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  • SIMONE WEIL: BASIC WRITINGS
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    SIMONE WEIL: BASIC WRITINGS
    SIMONE WEIL
    Simone Weil is one of the most profound and thought-provoking thinkers of the 20th century. A teacher, factory and farm labourer, a political activist at home and abroad, a loving friend, daughter and sister—all these manifest a life devoted to the good in its many forms. Her writings explore the good open to us and the various routes to it, spanning philosophy, politics, scien...

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  • HOW TO LIVE THROUGH A PANDEMIC
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    HOW TO LIVE THROUGH A PANDEMIC
    SIMONE ABRAM, HELEN LAMBERT AND JUDE ROBINSON
    This book explores what anthropology can contribute to an understanding of how people live through pandemics. It reflects on how pandemics are experienced and what we can learn from Covid-19 as well as previous instances that might inform future responses and help to alleviate suffering. The chapters highlight current research and longer-term reflections from different countrie...

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  • BOUNDARY-BREAKING MISSION
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    BOUNDARY-BREAKING MISSION
    SIMONE MULIERI TWIBELL
    How should we bear witness to the gospel in a postmodern world? How do we navigate the turbulent waters of social, cultural, and religious difference in a pluralistic society? How can we minister effectively in multicultural contexts and swim against the unconscious currents of ethnocentrism? These questions compel the church to thoroughly reconsider its priorities and rethink ...

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  • ECO-RATIONAL EDUCATION
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    ECO-RATIONAL EDUCATION
    SIMONE THORNTON
    Eco-Rational Education proposes an educational response to climate change, environmental degradation, and desctructive human relations to ecology through the delivery of critical land-responsive environmental education. The book argues that education is a powerful vehicle for both social change and cultural reproduction. It proposes that the prioritisation and integration of en...

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  • AN INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION FOR ALLIED HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE PROFESSIONS
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    AN INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION FOR ALLIED HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE PROFESSIONS
    SIMONE C. BACCHINI
    Bringing insights from linguistics to those without a background in this field, An Introduction to Language and Communication for Allied Health and Social Care Professions enables readers to better appreciate the ways in which language functions simultaneously as an instrument to encode and communicate meaning, build and sustain interpersonal relationships, and express identity...

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  • MUSIC, PLACE, AND IDENTITY IN ITALIAN URBAN SOUNDSCAPES CIRCA 1550-1860
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    MUSIC, PLACE, AND IDENTITY IN ITALIAN URBAN SOUNDSCAPES CIRCA 1550-1860
    SIMONE CAPUTO
    Music, Place, and Identity in Italian Urban Soundscapes circa 1550-1860 presents new perspectives on the role music played in the physical, cultural, and civic spaces of Italian cities from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Across thirteen chapters, contributors explore the complex connections between sound and space within these urban contexts, demonstrating how music a...

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  • SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND LIFELONG LEARNING
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    SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND LIFELONG LEARNING
    SIMONE E. PFENNINGER / JULIA FESTMAN / DAVID SINGLETON
    Language fundamentally defines and distinguishes us as humans, as members of society, and as individuals. As we go through life, our relationship with language and with learning shifts and changes, but it remains significant. This book is an up-to-date resource for graduate students and researchers in second language (L2) acquisition who are interested in language learning acro...

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  • THE POLITICS OF PRISON CROWDING
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    THE POLITICS OF PRISON CROWDING
    SIMONE SANTORSO
    The Politics of Prison Crowding investigates recent transformations in Italy’s penal system to make the key analytical observation that conditions of overcrowding have become the ‘new normal’ under which the modern prison system continues to operate and deliver punishment. Engaging with the politics of crowding thus entails a direct and pertinent engagement with the modern stat...

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  • CRITICAL APPROACHES TO THE PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTION
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    CRITICAL APPROACHES TO THE PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTION
    SIMONE BELLI
    This fascinating book explores the different methodologies, resources and strategies that have been used to study emotion, and identifies emerging trends and research perspectives in the field. Emotion is a subject that has been thoroughly investigated in all fields of social and behavioural sciences. And yet the more we have attempted to individualize emotions and set limits t...

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  • DOING ANTHROPOLOGY
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    DOING ANTHROPOLOGY
    SIMONE DENNIS / ANDREW DAWSON
    This textbook is written by well-established anthropology professors for, and with, their undergraduate students. It explores what anthropological thinking is, what anthropological approaches are, and how these are applied in real-world settings. It provides a thorough introduction to key methods, theories and the disciplinary value of contemporary anthropology. This book delib...

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  • FOOD LOSS AND WASTE POLICY
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    FOOD LOSS AND WASTE POLICY
    SIMONE BUSETTI
    This book examines policy responses to food waste and loss, an issue of significant, global concern, with one-third of food produced for human consumption lost or wasted. Investigating food waste and loss under an interdisciplinary lens, the contributors employ a variety of methodological approaches, including quantitative and qualitative techniques, drawing on in-depth case st...

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  • DANTE ALIVE
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    DANTE ALIVE
    FRANCESCO CIABATTONI AND SIMONE MARCHESI
    The essays collected here join in, and contribute to, the current reflection on Dante’s vitality today in a critical, multidisciplinary vein. Their intervention comes at a particularly sensitive juncture in the history of Dante’s global reception and cultural reuse. Dante today is as alive as ever. A cultural icon no less than a cultural product, Dante’s imaginative universe en...

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  • LEGAL FEMINISM
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    LEGAL FEMINISM
    ANNA SIMONE
    The volume offers an overview of the theories and practices of Italian legal feminism, presenting both the main themes addressed and the main protagonists of Italian feminist legal theory. The book is divided into two parts. The first is dedicated to deepening crucial issues that directly concern women’s knowledge and lives from a feminist perspective, such as the interconnecti...

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  • THE POWER OF OPPOSITION
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    THE POWER OF OPPOSITION
    SIMONE WEGMANN
    Proposing a novel way to look at the consolidation of democratic regimes, this book presents important theoretical and empirical contributions to the study of democratic consolidation, legislative organization, and public opinion. Theoretically, Simone Wegmann brings legislatures into focus as the main body representing both winners and losers of democratic elections. Empirical...

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  • WHERE IS ART?
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    WHERE IS ART?
    SIMONE DOUGLAS
    Featuring chapters by a diverse range of leading international artists and theorists, this book suggests that contemporary art is increasingly characterized by the problem of where and when it is situated. While much advanced artistic speculation of the twentieth-century was aligned with the question “what is art?,” a key question for many artists and thinkers in the twenty-fir...

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  • ECOLOGIES OF INCEPTION
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    ECOLOGIES OF INCEPTION
    SIMONE FERRACINA
    Responding to increasing levels of planetary pollution, waste generation, carbon dioxide emission and environmental collapse, Ecologies of Inception re-thinks potentiality—an object’s ability to change—in architecture and design. The book problematizes the still-prevailing modern paradigm of design practice: the technical tabula rasa, a tendency to begin from scratch and use ra...

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  • TEACHING DEMOCRACY IN AN AGE OF UNCERTAINTY
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    TEACHING DEMOCRACY IN AN AGE OF UNCERTAINTY
    GILBERT BURGH / SIMONE THORNTON
    The strength of democracy lies in its ability to self-correct, to solve problems and adapt to new challenges. However, increased volatility, resulting from multiple crises on multiple fronts – humanitarian, financial, and environmental – is testing this ability. By offering a new framework for democratic education, Teaching Democracy in an Age of Uncertainty begins a dialogue w...

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  • LANGUAGES AND SOCIAL COHESION
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    LANGUAGES AND SOCIAL COHESION
    GABRIELA MEIER / SIMONE SMALA
    A critical and systematic review of existing research located at the crossroads of sociology, social psychology and applied linguistics, Languages and Social Cohesion offers valuable insights for social contexts in which decision makers and researchers grapple with questions of social cohesion in the presence of linguistic diversity. Based on a thematic analysis of 285 studies ...

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  • WAITING FOR GOD
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    WAITING FOR GOD
    SIMONE WEIL
    'You cannot get far in these essays without sensing yourself in the presence of a writer of immense intellectual power and fierce independence of mind.' - Janet Soskice, from the Introduction to the Routledge Classics edition Simone Weil (1909–1943) is one of the most brilliant and unorthodox religious and philosophical thinkers of the twentieth century. She was also a politica...

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  • RELATIONALITY
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    RELATIONALITY
    SIMONE DRICHEL
    This book on Relationality addresses our growing "crisis of connection" by foregrounding the multi-faceted ways in which we are interconnected with each other and the world in which we live. When Niobe Way and her collaborators first proclaimed such a "crisis" in their 2018 book The Crisis of Connection: Roots, Consequences, and Solutions, they could not have foreseen the extre...

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  • JUVENILE LIFERS
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    JUVENILE LIFERS
    SIMONE DEEGAN
    This book is the first Australian study, based on extensive fieldwork, of the personal backgrounds and processes by which juveniles get drawn into risky and violent situations that culminate in murder. Drawing on interviews with every juvenile under sanction of life imprisonment in the State of South Australia (2015–2019), it investigates links in the chain of events that led t...

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  • JOSEPHINE BAKER'S CINEMATIC PRISM
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    JOSEPHINE BAKER'S CINEMATIC PRISM
    TERRI SIMONE FRANCIS
    Josephine Baker, the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture, was both liberated and delightfully undignified, playfully vacillating between allure and colonialist stereotyping.  Nicknamed the "Black Venus," "Black Pearl," and "Creole Goddess," Baker blended the sensual and the comedic when taking 1920s Europe by storm. Back home in the United States, Baker's film c...

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  • YOUNG PEOPLE AND LONG-TERM UNEMPLOYMENT
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    YOUNG PEOPLE AND LONG-TERM UNEMPLOYMENT
    MARCO GIUGNI / JASMINE LORENZINI / MANLIO CINALLI / CHRISTIAN LAHUSEN / SIMONE BAGLIONI
    Young People and Long-Term Unemployment examines the consequences of long-term unemployment for the personal, social, and political lives of young adults aged 18–34 across four European cities: Cologne (Germany), Geneva (Switzerland), Lyon (France), and Turin (Italy). Adopting a multidimensional theoretical framework aiming to bring together insights based on the contextual (ma...

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  • MANAGEMENT DECISION-MAKING, BIG DATA AND ANALYTICS
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    MANAGEMENT DECISION-MAKING, BIG DATA AND ANALYTICS
    SIMONE GRESSEL / DAVID J. PAULEEN / NAZIM TASKIN
    Accessible and concise, this exciting new textbook examines data analytics from a managerial and organizational perspective and looks at how they can help managers become more effective decision-makers. The book successfully combines theory with practical application, featuring case studies, examples and a ‘critical incidents’ feature that make these topics engaging and relevan...

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  • INTRODUCTION TO CONTEMPORARY PRINT CULTURE
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    INTRODUCTION TO CONTEMPORARY PRINT CULTURE
    SIMONE MURRAY
    Introduction to Contemporary Print Culture examines the role of the book in the modern world. It considers the book’s deeply intertwined relationships with other media through ownership structures, copyright and adaptation, the constantly shifting roles of authors, publishers and readers in the digital ecosystem and the merging of print and digital technologies in contemporary ...

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  • PRECISION METAL ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
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    PRECISION METAL ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
    RICHARD LEACH / SIMONE CARMIGNATO
    Additive manufacturing (AM) is a fast-growing sector with the ability to evoke a revolution in manufacturing due to its almost unlimited design freedom and its capability to produce personalised parts locally and with efficient material use. AM companies, however, still face technological challenges such as limited precision due to shrinkage, built-in stresses and limited proce...

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  • PRECISION METAL ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
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    PRECISION METAL ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
    RICHARD LEACH / SIMONE CARMIGNATO
    Additive manufacturing (AM) is a fast-growing sector with the ability to evoke a revolution in manufacturing due to its almost unlimited design freedom and its capability to produce personalised parts locally and with efficient material use. AM companies, however, still face technological challenges such as limited precision due to shrinkage, built-in stresses and limited proce...

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  • BRITISH PROTESTANT MISSIONS AND THE CONVERSION OF EUROPE, 1600–1900
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    BRITISH PROTESTANT MISSIONS AND THE CONVERSION OF EUROPE, 1600–1900
    SIMONE MAGHENZANI / ‎STEFANO VILLANI
    This book is the first account of British Protestant conversion initiatives directed towards continental Europe between 1600 and 1900. Continental Europe was considered a missionary land—another periphery of the world, whose centre was imperial Britain. British missions to Europe were informed by religious experiments in America, Africa, and Asia, rendering these offensives aga...

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  • CHILD MIGRATION AND BIOPOLITICS
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    CHILD MIGRATION AND BIOPOLITICS
    SIMONE PAOLI / BEATRICE SCUTARU
    This book provides a fresh interdisciplinary analysis into the lives of migrant children and youth over the course of the twentieth century and up to the present day. Adopting biopolitics as a theoretical framework, the authors examine the complex interplay of structures, contexts and relations of power which influence the evolution of child migration across national borders. T...

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  • TEACHER–CHILD INTERACTIONS IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND CARE CLASSROOMS
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    TEACHER–CHILD INTERACTIONS IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND CARE CLASSROOMS
    WILFRIED SMIDT / ‎SIMONE LEHRL
    How children’s development is shaped by Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) classrooms and especially by teacher–child interactions in those settings is a major issue in research and politics, which has been researched for several decades. This book investigates this important topic by raising three overarching questions: (1) What are ‘good’ teacher–child interactions and...

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