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Experiencing Childhood in Ancient Athens uses literary sources and archaeological and iconographic evidence to investigate children's identities throughout the ninth to fourth centuries BCE in Athens and Attica, the city's surrounding hinterland. The book presents...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-03-26
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A powerful argument for a class-based approach to college admissions that “shows where we have gone wrong so far, and how we will get to justice, equality, and even diversity for real” (John McWhorter) For decades America’s colleges and...
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PublicAffairs
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2025-03-25
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Machine learning, renowned for its ability to detect patterns in large datasets, has seen a significant increase in applications and complexity since the early 2000s. The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology ofMachine Learning offers a state-of-the-art and forward-looking...
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Oxford University Press
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2025-03-25
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In Britain in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, universities were one of many institutional state structures wherein gender difference, the male breadwinner ideal, and heterosexuality were central to a conception of citizenship. But while the state...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-03-17
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This is anthology brings together scholarly studies, creative writing, and images to critically discuss, question, and celebrate spirituality and religion from a queer perspective. The chapters closely analyse religious practices, scriptures, and institutions from a...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2025-03-13
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This book is your key to unlocking the power of data in research, decision-making, and policy formulation.This comprehensive guide will equip both beginners and experienced data collectors with essential skills, ethical insights, and the technological expertise needed...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2025-03-13
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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...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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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...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2025-03-07
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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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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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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...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2025-02-27
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