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What is a smart city? This book describes the phenomenon through sociological lenses, exploring its challenges, limits, and potentialities. It provides a holistic definition to guide readers who want to analyse the smart city and explore its future developments.
What is a smart city? This book describes the phenomenon through sociological lenses, exploring its challenges, limits, and potentialities. It provides a holistic definition to guide readers who want to analyse the smart city and explore its future developments.
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Transforming Magazines
Rethinking the Medium in the Digital Age
This book is a vital contribution to Magazine Studies, showing the urgent need for industry and academia to find solutions for the challenges magazines face transitioning to digital. With global contributions, it offers fresh research for scholars and professionals alike.
This book is a vital contribution to Magazine Studies, showing the urgent need for industry and academia to find solutions for the challenges magazines face transitioning to digital. With global contributions, it offers fresh research for scholars and professionals alike.
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The Sociology of Longevity
Socioecological Factors of Survival Probability
For the first time, this book analyzes how socioecological factors influence our probability of becoming a centenarian. It presents global evidence on the factors affecting life expectancy and contributes applicable knowledge on how to become a healthy centenarian.
For the first time, this book analyzes how socioecological factors influence our probability of becoming a centenarian. It presents global evidence on the factors affecting life expectancy and contributes applicable knowledge on how to become a healthy centenarian.
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Rethinking the Theoretical Concepts of Sociology
Critical Eclecticism and Reconfigurationism
This book discusses key problems in contemporary social-scientific theory, focusing on fundamental contradictions in concepts like social action, institutions, and systems. Despite dealing with abstract problems, the book’s argument is clear, accessible, and understandable.
This book discusses key problems in contemporary social-scientific theory, focusing on fundamental contradictions in concepts like social action, institutions, and systems. Despite dealing with abstract problems, the book’s argument is clear, accessible, and understandable.
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Gendered
Art and Feminist Theory
Challenging disciplinary boundaries, this volume moves beyond an art-history survey to explore the bond between feminist art, theory, and politics. It compares American and European artists to reveal the continuing relevance of both for the contemporary reader.
Challenging disciplinary boundaries, this volume moves beyond an art-history survey to explore the bond between feminist art, theory, and politics. It compares American and European artists to reveal the continuing relevance of both for the contemporary reader.
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Explore how communities use alternative planning to oppose government interventions. This book is the first systematic overview of activist planning, compiling 164 global cases with a comprehensive classification scheme for researchers and students.
Explore how communities use alternative planning to oppose government interventions. This book is the first systematic overview of activist planning, compiling 164 global cases with a comprehensive classification scheme for researchers and students.
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Multicultural and Intercultural Identity Recognition
A Theoretical and Critical Approach
This book explores the debate between multiculturalism and interculturalism. Reviewing philosophical approaches and the role of religious dialogue, it examines the limits of multiculturalism to propose a new intercultural paradigm—a third way tailored for the Italian context.
This book explores the debate between multiculturalism and interculturalism. Reviewing philosophical approaches and the role of religious dialogue, it examines the limits of multiculturalism to propose a new intercultural paradigm—a third way tailored for the Italian context.
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This collection of essays challenges the idea that capitalism can be reformed to meet today's existential threats. It explores why “it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism” and offers actual alternatives and ways forward, community by community.
This collection of essays challenges the idea that capitalism can be reformed to meet today’s existential threats. It explores why “it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism” and offers actual alternatives and ways forward, community by community.
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Cities and Protests
Perspectives in Spatial Criticism
As protests over climate change, democracy, and human rights erupt worldwide, cities become the stage. This collection explores how a city participates in these struggles, negotiating its own identity while providing answers—or not—to the protesters and their cause.
As protests over climate change, democracy, and human rights erupt worldwide, cities become the stage. This collection explores how a city participates in these struggles, negotiating its own identity while providing answers—or not—to the protesters and their cause.
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From zoot-suiters to punks and clubbers, style-based subcultures have defined our cultural landscape by blending fashion and music. This book explores their historical and cultural significance, considering global issues of class, gender, identity, and resistance.
From zoot-suiters to punks and clubbers, style-based subcultures have defined our cultural landscape by blending fashion and music. This book explores their historical and cultural significance, considering global issues of class, gender, identity, and resistance.
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This collection explores the frontiers between sociology and psychology, where theories are freely borrowed. Sociologists use psychological theory for studies of sociological phenomena, and vice versa. Featuring international authors, including Thomas J. Scheff.
This collection explores the frontiers between sociology and psychology, where theories are freely borrowed. Sociologists use psychological theory for studies of sociological phenomena, and vice versa. Featuring international authors, including Thomas J. Scheff.
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Fitness Philanthropy
Sport, Charity and Everyday Giving
This book explores the boom in fitness fundraising, where sports-based charity events unite corporate marketing, medical research, and social causes. It examines the motivations of participants, donors, and sponsors, offering a new analysis of sport, health, and civic engagement.
This book explores the boom in fitness fundraising, where sports-based charity events unite corporate marketing, medical research, and social causes. It examines the motivations of participants, donors, and sponsors, offering a new analysis of sport, health, and civic engagement.
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Perspectives of Five Kuwaiti Women in Leadership Roles
Feminism, Islam, and Politics
In intimate conversations, five remarkable Kuwaiti women leaders—including one of the first female MPs, an art advocate, and an oil industry leader—share their thoughts on gender equality, the women’s rights movement, and the role of religion in their country's future.
In intimate conversations, five remarkable Kuwaiti women leaders—including one of the first female MPs, an art advocate, and an oil industry leader—share their thoughts on gender equality, the women’s rights movement, and the role of religion in their country’s future.
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Reflections on Our Relationships with Anne of Green Gables
Kindred Spirits
International readers and critics explore our relationship with Anne of Green Gables. Through studies of fan culture, translation, and adaptation, this unique collection of essays bridges the divide between a critical and deeply personal response to literature’s iconic girl.
International readers and critics explore our relationship with Anne of Green Gables. Through studies of fan culture, translation, and adaptation, this unique collection of essays bridges the divide between a critical and deeply personal response to literature’s iconic girl.
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This trenchant and passionate analysis of Greek life addresses the economic collapse, refugee crisis, and bureaucracy. Believing one cannot love Greece without mourning its flaws, the author presents a selection of his columns, including some a newspaper refused to print.
This trenchant and passionate analysis of Greek life addresses the economic collapse, refugee crisis, and bureaucracy. Believing one cannot love Greece without mourning its flaws, the author presents a selection of his columns, including some a newspaper refused to print.
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An Analysis of the Role of Cycling in Sustainable Urban Mobility
The Importance of the Bicycle
This book analyses why cycling is returning to cities to solve the crisis of the car-centric model. It argues that it is not possible to solve this crisis without giving a central role to the bicycle as a key part of any sustainable urban mobility project.
This book analyses why cycling is returning to cities to solve the crisis of the car-centric model. It argues that it is not possible to solve this crisis without giving a central role to the bicycle as a key part of any sustainable urban mobility project.
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This book links the science behind training and recovery with practical, easy-to-understand examples. It outlines simple tools and techniques to improve rugby player performance, making it an invaluable resource for coaches, players, and sports science professionals.
This book links the science behind training and recovery with practical, easy-to-understand examples. It outlines simple tools and techniques to improve rugby player performance, making it an invaluable resource for coaches, players, and sports science professionals.
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Traditional Sports and Games in the Contemporary World
The New Face of Sport?
A captivating journey from Denmark to the Basque Country and Scotland exploring traditional sports. This book reveals why these games are valuable, necessary, and fit the needs of our times, offering inspirational ideas for how to use them in practice.
A captivating journey from Denmark to the Basque Country and Scotland exploring traditional sports. This book reveals why these games are valuable, necessary, and fit the needs of our times, offering inspirational ideas for how to use them in practice.
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Technology profoundly influences our social fabric. This book explores its impact across business, commerce, and lifestyle, examining both advantages and drawbacks. It guides readers through cutting-edge topics like blockchain, the Internet of Things, AI, and machine learning.
Technology profoundly influences our social fabric. This book explores its impact across business, commerce, and lifestyle, examining both advantages and drawbacks. It guides readers through cutting-edge topics like blockchain, the Internet of Things, AI, and machine learning.
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The Shaping of Persian Art
Collections and Interpretations of the Art of Islamic Iran and Central Asia
The image of Persian art was not a pure creation of its civilization. It was largely defined by Euro-American collectors, scholars, and dealers who shaped how it should be viewed and displayed. This volume offers novel insight into this process.
The image of Persian art was not a pure creation of its civilization. It was largely defined by Euro-American collectors, scholars, and dealers who shaped how it should be viewed and displayed. This volume offers novel insight into this process.
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