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A wide-ranging and accessible introduction to the origins and histories of the first agricultural populations in many different parts of the world This fully revised and updated second edition of First Farmers examines the origins of food production across the world and...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2022-12-23
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Marek Thee was a Jewish Polish journalist, scholar, and activist. This book tells his life from narrowly escaping death in the Holocaust to exile in Palestine, where he became attached to the Polish consular service. On his return to Poland in 1950, he worked for the...
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Springer
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2022-12-21
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This open access book explores the past and present of Quanzhou (Zayton) and the rich diversity and tolerance that kindled Quanzhou’s innovativeness and helped it prosper both commercially and culturally—values that are today being embraced by China’s global trade...
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Springer
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2022-12-21
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The new edition of the most comprehensive, practical, and user-friendly guide of its kind, providing quick reference to the information needed by archaeologists doing fieldwork The Archaeologist's Fieldwork Guide is the must-have companion for anyone planning and...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2022-12-16
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This brief examines proactive steps police can take to lessen the potential for disaster, improve preparedness for disasters that do occur and enhance our ability to respond to and recover from them. Featuring several countries across the globe as case studies, it...
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Springer
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2022-12-16
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Building on three decades of comparative research on marginality, ethnicity, and penality in the postindustrial metropolis, Loïc Wacquant offers a novel interpretation of Pierre Bourdieu as urban theorist. He invites us to explore the city through what he calls the...
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Polity
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2022-12-16
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This book assesses Ecological Migration and Precision Poverty Alleviation Measures, based on research conducted in Ningxia. “Resettling residents currently living in poor areas” is an important measure for “precise poverty alleviation.” China’s central government has...
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Springer
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2022-12-14
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Che cos’è davvero la cancel culture? Quali sono le origini di quest’espressione, ormai diffusissima, e quali le sue caratteristiche? Dove e come è nata, e cosa è successo quando è arrivata in Italia? Il volume prova a rispondere a queste domande, illustrando il modo in...
Editeur :
Rosenberg & Sellier
Parution :
2022-12-14
Collection :
Questioni di genere
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This concise volume provides a methodology for conducting investigations into allegations against law-enforcement officers. It takes into account the history of police culture, misconduct, and internal affairs investigations. Identifying three types of cases -...
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Springer
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2022-12-13
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«A significant and astute contribution whose insights across film studies, philosophy, and feminism demonstrate the ongoing relevance of Left Bank filmmakers Varda, Resnais and Marker.»
(Steven Ungar, Professor Emeritus, Department of Cinematic Arts,
University of...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-12-12
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This open access book focuses on climate change, Indigenous reindeer husbandry, and the underlying concept of connecting the traditional knowledge of Indigenous reindeer herders in the Arctic with the latest research findings of the world’s leading...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-12-09
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«The Scandinavian Invasion offers an important and timely interrogation of Nordic Noir. Putting the concept under a microscope in a series of diverse chapters, it reveals that Nordic Noir is still teeming with vigorous life as it has emerged, proliferated and travelled...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-12-08
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This book provides deep insights into the wide-ranging issues linked to gender, law, and social transformation in India. It focuses on women-centered laws as well as the violence of unequal and discriminatory social order. It emphasizes violence and the neutrality...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-12-07
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A response of the engineering profession to the challenges of security, poverty and under-development, and environmental sustainability is described. Ethical codes, which govern the behavior of engineers, are examined from a historical perspective linking the prevailing...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-12-06
Collection :
Synthesis Lectures on Engineers, Technology, & Society
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This book examines the rural transition and transportation in China. It covers demographic change, settlement transformation, and infrastructure development in rural areas, as well as changes in transportation expenditures, travel behavior, and accessibility of basic...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-12-05
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Individuals experience a variety of different events throughout their life-course – birth, marriage, change of employment, school graduation, etc. – which sometimes occur in rapid succession, and whose timing and definition may seem unclear. Now that survey...
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Ined Éditions via OpenEdition
Parution :
2022-12-05
Collection :
Méthodes et Savoirs
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This book summarizes work being undertaken within the School Activates Resources—stitching the lost heritage of the suburbs (ScAR) project, which addressed cultural heritage in a broad sense, as a system of values identified by the populations and in constant evolution....
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Springer
Parution :
2022-12-01
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The public space of democracies is constructed in a context that is marked by the digital transformation of the economy and society. This construction is carried out primarily through deliberation. Deliberation informs and guides both individual and collective action....
Editeur :
Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2022-12-01
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