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For several decades, wealthy states, international development agencies and multinational corporations have encouraged labour migration from the Global South to the Global North. As well as providing essential workers to support the transformation of advanced economies,...
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Polity
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2023-05-25
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'A beautiful, deeply affecting and powerful marriage between art and activism' - KHALED HOSSEINI, bestselling author of The Kite Runner'These are vital conversations. Everyone should eavesdrop on them'- KAMILA SHAMSIE, author of award-winning bestseller Home...
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Headline Welbeck Non-Fiction
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2023-05-25
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Spinster. Cougar. Carer. Matron. Wife.A rich, provocative and entertaining history of women's words - of the language we have, and haven't, had to share our livesSpecial commendation from the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize'A gem of a book' KATE MOSSE'[A] thoughtful,...
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Virago
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2023-05-25
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Dilly's Story
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This book is an examination of how American mass media, including advertising, presents Otherness – anyone or anything constructed as different from an established norm – in terms of gender, race, sex, disabilities, and other markers of difference. Using a mythological...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2023-05-24
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This book provides a basic understanding and state-of-the-art of urban metabolism. Urban centres are increasingly challenged by population increase and the resultant environmental concerns including the urban sprawl and climate change. Different patterns of...
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Springer
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2023-05-23
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If you are reading this journal, please stop - right now. It's mine, meant for my eyes alone. I'm constantly losing my things, and I don't care if you found it in a second-hand bookstore or a tea shop, because this is a private notebook. My travels around India,...
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Hachette India
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2023-05-22
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What does it mean to be gayfriendly? Having gay friends, supporting gay marriage, remaining unfazed when one’s son or daughter comes out? Going to gay bars or questioning one’s own sexual orientation? There is no single model of ‘gayfriendliness’, but rather...
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Polity
Parution :
2023-05-22
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This book examines the “ethics in relation to city and urbanism” by evaluating the strengths and limitations of rights as a conceptual tool from the comparative East–West perspective in resolving urban controversies (involving conflicts of rights between different...
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Springer
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2023-05-20
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This book addresses the identification and classification of knowledge acquired through experience that results from engaging in professional activities within the software industry. As a result of this study, the book presents an ontology of such professional...
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Springer
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2023-05-19
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The Fashioned Body provides a wide-ranging and original overview of fashion and dress from an historical and sociological perspective. Where once fashion was seen as marginal, it has now entered into core economic discourse focused around ideas about 'cultural' and...
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Polity
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2023-05-19
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Der Strafvollzug hat das Ziel, die Gefangenen zu einem Leben in sozialer Verantwortung ohne Straftaten zu befähigen. Er soll so auf die Inhaftierten einwirken, dass sie nach der Entlassung keine Straftaten mehr begehen. Behandlungsmaßnahmen dienen diesem Zweck. Dem...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-05-18
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Edition Forschung und Entwicklung in der Strafrechtspflege
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The book is addressed to scholars and students in sociology and in phenomenological philosophy. It presents the work of Durkheim in a new light and discusses the prevailing interpretations in the collective intentionality approach. It also provides a fresh conception of...
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Springer
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2023-05-17
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This book provides a unique perspective on contemporary German and Chinese cultural encounters. Moving away from highlighting exchanges between the two countries in terms of colonial connections, religious influences and philosophical impacts, the book instead focuses...
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Springer
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2023-05-16
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This is the first collection of readings on computer-mediated communication focusing exclusively on interpersonal interactions. Examining messages exchanged via email, Twitter, Facebook, websites, and blogs, the authors analyze communication issues of ongoing importance...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-05-16
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Families are actors and drivers in migration and refugee crises. However, the current protection frameworks privilege the individual over the family unit. Consequently, the stories of families in migration have remained under-researched and their challenges...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-05-16
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This text comprehensively covers the rituals, traditions and receipts of ancestral processes of bread making from multiple countries, including the scientific and technological character of the science of bread making and sourdough biotechnology. Individual chapters...
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Springer
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2023-05-16
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The present book examines cultural diversities of Northeast India.The sixteen essays included in the volume cover various aspects of cultural forms and their practices among the communities of Northeast.The present volume is expected to serve as a bridge between...
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Springer
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2023-05-16
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What does it mean to be white in a society that proclaims race meaningless, yet is deeply divided by race? In the face of pervasive racial inequality and segregation, most white people cannot answer that question. In the second edition of this seminal text, Robin...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-05-16
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Updated with both a new introduction and a series of interviews, the second edition of Education and the Crisis of Public Values examines American society’s shift away from democratic public values, the ensuing move toward a market-driven mode of education, and the last...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-05-16
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In the second edition of Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism, Henry A. Giroux uses the metaphor of the zombie to highlight how America has embraced a machinery of social and civil death that chills any vestige of a robust democracy. He charts the...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-05-16
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