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This book foregrounds socioecological stewardship in urban spaces. It demonstrates how activities like gardening and participating in events that spark ecological learning foster a sense of place, social connections, and lively neighbourhoods. Offering case studies from...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-19
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Long before The Brothers Grimm, there was a sisterhood of writers who defied the patriarchy and launched a literary craze with their feminist fairy tales—these are their stories. In 17th century Paris, a group of women who called themselves conteuses (female...
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Black Dog & Leventhal
Parution :
2025-08-19
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A retelling of the classic myths and timeless tales by bestselling author Annette Giesecke that underlie the 88 named constellations in the night sky--from Andromeda to Orion to Ursa Major.Classical Mythology of the Constellations is a stargazer's guide to the...
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Black Dog & Leventhal
Parution :
2025-08-19
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When (re-)designing organizations, one must first be clear about what is meant by the structures of an organization and what can be done in order to change them. In this book, we present communication channels, programs and personnel as central structures. We also...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-08-18
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This book is an ethnography of the important cultural characteristics, local myths, and legends in Shawo Town, a subordinate to Dongming County in Shandong Province. Based on the author’s fieldwork in this unique region of the Yellow River area, this book examines...
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Springer
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2025-08-18
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This book presents a new way of examining cities to reveal the many and varied meanings which are written into urban landscapes. As the title suggests, urban areas are full of messages and communications, with signs and symbols incorporated into buildings, structures...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-15
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Science and technology produce a wide range of benefits in society but they also create harm, both of which are unequally distributed across social groups and geographic regions. This incisive book provides a set of analytical tools to understand how inequality relating...
Editeur :
Polity
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2025-08-15
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This book explores the often-overlooked experiences of Black NASCAR fans, challenging the sport’s traditional image as a stronghold of Southern white conservatism. Through a narrative inquiry approach, the book examines how Black fans navigate and transform...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-14
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WITH A FOREWORD BY DAVID OLUSOGAThis is the extraordinary story of Olaudah Equiano: Child slave. Soldier. Free man. Traveller. Abolitionist. Celebrity. Kidnapped as a child into slavery, Equiano spent the rest of his life fighting for his freedom. After years of...
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2025-08-14
ePub
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The volume deals with the concept of art in relation to film, covering both aesthetic theory and concrete works.The spectrum includes feature films and documentaries.The focus is on the aesthetic innovations of the medium throughout its history and in the present.The...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-13
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This book would be a valuable reference book for academics teaching and researching climate change and environmental governance.This book would be useful to students studying environmental planning, science and management, and social sciences – especially, human...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-08-13
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This book is the first comprehensive overview of the history of female-presenting AI and robots in US and UK live-action, science fiction films from 1949 to 2023. It offers an original taxonomy that aids in the examination of 80 films and over 135 characters’...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-13
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This open access book joins other critical works that draw attention to the ways integration is debated, legislated, conceptualized, monitored, evaluated, and ultimately, normalized as a mode of governance. Situated at the interstices of migration studies, European...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-08-13
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Der vorliegende Band beleuchtet aktuelle Problemstellungen im Kontext der Entwicklung Künstlicher Intelligenz aus der Perspektive verschiedener akademischer Disziplinen (Philosophie, Sinologie, Informatik, Soziologie) und gibt einen Überblick über den...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2025-08-13
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Das Buch beschäftigt sich empirisch mit der aus der Globalisierungstheorie stammenden These der globalen ökonomischen Elite und der damit verbundenen These der neoliberalen Konvergenz. Theoretisch knüpft das Buch an am Begriff des Geist bzw. neuen Geist des...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2025-08-13
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The book conducts a comprehensive analysis of codified international legal instruments and documents in their application to children in street situations, employing soft law documents to elucidate treaty interpretation and supplement existing legal standards.The...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-08-12
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This open access book presents new, empirically-based ethnographic and sociological studies of Kurdish women’s activism and its implications for their rights and the dynamics of citizenship across different social, cultural, and political fields. Organized into five...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-12
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Today, Critical Theory is no longer tied to a specific place in the world. Rather, genuine developments of Critical Theories can be observed in many academic contexts around the world. The contributions collected in this book show that the various projects of Critical...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2025-08-12
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Obwohl die DNA-Analyse seit der Entdeckung des genetischen Fingerabdrucks große Fortschritte gemacht hat, bleiben immer noch etwa zwei Drittel aller Spuren in der DNA-Analyse-Datei, der nationalen DNA-Datenbank, ohne Treffer. Diese erhebliche Menge nicht...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2025-08-12
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The term radicalisation is being used by politicians, activist groups, the media, governmental organisations, and many other groups, although it lacks conceptual clarity and insufficient consideration is given to its historical context. This edited book offers a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-11
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