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Presenting new insights into reciprocity, this book combines Marcel Mauss’s well-known gift theory with Barrington Moore’s idea of mutual obligations linking rulers and the ruled. Teasing out the interrelatedness of these approaches, Reciprocity in Human...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-08-03
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This book presents groundbreaking new research on a fifteenth-century world map by Henricus Martellus, c. 1491, now at Yale. The importance of the map had long been suspected, but it was essentially unstudiable because the texts on it had faded to illegibility....
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Springer
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2018-08-03
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Der Band untersucht die besonderen ethischen Probleme, die die Entwicklung autonom „handelnder“ und „kommunizierender“ medialer Systeme aufwirft. Da sie Prozesse nicht nur eigenständig vollziehen, sondern zugleich steuern, stellt sich die Frage, inwieweit sie in...
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Springer VS
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2018-08-03
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Ethik in mediatisierten Welten
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This book analyzes the history and development of settlements—from the earliest periods in human history to the present day—from a Darwinian evolutionary perspective. At the foundation of the evolutionary model is the argument that the human capacity for complex...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-08-03
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Gesundheit ist wichtig und gehört offenbar zum Leben dazu – sie scheint inklusive. In der Behindertenarbeit sindGesundheit und deren Förderung noch recht neue Themen. Der Sammelband zielt darauf, Ansätze zur Förderung vonGesundheit aus verschiedenen wissenschaftlichen...
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Springer VS
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2018-08-02
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This book examines the language of public inquiries to reveal how blame is assigned, avoided, negotiated and discussed in this quasi-legal setting. In doing so, the author adds a much-needed linguistic perspective to the study of blame – previously the reserve of moral...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-08-02
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The Grenfell Tower fire of June 2017 is one of the most tragic political events in British history. This book argues that preparedness for disasters has always been designed in the interests of the State and Capital rather than citizens. This was exemplified by the...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2018-08-02
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Interactive Media for Sustainability presents a conceptually rich, critical account of the design and use of interactive technologies to engage the public with sustainability. Treating interactive technologies as forms of mediation, the book argues that these...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-08-02
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Sophia Becker untersucht in ihrer empirischen Studie, ob technische Effizienzverbesserungen des Autos dazu führen, dass Konsumenten sich ein größeres Auto anschaffen, längere Strecken zurücklegen oder schneller fahren. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass solches...
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Springer VS
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2018-08-02
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Studien zur Mobilitäts- und Verkehrsforschung
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Christians have always been concerned with enhancement—now they are faced with significant questions about how technology can help or harm genuine spiritual transformation. What makes traditional and technological enhancement different from each other? Are there...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-08-02
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From the award-winning author of The Whisperers, Orlando Figes Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia is a dazzling history of Russia's mighty culture.Orlando Figes' enthralling, richly evocative history has been heralded as a literary masterpiece on Russia, the...
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Penguin
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2018-08-02
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This book critically examines the lived experiences of bisexual Christians across a range of Christian traditions in the UK and the USA. Shepherd assesses whether current data on elevated rates of depressive illnesses among bisexual people also apply to the bisexual...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-08-01
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Despite the boom in scholarship in both Comics Studies and Memory Studies, the two fields rarely interact—especially with issues beyond the representation of traumatic and autobiographical memories in comics. With a focus on the roles played by styles and archives—in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-08-01
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Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels
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This book offers a broad overview of transition practices for incarcerated youth, shaped by local culture, politics, ideologies, and philosophies. It highlights the similarities and differences in international approaches, as well as promising practices. The book is...
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Springer
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2018-08-01
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Although girls and women account for approximately 40 percent of all athletes in the United States, they receive only 4 percent of the total sport media coverage. SportsCenter, ESPN's flagship program, dedicates less than 2 percent of its airtime to women. Local news...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-08-01
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Dieser Band bietet einen umfassenden Einblick in die große thematische, methodische und methodologische Breite und Tiefe der Biographieforschung und präsentiert einen Überblick über die verschiedenen Theorien, Ansätze und Forschungsfelder.
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Springer VS
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2018-08-01
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Wie Doppelkarrierepaare ihre Arbeit aufteilen und dies begründen, wird exemplarisch anhand von Ärztinnen und ihren Partnern in einer qualitativen Längsschnittanalyse von der Schwangerschaft über die Elternzeitaufteilung bis hin zum beruflichen Wiedereinstieg untersucht....
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Springer VS
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2018-08-01
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Public health law isn't just for lawyers. Or at least it doesn't have to be.
The NewPublic Health Law is the first textbook to arm lawyers and public health professionals of any background with the tools to fully exploit the potential of law to improve public health....
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Oxford University Press
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2018-08-01
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Praxisnah gewährt das Buch Einblick in die Mechanismen von Wirtschaftskriminalität und Non-Compliance. Im Fokus der Betrachtung stehen dabei die verschiedenen Ausprägungen menschlicher Risiken. Ziel des Buches ist es, Verantwortliche effektiv dabei zu...
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Springer Gabler
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2018-08-01
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A 2015 survey of twenty-seven elite colleges found that twenty-three percent of respondents reported personal experiences of sexual misconduct on their campuses. That figure has not changed since the 1980s, when people first began collecting data on sexual violence....
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Oxford University Press
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2018-08-01
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