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This book offers a new reading of the work of Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa. It provides a formal and detailed analysis of his films to suggest that Costa’s formal procedures generate a contingency of meaning. The book proposes that Costa’s films suggest a critical...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-06-10
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How to respond to the challenge of climate change in Africa?Can the international climate court (ICC) make its contribution?This work raises the need to create an ICC (International Climate Court) in order to repair and reduce the environmental inequalities suffered by...
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NAS éditions
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2024-06-10
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Poing levé
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The book covers a wide range of cinematic femininities: It starts with Marilyn Monroe’s cool phrase "We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle", which self-confidently marked her profession - with a wink, because she did not say "to sparkle".The (self-) staging...
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Springer
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2024-06-08
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Race is arguably the single most troublesome and volatile concept of the social sciences in the early 21st century. It is invoked to explain all manner of historical phenomena and current issues, from slavery to police brutality to acute poverty, and it is also used as...
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Polity
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2024-06-07
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Piatkus
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2024-06-06
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The brain is the basis for the development of every individual’s imagination.The only safe that is a priori inviolable for any individual.Neurological rights or neuro-rights are atypical rights. Their legal framework is experiencing increasing development...
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NAS éditions
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2024-06-05
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Poing levé
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This open access book creates conceptual links between political emotions, citizenship, home and belonging. The book describes that, in the case of decided return and reintegration to a post-conflict society and a fragmented state, like Bosnia and Herzegovina, the...
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Springer
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2024-06-04
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BoyMum is about boys and young men - how we are raising them, and what it means to be a man-in-the-making in an era when #MeToo has challenged our tolerance for toxic masculinity, yet the pressure on young men to be 'masculine' has never been more intense.It is also a...
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Quercus
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2024-06-04
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An “unsparing, erudite, and incisive” (Jelani Cobb, staff writer, The New Yorker) reframing of the past and present of Black resistance—both nonviolent and violent—to white supremacy Named a Best Book of 2024 by Smithsonian * Kirkus *...
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Seal Press
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2024-06-04
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In On Occult Masonry and Hermetic Initiation, Jean-Marie Ragon de Bettignies offers an in-depth exploration of the hidden spiritual and mystical dimensions of Freemasonry and its connection to the ancient Hermetic traditions. Through a detailed analysis of Masonic...
Editeur :
V Bros.
Parution :
2024-06-01
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The classics
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Meltdown investigates and recreates the dramatic events behind the most notorious nuclear accidents in history, as well as those shrouded in secrecy. Combining human tragedy with intriguing science, each account reveals new aspects of humanity's complex relationship...
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Headline Welbeck Non-Fiction
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2024-06-01
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The gap between health for all and the imperative of profitability of patents on medicines is enormous.This work highlights the eternal conflict between health for all and the imperative of profitability of intellectual property linked to patents on medicines in the...
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NAS éditions
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2024-06-01
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Poing levé
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The book tries to answer the most fundamental question of whether there is a link between abundant food supply and economic growth with respect to a higher degree of human development. In order to have flourishing economic growth within a country the need for a food...
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Springer
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2024-05-31
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This book applies the most recent research in social psychology to decisive historical events that arguably built white supremacy as a cultural force, institutional system, and dominant social character. Simultaneously, the discussion considers the progressive...
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Springer
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2024-05-31
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The motion picture industry is dependent on technology. It is therefore important for scholars and students of film, media, and communication to understand how film audiences and practitioners engage with technology. A critical aspect of scholarly work is to document...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-05-31
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This book argues that the psychoanalytic concept of disavowal best renders the structure underlying our contemporary social response to traumatic and disturbing events, from climate change to unsettling tectonic shifts in our social tissue. Unlike denialism and...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2024-05-31
Collection :
Theory Redux
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This book presents theoretical insights into key aspects of Chinese brand cross-cultural communication, such as psychological distance, implicit context, brand narrative and influence of bridge crowds.This book applies the psychological distance theory of communication...
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Springer
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2024-05-31
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The climate crisis is humanmade. Its main cause is the burning of fossil fuels. To combat climate change, we have to understand how we arrived at where we are. This book explores the reasons why human societies have embarked on the trajectory of ever-increasing use of...
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Polity
Parution :
2024-05-30
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On the 25th anniversary of the Scottish Parliament, this book captures an important moment in contemporary history: how a grassroots women's movement, harking back to the suffragettes and second wave feminists of the 1970s and 1980s, took on the political establishment...
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Constable
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2024-05-30
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This book constructs the theoretical framework based on a range of prominent social theories to address how juvenile delinquency is socioeconomically constructed. Here the presentation of conceptual details is supported by Chinese literature that rationalises,...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-05-29
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