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For readers of Being Mortal and When Breath Becomes Air, the acclaimed co-founder of Death over Dinner offers a practical, inspiring guide to life's most difficult yet important conversation Of the many critical conversations we will all have throughout our ...
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Orion Spring
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2018-10-04
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Dieser Band versammelt Studien zu den gesellschaftlichen, kulturellen,rechtlichen, medialen, religiösen, ethischen und medizinischen Aspektendes Spannungsverhältnisses von Existenz und Nichtexistenz. Vormals alseindeutig empfundene Grenzziehungen verlieren ihre...
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Springer VS
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2018-10-04
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The Sunday Times BestsellerNational Book Awards Winner 2018!This is the must-read book that every woman needs. "Brilliant, hysterical, truthful and real. These essays illuminate the path for our future female leaders." - Reese WitherspoonWe asked 52 women: what does the...
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Penguin
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2018-10-04
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Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies brings into conversation two fields—Early Modern Studies and Black Studies—that traditionally have had little to say to each other. This disconnect is the product of current scholarly assumptions about a lack of archival evidence...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-10-03
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This book explores how the construction and contestation of victims in societies emerging from conflict impact processes of peacebuilding. It locates its inquiry in Northern Ireland where highly politicized, unresolved narratives of violence and a so-called ‘hierarchy...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-10-03
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Palgrave Studies in Compromise after Conflict
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This book explores the Irish Traveller community through an ethnographic and folk linguistic lens. It sheds new light on Irish Traveller language, commonly referred to as Gammon or Cant, an integral part of the community’s cultural heritage that has long been viewed as...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-10-03
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Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities
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This book is oriented on cities and their role in society, from the public places created in cities to the visionary and more abstract views on large scale developments. The chapter authors argue, each in their own way, how urban design can produce an answer to these...
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Springer
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2018-10-03
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This edited collection examines contemporary directions in geographical research on South Africa. It encompasses a cross section of selected themes of critical importance not only to the discipline of Geography in South Africa, but also of relevance to other areas of...
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Springer
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2018-10-03
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Das Buch gibt einen anschaulichen Überblick über die Aspekte der operativen und strategischen Finanzsteuerung und beleuchtet diese aus der Perspektive des Unternehmens, des Konzerns, der finanzierenden Banken und der Wirtschaftsprüfung. Wie kann die Steuerung von...
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Springer VS
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2018-10-03
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Sozialwirtschaft innovativ
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Das Buch versammelt historisch sowie systematisch wichtige Texte der Netzwerkforschung und bietet anhand kurzer und prägnant aufbereiteter Zusammenfassungen eine Einführung in die Thematik. Die einzelnen Beiträge diskutieren für jedes Schlüsselwerk drei Aspekte: Es wird...
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Springer VS
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2018-10-03
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Netzwerkforschung
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This book explores the implication of diversity for humanism. Through the insights of academics and activists, it highlights both the successes and failures related to diversity marking humanism in the US and internationally. It offers a timely depiction of how...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-10-03
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The people of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania voted Democratic for decades, until Donald Trump flipped it in 2016. What happened? Named one of the "juiciest political books to come in 2018" by Entertainment Weekly. InThe Forgotten, Ben Bradlee Jr. reports on how voters...
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Little, Brown and Company
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2018-10-02
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Exploring indigenous life projects in encounters with extractivism, the present open access volume discusses how current turbulences actualise questions of indigeneity, difference and ontological dynamics in the Andes and Amazonia. While studies of extractivism in South...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-02
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Approaches to Social Inequality and Difference
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Individuals all over the world can use Airbnb to rent an apartment in a foreign city, check Coursera to find a course on statistics, join PatientsLikeMe to exchange information about one's disease, hail a cab using Uber, or read the news through Facebook's Instant...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-10-02
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This timely reference takes a rigorous look at the myriad ways technology, from smartphones to dating apps to social media, is affecting family life and opening new areas for study. The book features cross-disciplinary perspectives on current trends in the role of...
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Springer
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2018-10-01
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This book presents essays and scientific contributions examining the link between popular media and politics. The essays focus on the question of how political and social change, concepts of power, and utopian elements are reflected in selected films and television...
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Springer
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2018-10-01
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This book examines stereotypical traits of women as they are reflected in Anglo-American anti-proverbs, also known as proverb transformations, deliberate proverb innovations, alterations, parodies, variations, wisecracks, fractured proverbs, and proverb mutations....
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-10-01
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Youth Mediations and Affective Relations explores dynamic and expansive possibilities of young people’s affective lives as they engage with diverse social media in prolific and specific ways. It addresses the situated embodied and emotional experiences of young people...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-10-01
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Constanze Volkmann develops an innovative new gender theory labeled doing and undoing gender. Based on empirical findings she examines the highly debated intersection of gender and Islam. The analysis of interviews with various Muslim women unravels the many different...
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Springer VS
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2018-10-01
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Quince Duncan is one of the most significant yet understudied Black writers in the Americas. A third-generation Afro-Costa Rican of West Indian heritage, he is the first novelist of African descent to tell the story of Jamaican migration to Costa Rica. Duncan’s work has...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-10-01
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