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The decline in Secular Western morality can only be halted and reversed by a full return to Christianity.Many people have a sense that the Western World is in decline and that our society is fragmenting around us. Many people have an ominous sense that we are living at...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2025-03-13
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Marketing involves a wide range of professions, activities and tools and it plays an increasingly important role in our lives. But what exactly is marketing and how did it come to assume such importance? Who are the marketing professionals, what exactly do they do and...
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Polity
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2025-03-13
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There is a clear and pressing need for collective action to develop alternative approaches to the way we organize our activities. This necessity implies the development of a robust theory that outlines a potential, attainable, and desirable future, which is embedded in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-03-13
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This book was the winner of the 2022 Peter Lang Emerging Scholars Competition in Media & Communication.
Thailand, the "land of smiles," is often seen as a "gay paradise." But how does Thai culture understand sexuality?This book moves beyond Western frameworks to explore...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2025-03-13
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The long history of how restricting access to abortion has been used to curtail women’s advancement Attitudes about abortion cycle between long periods of widespread tolerance, to repression, and back again. What accounts for these pendulum swings? From ancient...
Editeur :
Seal Press
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2025-03-11
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An investigation that shows how the most ambitious figures in the Democratic Party want to transform the rest of America into the progressive dystopia that is California. Take a close look at today’s Democratic Party power brokers and you’ll quickly realize...
Editeur :
Center Street
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2025-03-11
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Accusations of racism by both the progressive left and populist right have become increasingly politicized in this age of rupture. Rethinking Racism captures this moment and movement, in which the concept of racism is evolving in response to shifting discourses and...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2025-03-07
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A pioneering sociological exploration of boredom as a culturally- and socially-dependent emotion Does boredom have a history? What can hunter-gatherers teach us about boredom? Is boredom experienced differently by those in different socio-economic classes? Is boredom a...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2025-03-07
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An “intimate and searching” (Natasha Trethewey, New York Times–bestselling author of Memorial Drive) memoir of family, color, and being Black, white, and other in America, from “one of our country’s greatest historians” (Clint...
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Basic Books
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2025-03-04
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A fun and fascinating social history of the famed Katharine Gibbs School, which from the 1910s to the 1960s, trained women for executive secretary positions but surreptitiously was instilling the self-confidence and strategic know-how necessary for them to claim...
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Algonquin Books
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2025-03-04
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Scholarly attention to the concept of the posthuman has increased recently in response to pressing problems about what it means to be human and what distinguishes the human from the nonhuman. The ongoing ecological catastrophes, recent technological breakthroughs, and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2025-02-27
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From the Foreword:
«This important contribution...to the history of this period shines a light on voices often left in the shadows of history's formal and established narrative, voices that reached across divides, laying down the roots of trust and shared humanity that...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2025-02-26
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Introduces students to the study of the social forces that shape mental health and empowers the next generation to make an impact on mental health management As the prevalence of mental health issues worldwide continues to grow, an active area of sociology is...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2025-02-19
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From the authors of Quackery, a visual and narrative history of popular ideas, phenomena, and widely held beliefs disproven by science. From the easily disproved to the wildly speculative, to straight-up hucksterism, Pseudoscience is a romp through much more...
Editeur :
Workman Publishing Company
Parution :
2025-02-18
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Cunning, sadistic and deadly - the world's most notorious lady killers are brought together in this shocking true crime compendiumWhat drives women to kill? Is it love, power, revenge? There is something both disturbing and fascinating about female murderers - how those...
Editeur :
Summersdale
Parution :
2025-02-13
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Die Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Symbolforschung hat in diesem Band die Ergebnisse der vier Tagungen 2018 bis 2021, deren Themenbereiche einander bestens ergänzen, zusammengestellt. „Reisen und Verweilen“ (2018) führte Referenten aus den Gebieten der Arabistik,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-02-13
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