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This is the first text to address British Chinese culture. It explores British Chinese cultural politics in terms of national and international debates on the Chinese diaspora, race, multiculture, identity and belonging, and transnational ‘Chineseness’. Collectively,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-09-18
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In ganz Europa wird die Frage nach der Zukunftsfähigkeit der unterschiedlichen wohlfahrtsstaatlichen Systeme diskutiert. Gesucht wird unter anderem nach innovativen Ideen, die die Leistungsfähigkeit sozialer Dienstleistungen erhalten oder erhöhen können und im Sinne...
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Springer VS
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2018-09-18
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The most up-to-date and thorough compendium of scholarship on social movements This second edition ofThe Wiley Blackwell Companion to Social Movements features forty original essays from the field. With contributions from both established and ascendant scholars, the...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2018-09-18
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Wiley Blackwell Companions to Sociology
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Der Band setzt sich mit Fragen nach dem erkenntnistheoretischen Status des Dokumentarischen und dem Wesen des Dokumentarfilms insbesondere in historischer Hinsicht auseinander. Ein Blick in heutige Medienkulturen zeigt, dass gesellschaftliche Kommunikation über...
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Springer VS
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2018-09-17
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This volume includes chapters by historical archaeologists engaged in original research examining the role of the British Empire in Latin America. The archaeology of Latin America is today a rapidly expanding field, with new research being accomplished every day....
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Springer
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2018-09-17
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This book analyses the ways in which twenty-first century detective fiction provides an understanding of the increasingly complex and often baffling contemporary world — and what sociology, as a discipline, can learn from it.
Conventional sociological accounts of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-09-15
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This study suggests how traditional language-rich narrative histories of the Pale of Settlement can benefit from drawing on the large vocabularies, questions, theories and analytical methods of human geography, economics and the social sciences for an understanding of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-09-15
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The city of Clermont-Ferrand in central France is inextricably linked to the global tire company Michelin—not only by the industrial, social, and economic realities that tie employees to employer, but also by a multi-generational, regional belief in the company’s...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-09-15
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Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology
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Living Mantra is an anthropology of mantra-experience among Hindu-tantric practitioners. In ancient Indian doctrine and legends, mantras perceived by rishis (seers) invoke deities and have transformative powers. Adopting a methodology that...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-09-15
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Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
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Are painkillers mundane medications safe for use to ease human suffering? Or are they drugs of abuse that cause addiction and death? Do they ameliorate pain, or do they cause it? This book explores growing interest among medical practitioners media outlets about the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-09-15
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This book presents the outcomes of a field action project at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS). Project Chunauti (English translation: Project Challenge) focused on a group of intellectually disabled, orphan children who were survivors of abuse, exploitation...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-09-14
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Der Sammelband vereint eine differenzierte Auseinandersetzung zum Nexus von freiwilligem Engagement und sozialer Inklusion und zeigt auf, dass beide Phänomene in vielfältigen Interdependenzen stehen. Dabei werden komprimiert aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse präsentiert und...
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Springer VS
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2018-09-14
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This Print On Demand book will be sent within 3 weeks (metropolitan France) and in a separate package if you order another paperback book.Cet ouvrage en impression à la demande sera envoyé sous 3 semaines environ (France métropolitaine) et dans un colis séparé en cas de...
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QUAE
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2018-09-14
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This book examines how non-economic inter- and intra-group relationships were reflected in residential patterns around the first decade of the 21st century in Whitechapel, an old yet attractive absorption neighbourhood in east London, UK. It sheds light on different...
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Springer
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2018-09-14
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A Population History of India provides an account of the size and characteristics of India's population stretching from when hunter-gatherer homo sapiens first arrived in the country - very roughly seventy thousand years ago - until the modern day. It is a period during...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-09-13
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'Wilfred's sheer ambition is an inspiration. We can all learn from it.' - Peter Bazalgette'Based on my career, Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones' approach to risk can produce huge dividends' - Nigel Travis, chairman of Dunkin' Brands and author of The Challenge CultureJeopardy is...
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Piatkus
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2018-09-13
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In his landmark 1942 report on social insurance Sir William Beveridge talked about the 'five giants on the road to reconstruction' -- the giants of Want, Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.
Social Progress in Britain investigates how much progress Britain has...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-09-13
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For nearly a century families have been out-migrating to suburbs and peri-urban areas. In this book, Johanna Lilius conceptualizes the relatively recent phenomenon of families choosing to live in the inner city. Drawing on a range of qualitative data, the book offers a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-09-12
Collection :
The Contemporary City
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Der Sammelband thematisiert das Spannungsfeld zwischen lokaler Ökonomie im Quartier als sozialräumliche Intervention, lokalen und ethnischen Erwerbsnetzwerken und dem zunehmenden Engagement lokaler Transformationsinitiativen im Kontext des Postwachstumsdiskurses. Die...
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Springer VS
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2018-09-12
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Quartiersforschung
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Is ‘Jewish medicine’ a valid historical category? Does it represent a collective constituted by the interplay of medical, ethnic and religious cultures? Integrating academic disciplines from medical history to philology and Jewish studies, this book aims at...
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Springer
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2018-09-12
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