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The book is an analysis of cultural, social as well as political economic expressions of neoliberalization and argues for an appreciation of the relational geographies of neoliberalization. In-depth empirical research spanning a variety of world regions A range of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-07-20
Collection :
Antipode Book Series
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22,60€
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Threads of Labour presents new empirical research by a network of garment workers' support organizations and makes sense of global supply chains from the bottom up. Presents new empirical research by a network of garment workers' support organizations in ten different...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-07-20
Collection :
Antipode Book Series
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67,80€
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81,95€
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This exciting collection of original essays provides students and professionals with an international and comparative examination of changes in global cities, revealing a growing pattern of social and spatial division or polarization.
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-07-18
Collection :
IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
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27,20€
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In 2006, Paul W. Holland retired from Educational Testing Service (ETS) after a career spanning five decades.In 2008, ETS sponsored a conference, Looking Back, honoring his contributions to applied and theoretical psychometrics and statistics. Looking Back attracted a...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2011-07-15
ePub
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Small-scale fisheries are a major source of food and employment around the world. Yet, many small-scale fishers work in conditions that are neither safe nor secure. Millions of them are poor, and often they are socially and politically marginalized. Macro-economic and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2011-07-15
ePub
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This book brings together the literature of urban sociology and film studies to explore new analytical and theoretical approaches to the relationship between cinema and the city, and to show how these impact on the realities of life in urban societies.
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-07-15
Collection :
IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
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72,00€
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Cities of Europe is a unique combination of book and CD-ROM examining the effects of recent socio-economic transformations on western European cities. A unique combination of book and CD-ROM examining the effects of recent socio-economic transformations on western...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-07-15
Collection :
IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
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67,80€
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74,10€
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Military Geographies is about how local space, place, environment and landscape are shaped by military presence, and about how wider geographies are touched by militarism. A book about how local space, place, environment and landscape are shaped by military presence,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-07-15
Collection :
RGS-IBG Book Series
ePub
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28,30€
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Over the last four decades the sociological life course approach with its focus on the interplay of structure and agency over time life course perspective has become an important research perspective in the social sciences. Yet, while it has successfully been applied to...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2011-07-14
ePub
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Girls are cutting themselves with razors.Girls are convinced they're fat, and starve themselves to prove it. Other girls are so anxious about grades they can't sleep at night—at eleven years of age. What's going on? InGirls on the Edge, Dr. Leonard Sax...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2011-07-12
ePub
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What is it like to do the back-breaking work of immigrants? To find out, Gabriel Thompson spent a year working alongside Latino immigrants, who initially thought he was either crazy or an undercover immigration agent. He stooped over lettuce fields in Arizona, and...
Editeur :
Bold Type Books
Parution :
2011-07-12
ePub
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A hands-on guide to using R to carry out key statistical practices in educational and behavioral sciences research Computing has become an essential part of the day-to-day practice of statistical work, broadening the types of questions that can now be addressed by...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2011-07-08
PDF, ePub
Offre spéciale
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92,95€
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Dieses Buch beleuchtet die Auswanderung von nahezu 20% der Bevölkerung des Dorfes Wiesbaden-Frauenstein (im heutigen Hessen) nach Australien in den Jahren 1852-54, ausgehend von den Briefen und Tagebüchern der Dorfbewohner ebenso wie von formalen Dokumenten und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-07-08
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Momentary Peace: an examination of the Catholic references in the works of Gertrud Leutenegger examines the way Catholic images, allusions and references are used by Gertrud Leutenegger, a contemporary Swiss writer, in expressing engagement with her faith, a theme...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-07-08
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Mythen und Mythenbildung sind in den Wissenschaften der Postmoderne ein sehr aktuelles Thema. Der vorliegende Sammelband möchte als Beitrag zur kulturgeschichtlichen Arbeit am Thema des Mythos verstanden werden. Der interdisziplinär ausgerichtete Band vereint nach einer...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-07-08
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This book constructs a suggestive, dramatic and colourful portrait of migrants’ everyday life in 1950s and early 1960s Australia, by focusing on important aspects such as health, sexuality, self-beautification, love, and morality. The book considers two columns edited...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-07-08
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This book is intended for readers who go beyond universal models of translation. Working from Galicia to the rest of Europe and the United States, the editors have focused on collecting contributions which address translation quality assessment and translation...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-07-08
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