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This book enriches Latin American Science and Technology Studies by making a pioneering contribution to theories from its geopolitical margins. Rather than merely challenging Northern dominance, it fosters dialogue between Northern and Southern scholars, highlighting...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-21
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Abandonment is as old as time, but ghosting is a modern twist on this ancient experience. It translates this age-old phenomenon into our modern world of screens, delete buttons and blocking options. Ghosting is not only an unpleasant experience, or cowardly act, but a...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2025-08-21
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Richtet Wissenschaft ihr theoretisches und empirisches Instrumentarium auf sich selbst, entstehen metatheoretische Reflexionen oder wissenschaftssoziologische Untersuchungen. Es wird die Funktion der Wissenschaft für die Gesellschaft untersucht, ihr Verhältnis zur...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-08-21
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This accessible book examines American law enforcement cybercrime investigations. Through semi-structured interviews with forty-seven cybercrime law enforcement investigators, it explores the characteristics of investigators, the development of cybercrime units and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-21
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This book offers a pioneering interdisciplinary exploration into the role of metacognition in medical education and practice, focusing on transforming the doctor-patient relationship through cognitive, metacognitive, and humanistic approaches. It provides critical...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-08-20
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This book explores the gendered and racial lived everyday and sporting experiences of Brown migrant young women and girls in Fiji. The author empirically employs a novel visual and arts-based research methodology (ABRM) and arts-based method (ABM) to collect and present...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-20
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This book offers a collection of original contributions to the current literature on the role of the internet in understanding contemporary issues in sexual offending. The book explores the theoretical underpinnings of the effect of the internet on the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-20
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How are Australian comics made and read?How do changes in comics and graphic storytelling over the past forty years intersect with our changing ideas about history, culture, community, creativity and technology?
In Folio: Essays on Australian Comics,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-20
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This book explores new media's effectiveness in enhancing socialization among elderly individuals through quantitative and qualitative information. It fills a gap in media studies and gerontology by focusing on older adults' often-overlooked use of new media. The...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-08-19
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This edited volume offers a comprehensive revaluation of Trauma and Memory Studies, foregrounding perspectives from India and beyond. It critically interrogates the prevailing Euro-centric paradigm within the field, advocating for the amplification and contextualization...
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Springer
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2025-08-19
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Jugendliche sind in besonderer Weise auf den öffentlichen Raum angewiesen, da sie im Aneignen von Orten und Plätzen ihre Zugehörigkeit zur Stadt – oder Making a Home – leben können. Ihre sichtbaren Formen der Aneignung werden jedoch oft...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2025-08-19
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This book offers a comprehensive analysis of socio-natural disaster recovery projects, using the Bam and Wenchuan earthquakes as case studies to evaluate their success and failure. With escalating losses from socio-natural disasters and a high failure rate among...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-08-19
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While Bourdieu’s work on cultural production, the reproduction of inequality and the rise of the modern state is well known, his writings on the phenomena of internationalization and imperialism have received much less attention. Bourdieu’s analyses of the international...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2025-08-19
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This book foregrounds socioecological stewardship in urban spaces. It demonstrates how activities like gardening and participating in events that spark ecological learning foster a sense of place, social connections, and lively neighbourhoods. Offering case studies from...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-19
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Long before The Brothers Grimm, there was a sisterhood of writers who defied the patriarchy and launched a literary craze with their feminist fairy tales—these are their stories. In 17th century Paris, a group of women who called themselves conteuses (female...
Editeur :
Black Dog & Leventhal
Parution :
2025-08-19
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A retelling of the classic myths and timeless tales by bestselling author Annette Giesecke that underlie the 88 named constellations in the night sky--from Andromeda to Orion to Ursa Major.Classical Mythology of the Constellations is a stargazer's guide to the...
Editeur :
Black Dog & Leventhal
Parution :
2025-08-19
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When (re-)designing organizations, one must first be clear about what is meant by the structures of an organization and what can be done in order to change them. In this book, we present communication channels, programs and personnel as central structures. We also...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-08-18
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This book is an ethnography of the important cultural characteristics, local myths, and legends in Shawo Town, a subordinate to Dongming County in Shandong Province. Based on the author’s fieldwork in this unique region of the Yellow River area, this book examines...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-08-18
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This book presents a new way of examining cities to reveal the many and varied meanings which are written into urban landscapes. As the title suggests, urban areas are full of messages and communications, with signs and symbols incorporated into buildings, structures...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-15
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Science and technology produce a wide range of benefits in society but they also create harm, both of which are unequally distributed across social groups and geographic regions. This incisive book provides a set of analytical tools to understand how inequality relating...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2025-08-15
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