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The second edition of From Dust to Ashes brings up-to-date this classic text investigating the replacement of burial by cremation in England and Wales. Cremation was promoted seriously in 1874 but the first cremation did not take place until eleven years...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-16
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Offering a critical, comprehensive, and holistic discussion of the validity of human rights inside and outside of religious communities, this book explores the relationship between religious communities, abstract “religion”, and human rights from an ethical...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-16
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This book provides a detailed look into the social world of infants and toddlers and explores the consequences of that environment on learning and socio-emotional development. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork and systematic observation in a rural community in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-16
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This book explores three core themes centered on civilizations and their interactions. First, it addresses theoretical issues of "dialogue among civilizations," with Zhao Dingxin using "embeddedness" to examine key topics like dialogue subjects, contextual specifics,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-15
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This book examines the socially segregated Santals, a tribal community that migrated from various parts of Bengal and its neighbouring states of Bihar, Orissa, and Jharkhand to Kolkata, a city currently driven by capitalist-consumerist forces that pose a challenge in...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-11-15
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This book examines the evolution of the female lyric body in Western culture through the figure of Helen of Troy, focusing on the Hispanic literary archive and its evolving strategies for representing her and her cultural doubles, here defined as Helen-like bodies. It...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-15
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This open access handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the concept of just green transitions and its key dimensions. With a specific focus on the Western Balkans and other key European regions, it explores the core policy thematic areas at the heart of the just...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-15
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The monograph titled New Methods for Measuring Inequality by Analyzing Assortative Mating offers a comprehensive account of the methods and models proposed in the literature for measuring the degree of sorting into couples with the aim of identifying patterns in...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-11-15
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Der interdisziplinäre Sammelband erkundet erstmals das dynamische Zusammenspiel von Literatur und Podcast – einem bislang kaum erforschten Gegenwartsphänomen. Im Fokus stehen Podcasts als neue Bühnen literarischer Kritik, Erzählung und...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-11-15
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Against the background of great expectations associated with the application of big data and artificial intelligence in medicine, various voices have claimed that individuals have a moral obligation to make their data and tissue available for research. This obligation...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-15
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This book examines the fact-checking strategies adopted by major platforms such as Meta, X, TikTok, and YouTube to combat misinformation, including third-party verification, AI tools, community-based systems, and government initiatives. Drawing on survey data and expert...
Editeur :
Springer Gabler
Parution :
2025-11-15
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Der Band stellt konzeptionelle Veränderungen und neue Entwicklungen subjektorientierter Forschung in der Sozialen Arbeit vor. Welche theoretischen Weiterentwicklungen haben die Forschungsperspektiven erfahren, welche Aspekte sind hinzugekommen,...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2025-11-15
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Das Buch bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über Bedrohungen, Angriffe und Gewalt gegen PolitikerInnen, verschiedene AmtsträgerInnen, JournalistInnen und Lehrkräfte an Schulen und Universitäten. Neben den historischen und...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2025-11-15
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This volume examines the strategies, processes, and challenges of disengagement and deradicalization in the context of Islamist extremism. Bridging theory and practice, it brings together critical reflections and hands-on experiences from practitioners and researchers...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-11-15
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This book delves into the devastating depths of acid attacks in India, unveiling the motives, the trauma, and the arduous road to rehabilitation. Unravelling the history and gendered aspects of acid violence, this book looks into the effects it leaves on individuals and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-15
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This book brings together perspectives from the social sciences and humanities on how soils and subsoils are increasingly mobilized to tackle climate change and ecological issues. Carbon capture and storage, the extraction of energy and non-energy minerals, geothermal...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-14
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Long-term health conditions (LTCs) affect one third of the global population and are associated with a heightened risk of depression, anxiety, medically related post-traumatic stress, diminished life satisfaction and self-esteem. Further, healthcare professionals face...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-11-14
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This book distils thirty years of creative practice into a rigorous inquiry that bridges artmaking, somatic intelligence, and systems thinking. Rooted in the author’s concept of Embodied Matter Exploration (EME), it positions creativity as cultural metabolism,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-14
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"Being mobile is more than just traveling." Early research on transportation long believed that daily commutes were a waste of time, and that modes of transportation were simply interchangeable depending on changing circumstances. However, as research on daily mobility...
Editeur :
Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2025-11-14
Collection :
ISTE Invoiced
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This book primarily investigates the historical development, fundamental theories, and resource utilization of China’s cultural industry, as well as the role of technological innovation in promoting the cultural industry’s growth. It specifically covers the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-11-13
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