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Homelessness & health in Canada
Homelessness & Health in Canada explores, for the first time, the social, structural, and environmental factors that shape the health of homeless persons in Canada. Covering a wide range of topics from youth homelessness to end-of-life care, the authors strive to outline policy and practice recommendations to respond to the ongoing public health crisis. This book is divided into three distinct …
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- 978-0-7766-2147-0
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- 362.104 25 HOM
History of Concepts : Comparative Perspectives
Although vastly influential in German-speaking Europe, conceptual history (Begriffsgeschichte) has until now received little attention in English. This genre of intellectual history differs from both the French history of mentalités and the Anglophone history of discourses by positing the concept - the key occupier of significant syntactical space - as the object of historical investigation. C…
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- 905356306 7
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- 900 HIS
Historicizing the Uses of the Past : Scandinavian Perspectives on History Cul…
This book presents new developments in Scandinavian memory cultures related to World War II and the Holocaust by combining this focus with the perspective of history didactics. The theoretical framework of historical consciousness offers an approach linking individual and collective uses and re-uses of the past to the question how history can and should be taught. It also offers some examples o…
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- 9783837613254
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- 948 HIS
Beyond Enlightenment
The vast majority of books on Buddhism describe the Buddha using the word enlightened, rather than awakened. This bias has resulted in Buddhism becoming generally perceived as the eponymous religion of enlightenment. Beyond Enlightenment is a sophisticated study of some of the underlying assumptions involved in the study of Buddhism (especially, but not exclusively, in the West). It investigate…
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- 9780203098783
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- 306.6 COH b
The Archaeology of Human Ancestry
Human social life is constrained and defined by our cognitive and emotional dispositions, which are the legacy of our foraging ancestors. But how difficult is it to reconstruct the social systems and cultural traditions of those ancestors? The Archaeology of Human Ancestry provides a stimulating and provocative answer, in which archaeologists and biological anthropologists set out and demonstra…
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- 9780203974131
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- 301 ARC a
The Hirschfeld archives : violence, death, and modern queer culture
This work examines how death, suicide and violence shaped modern queer culture, arguing that negative experiences, as much as affirmative subculture formation, influenced the emergence of a collective sense of same-sex identity. Bauer looks for this history of violence in the work and reception of the influential sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935), and through Hirschfeld's work examines t…
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- 9781439914328
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- Sexuality studies
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- 306.76 BAU h
Hijab : Unveiling Queer Muslim Lives
Hijab: Unveiling Queer Muslim Lives is the first known collection of South African Muslim stories relating to Islam and sexual diversity. This anthology shares reallife stories of people that have struggled, or may still be struggling, to reconcile their spirituality and their sexuality. These are stories that illustrate the oneness of being and reflect on how some interpretations of the script…
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- 978-1-920355-20-3
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- 297.566 HIJ
The Third Sector As a Renewable Resource For Europe: Concepts, Impacts, Chall…
Third sector impact; Volunteering; Charity; European Commission; Political legitimacy; Third Sector in Europe; Third Sector as a Renewable Resource; Obstacles to Third Sector Organisation; Development in Europe
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- 9783319714721
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Surveying Human Vulnerabilities across the Life Course
Sociology
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- 9783319241555
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- 302 ROB s
South-North Migration of EU Citizens in Times of Crisis
Introduction This open access book looks at the migration of Southern European EU citizens (from Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece) who move to Northern European Member States (Belgium, France, Germany, United Kingdom) in response to the global economic crisis.Its objective is twofold. First, it identifies the scale and nature of this new Southern European emigration and examines these migrants’…
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- 9783319397634
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- 351.81
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