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This book challenges the new urban growth concepts of the creative class and creative industries from a critical urban theory perspective. Critiques Richard Florida's popular books about cities and the creative class Presents an alternative approach based on analyses...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2012-03-29
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IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
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Beginning African Philosophy explores the nature and central features of African philosophy from the perspective of African philosophers, analyzing and assessing the importance of African philosophy, its subject matter, its major themes and concerns, and how those...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-03-27
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Auf der Arbeitstagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie im Oktober 1961 hielten Karl R. Popper und Theodor W. Adorno Referate zur «Logik der Sozialwissenschaften». Dies leitete den «Positivismusstreit» in der deutschen Soziologie ein, an dem sich prominent vor...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-03-19
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In Manning Up, Manhattan Institute fellow and City Journal contributing editor Kay Hymowitz argues that the gains of the feminist revolution have had a dramatic, unanticipated effect on the current generation of young men. Traditional roles of family man and provider...
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Basic Books
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2012-03-06
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In a brilliant synthesis of genetic, archaeological, linguistic and climatic data, Oppenheimer challenges current thinking with his claim that there was only one successful migration out of Africa.In 1988 Newsweek headlined the startling discovery that everyone alive on...
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Robinson
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2012-03-01
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Ensure your contented baby has a contented mumBecoming a mum is an exciting journey, with new rewards and responsibilities. But while you focus your energies on the needs of your growing baby, it's easy to neglect your own needs as a new mum. Gina Ford has helped...
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Ebury Digital
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2012-03-01
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Pragmatism has experienced a renaissance in social theory in recent years. This is no wonder since the so-called classical pragmatists, especially John Dewey and George Herbert Mead, outlined a highly original theory of social life. This book builds on pragmatist ideas...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-02-24
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This work examines in depth the methodological relationships that probability and statistics have maintained with the social sciences from their emergence. It covers both the history of thought and current methods.First it examines in detail the history of the different...
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Springer
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2012-02-22
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Sharp, bold and engaging, this book provides a contemporary account of why medical sociology matters in our modern society.
Combining theoretical and empirical perspectives, and applying the pragmatic demands of policy, this timely book explores society's response to...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2012-02-13
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Seit dem Systemwechsel in Osteuropa werden Vergangenheitsbilder, sprachliche Zuordnung und Konfessionszugehörigkeit zum Ausbau der Herrschaft nationaler Eliten benutzt. Dieser Prozeß beinhaltet die Ersetzung der kommunistischen Ideologie durch ethnonationale Identitäten...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-02-10
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This book deals with the «social side» of social psychology from diverse points of view. Several European authors analyse this topic from different theoretical and methodological perspectives. In particular, special attention is given to socio-historical frameworks,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-02-08
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Erfüllen gewachsene Demokratien in der industrialisierten Welt das Versprechen einer Volksherrschaft oder stehen sie unter dem Einfluss einer Elite aus Politik und Wirtschaft? Von dieser Frage ausgehend entwickelt die vorliegende Monographie ein Demokratiemodell, das...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-02-08
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Iron Curtains has been awarded Honorable Mention for the 2013 ASEEES Harvard Davis Center Book Prize! The prize is sponsored by Harvard University's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and is awarded annually by the Association for Slavic, East European, and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-02-03
Collection :
IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
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The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology is a complete reference guide, reflecting the scope and quality of the discipline, and highlighting emerging topics in the field. Global in focus, offering up-to-date topics from an interdisciplinary, international...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-02-02
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Wiley Blackwell Companions to Sociology
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Living with people who differ -- racially, ethnically, religiously, or economically -- is one of the most difficult challenges facing us today. Though our society is becoming ever more complicated materially, we tend to avoid engaging with people unlike ourselves....
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Penguin
Parution :
2012-02-02
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The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology is a complete reference guide, reflecting the scope and quality of the discipline, and highlighting emerging topics in the field. Global in focus, offering up-to-date topics from an interdisciplinary,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-02-02
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Sociology
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This work explores the growing convergence between youth culture and digital communication technologies and the corresponding challenges posed to policymakers, examining the current governance debate on online child safety.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-01-31
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Lavishly illustrated with over 100 color photographs, Places of Faith takes readers on a fascinating religious road trip. Christopher Scheitle and Roger Finke have crisscrossed America, visiting churches in small towns and rural areas, as well as the mega-churches,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-01-30
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This book explores how six American writers have artistically responded to the racialization of U.S. frostbelt cities in the twentieth century. Using the critical tools of spatial theory, critical race theory, urban history and sociology, Simpson explains how these...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-01-30
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Religion-based educational disparities, especially relative educational backwardness amongst the Muslims in India, are the focus of serious debate. The 2006 Sachar Committee Report rekindled public interest and attention in this important issue. Yet, considerable gaps...
Editeur :
OUP India
Parution :
2012-01-27
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