Socio-political – Bücher, CDs, Blu-ray Discs und mehr, Seite 8

Leonidas Osvaldo Girardin
Socioeconomic and Geopolitical Aspects of Global Climate Change

This book discusses climate change from an academic point of view centered on and from Latin America. Although climate change is a global issue, there has been a notable lack of input from the Latin Ameri…

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Alvin Ntibinyane
Investigative Journalism in Africa

Investigative Journalism in Africais a window into the murky world of Africa's democratic watchdogs, telling the story of perseverance in the face of ubiquitous threats, imprisonment, and harassment throu…

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Gert Tinggaard Svendsen, Christian Bjørnskov
Social Trust in the Nordic World

Study after study has shown that Scandinavia is the most trusting region in the world. Danes in particular trust other people and organizations---including strangers, businesses, governments, law enforcem…

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Planetary Portals Collective
Planetary Portals

A speculative theory for mapping the colonial afterlives of extractive industries across southern Africa.Planetary Portals focuses on the colonial afterlives of extraction in southern Africa and its colon…

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Laura Mauldin
In Sickness and in Health

An urgent and deeply affecting account of America's failure to provide meaningful support to its chronically ill and disabled citizens and our resulting reliance on the unpaid caregiving labor of spouses …

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Corinna Barrett Lain
Secrets of the Killing State

Lethal injection is nothing like what people think. This is its untold story. In the popular imagination, lethal injection is a slight pinch and a swift nodding off to forever-sleep. It is performed by we…

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John Mcphee
They're in the River (Picador Shorts)

A master chronicler of American life introduces us to the iconic and most curious American shad. A pithy, humorous, and illuminating standalone extract from John McPhee's twenty-sixth book, The Founding F…

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Sophia Balakian
Unsettled Families

"How the family unit exists simultaneously as a focus of humanitarian compassion and of securitized suspicion. Against the backdrop of the global refugee crisis, Unsettled Families investigates the p…

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Howard A Husock
The Projects

How housing policy failed the people it was designed to help --- and how to fix it As the US struggles to provide affordable housing, millions of Americans live in deteriorating public housing projects, e…

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Ko-Lin Chin
Counterfeited in China

Forthcoming Spring 2025

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Jonathan Balcombe
Fish Sense (Picador Shorts)

A quirky, intimate, and eye-opening look into the ways of thinking like a fish. An extract from the much-loved modern classic on the subject of fish consciousness, What a Fish Knows. Do fishes think? Do t…

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Gianna Toboni
The Volunteer

"A riveting account of one death row inmate's quest to die-and a fearless look at how America's system of punishment has failed the public it claims to serve. When Scott Dozier was sent to Nevada's d…

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We Are Civic Media

Through the experiences of grassroots practitioners working across a range of mediums and disciplines, this book offers accessible insights for those interested in understanding, respecting, and practicin…

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The Chinese Global Dream, Volume II

This book explores the socio-economic, political and diplomatic implications of China's ongoing engagement with the Latin America region against the backdrop of an increasingly fragile global political cl…

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C. Yamini Krishna
Film City Urbanism in India

The book is about the reciprocal relationship between cinema and the city as two institutions which co-constitute each other while fashioning the socio-political currents of the region. It interrogates im…

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Helena Cermeño
Access to the City

This research focuses on Punjab, across the India--Pakistan border, specifically on the cities of Amritsar and Lahore. Their proximity, shared colonial past, socio-cultural ties, and entangled urban herit…

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Social Work and Social Transformation between Exclusion and Inclusion

The volume provides a theoretically grounded and practice-oriented perspective on socio-technical transformation processes in the field of social work. It focuses on the potentials for inclusion as well a…

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The Chinese Global Dream, Volume I

This book explores the socio-economic, political and diplomatic implications of China's ongoing engagement with the Latin America region against the backdrop of an increasingly fragile global political cl…

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Human Galapagos

Social and Ecological Interactions in the Galapagos Islands

The book takes a multidisciplinary approach to the spatial configuration of the Galapagos Islands from the human dimension and the socio-ecological interactions of the borders, territories, and places tha…

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Environmental Change and Development in Ladakh, Indian Trans-Himalaya

The Trans-Himalayan region of Ladakh has witnessed important changes linked to its geo-strategic importance, the rapid development of means of communication with other parts of India, socio-economic trans…

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