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The anthology presents the social consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic in the field of work and gainful employment from a multidisciplinary perspective of social and economic sciences. Specifically, it deals with the analysis of changes in work processes and relations...
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Springer
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2023-07-27
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This book offers a completely new approach to the complex social phenomenon of the Mafia: In addition to the origins, organization and actions of the Mafia, the author Anita Bestler examines above all the close connection between organized crime and politics. In...
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Springer
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2023-07-27
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Despite the significance of urban justice in planning research and practice, how just societies and cities can be organised and achieved remains contested. Spatial justice provides an integrative and unifying theory concerning place, policies, people and their...
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Springer
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2023-07-25
Collection :
The Urban Book Series
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This book offers insight into the relationship between prehistoric and protohistoric human populations and the world around them. It reconstructs key aspects of the palaeoenvironment – from large-scale drivers of environmental conditions, such as climate, to more...
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Springer
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2023-07-25
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Themes in Contemporary Archaeology
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This book is about the social protection of lower-skilled migrants from Sri Lanka. It reasons out the importance of protecting Sri Lankan migrant workers considering the significant economic contribution of lower-skilled migrant workers and their higher level of...
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Springer
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2023-07-25
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Contemporary South Asian Studies
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This concise book examines the decline and erosion of UMNO as a dominant political party of Malaysia through the perspective of Ibn Khaldun's theory of asabiyyah and umran. It uses the qualitative method of data collection from Ibn Khaldun's original works. After...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-07-25
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SpringerBriefs in Political Science
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This book studies children's wellbeing from the perspective of Ethiopian immigrant families in Israel. It examines how the meeting of cultures within families affects relationships, language acquisition and the transmission of cultural heritage across generations after...
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Springer
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2023-07-24
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Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and Research
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“He who ruled scent ruled the hearts of men.”
Patrick Süskind, Perfume.
The manufacturing secrets of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, the hero of Süskind’s novel, have been forgotten. Or nearly forgotten. Master perfumer Septimus Piesse (1820-1882) was one of the last to...
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Max Milo Editions
Parution :
2023-07-23
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This book offers in-depth ethnographic analyses of key informants’ interviews on the ecological urbanism and ecosystem services (ES) of selected green infrastructure (GI) in Yoruba cities of Ile-Ife, Ibadan, Osogbo, Lagos, Abeokuta, Akure, Ondo, among others in...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-07-22
Collection :
Cities and Nature
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A student union recently estimated that “40,000 students are now prostitutes in France.” The primary cause is the growing precariousness and high cost of student life. This study, carried out in 2006-2007, is a vivid description of the novelty of this form of...
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Max Milo Editions
Parution :
2023-07-21
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For the first time, a collection of testimonials gives voice to the children of lesbian couples. Sixteen of them answer the questions many people ask: does living without a father pose a problem? Do children of gay couples necessarily become gay or lesbian? Do their...
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Max Milo Editions
Parution :
2023-07-21
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'I wish it was science fiction, but I know it's not' Jaan Tallinn, co-founder of Skype'If you read just one book that makes you confront scary high-tech realities that we'll soon have no choice but to address, make it this one' Washington Post'The best book yet written...
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Quercus
Parution :
2023-07-20
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This book critically examines why a human rights framework would improve the wellbeing and status of young people. It explores children’s rights to provision, protection, and participation from human rights and clinical sociological perspectives, and from historical to...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-07-19
Collection :
Clinical Sociology: Research and Practice
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"Supported by ample data and suffused with anger,” an award-winning journalist “convincingly recasts this country’s maternal health care system as needlessly dehumanizing” (New York Times Book Review). Modern medicine should make pregnancy...
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Seal Press
Parution :
2023-07-18
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This book contains contributions from diverse perspectives and traditions that focus on reflections and happiness practices. It addresses diversity in happiness and eastern and western thoughts and practices by contributing authors from around the world from varied...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-07-18
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Ce numéro thématique des cahiers L'Ouest saharien présente des recherches récentes en sciences humaines et sociales sur les diasporas sahariennes et sahéliennes installées en Europe. Il aborde la migration et l'exil en interrogeant les logiques liées à l'autodésignation...
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Editions L'Harmattan
Parution :
2023-07-18
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While several atlases of Ancient Egypt exist, no atlas of contemporary Egypt has yet been published. Thus, this work fills a void and offers the general public an illustrated panorama of Egypt at the beginning of the 21st century. Through the contributions of some fifty...
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CNRS Éditions via OpenEdition
Parution :
2023-07-17
Collection :
HORS COLLECTION
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Winner of the 2025 Kyoto Prize for Arts and PhilosophyCarol Gilligan's landmark book In a Different Voice – the "little book that started a revolution" – brought women's voices to the fore in work on the self and moral development, enabling women to be heard in their...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2023-07-17
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This book tells the story of women in archaeology worldwide and their dedication to advancing knowledge and human understanding. In their own voices, they present themselves as archaeologists working in academia or the private and public sector across 33 countries. The...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-07-12
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An indictment of America's housing policy that reveals the social engineering underlying our segregation by economic class, the social and political fallout that result, and what we can do about it The last, acceptable form of prejudice in America is based on class...
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PublicAffairs
Parution :
2023-07-11
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