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Pub. Date
2022
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1 online resource (1 electronic resource (413 p.))
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Finnish psychiatric practice has been heavily based on institutionalization, and mental hospitals have played important cultural and historical roles in Finland. Our multidisciplinary research focuses on the bodily, spatial, affective, and multisensory aspects of the memories of patients, relatives, staff, and their children. The memories were collected and archived in the Finnish Literature Society in 2014-2015. These 92 written pieces cover the...
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Pub. Date
2008
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336 p. : map ; 24 cm.
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Journalist Alex Harney shows how China is able to offer such amazingly low prices to the rest of the world. What she has discovered is a brutal world in which intense pricing pressure from Western companies combines with corruption and a lack of transparency to exact an unseen toll in human misery and environmental damage. Despite a decade of monitoring, foreign businessmen all too often have no idea of the conditions under which goods they buy are...
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Pub. Date
2020
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1 online resource
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"In COVID-19 and the Transformation of American Society, the first book-length consideration of the COVID-19 pandemic implications, noted sociologist Jose Marinez lays bare the immense social changes that we should expect from the novel coronavirus, which has upended American life since March 2020." -- back cover
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Pub. Date
c2007
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1 online resource (xxvi, 267 p.)
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Publisher description: A new analysis of human behavior that seeks to explain violent clashes between high-tech cultures and those clinging to sacred traditions and shows that new technology changes cultures much as mutations change DNA.
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The presidential inaugural poet--and unforgettable new voice in American poetry--presents a collection of poems that includes the stirring poem read at the inauguration of the 46th President of the United States.
"The luminous poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman captures a shipwrecked moment in time and transforms it into a lyric of hope and healing. In Call Us What We Carry, Gorman...
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Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xv, 195 p.)
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This is the first work to explicitly target Bourdieu's philosophy of space as a basic organizing force for his social theory. It draws together his work on both social space and physical space, and it applies the logic that binds them together to problems of architecture and urban development.
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2020.
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1 online resource
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This open access book applies insights from the anthropology of hospitality to illuminate ethnographic accounts of migrant reception in various parts of the Mediterranean. The contributors ground the idea and practice of hospitality in concrete ethnographic settings and challenge how the casual usage of Derridean or Kantian notions of hospitality can blur the boundaries between social scales and between metaphor and practice. Host-guest relations...
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[2003]
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1 online resource (viii, 347 pages)
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"Science and technology continually transform our experience and society in ways that often seem to be beyond our control. Today different areas of research and innovation are advancing synergistically and multiplying the rate and magnitude of technological and societal change. As the power of technology continues to accelerate, who will be the master of whom?" "In Living with the Genie, leading writers and thinkers come together to confront this...
14) Science and technology and the future development of societies: international workshop proceedings
Pub. Date
c2008
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xi, 130 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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In June 2006, seventeen scientists and educators selected by the National Academies, the Academy of Sciences of Iran, and the Academie des Sciences of France held a workshop at the estate of the Fondation des Treilles in Toutour, France, to discuss issues concerning the role of science in the development of modern societies. "Science and Technology and the Future Development of Societies" includes the presentations made at the workshop and summarizes...
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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1 online resource (266 pages) : illustrations
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"While much of the recent research on rodeos emphasizes the more well-known Western rodeo with its primarily white, male contestants, men and women of many racial backgrounds and of various identities have played a role in the growth of the rodeo and developed different relationships with the sport. In Rodeo as Refuge, Rodeo as Rebellion: Race, Gender, and Identity in the American Rodeo, Elyssa Ford examines rodeo in Mexican American, Hawaiian, Native...
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From the New York Times-bestselling author of Where Good Ideas Come From and Everything Bad Is Good for You, a new look at the power and legacy of great ideas. In this illustrated volume, the author explores the history of innovation over centuries, tracing the development of six key technologies (refrigeration, clocks, lenses, water purification, recorded sound, and artificial light) from their creation by hobbyists, amateurs, and entrepreneurs to...
20) Automobilities
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Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 online resource (285 p.) : ill.
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Mobility - flows, movement and migration in social life - has emerged as a central area of sociological debate, yet one of its most dominant forms, automobility, has remained largely ignored. Edited by three leading social analysts, Automobilities presents one of the first and most wide-ranging examinations of the car and its promise of autonomy and mobility. Drawing on rich empirical detail, from ethnographies of office work on the motorway to the...
