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Social welfare is riddled with ingrained problems that have already defeated all standard approaches, and reform calls for counterintuitive action. DigitalSocial Innovation (DSI) is primarily about promoting grassroots initiatives to address localized societal problems,...
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Whoosh, crunch, buzz, inhale, exhale . . . Listening for Learning: Performing a Pedagogy of Sound and Listening presents sound, listening, and pedagogical interactions as performances that create relationships, ways of being and knowing, and that provide an opportunity...
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This book offers a 360° look at breast cancer from individuals who have intimate understanding of and experience with it: patients who have lived or are living with the disease; healthcare providers whose perspectives patients and families rarely get to know; and...
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This book is all about dementia in Ireland and what has and has not been happening in a country where dementia has been a taboo topic for so long. In particular it examines the dementia landscape since late 2014, following the launch of Ireland’s first National Dementia...
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This book analyses the presence and impact of Irish drama in Galicia, a minorised cultural context where Ireland has historically been viewed as a recognisable, often inspirational, «other». Through interviews with theatre practitioners and the examination of key...
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The aim of the monograph is to present the application and practical development of the concept of remediation. Two decades after its original proposal by J.D Bolter and R. Grusin, remediation remains one of the major tools of understanding new media.The authors of this...
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Second fiddle to love, fleeting and inauthentic, a disguise for sexual rivalry, a practice to be policed or, at most, a social mechanism aptly reinforcing traditional gender norms, female friendship did not always have a good reputation in canonical and didactic...
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Eine gute Allgemeinbildung hat so ihre Vorteile. Viele Menschen beurteilen im Privat- und im Berufsleben Menschen danach, was sie so von dem wissen, was sie wissen sollten. Dieses Buch hilft Ihnen, Ihr Wissen zu testen. So erfahren Sie, wie solide Ihr Wissen zu...
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With the increased digitisation of society comes an increased concern about who is left behind.
From societal causes to the impact of everyday actions, The Digital Disconnect explores the relationship between digital and social inequalities, and the lived consequences...
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Killer Cities uses a combination of social theory, polemic and close attention to empirical detail to tell the story of how and why cities cause mass animal death and, in the process, hasten the destruction of the planet. This book is not just a lament, however. It is ...
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Der Sammelband, der Siebenbürgen und Hermannstadt aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven erfasst, eröffnet die Publikationsreihe des Zentrums für linguistische, literarische und kulturelle Forschung (ZLLKF) an der Lucian-Blaga-Universität. Thematisch greift der Band einige...
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Der historischen Ritualforschung ist die Eigenschaft des Menschen, Gruppen zu formen und in diesen kollektive Identität zu entwickeln, seit langem bekannt. Die vorliegende Studie untersucht die kulturellen Praktiken Prozession und Heiltumsweisung auf ihre Bedeutung für...
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All people around the world are directly or indirectly under the influence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which appeared in China in December 2019, and the COVID-19 pandemic caused by it. This pandemic, which is still ongoing, has infected over 40 million people and killed...
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Considering that the press is one of the fundamental elements of democracy, this book investigates how the political agenda has been presented in the print media in Turkey. By using agenda setting and framing theories, this book analyzes the conference "Ottoman...
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Why are the arts and humanities under attack? And how can they fight back?
Historically these fields have suffered from a lack of prestige due to the utilitarian perspective of the «developed» world. While such utilitarian views have not been entirely fair on this...
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Media Representations of African American Athletes in Cold War Japan addresses the cross-cultural dialogue between Black America and Japan that was enabled through sports during the Cold War era. This topic has hitherto received little scholarly attention in both...
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What, exactly, is understanding? And how do people create, maintain, and manipulate states of understanding via communication? This book addresses these questions, drawing on interdisciplinary scholarship in cognitive science, communication, psychology, and pragmatics....
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As demographics change and the southern American region grows more multicultural, clashes between mentalities and contemporary population realties increase. Somalis in the Neo-South: African Immigration, Politics and Race offers a balanced and insightful look at Somalis...
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Sprache im Sinne der Wirklichkeitsstrukturierung oder gar -konstruierung steht im Mittelpunkt des sogenannten linguistic turn. Auf der anderen Seite istSprache selbst aber auch ein Kulturartefakt. Sie entwickelt sich als Produkt der menschlichen Evolution und ist als...
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Ist ‚gutes Leben‘ im Kapitalismus möglich? Diese Frage verhandeln Angestelltenromane seit ihrer Entstehung zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts. Die vorliegende Studie analysiert das Spektrum zwischen Müssen und Muße, Lust und Frust, Arbeit und freier Zeit vor dem Hintergrund...
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