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The winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics upend the most common assumptions about how economics works in this gripping and disruptive portrait of how poor people actually live. Why do the poor borrow to save? Why do they miss out on free life-saving immunizations,...
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PublicAffairs
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2025-09-16
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Beautiful and strange, ancient monuments have long captured our attention and curiosity. We stand in awe before them, asking who created the Uffington White Horse - and why? What was it like to live in the shadow of Hadrian's Wall? What stories would the towering...
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Headline
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2025-09-11
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With "Discourse: Event: Practice" the author presents a dynamic theoretical program for a discourse-theoretically informed sociology of practice oriented toward the concept of the event. She outlines the sociological relationship between the concepts of discourse,...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-09-11
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Betrachten Sie die Gesellschaft mit ganz neuen Augen Dieses Buch bietet einen Einblick in die Soziologie, ihre Theorien und Methoden. Rudolf Richter erklärt, wie die Soziologie Individuen und ihre Beziehungen zueinander betrachtet, und zeigt auf, wie Gewohnheiten und...
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Wiley-VCH
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2025-09-11
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Für Dummies
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This is an open access book.
2025 9th International Seminar on Education, Management and Social Sciences (ISEMSS 2025) aims to bring together scholars, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers from across the globe to engage in insightful discussions and...
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Atlantis Press
Parution :
2025-09-10
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It’s August 2015. After twenty-five years of archaeological research in a secluded cave overlooking the Rhône Valley in southern France, Ludovic Slimak uncovers the remains of a Neanderthal, frozen in time – a discovery that casts fresh light on a critical turning point...
Editeur :
Polity
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2025-09-10
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Master the critical tools for understanding media in today’s fast-evolving digital landscape Critical Media Studies: An Introduction for the Digital Age provides students with a powerful framework for analyzing the impact of media on knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors....
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2025-09-10
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Highly Commended - BMA Medical Awards 2015: Health and Social Care The fully revised edition of this highly respected textbook addresses the most important theoretical and empirical debates in the sociology of health and medicine. Chapter by chapter the book examines...
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Polity
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2025-09-04
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This revised edition of Patrick Baert's widely acclaimed Social Theory in the Twentieth Century, now benefitting from the collaboration of Filipe Carreira da Silva has been brought right up-to-date with cutting-edge developments in social theory today. It offers an...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2025-09-04
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Exploring Data: An Introduction to Data Analysis for Social Scientists, 2nd Edition The updated edition of this classic text introduces a range of techniques for exploring quantitative data. Beginning with an emphasis on descriptive statistics and graphical approaches,...
Editeur :
Polity
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2025-09-04
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Tommaso Venturini and Richard Rogers offer a critical and conceptual introduction to digital methods. In a direct and accessible way, the authors provide hands-on advice to equip readers with the knowledge they need to understand which digital methods are best suited to...
Editeur :
Polity
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2025-09-04
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When most people hear the word 'witch', they immediately think of crones conspiring over a cauldron, a force of dark and vindictive power. But to hundreds of thousands across the world, being a witch is a living, everyday reality, much more varied than the fairytale...
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Polity
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2025-09-04
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The Sociology of Work, 4th Edition This leading, authoritative textbook has been carefully and substantially revised to provide the indispensable foundational resource for the sociology of work.The fourth edition has been transformed to combine unrivalled explanations...
Editeur :
Polity
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2025-09-04
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We live in an era of existential risk, facing multiple threats to the survival of our species.We also face an epidemic of existential anxiety, struggling to find meaning and purpose in a complex and dehumanizing world. In such times, hope can be hard to find. Yet, we...
Editeur :
Polity
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2025-09-03
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This book advances the understanding and process of community participation in cultural heritage management within the Chinese context of rapidly urbanising development. Results show that Chinese community participation in cultural heritage management has yet to find a...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-09-01
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“Evolution is by choice”. This is not a passive truth, but a conscious commitment, one that lies at the heart of what I call the Advanced City. Coined and thoroughly introduced here in the book, this new concept is based on people-centric and...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-09-01
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This open access book mainly focuses on Northeast China, which historically included Heilongjiang Province, Jilin Province, Liaoning Province, and the eastern part of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.This area borders Mongolia to the west, the ocean to the south, the...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-09-01
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This open access book delves into Japan's humanitarian aid efforts in Myanmar following the military coup of February 2021. As Myanmar faces political upheaval and growing humanitarian challenges, Japan's response has been notable, yet intricate, maneuvering through...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-09-01
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This book explores the complex aftermath and socio-demographic effects of COVID-19 on indigenous people in Indonesia. As a vulnerable group facing multiple problems relating to marginalization, poverty, and lack of access to public facilities, Indigenous communities...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-08-31
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