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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...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
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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This open access book investigates from a life-course perspective the individualization process and the challenges faced by young adults in post-collectivist China, where people are enjoined to "liberate" (jiefang) their individual capacities, to "rely on themselves"...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-05-28
Collection :
Life Course Research and Social Policies
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The climate is changing faster than our cultural practices are adapting to it. This Open Access volume, co-edited by Emily Coren (a science communicator) and Hua Wang (a communication scientist), presents a survey of the latest in agency-focused climate storytelling....
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Springer
Parution :
2024-05-27
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This book investigates both early as well as recent accounts of journeys by women and families in African, Asian, East European, North and Latin American contexts. It discusses how places, place settings and transport routes, whether by land, sea, or air, were and...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-05-27
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This book characterizes a type of city, i.e. the metropolis, by using characteristics which have very little to do with its size. It distinguishes between metropolises and megacities and defines these different characteristics by bringing together elements related to...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-05-27
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This is an open access book.
2024 International Conference on Applied Economics, Management Science and Social Development (AEMSS 2024) will be held in Luoyang, China during March 22-24, 2024. The conference mainly focuses on research fields such as applied economics,...
Editeur :
Atlantis Press
Parution :
2024-05-27
Collection :
Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research
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This book investigates the integration of Syrian refugees in the United States, and it identifies the challenges that hinder their successful integration. After providing a comprehensive analysis of the U.S. legal instruments in national and international laws and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-05-26
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This book explores the interwoven nature of place, Catholicism and violence in Caracas’ barrios. Using interdisciplinary perspectives to investigate themes of urban space, meaning as a psychosocial construct, criminal violence, and religiosity as culture, this book...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-05-26
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Written by experienced authors and teachers with examining experience, this book will support you through the A-level course and offers high-quality support you can trust.?Provides comprehensive coverage of all the key theory for A-level?Knowledge, understanding and...
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Illuminate Publishing
Parution :
2024-05-24
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This book brings together anthropological and historical studies that analyze burial rituals within the Caribbean through the theoretical lens of syncretism and the hybridization of post-colonial and contemporary time periods. Based on oral historiography, historical...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-05-23
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The book provides a comprehensive overview of research and concepts related to shame and ageing, in the context of social change, upheavals and paradigm shifts, from transdisciplinary, cultural and transcultural perspectives. Drawing upon the editors' previous works on...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-05-23
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This Student Book is designe to be used in conjunction with the AQA Media Studies for A-level Student Book, which focuses on the theoretical concepts you need to learn and apply. Each case study offers:?Links to relevant chapters of the Student Book, to connect the CSPs...
Editeur :
Illuminate Publishing
Parution :
2024-05-23
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This book is moved by two main questions. Is Love a matter of beauty or mortality? In other words, is love an ethical ideal? Also, modernity understood as the age of mechanical reproduction, has shaped not simply our cities but our very same way of feeling. How has our...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-05-23
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This book describes the journey concept relating to cultural and social history of Western and non-Western worlds. By including time journeys negotiated by women, racial minorities, artists, and scholars from the humanities and social, natural and physical scientists,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-05-23
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This book explores journeys in a time context with a focus on places, place meanings, and landscapes. Whether the journey relates to ancient or modern trails, roads, or railroads, or a historical or contemporary pilgrimage or a tourist venture in social contexts, the...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-05-23
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This book provides insight into the importance of place and place settings in personal journeys. It explores the worlds of time journeys in different contexts: daily work, community livelihoods, rural-urban migration, disease outbreaks and controls, cruise ship tours,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-05-23
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This volume discusses the intersections of multiple human journeys and the importance of places and place settings, such as battlefield re-enactments, heritage fairs, pilgrimage sites and faith journeys. The chapters in this book describe among others racial history...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-05-23
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This book examines contemporary migratory movements, starting from the European zone, but with an extension to other territorial contexts as well, with research orientation that focuses on the account of the migratory experiences collected in the research activity of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-05-21
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Meditations on Resistance explores various academic fields, such as education, media studies, cultural studies, law, psychology, and philosophy. Through a transdisciplinary approach, it harnesses a wide range of theories and ideas to delve into inquiries concerning the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-05-21
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