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This book uses empirical data to qualify contemporary social concerns regarding automation and jobs, while raising questions about the increasing creep of unpaid work into Americans leisure time.

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Based on extensive ethnographic research, a detailed account of political life in one of the most contested Palestinian refugee camps in the Middle East

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Classic accounts of modernity have generally ignored or marginalized women, relegating them to the private sphere of home, sexuality and personal relationships. This book discusses the highly gendered nature of the concept of modernity which has, to date, marginalized the domestic space and women's traditional role as 'homemakers'.

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Challenges stereotypes about domesticity with a reevaluation of women's roles in the 'private' sphere. This book discusses the highly gendered nature of the concept of modernity which has, to date, marginalized the domestic space and women's traditional role as 'homemakers'.

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Inspired by the 1965 filmsThree Approaches To Psychotherapy(TheGloriafilms),The Patient Gloriais a provocative meditation on therapy and female desire.

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This book is a tool for educators at all levels to embrace infusing popular culture into their teaching in ways that both embrace and resist contemporary thinking. Its chapters provide a range of theoretical and practical suggestionssome widely accepted, some somewhat controversialto elicit discussion and spark creativity amongst all students.

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Their story is one of three interacting players: the Croatian government which until recently has sat firmly in control, the compliant press which seemed little motivated to change, and the largely quiescent public which demanded little from its press or its government.

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A true "first," this encyclopedia is the only comprehensive guide ever published on the archaeology and traditional culture of the Caribbean.

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The Perils of Social Media is an in-depth guide on cyberbullying, offering insights into digital challenges such as digital self-presentation, cyberdating, online gaming, and viral social media trends. It serves as both a personal resource and an educational textbook and is for anyone invested in enhancing digital safety and wellness.

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The Perils of Social Media is an in-depth guide on cyberbullying, offering insights into digital challenges such as digital self-presentation, cyberdating, online gaming, and viral social media trends. It serves as both a personal resource and an educational textbook and is for anyone invested in enhancing digital safety and wellness.

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Olfa Youssef investigates the rulings about inheritance, marriage, and homosexuality in the Quranic text itself and compares them with the androcentric interpretations provided by male Muslim theologians and legal scholars from medieval times to the present, which today inform the body of the sharia law in the Muslim world.

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This book is about how the modern market world transformed the lives of remote agricultural farmers. Waters uses diverse examples to illustrate how the modern market economy captured persistent subsistence farmes in 18th century Scotland, 19th century United States, 20th century Tanzania, and indeed, the entire modern world.

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Explores how MCSOs have responded to the challenges of the Australian socio-political context, the perceived impact of these experiences, and how Islam is manifested within the contexts of these experiences. This book offers researchers, policy makers and those engaged in community development a rich understanding of Muslim community building, engagement and agency.

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Even as it skirts mainstream contemporary culture, pornography remains a social taboo; there still exist strong biases both in favor and against it. With chapters addressing imagination, gender, power relationships, truth claims, aesthetics, and both pro and anti-porn slants, this book presents a balanced view of pornography in modern society.

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Even as it skirts mainstream contemporary culture, pornography remains a social taboo; there still exist strong biases both in favor and against it. With chapters addressing imagination, gender, power relationships, truth claims, aesthetics, and both pro and anti-porn slants, this book presents a balanced view of pornography in modern society.

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The only comprehensive overview of media changes in Latin America, charting the course of the Pink Tide in economic, political, and legal regimes from Mexico and Nicaragua to Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Argentina.

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The only comprehensive overview of media changes in Latin America, charting the course of the Pink Tide in economic, political, and legal regimes from Mexico and Nicaragua to Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Argentina.

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By exploring the lives of people on the move, this book describes the relationship of mobility to subjectivity, identity to place. Drawing on research among nomads and serial migrants, it questions their own trajectories. It also comments on cosmopolitanism, ethnicity and religion which challenge conventional wisdom from concrete perspectives.

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A study of the Bond phenomenon and its relation to the rise of playboy culture from the 1960s onwards. -- .

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Drawing on an international body of case studies from leading millennial networks, Millennials in the Modern Workforce shows how millennials can live deeper and more enriching lives by reflecting on the self, placing value on solitude and resisting the feeling that they must constantly connect and share.

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This book is an extension of Dr. Spooner's previous work on the interplay of insect processes and human culture as discussed in The Metaphysics of Insect Life (ISP, 1995). It continues the application of the literary, philosophical, and scientific methods employed there to the main currents in the evolution of modern Hispanic literature.