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The 2016 U.S. presidential election revealed a nation deeply divided and in flux. This volume provides urgently needed insights into American politics and culture during this period of uncertainty.The contributions answer the election’s key mysteries, such as how...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-11-12
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Providing an original perspective on the construction of nations and national identities, this book examines national symbols and ceremonies, arguing that, far from being just superficial or decorative, they are in fact an integral part of nation building, maintenance...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-11-12
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This book illuminates how the ‘long eighteenth century’ (1660-1800) persists in our present through screen and performance media, writing and visual art. Tracing the afterlives of the period from the 1980s to the present, it argues that these emerging and changing forms...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-11-11
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?Darstellungen der Polizei in der Polizeiforschung gleichen häufig den Schilderungen der sprichwörtlichen blinden Männer, die einen Elefanten untersuchen und dabei jeweils etwas völlig Unterschiedliches beschreiben. Eine dominierende und leitende Fragestellung dabei ist...
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Springer VS
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2018-11-11
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This book examines how intimate relationships are built, negotiated and maintained through social media. The study takes a cross-platform approach, analysing three social media platforms of different genres – Badoo, Couchsurfing and Facebook – and exploring two...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-11-11
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Mega-events such as the Olympic Games, World Cup finals and international political summits are occasions of almost unparalleled economic, political and social significance for host nations and cities. The scale and scope of mega-event security has continued to grow...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-11-11
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Every year millions of families are affected by the imprisonment of a family member. Children of imprisoned parents alone can be counted in millions in the USA and in Europe. It is a bewildering fact that while we have had prisons for centuries, and the deprivation of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-11-10
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Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fifth century BC. One of the most original playwrights in the entire Western tradition, his comedies are remarkable for their...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-11-10
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This volume expands understandings of crafting practices, which in the past was the major relational interaction between the social agency of materials, technology, and people, in co-creating an emergent ever-changing world. The chapters discuss different ways that...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-11-09
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This book tries to answer the question how different communities in such an arid area as the Iranian central plateau could have shared their limited water resources in a perfect harmony and peace over the course of history. They invented some indigenous technologies as...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-11-09
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Since the sexual revolution of the 1960s, debates over pornography have raged, and the explosive spread in recent years of sexually explicit images across the Internet has only added more urgency to these disagreements. Politicians, judges, clergy, citizen activists,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-11-09
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An essential collection of scholarly essays on the anthropology of Africa, offering a thorough introduction to the most important topics in this evolving and diverse field of study The study of the cultures of Africa has been central to the methodological and...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2018-11-09
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Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
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In this intimate and extraordinary memoir, Ziauddin Yousafzai, the father of Malala, gives a moving account of fatherhood and his lifelong fight for equality – proving there are many faces of feminism.“Whenever anybody has asked me how Malala became who she is, I have...
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Virgin Digital
Parution :
2018-11-08
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The ready availability of donated sperm and eggs has made possible an entirely new form of family. Children of the same donor and their families, with the help of the internet, can now locate each other and make contact. Sometimes this network of families form...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-11-07
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The Oxford Handbook of Global Studies provides an overview of the emerging field of global studies. Since the end of the Cold War, globalization has been reshaping the modern world, and an array of new scholarship has risen to make sense of it in its various...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-11-07
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Why are there so few Muslim terrorists? With more than a billion Muslims in the world-many of whom supposedly hate the West and ardently desire martyrdom-why don't we see terrorist attacks every day? Where are the missing martyrs? These questions may seem...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-11-07
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Across the globe, violence prevention initiatives focused on men and boys are proliferating rapidly. Engaging Men and Boys in Violence Prevention highlights effective and innovative strategies for the primary prevention of domestic violence, sexual violence, and other...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-11-07
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Exacerbated by the Great Recession, youth transitions to employment and adulthood have become increasingly protracted, precarious, and differentiated by gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. Youth Labor in Transition examines young people's integration into...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-11-07
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From Out of the Binders co-founder Lux Alptraum, a controversial look at women, sex, and lying -- why myths about women's deceit persist, how they came to be, and ultimately why we must trust women When we talk about sex, we talk about women as mysterious, deceptive,...
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Seal Press
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2018-11-06
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Dieses Buch bietet einen Einblick in die Soziologie, ihre Theorien und Methoden. Rudolf Richter erklärt, wie die Soziologie Individuen und ihre Beziehungen zueinander betrachtet, und zeigt auf, wie diese Wechselwirkungen zu Gewohnheiten und Regeln, zu Systemen und...
Editeur :
Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2018-11-05
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Für Dummies
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