Sociology
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Skin and Code: DNA #5On the coding and decoding of bodily surfacesJust as physical violence leaves its marks on the skin, conceptual violence is written into interfaces--in the form of biases in machine automation, as discrimination implanted in memes. The essays in this volume explore how fluctuating norms...
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Understanding Climate Change Adaptation: Lessons from Community-Based ApproachesThis book asks, how can agencies assist local communities adapting to change? By what mechanisms can communities make the most of emerging information? Can effective community-based approaches be scaled up? It is essential reading for NGO practitioners, students, government and NGO policy makers who...
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Here Comes the Flood: Perspectives of Gender, Sexuality, and Stereotype in the Korean WaveThis collection breaks down the stereotypes often expected of Korean popular culture, specifically examining issues of gender, sexuality, and stereotype in a variety of cultural products including K-pop, K-drama, and cover dancing through the lens of how "Koreanness" can be defined. A diverse range...
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After Dark: The Nocturnal Urban Landscape and Lightscape of Ancient CitiesAfter Dark explores the experience of nighttime within ancient urban settings. Contributors present material evidence related to how ancient people manipulated and confronted darkness and night in urban landscapes, advancing our knowledge of the archaeology of cities, the archaeology of darkness and night, and...
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Sides of the Same CoinThe book Sides of the Same Coin is the true story of a one-time social service worker, who lost employment and moved into his mother's home to help care for her amidst mental deterioration and aging. After a major disagreement between siblings, this once-proud...
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They: What Muslims and Non-Muslims Get Wrong about Each OtherA RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK and a powerful and deeply personal exploration of a divided country - and a hopeful vision for change. 'This is not another book about the relationship between Muslims and non-Muslims. It is THE book. . . ....
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The Time of Anthropology: Studies of Contemporary ChronopoliticsThe Time of Anthropology provides a series of compelling anthropological case studies that explore the different temporalities at play in the scientific discourses, governmental techniques and policy practices through which modern life is shaped. Together they constitute a novel analysis of contemporary chronopolitics. The...
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Social Media and Political CommunicationThis book offers a wide-scale, interdisciplinary analysis and guide to social media and political communication, examining the political use of social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. From disinformation to artificial intelligence, Jeremy Lipschultz explores how social media tools are being...
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Wokisme Blanc: aimer la diversité des individus, détester la diversité des idéesAprès le décès de George Floyd, le livre White Fragility de Robin DiAngelo est revenu en tête du classement des livres de poche du New York Times. Pour rappel, Robin DiAngelo est blanche, son livre s'adresse aux Blancs, les encourageant à réfléchir sur le...
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After Progress: Reason and Religion at the End of the Industrial AgeProgress is not just a goal in the West-it's a religion. Most people believe in its inherent value as enthusiastically and uncritically as medieval peasants believed in heaven and hell. Our faith in progress drives the popular insistence that peak oil and climate change...
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Millennials in America 2022This completely updated fourth edition of Millennials in America provides a wide range of characteristics profiling the demographic, social, and economic status of the millennial generation. While the baby boom generation occupies much of our social and political dialogue, the millennial generation is actually...
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The Invention of Green ColonialismThe story begins with a dream - the dream of Africa. Virgin forests, majestic mountains surrounded by savannas, vast plains punctuated with the rhythms of animal life where lions, elephants and giraffes reign as lords of nature, far from civilization - all of us...
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Facial RecognitionFacial recognition is set to fundamentally change our experience and understanding of monitoring, surveillance, and privacy. Backed by powerful industry interests, this technology is being integrated into many areas of society - from airports to shopping malls, classrooms to casinos. Despite the promise of...
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Red Army and Society: A Sociology of the Soviet MilitaryThis book, first published in 1985, is the first full-length study of the Soviet Armed Forces as a social institution. Using military manpower as a substantive focus, it identifies those characteristics that the Soviet military shared with counterparts in non-communist systems and those that...
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Lo Quiero!Author: Luke BurgisPublisher: Ediciones UranoPublished: 04/26/2022Pages: 379Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 9.00h x 5.70w x 1.10dISBN: 9788492917013Language: Spanish
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Mito de Las Generaciones, ElMillennials, Baby Boomers, Gen Z--we like to define people by when they were born, but an acclaimed social researcher explains why we shouldn't. Boomers are narcissists. Millennials are spoiled. Gen Zers are lazy. We assume people born around the same time have basically the...
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RabiaThere are forms of anger that intensify inequality and others that fight it. And in this duplicity understandings of life, identity, and its relationship with the odd are at stake. In different daily attitudes and in various political decisions, forms of fear, hatred and...
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What I Wish: 100 love notes to help you survive, come alive, and thrive after abortionAre you disappointed with the lack of non-judgemental abortion resources?Accessing abortion is a vital part of reproductive health and reproductive justice. It is a valid pregnancy outcome that deserves our expertise and our attention. With the abortion conversation consumed by politics, religion, and stigma...
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COVID-19 in Southeast Asia: Insights for a post-pandemic worldCOVID-19 has presented huge challenges to governments, businesses, civil societies, and people from all walks of life, but its impact has been highly variegated, affecting society in multiple negative ways, with uneven geographical and socioeconomic patterns. The crisis revealed existing contradictions and inequalities in...
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The Political Economy of Agrarian Extractivism: Lessons from BoliviaBen M. McKay analyzes how the Bolivian countryside is transformed by the development and expansion of the soy complex and reveals the extractive dynamics of capitalist industrial agriculture, while also challenging dominant discourses legitimating this model as a means to achieve inclusive and sustainable...
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