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This open access book critically revisits 30 years of debate surrounding the evolution of crime trends, aiming to reconcile various hypotheses and controversies. It scrutinizes the concept of the "crime drop," highlighting the methodological pitfalls in understanding...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-02-12
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Criminology
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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER • NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH BY TIME MAGAZINE, AMAZON, AND KOBO • NAMED MOST ANTICIPATED BY LIT HUB, PUREWOW, AND W MAGAZINE “Gossip is the only cultural tradition I care about, and...
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Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2025-02-11
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This book offers an exploration of collective action by bringing together the themes of sovereignty and solidarity in post-colonial societies in Africa and beyond. It does so against a common tradition of writing about collective action that assumes an opposition...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-02-11
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This book studies China’s Internet in the 2000s, with a focus on the challenges and dilemmas of the authorities and the battles between the authorities and the newly networked society in the cyber space, which has been a critical centerpiece in the Chinese authorities'...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-02-11
Collection :
Communication, Culture and Change in Asia
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This book provides a critical perspective on technology, answering the questions of why technologies often disappoint. It takes a sociotechnical and historical perspective on technology, as developed by an engineer–anthropologist and a design anthropologist, to answer...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-02-11
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This book is a detailed and comprehensive examination of the physical, symbolic and cultural uses of bamboo in China, where it has long had a ubiquitous presence in all aspects of the lives of the Chinese people: how and what they eat, what they wear, where they live,...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2025-02-11
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This volume delves into how cutting-edge geospatial tools are revolutionizing social physics—the quantitative study of human behavior and spatial dynamics. Through real-world case studies, the book demonstrates how geospatial analysis is applied to pressing social and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-02-08
Collection :
Springer Geography
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This book delves into the transformative efforts that sought to redefine punishment and rehabilitation, highlighting the pivotal role of Community Service Orders (CSO) and the legislative push to abandon the use of Short-Term Prison Sentences (STPS) for fine default....
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Springer
Parution :
2025-02-06
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'Victoria Smith is a brilliant writer who every feminist should read' Sharron Davies'This brilliant book shows how demands for compassion and generosity can be a mask for sexist ideology' Susanna RustinA brilliantly witty and insightful analysis of how kindness culture...
Editeur :
Fleet
Parution :
2025-02-06
ePub
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On September 15, 2017, in front of millions of television viewers, Emmanuel Macron, with François Bayrou, his Keeper of the Seals at the time, delivered his first lie: “It is now impossible to be elected when you have a B2 criminal record”. Nothing could be further from...
Editeur :
Max Milo Éditions
Parution :
2025-02-06
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For four centuries, the modern world has been dominated by machinery. It was born with capitalist production. It quickly became symbiotic with capitalist development, which found its driving force in mechanics. Calculation, predictability, the power of abstraction - the...
Editeur :
Max Milo Éditions
Parution :
2025-02-06
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This book analyzes the representations of movement that reflect time. The author scrutinizes movement critically assuming that (1) movement is composed of change, (2) a change may be a crack, (3) the crack demonstrates a disturbance in the experienced movement, and (4)...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-02-05
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Implement AI and big data at your organization using principles from behavioral economics In Behavioral AI: Unleash Decision Making with Data, behavioral economist Dr. Rogayeh Tabrizi delivers an intuitive roadmap to help organizations disentangle the complexity of...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2025-02-03
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This book is a product of human-machine collaboration in social work and is a premier in global social work education and practice. Each chapter is organized by the book editor with a human-written introduction. Chapters focus on contemporary issues, providing an...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-02-01
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This book provides a machine-generated overview of social work across the globe, providing an in-depth understanding on social work education, practice and research. It shows the latest developments in social work, curriculum, pedagogy, practice, research and clinical...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-02-01
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This book adopts an interdisciplinary social science approach. It includes original research papers on Bangladesh-China’s connectivity to archaeology, history, religion, traditional Chinese medicine, language and literature, women and gender, diplomacy and strategic...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-01-31
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This book presents a comprehensive examination of the pivotal challenges and viewpoints about energy poverty, energy justice, and gender diversity challenges within the Latin American energy transition context. Notwithstanding the discourse of progress on energy access...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-01-30
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This book is to reflect on the achievements and challenges of current poverty-alleviation practices for children in China, in order to understand and clarify the function, intervention strategies and development direction of social work in child poverty-alleviation. It...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-01-30
Collection :
Poverty-Alleviation and Social Work in China
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This is an open access book.
In the spotlight of contemporary discourse, Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) practices have emerged as a captivating focal point. Yet, how ready are we as a society for the socio-economic and environmental risks facing the nation...
Editeur :
Atlantis Press
Parution :
2025-01-30
Collection :
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
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