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This book tells the story of the Lebanese Shi’a and their development from a marginalized, discriminated minority to a highly politicized community that has given birth to Hezbollah, one of the most powerful paramilitary forces in the contemporary Middle East. It...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-09-13
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Ageing of the Oppressed: A Pandemic of Intersectional Injustice explores what it is like to grow older with accumulating and intersecting discrimination. It condemns ageism and other "isms." Despite its visibility during the COVID-19 pandemic, ageism is not a new...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-09-13
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This book reveals the history of the Vatican’s ethnographic collections by exploring the imperial, scientific, technological, and religious agendas behind its collecting and curating practices in the early twentieth century. It focuses on two principal contributors: the...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-09-12
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The book explores largely overlooked areas of Silk Road studies by searching for multidisciplinary evidence on the connotations of Silk Road culture and by rewriting social complexities along the Silk Road in different historical periods. It investigates the impacts of...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-09-11
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Humans have used technology to expand our limited vision for millennia, from the invention of the stone mirror 8,000 years ago to the latest developments in facial recognition and augmented reality. We imagine that technologies will allow us to see more, to see...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2023-09-11
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Social media is replete with images of 'perfection'. But many are unrealistic and contribute to a pervasive sense of never being good enough: not thin enough; not pretty enough; not cool enough. Try too hard and you risk being condemned for being ‘attention-seeking’,...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2023-09-11
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There is, on the one hand, life that flows from a beginning to an end, and, on the other hand, life that constitutes human singularity because it can be recounted. We may term them “biological life” and “biographical life”. Life expectancy measures the length of the...
Editeur :
Collège de France
Parution :
2023-09-11
Collection :
Leçons inaugurales
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This research aims to uncover new insights into minority housing strategies and their impact on densely populated urban areas. The study assumes that as space becomes scarce, inter and intra groups interactions in the urban space motivate people to maximize the utility...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-09-09
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This book offers a detailed narrative of Dalit migrants' everyday experience in urban areas with regard to the availability and accessibility of welfare services and state institutions. It discusses caste, specifically the identity of integration for Dalit migrants and...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-09-09
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This book offers a unique intersectional perspective on gender equality, SDG5. It presents an intersection of gender with caste, class, region, ethnic and sexual identities, and other structural drivers of inequalities in various development sectors. It presents case...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-09-08
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'A genius writer' FABULOUS MAGAZINE· Explore your sensuality· Discover your inner power· Reclaim your sexuality with this gentle and mind-opening journal by sexual priestess and activist Lucy-Anne Holmes.When Lucy-Anne Holmes was in her mid-thirties,...
Editeur :
Quercus
Parution :
2023-09-07
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With contributions from over 80 of the biggest names and rising stars of the field, this Handbook is an essential resource for anyone interested in the contemporary, emerging, and evolving practice of mixed methods research and scholarship. Exploring new and novel...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2023-09-06
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A bold argument that “equality” is a racist, patriarchal ideal that perpetuates women’s systemic oppression and limits the possibilities of feminism—with a plan to transform the movement For more than a century, women have fought for equality....
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2023-09-05
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This book provides an account of how local government units in the Philippines engage marginalized and geographically isolated communities in taking part in pre-disaster communication efforts. The book focuses on communities classified by the government as...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-09-04
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This book gathers the peer-reviewed papers presented at the 13th International Conference on Structural Analysis of Historical Constructions (SAHC), held in Kyoto, Japan, on September 12-15, 2023. It highlights the latest advances and innovations in the field...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-09-03
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This open access book contributes not only to the scientific literature on sustainable agricultural development and in particular rice agriculture but also is highly valuable to assist practitioners, projects, and policymakers due to its sections on reducing carbon...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-09-02
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Since its existence in the 1950s, consumer policy in Germany has been understood and pursued primarily as a bundle of actions and measures initiated and institutionalised by the state. In many cases, the state has also issued corresponding mandates and set up support...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-09-01
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Age into Race is a socio-anthropological essay on the repercussions of the Covid-19 pandemic on the cultural status of the old. As the worldwide horrors of the Corona era have since been publicly repressed, the text is geared to revisit and relive the tenor of that time...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-09-01
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This book gathers the peer-reviewed papers presented at the 13th International Conference on Structural Analysis of Historical Constructions (SAHC), held in Kyoto, Japan, on September 12-15, 2023. It highlights the latest advances and innovations in the field...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-09-01
Collection :
RILEM Bookseries
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This book starts with detailed community-based poverty-alleviation cases and focuses on several important aspects in this field to demonstrate the intervention methods, theoretical paradigms, and intervention models of poverty-alleviation social work. Based on...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-09-01
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