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This book presents selected papers from the International Geographical Union (IGU) Thematic Conference 2022, which was held at the Central University of Haryana, Mahendragarh, India, November 24–25, 2022. The theme of the conference was Sustainability, Future Earth, and...
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Springer
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2025-02-12
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Advances in Geographical and Environmental Sciences
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This open access book critically revisits 30 years of debate surrounding the evolution of crime trends, aiming to reconcile various hypotheses and controversies. It scrutinizes the concept of the "crime drop," highlighting the methodological pitfalls in understanding...
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Springer
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2025-02-12
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SpringerBriefs in Criminology
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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER • NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH BY TIME MAGAZINE, AMAZON, AND KOBO • NAMED MOST ANTICIPATED BY LIT HUB, PUREWOW, AND W...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2025-02-11
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This book offers an exploration of collective action by bringing together the themes of sovereignty and solidarity in post-colonial societies in Africa and beyond. It does so against a common tradition of writing about collective action that assumes an opposition...
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Springer
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2025-02-11
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This book studies China’s Internet in the 2000s, with a focus on the challenges and dilemmas of the authorities and the battles between the authorities and the newly networked society in the cyber space, which has been a critical centerpiece in the Chinese authorities'...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-02-11
Collection :
Communication, Culture and Change in Asia
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This book provides a critical perspective on technology, answering the questions of why technologies often disappoint. It takes a sociotechnical and historical perspective on technology, as developed by an engineer–anthropologist and a design anthropologist, to answer...
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Springer
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2025-02-11
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This book is a detailed and comprehensive examination of the physical, symbolic and cultural uses of bamboo in China, where it has long had a ubiquitous presence in all aspects of the lives of the Chinese people: how and what they eat, what they wear, where they live,...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2025-02-11
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Provides real-world insights into social and political conflict across disciplines The Handbook of Social and Political Conflict offers a comprehensive exploration of conflict from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, merging insights from fields including sociology,...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2025-02-10
Collection :
Handbooks in Communication and Media
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This volume delves into how cutting-edge geospatial tools are revolutionizing social physics—the quantitative study of human behavior and spatial dynamics. Through real-world case studies, the book demonstrates how geospatial analysis is applied to pressing social and...
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Springer
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2025-02-08
Collection :
Springer Geography
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This book delves into the transformative efforts that sought to redefine punishment and rehabilitation, highlighting the pivotal role of Community Service Orders (CSO) and the legislative push to abandon the use of Short-Term Prison Sentences (STPS) for fine default....
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Springer
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2025-02-06
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'Victoria Smith is a brilliant writer who every feminist should read' Sharron Davies'This brilliant book shows how demands for compassion and generosity can be a mask for sexist ideology' Susanna RustinA brilliantly witty and insightful analysis of how kindness culture...
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Fleet
Parution :
2025-02-06
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On September 15, 2017, in front of millions of television viewers, Emmanuel Macron, with François Bayrou, his Keeper of the Seals at the time, delivered his first lie: “It is now impossible to be elected when you have a B2 criminal record”. Nothing could be further from...
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Max Milo Editions
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2025-02-06
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For four centuries, the modern world has been dominated by machinery. It was born with capitalist production. It quickly became symbiotic with capitalist development, which found its driving force in mechanics. Calculation, predictability, the power of abstraction - the...
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Max Milo Editions
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2025-02-06
ePub
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This book analyzes the representations of movement that reflect time. The author scrutinizes movement critically assuming that (1) movement is composed of change, (2) a change may be a crack, (3) the crack demonstrates a disturbance in the experienced movement, and (4)...
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Springer
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2025-02-05
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Positing online users as 'sleepwalkers', Tony Sampson offers an original and compelling approach for understanding how social media platforms produce subjectivities.Drawing on a wide range of theorists, including A.N. Whitehead and Gabriel Tarde, he provides tools to...
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Polity
Parution :
2025-02-03
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Implement AI and big data at your organization using principles from behavioral economics In Behavioral AI: Unleash Decision Making with Data, behavioral economist Dr. Rogayeh Tabrizi delivers an intuitive roadmap to help organizations disentangle the complexity of...
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Wiley
Parution :
2025-02-03
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This book sets out to understand the ethical dimension of Black lives and deaths in the modern period. Recent events—from the brutal murder of George Floyd to the pervasive violence meted out daily on the streets of our cities—have demonstrated all too clearly the...
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Polity
Parution :
2025-02-03
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This book is a product of human-machine collaboration in social work and is a premier in global social work education and practice. Each chapter is organized by the book editor with a human-written introduction. Chapters focus on contemporary issues, providing an...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-02-01
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This book provides a machine-generated overview of social work across the globe, providing an in-depth understanding on social work education, practice and research. It shows the latest developments in social work, curriculum, pedagogy, practice, research and clinical...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-02-01
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