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This book builds on case studies in depopulating and shrinking areas in Northern Europe. While most contemporary literature on shrinkage focuses on these issues from a planning standpoint, this book uniquely applies a policy perspective when approaching the material....
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Springer
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2020-01-09
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SpringerBriefs in Geography
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This book assembles ten scholarly examinations of the politics of representation in the groundbreaking animated children’s television series Steven Universe. These analyses address a range of representational sites and subjects, including queerness, race, fandom,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-01-09
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Die Deponie ist eine paradoxe, risikobehaftete Einrichtung.Die moderne Gesellschaft erhofft sich durch sie, weggeworfene, unbrauchbare oder gefährliche Dinge, Stoffe oder Substanzen ein für alle Mal sich selbst überlassen zu können. Zugleich erfordern die...
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Springer VS
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2020-01-09
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This edited volume brings together cutting-edge studies from emerging scholars of East/Southeast Asia who explore the role of mobile media in the contemporary transformation of the region’s social intimacies, from the romantic to the familial to the communal. By...
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Springer
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2020-01-09
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Egal ob lange ersehnt oder völlig unerwartet? Wenn Ihr Kind ein Kind bekommt, finden Sie sich plötzlich in einer völlig neuen Rolle wieder: Sie werden Großeltern und eine spannende Zeit liegt vor Ihnen! Doch die Erziehung Ihrer eigenen Kinder ist schon lange her und Sie...
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Wiley-VCH
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2020-01-09
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Für Dummies
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Laura Best stellt mithilfe eines innovativen videobasierten Forschungsdesigns das Erleben von Nähe und Distanz in Beratungsbeziehungen aus der Perspektive der Adressatinnen und Adressaten dar. Es werden Einflussfaktoren auf die Entwicklung der Beratungsbeziehung sowie...
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Springer VS
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2020-01-09
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This book addresses the complexity of talking about normativity in bioethics within the context of contemporary multicultural and multi-religious society. It offers original contributions by specialists in bioethics exploring new ways of understanding normativity...
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Springer
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2020-01-09
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**A contributing source for the film Richard Jewell, directed by Clint Eastwood**On July 27, 1996, a hapless former cop turned hypervigilant security guard named Richard Jewell spotted a suspicious bag in Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park, the town square of the 1996...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2020-01-09
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Death comes to all humans, but how death is managed, symbolised and experienced varies widely, not only between individuals but also between groups. What then shapes how a society manages death, dying and bereavement today? Are all modern countries similar? How...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2020-01-09
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Visual images are everywhere in international politics. But how are we to understand them? In Sensible Politics, William A. Callahan uses his expertise in theory and filmmaking to explore not only what visuals mean, but also how visuals can viscerally move and connect...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-01-08
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Silence takes on meaning based on the contexts of its occurrence. This is especially true in social interactions: consider the difference between silence after "lemme think," and silence after "will you marry me?"
This book examines a particular form of silence, the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-01-08
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Communication and artificial intelligence (AI) are closely related. It is communication – particularly interpersonal conversational interaction – that provides AI with its defining test case and experimental evidence. Likewise, recent developments in AI introduce new...
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Polity
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2020-01-07
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The civil sphere is a distinctively democratic field in modern societies, one that sustains universalizing cultural aspirations and organizational structures and that has tense and uncertain boundaries with other spheres of social life, like the economy, religion,...
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Polity
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2020-01-07
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This book provides an in-depth view on Bourdieu’s empirical work, thereby specially focusing on the construction of the social space and including the concept of the habitus. Themes described in the book include amongst others:...
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Springer
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2020-01-07
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This monograph outlines an integrative framework that conceptualizes the role of relations of control in human reproduction and long-term population dynamics. It thereby draws on the demographic transition theory, sexuality studies, Foucault’s concept of bio-power...
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Springer
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2020-01-07
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It is impossible to understand capitalism without analyzing slavery, an institution that tied together three world regions: Europe, the Americas, and Africa. The exploitation of slave labor led to a form of proto-globalization in which violence was indispensable to the...
Editeur :
Polity
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2020-01-07
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Critical South
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In an unusual merging of academic and literary practices, this volume attempts to identify a form (or forms) that is congenial with the subject of interrogation: the world in transition, with South Africa as the main focal point. Approaching anthropology from the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-01-06
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Presents innovative scholarship on Latina/o visibility in contemporary mainstream media Latina/os have seen increased visibility in the media in the past several years, especially in feature-length films, network television programs, and various digital platforms. The...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2020-01-06
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Subjective human rights of children are reasonably fathomed cooperatively by practice, activism and research. Approaches in interdisciplinary learning and teaching in childhood and children’s rights are demonstrated as possibilities for social change through acquiring...
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Springer VS
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2020-01-04
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Mit diesem Buch laden Jonuz und Weiß zu einem radikalen Perspektivenwechsel ein. Sie befragten erfolgreiche Frauen aus den heterogenen Sinti-und-Roma-Communities in Deutschland zu ihren Bildungs- und Berufswegen. Die biographisch-narrativen Selbstzeugnisse der Sintizza...
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Springer VS
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2020-01-04
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