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This book highlights how horror in film and television creates platforms to address distinct areas of modern-day concern. In examining the prevalence of dark tropes in contemporary horror films such as Get Out, Annabelle: Creation, A Quiet...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-09-15
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Compiling the best episodes of SAGE's 'Social Science Bites' podcast since its beginning in 2012, this pocket-sized volume is sure to inspire and provoke. With a foreword by David Edmonds, host of the podcast, this book will show you how social science can help to...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2023-09-14
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While many claim that being a mom is the most important job in the world, in reality motherhood in the United States is becoming harder. From preconception, through pregnancy, and while parenting, women are held to ever-higher standards and are finding themselves...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2023-09-14
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Cunning, monstrous, virtuous. Rediscover the overlooked women of Greek myth.Goddesses and mortals, warriors and muses, women are at the heart of ancient Greek folklore, but their stories have long been eclipsed by those of men. Heroines of Olympus tells the tales of...
Editeur :
Welbeck
Parution :
2023-09-14
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Seek the truth at the heart of the world's most bizarre cases in this chilling collection of unsolved mysteries Did you hear about the woman who died inside a tree? What about the legend of the Beast of Bodmin Moor? Do you know that UFOs flew over Belgium? Intriguing,...
Editeur :
Summersdale
Parution :
2023-09-14
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Volume III of Archerian Studies, which we now deliver to our readers, focuses on the question of culture. Despite the numerous motifs which were introduced to the discourse pertaining to Margaret S. Archer’s concept, we see that some repeat here constantly. We hope that...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-09-14
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This book tells the story of the Lebanese Shi’a and their development from a marginalized, discriminated minority to a highly politicized community that has given birth to Hezbollah, one of the most powerful paramilitary forces in the contemporary Middle East. It...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-09-13
Collection :
Muslims in Global Societies Series
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Ageing of the Oppressed: A Pandemic of Intersectional Injustice explores what it is like to grow older with accumulating and intersecting discrimination. It condemns ageism and other "isms." Despite its visibility during the COVID-19 pandemic, ageism is not a new...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-09-13
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This book reveals the history of the Vatican’s ethnographic collections by exploring the imperial, scientific, technological, and religious agendas behind its collecting and curating practices in the early twentieth century. It focuses on two principal contributors: the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-09-12
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The book explores largely overlooked areas of Silk Road studies by searching for multidisciplinary evidence on the connotations of Silk Road culture and by rewriting social complexities along the Silk Road in different historical periods. It investigates the impacts of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-09-11
Collection :
Silk Road Research Series
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Social media is replete with images of 'perfection'. But many are unrealistic and contribute to a pervasive sense of never being good enough: not thin enough; not pretty enough; not cool enough. Try too hard and you risk being condemned for being ‘attention-seeking’,...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2023-09-11
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There is, on the one hand, life that flows from a beginning to an end, and, on the other hand, life that constitutes human singularity because it can be recounted. We may term them “biological life” and “biographical life”. Life expectancy measures the length of the...
Editeur :
Collège de France
Parution :
2023-09-11
Collection :
Leçons inaugurales
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This research aims to uncover new insights into minority housing strategies and their impact on densely populated urban areas. The study assumes that as space becomes scarce, inter and intra groups interactions in the urban space motivate people to maximize the utility...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-09-09
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Geography
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This book offers a detailed narrative of Dalit migrants' everyday experience in urban areas with regard to the availability and accessibility of welfare services and state institutions. It discusses caste, specifically the identity of integration for Dalit migrants and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-09-09
Collection :
Springer Series in Social Work and Social Change
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This book offers a unique intersectional perspective on gender equality, SDG5. It presents an intersection of gender with caste, class, region, ethnic and sexual identities, and other structural drivers of inequalities in various development sectors. It presents case...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-09-08
Collection :
Sustainable Development Goals Series
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'A genius writer' FABULOUS MAGAZINE· Explore your sensuality· Discover your inner power· Reclaim your sexuality with this gentle and mind-opening journal by sexual priestess and activist Lucy-Anne Holmes.When Lucy-Anne Holmes was in her mid-thirties,...
Editeur :
Quercus
Parution :
2023-09-07
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With contributions from over 80 of the biggest names and rising stars of the field, this Handbook is an essential resource for anyone interested in the contemporary, emerging, and evolving practice of mixed methods research and scholarship. Exploring new and novel...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2023-09-06
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A bold argument that “equality” is a racist, patriarchal ideal that perpetuates women’s systemic oppression and limits the possibilities of feminism—with a plan to transform the movement For more than a century, women have fought for equality....
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2023-09-05
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This book provides an account of how local government units in the Philippines engage marginalized and geographically isolated communities in taking part in pre-disaster communication efforts. The book focuses on communities classified by the government as...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-09-04
Collection :
Communication, Culture and Change in Asia
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This book gathers the peer-reviewed papers presented at the 13th International Conference on Structural Analysis of Historical Constructions (SAHC), held in Kyoto, Japan, on September 12-15, 2023. It highlights the latest advances and innovations in the field...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-09-03
Collection :
RILEM Bookseries
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