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Lifestyle politics and radical activism
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Attempts by people to enact their political beliefs in their daily lives have become commonplace in contemporary US culture, in spheres ranging from shopping habits to romantic attachments. This groundbreaking book examines how collective social movements have cu…
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- 15
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- 9781441157430
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- ix, 208 p.
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- 303.484 POR l
Mothers on mothers : maternal readings of popular television
From Supernanny to Gilmore Girls, from Katie Price to Holly Willoughby, a wide range of examples of mothers and motherhood appear on television today. Drawing on questionnaires completed by mothers across the UK, this book sheds new light on the diverse ways in which mothers make sense of popular representations of motherhood on television.
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- -
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- 9783035307917
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- ix, 265 p.
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- 302.23082 FEA m
The Jewish unions in America : pages of history and memories
Newly arrived in New York in 1882 from Tsarist Russia, the sixteen-year-old Bernard Weinstein discovered an America in which unionism, socialism, and anarchism were very much in the air. He found a home in the tenements of New York and for the next fifty years he devoted his life to the struggles of fellow Jewish workers. The Jewish Unions in America blends memoir and history to chronicle th…
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- 9781783743551
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- 322 p. ; ill
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- 331.880973 WEI t
Morals not knowledge : recasting the contemporary U.S. conflict between relig…
In a time when conservative politicians challenge the irrefutability of scientific findings such as climate change, it is more important than ever to understand the conflict at the heart of the “religion vs. science” debates unfolding in the public sphere. In this groundbreaking work, John H. Evans reveals that, with a few limited exceptions, even the most conservative religious Americans a…
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- -
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- 9780520969780
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- vii, 240 p. : ill.
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- 645101.0 EVA m
Towards a natural social contract : transformative social-ecological innovati…
This open access book states that the endemic societal faultlines of our times are deeply intertwined and that they confront us with challenges affecting the security and sustainability of our societies. It states that new ways of inhabiting and cultivating our planet are needed to keep it healthy for future generations. This requires a fundamental shift from the current anthropocentric and eco…
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- 9783030671303
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- xiv, 205p. : iil.
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- 303.372 HUN t
Global pathways to education : cultural spheres, networks, and international …
In this open access volume, the editors identify the trajectories and patterns displayed by education systems and investigate the causes of change from a global and historical perspective. The contributors argue that the emergence and development of education systems can be traced back to inherent national factors, as well as to the international diffusion of ideas. The research prese…
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- 9783030788858
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- xxxiii, 318 p.: ill.; - cm
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- 370.1 GLO g
Primary and secondary education during Covid-19 : disruptions to educational …
This open access edited volume is a comparative effort to discern the short-term educational impact of the covid-19 pandemic on students, teachers and systems in Brazil, Chile, Finland, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, Spain, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States. One of the first academic comparative studies of the educational impact of the pandemic, the bo…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030815004
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- vi, 475p. : ill.
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- 371.35 PRI p
One hundred years of social protection : the changing social question in Braz…
While the rise of social protection in the global North has been widely researched, we know little about the history of social protection in the global South. This volume investigates the experiences of four middle-income countries - Brazil, India, China and South Africa - from 1920 to 2020, analysing if, when, and how these countries articulated a concern about social issues and social cohesio…
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- 9783030549596
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- xxiv, 437p. : ill.
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- 361.61 ONE o
Migration to and from welfare states : lived experiences of the welfare-migra…
This open access book explores the role of family, public, market and third sector welfare provision for individual and households’ decisions regarding geographical mobility. It challenges the state-centred approach in research on welfare and migration by emphasising migrants’ own reflections and experiences. It asks whether and in which ways different welfare concerns are part of migrants…
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- -
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- 9783030676155
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- xi, 235p. : ill.
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- 304.809 MIG m
Revitalizing Indian agriculture and boosting farmer incomes
This open access book provides an evidence-based roadmap for revitalising Indian agriculture while ensuring that the growth process is efficient, inclusive, and sustainable, and results in sustained growth of farmers’ incomes. The book, instead of looking for global best practices and evaluating them to assess the possibility of replicating these domestically, looks inward at the best practic…
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- -
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- 9789811593352
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- xxii, 372p. : ill.
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- -
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- 338.10954 REV r
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