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This book explores the role of railways in developing sustainable low-carbon mobility by analyzing the intermodal relationship between railways and other transport modes. Focusing on geographical and governance perspectives, and taking China as a case study, it analyzes...
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Springer
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2020-10-17
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This book analyzes men’s experiences and perceptions regarding their participation in infidelity and offers a glimpse into the inner workings of their most intimate relationships, as well as the ways men negotiate marriages that fall short of their expectations.Using a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-10-17
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This volume explores voters’ political rationalizations. The author analyzes semi-structured interview data from 120 American voters collected from 2013-2015 about their positions on three economic referenda—or “direct democratic economic policies” (DDEPs) on the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-10-16
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The Last Word argues that the Hollywood novel opened up space for cultural critique of the film industry at a time when the industry lacked the capacity to critique itself. While the young studio system worked tirelessly to burnish its public image in the wake of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-10-16
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This book represents an ethnographic study of the experiences and counternarratives of twelve Latinx young adults. All of the participants in this study are first generation immigrants to the United States, representing different cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-10-16
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A twenty-year perspective that dares to imagine huge changes.A collective book to awaken our senses and suggest specific watchfulness on a key point that will determine our future: the place of human beings in businesses.A social fiction essay to try and imagine the...
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TohuBohu éditions
Parution :
2020-10-16
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It is well established that the race and gender of elected representatives influence the ways in which they legislate, but surprisingly little research exists on how race and gender interact to affect who is elected and how they behave once in office. How do race and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-10-16
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Das Buch lotet aus, wie das Auftreten des Corona Virus und die Maßnahmen zur Bekämpfung der Ansteckung unser Zusammenleben verändern. Hierzu werden Fachleute aus der Netzwerkforschung befragt, denn fast alle Maßnahmen beeinflussen die Beziehungen zwischen den Menschen....
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Springer
Parution :
2020-10-15
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Welchen Einfluss hat die Gestaltung des gegenständlichen Umfeldes auf zwischenmenschliche Beziehungen und wie werden diese gewollt oder ungewollt mit den Dingen mitgestaltet? Auf welche Weise werden durch Design und Architektur soziale Kompetenzen wie...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2020-10-14
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Diese Studie rekonstruiert die Entwicklungen der Löhne und Lohnungleichheiten während der Eurokrise aus einer gesamteuropäischen sowie inner- und zwischenstaatlichen Perspektive. Es wird gezeigt, dass die unterschiedlichen betrieblichen als auch arbeitsmarktpolitischen...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2020-10-14
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This book revisits some of the persisting challenges of development of India, which remain unresolved even after twenty-five years of economic reforms and almost fifteen years of high growth rate. These include defining purpose of development, inequality, labour, work,...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-10-14
Collection :
India Studies in Business and Economics
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Does exposure to media violence make us more violent? Do stereotypes in the media affect the way we see different social groups? Do media institutions play any role in social change? Media Effects is a concise introduction which studies the ways in which media use...
Editeur :
Polity
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2020-10-14
Collection :
Key Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies
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Das Buch liefert aus rechtlicher und kriminologischer Perspektive einen aktuellen Blick auf den Strafvollzug und die Wiedereingliederung nach der Entlassung. Namhafte Autoren aus Wissenschaft und Praxis stellen in gut verständlicher Weise ihre Forschungsergebnisse vor...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-10-14
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Should human organs be bought and sold? Is it right that richer people should be able to pay poorer people to wait in a queue for them?Should objects in museums ever be sold? The assumption underlying such questions is that there are things that should not be bought and...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-10-14
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Das Feld der Macht bildet ein Schlüsselkonzept der Soziologie Bourdieus, ist in seiner Bedeutung für die Theoriearchitektur allerdings bislang weitgehend verkannt worden. Der Band liefert die erste umfassende Rekonstruktion des Ansatzes und skizziert ein...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2020-10-13
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This open access book explores how young people engage with chemical substances in their everyday lives. It builds upon and supplements a large body of literature on young people’s use of drugs and alcohol to highlight the subjectivities and socialities that chemical...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-10-13
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Was und wie viel wissen die Menschen in Deutschland über Politik? Wie ähnlich oder unterschiedlich sind die Wissensstände in verschiedenen Bevölkerungsgruppen?Was sind hinderliche und was förderliche Faktoren für den Wissenserwerb? Und:Was sind Folgen des politischen...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2020-10-13
Collection :
Politisches Wissen
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This smart, provocative look at how the American Dream of single-family homes, white picket fences, and two-car garages became a lonely, overpriced nightmare explores how new trends in housing can help us live better. Over the past century, American demographics...
Editeur :
Bold Type Books
Parution :
2020-10-13
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The Edwardian era is often romanticised as a tranquil period of garden parties and golden afternoons in which everyone knew their place and nobody questioned the order of things.The reality, however, was quite different.The years between 1901 and 1914 were a highly...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-10-13
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