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From the Great Game to the present, an international cultural and political biography of one of our most evocative, compelling, and poorly understood narratives of history.
The Silk Road is rapidly becoming one of the key geocultural and geostrategic concepts of the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-01-11
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Das Buch greift globale Krisen auf und zeigt, wie diese Sorgen bereiten und dass die Wirtschaft sich daraufhin umstellen muss. In dieser Situation bedingen die Sorgen und das Wirtschaften einander. Der Zusammenhang, der beschrieben wird, ist ein vielseitiger und...
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Springer VS
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2022-01-11
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Niklas Luhmann is now widely recognized as one of the most important social theorists of the twentieth century. While several of his key texts have been translated into English significant parts of Luhmann's extensive output remain unavailable to a non-German-speaking...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-01-08
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This book explores AIDS from a relatively macro perspective rather than concrete operational methods and focuses on the social construction of AIDS issues instead of its transmission level in the context of China. First, it begins with the theoretical analysis and the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-01-07
Collection :
A Sociological View of AIDS
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This book provides a comparative analysis of how communities have developed people-based resilience in response to the global impact of COVID-19. The crisis of the capitalist economy due to border closure, downturn in business, loss of jobs and large-scale destruction...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-07
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This book focuses on the concept of ‘home’ or ‘place of origin’ (expressed in Tamil as ‘Ur’) and its various dimensions, in turn related to issues of belonging, attachment, detachment, and commonality among the war-affected population in the post-war era of Sri Lanka....
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Springer
Parution :
2022-01-07
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When Thomas Harding discovered that his family had profited from slavery, he set out to interrogate the choices of his ancestors and Britain's role in this terrible history. His investigation took him to Demerara (now Guyana), the site of an uprising by enslaved people...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2022-01-06
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This book provides a unique contribution to the controversial discussion that surrounds the digitalisation and virtualisation of work. With a focus on the new formation of space and place, it critically discusses the idea that places in the context of work are...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-05
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This book, in two volumes, breathes fresh air empirically, methodologically, and theoretically into understanding the rich ceremonial lives, the philosophical-religious knowledge, and the impressive material feats and labor organization that distinguish Hopewell Indians...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-01-05
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Das Handbuch Körpersoziologie verfolgt das Ziel, den grundlegenden Stellenwert des Körpers für soziologisches Denken zu veranschaulichen. Die Körpersoziologie begreift den Körper als bedeutsam für subjektiv sinnhaftes Handeln sowie als eine soziale Tatsache, die hilft,...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2022-01-05
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Manuel Castells wird von vielen als einer der ersten Analytiker des Informationszeitalters und der Netzwerkgesellschaft gesehen, der den Zusammenhang zwischen der digitalen und der gesellschaftlichen Revolution erkannte.In diesem kleinen, zum Klassiker avancierten Buch...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2022-01-04
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This book represents a reflection on the policies of preservation that were established and interventions for restoration that occurred in Iran before and in the years after the Khomeinist Revolution, as well as being an analysis of the impact that Italian restoration...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-01-04
Collection :
Research for Development
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Das Buch liefert – erstmals im deutschsprachigen Raum – einen umfassenden wissenschaftlichen Beitrag zur Aufarbeitung sexualisierter Gewalt in einem Psychotherapieinstitut. Die qualitative Fallstudie nimmt jahrzehntelangen Machtmissbrauch und sexualisierte Gewalt durch...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2022-01-04
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This book explores how Esperanto – often regarded as a future-oriented utopian project that ended up confined to the past – persists in the present. Constructed in the late nineteenth century to promote global linguistic understanding, this language was historically...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-04
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Der Band hat zum Ziel verschiedene Dimensionen von Care ins Verhältnis zur Sozialen Arbeit zu setzen und diese wechselseitigen Verknüpfungen kritisch zu beleuchten. Die Relevanz einer solchen Verhältnisbestimmung ergibt sich aus der Beobachtung, dass Care im Kontext der...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2022-01-04
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Europas Parteien verändern sich gegenwärtig drastisch. Neue demokratische, aber auch populistische und völkische Bewegungen sind auf den Plan getreten. Für die klassische Parteienforschung stellen diese Entwicklungen eine Herausforderung dar und so lassen sich...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2022-01-04
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Words, Music, and the Popular: Global Perspectives on Intermedial Relations opens up the notion of the popular, drawing useful links between wide-ranging aspects of popular culture, through the lens of the interaction between words and music. This collection of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-03
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Music and Literature
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This book provides an insightful sociological study of the shrinking Japanese population through a regional variation perspective as it varies significantly by municipality, even within the same prefecture. Using demographic data on municipal levels, the book identifies...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-01-03
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Population Studies
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Challenging the simplistic story by which feminism has become complicit in neoliberalism, this book traces the course of globalization of women’s economic empowerment from the Global South to the Global North and critically examines the practice of empowering low-income...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-03
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This book is a study of how people collaboratively interpret events or experiences as having paranormal features, or as evidence of spiritual agency. The authors study recordings of paranormal research groups as they conduct real life investigations into allegedly...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-03
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