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This book focuses on competing interests of creditors who lend money against the security of the property and the occupiers who dwell in the property.

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Based on author's thesis (doctoral - European University Institute, 2017) issued under title: A quantitative quest for philosophical fairness in EU's competition procedure,

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This book compares tradition attribute data methods for assessing perceptions of deviance to emerging relational data-based social network methods using a cross-cultural sample from the United States and South Korea. It offers new insights into the conceptualization of deviance and the application of social network analysis as a new tool for studying social influence and perceptions.

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This book explores an environmental justice movement in a rural Kentucky community in the United States. It proposes a plural framework to examine how justice strategies and tools are adopted in environmental movements and calls for a careful reexamination and expanding of environmental justice theory.

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Conceptualizing Racism is a provocative book that confronts the language we use to discuss and understand racism. The author traces the history of linguistic racial accommodation through the development of sociology of a discipline and illustrates how it is at play today, not only within the discipline but in public life.

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This is an interdisciplinary approach to sexual harassment that examines the meaning of concepts such as discourse, power, ideology, sexuality, and abuse.

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"Through an exploration of the history of male facial hair in England, Alun Withey underscores its complex meanings, medical implications and socio-cultural significance from the mid-17th to the early 20th century. Withey charts the gradual shift in concepts of facial hair, and shaving - away from 'formal' medicine and practice - towards new concepts of hygiene and personal grooming"--

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In-depth study of Stephen Willats' practice, contextualised through histories of British cybernetics, experimental art, and urban design, investigating the present condition of his works and future possibilities.

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Filling an important gap in scholarship, Professor Cowden's new bibliography provides complete and authoritative information on major conductors of permanent orchestral ensembles since the time of von Weber and Berlioz.

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Details a fresh system of healthcare, by which consumers choose their own doctor and contact directly with him or her for maximal, individualized care.

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In this user-friendly dictionary of popular culture, over 800 A-to-Z entries provide historical information, definitions, and brief commentaries about the theories, media forms, fads, celebrities and icons, genres, and commonly-used terms relevant to the study of popular culture. Includes cross-references and a thematic table of contents.

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"Plastic and concrete are two of the most important and ubiquitous materials of the modern age. This open access book brings these two materials together, using a wide range of sources, including novels, essays, travel and nature writings, films, advertisements, policy documents and (popular) science writing to examine the ways in which we invent, and re-invent, the world and worlds we inhabit"--

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This book explores how sustainable development is socially constructed and implemented in desert cities.

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Concubinage and Servitude in Late Imperial China is a survey of the institutions and practice of concubinage and servitude in both the general populace and the imperial palace in Ming-Qing China, focusing on an examination on political and socioeconomic history through the lives of this particular group of distinct, yet associated, individuals.

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Concubinage and Servitude in Late Imperial China is a survey of the institutions and practice of concubinage and servitude in both the general populace and the imperial palace in Ming-Qing China, focusing on an examination on political and socioeconomic history through the lives of this particular group of distinct, yet associated, individuals.