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In this book new mathematical and statistical techniques that permit more sophisticated analysis are refined and applied to questions of current concern in order to understand the forces that are driving the recent dramatic changes in family patterns. The areas examined...
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Springer
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2018-09-12
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Digital News Media (DNM) are characterized by their efforts to provide consumers with new content interaction experiences, which contrast with the more passive experiences provided by traditional news media. This book directly addresses these interaction experiences,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-09-12
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'You'll never look at your favourite movies and TV shows the same way again. And you shouldn't' Steven Soderbergh 'Insanely readable' Slavoj Zizek'Your book was ... like a bag of pot, with me saying, 'I'm not gonna smoke.' But I was insatiable' Quentin Tarantino on...
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Penguin
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2018-09-11
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This edited volume offers an historical perspective on the creation of a global mass industry around skiing. By focusing on the ski resort as loci par excellence for global exchange, the contributors consider the development of skiing around the world during the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-09-11
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This edited collection provides a unique survey of the ways in which news media organizations across Latin America and the Caribbean cover global, regional and local environmental issues and challenges. There is growing recognition within academia, governments,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-09-11
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Recent discussions of self-realization have devolved into unscientific theories of self-help. However, this vague and often misused concept is connected to many important individual and social problems. As long as its meaning remains unclear, it can be abused for...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-11
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This book contains research findings from three major study areas, natural sciences, social sciences, and public policy and management. The focus area extends over geographical zones ranging from mountainous area of Mount Gagau in the Taman Negara National Park, down to...
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Springer
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2018-09-11
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The origins of the next radical economy is rooted in a tradition that has empowered people for centuries and is now making a comeback. A new feudalism is on the rise. While monopolistic corporations feed their spoils to the rich, more and more of us are expected to live...
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Bold Type Books
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2018-09-11
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Der Band versammelt die zentralen Texte von Markus Schroer zur soziologischen Raumtheorie aus den letzten zehn Jahren. Alle Beiträge widmen sich dem engen Zusammenhang von Raum und Gesellschaft. Sie zeigen die vielfältige Verwendung des Begriffs auf und werben dafür,...
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Springer VS
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2018-09-11
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How do second-generation migrant women connect with their cultural heritage when ethnic ties have been weak or absent for most of their lives? Family, Story and Identity presents the life stories of twenty women of various ethnicities, analysis of published...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-10
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This handbook explores the ways biomedicine and pop culture interact while simultaneously introducing the reader with the tools and ideas behind this new field of enquiry. From comic books to health professionals, from the arts to genetics, from sci-fi to...
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Springer
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2018-09-10
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This innovative volume explores the link between local and regional eating cultures and their mediatization via transnational TV cooking shows, glocal food advertising and social media transfer of recipes. Pursuing a global and interdisciplinary approach, it brings...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-10
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Der Band bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über die Entwicklung der Soziologie in Göttingen von ihren Anfängen in der Frühphase der Weimarer Republik über die Etablierung des Faches in den 1950er Jahren bis in die Gegenwart. Die Bandbreite seiner Beiträge reicht von...
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Springer VS
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2018-09-10
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This study challenges the notion that closeted secrecy was a necessary part of social life for gay men living in the shadow of the trial and imprisonment of Oscar Wilde. It reconstructs a surprisingly open network of queer filiation in which Henry James occupied a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-09-08
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Grounded in Critical Race Theory (CRT), this book examines black and mixed-race men and women’s experiences of policing in the UK. Through an intersectional analysis of race, class and gender it analyses the construction of the suspect, illuminating the ways in which...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-07
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Die gesellschaftliche Konstruktion der „Jugend am Rande der Stadt“ wird in einem vielschichtigen Prozess hergestellt. In der vergleichenden Studie zu Deutschland und Frankreich untersucht die Autorin, wie unterschiedliche Akteurinnen und Akteure der Sozialen Arbeit,...
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Springer VS
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2018-09-07
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WikiLeaks poses a unique challenge to state and commercial institutions. This book considers the whistleblower platform’s ongoing importance, focusing on the informational and communicative paradoxes it faces, and the shifting strategies it has adopted over time....
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-09-06
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Based on two unique survey studies of elites in Norway, this book examines whether elite attitudes towards central national issues have changed in the wake of international and national events and developments since 2000. The chapters examine elite integration and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-06
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Breathes life into conversations about feminism' PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE'Very funny, very clever, very thoughtful and very relevant' DOLLY ALDERTONWhy do we find it so hard to say 'No'?How can feminism be more inclusive?What can rom-coms tell us...
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Virago
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2018-09-06
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Dieser Sammelband plädiert dafür, Bewertungssoziologie und digitale Soziologie zusammenzudenken. Im Feld der Bewertungssoziologie wird gefragt, wie Dinge oder Handlungen (un)wertvoll werden oder wie es zur (De-)Stabilisierung von Wertordnungen kommt. Diese Perspektive...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2018-09-06
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