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Understanding Cultural Non-Participation in an Egalitarian Context
This open access book uses a rich data set, from individuals whose background profiles statistically predict strong cultural non-participation, to explore the most salient lifestyles and symbolic boundaries drawn in these potentially disengaged groups.The book departs from a theoretical framework in which cultural practices and cultural participation in their most visible and tangible form are …
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- 978-3-031-18865-7
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- Palgrave Studies in Cultural Participation
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- XI, 163
Advancing the Science of Cancer in Latinos
This open access book is a collection of articles based on presentations from the 2020 Advancing the Science of Cancer in Latinos conference that gives an overview of conference outcomes. The vision of the conference has been to unite researchers, scientists, physicians and other healthcare professionals, patient advocates, and students from across the world to discuss research advancements, id…
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- 978-3-031-14436-3
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- XVIII, 290
Teilhabeforschung – Konturen eines neuen Forschungsfeldes
Teilhabeforschung untersucht die Lebenslagen von Menschen mit Beeinträchtigungen und Behinderungen unter den normativen Perspektiven von Inklusion und gleichberechtigter Teilhabe. Sie berücksichtigt, dass sich die deutschsprachige Forschung zum komplexen Phänomen der Beeinträchtigung und Behinderung über die Jahre stark ausdifferenziert hat und mittlerweile unterschiedliche Disziplinen und…
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- 978-3-658-38305-3
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- Beiträge zur Teilhabeforschung
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- X, 544
Teilhabeforschung – Konturen eines neuen Forschungsfeldes
Teilhabeforschung untersucht die Lebenslagen von Menschen mit Beeinträchtigungen und Behinderungen unter den normativen Perspektiven von Inklusion und gleichberechtigter Teilhabe. Sie berücksichtigt, dass sich die deutschsprachige Forschung zum komplexen Phänomen der Beeinträchtigung und Behinderung über die Jahre stark ausdifferenziert hat und mittlerweile unterschiedliche Disziplinen und…
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- 978-3-658-38305-3
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- Beiträge zur Teilhabeforschung
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- X, 544
Empirische Analyse sozialer Probleme
Arbeitslosigkeit, Drogenmissbrauch, Obdachlosigkeit, familiäre Gewalt, Umweltzerstörung, Onlinesucht usw. Keine dieser kollektiven Notlagen – sei sie für die Betroffenen auch noch so bedrückend – erlangt von ‚sich aus‘ öffentliche Aufmerksamkeit und politische Anerkennung. Vielen durchaus kritisierbaren Lebenslagen gelingt dies erst spät oder überhaupt nicht. Warum dies so ist un…
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- 978-3-658-02280-8
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- 243
First-in-Family Students, University Experience and Family Life
This open access book, now in its second edition, offers a comprehensive overview of the experiences of First in Family (FiF) or first-generation students in higher education. It draws upon narratives of students and their family members and spans the entire university student life cycle (pre-entry, commencement, progression and graduation) with a focus on specific cohorts including mature-aged…
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- 978-3-031-34450-3
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- XXIII, 294
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Enabling University Impairment, (Dis)ability and Social Justice in Higher Ed…
This work takes the most recent, interdisciplinary research and demonstrates how to make higher education institutions open, accessible and socially just for staff and students with disabilities. Combining the scholarly fields of media platform management, information literacy, internet studies, mobility studies and disability studies, this book offers a guide and method to consider how student…
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- 978-3-319-12802-3
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- 35 b/w illustrations
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An anthology of Blackness :the state of Black design
"Shows why the design field has consistently failed to attract Black professionals, how Eurocentric hegemony impacts Black designers & how to create an antiracist, pro-Black design industry instead"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262377249
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- 1 online resource
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Cracking the bro code
"Cracking the Bro-Code is an ethnography that engages women navigating male-dominated cultures of computing. It provides evidence of women's experiences to reveal the values and practices of U.S.-based high-tech institutions and how they reproduce discrimination and harassment not only in their workplaces, but also in the broader political economy"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262377157
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- 1 online resource.
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Water Resource Economics Towards a Sustainable Use of Water for Irrigation i…
This book uses resource economics costing approaches incorporating externalities to estimate the returns for the country’s irrigation and demonstrates how underestimating the cost of water leads farmers to overestimate profits. The importance of the subject can be judged in light of the fact that India is the largest user of groundwater both for irrigation and for drinking purposes, pumping t…
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- 978-81-322-2479-2
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