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This book presents an integral, cross-cultural reflection on the social reality of children's rights and citizenship, giving an insight into new perspectives on the history and different concepts of children's rights in a contextualized and localized manner.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-01-25
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Many scholars and church leaders believe that music and worship style are essential in stimulating diversity in congregations. Gerardo Marti draws on interviews with more than 170 congregational leaders and parishioners, as well as his experiences participating in...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-01-25
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How does an industrial community cope when they are told that closure is inevitable? What if this is only the last in a 200 year long line of threats, insecurities and closure?How did people weather the storms and how do they face the future now? While attempts to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-01-17
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In the US and UK there has been a transformation in child care, family leave, social assistance and tax credits over the last twenty years. This book explores the factors behind these changes. With detailed case studies, it shows that ideas and the power to wield them...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-01-06
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Cultural Sociology: An Introduction is the first dedicated student textbook to address cultural sociology as a legitimate model for sociological thinking and research. Highly renowned authors present a rich overview of major sociological themes and the various empirical...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-01-04
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Locating Neoliberalism in East Asia: Neoliberalizing Spaces in Developmental States examines the influence of neo-liberal ideologies on urban and regional policies and practices in several Asian Pacific nations. Represents one of the few studies of neoliberal changes...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-01-04
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IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
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Despite the swift spread of social network concepts and their applications and the rising use of network analysis in social science, there is no book that provides a thorough general introduction for the serious reader. Understanding Social Networks fills that gap by...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-01-02
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The majority of the world’s population live in environments with artificially weakened wind as buildings in urban areas form wind-breaks and reduce wind speeds. Anthropogenic heat is also generated and during the summer dense urban areas suffer from the urban heat...
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Springer
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2012-01-02
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Springer Geography
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The emergence of periodicals in Hindi for women and girls in early-twentieth-century India helped shape the nationalist-feminist thought in the country. Analysing the format and structure of periodical literature, Shobna Nijhawan shows how it became a medium for elite...
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OUP India
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2011-12-28
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Early Adulthood in a Family Context, based on the 18th annual National Symposium on Family Issues, emphasizes the importance of both the family of origin and new and highly variable types of family formation experiences that occur in early adulthood. This volume...
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Springer
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2011-12-11
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Subjekt, Objekt und Intersubjektivität bilden drei der wohl zentralsten Elemente im menschlichen Erkenntnisprozess. Anhand einer kritischen Rekonstruktion der Erkenntnistheorien Hegels und Adornos beleuchtet die vorliegende Arbeit die Dialektik zwischen Subjekt und...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-12-09
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In der Schweiz aufgewachsene Kinder von Immigranten fühlen sich oft stark der Herkunftskultur bzw. dem Herkunftsland ihrer Eltern verbunden, obwohl sie diese(s) nicht oder nur sehr bedingt aus eigener Anschauung kennen. Wie kommt dieses – oftmals diffuse – Gefühl der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-12-09
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The Yearbook addresses the overriding question: what are the effects of the ‘opening up’ of science to the media? Theoretical considerations and a host of empirical studies covering different configurations provide an in-depth analysis of the sciences’ media connection...
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Springer
Parution :
2011-12-02
Collection :
Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook
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Sunstein explores the human propensity for gossip and storytelling, and discusses how our fears and hopes can work against common sense. He also investigates the way that the internet can entrench our false beliefs even deeper, and how the wish to conform, our natural...
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Penguin
Parution :
2011-11-24
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Our conventional view of history and human progress is wrong. It is founded on a pernicious myth of an acheivable utopia that in the last century alone caused the murder of tens of millions. In Black Mass John Gray tears down the religious, political and secular...
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Penguin
Parution :
2011-11-24
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The relationship between religion and human rights is both complex and inextricable. While most of the world's religions have supported violence, repression, and prejudice, each has also played a crucial role in the modern struggle for universal human rights. Most...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-11-24
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This collection is the first to examine the life experiences of young adult immigrants in Europe, as transmitted by the young adults themselves, and together with the analytical framework, seeks to uncover mechanisms at work in these individuals' lives.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-11-22
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