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Acquiring modernity : an investigation into the rise, structure, and future of the modern world / / by Paul B. Paolucci
| Acquiring modernity : an investigation into the rise, structure, and future of the modern world / / by Paul B. Paolucci |
| Autore | Paolucci Paul |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden Boston : , : BRILL, , 2019 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (594 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 909.08 |
| Collana | Studies in Critical Social Sciences |
| Soggetto topico |
Social sciences - Philosophy
Civilization, Modern - 21st century |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
9789004393950
9789004393943 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Illustrations -- No Rest Until Modernity is Acquired -- Speculation Ends, Science Begins -- Divesting Philosophy’s Ultimate Word -- The Concept of Society -- History and Human Development -- A History of Struggles -- Mystical Consciousness -- Illusions to this Day -- An Inverted World -- Educating the Educator -- Windy Idealists and Frothy Youth -- Middle Class Snobbism -- Pauperism and Artificial Impoverishment -- Social Scum -- Of Souls, Sighs, and Opium -- The Cult of Nature -- World Literature -- Modern Society’s All-dominating Power -- An Impulse Never Before Known -- Head of the Movement -- Absurd Epidemics -- Swindling Joint-stock Companies -- Machines -- Rule of the Towns -- Feverish Anxiety and Astonishment -- Solids Melting into Air -- Civilization and Barbarism -- Celebrating Orgies, Blood, and Fire -- Bureaucracy and the Bureaucrats -- The Economic Existence of the State -- Democracy for their Truth -- Parliamentary Disease and the Holy Ghost -- The Executive Committee -- Modern Mythology and its Goddesses -- Rolling Back the Wheel -- The Goal of Popular Desire -- National Egoism -- Every Sect is Religious -- Disgusting Despotism -- The Sycophantic Babblers -- Applying Chemistry to Industry and Agriculture -- The Measure of Social Progress -- Defiling Republics -- A Fetish Dark and Mysterious -- The World Market -- The Political Chessboard -- Throwing Dust in People’s Eyes -- Gravedigging Megalomaniacs -- The Sorcerer -- Prevailing Tendencies -- Common Ruin -- Chains, Riddles, Worlds -- Socialist Sentimentalizing -- Whether We Want it or Not -- Afterword -- Postmodernism?. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910511697903321 |
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| Leiden Boston : , : BRILL, , 2019 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Acquiring modernity : an investigation into the rise, structure, and future of the modern world / / by Paul B. Paolucci
| Acquiring modernity : an investigation into the rise, structure, and future of the modern world / / by Paul B. Paolucci |
| Autore | Paolucci Paul |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden Boston : , : BRILL, , 2019 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (594 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 909.08 |
| Collana | Studies in Critical Social Sciences |
| Soggetto topico |
Social sciences - Philosophy
Civilization, Modern - 21st century |
| ISBN |
9789004393950
9789004393943 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Illustrations -- No Rest Until Modernity is Acquired -- Speculation Ends, Science Begins -- Divesting Philosophy’s Ultimate Word -- The Concept of Society -- History and Human Development -- A History of Struggles -- Mystical Consciousness -- Illusions to this Day -- An Inverted World -- Educating the Educator -- Windy Idealists and Frothy Youth -- Middle Class Snobbism -- Pauperism and Artificial Impoverishment -- Social Scum -- Of Souls, Sighs, and Opium -- The Cult of Nature -- World Literature -- Modern Society’s All-dominating Power -- An Impulse Never Before Known -- Head of the Movement -- Absurd Epidemics -- Swindling Joint-stock Companies -- Machines -- Rule of the Towns -- Feverish Anxiety and Astonishment -- Solids Melting into Air -- Civilization and Barbarism -- Celebrating Orgies, Blood, and Fire -- Bureaucracy and the Bureaucrats -- The Economic Existence of the State -- Democracy for their Truth -- Parliamentary Disease and the Holy Ghost -- The Executive Committee -- Modern Mythology and its Goddesses -- Rolling Back the Wheel -- The Goal of Popular Desire -- National Egoism -- Every Sect is Religious -- Disgusting Despotism -- The Sycophantic Babblers -- Applying Chemistry to Industry and Agriculture -- The Measure of Social Progress -- Defiling Republics -- A Fetish Dark and Mysterious -- The World Market -- The Political Chessboard -- Throwing Dust in People’s Eyes -- Gravedigging Megalomaniacs -- The Sorcerer -- Prevailing Tendencies -- Common Ruin -- Chains, Riddles, Worlds -- Socialist Sentimentalizing -- Whether We Want it or Not -- Afterword -- Postmodernism?. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910795310503321 |
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Paolucci Paul
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| Leiden Boston : , : BRILL, , 2019 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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African, American and European trajectories of modernity : past oppression, future justice? / / edited by Peter Wagner [[electronic resource]]
| African, American and European trajectories of modernity : past oppression, future justice? / / edited by Peter Wagner [[electronic resource]] |
| Autore | Wagner Peter |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (vii, 299 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 327.4 |
| Collana | Annual of European and global studies African, American and European trajectories of modernity |
| Soggetto topico |
Civilization, Modern - 21st century
World history |
| ISBN |
1-4744-1247-5
1-4744-0041-8 |
| Classificazione | NK 7400 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- Part I Reconstructing the History of Atlantic Modernity -- 1 The American Divergence, the Modern Western World and the Paradigmatisation of History -- 2 The Limits of Recognition: History, Otherness and Autonomy -- 3 On Being in Time: Modern African Elites and the Historical Challenge to Claims for Alternative and Multiple Modernities -- 4 The Sublime Dignity of the Dictator:1 Republicanism and the Return of Dictatorship in Political Modernity -- 5 The Luso-Brazilian Enlightenment: Between Reform and Revolution -- Part II Comparing Trajectories of Modernity in the South -- 6 Inconsistencies between Social-democratic Discourses and Neo-liberal Institutional Development in Chile and South Africa: a Comparative Analysis of the Post-authoritarian Periods1 -- 7 HIV/AIDS Policies and Modernity in Brazil and South Africa: a Comparative Critical Analysis -- 8 Land and Restitution in Comparative Perspective: Analysing the Evidence of Right to Land for Black Rural Communities in Brazil and South Africa -- Part III Claims for Justice in the History of Modernity and in its Present -- 9 An Unsettled Past as a Political Resource -- 10 Injustice at Both Ends: Pre- and Post-apartheid Literary Approaches to Injustice, Sentiment and Humanism in the Work of C. Louis Leipoldt, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela and the Film Invictus -- 11 The Student Movement in Chile 2011–12: Rearming the Critique of Capitalism -- 12 Indignation and Claims for Economic Sovereignty in Europe and the Americas: Renewing the Project of Control over Production -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910153237803321 |
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Wagner Peter
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| Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Against civilization [[electronic resource] ] : readings and reflections / / edited by John Zerzan ; illustrations by R.L. Tubbesing
| Against civilization [[electronic resource] ] : readings and reflections / / edited by John Zerzan ; illustrations by R.L. Tubbesing |
| Edizione | [Enlarged ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Los Angeles, CA, : Feral House, 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
| Disciplina | 335.83 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | ZerzanJohn |
| Soggetto topico |
Anarchism
Civilization, Modern - 20th century Civilization, Modern - 21st century |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-282-74425-9
9786612744259 1-932595-70-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
CONTENTS; Foreword: Chellis Glendinning; Introduction: John Zerzan; Preface: Kevin Tucker, Unintended Consequences; SECTION I. OUTSIDE CIVILIZATION; Roy Walker, The Golden Feast; Hoxie Neale Fairchild, The Noble Savage: A Study in Romantic Naturalism; Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origins of Inequality; Henry David Thoreau, ""Excursions""; Fredy Perlman, Against His-story, Against Leviathan!; Arnold DeVries, Primitive Man and His Food; Marshal Sahlins, ""The Original Affluent Society""; Lynn Clive, ""Birds Combat Civilization""; John Landau, ""Wildflowers: A Bouquet of Thesis""
Theodor Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged LifeMarvin Harris, Our Kind; Ramon Wilson, Spokane Museum; SECTION II: THE COMING OF CIVILIZATION; George P. Marsh, The Earth as Modified by Human Action; Frederick Turner, Beyond Geography: The Western Spirit Against the Wilderness; James Axtell, The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America; John Zerzan, Elements of Refusal; Paul Shepard, Nature and Madness; Mark Nathan Cohen, Health and the Rise of Civilization; Robin Fox, The Search for Society Chellis Glendinning, My Name of Chellis and I'm in Recovery from Western CivilizationPierre Clastres, Society Against the State; Madhusree Mukerjee, The Land of the Naked People; Robert Wolff, Reading and Writing; SECTION III: THE NATURE OF CIVILIZATION; Friedrich Schiller, On the Aesthetic Education of Man; Charles Fourier, Theory of Four Movements and General Destinies; Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents; John Landau, ""Civilization and the Primitive""; Max Horkheimer, Eclipse of Reason; Max Horkheimer, Dawn and Decline; Richard Heinberg, ""Was Civilization a Mistake?"" Barbara Mor, Here: a small history of a mining town in the american southwest: Warren/Bisbee AZIvan Illich, Toward a History of Needs; Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust; T. Fulano, ""Civilization Is Like a Jetliner""; Unabomber (AKA ""FC""), ""Industrial Society and Its Future""; Tamarack Song, The Old Way and Civilization; Ursula Legun, Women/Wilderness; SECTION IV: THE PATHOLOGY OF CIVILIZATION; Max Nordau, Conventional Lies, or Our Civilization; William Koetke, The Final Empire: The Collapse of Civilization and The Seed of the Future Joseph Tainter, The Collapse of Complex SocietiesTheodore Roszak, Where the Wasteland Ends: Politics and Transcendence in Postindustrial Society; Andrew Bard Schmookler, The Parable of the Tribes: The Problem of Power in Social Evolution; Peter Sloterdijk, Critique of Cynical Reason; Fredric Jameson, The Seeds of Time; Labor of Ludd, ""The Medium Is the Medium""; Des Rėfractaires, ""How Nice to be Civilized!""; David Watson, ""Civilization in Bulk""; Richard Heinberg, Memories and Visions of Paradise; Chrystos, ""They're Always Telling Me I'm Too Angry"" Oswald Spengler, Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910456963703321 |
| Los Angeles, CA, : Feral House, 2005 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Against civilization : readings and reflections / / edited by John Zerzan ; illustrations by R.L. Tubbesing
| Against civilization : readings and reflections / / edited by John Zerzan ; illustrations by R.L. Tubbesing |
| Edizione | [Enlarged ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Los Angeles, CA : , : Feral House, , 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xi, 275 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 335.83 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | ZerzanJohn |
| Soggetto topico |
Anarchism
Civilization, Modern - 20th century Civilization, Modern - 21st century |
| ISBN |
1-282-74425-9
9786612744259 1-932595-70-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
CONTENTS; Foreword: Chellis Glendinning; Introduction: John Zerzan; Preface: Kevin Tucker, Unintended Consequences; SECTION I. OUTSIDE CIVILIZATION; Roy Walker, The Golden Feast; Hoxie Neale Fairchild, The Noble Savage: A Study in Romantic Naturalism; Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origins of Inequality; Henry David Thoreau, ""Excursions""; Fredy Perlman, Against His-story, Against Leviathan!; Arnold DeVries, Primitive Man and His Food; Marshal Sahlins, ""The Original Affluent Society""; Lynn Clive, ""Birds Combat Civilization""; John Landau, ""Wildflowers: A Bouquet of Thesis""
Theodor Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life; Marvin Harris, Our Kind; Ramon Wilson, Spokane Museum; SECTION II: THE COMING OF CIVILIZATION; George P. Marsh, The Earth as Modified by Human Action; Frederick Turner, Beyond Geography: The Western Spirit Against the Wilderness; James Axtell, The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America; John Zerzan, Elements of Refusal; Paul Shepard, Nature and Madness; Mark Nathan Cohen, Health and the Rise of Civilization; Robin Fox, The Search for Society Chellis Glendinning, My Name of Chellis and I'm in Recovery from Western Civilization; Pierre Clastres, Society Against the State; Madhusree Mukerjee, The Land of the Naked People; Robert Wolff, Reading and Writing; SECTION III: THE NATURE OF CIVILIZATION; Friedrich Schiller, On the Aesthetic Education of Man; Charles Fourier, Theory of Four Movements and General Destinies; Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents; John Landau, ""Civilization and the Primitive""; Max Horkheimer, Eclipse of Reason; Max Horkheimer, Dawn and Decline; Richard Heinberg, ""Was Civilization a Mistake?"" Barbara Mor, Here: a small history of a mining town in the American southwest: Warren/Bisbee AZ; Ivan Illich, Toward a History of Needs; Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust; T. Fulano, ""Civilization Is Like a Jetliner""; Unabomber (AKA ""FC""), ""Industrial Society and Its Future""; Tamarack Song, The Old Way and Civilization; Ursula Legun, Women/Wilderness; SECTION IV: THE PATHOLOGY OF CIVILIZATION; Max Nordau, Conventional Lies, or Our Civilization; William Koetke, The Final Empire: The Collapse of Civilization and The Seed of the Future Joseph Tainter, The Collapse of Complex Societies; Theodore Roszak, Where the Wasteland Ends: Politics and Transcendence in Postindustrial Society; Andrew Bard Schmookler, The Parable of the Tribes: The Problem of Power in Social Evolution; Peter Sloterdijk, Critique of Cynical Reason; Fredric Jameson, The Seeds of Time; Labor of Ludd, ""The Medium Is the Medium""; Des Rėfractaires, ""How Nice to be Civilized!""; David Watson, ""Civilization in Bulk""; Richard Heinberg, Memories and Visions of Paradise; Chrystos, ""They're Always Telling Me I'm Too Angry""; Oswald Spengler, Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781041303321 |
| Los Angeles, CA : , : Feral House, , 2005 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Antropoceno, Derechos Humanos y Naturaleza : Enfoques Iusfilosóficos / / David Sánchez Rubio y Álvaro Sánchez Bravo (editores)
| Antropoceno, Derechos Humanos y Naturaleza : Enfoques Iusfilosóficos / / David Sánchez Rubio y Álvaro Sánchez Bravo (editores) |
| Edizione | [First edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Madrid : , : Editorial Dykinson, S.L., , [2023] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (184 pages) |
| Disciplina | 909.83 |
| Soggetto topico |
Civilization, Modern - 21st century
Human rights |
| ISBN | 84-11-22992-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | spa |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780612203321 |
| Madrid : , : Editorial Dykinson, S.L., , [2023] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Antropoceno, Derechos Humanos y Naturaleza : Enfoques Iusfilosóficos / / David Sánchez Rubio y Álvaro Sánchez Bravo (editores)
| Antropoceno, Derechos Humanos y Naturaleza : Enfoques Iusfilosóficos / / David Sánchez Rubio y Álvaro Sánchez Bravo (editores) |
| Edizione | [First edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Madrid : , : Editorial Dykinson, S.L., , [2023] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (184 pages) |
| Disciplina | 909.83 |
| Soggetto topico |
Civilization, Modern - 21st century
Human rights |
| ISBN | 84-11-22992-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | spa |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818292303321 |
| Madrid : , : Editorial Dykinson, S.L., , [2023] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Becoming good ancestors [[electronic resource] ] : how we balance nature, community, and technology / / David Ehrenfeld
| Becoming good ancestors [[electronic resource] ] : how we balance nature, community, and technology / / David Ehrenfeld |
| Autore | Ehrenfeld David |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (321 p.) |
| Disciplina | 304.2 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | EhrenfeldDavid |
| Soggetto topico |
Human ecology
Nature - Effect of human beings on Environmental degradation Civilization, Modern - 21st century Technology - Social aspects |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-282-05389-2
9786612053894 0-19-970611-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Pretending -- Brainstorming has its limits -- Nothing simple -- The comforts of fantasy -- Rejecting gifts -- The uses and risks of adaptation -- When machines replace people -- Pseudocommunities -- Obsolescence -- Accelerating social evolution -- Writing -- Affluence and austerity -- Energy and friendly fire -- Durable goods -- Preserving our capital -- Conservation for profit -- Hot spots and the globalization of conservation -- Putting a value on nature -- The downside of corporate immortality -- Wilderness as teacher -- An opposing view of nature -- Death of a plastic palm -- Scientific discoveries and nature's mysteries -- I reinvent agriculture -- Thinking about breeds and species -- Strangers in our own land -- Teaching field ecology -- The ubiquitous right-of-way -- A walk in the woods -- Old growth -- Intimacy with nature -- The utopia fallacy -- Traditions -- Jane Austen and the world of the community -- Universities, schools, and communities -- What do we owe our children? -- Epilogue: A call for fusion and regeneration. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454494203321 |
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Ehrenfeld David
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| Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Becoming good ancestors [[electronic resource] ] : how we balance nature, community, and technology / / David Ehrenfeld
| Becoming good ancestors [[electronic resource] ] : how we balance nature, community, and technology / / David Ehrenfeld |
| Autore | Ehrenfeld David |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (321 p.) |
| Disciplina | 304.2 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | EhrenfeldDavid |
| Soggetto topico |
Human ecology
Nature - Effect of human beings on Environmental degradation Civilization, Modern - 21st century Technology - Social aspects |
| ISBN |
0-19-770030-6
1-282-05389-2 9786612053894 0-19-970611-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Pretending -- Brainstorming has its limits -- Nothing simple -- The comforts of fantasy -- Rejecting gifts -- The uses and risks of adaptation -- When machines replace people -- Pseudocommunities -- Obsolescence -- Accelerating social evolution -- Writing -- Affluence and austerity -- Energy and friendly fire -- Durable goods -- Preserving our capital -- Conservation for profit -- Hot spots and the globalization of conservation -- Putting a value on nature -- The downside of corporate immortality -- Wilderness as teacher -- An opposing view of nature -- Death of a plastic palm -- Scientific discoveries and nature's mysteries -- I reinvent agriculture -- Thinking about breeds and species -- Strangers in our own land -- Teaching field ecology -- The ubiquitous right-of-way -- A walk in the woods -- Old growth -- Intimacy with nature -- The utopia fallacy -- Traditions -- Jane Austen and the world of the community -- Universities, schools, and communities -- What do we owe our children? -- Epilogue: A call for fusion and regeneration. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782806503321 |
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Ehrenfeld David
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| Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Contemporary social science
| Contemporary social science |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK : , : Routledge, Taylor & Francis, , [2011]- |
| Disciplina | 300 |
| Soggetto topico |
Social sciences
Civilization, Modern - 21st century Civilization, Modern |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Periodicals. |
| ISSN | 2158-205X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Periodico |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Altri titoli varianti | Journal of the Academy of Social Sciences |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996218662203316 |
| Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK : , : Routledge, Taylor & Francis, , [2011]- | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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