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The economic and political situation of cities has shifted in recent years in light of rapid growth amidst infrastructure decline, the suburbanization of poverty and inner city revitalization. At the same time, the way that data are used to understand urban systems has...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2017-11-27
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Sociology can help students understand why and how so many of the problems their service users face occur in the first place, helping them choose effective ways to communicate and make informed decisions on how their needs can be fully met. This book offers students a...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2017-11-27
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The world is in the midst of a social media paradigm. Once viewed as trivial and peripheral, social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook and WeChat have become an important part of the information and communication infrastructure of society. They are bound up with...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2017-11-20
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Las catedrales góticas, tan misteriosas como las pirámides de Egipto o las estatuas de la isla de Pascua, conservan en el corazón de sus majestuosas naves secretos seculares que el hombre moderno todavía no ha logrado descifrar.Las catedrales están ahí —ante nuestra...
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De Vecchi Ediciones
Parution :
2017-11-17
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The field of sex work has undergone a massive expansion in the past ten years. In this new edition, three leading researchers come together to provide an interdisciplinary outline of sex work. This book provides comprehensive coverage of key areas common to the study of...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2017-11-06
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Social workers, whatever their specialism, practise with people at the margins of society. It is therefore essential that all social work students not only understand the powers and processes that lead to disadvantage and marginalisation but develop the knowledge and...
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Learning Matters
Parution :
2017-10-30
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This book investigates post-industrial American cities as sites of struggle where political identities are mobilized and new modes of citizenship are articulated.This interdisciplinary analysis gleans insights from anthropology, literary criticism, cultural studies,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-10-26
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Many of the beings in this book – Cheiron, Pan, Acheloos, the Sirens and others – will be familiar from the narratives of Greek mythology, in which fabulous anatomies abound. However, they have never previously been studied together from a religious perspective, as...
Editeur :
Presses universitaires de Liège
Parution :
2017-10-25
Collection :
Kernos suppléments
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The motif of the ‘identity quest’ features strongly in much contemporary French women’s writing, but nowhere more so than in the work of Nina Bouraoui. Author of numerous books since 1991 and winner of the 2005 Prix Renaudot, Bouraoui persistently explores the question...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-10-25
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The SAGE Handbook of the 21st Century City focuses on the dynamics and disruptions of the contemporary city in relation to capricious processes of global urbanisation, mutation and resistance. An international range of scholars engage with emerging urban conditions and...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2017-10-16
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At the XXIst World Congress of the International Committee of Historical Sciences (ICHS/CISH) in 2010 in Amsterdam, the International Commission for Historical Demography (ICHD) decided to write an overview of its own history. Fifty years had gone by since the CISH XIst...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2017-10-13
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Local regeneration, and action on local issues, is fundamental to the sustainability of local communities. This is especially the case in the UK, with the Government focus on such approaches asLocal Enterprise Partnerships and neighbourhood development plans, and...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2017-10-09
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Do you want to thrive in your doctoral research?Do you want to do more than just survive? If so this is the book for you. Focused on empowering the doctoral researcher, it is packed with advice on how to make the best of opportunities and enjoy your research...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2017-10-09
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‘Systematically exposes the neoliberal myths in unequal societies’ - Niels Rosendal Jensen
'A call to arms to challenge inequality and social exclusion.' - Lel Meleyal
‘An impassioned dissection of the highly coded lexicon of so-called welfare reform…get reading, get...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2017-10-02
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The financial crisis of 2007–8 and its aftermath have resulted in the role of money and finance within the global economy becoming the subject of considerable debate in public, policy and media circles. Global Finance is a timely look at the contemporary...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2017-09-25
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This book proposes an original research approach, a mixed typological research design, which is in the legacy of classic Grounded Theory.This approach allows researchers to accomplish productive academic empirical research by developing and elaborating groundbreaking...
Editeur :
Éditions EMS
Parution :
2017-09-19
Collection :
Business Science Institute
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This book examines key sociological theories that have contributed to the understanding of the nature of social work, its organisation and delivery. It provides key sociological concepts and theories to help student social workers better understand the nature of their...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2017-09-18
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The Pedagogy of Violent Extremism is the first critical analysis of violent extremism via the lens of pedagogical development that considers the nation as an all-encompassing learning environment. Presented through a critical perspective on violent extremism resulting...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-09-06
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This edited volume brings together perspectives on embodied queerness within the complicated parameters of hegemonic normativities, biopolitics and social-religious governmentalities. Queering Paradigms VI offers queer interventions, explores value-production in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-09-06
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This book gives a comprehensive introduction to intercultural communication in the era of globalization. The reader is introduced to essential concepts in the field, different theories and methods of analysing communication, the importance of verbal and nonverbal...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-09-06
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