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This book gives a unique description of urban geography of Europe and specifically, Southern Europe, and provides a fine guide to urban complexity and resilience in the light of metropolitan sustainability. Sprawl is a multifaceted phenomenon that needs to be quantified...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-03-16
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This book aims to foster interdisciplinary research among industry and academic participants and form long-term strategic links. It provides a presentation of new knowledge and development through the exchange of practical experience between industry, scientific...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-03-15
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From the vantage point of rural grandparents’ mediated structure of feelings, this book explores changing family intimacy and dynamics in contemporary rural China in relation to media. Based on a 10-month ethnography involving 18 rural families (live-in studies with...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-03-15
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This volume consolidates chapters from across Southeast Asia as a means of discussing alternative development pathways. It presents radical re-imaginings of how development might look, considered alongside the growing disillusionment over mainstream development models....
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Springer
Parution :
2025-03-15
Collection :
Asia in Transition
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This book is the first of a series of five volumes that analyze and denounce the gender inequalities and violence faced by Latin American female social scientists in academic settings. The five volumes will present and discuss the results of an ethnographic research...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-03-14
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This brief examines Canadian police incident command response teams’ process of decision-making during major, critical, and public order events. It explores the different factors that influence how police Incident Commanders (ICs) approach their work, and...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-03-14
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Criminology
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This book discusses how rural built heritage preservation and development in the Chinese ethnic area in Tongren, China has been strongly addressed by the labeling, planning, project-making, follow-up management characterized by different patterns of stakeholders....
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Springer
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2025-03-13
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Tangotanzen ist weltweit in Mode gekommen – eine Erfolgsstory mit vielen Gesichtern. Ökonomische, historische und politische Aspekte spielen eine große Rolle, ebenso Sinnlichkeit und Emotionalität, wie dieses Buch am Beispiel der Tangoszenen von...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2025-03-13
Collection :
Geschlecht und Gesellschaft
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This book introduces a pathbreaking approach called ‘Avoidable Disaster Deaths’ (ADD) to reduce disaster deaths.
Disaster deaths are the direct and indirect impact of hazards. The ‘Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction’ has urged the...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-03-13
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This is anthology brings together scholarly studies, creative writing, and images to critically discuss, question, and celebrate spirituality and religion from a queer perspective. The chapters closely analyse religious practices, scriptures, and institutions from a...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2025-03-13
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This book is your key to unlocking the power of data in research, decision-making, and policy formulation.This comprehensive guide will equip both beginners and experienced data collectors with essential skills, ethical insights, and the technological expertise needed...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2025-03-13
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The decline in Secular Western morality can only be halted and reversed by a full return to Christianity.Many people have a sense that the Western World is in decline and that our society is fragmenting around us. Many people have an ominous sense that we are living at...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2025-03-13
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Marketing involves a wide range of professions, activities and tools and it plays an increasingly important role in our lives. But what exactly is marketing and how did it come to assume such importance? Who are the marketing professionals, what exactly do they do and...
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Polity
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2025-03-13
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There is a clear and pressing need for collective action to develop alternative approaches to the way we organize our activities. This necessity implies the development of a robust theory that outlines a potential, attainable, and desirable future, which is embedded in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-03-13
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This book was the winner of the 2022 Peter Lang Emerging Scholars Competition in Media & Communication.
Thailand, the "land of smiles," is often seen as a "gay paradise." But how does Thai culture understand sexuality?This book moves beyond Western frameworks to explore...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2025-03-13
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With crime of heightened concern in the country's largest cities, Peter Moskos brings readers behind the Blue Wall of the NYPD, offering insight into policing solutions directly from the law enforcement officers who went to war against crime in New York in the 1990s,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-03-12
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Theological Hermeneutics and Daly's verification process offers an original overview of Mary Daly’s inputs to the theological hermeneutics from the feminist perspective. In the context of multiple theological methodologies and a growing interest for gender and feminist...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-03-12
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Im Zentrum dieser Arbeit steht die Frage, wie Mitglieder von sozialen Gruppen auf die Nachrichtenberichterstattung zu einem Thema reagieren, welches für ihre soziale Gruppe relevant ist. Mit der Zielsetzung, die Rolle der sozialen Identität für die feindlich-verzerrte...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2025-03-12
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The long history of how restricting access to abortion has been used to curtail women’s advancement Attitudes about abortion cycle between long periods of widespread tolerance, to repression, and back again. What accounts for these pendulum swings? From ancient...
Editeur :
Seal Press
Parution :
2025-03-11
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An investigation that shows how the most ambitious figures in the Democratic Party want to transform the rest of America into the progressive dystopia that is California. Take a close look at today’s Democratic Party power brokers and you’ll quickly realize...
Editeur :
Center Street
Parution :
2025-03-11
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