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Completely revised and updated, this new edition provides a readable, beautifully illustrated journey through world cultures and the vibrant array of sky mythology, creation stories, models of the universe, temples and skyscrapers that each culture has created to...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-05-05
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Building on the success of the 2003 Handbook of the Life Course, this second volume identifies future directions for life course research and policy. The introductory essay and the chapters that make up the five sections of this book, show consensus on strategic “next...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-10-26
Collection :
Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research
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Since its founding, activists have demanded that the United States lives up to its democratic promise. Now, with Rules of Activism, Charles Euchner offers a concise "field guide" to the critical place of political and social movements in American politics. Activists...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2025-12-02
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This open access brief examines NATO’s Stability Policing doctrine through an interdisciplinary lens, bridging military doctrine with social science to enhance the understanding and planning of stabilization operations. By addressing the policing gap—the...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-11-30
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Considerato il secolo delle donne, il Settecento cela contraddizioni e ambiguità, limitando gli spazi per la partecipazione femminile anche a causa di una sommersa misoginia.
Questo volume indaga l’aporia tra gli ideali propugnati e la realtà storica e sociale,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-11-28
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While still widespread, the pernicious belief that modern Western science is synonymous with ‘science proper’ – the culturally engrained conviction that it constitutes an incomparably effective means of interrogating natural reality – has been called into question in...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2025-11-27
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Questo volume costituisce l’esito di una ricerca che l’autore ha dedicato al problema di come il sesso sia stato, storicamente, reso intelligibile, interpretato e messo in discorso principalmente attraverso il diritto e la sua tecnologia. Il “sesso” viene qui indagato...
Editeur :
Rosenberg & Sellier
Parution :
2025-11-24
Collection :
Diritto al presente
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Pubblicata per la prima volta nel 1986, Sentimenti velati di Lila Abu-Lughod è oggi considerata un’etnografia classica nell’ambito dell’antropologia. Tra la fine degli anni Settanta e l’inizio degli anni Ottanta del secolo scorso, Abu-Lughod visse per circa due anni in...
Editeur :
Rosenberg & Sellier
Parution :
2025-11-24
Collection :
Terreni di confronto
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I migranti sembrano riscuotere interesse mediatico e scientifico solo quando attraversano i confini europei e finché sono inseriti in percorsi istituzionalizzati di richiesta di protezione internazionale. Ma sono migliaia le persone che escono ogni anno dal sistema di...
Editeur :
Rosenberg & Sellier
Parution :
2025-11-24
Collection :
Terreni di confronto
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Famiglia, ancora famiglia. Mentre l’oggetto, gli oggetti che sono compresi entro questo grande denominatore mutano e si differenziano sempre di più, il nostro parlarne e il nostro comprendere fatica a inseguire l’universo polimorfico dei legami familiari, una volta...
Editeur :
Rosenberg & Sellier
Parution :
2025-11-24
Collection :
Terreni di confronto
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Una coinvolgente ricerca antropologica nella Rio de Janeiro olimpica, che riaccende i riflettori sulla realtà contrastata delle favelas brasiliane, in una mescolanza tra ingiustizie profonde ed esperienze diffuse di resistenza e immaginazione di futuri nuovi, più equi e...
Editeur :
Rosenberg & Sellier
Parution :
2025-11-24
Collection :
Terreni di confronto
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This groundbreaking book shines a light on a critical gap in the field of Business and Human Rights: the underrepresentation of women from peripheral countries. It begins by exploring how gender perspectives have shaped the development of this field—highlighting...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-11-23
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This volume examines the use of artificial intelligence (AI) surveillance tools, such as closed-circuit television (CCTV), facial recognition, and license plate readers, across Africa. Although governments claim these technologies combat cybercrime and terrorism, the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-11-22
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This book is widely regarded as a seminal work in the field of Chinese sociology, dating back to the 1930s.The central argument posited in the text is that the only means through which China could surmount its challenging circumstances of the time and enhance the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-11-21
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This book provides an in-depth exploration of the evolving trends in South-South international migration to the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. It presents a comprehensive analysis of migration dynamics from the perspectives of nationals, non-nationals,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-11-21
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This volume is the first of the proceedings of the Twelfth International Congress of Coptic Studies, organised by the IACS and held at the Université libre de Bruxelles from 11 to 16 July 2022. It compiles the reports presented during the plenary sessions of the event....
Editeur :
Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes
Parution :
2025-11-20
Collection :
Bibliothèque d’Histoire des Textes
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One of a series of titles on the Futures of Asia, “Future of Media in Asia” explores diverse facets of Asia's media landscape during the transformative 2020s, offering insights into pivotal transformations and potential trajectories. The covered topics...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-11-19
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This book systematically reviews the over 100-year history of Shanghai's trade, tells the legend of Shanghai's century-old trade, summarizes the development of Shanghai's trade, extracts its trade characteristics, and promotes the urban spirit of Shanghai.
This...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-11-19
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A powerful memoir of a woman plunged into fraudulent debt that explores America’s broken student loan system and illuminates the ways that debt shapes every aspect of our lives. At 22 years old, Kristin Collier was on the verge of college graduation, applying for...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2025-11-18
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This book explores the development process of the agricultural areas in the central plains of China under rapid urbanization, especially the changes in the daily lives of rural residents. Taking the Jianghan Plain as the study case, this book summarizes the rural...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-11-17
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