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This is a historical and anthropological study of the myth of the werewolf aimed at reflecting on the metamorphoses of evil and understanding the long evolution of a mythical structure. Legends and folklore allow us to explore the brutal bestiality of a figure loaded...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-23
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Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
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This book uses Norbert Elias’s theory of the civilising process to provide a sociological and historical study of Portuguese bullfighting. Its aim is to understand how bullfighting is historically configured according to the transformations undergone by the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-23
Collection :
Palgrave Studies on Norbert Elias
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Sustainability, at its core, is the ability to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.This principle recognizes the interconnectedness of environmental, social, and...
Editeur :
Atlantis Press
Parution :
2024-12-23
Collection :
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
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This edited collection takes the prompt “hope in crisis” as a starting point for investigating sound research as it is situated in these troubling times. The book brings together thinkers from numerous scholarly domains (i.e. communication studies, art education,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-21
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This open access book develops a deeper understanding of an increasingly applied term across policy cycles and academic discourses, ‘energy citizenship’. It provides the reader with five distinct chapters, with each in turn examining a specific aspect of the concept and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-21
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This book explores the body as a vector for reading the rapid changes in contemporary Tunisia through questions of sexuality, forms of clothing, and the dynamics of gender relations. Grounded in 15 years of sociological empirical research on the post-revolutionary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-21
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This open access book is intended to provoke and progress new thinking in the field of energy research for policy makers, practitioners and scholars. By drawing on a broad range of social and innovation theory insights, this book showcases the diversity of energy...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-21
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This open access book explores China's unique path to modernization, highlighting its journey from ancient civilization to modern society. It examines China's efforts from the mid-19th century's internal and external struggles to its contemporary economic achievements....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-21
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This book is an excellent source of knowledge for readers interested in the latest developments in social network analysis and mining, particularly with applications in healthcare and anomaly detection. It covers topics such as sensitivity to noise in features,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-12-20
Collection :
Lecture Notes in Social Networks
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This book, “Theories and Practices in Tourism, Marketing and Management,” is a testament to rigorous scientific inquiry in the realm of tourism and hotel management. It serves as an essential reference for scholars and industry leaders engaged in cutting-edge research...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-12-20
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ICHESS started in 2018, the last five sessions of ICHESS have all been successfully published. ICHESS is to bring together innovative academics and industrial experts in the field of Humanities Education and Social Sciences to a common...
Editeur :
Atlantis Press
Parution :
2024-12-20
Collection :
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
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"This is an inconvenient book, to use Berlant’s term, bursting with generous readings of cultural and sociological criticism. Just what we need." - Yasmin Gunaratnam, Professor of Social Justice, Kings College London
"An essential reading for all in Higher Education....
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2024-12-19
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Die Arbeit von Anna Freytag setzt sich theoretisch mit dem Phänomen der gruppenbezogenen abwertenden Kommunikation auseinander.Die Kommunikationswissenschaft und andere Disziplinen haben sich in der Vergangenheit unter einer Vielzahl von Begriffen und aus...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2024-12-19
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The volume presents the most current empirical research in the field of Islamic religious education. Its findings are an important contribution to the development of theory in Islamic religious education.The contributions address the challenges of Islamic religious...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2024-12-19
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"Written in love and fire, African Feminist Praxis is meticulous and visionary." - Dr. Pumla Dineo Gqola, SARChI Chair in African Feminist Imagination, Nelson Mandela University and author of Female Fear Factory
So much of the story of African resistance has been told...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2024-12-19
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This book presents a recent framework proposed to understand how attitudes towards artificial intelligence are formed. It describes how the interplay between different variables, such as the modality of AI interaction, the user personality and culture, the type of...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-12-18
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Though rich, diverse, unique and engaging, Japan's sociological outputs have been internationally underrepresented. In its thoughtful translation and curation of key Japanese sociological texts, this book redresses this imbalance and treads exciting new ground....
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2024-12-18
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Das US-Kino nimmt sich seit einiger Zeit wieder europäischen Märchenstoffen an und erzählt die Geschichten vermeintlich neu. Dabei sprechen die Filme nicht mehr nur Kinder und Familien an, sondern stellen Themenaspekte in den Vordergrund, die in der Jugendphase von...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2024-12-18
Collection :
Medienbildung und Gesellschaft
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ECPAT Indonesia and Association of Criminal Law and Criminology Lecturer (ASPERHUPIKI) in collaborate with the Ministry of Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection Republic of Indonesia, ECPAT International, Center for Study and Child...
Editeur :
Atlantis Press
Parution :
2024-12-18
Collection :
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
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As a leading role in the global megatrend of scientific innovation, China has been creating a more and more open environment for scientific innovation, increasing the depth and breadth of academic cooperation, and building a community of...
Editeur :
Atlantis Press
Parution :
2024-12-17
Collection :
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
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