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«This is a very good argument, with impressive detail, clear structure, and vehement commitment.»
(M. McEldowney, Emeritus Professor of Planning)
This book provides a post-Covid recovery strategy for the UK that is based on all aspects of health, but also addresses...
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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...
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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...
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How was human (in)equality built across the table? Why were the first great banquets at the origin of the communal goods of humanity? Who, after forcing men from eating bread, wanted to forbid them chestnuts and popularized the potato? The Egyptian food table invented...
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• The rich have always existed because inequality is natural.
• With hard work, anyone can become rich.
• We criticize the rich out of jealousy.
• The rich spend and invest.
• The rich create jobs.
• The rich take risks and innovate.
• The more rich there are, the fewer...
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• "TV unleashes the imagination and feeds intelligence."
• "A child deprived of TV risks social isolation."
• "TV dumbs you down."
• "TV makes you obese."
It seems that everything—and its opposite—has already been said about TV. But what is it really? How can we...
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In America, liberalism brings prosperity to the majority?
False.
In America, "anything is possible" for those who work hard?
False.
In America, the unemployment rate is minimal?
False.
In America, poverty is relative and the poor live "like modest...
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In 6,000 food products, aspartame is found everywhere in so-called diet nutrition. However, several scientific studies show that this sweetener is harmful for children, pregnant women and epileptics. Used to replace sugar and reduce the caloric intake of food, aspartame...
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Was hat die „Tropenmedizin" im „Globalen Norden" zu suchen?Was kann eine Universität, ein „Tropeninstitut", im „Globalen Norden" zur Verbesserung der Gesundheitssituation im „Globalen Süden" beitragen? Die Antwort: „Tropenmedizin" muss sich zu „Globaler Medizin" hin...
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Over recent decades, developing nations have been the beneficiaries of Official Development Assistance (ODA) from European and North American countries. ODA remains the central mechanism in sustaining and financing actions and processes related to international...
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The book contributes to retracing the elaboration of the corpus of theoretical and methodological approaches, themes and perspectives of analysis from which contemporary research on youth cultures originates. From the privileged vantage point of sociology, the book...
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Ethics/morality/professional ethics is a subject that can be discussed in many aspects in the field of health sciences and social sciences. Every social event that takes place in social life is also the subject of ethics. Ethics can be dealt with in every field from...
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Frameworks of Power is a coherent and comprehensive account of the different frameworks for understanding power that have been advanced by influential thinkers across the social sciences. A true classic in the field, the original edition proved hugely influential and a...
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Part of the New Approaches to Sociology series, Social Inequalities is a relevant and valuable exploration of how we see the world, through a decolonised lens. Aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students of sociology, this textbook offers a critical re-reading of...
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Patient organizations today play a major role in the scientific, economic and political arenas. They have become the quasi-obliged partners of researchers, industrialists and political authorities. This book investigates this quite recent configuration by offering an...
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This book focuses on home as a site of care, with new technologies and for elderly population. It pulls together findings from research in the social sciences and common knowledge of the actors themselves, especially stakeholders involved in the design, delivery and...
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What does it mean to turn something into capital ?What does considering things as assets entail ?What does the prevalence of an investor's viewpoint require ?What is this culture of valuation that asks that we capitalize on...
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Smart(er) Internet Regulation is about applying better regulation principles to the internet. The book addresses difficult-to-quantify policy objectives, such as protection of fundamental rights and the preservation of the internet ecosystem, and proposes a method to...
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The idea of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has taken the world by storm. From fears over killer robots in sci-fi dystopias, to driverless cars in real life, we are both inspired and horrified by the prospect of an advanced intelligence that is not our own. Could AI take...
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This SAGE Handbook brings together cutting edge social scientific research and theoretical insight into the emerging contours of digital society. Chapters explore the relationship between digitisation, social organisation and social transformation at both the macro and...
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