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In this provocative book, Thomas Chatterton Williams, one of the most revered and reviled social commentators of our time, paints a clear and detailed picture of the ideas and events that have paved the way for the dramatic paradigm shift in social justice that has...
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Constable
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2025-08-05
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Blue Kinship contributes to the emergent movement of ideas and practices that are interpreting the ocean as a conceptual and physical space for reconsidering our relationship with the complex, heterogeneous and mutable ecological systems of the Anthropocene; and, in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-05
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Deutsche Kommunalverwaltungen stehen vor der Herausforderung, Social Media strategisch und zielgerichtet im Rahmen eines spezifischen Kommunalverwaltungsmarketings einzusetzen – unter Berücksichtigung begrenzter Ressourcen und besonderer Rahmenbedingungen....
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Springer VS
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2025-08-05
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Phobia and American Literature, 1705-1937: A Therapeutic History tells a neglected, two-century history of phobia's gradual emergence as a variable suffix in medicine, politics, and literature, ready to be appended to an array of objects, situations, and ideas. Across...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-08-05
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The introduction of pediatric cochlear implants more than 30 years ago has changed the lives of deaf children and their families and the field of deaf education, early intervention, and research. However, discussions about cochlear implantation have sometimes come with...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-08-05
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The principal focus of Corporate Conformance and the Social License: A Criminological Perspective is to enhance and broaden the criminological dialogue surrounding the role of and effect of corporate conformance as a key element in the maintenance of the social license...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-04
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This open access book provides a unique way of documenting traditional Sámi knowledge that has survived almost 300 years followed by today’s analysis of the modern state of Sámi reindeer husbandry. Reindeer herders’ knowledge, their language...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-08-04
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For decades, activists have drawn attention to gender violence across the Pacific Islands and successfully argued for improved state responses. While reforms have been institutionalised in law and government policy, ongoing violence shows that these have limited...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-08-01
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This open access book provides recent trends of urbanization and inequality in Africa and Asia. It addresses the inequality challenges of urbanization and large-scale rural-to-urban migration. It answers questions around socio-economic and spatial inequalities and how...
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Springer
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2025-08-01
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This book provides a comprehensive study of biography, to summarize the standard forms as well as a range of peripheral and expanded forms of auto/biography. Discussion and analyses to be done at three levels, namely ontology, typology, and writing. It is drawn from...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-08-01
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This open access book, the first of two volumes, offers novel insights into the resilience of migrants and refugees and challenges Eurocentric and colonial perspectives of urban solidarity, sanctuary, and hospitality. It is theoretically framed by critical perspectives...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-08-01
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This open access book offers the first comprehensive global overview of urban and local initiatives, policies, and practices towards including and protecting migrants in vulnerable situations and refugees. The chapters in this volume illustrate the various urban...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-08-01
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How did a modern terror group seize global attention and declare a Caliphate? The emergence of Daesh marks a significant and alarming chapter in modern terrorism. This book unravels the anatomy of the group, tracing its path from Syria and Iraq to Türkiye and Europe,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-08-01
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This open access brief explores the profoundly accelerating impact of climate change on law enforcement globally. Drawing on the concept of climatisation, it examines how, on one hand, rising temperatures, extreme weather events, resource scarcity, and sustainability...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-07-31
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This monograph presents the migratory journey and personal experiences of immigrant professionals who live and work in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan – a remote region of the United States which heavily relies on a group of professional immigrants to provide...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-07-31
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This book focuses on an emerging group of low income South Asian migrants who are increasingly migrating to four Southern European countries: Greece, Italy, Spain, and Portugal. While homogenized under the overarching category of “South Asian,” the migrant...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-07-31
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This open access book explores the macro-social influences on loneliness in later life, emphasizing how societal structures, cultural contexts, and broader social transformations shape the experience of loneliness. Dedicated to the social construction of loneliness and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-07-31
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This book uses the contrast between the theoretical positions of the two Max Webers - that is the Weber of the Protestant Ethic thesis and the Weber of the theory of action – as the basis for developing a theory of agency and an associated dynamic interpretive...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-07-31
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This book argues for, while critically engaging with, the proposition that leisure is a human right. The structure of the book sets this proposition within historical and international legal human rights contexts, particularly exploring the human rights/legal...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-07-31
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This book is open access.The idea that automation, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotics might lead to a utopian future for humanity is a powerful one both in mainstream and radical discourse. The paradigm of ‘Industry 4.0’ where digital manufacturing...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-07-31
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