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This book presents a critical vision of the role of architecture and design in constantly changing cities, territories and societies from a Latin American perspective. Topics include, pandemic and post-pandemic; public culture and aesthetics; right to housing, city and...
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Springer
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2025-03-11
Collection :
Springer Geography
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This book investigates age categorizations and stereotyping in job interviews by drawing on a multimodal discourse analytical approach. While previous research on ageism has focused on what happens before or after the job interview, there is substantial evidence...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-03-11
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This short Pivot explores the the physical, emotional, and psychological impact of the lived experiences of asylum seekers on the staff and volunteers of third sector organisations who assist and support them.This research casts a direct light on the issues, challenges,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-03-10
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This book focuses on exploring the dynamics of brands and branding in relation to individual consumers and societal members’ behaviour. The term consumerism is often used in two different contexts which are: (1) the dynamics of consumption that delineate consumers and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-03-10
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This volume applies libertarian philosophy and free-market economic theory to both literature and media, from early modern drama to novels to comic books, cinema, and television series. Several chapters contrast capitalism with statism, focusing on the market economy...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-03-10
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This book explores the idea that the extreme criminal action that constitutes femicide must be explored not in isolation, but in the context of gender cruelty and misogyny in society. It focuses on the island of Puerto Rico as a case study. The chapters cover topics...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-03-08
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The open access volume stems from a conference held during the Indian G20 Presidency in New Delhi on 28-29 July 2023, featuring 40 leading experts from 14 countries across the world. It addresses issues, such as climate adaptation, global health, technology, and...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-03-07
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Accusations of racism by both the progressive left and populist right have become increasingly politicized in this age of rupture. Rethinking Racism captures this moment and movement, in which the concept of racism is evolving in response to shifting discourses and...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2025-03-07
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A pioneering sociological exploration of boredom as a culturally- and socially-dependent emotion Does boredom have a history? What can hunter-gatherers teach us about boredom? Is boredom experienced differently by those in different socio-economic classes? Is boredom a...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2025-03-07
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This book presents a collection of research papers and case studies from leading experts in the field.This proceedings book explores innovative approaches to addressing environmental challenges in urban settings through the integration of technology and sustainability....
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-03-06
Collection :
Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation
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This open access edited volume addresses the multi-layered relations between migration, transnational flows, and the contested meanings of race in Asia. It tries to answer the following questions: how do migration and transnational flows from the Western world impact...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-03-06
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The volume examines urbanization and migration trends and their patterns in the light of India's emerging urban policy, planning and governance perspectives. It sheds light on the differences in urbanization between developed and less developed parts of the world, with...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-03-06
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Abrechnung – ein Begriff, der einen schonungslosen Blick erwarten lässt. Als Leitgedanke soll in diesem Buch eher mit dem Begriff gespielt werden. Der kalkulatorische Blick nimmt, wenn es um die Erklärung unseres Verhaltens geht, eine wichtige Rolle ein: Was bringt es?...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-03-06
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Part of the Performing Landscapes series, Performing Homescapes is an edited collection comprising a contemporary exploration of performing many iterations of landscapes of homes. Authors were invited to respond to a detailed brief with home to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-03-05
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This book provides a much-needed critical exploration of digital media interventions in Southeast Asia, while adopting a decolonial perspective to address issues such as digital inequality, mistrust, and the manipulation of digital spaces. By emphasizing State-society...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-03-04
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An “intimate and searching” (Natasha Trethewey, New York Times–bestselling author of Memorial Drive) memoir of family, color, and being Black, white, and other in America, from “one of our country’s greatest historians” (Clint...
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Basic Books
Parution :
2025-03-04
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A fun and fascinating social history of the famed Katharine Gibbs School, which from the 1910s to the 1960s, trained women for executive secretary positions but surreptitiously was instilling the self-confidence and strategic know-how necessary for them to claim...
Editeur :
Algonquin Books
Parution :
2025-03-04
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This book examines the role of the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) in public and scholarly discussions of the meaning of the Anthropocene proposal. The status of the Anthropocene, both as a geoscientific concept and as a cultural concept becoming increasingly familiar...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-03-03
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This open access edited volume focuses on fairness issues concerning the use of artificial intelligence (AI) for social service provision in national welfare systems. With this, it touches upon important questions in the innovation agenda of countries across continents...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-03-03
Collection :
Artificial Intelligence, Simulation and Society
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This volume explores contemporary caste dynamics in India, combining theoretical insights with rich empirical evidence. It offers an insightful examination of how caste practices, particularly concerning marginalized communities or Dalits, have transformed over the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-03-02
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