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We now live in the Anthropocene, the first epoch of our own making.We have altered the Earth's atmosphere, landscapes, and bodies of water. The burning of fossil fuels has warmed the planet enough to change weather patterns, melt glaciers, and raise sea levels, a...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-01-13
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Research into the Mesolithic has recently undergone important transformations, making it one of the most dynamic fields of archaeological research today. These changes are the result of a combination of factors: new and exciting discoveries, the impact of innovative...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-01-13
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This book initiates fresh pedagogic thinking on the nature of intelligence and human potentiality in the midst of a rising panic over so-called artificial intelligence. At the rate of current advancement, entire social and cultural landscapes including education and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-01-13
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Black women have been credited for Democratic wins in a number of recent consequential elections. Yet outside of the post-election glow,Black women's interests tend not to attract a great deal of attention from politicians, media, or the public more broadly. In...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-01-13
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This open access book studies disability inclusion in humanitarian crises. It addresses the challenges of recognizing and including persons with disabilities and indicates the degree to which disability is being mainstreamed in international law and humanitarian action....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-01-11
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This book evidences the cyclical failures of online safety policy and challenge conventional policy and educational approaches to tackling online harms, and provide a robust argument for a critical, evidence-based approaches which align with the needs of those we claim...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-01-11
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This book explores masculinities of Tajik men and offers insights on how migrant and non-migrant men maintain their gender identity and adjust their gender practices in the context of transnational labor migration from Tajikistan to Russia. Being in the state of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-01-10
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Based on five years of work and research on simulated learning experiences, this book highlights the integration of simulations in practice, research, and policy classes at the School of Social Work, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). It illustrates the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-01-10
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This book investigates the implementation of gender mainstreaming legislation and policies in South Africa, focusing on their impact on women’s empowerment in terms of representation, participation, and influence in municipal government. The objective is to understand...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-01-09
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This first of two volumes explores how contemporary Asian popular culture reflects and critiques social issues. The authors, from different scholarly backgrounds, examine how shows like Squid Game present a scathing critique of oppressive socio-economic structures,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-01-08
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This book brings together essays from a range of disciplines within Early Modern Italian Studies, which focus on research areas pioneered by the prestigious Italianist, Letizia Panizza. The essays cover numerous themes, mirroring Panizza's broad scholarly interests, and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-01-08
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This book offers an innovative exploration of energy justice, from concept to action, highlighting its role as a crucial tool for navigating the complexities of a just and sustainable energy transition. The book is timely and as the global energy transition rapidly...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-01-08
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This book explores the concept of fragile heritage as an architectural legacy and a territorial resource in rural China, emphasizing the significance in safeguarding its unique cultural trajectory, and laying the groundwork for future developments. Chinese rural...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-01-08
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This book comprehensively applies social gender theory, life course theory, and spatiotemporal sociology theory to explore social work actions for poverty alleviation among women based on empirical investigations and social work practice. Taking impoverished women as...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-01-07
Collection :
Poverty-Alleviation and Social Work in China
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Contemporary Indigenous popular culture is a dynamic and expansive cultural field that has been gaining increasing momentum since the turn of the twenty-first century. This edited collection brings together contributions by scholars, artists and practitioners who work...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2025-01-07
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This book examines the projection of soft and sharp powers through the Turkish civilizational populist TV series "Resurrection: Ertugrul" and its reception in Pakistan. By analyzing the content of the series, elite responses, interviews with ordinary Pakistanis, and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-01-07
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May ’68 has inspired cultural, social and political movements across the world but has been used also to criticise them. This book interrogates the consideration of the revolts in France as the pinnacle or even paradigm of a particular avatar in a revolutionary lineage...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2025-01-07
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This edited volume proposes to revisit the development of recreational and professional sporting activities in the French capital between 1854 and 2024. It comprises fifteen chapters surveying the rich and multifaceted history of athletic practices in Paris, and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2025-01-07
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Nations all have stories about themselves--where they came from, what it means to be a citizen of that nation, what its values are.
In Myths and Sanctioned Ignorance in British Immigration Discourse, Samuel Bennett looks at British national myths about immigration and...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-01-07
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The field of research known as academic global health is in the midst of a scientific debate that is questioning its epistemological foundations. This book contributes to that questioning. Through a series of essays that weave together personal narratives and conceptual...
Editeur :
IRD Éditions
Parution :
2025-01-07
Collection :
Santé globale
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