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This book discusses the fact that applied science is underused in modern societies. The problem is discussed both from external points of view (trust among lay people, attitudes among politicians) and from the inside (recruitment of researchers, research education,...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-07-18
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This book provides a comprehensive manual for researchers, practitioners, policymakers as well as students striving to achieve environmental sustainment. It is exploring advanced developments in smart cities infrastructure and sustainability engineering. In addition,...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-07-17
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This volume celebrates the history of the Philosophy and Medicine series with a retrospective assessment of the impact of the series over 50 years, written by some who were involved from the beginning, and others who have been influenced by the series. The...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-07-17
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This book offers geospatial modelling techniques for the analysis of healthcare in poor urban neighborhoods and of the ways that residents of these neighborhoods make healthcare choices and cope with deprivation. The authors use the case of Midnapore, India to explore...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-07-16
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This book is coordinated by the UNESCO Chair on Modern Urban heritage CREhAR (Creative Research and Education on heritage Assessment and Regeneration), at the School of Architecture, Universidad de Sevilla (USE), institutions and their research groups which constitute a...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-07-15
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The European continent has given rise to the greatest number of spatial divisions. Its limits have provoked numerous debates, both within and outside of the continent.The European Union, for its part, has become a laboratory for the production of divisions. Each of...
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Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2025-07-15
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ISTE Invoiced
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Following our desires, sharing pleasure: sounds easy, right? And yet our sexualities are conditioned by expectations, prejudices and taboos that make it difficult to listen to our own bodies, let alone anyone else’s. Bel Olid clears away the taboos and invites readers...
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Polity
Parution :
2025-07-15
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This book delves into the dynamic interplay of popular culture and political theology, examining three key areas of interaction: engagement with liturgy and scripture, film and television, and music. From depictions of Jesus in South Park and Family...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-07-14
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Relatively recently it has been acknowledged that Black women too often experience extreme psychological distress such as depression, anxiety disorders, panic, phobias, fear, eating disorders, low self-esteem, loneliness from social isolation, PTSD/PTSS, emotional pain,...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-07-14
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Fairies: A Companion provides a unique and unparalleled view of the ubiquity of fairies and fairy culture across the world, in its many expressions and manifestations. As well as providing historical perspectives on our belief in the fae, the companion also uniquely...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2025-07-14
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An unquestioned assumption of contemporary politics is that the left owns minority groups, in the sense that the left, exclusively, champions the interests of minorities and is for that reason owed the allegiance of minorities. This, in turn, gives rise to the sense of...
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Polity
Parution :
2025-07-14
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Promoting a more inclusive society for the elderly, people with disabilities and, more broadly, all of those in vulnerable situations, implies profound changes in the healthcare system in many countries. This movement, known as “deinstitutionalization”, implies...
Editeur :
Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2025-07-14
Collection :
ISTE Invoiced
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This book examines the history of sociology in India. It delves into the origin, growth, and development of Sociology. It traces its trajectory alongside the nation's social, cultural, and intellectual landscape. The chapters examine the diverse strands of sociological...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-07-12
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The focus of the volume is on ethnographically oriented research practice. It is reflected in the mirror of the currently controversial concepts of diversity and intersectionality in the cultural and social sciences. Special attention is paid to the question of how...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-07-11
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In many Asian societies, the process of modernization often took place in a rapid and highly compressed fashion – not over centuries, as had happened in most Western societies, but in several decades. This enabled Asian societies to achieve high levels of economic...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2025-07-11
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This book presents a wide array of innovative and cutting-edge practice models, research-based conceptualisations and theorisations as well as policy contributions which will serve as resource material for social work professionals across the globe.This volume is a...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-07-11
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This book provides examples of how social workers have pushed back against neoliberalism, attempts to co-opt or silence social workers, and reproduce philosophical and ethical assumptions that divide humans from each other and from the natural world.
This is the second...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-07-11
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This open access book explores the role of textiles in death to investigate questions into how the body was prepared before the funeral, how the body was seen and perceived by its relatives and community, and the role of textiles in its metamorphosis into a deceased....
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Springer
Parution :
2025-07-11
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Dieses Buch nimmt uns mit auf eine Reise durch die Welt des Radfahrens aus dem Blickwinkel eines Soziologen. Es zeigt die Verwobenheit des Fahrrads mit unserem Alltag und dessen Einfluss auf unsere Lebensweise.
Radfahren ist nicht nur Fortbewegung, sondern auch...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-07-10
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This volume offers an in-depth exploration of the complex and evolving manifestations of violence through a comparative and contextual lens. Addressing a wide range of violent behaviors—from intimate partner violence and human trafficking to acid attacks and child...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-07-09
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