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Sustainable Development: An Appraisal of the Gulf Region (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
With growing evidence of unsustainable use of the world's resources, such as hydrocarbon reserves, and related environmental pollution, as in alarming climate change predictions, sustainable development is arguably the prominent issue of the 21st century.
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Problems of Conception: Issues of Law, Biotechnology, Individuals and Kinship (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The Biotechnology Act in Norway, the most restrictive in Europe, forbids egg donation and surrogacy and has rescinded the anonymity clause with respect to donor insemination. Thus, it limits people's choice as to how they can procreate within the boundaries of the nation state...
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A Social History of Europe, 1945-2000: Recovery and Transformation after Two World Wars (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Focuses on the fundamental challenges European societies underwent in the second half of the twentieth century... Læs mere
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Wartime Captivity in the 20th Century: Archives, Stories, Memories (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Brings together an international selection of scholars to trace the contours of a century of wartime captivity. Offers fascinating new perspectives on historical moments that range from the early days of the Great War to the arrival of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.
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Anxious Histories: Narrating the Holocaust in Jewish Communities at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Over the last 70 years, memories and narratives of the Holocaust have played a significant role in constructing Jewish communities. This book explores one field where these narratives are disseminated: Holocaust pedagogy in Jewish schools in Melbourne and New York.
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The Body in Asia (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The past few decades have seen growing interest in the study of the body. However, the increasing number of exciting and influential publications has primarily, if not exclusively, focused on the body in Western cultures.
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Economy and Ritual: Studies of Postsocialist Transformations (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
These six ethnographies offer a different vision. Comparative, historical, and contemporary, the studies stretch from Macedonia to Kyrgyzstan, each one illuminating the changes in an area as it emerged from socialism and (re-)entered market society.
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Global Sustainability and Communities of Practice (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Using case-based and theoretical chapters that examine rural and urban communities of practice, this volume illustrates how participatory researchers and... Læs mere
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Living Before Dying: Imagining and Remembering Home (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This in-depth description of life in a nursing/care home, told in a year of daily conversations with patients and staff, highlights the daily care of... Læs mere
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Democracy in Modern Europe: A Conceptual History (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
As one of the most influential ideas in modern European history, democracy has reshaped not only the landscape of government, but also fundamental social and political thought on a global level. Democracy in Modern Europe covers the history of democracy in modern Europe.
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Anthropology and Public Service: The UK Experience (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This volume shows how anthropologists can set new agendas, and revise old ones in the public sector. Included are discussions of anthropologists' work... Læs mere
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The Hidden History of Crime, Corruption, and States (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
No other volume covers the collusion of lawmakers and lawbreakers in state formation over 300 years touching on each continent. Contributing... Læs mere
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