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To examine the origins, characteristics, and outcomes of resilient governance with Chinese characteristics, this open access book takes Guangzhou, a typical Chinese city from 1990 to 2015, as an example. Through participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and...
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Springer
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2023-07-30
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This book explores the historical interrelationships between mathematics, medicine and media, and offers a unique perspective on how video compression has shaped our relationship with moving images and the world. It situates compression in a network of technological,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-07-29
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This book takes an organizational sociological perspective on the systematically carried out mass murders in the context of Nazi euthanasia in Hadamar. On the basis of numerous theoretically elaborated as well as empirically proven organizational mechanisms, it is shown...
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Springer
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2023-07-29
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This open access short reader investigates how migration has become an increasingly important issue in international relations since the turn of the 21st century. It investigates specific aspects of this migration diplomacy such as double citizenship or bilateral...
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Springer
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2023-07-29
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Die Wirkungen der sozialen Medien sind besonders in Bezug auf das religiöse Engagement und die religiösen Praktiken junger Menschen zu beobachten – die heute unter Begriffen wie „Internetgeneration“, „Mediengeneration“ oder „Digital Natives“ zusammengefasst werden....
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Springer VS
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2023-07-28
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Through this book, the author examines the role of music education within the larger global education movement. Specifically, the author argues music education has unique potential to foster positive global identity and to promote higher levels of intercultural...
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Springer
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2023-07-28
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To date, there has been no comprehensive and coherent approach to determining the communicative and precommunicative processes involved in the construction of group identities. The present study fills this gap by developing a unified theoretical foundation that can be...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-07-28
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This book enables readers to understand contemporary Japanese society and culture. Since it is written by experts, it allows readers to start with any chapters they are interested in. It also provides a unique way to introduce Japanese society and culture to those who...
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Springer
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2023-07-28
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Die letzten Jahrzehnte waren geprägt von der Vorstellung einer Übergewichts-Epidemie. Sowohl bei Kindern als auch bei Erwachsenen in Deutschland ist hohes Körpergewicht immer verbreiteter. Dieses Buch beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, ob Körpergewicht eine Determinante...
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Springer VS
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2023-07-28
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‘A magisterial contribution to the understanding of the cultural position of Romani people in Europe. … nothing short of astounding’ Literary ReviewThis remarkable book describes a dark side of European history: the rejection of the Roma from their initial arrival in...
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Penguin
Parution :
2023-07-27
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This book brings together a range of hip hop scholars, artists and activists working on Hip Hop in the Global North and South with the goal of advancing Hiphopographic research as a critical methodology with critical fieldwork methods...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-07-27
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The anthology presents the social consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic in the field of work and gainful employment from a multidisciplinary perspective of social and economic sciences. Specifically, it deals with the analysis of changes in work processes and relations...
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Springer
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2023-07-27
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This book offers a completely new approach to the complex social phenomenon of the Mafia: In addition to the origins, organization and actions of the Mafia, the author Anita Bestler examines above all the close connection between organized crime and politics. In...
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Springer
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2023-07-27
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What is the value of conversation measured by? Are there more valuable and inferior types of conversation? What role do the contents, the people, and the circumstances play? Do times and epochs shape their own conversations? Conversation norms from handbooks as well as...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2023-07-27
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Im Rahmen der „Flüchtlingskrise“ ab 2015 war vielerorts die Rede davon, dass die Polarisierung zu einer Erosion des gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalts in Deutschland geführt habe und entsprechend gegengesteuert werden müsse. Dabei geht die diskursive Präsenz des...
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Springer VS
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2023-07-26
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Das Buch führt die wichtigsten Strömungen der Korruptionsforschung seit 1945 auf. Ein besonderes Augenmerk wird dabei auf die deutsche Forschungslandschaft gelegt. Weitere Schwerpunkte sind die Untersuchungen zum Umfang der Korruption, methdoische Probleme der Erhebung...
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Springer VS
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2023-07-26
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Despite the significance of urban justice in planning research and practice, how just societies and cities can be organised and achieved remains contested. Spatial justice provides an integrative and unifying theory concerning place, policies, people and their...
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Springer
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2023-07-25
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This book offers insight into the relationship between prehistoric and protohistoric human populations and the world around them. It reconstructs key aspects of the palaeoenvironment – from large-scale drivers of environmental conditions, such as climate, to more...
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Springer
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2023-07-25
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This book is about the social protection of lower-skilled migrants from Sri Lanka. It reasons out the importance of protecting Sri Lankan migrant workers considering the significant economic contribution of lower-skilled migrant workers and their higher level of...
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Springer
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2023-07-25
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This book works to unpack and explicate women’s personas. Drawing on global gender studies and feminist research, the author examines how ‘woman’ has been constructed socially, culturally, and politically throughout different historical periods and feminist movements....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-07-25
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