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Over the past three decades, migration has become the main driver of population growth (or of preventing its decrease) in many EU countries. The presence of so many families with a migrant background is, however, to some extent, an unexpected phenomenon arising from the...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2023-06-15
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Throughout the world, democracy is under assault from various populist movements and ideologies. And, throughout the world, the same enigma: why is it that political figures or governments, who have no qualms about aggravating social inequalities, enjoy the support of...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2023-06-15
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Real news. Fake news. Alternative Facts. We are living in the Digital Age of Disinformation where factual news, opinion and disinformation exist side-by-side in the media culture. How do we know who and what to believe?
News Literacy Now introduces a new way to "read"...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-06-14
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Societal Stress and Law draws attention to the social side effects of law by developing the sociological concept of society-level stress, a corollary of the concept of individual-level stress in the biological sciences. To encourage interest in societal stress, the...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-06-14
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This is the first anthology that conveys in detail the actual situation of population geographies in Japan, a country facing some of the world's most serious demographic trends such as low fertility, population aging, and depopulation. The anthology consists of two...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-06-13
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This is the first anthology that conveys in detail the actual situation of population geographies in Japan, a country facing some of the world's most serious demographic trends such as low fertility, population aging, and depopulation. The anthology consists of two...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-06-13
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Public health erupted into the world’s consciousness in early 2020 with the Covid pandemic and its multiple social and economic consequences. What had been until then, for most people, a remote and specialized field of expertise suddenly became the very basis for the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2023-06-13
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Discover (or rediscover!) history’s greatest myths and legends From Grendel and Beowulf to Poseidon, Medusa, and Hercules, the gods, monsters, and heroes of mythology are endlessly weird and fascinating. And if you’re looking for a helpful companion to this wild...
Editeur :
For Dummies
Parution :
2023-06-13
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This open-access book surveys how digital technology can contribute effectively to improving our understanding of the past, through a sensory engagement based on the evidence of material culture. In particular, it encourages specialists to consider senses and human...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-06-12
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Fashion, and the growth of fashion, are presented as the manifestation of a process of civilization, within a capitalist culture (capital understood as material possessions) that has become global and imperialist, of which - in an economic sense - the industry (or the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-06-10
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This book proposes a new and original analysis of tourism employment in order to understand the multiple dimensions (economic, cultural, temporal, geographical, etc.) of this cross-cutting sector. It offers an overview of French knowledge, mainly in sociology,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-06-09
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How can we use information rather than be subjected to it? Does life have a digital logic? Is the internal structure of the universe made up of information? Is the Internet generating a collective brain?
Ever since Homo sapiens, armed with his electronic machines,...
Editeur :
Max Milo Éditions
Parution :
2023-06-09
Collection :
L’inconnu
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If you've always wanted to know how societies function - and why sometimes they don't - this beginner's guide to sociology has got the essential theories and thinkers coveredSociology has almost limitless scope. From the smallest everyday interaction to the impact of...
Editeur :
Summersdale
Parution :
2023-06-08
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Zygmunt Bauman was one of the great social thinkers of our time: inventor of the idea of liquid modernity, he transformed our way of thinking about the social conditions shaping our lives today. His own life was shaped by the great social forces that scarred the second...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2023-06-08
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This open access book focuses on migrant and minority cemetery needs through the conceptual lens of the mobilities of the living and the dead. In doing so, the book brings migration and mobility studies into much-needed dialogue with death studies to explore the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-06-06
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From the Sivens forest in France to the Hambach forest in Germany, from the Broadback forest in Canada to the rainforests of Borneo, something has shifted in these wild spaces over the last decade or two. People have begun to inhabit the forests, oppose the loggers and...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2023-06-06
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The Chinese in the Philippines constitute one of the many Chinese communities globally. Although many Chinese have maintained their cultural traditions, most of them are Filipina/o citizens and have always considered the Philippines home. Embodying "Tsina/o" (Chinese)...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-06-06
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Amazon's Best Nonfiction Book of the Month for June 2023Nylon's "June 2023's Must-Read Book Releases"Pure Wow’s “11 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in June”The Skimm’s “17 of Our Favorite Books Coming Out...
Editeur :
Legacy Lit
Parution :
2023-06-06
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From journalist and author of An Ordinary Age, an examination, dismantling, and reconstruction of ambition, where burnout is the symptom of our holiest sin: the lonely way we strive. Ambition—the want, the hunger, the need to achieve—is woven into...
Editeur :
Balance
Parution :
2023-06-06
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We are experiencing an anthropological revolution. We see it in the #MeToo movement, in the denunciation of femicide and in an increasingly vociferous critique of patriarchal domination. Why this sudden rise of an antagonistic conception of the relationship between men...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2023-06-06
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