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This book explores the transformation of cultural and national identity of global sports fans in South Korea, which has undergone extensive cultural and economic globalization since the 1990s. Through ethnographic research of Korean Major League Baseball fans and their...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-08-21
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Migration Crises in 21st Century Africa explores the ever-expanding crises of migrations from various regions of Africa to other parts of the world; notably the pattern that utilizes the pre-existing trans-Saharan trade route via North Africa and the Mediterranean to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-08-21
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This carefully curated collection of the writings and speeches of W. McNeil (Mac) Lowry will provide significant information about and insight into a remarkable period in the second half of the twentieth century, when the foundations of the arts as they now exist in the...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-08-20
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'A horrific story superbly told' - Irish TimesThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks meets Get Out in this landmark investigation of entrenched racism at the core of the heart transplant race. In 1968, Bruce Tucker, a Black man, went into Virginia's top research hospital...
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Quercus
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2020-08-20
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Like all empires, the Soviet Empire was also based on the distinction centre–periphery. Although the Soviet Empire no longer exists, relationships between centres and peripheries still shape realities in the region. The book analyses the relevance of this distinction...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-08-20
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This book offers new insights into the mechanisms of state control, systematic repression and mass violence focused on ethnic, political, class, and religious minorities in the recent past. The geographical and temporal scope of the volume breaks new...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-08-19
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict
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Die Studie identifiziert Bedarfe der Eltern mit Blick auf die Berufsorientierung ihrer Kinder. Eltern möchten hier v.a. wissen, wie sie die Interessen und Stärken ihrer Kinder herausfinden können. Zudem macht die Studie deutlich, dass viele Informationsquelle zur...
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Springer VS
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2020-08-19
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Erzählen, erklären, einordnen: Lutz Frühbrodt zeigt, wie moderner Wirtschaftsjournalismus funktioniert. Der Band startet mit den jüngeren Umwälzungen innerhalb des Ressorts, dekliniert die typischen Anlässe und Textformate durch und endet mit einem Plädoyer für eine...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2020-08-19
Collection :
essentials
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While studies of San children have attained the peculiar status of having delineated the prototype for hunter-gatherer childhood, relatively few serious ethnographic studies of San children have been conducted since an initial flurry of research in the 1960s and 1970s....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-08-19
Collection :
Palgrave Studies on the Anthropology of Childhood and Youth
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As Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies rapidly progress, questions about the ethics of AI, in both the near-future and the long-term, become more pressing than ever. This volume features seventeen original essays by prominent AI scientists and philosophers and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-08-18
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This volume seeks to understand the role and function of religious-based organizations in strengthening associational life through the provision of social services, thereby legitimizing a new role for faith in the formerly secular public sphere. Specifically, we explore...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-08-18
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Religion, Politics, and Policy
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Mass attachment to religion is rapidly declining in most of the world; Why, and What comes next?
The world is becoming less religious. Since 2007, there has been a pervasive decline in religious belief and most of the world's people now say that God is less important...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-08-18
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On the surface, Riverview High School looks like an exemplar of an integrated community. Serving an affluent and diverse district, the school is well-funded, its teachers are well-trained, and many of its students are high-achieving. Yet Riverview has not escaped the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-08-18
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Körper spielen in sozialpädagogisch geführten Debatten um soziale Ungleichheits- und Ausschließungsverhältnisse eine weitestgehend vernachlässigte Rolle und dies obwohl gerade derKörper in seiner Sichtbarkeit vielleicht das letzte wichtigste Strukturmerkmal von...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2020-08-17
Collection :
Soziale Arbeit als Wohlfahrtsproduktion
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Diese Studie begeht einen neuen Weg zur Erklärung von Devianz und Gewalt im Jugendalter, indem sie versucht, zwei soziologische Ansätze, die Theorie Sozialer Desintegration und die Control Balance Theory, miteinander zu verknüpfen. Es geht um die Frage der...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2020-08-17
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This book discusses and analyzes past and ongoing national urban policy development efforts from around the globe, particularly those that can lead the way toward smart and green cities. In view of the adoption of the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-08-17
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What are the grand dynamics that drive the history of economies? The laws of supply & demand, most economists would argue. For the history of European banking, this book offers an alternative explanation: Rather than market forces, the coincidence and coalitions of...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2020-08-17
Collection :
Wirtschaft + Gesellschaft
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This brief extends studies on how corporations respond to scandals by examining the evolution of the accounts that corporate agents develop after a scandal becomes public. Guided by the theory of accounts and a recently developed perspective on crisis management, its...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-08-17
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Time pressure, speed and the desire for instant consumption pervade accounts of contemporary lives. Why is it that people feel pressed for time, in what ways have societies changed to create this condition, and with what implications?
This book examines...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-08-17
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The Rohingyas are one of the most persecuted ethnic minorities in the world. They used to live in the Arakan/Rakhine State of Burma/Myanmar for centuries, though it is a predominantly Buddhist country. Being victims of persecution as a result of ethnic cleansing and...
Editeur :
OUP India
Parution :
2020-08-15
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