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This volume, Climate Change and Children's Rights in Zimbabwe: Toward Social Policy-Based Interventions, provides a comprehensive examination of the intersection between climate change and children's rights in Zimbabwe, one of the world's most climate-vulnerable...
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Springer
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2026-02-14
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This book explores how episodes of ‘nothing’, or lost experience, shape accounts of self-identity. What is the most important thing that is not in your life? We tell stories about absent people, missed opportunities, things we yearn or wish for and events...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-13
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Prokrastination, das bewusste Aufschieben wichtiger Aufgaben trotz negativer Konsequenzen, ist ein weit verbreitetes Phänomen. In dieser Arbeit wird untersucht, wie stark sich die Neigung zum Aufschieben in verschiedenen soziodemografischen Gruppen der deutschen...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2026-02-12
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This book provides a contemporary and practical resource for exploring critical social work practices in mental health. It explores how a power analysis can be enacted, through a variety of skills and actions, in order to navigate complex organisational and social...
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Springer
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2026-02-12
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This open access handbook offers a state-of-the-art overview of theoretical perspectives, empirical insights and scholarly debates into the relationship between beauty and inequality: how does beauty shape and reproduce social inequalities, and how does social...
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Springer
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2026-02-12
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Corruption and anti-corruption have long been central public concerns in China, yet the organizational mechanisms through which corruption and anti-corruption operate remain poorly understood. This book takes bribery-offering by unit as its analytical entry point and...
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Springer VS
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2026-02-12
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This book is about what happens to comics theory when we privilege the relationship between materiality and the body in the analysis of comics. Focusing on how these factors relate to making, technological reproduction and the experience of reading comics, it aims to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-11
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This book focuses on the conflicts between Chinese medicine and western medicine in modern Chinese society. It is trying to represent how Chinese medicine used its knowledge of exogenous febrile diseases while practicing western medicine, gradually establishing a set of...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-02-11
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This book closely reads Mark Gruenwald's Squadron Supreme for its complex, contradictory, yet ultimately productive engagement with the social dreaming of utopianism. Specifically, Squadron Supreme provides critical traction for readers to engage...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-11
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Drawing on historical and contemporary ethnographic research, this edited collection addresses tangible and intangible forms of urban heritage, their impact on urban policies, and their consequences for urban life, both at individual and social levels. The chapters look...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-11
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This book offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the identity-forming interplay between text, textiles, and skin in and through film. Its central thesis proposes that film, through the oscillation between textiles and bare skin, creates iconic condensations that...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-10
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This interdisciplinary volume situates British Chinese cultures and identities at the centre of contemporary discourses that negotiate the complex entanglements between diasporic communities and belongings, migration and transculturality, representation and plurality....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-10
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This book explores multicultural religious interactions in Ancient Central and South Asia. Besides encompassing a vast chronological and geographical range, the themes of this book represent a broad illustration of the current main approaches, methodologies, and...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-02-10
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The book explores the concept of counter-narratives to terrorism within the context of Pakistan’s unique socio-political, cultural, and historical experiences. It provides actionable insights to combat extremism, focusing on the role of ideology, socio-economic...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-10
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“A riveting and thoroughly researched chronicle...reminiscent of Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood.” —The New York Times Book ReviewThe gripping story of the Ruby Ridge siege, showing how the historic standoff between federal agents and a...
Editeur :
Little, Brown and Company
Parution :
2026-02-10
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An audacious and inspiring debut social history that explores how entrepreneurial members of the tight-knit hardcore punk scene within the vibrant heart of Boston cashed in on one of baseball's greatest rivalries. For eighty-six years Boston Red Sox...
Editeur :
Running Press Adult
Parution :
2026-02-10
ePub
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Trans people have been thrust into the spotlight in recent years across the world as never before.Trans groups have become targets of intense online abuse and hostile political and religious campaigns. The media abound with reports on a few glamorous trans women, or...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2026-02-10
ePub
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This is an Open access book which provides a comprehensive framework for identifying monopolistic behaviors in the digital economy, with a focus on discriminatory pricing as one manifestation of these practices. As digital platforms increasingly dominate markets and...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-02-09
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This book is the first volume in the two-volume set Artifical Intelligence and Discourse. It examines how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is represented, debated, and imagined across diverse cultural contexts and global media. With contributions from eight countries,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-09
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