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This book adopts an explicitly postmodernist perspective of the digital revolution. While exploring issues relating to the re-creation of social life in the digital world, its main focus is on the political economy and in particular the extent to which the paradigms of capitalism and socialism can be mapped as postcapitalism onto this new world.

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This book advances the theoretical, normative and practical understanding of civil society under the conditions of digital mediatization and in relation to a set of particular historical and geopolitical circumstances.

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Behind-the-scenes stories of how Internet research projects actually get done.

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This book presents intricate, backstage negotiations of interests and compromises between diplomats and lobbyists through the corridors of power, which drove Turkey both closer to and farther apart from the EU. -- .

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This interdisciplinary collection examines the complex nature of disastertyphoons, floods, earthquakes, and droughtin the Philippines. The contributors analyze the challenges of the country's internal heterogeneity of language, ethnicity, and class and its effect on responses to natural disaster.

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Disasters in Field Research is your guide to what can go wrong while conducting fieldworkand what you can do to avoid or minimize the impact of unexpected negative events as diverse as ravenous ants, temperamental gear, debilitating illness, and unpredictable politics.

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Disasters in Field Research is your guide to what can go wrong while conducting fieldworkand what you can do to avoid or minimize the impact of unexpected negative events as diverse as ravenous ants, temperamental gear, debilitating illness, and unpredictable politics.

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This book introduces the concept of disciplined agency as a valuable explanatory tool vis-a-vis new forms of labour exploitation in service realms of production and the material and moral insecurities of capitalism under neoliberal governance. -- .

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The authors consider the nature of explanatory models in the social sciences in order to suggest ways in which conceptual systems differ. They suggest that, in many cases, theorists, researchers and clinicians can utilize insights from rival models in building their own models, without sacrificing the integrity of their own work.

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Arguing that gentrification has occurred throughout the urban hierarchy, Ravuri explores the gentrification process and associated displacement of poor populations in twelve mid-sized US cities.

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Utilizing contemporary accounts of India, China, Siam and the Levant, this study provides rich detail about these exotic lands and explores the priorities that shaped and motivated these bold envoys and chroniclers.

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While the defense of public image in political, corporate, and celebrity rhetoric has been widely studied, religious image repair has been largely ignored.

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A valuable resource for clinicians, Divorce: Emotional Impact and Therapeutic Interventions demonstrates how therapists and patients can work through a divorce to yield deeper insights into the self, greater tolerance of ones own limitations, and lay the groundwork for contentment with a future partner.

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A valuable resource for clinicians, Divorce: Emotional Impact and Therapeutic Interventions demonstrates how therapists and patients can work through a divorce to yield deeper insights into the self, greater tolerance of ones own limitations, and lay the groundwork for contentment with a future partner.

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Through rich ethnographic detail and cutting-edge theory, DIY Style tells the fascinating story of an international do-it-yourself (DIY) movement through a major case study of the "indie" music and fashion scene in Indonesia.

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Through rich ethnographic detail and cutting-edge theory, DIY Style tells the fascinating story of an international do-it-yourself (DIY) movement through a major case study of the "indie" music and fashion scene in Indonesia.

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In "Do unto Brothers", R. Kent Smith takes the Golden Rule and candidly discusses our responsibilities to consider those around us in every decision. His discussion of ethics, integrity, and conflict resolution is an incredible look into oneself.

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Addresses the techniques and mechanisms by which official agencies certify individual identity, from passports and identity cards to labor registration and alien documentation, from fingerprinting to much-debated contemporary issues such as DNA-typing, body surveillance, and more.

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This volume comprehensively examines the long-term effects of higher education on attitudes and activities of a large, nationally representative sample of high school students who graduated in 1972.

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