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Meltdown investigates and recreates the dramatic events behind the most notorious nuclear accidents in history, as well as those shrouded in secrecy. Combining human tragedy with intriguing science, each account reveals new aspects of humanity's complex relationship...
Editeur :
Headline Welbeck Non-Fiction
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2024-06-01
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The gap between health for all and the imperative of profitability of patents on medicines is enormous.This work highlights the eternal conflict between health for all and the imperative of profitability of intellectual property linked to patents on medicines in the...
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NAS éditions
Parution :
2024-06-01
Collection :
Poing levé
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The book tries to answer the most fundamental question of whether there is a link between abundant food supply and economic growth with respect to a higher degree of human development. In order to have flourishing economic growth within a country the need for a food...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-05-31
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This book applies the most recent research in social psychology to decisive historical events that arguably built white supremacy as a cultural force, institutional system, and dominant social character. Simultaneously, the discussion considers the progressive...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-05-31
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The motion picture industry is dependent on technology. It is therefore important for scholars and students of film, media, and communication to understand how film audiences and practitioners engage with technology. A critical aspect of scholarly work is to document...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-05-31
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The rise of blogs and social media provide a public platform for people to share information online. This trend has facilitated an industry of self-appointed ‘lifestyle gurus’ who have become instrumental in the management of intimacy and social relations. Advice on...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2024-05-31
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This book argues that the psychoanalytic concept of disavowal best renders the structure underlying our contemporary social response to traumatic and disturbing events, from climate change to unsettling tectonic shifts in our social tissue. Unlike denialism and...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2024-05-31
Collection :
Theory Redux
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This book presents theoretical insights into key aspects of Chinese brand cross-cultural communication, such as psychological distance, implicit context, brand narrative and influence of bridge crowds.This book applies the psychological distance theory of communication...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-05-31
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The climate crisis is humanmade. Its main cause is the burning of fossil fuels. To combat climate change, we have to understand how we arrived at where we are. This book explores the reasons why human societies have embarked on the trajectory of ever-increasing use of...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2024-05-30
ePub
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On the 25th anniversary of the Scottish Parliament, this book captures an important moment in contemporary history: how a grassroots women's movement, harking back to the suffragettes and second wave feminists of the 1970s and 1980s, took on the political establishment...
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Constable
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2024-05-30
ePub
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This book constructs the theoretical framework based on a range of prominent social theories to address how juvenile delinquency is socioeconomically constructed. Here the presentation of conceptual details is supported by Chinese literature that rationalises,...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-05-29
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This open access book investigates from a life-course perspective the individualization process and the challenges faced by young adults in post-collectivist China, where people are enjoined to "liberate" (jiefang) their individual capacities, to "rely on themselves"...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-05-28
Collection :
Life Course Research and Social Policies
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The climate is changing faster than our cultural practices are adapting to it. This Open Access volume, co-edited by Emily Coren (a science communicator) and Hua Wang (a communication scientist), presents a survey of the latest in agency-focused climate storytelling....
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-05-27
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2024 International Conference on Applied Economics, Management Science and Social Development (AEMSS 2024) will be held in Luoyang, China during March 22-24, 2024. The conference mainly focuses on research fields such as applied economics,...
Editeur :
Atlantis Press
Parution :
2024-05-27
Collection :
Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research
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This book investigates both early as well as recent accounts of journeys by women and families in African, Asian, East European, North and Latin American contexts. It discusses how places, place settings and transport routes, whether by land, sea, or air, were and...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-05-27
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This book characterizes a type of city, i.e. the metropolis, by using characteristics which have very little to do with its size. It distinguishes between metropolises and megacities and defines these different characteristics by bringing together elements related to...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-05-27
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This book investigates the integration of Syrian refugees in the United States, and it identifies the challenges that hinder their successful integration. After providing a comprehensive analysis of the U.S. legal instruments in national and international laws and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-05-26
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This book explores the interwoven nature of place, Catholicism and violence in Caracas’ barrios. Using interdisciplinary perspectives to investigate themes of urban space, meaning as a psychosocial construct, criminal violence, and religiosity as culture, this book...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-05-26
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Written by experienced authors and teachers with examining experience, this book will support you through the A-level course and offers high-quality support you can trust.?Provides comprehensive coverage of all the key theory for A-level?Knowledge, understanding and...
Editeur :
Illuminate Publishing
Parution :
2024-05-24
ePub
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This book brings together anthropological and historical studies that analyze burial rituals within the Caribbean through the theoretical lens of syncretism and the hybridization of post-colonial and contemporary time periods. Based on oral historiography, historical...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-05-23
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