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Ageing in Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic
This Open Access Book contains reports on the situation of people in the second half of life during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic. The analyses are based on the German Ageing Survey (DEAS) and they provide insights on four main areas of life: income and work, subjective health and well-being, social support and loneliness as well as societal participation. This book is useful for scie…
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Migrating into Financial Markets: How Remittances Became a Development Tool
We understand very little about the billions of dollars that flow throughout the world from migrants back to their home countries. In this rigorous and illuminating work, Matt Bakker, an economic sociologist, examines how these migrant remittances—the resources of some of the world’s least affluent people—have come to be seen in recent years as a fundamental contributor to development in …
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Prosperity: China Story Yearbook 2018
A ‘moderately prosperous society’ with no Chinese individual left behind—that’s the vision for China set out by Chinese President Xi Jinping in a number of important speeches in 2017. ‘Moderate’ prosperity may seem like a modest goal for a country with more billionaires (609 at last count) than the US. But the ‘China Story’ is a complex one. The China Story Yearbook 2017: Prospe…
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Blamestorming, Blamemongers and Scapegoats: Allocating Blame in the Criminal …
We live in a society that is increasingly preoccupied with allocating blame: when something goes wrong someone must be to blame. Bringing together philosophical, psychological, and sociological accounts of blame, this is the first detailed criminological account of the role of blame in which the authors present a novel study of the legal process of blame attribution, set in the context of crimi…
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- 364.4 DIN b
Class, Culture and Space: The Construction and Shaping of Communal Space in S…
In the present social and cultural transformation of South Thailand's cultural politics, ideologies involving the family, gender and home provide the cultural codes in social dramas of the state, the media and social and religious movements. This study looks at micropolitics and the nesting of the political action of everyday life in larger, ultimately global structures of power. Exploring the …
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Isurium Brigantum: an archaeological survey of Roman Aldborough
Brings together in one volume for the very first time the results of a major re-examination of the site of the Roman town of Isurium Brigantum (Aldborough, in North Yorkshire), with recent geophysical surveys and a re-evaluation of earlier antiquarian work and archaeological fieldwork and excavations – some never before published. Provides historians and archaeologists with exciting new infor…
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- Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London, LXXXI (81)
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When Right Makes Might: Rising Powers and World Order
Why do great powers accommodate the rise of some challengers, while others are contained and confronted, even at the risk of war? The book proposes that when faced with a new challenger, great powers will attempt to divine its intentions, to determine whether that rising power poses a revolutionary threat to the system, or whether it can be incorporated into the existing international order. In…
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Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Man-Machine-Environment S…
Rekayasa Sistem Manusia-Mesin-Lingkungan (MMESE) adalah studi prinsip desain sistem yang berpusat pada manusia yang sangat baik, Prosiding ini adalah studi interdisipliner tentang konsep dan metode fisiologi, psikologi, rekayasa sistem, ilmu komputer, ilmu lingkungan, manajemen, pendidikan, dan disiplin ilmu terkait lainnya. --> Pada tahun 1981, di bawah arahan ilmuwan besar Xuesen Qian, sebuah…
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- 978-3-662-48224-7
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Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Man-Machine-Environment S…
Rekayasa Sistem Manusia-Mesin-Lingkungan (MMESE) adalah studi prinsip desain sistem yang berpusat pada manusia yang sangat baik, Prosiding ini adalah studi interdisipliner tentang konsep dan metode fisiologi, psikologi, rekayasa sistem, ilmu komputer, ilmu lingkungan, manajemen, pendidikan, dan disiplin ilmu terkait lainnya. --> Rekayasa Sistem Manusia-Mesin-Lingkungan (MMESE) adalah ilmu perba…
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The Secret Police and the Religious Underground in Communist and Post-Communi…
This book addresses the complex intersection of secret police operations and the formation of the religious underground in communist-era Eastern Europe. It discusses how religious groups were perceived as dangerous to the totalitarian state whilst also being extremely vulnerable and yet at the same time very resourceful. It explores how this particular dynamic created the concept of the “reli…
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