Télécharger le livre :  Socio-Natural Disaster Recovery Projects
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Socio-Natural Disaster Recovery Projects


Yibin Ao , Homa Bahmani , Wei Zhang


This book offers a comprehensive analysis of socio-natural disaster recovery projects, using the Bam and Wenchuan earthquakes as case studies to evaluate their success and failure. With escalating losses from socio-natural disasters and a high failure rate among...

Parution : 2025-08-19
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Éditeur : Springer
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Télécharger le livre :  Imperialisms
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Imperialisms


Pierre Bourdieu , Peter Collier


While Bourdieu’s work on cultural production, the reproduction of inequality and the rise of the modern state is well known, his writings on the phenomena of internationalization and imperialism have received much less attention. Bourdieu’s analyses of the international...

Parution : 2025-08-19
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Éditeur : Polity
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Télécharger le livre :  Neighbourhood Ecologies
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Neighbourhood Ecologies


Alexandra Crosby , Ilaria Vanni


This book foregrounds socioecological stewardship in urban spaces. It demonstrates how activities like gardening and participating in events that spark ecological learning foster a sense of place, social connections, and lively neighbourhoods. Offering case studies from...

Parution : 2025-08-19
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Women of the Fairy Tale Resistance
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Women of the Fairy Tale Resistance


Jane Harrington


Long before The Brothers Grimm, there was a sisterhood of writers who defied the patriarchy and launched a literary craze with their feminist fairy tales—these are their stories. In 17th century Paris, a group of women who called themselves conteuses (female...

Parution : 2025-08-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Classical Mythology of the Constellations
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Classical Mythology of the Constellations


Annette Giesecke , Jim Tierney


A retelling of the classic myths and timeless tales by bestselling author Annette Giesecke that underlie the 88 named constellations in the night sky--from Andromeda to Orion to Ursa Major.Classical Mythology of the Constellations is a stargazer's guide to the...

Parution : 2025-08-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Designing Organizations
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Designing Organizations


Stefan Kühl , Judith Muster


When (re-)designing organizations, one must first be clear about what is meant by the structures of an organization and what can be done in order to change them. In this book, we present communication channels, programs and personnel as central structures. We also...

Parution : 2025-08-18
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Télécharger le livre :  The Flowing "Qi"
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The Flowing "Qi"


Yanjiao Chen


This book is an ethnography of the important cultural characteristics, local myths, and legends in Shawo Town, a subordinate to Dongming County in Shandong Province. Based on the author’s fieldwork in this unique region of the Yellow River area, this book examines...

Parution : 2025-08-18
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Télécharger le livre :  The Meaningful City
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The Meaningful City


James Douet


This book presents a new way of examining cities to reveal the many and varied meanings which are written into urban landscapes. As the title suggests, urban areas are full of messages and communications, with signs and symbols incorporated into buildings, structures...

Parution : 2025-08-15
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Science and Inequality
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Science and Inequality


Scott Frickel , Kelly Moore


Science and technology produce a wide range of benefits in society but they also create harm, both of which are unequally distributed across social groups and geographic regions. This incisive book provides a set of analytical tools to understand how inequality relating...

Parution : 2025-08-15
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Éditeur : Polity
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Télécharger le livre :  The Gods of New York
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The Gods of New York


Jonathan Mahler


A Foyles Top Ten Read for August From bestselling author Jonathan Mahler, comes a sweeping chronicle of four years in 1980s New York that would transform the city and leave it more divided than ever.A rollicking, real-life Bonfire of the Vanities, featuring the...

Parution : 2025-08-14
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Éditeur : Penguin
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Télécharger le livre :  Racing to Make Space
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Racing to Make Space


Joshua D. Vadeboncoeur


This book explores the often-overlooked experiences of Black NASCAR fans, challenging the sport’s traditional image as a stronghold of Southern white conservatism. Through a narrative inquiry approach, the book examines how Black fans navigate and transform...

Parution : 2025-08-14
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Télécharger le livre :  The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano


Olaudah Equiano


WITH A FOREWORD BY DAVID OLUSOGAThis is the extraordinary story of Olaudah Equiano: Child slave. Soldier. Free man. Traveller. Abolitionist. Celebrity. Kidnapped as a child into slavery, Equiano spent the rest of his life fighting for his freedom. After years of...

Parution : 2025-08-14
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Éditeur : John Murray
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Télécharger le livre :  Hieratic
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Hieratic


Fredrik Hagen


Hieratic was the most widely used script in ancient Egypt, but is today relatively unknown outside Egyptology. Generally written with ink and a brush, it was the script of choice for most genres of text, in contrast to hieroglyphs which was effectively a monumental...

Parution : 2025-08-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Film as an Art of Society
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Film as an Art of Society


Lutz Hieber , Rainer Winter


The volume deals with the concept of art in relation to film, covering both aesthetic theory and concrete works.The spectrum includes feature films and documentaries.The focus is on the aesthetic innovations of the medium throughout its history and in the present.The...

Parution : 2025-08-13
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Evaluating Climate Change Governance in Bangladesh
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Evaluating Climate Change Governance in Bangladesh


Md. Faruk Hossain , Salim Momtaz


This book would be a valuable reference book for academics teaching and researching climate change and environmental governance.This book would be useful to students studying environmental planning, science and management, and social sciences – especially, human...

Parution : 2025-08-13
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Éditeur : Springer
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Télécharger le livre :  Female Robots and AI in Science Fiction Cinema
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Female Robots and AI in Science Fiction Cinema


Rebecca L. Jones


This book is the first comprehensive overview of the history of female-presenting AI and robots in US and UK live-action, science fiction films from 1949 to 2023. It offers an original taxonomy that aids in the examination of 80 films and over 135 characters’...

Parution : 2025-08-13
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Europe and its Others
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Europe and its Others


Iva Dodevska


This open access book joins other critical works that draw attention to the ways integration is debated, legislated, conceptualized, monitored, evaluated, and ultimately, normalized as a mode of governance. Situated at the interstices of migration studies, European...

Parution : 2025-08-13
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Télécharger le livre :  KI zwischen Ost und West
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KI zwischen Ost und West


Asadeh Ansari-Bodewein , Tim Dressler


Der vorliegende Band beleuchtet aktuelle Problemstellungen im Kontext der Entwicklung Künstlicher Intelligenz aus der Perspektive verschiedener akademischer Disziplinen (Philosophie, Sinologie, Informatik, Soziologie) und gibt einen Überblick über den...

Parution : 2025-08-13
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Éditeur : Springer VS
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Télécharger le livre :  Anatomie einer Elite – Top-Manager in Deutschland
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Anatomie einer Elite – Top-Manager in Deutschland


Stefan Bär , Renate Liebold , Markus Pohlmann , Gert Schmidt


Das Buch beschäftigt sich empirisch mit der aus der Globalisierungstheorie stammenden These der globalen ökonomischen Elite und der damit verbundenen These der neoliberalen Konvergenz. Theoretisch knüpft das Buch an am Begriff des Geist bzw. neuen Geist des...

Parution : 2025-08-13
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Télécharger le livre :  The International Legal Protection of Children in Street Situations
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The International Legal Protection of Children in Street Situations


Sylvia Agu


The book conducts a comprehensive analysis of codified international legal instruments and documents in their application to children in street situations, employing soft law documents to elucidate treaty interpretation and supplement existing legal standards.The...

Parution : 2025-08-12
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Éditeur : Springer
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