the monitors. From London and New York to New Delhi, Shanghai and Rio de Janeiro, video cameras are a familiar...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-03
Collection :
Conversations
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This book provides readers with a single source reviewing and updating sociological theory in medical or health sociology. The book not only addresses the major theoretical approaches in the field today, it also identifies the future directions these theories are likely...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-04-03
ePub
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This innovative book tells the fascinating tale of the long histories of violence, punishment, and the human body, and how they are all connected. Taking the decline of violence and the transformation of punishment as its guiding themes, the book highlights key...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-03
PDF, ePub
Offre spéciale
-69%
62,20€
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In everyday life we are not, for the most part, actively conscious of our bodies or the bodies of others – we simply take them for granted. This new edition of a lively introduction to the sociology of the body examines what certain aspects of our bodies, such as the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-03
ePub
Offre spéciale
-7%
21,50€
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Gender issues continue to be a prominent concern of academics and policy-makers, and increasingly arise in various forms to be debated in the public sphere and popular media. But what exactly do we mean by gender? How can we best understand gender differences? How are...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-03
ePub
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Where are the women? In traditional historical and scholarly accounts of the making and fighting of wars, women are often nowhere to be seen. With few exceptions, war stories are told as if men were the only ones who plan, fight, are injured by, and negotiate ends to...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-03
ePub
Offre spéciale
-8%
28,30€
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Gender issues continue to be a prominent concern of academics and policy-makers, and increasingly arise in various forms to be debated in the public sphere and popular media. But what exactly do we mean by gender? How can we best understand gender differences? How are...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-03
Collection :
Key Concepts
ePub
Offre spéciale
-7%
21,50€
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Beyond Belief addresses what happens when women of extreme religions decide to walk away. Editors Susan Tive (a former Orthodox Jew) and Cami Ostman (a de-converted fundamentalist born-again Christian) have compiled a collection of powerful personal stories written...
Editeur :
Seal Press
Parution :
2013-04-02
ePub
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Born almost a hundred years ago in Vienna - the cultural heart of a bourgeois Mitteleurope - Eric Hobsbawm, who was to become one of the most brilliant and original historians of our age, was uniquely placed to observe an era of titanic social and artistic change. As...
Editeur :
Little, Brown Book Group
Parution :
2013-03-28
ePub
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After WWII, the United States of America proposed their way of life, based on an unlimited consumption of land, goods, and energy, as a model for the entire world. Nowadays, this expansionist model has reached its limits. This book provides a comprehensive study of the...
Editeur :
Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2013-03-28
PDF, ePub
Offre spéciale
-10%
154,95€
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Joann Fletcher, presenter of BBC2's 'Ancient Egypt: Life and Death in the Valley of the Kings' has written an enthralling account of Nefertiti, one of Egypt's most compelling and mysterious figures. Wife of the controversial pharaoh Akhenaten, she lived through perhaps...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2013-03-28
ePub
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Half a century after the publication of The Feminine Mystique, have women really exchanged purity and maternity to become desiring machines inspired only by variations of sex, shopping and masochism - all coloured a brilliant neuro-pink?In this volume, fifty women young...
Editeur :
Virago
Parution :
2013-03-28
ePub
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If you're looking for practical, straight-talking advice on getting things right, look no further. Being the Best Man For Dummies is a perfect one-stop guide to being the ideal best man. This newly updated edition includes: Advice on organising the stag night (or...
Editeur :
For Dummies
Parution :
2013-03-27
PDF, ePub
Offre spéciale
-17%
12,00€
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With the major growth of the world’s population over the past century, as well as rapid urbanisation, people increasingly live in crowded cities. This trend is often accompanied by proliferation of poorly built housing, uncontrolled use of land, occupation of unsafe...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-03-27
Collection :
Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research
ePub
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'Trading zone' is a concept introduced by Peter Galison in his social scientific research on how scientists representing different sub-cultures and paradigms have been able to coordinate their interaction locally. In this book, Italian and Finnish planning researchers...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-03-27
Collection :
Urban and Landscape Perspectives
ePub
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It began with a frantic 911 call from a woman in a dusty Arizona border town. A gang claiming to be affiliated with the Border Patrol had shot her husband and daughter.It was initially assumed that the murders were products of border drug wars ravaging the Southwest...
Editeur :
Bold Type Books
Parution :
2013-03-26
ePub
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This Companion offers an extensive examination of how new technologies are changing the nature of literary studies, from scholarly editing and literary criticism, to interactive fiction and immersive environments. A complete overview exploring the application of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-03-25
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
PDF, ePub
Offre spéciale
-80%
200,95€
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