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This volume presents psychobiographical research in non-WEIRD—Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic—contexts and samples, focusing on culture, transcultural and transdisciplinary work. It creates a platform for researchers, scholars and scientists from...
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Springer
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2023-05-27
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This is an open access book.According to Castells, power now rests in networks: “the logic of the network is more powerful than the powers of the network” (quoted in Weber, 2002, p. 104) – it is whether nation states or local communities are deeply affected, especially...
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Atlantis Press
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2023-05-27
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Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
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Was hat die „Tropenmedizin" im „Globalen Norden" zu suchen?Was kann eine Universität, ein „Tropeninstitut", im „Globalen Norden" zur Verbesserung der Gesundheitssituation im „Globalen Süden" beitragen? Die Antwort: „Tropenmedizin" muss sich zu „Globaler Medizin" hin...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2023-05-26
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In times of entrenched social upheaval and multiple crises, we need the kind of social theory that is prepared to look at the big picture, analyze the broad developmental features of modern societies, their structural conditions and dynamics, and point to possible ways...
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Polity
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2023-05-25
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This book on systematic social observation (SSO) methodology provides detailed, step-by-step guidance for researchers on using the method. It identifies varieties of approaches and uses of SSO, the different steps used when performing SSO, and the benefits and...
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Springer
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2023-05-25
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SpringerBriefs in Criminology
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This book investigates perceptions against the people of north-east India, and why such prejudicial attitude exists. It subsequently quantifies and develops measures to counter such stereotypes and affiliated violence.
This research examines the north-east Indian...
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Springer
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2023-05-25
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For several decades, wealthy states, international development agencies and multinational corporations have encouraged labour migration from the Global South to the Global North. As well as providing essential workers to support the transformation of advanced economies,...
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Polity
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2023-05-25
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'A beautiful, deeply affecting and powerful marriage between art and activism' - KHALED HOSSEINI, bestselling author of The Kite Runner'These are vital conversations. Everyone should eavesdrop on them'- KAMILA SHAMSIE, author of award-winning bestseller Home...
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Headline Welbeck Non-Fiction
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2023-05-25
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Spinster. Cougar. Carer. Matron. Wife.A rich, provocative and entertaining history of women's words - of the language we have, and haven't, had to share our livesSpecial commendation from the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize'A gem of a book' KATE MOSSE'[A] thoughtful,...
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Virago
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2023-05-25
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Dilly's Story
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This book is an examination of how American mass media, including advertising, presents Otherness – anyone or anything constructed as different from an established norm – in terms of gender, race, sex, disabilities, and other markers of difference. Using a mythological...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-05-24
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This book provides a basic understanding and state-of-the-art of urban metabolism. Urban centres are increasingly challenged by population increase and the resultant environmental concerns including the urban sprawl and climate change. Different patterns of...
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Springer
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2023-05-23
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If you are reading this journal, please stop - right now. It's mine, meant for my eyes alone. I'm constantly losing my things, and I don't care if you found it in a second-hand bookstore or a tea shop, because this is a private notebook. My travels around India,...
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Hachette India
Parution :
2023-05-22
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What does it mean to be gayfriendly? Having gay friends, supporting gay marriage, remaining unfazed when one’s son or daughter comes out? Going to gay bars or questioning one’s own sexual orientation? There is no single model of ‘gayfriendliness’, but rather...
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Polity
Parution :
2023-05-22
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This book examines the “ethics in relation to city and urbanism” by evaluating the strengths and limitations of rights as a conceptual tool from the comparative East–West perspective in resolving urban controversies (involving conflicts of rights between different...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-05-20
Collection :
Governance and Citizenship in Asia
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This book addresses the identification and classification of knowledge acquired through experience that results from engaging in professional activities within the software industry. As a result of this study, the book presents an ontology of such professional...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-05-19
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The Fashioned Body provides a wide-ranging and original overview of fashion and dress from an historical and sociological perspective. Where once fashion was seen as marginal, it has now entered into core economic discourse focused around ideas about 'cultural' and...
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Polity
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2023-05-19
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Der Strafvollzug hat das Ziel, die Gefangenen zu einem Leben in sozialer Verantwortung ohne Straftaten zu befähigen. Er soll so auf die Inhaftierten einwirken, dass sie nach der Entlassung keine Straftaten mehr begehen. Behandlungsmaßnahmen dienen diesem Zweck. Dem...
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Springer
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2023-05-18
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Edition Forschung und Entwicklung in der Strafrechtspflege
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The book is addressed to scholars and students in sociology and in phenomenological philosophy. It presents the work of Durkheim in a new light and discusses the prevailing interpretations in the collective intentionality approach. It also provides a fresh conception of...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-05-17
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Sociology
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This book provides a unique perspective on contemporary German and Chinese cultural encounters. Moving away from highlighting exchanges between the two countries in terms of colonial connections, religious influences and philosophical impacts, the book instead focuses...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-05-16
Collection :
Global Germany in Transnational Dialogues
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This is the first collection of readings on computer-mediated communication focusing exclusively on interpersonal interactions. Examining messages exchanged via email, Twitter, Facebook, websites, and blogs, the authors analyze communication issues of ongoing importance...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-05-16
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