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Transforming Culture offers a discussion and exploration of American work culture that can serve as a guide for organizational-culture change through the description and explanation of a model for change used at GM. The book describes the model, discusses culture-change...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-06-11
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In this broad ranging study, Gretchen Woertendyke reconfigures US literary history as a product of hemispheric relations. Hemispheric Regionalism: Romance and the Geography of Genre, brings together a rich archive of popular culture, fugitive slave narratives,...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-06-02
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Die beiden mitteldeutschen Epen «Graf Rudolf» und «Herzog Ernst» spielen zwar in den neuesten Darstellungen der Geschichte der deutschen Regionalliteratur eine Rolle, aber ihre Einordnung in Gattungen lässt Fragen offen. Zur Diskussion stehen ihre Verbindung zur...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-05-13
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Dinge verraten etwas über Gesellschaften und ihre Mitglieder. Sie
repräsentieren Wissen und Geschichte(n), verdichten Identitätserfahrungen und
markieren sowohl Zugehörigkeiten wie auch Abgrenzungen.Dinge weisen über sich
hinaus, sie tragen Bedeutungen in sich, die im...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2016-05-11
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Partnerships among a variety of institutions – for profit, not-for-profit, and non-profit – are a relatively recent organizational development. Such partnerships link businesses, government, and social agencies. The primary reason for these relationships is to achieve...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-05-10
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This volume examines the importance of establishing egalitarian relationships in fieldwork, and acknowledging the impact these relationships have on scholarly findings and theories. The editors and their contributors investigate how globalization affects this...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-05-04
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In the last few decades the people of the African diaspora have intensified their struggles against racial discrimination and for equality. This account of these social movements include action in Latin America, the Indian Ocean World, Europe, Canada and the United...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-30
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Why do people routinely risk their health by smoking cigarettes?Why do some females make walking a struggle by donning high heels? In a fully updated edition, the author attempts to answer such questions by explaining the discipline that endeavors to understand the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-30
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The Funk Era and Beyond is the first scholarly collection to discuss the significance of funk music in America. Contributors employ a multitude of methodologies to examine this unique musical genre's relationship to African American culture and to music, literature, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-30
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Masculinities and the Nation in the Modern World sheds new light on the interrelationship between gender and the nation, focusing on the role of masculinities in various processes of nation-building in the modern world between 1800 and the 1960s.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-29
Collection :
Global Masculinities
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Lyombe Eko carries out an historical and cultural survey of the regulation of visual depictions of explicit human sexual conduct from their earliest appearance on the clay tablets of the valley of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in ancient Mesopotamia, to the tablet...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-29
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This textbook discusses and systemises several selected topics of philosophical anthropology. The problem of man cannot be grasped through only one main principle or aspect (as the principle of his or her «humanity»). The chapters of this book rather outline several...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-04-22
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Kinship, Love, and Life Cycle in Contemporary Havana, Cuba is an ethnographic analysis of gender, kinship, and love in contemporary Cuba. The book documents how low-income Havana residents negotiate their social relations through gendered caring practices over the life...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-21
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This groundbreaking anthology examines the phenomenon of crime and our historical understanding – and misunderstanding – of the criminal mind through the lens of the humanities, unpacking foundational concepts in criminology and criminal investigative analysis through...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-04-19
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Die Monographie bietet einen Überblick über verschiedene Raumkonzepte der modernen Literaturforschung. Es werden Orte und Unorte, historische und gegenwärtige Regionen, mentale Räume der Kultur und Bildung, der Natur und Landschaften, die sich mit den Phänomenen der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-04-15
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Charles Dickens, celebrated novelist and journalist, believed that his greatest ability as a writer was to make people laugh. Yet, to date, humor has been strangely marginalized in journalism, communication and media studies. This innovative book draws together the work...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-04-14
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Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, this book examines how contemporary secularism in France is positioned as a guarantor of women’s rights. Selby argues that the complex “fetishization” of headscarves in public, governmental, and feminist French discourse...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-06
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A Companion to the Anthropology of Environmental Health presents a collection of readings that utilize a medical anthropological approach to explore the interface of humans and the environment in the shaping of health and illness around the world. Features the latest...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-04-05
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
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Cultural Animal Studies sind ein neuer interdisziplinärer Forschungsbereich, der sich ausgehend vom angloamerikanischen Sprachraum auch in der deutschen Wissenschaftslandschaft etabliert. Dabei handelt es sich nicht nur um ein thematisches Feld sondern um ein neues...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2016-03-29
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Die Autoren untersuchen den Wandel des Bildes des Zweiten Weltkrieges, der sich in der Erinnerungskultur in den letzten 25 Jahren in Polen und in Deutschland vollzogen hat. Ihre Perspektive öffnet den Blick auf das Zusammenspiel der Veränderungen, die sich aus dem...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-03-24
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