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Die Systemtheorie ist ein Versuch, Beschreibungen für Phänomene zu finden, die weder so einfach sind, dass sie kausal, noch so zufällig, dass sie statistisch beschrieben werden können. In der Systemtheorie geht es um Phänomene der Selbstorganisation und um die Frage,...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2020-11-23
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This book presents an accessible overview of the seven key concepts of city diplomacy (development cooperation, peacekeeping, economy, innovation, environment, culture, and migration). The book discusses its scope and challenges, maps the actors involved along with...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-23
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This book draws on literary, cultural, and critical examples forming a menstrual imaginary—a body of work by women writers and poets that builds up a concept of women’s creativity in an effort to overturn menstrual prejudice. The text addresses key arbiters of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-21
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in (Re)Presenting Gender
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This book provides a conceptual framework for understanding the inclusive city. It clarifies the concept, dimensions and tensions of social and economic inclusion and outlines different forms of exclusion to which inclusion may be an antidote. The authors argue...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2020-11-21
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This book presents a series of urban investigations undertaken in the metropolis of Melbourne. It is based on the idea that ‘enchantment’ as an affective state is important to ethical and political engagement. Alexander and Gleeson argue that a sense of enchantment can...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-21
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This book sheds new light on the study of journalism and communication, considering why and how journalism is studied in the 21st century. It notably offers both an international and interdisciplinary comparison of journalism and communication, examining the history of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-21
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This book studies how people negotiate difficult heritage within their everyday lives, focusing on memory, belonging, and identity. The starting point for the examination is that temporalities lie at the core of understanding this...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-21
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict
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This book highlights the parallel transformations of the concepts of citizenship and the welfare state, and their dependence on the dominant political ideology, from the post-war period to the present. Kourachanis presents the welfare state as an integral part of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-21
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This book is about ageing in Bulgaria. How do Bulgaria’s elderly—abandoned by the state and left behind by their adult children and grandchildren—adapt to their continuously shifting environment and a state of perpetual uncertainty? Drawing on dozens of interviews with...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-21
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The Palgrave Handbook of Gender, Sexuality, and Canadian Politics offers the first and only handbook in the field of Canadian politics that uses 'gender' (which it interprets broadly, as inclusive of sex, sexualities, and other intersecting identities) as its category...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-20
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This book presents knowledge from Indigenous women who enact decolonization and wellbeing through physical activity. In sport, physical activity, and health disciplines, there is a significant need for Indigenous women’s theoretical and methodological...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-20
Collection :
New Femininities in Digital, Physical and Sporting Cultures
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Ziel dieser Studie ist es, die Situation der beruflichen Pflege aus Sicht der Pflegekräfte in Rheinland-Pfalz nachzuzeichnen. Es soll die zentrale Frage beantwortet werden, wie die Pflegekräfte ihren Berufsalltag und die Arbeitsbedingungen in der Pflege wahrnehmen. Der...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2020-11-20
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While some social scientists may argue that we have always been networked, the increased visibility of networks today across economic, political, and social domains can hardly be disputed. Social networks fundamentally shape our lives and social network analysis has...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-11-20
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This book challenges what are, for many people, deep-rooted expectations regarding the routine arming of police and compares jurisdictions in which police are routinely armed (Toronto, Canada and Brisbane, Australia) and those where police are not routinely armed...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-11-20
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The expectation for fathers to be more involved with parenting their children and pitching in at home are higher than ever, yet broad social, political, and economic changes have made it more difficult for low-income men to be fathers. In It's a Setup, Timothy Black and...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-11-20
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Audio Drama and Modernism traces the development of political and modernist sound drama during the first 40 years of the 20th Century. It demonstrates how pioneers in the phonograph age made significant, innovative contributions to sound fiction before, during, and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-19
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The essays in this volume address the question: what does it mean to understand the contemporary moment in light of the 1930s? In the aftermath of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, and facing a dramatic rise of right wing, authoritarian...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-19
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COVID-19: Proportionality, Public Policy and Social Distance explores the social and political response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It details the sociological aspects of the spread of the virus, the role played by social distancing in virus mitigation, and the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2020-11-19
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Die Erkenntnis, dass gehörlose Frauen von verschiedenen Formen von Gewalt und ihren Folgen genauso oder sogar weit häufiger betroffen sein können als andere Frauen, ist in der Öffentlichkeit kaum bekannt. Ein stark erhöhtes Risiko für Gewalterfahrungen ergibt sich bei...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2020-11-19
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This book presents a collection of archaeological and anthropological writings by Li Chi, the founding father of modern archaeology in China. It is divided into two parts, the first of which traces back the rise of Chinese civilization, as well as the origins of the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-11-19
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