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This innovative work tells the story of a unique partnership between a state prison administration and a team of incarcerated women, prison administrators, researchers, artists, and students known as The WoW Collective due to their joint efforts in developing a peer...
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Springer
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2024-07-19
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The aim of this book is to provide an overview of the concepts and methods used in fractal analysis and modeling in order to study the spatial distribution of human settlements.The main concepts and mathematical tools are reviewed, and emphasis is placed on the...
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Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2024-07-19
Collection :
ISTE Invoiced
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This book introduces part of the advances of the aging research conducted by Dr. Yang Wang and his collaborators since 2022. It covers several topics related to older adults, including their psychological and social well-being, their role as caregivers and care...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-07-18
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This book argues for the pragmatist thesis of the primacy of praxis on a phenomenological basis. Demonstrating the relevance of phenomenology, it provides a systematic overview of the contemporary pragmatic landscape, taking into account not only a family of...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-07-18
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Provides a comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of Urban Geography The leading undergraduate textbook on the subject, Urban Geography covers the origins, historical development, and contemporary challenges of cities and metropolitan areas around the world....
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Wiley
Parution :
2024-07-18
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This timely and ambitious volume - a product of close research collaboration with the United Nations Multi-Country Office for Micronesia - is conceived as a holistic “journey” across various domains of progress in a region that, despite fundamental common traits,...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-07-15
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Utopian thinking and utopian designs ostensibly represent a belief in human progress. The starting point of utopias is almost always a bad present that is to be overcome. But in the 20th and 21st centuries, doubts are growing about a plannable future designed by...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-07-15
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This open access volume showcases the intersection of geophysics and archaeology on a global scale, emphasising the evolution and application of geophysical methods in archaeological research and cultural heritage management. It compiles contributions from 74 experts...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-07-13
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This book specifically focuses on young adults who have the highest usage of digital technologies in their daily lives. We have assembled contributions of knowledge from scholars and students in Higher Education as they have the most direct experience of going through...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-07-11
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Machine learning algorithms are widely presumed to herald a world in which the crippling burdens of anxiety can be left behind. The digital revolution promises a brave new world where individuals, communities and organizations can at last take control of the future –...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2024-07-09
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The fractious and disorganized governmental response to the coronavirus pandemic in the United States prompted many observers to ask why the country ? which had the knowledge, resources, and plans to deal with such an event ? was caught so unprepared when the crisis...
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Polity
Parution :
2024-07-09
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The 2020 global pandemic further underscored the need for justice and visibility for Black women. Despite occurring over two months earlier, the tragedy surrounding the killing of unarmed Breonna Taylor at the hands of police seemingly went unnoticed until the murder of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-07-08
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Im Eigenheim zu wohnen ist nach wie vor der meistgenannte Wohnwunsch in Deutschland, die aktuelle Politik und die Baulandnachfrage sind eindeutige Indizien hierfür. Zugleich sind Einfamilienhausgebiete als Siedlungstyp unspektakulär, als gesellschaftlicher Ort terra...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-07-08
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Aus Beiträgen der Ringvorlesung „Die Welt retten!? Ein kritisch-interdiszi-plinärer Blick auf die Nachhaltigen Entwicklungsziele der Vereinten Nationen (SDGs)“ sowie der 17. Entwicklungspolitischen Hochschulwochen „Reduce Inequalities. Global denken, nachhaltig...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-07-08
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A key feature of those who work for the state, in the legal system and in public services is that they claim to be putting their own personal interests aside and working in a disinterested fashion, for the public good. But is disinterested behaviour possible? Can law be...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2024-07-04
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This book offers insight into the most important scientific society on urban morphology worldwide: the International Seminar on Urban Form (ISUF). After addressing the three-decade history of ISUF, the book analyses the present and future of this scientific society, of...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-07-03
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In this poetical-philosophical manifesto, Gerald Raunig develops a materialist philosophy of multiplicity. On the basis of seventeen conceptual innovations – from windy kin to transversal intellect, from dissemblage to technecologies, from minor masculinity to...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2024-07-02
Collection :
Theory Redux
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This book contains a collection of chapters about the Jewish family across different parts of the world, with contributions representing Africa (Ivory Coast and Ethiopia), Latin America, Australia, Europe (Germany), Russia, Israel, Canada, Indian families in Canada, and...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-07-01
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Der Krieg in der Ukraine hält die Welt in Atem. Die aktuelle Berichterstattung ist emotionalisiert und beschränkt sich weitgehend auf die militärischen Entwicklungen des Kriegsverlaufs. Beiträge der Friedens- und Konfliktforschung wurden und werden in der aktuellen...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-07-01
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Beats Not Beatings: The Rise of Hip Hop Criminology is a powerful radical intersectional scholarly-activist collection of liberation-based articles by "Mic" Crenshaw, Chandra Ward, Maurece Graham, Daniel White Hodge, Anthony J. Nocella II, Antonio Quintana, Andrea N....
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-06-30
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