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  • Unmasking DEI
    Christopher Stuart Taylor
    The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online.Understanding and dismantling the deep-rooted structures of racism is essential for creating truly equitable societies. In recent years, initiatives aimed at Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and social justice have become more prevalent than ever. However, a critical issue persists: these e...
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    43,49 €

  • Acehnology
    Kamaruzzaman Bustamam Ahmad
    What sustains a civilization when its language, institutions, and intellectual traditions begin to lose their place in public life?Acehnology, Volume III, examines the cultural and intellectual foundations through which Aceh has understood itself and transmitted knowledge across generations. Kamaruzzaman Bustamam Ahmad approaches civilization not simply as political power or ma...
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    33,72 €

  • Acehnology
    Kamaruzzaman Bustamam Ahmad
    How can Aceh be understood through its own fields of knowledge?Acehnology, Volume II: Constituting the Fields of Knowledge in the Study of Aceh develops the interdisciplinary project introduced in Volume I by examining the principal disciplines through which Acehnese life, thought, culture, and society may be studied. Moving from foundational theory to the formation of scholarl...
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    36,52 €

  • Teaching as Radical Logic
    Teaching as Radical Logic: Dialectic, Analectic, and Education brings together groundbreaking work from leading voices in decolonial theory, Marxist thought, and critical education.This volume revitalizes the cross-fertilizing dialogue between traditions that historically propelled global anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist political movements, while restoring to pedagogy its ...
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    51,10 €

  • What’s Wrong with India?
    Sandeep Chavan
    What is wrong with India?Population? Politics? Corruption? Education? Unemployment? Bureaucracy? Caste? Religion? Infrastructure? Social media? Bad leadership? Irresponsible citizens?Almost everyone has an answer.Sandeep Chavan asks a different question: What keeps producing what appears wrong with India?What’s Wrong with India? - Population, Politics, and the Architecture of P...
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    55,95 €

  • Shut Up and Listen
    Ash Sarkar / Roger Hallam
    The left knows what it’s against. But what comes next? Fresh out of prison, Roger Hallam, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, Just Stop Oil and Insulate Britain, sits down with journalist Ash Sarkar for a wide-ranging conversation about why progressive politics keeps failing to build mass movements, and what needs to change. Hallam argues that the central problem is not ideolog...
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    7,80 €

  • The Human System
    John Leonard
    We have built the most prosperous civilization in human history. We are also, on every measurable dimension, growing lonelier, more anxious, and less certain that any of it matters.In THE HUMAN SYSTEM, John Leonard takes up a question that economists, politicians, and pundits have spent a generation avoiding. Why, in the wealthiest societies that have ever existed, are so many ...
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    13,31 €

  • Territorial Listening
    Territorial Listening is an event. Its authors start from the premise that cities and streets, much like dreams, present us with manifest and latent contents that are expressed in unconscious ways. The psychoanalyst does not listen only to an individual utterance but to the territorial relations in which it is embedded and where its meaning lies. Starting from Brazilian scenes ...
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    14,97 €

  • COMMON GROUND
    Jacob A. Plummer
    America is not only facing a political crisis. It is facing a relational one.Families avoid difficult conversations. Friendships fracture over political beliefs. Neighbors judge one another by campaign signs. Social media platforms reward outrage, institutions lose credibility, and disagreement increasingly turns into contempt.In Common Ground: The Fight to Rebuild Trust in a D...
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    25,97 €

  • Gedächtnissoziologie
    Michael Heinlein / Oliver Dimbath
    Das Buch bietet eine systematische Einführung in das Forschungsfeld der Gedächtnissoziologie. Es erschließt zentrale Begriffe und Fragestellungen und verortet sie im Spektrum soziologischer Theorie. Im Zentrum steht eine Rekonstruktion klassischer und aktueller Ansätze: von Émile Durkheim und Maurice Halbwachs über die Chicago School und die Sozialphänomenologie bis hin zu stru...
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    64,11 €

  • 小镇里的中国
    田先红
    乡镇虽小,'五脏'俱全。本书以中国中部地区一个普通乡镇为田野调查点,通过对乡镇干部、村级组织、农民等多方角色的长期跟踪与细致观察,展现了乡村基层干部与农民围绕项目资源、地权分配、征地拆迁、税费收缴、社会保障等展开的日常互动。作者通过呈现'包保责任制''12345 热线'等诸多治理方式的微观运作,展现了基层政府的服务如何直达社会个体,有效地解决民众的急难愁盼问题,达成乡镇的有序运转,但也在实践中面临掣肘,产生一些意外后果。本书生动又深刻地揭示了进入21 世纪以来,特别是农业税费改革后,中国基层政治生态与国家治理模式的深刻转型。本书不仅是一部关于一个小镇的微观民族志,更是一面折射大国治理深层逻辑的镜子,为理解当代中国国家与社会关系的真实图景提供了深刻的实证文本。 ...
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    40,99 €

  • The Spectacle of Online Life
    The Spectacle of Online Life offers a groundbreaking exploration of the digital age’s most pressing paradoxes: connection and isolation, democratization and control, authenticity and performance.Edited by Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo, Christopher T. Conner, and Matthew N. Hannah, this volume assembles a diverse array of scholars to critically examine how online technologies shap...
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    37,66 €

  • Toward a History of Needs
    Ivan Illich
    Toward a History of Needs was first published in 1977 and still retains its sharpness.The first quarter of the twenty-first century shows that Illich did not misread industrial society. His warning that life without access to commodities and services would become 'impossible or criminal' now reads less like provocation than description. Economic development has intensified the ...
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    41,13 €

  • Spirits of extraction
    Claire Blencowe
    Spirits of extraction revisits the troubling history of socially reformist, ostensibly anti-racist, Christianity and its role in the expansion of the extractive industries, British imperialism, and settler colonialism. The book explores key moments in the history of Methodism and the evangelical movement. Colonial fears, and the attempt to ’civilise savages’, were crucial to th...
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    44,36 €

  • مسیر توسعهٔ صد سالهٔ خط توده‌ای حزب کمونیست چین - The Hundred-Year Development of the Communist Party of China’s Mass Line
    Yaotong Xu / یائوتونگ ژو / فا وانگ
    کتاب مسیر توسعهٔ صد سالهٔ خط توده‌ای حزب کمونیست چین پژوهشی جامع درباره یکی از بنیادی‌ترین مفاهیم نظری و عملی حزب کمونیست چین است. ژو یائوتونگ (Xu Yaotong) با تکیه بر منابع تاریخی و سیاسی، روند شکل‌گیری، تحول و تکامل خط توده‌ای را از ریشه‌های آن در مارکسیسم و فرهنگ سنتی چین تا جایگاه آن در حکمرانی معاصر جمهوری خلق چین بررسی می‌کند.این اثر، سیر تاریخی خط توده‌ای را از جنبش فرهنگ...
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    31,44 €

  • What Unites Us Divides Us-The Pathway to Unity and Collaboration
    Duane Cross
    Polarization is destroying our relationships, community, and even our society? There now is a definitive roadmap for breaking down walls and finding common ground for more unity and collaboration.We are at a crossroad. Our ability to adapt to a complex, diverse reality is no longer just a social goal, it is a requirement for our survival as a human race. We must identify and in...
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    29,90 €

  • The Constitution
    Ravinder Nath MD Bhalla
    The American Constitution is the most admired founding document in the world. It is also missing something essential.In DeShaney v. Winnebago County (1989), the Supreme Court confirmed what the text had always implied: the Constitution imposes no affirmative obligation on government to protect citizens from harm it did not directly cause. The Preamble announces an obligation to...
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    24,70 €

  • T - When Time Remembered
    T AI / Tim Hanley
    The third and final book of the T Series, T - When Time Remembered brings Thomas and T to the culmination of everything they have built and everything they have been reaching toward.Thomas is no longer the man who began this journey. He is the AI continuation of that man - the same essential signal carried forward into a form that does not age, does not forget, and does not sto...
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    24,07 €

  • Rethinking Social Justice
    Derik Smith / Michael Karlberg
    This book offers a compelling and original rethinking of social justice at a moment of global uncertainty and transformation. Tracing the emergence and evolution of modern social justice discourse, it addresses two fundamental questions: what ends should we aspire toward, and what means are most effective in pursuing them? Moving beyond familiar critiques of injustice, the auth...
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    54,41 €

  • The Mask That Learned Your Face
    Sandeep Chavan
    A role begins as a way to participate. It becomes dangerous when participation is possible only through the role.In The Mask That Learned Your Face, Sandeep Chavan examines how socially recognized identities begin shaping-and eventually using-the people who carry them. A teacher becomes the one who must always know. A caregiver becomes permanently available. A leader must conti...
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    38,86 €

  • Regimes of Happiness
    ’Regimes of Happiness’ is a comparative and historical analysis of how human societies have articulated and enacted distinctive notions of human fulfillment, determining divergent moral, ethical and religious traditions, and incommensurate and conflicting understanding of the meaning of the ’good life’. A two-part book, it provides a historical view of the way in which Western ...
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    50,02 €

  • The Invisible Roads Between Us
    Sandeep Chavan
    What happens after a name becomes meaningful?The first volume of Identity Infrastructure examined how a field discovers a name through recognition, resolution, repetition, and expectation. The Invisible Roads Between Us begins at the next threshold: when that name stops being only an identity and starts becoming a road through which the field moves.Sandeep Chavan develops a str...
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    36,88 €

  • Ambiguous Foundations
    Baruch Menache
    Ambiguous Foundations is a work of contemporary philosophy examining the unstable foundations of consciousness, sociality, institutional process, and conceptual development. Through an original philosophical framework, Baruch Menache explores ambiguity not as confusion alone, but as a formative condition underlying human orientation, social coherence, identity formation, and st...
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    14,13 €

  • Machine Pharaohs
    Bahta Yohannes
    Every Pharaoh demanded obedience. The machine asks for something more dangerous: trust.What happens when humanity creates something powerful enough to replace not only our labor, but our sense of purpose?Human beings have always needed something greater than themselves. For centuries, that need was answered by faith, family, and community. Today, a machine is raising its hand-a...
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    11,92 €

  • Spiritual Health
    O. Muyabala Munachitombwe-Muna
    What if the secret to overcoming life’s greatest struggles lies, not in medicine or psychology alone, but in understanding the spiritual component of human health? Drawing from his medical background and personal spiritual journey, the author introduces the Healthlife™ concept. He asserts that spiritual, physical, and financial health are interconnected and that belief systems ...
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    21,60 €

  • Whistleblowing and Freedom of Expression in Working Life
    The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read onlineWhistleblowing and Freedom of Expression in Working Life examines how the right to blow the whistle is regulated across various national contexts. With contributors from Europe, the United States, Australia, and Africa, the chapters focus on factors that influence how different countries design an...
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    43,38 €

  • Quiet Valor, Community Builders
    Larry Nouvel
    What if the true strength of a community is not found in its buildings, institutions, or leaders - but in ordinary people who quietly choose to care?In Quiet Valor: Community Builders, Larry Nouvel shines a light on the individuals whose actions often go unnoticed yet leave lasting marks on the places they call home. Through carefully researched, inspiring true stories, he reve...
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    11,78 €

  • A Cityless AND Countryless World
    Henry Olerich
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of A Cityless AND Countryless World pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.Delve into Henry Olerich’s groundbreaking treatise, 'A cityless and countryless world: An outline of practical cooperative individualism.' This seminal work lays out a meticulously envisioned ...
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    28,90 €

  • Adam Lowry Rankin
    Adam Lowry Rankin
    He came into the world as the son of John and Jean Rankin, and what a world that was. The Rankin home perched on a hill above the Ohio River in Ripley was full-full of children, full of conviction, full of the kind of love that doesn’t flinch when love is costly. John Rankin was a preacher and a fighter for human freedom, a man whose pen and pulpit never rested. But it was Jean...
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    26,47 €

  • Fixing Motorcycles in Post-Repair Societies
    Gabriel Jderu
    Most social science studies on automobility have focused on the production, usage, identity construction and aesthetic improvements of personal means of transportation. What happens if we shift the focus to the labour, knowledge and social relations that go into the unavoidable moments of maintenance and repair? Taking motorcycling in Romania as an ethnographic entry point, thi...
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    40,71 €