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This charming and practical handbook is bursting with tips, facts and folklore to guide you through the birdwatching year. Find out how to identify birds by sight or song, everything you need to know about their behaviour, habitats and breeding and migration habits, and...
Editeur :
Summersdale
Parution :
2013-08-05
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In diesem Band präsentieren Medien- und Informationswissenschaftler, Netzwerkforscher aus Informatik, Texttechnologie und Physik, Soziologen und Linguisten interdisziplinär Aspekte der Erforschung komplexer Mehrebenen-Netzwerke. Im Zentrum ihres Interesses stehen...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2013-08-04
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The seventeenth-century London Wenceslaus Hollar knew is now largely destroyed or buried. Yet its populous river, its timbered streets, fashionable ladies, old St Paul's, the devestation of the Fire, the palace of Whitehall and the meadows of Islington live on for us in...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2013-07-31
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Cities have emerged as the epicentres for many of today's ethno-national and religious conflicts. This book brings together key themes that dominate our current attention including emerging areas of contestation in rapidly changing and modernising cities and the effects...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-07-29
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This book explores the ethnic and racial options exercised by young mixed race people in Britain. It reveals the diverse ways in which young people identify and experience their mixed status, the complex nature of such identities, and the rise of other identity strands...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-07-26
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Die Forschung hat bisher vorrangig Gemeinsamkeiten und Differenzen der theoretischen Ansätze Foucaults und Bourdieus vergleichend nebeneinander gestellt. Ein derartig polarisierender Ansatz aber verbaut den Blick auf eine produktivere Herangehensweise: Foucault und...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2013-07-22
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Innovationsprojekte werden als unsichere und offene Prozesse beschrieben, da sich der Weg von einer ersten Idee bis zur dahin nicht eindeutig definierbaren, marktfähigen Neuheit nicht im Detail vorausplanen lässt. Die Komplexität des Innovationsvorhabens erhöht sich,...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2013-07-15
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?Within Childhood Research starkly different theoretical and empirical concerns characterize the global south-north divide. Hia Sen attempts to bridge the gap in Childhood Research which usually addresses childhoods differently according to their 'developing/developed',...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2013-07-15
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It is commonly assumed that the best way to help the poor out of their misery is to allow the rich to get richer, that if the rich pay less taxes then all the rest of us will be better off, and that in the final analysis the richness of the few benefits us all. And yet...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-07-11
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In 2012, the ERASMUS programme celebrated its 25th anniversary. As one of the best-known initiatives of the EU, it has already enabled almost three million students to spend a part of their studies abroad. But ERASMUS is more than just a simple academic exchange...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-07-03
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This highly topical book is a concise and accessible account of the relationship between technology and work. Firstly, it reviews and critically assesses a variety of recent approaches to the social and cultural dimensions of technology. Secondly, it examines the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-28
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Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds This book is about the central figure of our contemporary, 'liquid modern' times – the man or woman with no bonds, and particularly with none of the fixed or durable bonds that would allow the effort of self-definition and...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-26
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Modern civilization, Bauman argues, promised to make our lives understandable and open to our control. This has not happened and today we no longer believe it ever will. In this book, now available in paperback, Bauman argues that our postmodern age is the time for...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-26
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Sociology is concerned with modern society, but has never come to terms with one of the most distinctive and horrific aspects of modernity - the Holocaust. The book examines what sociology can teach us about the Holocaust, but more particularly concentrates upon the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-26
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Market Society provides an original and accessible review of changing conceptions of the market in modern social thought. The book considers markets as social institutions rather than simply formal models, arguing that modern ideas of the market are based on critical...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-26
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This book examines the different ways in which order has been achieved in world affairs with a view to understanding current political dilemmas and opportunities. International Ordersbegins by distinguishing between world order and international order in the spirit of...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-26
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The new study provides a fresh and timely reassessment of the political philosophy of Hannah Arendt. While analysing the central themes of Arendt's work, Phillip Hansen also shows that her work makes a significant contribution to contemporary debates. Specifically,...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-26
Collection :
Key Contemporary Thinkers
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The sexual revolution: an evocative term, but what meaning can be given to it today? How does 'sexuality' come into being and what connections does it have with the changes that have affected personal life on a more general plane? In answering these questions, Anthony...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-26
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Hayek has been one of the key liberal thinkers of the twentieth century. He has also been much misunderstood. His work has crossed disciplines - economics, philosophy and political science - and national boundaries. He was an early critic of Keynes, and became famous in...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-26
Collection :
Key Contemporary Thinkers
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This book is a brief introduction to the study of society, which may be read without any previous knowledge of the social sciences. Each chapter addresses a fundamental question about people in their various arrangements. The book begins by asking: what do people need...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-26
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