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A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice | A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year | Finalist for the 2024 Biographers International Plutarch Award | Longlisted for the 2023 California Book Awards | Shortlisted for the William Saroyan...
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Little, Brown and Company
Parution :
2023-09-26
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This book delves into a multitude of practices that, although deemed “lawful” by courts, are undeniably “awful” and unethical. From police officers employing deceit to extract confessions or consent to search, to prosecutors manipulating innocent individuals to...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-09-26
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This book consists of some selected papers presented at the 4th cultural DNA workshop. The papers include topics from three different perspectives: insightful analysis, intelligent synthesis and cutting-edge tools to better understand cultural DNA.It is this...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-09-25
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In this book, the authors present a combination of research-by-design, place-based, and policy-oriented approaches to the territorial fragilities of Nicosia. Nicosia, in Cyprus, is a city divided. Since 1974, a 180 km long Buffer Zone has separated the Turkish...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-09-25
Collection :
Research for Development
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This book provides a picture of the abuse of older adults, organized by World Health Region and locating the problem within an area’s historic and present societal treatment of older persons. An actual and emblematic case study of the abuse of an older adult frames each...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-09-25
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Communicating Fatherhood is the first text to focus squarely on communication by and about fathers. This highly readable collection features an engaging mix of research chapters, personal reflections, and rich qualitative explorations of fatherhood as it is depicted in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-09-25
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This book provides a range of detailed solutions to issues in police education and training by bringing awareness to pedagogies that can improve the application of theory into police practice and encourage police problem solving skills. The chapters dedicated to each of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-09-25
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Criminology
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This book examines the police response to the terrorist attacks in case studies that occurred in Mumbai (2008), Paris (2015), Brussels (2016) and Manchester (2017). The methodological approach to the case studies is comparative and features an interactive framework that...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-09-25
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Kein anderes Land wird die Welt und vermutlich auch Deutschland in den nächsten Jahrzehnten so sehr prägen wie China. Ob wir es wollen oder nicht, die wirtschaftliche, gesellschaftliche und ökologische Zukunft unseres Planeten wird zu einem großen Teil durch...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-09-24
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This book presents concise summaries of cutting-edge research and practical applications across the fields of physical, environmental, and human geography. It publishes compact refereed monographs under the editorial supervision of an international advisory board with...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-09-22
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Geography
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Cultural understandings of soil are diverse and often ambiguous.Cultural framing of soils is common worldwide and is highly consequential. The implications of what place the earth has in people's world view and everyday life can be in line with or in conflict with...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-09-22
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This book shows an updated overview of research about human geography topics like urban growth/urban challenges, transportation, landscape, land cover, geospatial analysis, regional planning/local development, cultural geography, tourism, and so on. Between 2020 and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-09-22
Collection :
Key Challenges in Geography
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This book explores various aspects related to human longevity and aging beyond 100 years old. It examines all domains of health and well-being of this elite group including the current demographics, genetics and epigenetics of exceptional longevity, cardiovascular risk...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-09-21
Collection :
International Perspectives on Aging
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This book describes how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the way of work, the division of household labor, and family formation in Japan. One of the characteristics of Japanese employment practices is a stable employer–employment relationship and seniority-based wage...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-09-21
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Population Studies
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Provides fresh perspectives on the past, present and future-facing contributions of the anthropology of reproduction. A Companion to the Anthropology of Reproductive Medicine and Technology provides a timely and comprehensive overview of the anthropological study of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2023-09-20
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
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This book discusses the development of the rural tourism industry in the Himalayan region, specifically in the region of Himachal Pradesh (HP), from the perspective of different stakeholders in the tourism industry. It examines the current status and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-09-19
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A frank, feminist examination of the hidden crisis of rage facing American mothers—and how we can fix it Mothers aren’t supposed to be angry. Still, Minna Dubin was an angry mom: exhausted by the grueling, thankless work of full-time parenting and...
Editeur :
Seal Press
Parution :
2023-09-19
ePub
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The entrepreneurial family has hardly been a topic of family sociology so far. Precisely because more than two-thirds of all companies are family-run, it is surprising that sociology has not yet discovered the entrepreneurial family as a field of research. With this...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-09-19
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This book seeks to contribute to the analysis of the serious violations of human rights in Mexico during the processes of democratic transition and the "War on Drugs" by taking bodies and territories as archives of the crimes committed by the Mexican State in the last...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-09-18
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This book offers a comprehensive overview of forces shaping urban renewal and the sustainable and inclusive transformation of contemporary cities. It discusses temporariness and uncertainty of citizenship, participation, and inclusion, as well as the energy and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-09-16
Collection :
The City Project
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