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Understanding Luxury Fashion: From Emotions to Brand Building (Palgrave Advances in Luxury)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

Offering an original contribution to the field of luxury and fashion studies, this edited collection takes a philosophical perspective, addressing the idea that humans need luxury. From this framework it delves deep into two particular dimensions of luxury, emotions and society, and concludes with cases of brand building in order to...

Blackness as a Defining Identity: Mediated Representations and the Lived Experiences of African Immigrants in Australia

Springer, 2019

This book explores the lived experiences of African immigrants in Australia, and the way they are represented in the media. By delving into the group’s everyday lives, the book exposes the roles that media and social perceptions play in the production and regulation of diasporic identities. Rather than being presented as...

Experts and the Will of the People: Society, Populism and Science

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

The rise of populism in the West has led to attacks on the legitimacy of scientific expertise in political decision making. This book explores the differences between populism and pluralist democracy and their relationship with science. Pluralist democracy is characterised by respect for minority choices and a system of checks and balances that...

EU Influence Beyond Conditionality: Turkey Plus/Minus the EU

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book presents an in-depth analysis of the role played by the EU accession process in Turkey’s democratic evolution and in the empowerment of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the early 2000s. Often moving against the grain of consolidated analytical positions, the author finds that the accession process can have a critical...

Subconscious Power: Use Your Inner Mind to Create the Life You've Always Wanted

Springer, 2019

Activate the raw power of your subconscious to create the life you've always wanted, using six essential lessons from one of the world’s most renowned hypnotherapists.

Unsatisfying careers. Volatile, unhealthy relationships. Unfulfilled dreams. Too many of us are living lives that fall short of what we...

Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do

Springer, 2019

"A fascinating new book... [Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt is] a genius."—Trevor Noah, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah

"Poignant....important and illuminating."—The New York Times Book Review

"Groundbreaking."—Bryan Stevenson, New York Times...

Understanding Social Dynamics in South Asia: Essays in Memory of Ramkrishna Mukherjee

Springer, 2019

This volume includes fourteen essays by eminent sociologists in memory of Ramkrishna Mukherjee (1919–2017), the last of the founding architects of sociology in India. It also includes two interviews with Ramkrishna Mukherjee by senior sociologists. The essays cover a variety of themes and topics close to the works of...

Soft Computing in Data Science: 4th International Conference, SCDS 2018, Bangkok, Thailand, August 15-16, 2018, Proceedings (Communications in Computer and Information Science)

Springer, 2018

We are pleased to present the proceeding of the 4th International Conference on Soft Computing in Data Science 2018 (SCDS 2018). SCDS 2018 was held in Chulalongkorn University, in Bangkok, Thailand, during August 15–16, 2018. The theme of the conference was “Science in Analytics: Harnessing Data and...

Humanomics: Moral Sentiments and the Wealth of Nations for the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society)

Cambridge University Press, 2019

While neoclassical analysis works well for studying impersonal exchange in markets, it fails to explain why people conduct themselves the way they do in their personal relationships with family, neighbors, and friends. In Humanomics, Nobel Prize-winning economist Vernon L. Smith and his long-time co-author Bart J. Wilson bring their study of...

Manufacturing Advantage: War, the State, and the Origins of American Industry, 1776–1848 (Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia)

The Johns Hopkins University, 2019

How manufacturing textiles and guns transformed the United States from colonial dependent to military power.

In 1783, the Revolutionary War drew to a close, but America was still threatened by enemies at home and abroad. The emerging nation faced tax rebellions, Indian warfare, and hostilities with France and...

The Handbook of Diasporas, Media, and Culture (Global Handbooks in Media and Communication Research)

John Wiley & Sons, 2019

A multidisciplinary, authoritative outline of the current intellectual landscape of the field.

Over the past three decades, the term ‘diaspora’ has been featured in many research studies and in wider theoretical debates in areas such as communications, the humanities, social sciences, politics, and...

Inside European Parliament Politics: Informality, Information and Intergroups (Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

The study of the informal dimension of EU politics is more important than ever in order to understand how the EU system works. This book presents an innovative and original study on informal cross-party, cross-committee groupings in the European Parliament, so-called Intergroups. Building on extensive fieldwork, including semi-structured...

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