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This book summarizes China's ten-year experience of cultural heritage protection by providing case analysis of both successful and unsatisfying practices. It is written with an academic perspective and based on the author's real practice. The first part highlights the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-08-28
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How was rugby born in 1823? Why didn’t the first Rugby World Cup take place until 1987? Why are there so few «new nations» emerging in the world of rugby?How did the sport establish itself in New Zealand, South Africa, France, Ireland, Fiji, Georgia and Hong Kong? Are...
Editeur :
Max Milo Editions
Parution :
2023-08-28
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Set students on track to achieve the best grade possible with My Revision Notes.Our clear and concise approach to revision will help students learn, practise and apply their skills and understanding. Coverage of key content is combined with practical study tips and...
Editeur :
Hodder Education
Parution :
2023-08-25
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In today’s changing world, all kinds of problems are plaguing people’s thinking. Why is there a conflict between Russia and Ukraine? Why did the Soviet Union continue to expand and interfere in the internal affairs of other countries? What is the difference between Roma...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-08-21
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What makes a people so persistently guard its ethnic name, even at the expense of reconstructing its cultural entities? The Nu in northern Myanmar originated from the Anung and Nusu branches of the Chinese Nu people in the Nujiang River valley. In Myanmar’s contemporary...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-08-18
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The SAGE Handbook on Decision Making, Assessment and Risk in Social Work provides a comprehensive overview of key strands of research and theoretical concepts in this increasingly important field. With 49 chapters and four section summaries, this Handbook describes...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2023-08-16
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People in poverty suffer daily under misconceptions about economic hardship and its causes. Providing the most comprehensive consideration to date of poverty in the United States, Elizabeth Seale tackles how we think about issues of culture, behavior, and poverty,...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2023-08-15
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THEORY AND EXPLANATION IN GEOGRAPHY "With this book Henry Yeung puts Geography back into the driver's seat of new theory development. Foregrounding mid-range theories and mechanism-based explanations, he offers a pragmatic approach that has the capacity to shape the...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2023-08-15
Collection :
RGS-IBG Book Series
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As with many rapidly evolving areas, research on pluralism in media and information makes use of appropriate interdisciplinary approaches that consider diverse and interdependent factors. These considerations include new economic constraints, journalistic production,...
Editeur :
Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2023-08-14
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What do mompreneurs, angry working-class men, and migrant domestic workers all have in common? They are all gendered subjects responding to the economic, political, and cultural realities of neoliberalism’s global gender order. In this ambitious book, Radhakrishnan...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2023-08-09
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Offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the theory of material entanglement and entrapment, enriched with vivid examples from everyday life Entangled explores how archaeological evidence can help provide a better understanding of the direction of human...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2023-08-08
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«Tony Lyons’s study restores Thomas Wyse to the prominent place where he belongs – as one of the most consequential and far-seeing educational thinkers in nineteenth century Ireland. Long a neglected figure, everybody interested in the history of Irish education will...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-08-04
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Editeur :
Sceptre
Parution :
2023-08-03
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There’s history as it’s told, and then there’s history as it actually happened. You may think you know the stories behind the world’s most well-known, groundbreaking achievements, but To Her Credit is here to make you reevaluate our collective...
Editeur :
Union Square & Co.
Parution :
2023-08-01
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“He who ruled scent ruled the hearts of men.”
Patrick Süskind, Perfume.
The manufacturing secrets of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, the hero of Süskind’s novel, have been forgotten. Or nearly forgotten. Master perfumer Septimus Piesse (1820-1882) was one of the last to...
Editeur :
Max Milo Editions
Parution :
2023-07-23
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A student union recently estimated that “40,000 students are now prostitutes in France.” The primary cause is the growing precariousness and high cost of student life. This study, carried out in 2006-2007, is a vivid description of the novelty of this form of...
Editeur :
Max Milo Editions
Parution :
2023-07-21
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For the first time, a collection of testimonials gives voice to the children of lesbian couples. Sixteen of them answer the questions many people ask: does living without a father pose a problem? Do children of gay couples necessarily become gay or lesbian? Do their...
Editeur :
Max Milo Editions
Parution :
2023-07-21
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'I wish it was science fiction, but I know it's not' Jaan Tallinn, co-founder of Skype'If you read just one book that makes you confront scary high-tech realities that we'll soon have no choice but to address, make it this one' Washington Post'The best book yet written...
Editeur :
Quercus
Parution :
2023-07-20
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"Supported by ample data and suffused with anger,” an award-winning journalist “convincingly recasts this country’s maternal health care system as needlessly dehumanizing” (New York Times Book Review). Modern medicine should make pregnancy...
Editeur :
Seal Press
Parution :
2023-07-18
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Ce numéro thématique des cahiers L'Ouest saharien présente des recherches récentes en sciences humaines et sociales sur les diasporas sahariennes et sahéliennes installées en Europe. Il aborde la migration et l'exil en interrogeant les logiques liées à l'autodésignation...
Editeur :
Editions L'Harmattan
Parution :
2023-07-18
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