SOCIAL SCIENCE – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 9

Chang Kyung-Sup
The Risk of Compressed Modernity

In many Asian societies, the process of modernization often took place in a rapid and highly compressed fashion - not over centuries, as had happened in most Western societies, but in several decades. Thi…

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James Welker
Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan

"Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Girls' Comics Artists and Fans examines three dynamic and overlapping communities of women and adolescent girls who chal…

lieferbar ab 31.1.2026.

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Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris
Geographies of Difference, Indifference and Mis-Difference

World-renowned scholar of human geography, development, and environmental change Antonio Ioris presents an original reconceptualisation of the notions of difference and indifference and their impacts on s…

lieferbar ab 30.4.2026.

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Stephanie Canizales, Brendan O'Connor
Everyday Futures

Despite increasing attention on unaccompanied Central American youth migration to the United States, little empirical research has examined the crucial role of language in the incorporation process, parti…

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Natalie Welfens
Unequal Access

Unequal Access explores the politics of categorization practices in European resettlement and humanitarian admission programs and the complex boundaries of inclusion and exclusion they produce.

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Margo Demello
Bigfoot to Mothman

This one-volume encyclopedia introduces readers to the world's cryptids-those hidden or secret animals believed to exist at the margins of human society-including Bigfoot, Yeti, the Loch Ness Monster, and…

lieferbar ab 19.2.2026.

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George Yancey
Who Is Antiracist?

"This book proposes an index to measure survey respondents' level of agreement with antiracist principles, as defined in popular literature. It then observes the characteristics and beliefs of those …

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Rethinking the Social

Rethinking the Social casts a spotlight on Central and Eastern European societies, making their experiences visible and meaningful within postcolonial discourse.Modernization theory overlooked important a…

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Amy Shea
Too Poor to Die

When someone dies indigent, homeless, disenfranchised from society, or without family or friends, there may be no easy path to resting in peace. With over half a million people experiencing homelessness i…

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Amy Shea
Too Poor to Die

When someone dies indigent, homeless, disenfranchised from society, or without family or friends, there may be no easy path to resting in peace. With over half a million people experiencing homelessness i…

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George Yancey
Who Is Antiracist?

"This book proposes an index to measure survey respondents' level of agreement with antiracist principles, as defined in popular literature. It then observes the characteristics and beliefs of those …

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The Modern Israeli and Palestinian Diasporas

A comparative study of contemporary Israeli and Palestinian diasporas.Exilic and diasporic experience have become ubiquitous in recent decades. Jews, lacking a homeland, spread to various parts of the wor…

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Rebecca M Rodriguez Carey
Birth Behind Bars

"Birth Behind Bars provides a rare yet intimate portrait into the lives of pregnant women in prison providing critical insight into how incarceration transforms pregnancy, birth, and motherhood, show…

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George Lipsitz
Ethnic Studies at the Crossroads

Reckoning with the current state of ethnic studies.Ethnic studies is more visible than ever. A project that once struggled at the margins of academic and public life has now achieved significant levels of…

lieferbar ab 12.5.2026.

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Kathleen Tierney
Disasters

Disasters kill, maim, and generate increasingly large economic losses. But they do not wreak their damage equally across nations and populations. Every disaster has social forces at its very core. This im…

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Monique Couvson
Black STATS

A completely revised and updated handbook of eye-opening---and frequently myth-busting---facts and figures about the real lives of Black Americans today, called "a gift of knowledge" by Susan Ta…

lieferbar ab 9.6.2026.

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Monique Couvson
Black STATS

A completely revised and updated handbook of eye-opening---and frequently myth-busting---facts and figures about the real lives of Black Americans today, called "a gift of knowledge" by Susan Ta…

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Valerian Rodrigues
Ambedkar's Political Philosophy

This book engages with B R Ambedkar's primary works in both English and Marathi and the debates around them, positioning them in the South Asian context. A critical exploration of Ambedkar's political the…

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Mohsen Mostafavi Mobasher
Iranians in Texas

An exploration of the link between politics of migration, prospects of integration, and ethnic identity among Iranian immigrants and their descendants in the United States, spanning from the 1970s to the …

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Juyeon Park
Families for Mobility

Families for Mobility documents elite Korean transnational families, focusing on how they use elite education abroad as a tool for class reproduction. Drawing on interviews with parents and children at el…

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