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Over the last decade, images have become a key feature of digital culture; at the same time, they have made a mark on a wide range of research practices.Visual Methods for Digital Research is the first textbook to bring the fields of visual methods and digital research...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2024-06-19
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The breadth and depth of Zygmunt Bauman’s engagement with social theory and the history of social thought has perhaps been underestimated, in part because many of his early writings were in Polish and never translated into English, and in part because many important...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2024-06-19
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Revealing a world of secret messages contained within a single petal.Floriography – the language of flowers – is the ancient art of encoding hidden messages in the type, colour and arrangement of plants, allowing individuals to express emotions and sentiments that they...
Editeur :
OH
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2024-06-15
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A deeply personal exploration of childless and childfree women in their own words.Others Like Me is the story of fourteen women around the world, from different walks of life, who don't have children. It's also the story of why Nicole Louie had to find them and what...
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Dialogue Books
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2024-06-13
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Have you always wanted to know what makes an ordinary person commit a crime? Explore the dark side of human nature with this illuminating beginner's guide to criminology.There are few subjects more compelling or divisive than criminology. Whether crime dominates the...
Editeur :
Summersdale
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2024-06-13
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During the Covid-19 pandemic, the term "vulnerable" was applied to "individuals" and to "populations", "groups" and "countries" in discussions, laws and regulations; now it applies to all objects in relation to all kinds of threats. However, rather than a label for...
Editeur :
Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2024-06-13
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This book offers a new reading of the work of Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa. It provides a formal and detailed analysis of his films to suggest that Costa’s formal procedures generate a contingency of meaning. The book proposes that Costa’s films suggest a critical...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-06-10
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How to respond to the challenge of climate change in Africa?Can the international climate court (ICC) make its contribution?This work raises the need to create an ICC (International Climate Court) in order to repair and reduce the environmental inequalities suffered by...
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NAS éditions
Parution :
2024-06-10
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Poing levé
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Race is arguably the single most troublesome and volatile concept of the social sciences in the early 21st century. It is invoked to explain all manner of historical phenomena and current issues, from slavery to police brutality to acute poverty, and it is also used as...
Editeur :
Polity
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2024-06-07
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Editeur :
Piatkus
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2024-06-06
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The brain is the basis for the development of every individual’s imagination.The only safe that is a priori inviolable for any individual.Neurological rights or neuro-rights are atypical rights. Their legal framework is experiencing increasing development...
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NAS éditions
Parution :
2024-06-05
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Poing levé
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BoyMum is about boys and young men - how we are raising them, and what it means to be a man-in-the-making in an era when #MeToo has challenged our tolerance for toxic masculinity, yet the pressure on young men to be 'masculine' has never been more intense.It is also a...
Editeur :
Quercus
Parution :
2024-06-04
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An “unsparing, erudite, and incisive” (Jelani Cobb, staff writer, The New Yorker) reframing of the past and present of Black resistance—both nonviolent and violent—to white supremacy Named a Best Book of 2024 by Smithsonian * Kirkus *...
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Seal Press
Parution :
2024-06-04
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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...
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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...
Editeur :
NAS éditions
Parution :
2024-06-01
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Poing levé
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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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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
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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...
Editeur :
Constable
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2024-05-30
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