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The book provides an argument why realism is a viable metatheoretical framework for psychological science. By looking at some variations of realism such as scientific realism, critical realism, situational realism and Ferraris’ new realism, a realist view of...
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Springer
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2020-06-02
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This book challenges the narrative of Northern England as a failed space of multiculturalism, drawing on a historically-contextualised discussion of ethnic relations to argue that multiculturalism has been more successful and locally situated than these assumptions...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-06-02
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Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series
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This open access book shows how the politics of migration affect community building in the 21st century, drawing on both retrogressive and progressive forms of mobilization. It elaborates theoretically and shows empirically how the two master frames of nostalgia and...
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Springer
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2020-06-02
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This book presents an academic analysis of exorcism in Christianity. It not only explores the crisis and drama of a single individual in a fight against demonic possession but also looks at the broader implications for the society in which the possessed lives. In...
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Springer
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2020-06-01
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Die Praxis Sozialer Arbeit muss sich mit der Forderung nach Wirkungsnachweisen sozialer Interventionen im Allgemeinen und spezifisch auch im Kontext von Quartiersentwicklung auseinandersetzen. Anknüpfend an den wissenschaftlichen Diskurs zu Wirkungen in der Sozialen...
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Springer VS
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2020-06-01
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This book demonstrates how a local elite built upon colonial knowledge to produce a vernacular knowledge that maintained the older legacy of a pluralistic Sufism. As the British reprinted a Sufi work, Shah Abd al-Latif Bhittai's Shah jo risalo, in an effort to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-06-01
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Punishment policies and practices in the United States today are unprincipled, chaotic, and much too often unjust. The financial costs are enormous. The moral cost is greater: countless individual injustices, mass incarceration, the world's highest imprisonment rate,...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-06-01
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Required reading for anyone interested in the profound relationship between digital technology and society
Digital technology has become an undeniable facet of our social lives, defining our governments, communities,
and personal identities. Yet with these technologies...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-06-01
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Mexico of five centuries ago was witness to one of the most momentous encounters between human societies, when a group of Spaniards led by Hernando Cortés joined forces with tens of thousands of Mesoamerican allies to topple the mighty Aztec Empire. It served as a...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-06-01
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In undertaking a systematic analysis of urban materiality, this book investigates one kind of material in Melbourne: stone. The work draws on a range of pertinent, current theories that consider materiality, assemblages, networks, phenomenology, resource and extraction...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-06-01
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This is a book about how cities occupy space. We are not interested in architectural masterpieces, but the tools for reinventing city life. We try to provide a framework for the architecture and design of public space without aesthetic considerations. We identify...
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Springer
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2020-05-30
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SpringerBriefs in Architectural Design and Technology
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This book examines how disruptive technologies and innovation underpin the attainment of a broader development agenda in Africa. Contributors show how distinctive forms of technological innovation can impact critical development processes. For example, disruptive...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-05-29
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Die Bizarrerie von heute ist der Trend von morgen und der Mainstream-Markt von übermorgen. Dies zeigen seit den 1990er-Jahren die Theorie-Performances von Franz Liebl aus der Reihe „Unbekannte Theorie-Objekte der Trendforschung“. Wo in der Trendforschungs normalerweise...
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Springer VS
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2020-05-29
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Tangotanzen ist weltweit in Mode gekommen – eine Erfolgsstory mit vielen Gesichtern. Neben ökonomischen, historischen und politischen Aspekten spielen Sinnlichkeit und Emotionalität eine große Rolle, wie dieses Buch am Beispiel von Buenos Aires und Amsterdam zeigt....
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Springer VS
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2020-05-29
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Die Soziologie der Nächsten Gesellschaft soll dazu verhelfen, ihre veränderte Grundsituation der Selbstbeschreibung der gesellschaftlichen Kommunikation und ihrer Sozialstruktur in den Blick zu nehmen. Sie sollte sich der Einsicht nicht entziehen, dass gesellschaftliche...
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Springer VS
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2020-05-29
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Nina Berding liefert eine dichte ethnografische Beschreibung von Alltagspraktiken in einem diversitätsgeprägten Quartier in Düsseldorf. Die Autorin beschreibt die routinierten Handlungen der Bewohner*innen im Alltag und zeigt, wie handlungsfähig Stadtgesellschaft im...
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Springer VS
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2020-05-28
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This book explores a particular genre of intervention into cultural difference, used across the globe. Organised cultural encounters is an umbrella concept referring to face-to-face encounters that are organised across a wide variety of social arenas in order to manage...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-05-28
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Global Diversities
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Intimate Partner Violence is a serious social problem affecting millions in the United States and worldwide. The image of violence enacted by a male aggressor to a female victim dominates public perceptions of intimate partner violence (IPV). This volume examines how...
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Springer
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2020-05-28
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This book is centred upon the concept of ‘ethnonationality,’ investigating how its meanings and functions have changed across political regimes, time, and generations. Piacentini explores two similar yet different realities, Bosnia Herzegovina and Macedonia (now North...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-05-28
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This volume offers innovative approaches to the study of religion. It brings together junior and senior scholars from the Global North and South. The contributors also explore the context-specific formations of religion and religious knowledge production in an...
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Springer
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2020-05-28
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