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This book argues that despite the many real advantages that industrial modernity has yieldedーincluding large gains in wealth, longevity, and (possibly) happinessーit has occurred together with the ……続きを見る

Media Relations and the Modern First Lady: From Jacqueline Kennedy to Melania Trump examines the communication strategies first ladies and their teams have used to manage press and public interest i……続きを見る

Cloud-Based Music Production: Samples, Synthesis, and Hip-Hop presents a discussion on cloud-based music-making procedures and the musical competencies required to make hip-hop beats. By investigati……続きを見る

Difenderemo il Canale di Suez con il nostro sangue e le nostre armi. Risponderemo all’aggressione con l’aggressione, al male con il male. Gamal Abdul Nasser La crisi di Suez è stato uno dei primi dr……続きを見る

Humanity’s future may rest on how we deal with climate change, environmental problems, and their impacts on society. Terrestrial Transformations: A Political Ecology Approach to Society and Nature r……続きを見る

A meditation on the trauma and possibility of searching for connection in a world that enforces bland norms of gender, sexual, and social conformity. When you turn the music off, and suddenly you fe……続きを見る

Merit has very little to do with the increasing dominance of men in the modern Liberal Party. Yet Liberal women continue to defend it. Until now. On Merit explores this imbalance, its implications f……続きを見る

Masculinities in Austrian Contemporary Literature: Strategic Evasion shows the important contribution that literature can make to the understanding of masculinities, by offering insights into the me……続きを見る

Partendo dal discorso in Senato, in cui nega la fiducia al governo Conte, Matteo Richetti ripercorre le tappe del suo dissenso politico, iniziato con il ritiro dalle primarie del Partito Democratico……続きを見る

I grandi eventi sono divenuti, per le città che aspirano a ricoprire posizioni di rilievo nello scenario politico ed economico globale, uno strumento routinario di politica urbana. Pur simili – quan……続きを見る

Nell’età dell’“onnipaesaggio” e della “babele paesaggistica”, il percorso indicato da Emma Giammattei delinea con chiarezza l’evoluzione, dal primo Novecento a oggi, del concetto di paesaggio nelle ……続きを見る

Jordan Peterson rocketed to fame in the 2010s and has preached on everything from the evils of postmodern neo-Marxism to the mating habits of lobsters ever since then. The Left has since leveled man……続きを見る

This book argues that democracies emerging from peaceful protest last longer, achieve higher levels of democratic quality, and are more likely to see at least two peaceful handovers of power than de……続きを見る

Based on a major three-year research project, this book explores the various roles of political actors and the policies that deal with the governance of reducing transport-related carbon emissions. ……続きを見る

More coin hoards have been recorded from Roman Britain than from any other province of the Empire. This comprehensive and lavishly illustrated volume provides a survey of over 3260 hoards of Iron Ag……続きを見る

" Cet essai passionnant, remarquablement écrit et foisonnant de références d'auteurs connus et moins connus, ouvre non seulement les portes des rêves qui ont nourri notre imaginaire collectif mais i……続きを見る

Degrowth is an emerging social movement that overlaps with proposals for systemic change such as anti-globalization and climate justice, commons and transition towns, basic income and Buen Vivir. De……続きを見る

Das politische Geschehen im postsowjetischen Raum ist immer wieder von Protestwellen geprägt. Ob nun die Massenkundgebungen auf dem Bolotnaja-Platz in Moskau sowie in anderen russischen Städten 2011……続きを見る

Many remember the 1980s as the era of Ronald Reagan, a conservative decade populated by preppies and yuppies dancing to a soundtrack of electronic synth pop music. In some ways, it was the "MTV gene……続きを見る

Dark Finance offers one of the first ethnographic accounts of financial expansion and its political impacts in Eastern Europe. Following workers, managers, and investors in the Macedonian constructi……続きを見る

Em Arte afro-brasileira – identidade e artes visuais contemporâneas, em busca de referências um longo caminho é percorrido para compreender como se tem identificado o artista afro-brasileiro contemp……続きを見る

Paint Your Town Red tells the story of how one city in the north of England decided to level up without waiting for Whitehall. Across the world, there is a growing recognition that a new kind of eco……続きを見る

This book charts the history of Australian retail developments as well as examining the social and cultural dimensions of shopping in Australia. In the second half of the twentieth century, the shop……続きを見る

Even as the 2013-2017 “migration crisis” is increasingly in the past, EU countries still struggle to come up with alternative solutions to foster safe, orderly, and regular migration pathways, Europ……続きを見る

"Boys will be boys," the saying goes -- but what does that actually mean? A leading anthropologist investigates Why do men behave the way they do? Is it their male brains? Surging testosterone? From……続きを見る

This book concerns EU Cohesion Policy and the economic convergence of underdeveloped regions in Italy and Spain from the first programming period to the present: it investigates the political and in……続きを見る

Many remember the 1980s as the era of Ronald Reagan, a conservative decade populated by preppies and yuppies dancing to a soundtrack of electronic synth pop music. In some ways, it was the "MTV gene……続きを見る

Sport and the Home Front contributes in significant and original ways to our understanding of the social and cultural history of the Second World War. It explores the complex and contested treatment……続きを見る

From the middle of the nineteenth century until the 1888 abolition of slavery in Brazil, Rio de Janeiro was home to the largest urban population of enslaved workers anywhere in the Americas. It was ……続きを見る

This book compares and contrasts traditional crime scenes with scenes of climate crisis to offer a more expansive definition of crime which includes environmental harm. The authors reconsider what c……続きを見る