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Islamic studies in the twenty-first century : transformations and continuities
In recent decades, traditional methods of philology and intellectual history, applied to the study of Islam and Muslim societies, have been met with considerable criticism from rising generations of scholars who have turned to the social sciences, most notably anthropology and social history, for guidance. This change has been accompanied by the rise of new fields, studying, for example, Islam …
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- 9789048528189
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- 284p. : ill.
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- 306.697 ISL i
A philosophy of Israel education : a relational approach
Philosophy of Education; Religion and Society; Philosophy of Religion; Judaism
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- 9783319307794
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- vii, 64p. : ill.
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- 370.1 CHA p
Planning for ecosystem services in cities
This open access book presents current knowledge about ecosystem services (ES) in urban planning, and discusses various urban ES topics such as spatial distribution of urban ecosystems, population distribution, and physical infrastructure properties. The book addresses all these issues by: i) investigating to what extent ecosystem services are currently included in urban plans, and discussing w…
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- 9783030200244
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- ix, 87p. : ill.
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- 333.7 PLA p
The Early years: child well-being and the role of publlic policy
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO license. The Early Years analyzes the development of Latin American and Caribbean children and makes a compelling case for government intervention in what is instinctively a family affair. Spending on effective programs for young children is an investment that, if done well, will have very high returns, while failure to implement such program…
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- 9781137536495
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- xxii, 262p.: ill.
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- 362.7 EAR e
Indigenous knowledge production : navigating humanity within a western world
Despite many scholars noting the interdisciplinary approach of Aboriginal knowledge production as a methodology within a broad range of subjects – including quantum mathematics, biodiversity, sociology and the humanities - the academic study of Indigenous knowledge and people is struggling to become interdisciplinary in its approach and move beyond its current label of ‘Indigenous Studiesâ€â€¦
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- 9781315437811
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- viii, 188p. : ill.
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- 305.8 WAT i
Researching new religious movements : responses and redefinitions
New religious movements such as the Moonies, Jehovah's Witnesses and Hare Krishnas are now well established in mainstream cultural consciousness. But responses to these 'cult' groups still tend to be overwhelmingly negative, characterized by the furious reactions that they evoke from majority interests. Modern societies need to learn how best to respond to such movements, and how to interpret t…
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- 9780203642375
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- viii, 389p. : ill.
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- 200.7041 ARW r
Interdisciplinary insights for digital touch communication
Communication is increasingly moving beyond ‘ways of seeing’ to ‘ways of feeling’. This Open Access book provides social design insights and implications for HCI research and design exploring digitally mediated touch communication. It offers a socially orientated map to help navigate the complex social landscape of digitally mediated touch for communication: from everyday touch-screens,…
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- 9783030245641
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- 004.77 JEW i
Framing social interaction
This book is about Erving Goffman’s frame analysis as it, on the one hand, was presented in his 1974 book Frame Analysis and, on the other, was actually conducted in a number of preceding substantial analyses of different aspects of social interaction such as face-work, impression management, fun in games, behavior in public places and stigmatization. There was, in other words, a frame analyt…
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- 9780367897246
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- x, 188p.: ill.
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- 302 PER f
Social capital online : alienation and accumulation
"What is ‘social capital’? The enormous positivity surrounding it conceals the instrumental economic rationality underpinning the notion as corporations silently sell consumer data for profit. Status chasing is just one aspect of a process of transforming qualitative aspects of social interactions into quantifiable metrics for easier processing, prediction, and behavioural shaping. A work o…
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- 9781911534594
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- xxv, 167p. : ill.
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- 303.4833 FAU s
Critical theory of communication : new readings of Lukács, Adorno, Marcuse, …
"This book contributes to the foundations of a critical theory of communication as shaped by the forces of digital capitalism. One of the world's leading theorists of digital media Professor Christian Fuchs explores how the thought of some of the Frankfurt School’s key thinkers can be deployed for critically understanding media in the age of the Internet. Five essays that form the heart of th…
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- 9781911534075
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- iv, 230p. : ill.
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- 301.01 FUC c
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