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Ob Soziale Netzwerke, Smartphones oder Social Robots: Menschen handeln in nahezu allen Lebensbereichen mit Medien. Eine integrative Analyseperspektive kann die Relevanz sozialen Medienhandelns sichtbar machen und Antworten auf grundlegende Fragen unserer...
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Springer VS
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2019-11-12
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The book sets itself the ambitious task of exploring the relationship between human culture and the phenomenon of mental illness, that which has embarrassed, fascinated, and challenged educated minds throughout the centuries. Various manifestations of this phenomenon...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2019-11-12
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This book is the fruit of scientific research conducted using quantitative and qualitative methods regarding the mutual relations between the media elites and the political elites in Poland. The authors of this work focus on several virtuous aspects of this issue: on...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-11-12
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Pornography can tell us many things about a society, when it is seriously considered as a topic for scientific research. The present volume offers interdisciplinary perspectives on the subject and shows how pornography can be studied and what we can learn from such...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-11-12
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Employing a novel collaborative transnational methodology, this ground-breaking book presents the first comprehensive and systematic comparison of Mexico and South Africa. Although geographically, historically and diplomatically far apart, Mexico and South Africa are...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2019-11-12
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?The exploration of ways to conceptualize the shaping of the present by socio-technical futures is the aim of this volume. Therefore it brings together contributions from Science and Technology Studies and Technology Assessment, which focus all on the question how...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-11-11
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Between Germany and Russia is a region strewn with monuments to the horrors of war, genocide and disaster – the bloodlands where the murderous regimes of Hitler and Stalin unleashed the violence that scarred the twentieth century and shaped so much of the world we know...
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Polity
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2019-11-11
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We think that we live in democracies: in fact, we live in mediarchies. Our political regimes are based less on nations or citizens than on audiences shaped by the media.We assume that our social and political destinies are shaped by the will of the people without...
Editeur :
Polity
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2019-11-11
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From Aristotle to Heidegger, philosophers distinguished two orders of time, before, after and past, present, future, presenting them in a wide range of interpretations. It was only around the turn of the 1970s that two theories of time which deliberately went beyond...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-11-11
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This book examines the experiences of disabled people on public transport to reveal the everyday abuses that many experience there, and the resilience that they need in order to conduct an ordinary life.This work represents an intertwining of personal journeys, with its...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-11-10
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This book examines how democratic education is conceptualised by exploring understandings of emotions in learning. The authors argue that emotion is both an embodiment and enhancement of democratic education: that rationality and emotion are not separate entities, but...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-11-10
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This book examines urbanization and migration processes in South Asia. By analyzing the socio-economic impacts and infrastructural, environmental and institutional aspects of different conurbations, it highlights conflicts over agricultural land as well as the effects...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-11-09
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This work provides an innovative new look at police ethics, including results from an updated version of the classic Police Integrity Questionnaire, including new social and technological advances. It aims to push the study of police research further, expanding on and...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-11-09
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This book comprehensively examines post-1989 changes to the symbolic landscape of Berlin – specifically, street names, architecture, urban planning and monuments – and links these changes to concepts of contested cultural memory and national identity in Berlin and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-11-09
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The Urban Book Series
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This book provides comprehensive information on enlargement of methodological and empirical choices in a multidisciplinary perspective by breaking down the monopoly of possessing tribal studies in the confinement of conventional disciplinary boundaries. Focusing on...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-11-09
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Loneliness affects quality of life, life satisfaction, and well-being, and it is associated with various health problems, both somatic and mental. This book takes an international and interdisciplinary approach to the study of loneliness, identifying and bridging...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-08
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Discourses of Southeast Asia presents the latest Southeast Asian research in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). SFL provides a sophisticated social semiotic architecture for exploring meaning in languages and texts in the context of Southeast Asia. This edited...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-11-08
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The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series
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Women Writing War focuses on the life-writing of the moudjahidate, the women veterans of the Algerian war of independence (1954–1962). The author offers close readings of memoir, testimonial, poetry and drama by Jacqueline Guerroudj, Louisette Ighilahriz, Anna Gréki,...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-11-08
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In the second half of the twentieth century, new sounds began to reverberate across the United States. The voices of African-Americans as well as of women, Latinx, queer, and trans people broke through in social movements, street protests, and in media stories of...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-11-08
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In this book, Reinhold Kramer explores a variety of important social changes, including the resistance to objective measures of truth, the rise of “How-I-Feel” ethics, the ascendancy of individualism, the immersion in cyber-simulations, the push toward globalization and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-08
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