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Oscillations in opium poppy production in Afghanistan have long been associated with how the state was perceived, such as after the Taliban imposed a cultivation ban in 2000-1.
The international community's subsequent attempts to regulate opium poppy became intimately...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-05-01
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As we grow up and grow old, embrace new experiences, try new roles, and adopt new technologies, our senses of time, space, connection, and identity are fundamentally explored through communication. Why, how, with whom, and to what end humans communicate reflect and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-03-10
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As our experience regarding the practice of deliberation grows, the position from which we evaluate it, and the criteria of this evaluation, change. This book presents a synthesis of recent research that has brought detailed and robust results. Its first section...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-02-05
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The rise of fundamentalist movements in major religions has forced decision-makers, development organizations and academics to turn their attention to its meaning for development. Global scholars and practitioners examine these issues and fundamentally...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-06
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Seit ca. 15 Jahren ist «Inklusive Entwicklung» als neue Strategie zur Einbeziehung von Menschen mit «Behinderung/en» in das entwicklungspolitische Feld in der Öffentlichkeit präsent. Isa Garde beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, ob und wie die Versprechungen von gerechterer...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-07-24
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This interdisciplinary collection of articles, written by scholars involved in translating the Bible into various languages around the world, demonstrates that such translation projects are promoting the vitality of local languages, both those that are endangered and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2015-06-30
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Im Buch wird der Frage nachgegangen, ob das im Jahr 1958 eingeführte Ehegattensplitting im Zuge des gesellschaftlichen Wandels heute noch zeitgemäß ist und den Anforderungen des Bundesverfassungsgerichts an den sog. Halbteilungsgrundsatz gerecht wird. Dazu zeigt die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-03-09
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Africa’s Information Revolution was recently announced as the 2016 prizewinner of the Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences - congratulations to the authors James T. Murphy and Padraig Carmody!Africa’s Information Revolution presents an in-depth examination of the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-01-20
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RGS-IBG Book Series
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Oh, Men, with Sisters dear!
Oh, Men, with Mothers and Wives!
It is not linen you're wearing out,
But human creatures' lives!
Stitch - stitch - stitch,
In poverty, hunger and dirt,
Sewing at once, with a double thread,
A Shroud as well as a Shirt.
-from “The Song of the...
Editeur :
Hurst
Parution :
2015-01-10
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This book is open access under a CC BY license.This edited collection focuses on theories, language and migration in relation to multiculturalism in Japan and the Asia-Pacific. Each chapter aims to provide alternative understandings to current conflicts that have arisen...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-09-12
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This book dissiminates a selected collection of research texts from the Congress Hybrid Identities, held in 2011 in the Institute for Research into Identities and Society (University of Lleida, Catalonia, Spain). Outstanding researchers from Social and Humanities fields...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-07-07
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Wie sinnvoll ist humanitäre Hilfe? Wieso kann sie auch Schaden anrichten? Die Arbeit Paradoxien humanitärer Hilfe entstand vor dem Hintergrund humanitärer Einsätze der Autorin als Krankenschwester nach dem Genozid in Ruanda, im Sudan und in Kroatien. Sie untersucht die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-04-01
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This book provides an invaluable guide to undertaking development fieldwork in both the developing world and in western contexts. It takes you through all the key stages in development research and covers: Research design and the roles of quantitative and...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2014-02-17
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Kulturen bzw. Gesellschaften in ihrer spezifischen Prägung haben systemischen Charakter und bedürfen einer ganzheitlichen Betrachtung. Im Zuge entwicklungspolitischer Maßnahmen erfolgen Wissens- und Technologietransfer untrennbar vom Kulturtransfer. Eine Nahtstelle...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-01-30
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Many of the world’s 7000 documented language groups are endangered due to falling rates of language and culture transmission from one generation to the next. Some endangered language groups have been the focus of efforts to reverse patterns of linguistic and cultural...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-12-09
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Das Buch stellt eine immer noch wenig bekannte Fachdisziplin vor. Vor gut 125 Jahren entstanden, hat sich die Afrikanistik längst von ihren frühen kolonialwissenschaftlichen Fesseln befreit. Sie bietet heute – auf sprachwissenschaftlicher Grundlage – einen modellhaften...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-09-24
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This interdisciplinary volume aims to deepen and enrich the reader’s understanding of children’s lives in the Global South. At a time when provision for Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) is expanding across the globe, this book highlights issues around early...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-08-09
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From two of India's leading economists, Jean Drèze (Hunger and Public Action) and Nobel Prize-winner Amartya Sen (The Idea of Justice), An Uncertain Glory is a passionate, considered argument for the need for a greater understanding of inequalities in India, despite...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2013-07-04
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This volume allows a new generation of scholars, from the Balkans and beyond, to shed light on some of the struggles the region faces. The combination of post-communist and post-conflict transition, together with the current economic and financial crisis, pose difficult...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-06-05
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People with intellectual disability cannot assume that they can speak up for and represent themselves. A host of socially constructed factors act as barriers to their becoming self-advocates. This book analyses the nature of these factors and investigates how the label...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-04-11
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