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Cognitive archaeology is a relatively new interdisciplinary science that uses cognitive and psychological models to explain archeological artifacts like stone tools, figurines, and art. Squeezing Minds From Stones is a collection of essays from early pioneers in the...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-04-04
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What’s with the men in menstruation? This is the question Men in Menstruation: A Social Transaction sets out to answer. From earliest times men have been puzzled and perplexed by the menstrual cycle and have constructed elaborate taboos, superstitions, and practices...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2019-04-04
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'Jennifer Eberhardt makes it clear that racism operates at all levels, and it fills me with hope to know that she is fighting it at all levels. More power to you, sister. The world needs you.' BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH'Poignant... striking... important and illuminating.' NEW...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2019-04-04
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We live in the age of the suicide bomber. The suicide bomb itself takes more lives than any other type of explosive weapon. Moreover, in the last 5 years more people have been killed by suicide attacks than at any other time in history.How has this descent deep into the...
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Quercus
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2019-04-04
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Quiet and polite, obsessively neat, clean and tidy, eight-year-old Tom is unlike any child Maggie has ever fostered before. Tom has been taken into care following concerns that his dad is struggling to cope after the death of Tom's mum. At first, Maggie doesn't know...
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Trapeze
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2019-04-04
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A Maggie Hartley Foster Carer Story
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Since smear cancer screening, cervical cancer has become a rare cause of death among women of industrialized countries (0.7% of cancer deaths in US). This cancer is statistically linked to numerous factors including the frequent sexual activity, smoking and sexually...
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Fauves Editions
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2019-04-04
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Fauves
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Die vorliegende Studie analysiert Selbstbildungsprozesse älterer schwuler Männer. Dabei stehen Verhandlungen und Aneignungen der Dimensionen Alter(n), Begehren und Geschlecht im Mittelpunkt, die „unter der Treppe“ im Kontext einer gleichzeitigen diskursiven...
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Springer VS
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2019-04-03
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Geschlecht und Gesellschaft
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Dieses Buch führt in die Strategien und Instrumente ein, mit denen Kulturbetriebe ihre Eintrittspreise erfolgreich gestalten können. Es werden Wege aufgezeigt, wie Potenziale zur Verbesserung der Eintrittserlöse ausgeschöpft werden können, ohne Besucher auszuschließen....
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Springer VS
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2019-04-03
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Kunst- und Kulturmanagement
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Verlässliche Informationen über die alternde Gesellschaft sind bisher dünn gesät. Der Alters-Survey - gefördert vom Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend - schafft hier Abhilfe. Er basiert auf einer großen, anspruchsvoll angelegten...
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VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
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2019-04-03
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This book explores the food history of twentieth-century Sydney, Shanghai and Singapore within an Asian Pacific network of flux and flows. It engages with a range of historical perspectives on each city’s food and culinary histories, including colonial culinary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-04-02
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Manfred B. Steger’s extensive body of work on globalization has made him one of the most influential scholars working in the field of global studies today. His conceptualization of the global imaginary is amongst the most significant developments in thinking about...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-04-02
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This open access book shows how to use sensitivity analysis in demography. It presents new methods for individuals, cohorts, and populations, with applications to humans, other animals, and plants. The analyses are based on matrix formulations of age-classified,...
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Springer
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2019-04-02
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A warm, wise, and urgent guide to parenting in uncertain times, from a longtime reporter on race, reproductive health, and politics In We Live for the We, first-time mother Dani McClain sets out to understand how to raise her daughter in what she, as a black woman,...
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Bold Type Books
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2019-04-02
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Anlässlich des 60. Geburtstags von Werner Wirth nehmen die Autorinnen und Autoren in dieser Festschrift jüngere theoretische Entwicklungen und empirische Befunde der Rezeptions- und Wirkungsforschung zum wechselseitigen Einfluss von Emotionen und Kognitionen in den...
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Springer VS
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2019-04-02
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Despite the enormous economic, physical and social impacts of crimes committed by states and corporations, they are still relatively under-researched within contemporary social science—partly because of the perpetrator’s ability to evade critical scrutiny. The...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-04-02
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This book addresses a wide range of social issues in connection with urbanization, which is providing new momentum for China’s economic restructuring and social progress, including the educational gap; the middle class in urbanization; consumption; division of labor;...
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Springer
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2019-04-02
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Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path
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Climate change is a profoundly social and political challenge that threatens the well-being, livelihood, and survival of people in communities worldwide. Too often, those who have contributed least to climate change are the most likely to suffer from its negative...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-04-02
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Das 2017 erschienene Buch von Hubert Knoblauch »Die kommunikative Konstruktion der Wirklichkeit« enthält den Entwurf einer eigenen, über den bisherigen sozialen Konstruktivismus hinausgehenden soziologischen Theorie. Der vorliegende Band erhebt den Anspruch einer...
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Springer VS
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2019-04-01
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Should you respond to friend requests from service users? How can you be sure that your own online profile is secure? Do service users understand the global and permanent nature of social media posts?
Mapped against UK regulatory bodies’ standards this book responds to...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2019-04-01
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Obwohl zwischenmenschliches Vertrauen als wichtige Ressource moderner Gesellschaften gilt, vernachlässigen bisherige Untersuchungen zwischenmenschlichen Vertrauens die Bedeutung kultureller Wertorientierungen. Mit der Betonung wertbasierter Begründungen des Vertrauens...
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Springer VS
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2019-04-01
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