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How are our personal soundtracks of life devised? What makes some pieces of music more meaningful to us than others? This book explores the role of memory, both personal and cultural, in imbuing music with the power to move us. Focusing on the relationship between...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-03-19
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This book examines the ways in which Arab civil society actors have attempted to influence public policies. In particular, the book studies the drive towards a change of policies that affect women and their well-being. It does so through the lens of women civil society...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-03-19
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Nachhaltigkeit stellt die Frage des guten Lebens. Sie meint Resilienz und Lernfähigkeit, um Krisen vorzubeugen oder zu überwinden, die unsere Existenz und ein friedliches Zusammenleben gefährden. In der bisherigen Nachhaltigkeitsdebatte hat die soziale Ungleichheit...
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Springer VS
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2019-03-19
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In this ethnographic examination of women’s mosques in the Maldives, anthropologist Jacqueline H. Fewkes probes how the existence of these separate buildings—where women lead prayers for other women—intersect with larger questions about gender, space, and global Muslim...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-03-19
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This volume provides a multidisciplinary perspective on a set of transformations in social practices that modify the meaning of everyday interactions, and especially those that affect the world of labour. The book is composed of two types of texts: some dedicated to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-18
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This book examines the British government’s response to the ‘superfluous women problem', and concerns about post-war unemployment more generally, by creating a migration society that was tasked with reducing the number of single women at home through overseas...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-18
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Entscheiden Sie sich für ein Studium an einer Universität, ist die Fähigkeit zum ,wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten‘ unerlässlich. Sie entscheidet nicht zuletzt über den Erfolg des Studiums. Gerade zu Studienbeginn können hier einige ,Tücken lauern‘. Dieses essential ...
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Springer VS
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2019-03-18
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This ethnography takes the reader into the Australian suburbs to learn about food, eating and bodies during the highly political context of one of Australia’s largest childhood obesity interventions. While there is ample evidence about the number of people who are...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-18
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This collection of essays engages with the current resurgence of interest in the relationship between American pragmatism and communication studies. The topics engaged in this collection of essays is necessarily diverse, with some of the figures discussed within often...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-16
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This book offers a much-needed analysis of how young people understand and navigate their lives as workers, family members and political actors in an era of uncertainty, Brexit and Trump. Drawing on the latest and most seminal international research and the unique...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-03-16
Collection :
Perspectives on Children and Young People
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This book draws upon the work of Georg Simmel to explore the limits, tensions and dynamism of social life through a close analysis of the works produced in the final years of his life and reveals what they might still offer some 100 years later. Focusing on the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-15
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A broad and accessible introduction to national and transnational media Transnational Media: Concepts and Cases provides a clear and engaging overview of media communication from a global and a region-based perspective. Rather than focusing on just complex theories and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2019-03-15
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The definitive and first major text on personas in contemporary culture Modern social media and communication technologies have reshaped our identities and transformed contemporary culture, revealing an expanded and intensified reforming of our collective online...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2019-03-15
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Stefan Walter analysiert Einträge in Poesiealben, die die seltene Möglichkeit bieten, Wertvorstellungen einer Bevölkerung abseits reaktiver Umfragen über einen langen Zeitraum zu untersuchen. Die Auswertung von mehr als 2800 Einträgen in Alben aus der DDR und...
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Springer VS
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2019-03-15
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This book relates stories of everyday life revolving around small-scale urban gardens in Central Havana and focusing particularly on that of Marcelo, a seventy-four-year-old revolutionary and gardener. The urban gardens are contested spaces: though monitored and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-03-15
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This book offers an essential introduction to the phenomenon of shrinking cities in China, highlighting several case studies, qualitative and quantitative methods, and planning responses. As an emerging topic in urbanizing China, cities experiencing population loss have...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-03-15
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Women’s Manga in Asia and Beyond offers a variety of perspectives on women’s manga and the nature, scope, and significance of the relationship between women and comics/manga, both globally as well as locally. Based on the activities since 2009 of theWomen’s MANGA...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-14
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The American Jewish Year Book, now in its 118th year, is the annual record of the North American Jewish communities and provides insight into their major trends.The first two chapters of Part I include a special forum on "Contemporary American Jewry: Grounds for...
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Springer
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2019-03-14
Collection :
American Jewish Year Book
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Discover the fascinating stories behind 38 iconic women of colour, all of them ground-breakers, risk-takers and game-changers. Whether they are sportswomen, scientists, activists or superstars, every one of these women has been a trailblazer in their field, and deserves...
Editeur :
Summersdale
Parution :
2019-03-14
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A multidisciplinary, authoritative outline of the current intellectual landscape of the field. Over the past three decades, the term ‘diaspora’ has been featured in many research studies and in wider theoretical debates in areas such as communications, the humanities,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2019-03-14
Collection :
Global Handbooks in Media and Communication Research
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