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The Mahabharata preserves powerful journeys of women recognized as the feminine divine and the feminine heroic in the larger culture of India. Each journey upholds the unique aspects of women's life. This book analytically examines the narratives of eleven women from...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-05-21
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This book provides an applied model of corruption to identify, analyse, and assess the ethics of major types of corruption in the media involving practices such as cash-for-comment, media release journalism, including video news releases (VNRs), fake news, deep fakes,...
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Springer
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2021-05-21
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Since the rise of the smartphone, apps have become entrenched in billions of users' daily lives. Accessible across phones and tablets, watches and wearables, connected cars, sensors, and cities, they are an inescapable feature of our current culture. In this book,...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-05-20
Collection :
Digital Media and Society
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Asian Americans are the fastest growing minority population in the country. Moreover, they provide a unique lens on the wider experiences of immigrants and minorities in the United States, both historically and today. Pawan Dhingra and Robyn Magalit Rodriguez’s...
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Polity
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2021-05-20
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Sowohl anhand einer Vollerfassung aller Bundestags-Drucksachen und Plenarprotokolle aus den Jahren 1990-2009, in denen von Islam oder Muslim*innen die Rede ist, als auch anhand einer Habitusanalyse von vier ausgewählten Debatten – zum „Asylkompromiss“ 1993, zu einer...
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Springer VS
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2021-05-19
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This book brings together twelve contributions that trace the empirical-conceptual evolution of Popular Communication, associating it mainly with the context of inequalities in Latin America and with the creative and collective appropriation of communication and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-05-19
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change
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Dieser Band versammelt verschiedene Untersuchungen zu Einstellungen zu Migranten und zu nationalistischem Wahlverhalten, die alle auf repräsentativen Bevölkerungsumfragen beruhen. Insgesamt verdeutlicht die Gesamtschau der in diesem Band versammelten Beiträge die...
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Springer VS
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2021-05-18
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European jihadism is a multi-faceted social phenomenon. It is not only linked to the extremist behavior of a limited group, but also to a much more global crisis, including the lack of a utopian vision and a loss of meaning among the middle classes, and the humiliation...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-05-18
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When Americans conceptualize freedom, they often disproportionately focus on negative freedom, or freedom from government constraint-being told what they cannot say, which religion they cannot practice, where they cannot move, etc. By this measure, Americans are...
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Oxford University Press
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2021-05-18
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Modern society emerged in the context of European colonialism and empire. So, too, did a distinctively modern social theory, laying the basis for most social theorising ever since. Yet colonialism and empire are absent from the conceptual understandings of modern...
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Polity
Parution :
2021-05-18
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This book is the first of its kind, addressing key issues in the teaching and learning of spirituality and spiritual care in the context of nursing and midwifery practice. The content is based on the outcomes of a European-wide project (EPICC) that brought together...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-05-18
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This book examines the emergence of a culture of migration through outward migration as a country-specific phenomenon and analyzes it from different perspectives, covering various aspects such as the history of a country, its migration flows, migration push factors,...
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Springer
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2021-05-17
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This book examines the scope and nature of Donald Duck and his family's popularity in Germany, in contrast to the diminished role they play in America.This is achieved through examination of the respective fan communities, business practices, and universality of the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-05-17
Collection :
Palgrave Fan Studies
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Development and underdevelopment are the main determinants of life-chances worldwide, arguably more so than social class. Marxism, as the underlying theory for social revolution, needs to have a clear understanding of the dynamics of development and social progress....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-05-17
Collection :
Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
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This book analyses leisure choice as a complex concept, made more complicatedin later life than at any other time. The author posits that there are manyunanswered questions about the new booming generation of healthy, olderpeople, and this book asks what it is really...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-05-15
Collection :
Leisure Studies in a Global Era
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Die persuasive Wirksamkeit immersiver Botschaften wurde schon mehrfach empirisch nachgewiesen.Die räumliche Präsenz wurde dabei als Mediator der Effekte identifiziert – wie genau dieser Persuasionsmechanismus allerdings abläuft, ist bisher ungeklärt. Daher wird die...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2021-05-13
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Everything you need to know about how to best raise, educate and guide Generation Alpha (born 2010-24) - the most materially endowed and technologically literate generation ever - to help them live their best life.Renowned social demographer Mark McCrindle shares...
Editeur :
Headline Home
Parution :
2021-05-13
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This book represents a significant contribution to debates about identity, the arts and spirituality. Written in an autoethnographic style, the author charts his own journey into understanding the interface between himself, culture and digital technology. He charts a...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-05-13
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Cultural security is a basic need for individuals belonging to national and linguistic minorities. Structurally exposed to asymmetric power dynamics, these minorities compete with the larger society for material and non-material resources, rendering their future...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2021-05-13
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Friedrich Jonas’ zweibändige Geschichte der Soziologie bietet einen fundierten ideengeschichtlichen Überblick über die Vorläufer, die Entstehung und den Verlauf der Soziologie im internationalen Kontext.Im ersten Band werden die zentralen...
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Springer VS
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2021-05-13
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