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This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the region's cold desert ecosystems, emphasizing the crucial role geodiversity plays in sustaining both biodiversity and human settlements in this fragile environment. Exploring Geodiversity in Indian Trans-Himalaya: A...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-02-14
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This volume, Climate Change and Children's Rights in Zimbabwe: Toward Social Policy-Based Interventions, provides a comprehensive examination of the intersection between climate change and children's rights in Zimbabwe, one of the world's most climate-vulnerable...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-02-14
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This book sheds light on various modes and dimensions of the linguistic landscape to fulfill diverse functions, transcending sociolinguistics to integrate with urban public image theory.This integration shapes city images and embodies the personalized innovative spirit...
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Springer
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2026-02-13
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This book provides a contemporary and practical resource for exploring critical social work practices in mental health. It explores how a power analysis can be enacted, through a variety of skills and actions, in order to navigate complex organisational and social...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-02-12
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This open access handbook offers a state-of-the-art overview of theoretical perspectives, empirical insights and scholarly debates into the relationship between beauty and inequality: how does beauty shape and reproduce social inequalities, and how does social...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-02-12
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This book focuses on the conflicts between Chinese medicine and western medicine in modern Chinese society. It is trying to represent how Chinese medicine used its knowledge of exogenous febrile diseases while practicing western medicine, gradually establishing a set of...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-02-11
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This book explores multicultural religious interactions in Ancient Central and South Asia. Besides encompassing a vast chronological and geographical range, the themes of this book represent a broad illustration of the current main approaches, methodologies, and...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-02-10
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An audacious and inspiring debut social history that explores how entrepreneurial members of the tight-knit hardcore punk scene within the vibrant heart of Boston cashed in on one of baseball's greatest rivalries. For eighty-six years Boston Red Sox...
Editeur :
Running Press Adult
Parution :
2026-02-10
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Trans people have been thrust into the spotlight in recent years across the world as never before.Trans groups have become targets of intense online abuse and hostile political and religious campaigns. The media abound with reports on a few glamorous trans women, or...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2026-02-10
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“A riveting and thoroughly researched chronicle...reminiscent of Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood.” —The New York Times Book ReviewThe gripping story of the Ruby Ridge siege, showing how the historic standoff between federal agents and a...
Editeur :
Little, Brown and Company
Parution :
2026-02-10
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This is an Open access book which provides a comprehensive framework for identifying monopolistic behaviors in the digital economy, with a focus on discriminatory pricing as one manifestation of these practices. As digital platforms increasingly dominate markets and...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-02-09
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This comprehensive volume offers a critical, socio-demographic examination of the COVID-19 crisis and human mobility in Indonesia. Drawing on data from across the archipelago, it covers the demographic, economic, psychosocial, and socio-political contexts of the...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-02-09
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In recent years, the study of human evolution has made substantial advances—from major fossil and archaeological discoveries to breakthroughs in paleogenetics and analytical methods. Yet, does more data necessarily lead to better science?
This volume challenges...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-02-07
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This book examines environmental law enforcement in the 21st century, tackling urgent challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and transnational environmental crimes. It traces how environmental offenses evolve and shows which legal frameworks address them...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-02-07
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This is an open access book. What holds societies together—and what drives them apart? As worry over political polarization and social cohesion intensifies across the globe, this volume explores timely and vital questions of social cohesion and polarization...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-02-07
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Interest in scaling laws has grown since the beginning of the 21st century. In both the social sciences and the natural sciences, there is continued astonishment at the increasing inequalities between large and small cities. While social indicators are often thought of...
Editeur :
Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2026-02-06
Collection :
ISTE Invoiced
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After its Freudian phase, psychoanalysis had to rethink its conception of sexuality. Lacan showed that Freud’s entirely phallic Oedipal logic was not the norm, but only a male norm. Some women adopt it, but many others prefer a logic that is not entirely phallic, in...
Editeur :
Hermann
Parution :
2026-02-05
Collection :
Hermann Psychanalyse
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Social media is proliferating with influencers, but despite their prevalence and the extensive body of scholarship, there is no comprehensive book that frames the historical and contemporary phenomenon of child influencers.Drawing on original empirical ethnographic...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2026-02-04
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15,99€
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This book provides a comprehensive introduction to Jeffrey C. Alexander’s Civil Sphere Theory (CST). It reconstructs the development and key features of this theory and explains why it offers an original and compelling way of thinking about civil society. The book...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2026-02-04
ePub
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18,90€
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Colorism – discrimination based on skin darkness within a racial group – has plagued Black Americans since their first arrival in this country. Although colorism has taken different forms over time, lighter-skinned Black people have always received advantages at the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2026-02-04
ePub
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18,99€
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