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Informelle Ratgebernetzwerke strukturieren den Fluss des Wissens und beeinflussen damit das Gelingen von Innovationsversuchen grundlegend. Philip Roth analysiert die Entwicklung solcher Netzwerke. Neben Partnerselektionsentscheidungen haben sich besonders...
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Springer VS
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2019-07-02
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Michaela Quente befasst sich mit den Studienmotivationen, Erfahrungen und Haltungen von Studierenden in Bezug auf die Dimension Geschlecht. Tatsächlich erweisen sich die Geschlechterverhältnisse in einigen Fachkulturen und das entsprechende Fachwahlverhalten durch junge...
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Springer VS
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2019-07-02
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Successful integrative practice begins at the nexus of intrapersonal and interpersonal levels of macro practice, and requires a nuanced sensitivity to both. Integrative Practice in and for Larger Systems guides readers through the development of a cohesive practice...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-07-02
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This is a book about boys’ bodies, masculinities, and the ways in which boys navigate their lives from early childhood through to the beginning of adolescence. Drummond focuses on sport, health and physical activity, and adds context to the history of male...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-07-01
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India remains a country mired in poverty, with two-thirds of its 1.3 billion people living on little more than a few dollars a day. Just as telling, the country's informal working population numbers nearly 500 million, or approximately eighty percent of the entire labor...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-07-01
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Inuit have among the highest suicide rates in the world - ten times the national average.Inuit narratives of suicide provide clues as to what can and in some cases has been done to combat the problem, but until recently they have not circulated far beyondInuit...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-07-01
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What does it mean to be Muslim in Britain today? If the media is anything to go by, it has something to do with mosques, community leaders, whether you wear a veil, and what your views on religious extremists are. But as all our lives become increasingly entwined with...
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Hurst
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2019-07-01
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This book presents a novel approach to framing the concept of stigma, and understanding why and how it functions.
Graham Scambler extends his analysis beyond common social interactionist understandings of stigma by linking experiences to the larger social...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2019-07-01
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The global icon is an omnipresent but poorly understood element of mass culture. This book asks why audiences around the world have embraced particular iconic figures, how perceptions of these figures have changed, and what this tells us about transnational relations...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-07-01
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Death Across Cultures:Death and Dying in Non-Western Cultures, explores death practices and beliefs, before and after death, around the non-Western world. It includes chapters on countries in Africa, Asia, South America, as well as indigenous people in Australia and...
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Springer
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2019-07-01
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In the eyes of Rony Brauman of Médecins sans Frontières, wars are always triggered in the name of morality. Today's "humanitarian" interventions are little more than new moral crusades-and their justifications are based on lies. There are plenty of examples of hawkish...
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Hurst
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2019-07-01
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This book is the first to give a comprehensive and detailed overview of the complete geography of Slovenia in English. Only very few countries, even considerably larger ones, can boast the landscape diversity found in Slovenia since the Alps, the Pannonian...
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Springer
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2019-07-01
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This book presents the operational use of remote sensing in municipalities for urban planning purposes. Through a unique study among more than 70 cities and institutions in 41 countries, it reveals the remaining gap of knowledge and awareness for remote sensing data,...
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Springer
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2019-07-01
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This book analyses the social contexts in which programmers design neuroimaging software used in brain studies. It shows that in the same way people engage in everyday communication, programmers are involved in a series of communicative processes to realize the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-29
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This book adds significantly to the discourse surrounding the progress made in empowering women in Africa over the last decade, providing strong research evidence on diverse and timely gender issues in varied African countries. Topics covered include climate change and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-29
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This book presents archaeological research conducted within the Highlands of Sicily. Results of an archaeological survey in the Madonie mountain range, in northern Sicily, supported by a chronological and cultural grid, drawn by the excavation of Vallone Inferno, deal...
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Springer
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2019-06-29
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This edited volume constructs a ‘cosmopolitics’ of climate change, consulting small-scale sustainable communities on whether the world is ending and why, and how we can take action to prevent it. By comparing scientific and indigenous accounts of the same phenomenon,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-29
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Water is one of the most pressing concerns of our time. This book argues for the importance of water as a cultural object, and as a source of complex meanings and practices in everyday life, embedded in the socio-economics of local water provision. Each chapter aims to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-06-29
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Anja Kalch erforscht im Rahmen von drei Experimentalstudien die Wirkung von Erfahrungsnähe in narrativen Gesundheitsbotschaften auf stellvertretende Erfahrungen, sozial-kognitive Faktoren und Gesundheitsintentionen. Dabei werden sowohl Themen der individuellen...
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Springer VS
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2019-06-28
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One of the country’s most eminent sociologists, J.P.S. Uberoi inaugurated a unique approach in the study of Indian sociology and social anthropology. He makes a case for a form of independent Indian sociology in relation to the principal philosophies and sociological...
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OUP India
Parution :
2019-06-28
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