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Land of necessity : consumer culture in the United States-Mexico borderlands
Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University. In Land of Necessity, historians and anthropologists unravel the interplay of the national and transnational and of scarcity and abundance in the region split by the 1,969-mile boundary line dividing Mexico and the United States. This richly illustrated volume, with more than 100 i…
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- 9780822390787
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- xv, 401 p
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- 306.309721 MCC
AiREAS: sustainocracy for a healthy city : Phase 3: civilian participation - …
Development Economics, Atmospheric Protection / Air Quality Control / Air Pollution, Urban Studies/Sociology, Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice, Group Theory and Generalizations, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
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- 9783319456201
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- xiii, 333 p
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- SpringerBriefs on Case Studies of Sustainable Development
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- 307.12160949245 JEA
Woman between two kingdoms : Dara Rasami and the making of modern Thailand
"Woman Between Two Kingdoms explores the story of Dara Rasami, one of 153 wives of King Chulalongkorn of Siam in Thailand during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Born in a kingdom near Siam called Lan Na, Dara served as both hostage and diplomat for her family and nation. Thought of as a ""harem"" by the West, Siam's Inner Palace actually formed a nexus between the domestic an…
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- 9781501755507
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- xii + 180 p
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- 305.309593 CAS w
Road Pricing and Provision : Changed Traffic Conditions Ahead
Road pricing is not a new concept—toll roads have existed in Australia since Governor Macquarie established one from Sydney to Parramatta in 1811—and distance-based charging schemes have been trialled and implemented with varying success overseas. But how would full market reform of roads look in a federation like Australia? In its responses to the 2016 Australian Infrastructure Plan and…
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- 9781760462314
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- 388.114.WAN
Safety Cultures, Safety Models : Taking Stock and Moving Forward
The objective of this book is to help at-risk organizations to decipher the “safety cloud”, and to position themselves in terms of operational decisions and improvement strategies in safety, considering the path already travelled, their context, objectives and constraints. What link can be established between safety culture and safety models in order to increase safety within companies carr…
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- 9783319951294
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- viii, 166 p
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- SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology,
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- 363.11 GIL
Understanding Cultural Non-Participation in an Egalitarian Context
This 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 seen as mani…
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- 9783031188657
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- viii, 163 p
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- Palgrave Studies in Cultural Participation
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- 363.494 HEI
Sport, Identity and Inclusion in Europe : The Experiences of LGBTQ People in …
This book explores and critically assesses the challenges and experiences of people within sport in Europe. It presents cutting-edge research data and insights from across the continent, with a focus on sport policy, sport systems, and issues around anti-discrimination and inclusion. The book introduces the theoretical and methodological foundations of research into people in sport and then pre…
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- 9781032052533
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- xv, 230 p
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- Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society,
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- 796.08664 HAR
Social democractic parties and the working class : new voting patterns
This open access book carefully explores the relationship between social democracy and its working-class electorate in Western Europe. Relying on different indicators, it demonstrates an important transformation in the class basis of social democracy. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the working-class vote is strongly fragmented and social democratic parties face competition on mul…
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- 9783030462390
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- 324.2174 REN s
Sociology in Germany : a history
This open access book traces the development of sociology in Germany from the late 19th century to the present day, providing a concise overview of the main actors, institutional processes, theories, methods, topics and controversies. Throughout the book, the author relates the discipline’s history to its historical, economic, political and cultural contexts. The book begins with sociology in…
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- 9783030718664
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- 301.0943 MOE s
Atlas of global change risk of population and economic systems
This book is open access and illustrates the spatial distribution of the global change risk of population and economic systems with the maps of environment, global climate change, global population and economic systems, and global change risk. The risks of global change are mapped at 0.25 degree grid unit. The risk results and their contribution rates of the world at national level are unpreced…
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- 9789811666919
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- XXII, 278 p
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- 363.73874 SHI a
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