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A collection of memoirs of deeply personal experiences from South America to Africa, Unrooted Childhoods presents a cultural mosaic of today's global citizens. In twenty stirring memoirs of childhoods spent packing, writings by the famous and the new-many published here...
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Quercus
Parution :
2011-11-18
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This book explores and celebrates imaginative and creative approaches to youth research, showcasing a wide range of innovative methods including music elicitation, mental mapping, blog analysis and mobile methods.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-11-15
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Derek Robbins has shown once again that he is one of the few Anglophone scholars with an exceptionally profound and impressively comprehensive knowledge of the history of modern European social thought. This book is a must for anybody interested in twentieth-century...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2011-11-09
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Featuring a collection of original chapters by leading and emerging scholars, The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Sociology presents a comprehensive and balanced overview of the major topics and emerging trends in the discipline of sociology today. Features original...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-11-01
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Sociology
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Summer of Unrest (Slight Return). For a few days at the start of August, England was gripped by the riots that erupted in its city centres. Although there were various motivations behind the trouble and a broad spectrum of ages and backgrounds involved, the front pages...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2011-10-27
Collection :
Summer of Unrest
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Adopting a perspective inspired by Henri Lefebvre, this book considers the spread of multiculture from the central city to the periphery and considers the role that 'race' continues to play in structuring the metropolis, taking London, New York and Paris as examples.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-10-27
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Religion in China survived the most radical suppression in human history--a total ban of any religion during and after the Cultural Revolution. All churches, temples, and mosques were closed down, converted for secular uses, or turned to museums for the purpose of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-10-18
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Christian Dispensationalism, the Taiping Revolution, cargo cults in Oceania, the Baha'i Faith, and the Raelian Movement would seem to have little in common. What they share, however, is a millennial orientation--the audacious human hope for a collective salvation, which...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-10-17
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Exploring a wide variety of case studies and developmental issues from a capability perspective, this book is an original contribution to both development and children's studies that raises a strong case for placing children's issues at the core of human development.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-10-04
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This study, by two leading scholars in the field, draws on feminist theory and science and technology studies to uncover a basic injustice for the human rights of drug-using women: most women who need drug treatment in the US and UK do not get it. Why not?
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-10-04
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The persistent failure of public schooling in low-income communities constitutes one of our nation's most pressing civil rights and social justice issues. Many school reformers recognize that poverty, racism, and a lack of power held by these communities undermine...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-10-03
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Since the Age of Enlightenment, France has upheld clear constitutional guidelines that protect human rights and religious freedom. Today, however, intolerant attitudes and discriminatory practices towards unconventional faiths have become acceptable and even...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-09-30
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Our modern society is very particular about what constitutes good food: local, seasonal, organic produce that doesn't overly impact on the environment. But throughout history every generation has believed that it alone knows the true value of food, and looked with...
Editeur :
Riverrun
Parution :
2011-09-29
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This widely-praised book identified peaceful struggle as a key phenomenon in international politics a year before the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt confirmed its central argument. Civil resistance - non-violent action against such challenges as dictatorial rule,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2011-09-29
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Every year, the month of October is decked out in pink, with countless posters calling on people to crusade against breast cancer through mammography. Why are public health officials, doctors, associations and laboratories so keen to do this? Are women really well...
Editeur :
Max Milo Éditions
Parution :
2011-09-27
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Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002), als Soziologe ebenso berühmt wie als Globalisierungskritiker umstritten, hat uns Fragen hinterlassen: Was war der Treibsatz seiner Karriere, seiner vielen Veröffentlichungen und seines politischen Engagements? Wer war er wirklich: der...
Editeur :
VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
Parution :
2011-09-24
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Metaphern sind eine bevorzugte Weise der Orientierung und Handlungsanleitung. Bislang jedoch ist die Metapher wegen ihrer vorwiegenden disziplinären Zuordnung zu den Geistes- und Sprachwissenschaften nicht zu einem anerkannten Thema und Gegenstand der Soziologie...
Editeur :
VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
Parution :
2011-09-24
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