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Reporter Chang Frick grew up dark-haired in a nation of blonds. Ostracized as a child, in adulthood he set out to expose the hypocrisy of Swedish society. When he revealed the cover-up of mass sexual assaults on teen girls at a 2015 music festival, he provoked a chain...
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Hurst
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2019-04-01
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Health and social care decisions, and how they impact a family, are often viewed from the perspective of the individual family member making them--for example, the role of the parent in surrogacy questions, the care of the elderly, or decisionis that involve fetuses or...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-04-01
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This book examines the use and impact of Australian Indigenous sentencing courts in response to Indigenous partner violence. In operation in Australia since 1999, these courts were first established by a magistrate in South Australia who sought to improve...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-30
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Providing an ethnographic account of the everyday life of a household of artisans in the Telangana state of southern India, Chandan Bose engages with craft practice beyond the material (in this case, the region's characteristic murals, narrative cloth scrolls, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-30
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Die politischen und gesellschaftlichen Diskussionen um Heimat intensivieren sich. Im Kontext des Versuchs der Selbstvergewisserung im Zuge der Globalisierung, aber auch der Differenzierung und Fragmentierung der Gesellschaft, der Einwanderung sowie landschaftlichen...
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Springer VS
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2019-03-29
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Die Autorin befasst sich aus einer interdisziplinären Perspektive mit dem Phänomen der seit der Kölner Silvesternacht 2015/2016 vielerorts neu entstandenen Bürgerwehren. Sie vermittelt nicht nur neues kriminologisches (Grundlagen-)Wissen über deutsche Bürgerwehren,...
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Springer
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2019-03-29
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Domesticating Empire is the first contextually-oriented monograph on Egyptian imagery in Roman households. Caitlín Barrett draws on case studies from Flavian Pompeii to investigate the close association between representations of Egypt and a particular type of Roman...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-03-29
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'One of the great social historians of our time. No one else makes history this fun' Amanda Foreman'How Was It For You? subtly but powerfully subverts complacent male assumptions about a legendary decade' David Kynaston--------------------------------"A feeling that we...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2019-03-28
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This open access book describes methods of mortality forecasting and discusses possible improvements. It contains a selection of previously unpublished and published papers, which together provide a state-of-the-art overview of statistical approaches as well as...
Editeur :
Springer
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2019-03-28
Collection :
Demographic Research Monographs
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This volume deals with a key concept concerning the future: change. It is omnipresent and yet is often only perceived in retrospect. The book’s editor and founder of Psychological Future Management argues that we are currently experiencing the beginning of the most...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-03-28
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'Horizon is magnificent; a contemporary epic' Robert Macfarlane, author of UnderlandFrom the author of the classic Arctic Dreams comes a vivid recollection of his travels around the world and the encounters that shaped an extraordinary life. Taking us nearly from pole...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2019-03-28
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This book examines how genocide survivors rebuild their lives following migration after genocide. Drawing on a mixture of in-depth interviews and published testimony, it utilises Bourdieu’s concept of social capital to highlight how individuals reconstruct their...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-27
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This book explores the insights that Cultural Astronomy provides into the classical Roman world by unveiling the ways in which the Romans made use of their knowledge concerning the heavens, and by shedding new light on the interactions between astronomy and heritage in...
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Springer
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2019-03-27
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Ob Terroranschläge, Flüchtlings- oder Finanzkrisen – die Herausforderungen der globalisierten Moderne legen jene Bereiche frei, die Durkheim als anomisch bezeichnete und deren Bearbeitung nach wie vor die zentrale Stellung moralischer Kommunikation verdeutlicht. Einiges...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2019-03-27
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The night and popular music have long served to energise one another, such that they appear inextricably bound together as trope and topos. This history of reciprocity has produced a range of resonant and compelling imaginaries, conjured up through countless songs and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-27
Collection :
Pop Music, Culture and Identity
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Simone Ines Linke beschreibt die stereotype und stark ästhetisierte Konstruktion medialer Landschaften und geht darauf ein, welche gesellschaftlichen Auswirkungen damit verbunden sind. Die Autorin zieht geographische, philosophische und soziologische Perspektiven heran...
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Springer VS
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2019-03-27
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Drawing on ethnographic encounters with self-identified gay men in Iran, this book explores the construction, enactment, and veiling and unveiling of gay identity and same-sex desire in the capital city of Tehran. The research draws on diverse interpretive, historical,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-27
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This book provides a comparison of the measurement in time and monetary units of unpaid domestic work in Colombia, Costa Rica, Uruguay, and the Hispanic ethnicity in the United States. A standardized technique allows the development of comparable estimates across...
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Springer
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2019-03-27
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What is the use of research in public debates and policy-making on immigration and integration? Why are there such large gaps between migration debates and migration realities, and how can they be reduced? Bridging the Gaps: Linking Research to Public Debates and Policy...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-03-27
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?Ist es Ihnen auch schon passiert, dass Sie im Aufzug auf den Knopf für das siebte Stockwerk gedrückt hatten, aber im fünften Stockwerk ausstiegen, weil alle anderen ausstiegen? Sie fahren nur dann weiter, wenn Sie diesen unbewussten Drang überwinden und sich mithilfe...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-03-26
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