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The ageing of our population is a key societal issue across the globe. Although people are living longer, they need to be living longer in good health to continue to enjoy quality of life and independence and to prevent rises in health and social care costs. This timely...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-03-31
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This volume explores contemporary social conflict, focusing on a sort of violence that rarely receives coverage in the evening news.This violence occurs when powerful institutions seek to manipulate the thoughts of marginalized people—manufacturing their feelings and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-03-30
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This book analyses the relationship between youth and participation, looking specifically at those repertories of involvement that are commonly clustered under the concept of “unconventional political participation”. The author focuses on the connections between youth...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-03-30
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This ethnographic study of a mixed-occupancy housing estate near the centre of London refocuses the scholarly conversation around social housing in the UK after the 1980 Housing Act. As well as examining the long-term consequences of ‘Right to Buy,’ such as shortages in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-03-30
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This volume considers the complex relationships that exist between Christianity, rape culture, and gender violence. Each chapter explores the various roles that Christian theologies, teachings, and practices have played in shaping contemporary understandings of gender...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-03-29
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Religion and Radicalism
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This book argues that there is no morality and that people are not morally responsible for what they do. In particular, it argues that what people do is neither right nor wrong and that they are neither praiseworthy nor blameworthy for doing it. Morality and moral...
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Springer
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2018-03-29
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This book explores changing gender and religious roles for Catholic men and women in the British Isles from Henry VIII’s break with the Catholic Church in 1534 to full emancipation in 1829. Filled with richly detailed stories, such as the suppression of Mary Ward’s...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-03-28
Collection :
Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700–2000
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This collection brings together perspectives drawn from a range of international scholars who have conducted research into the applications of neo-tribal theory. The concept of the neo-tribe was first introduced by the French sociologist Michel Mafessoli (1996) to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-03-28
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This volume offers a much-needed analysis of police abuse and its implications for our understanding of democracy. Sometimes referred to as police violence or police repression, police abuse occurs in all democracies. It is not an exception or a stage of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-03-28
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This book provides information and tools necessary to bridge and integrate the knowledge gaps related to the acquisition and processing of archaeological data, specifically in the field of preventive diagnostics, urban centers, archaeological parks and historical...
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Springer
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2018-03-28
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This book, on Jimi Hendrix’s life, times, visual-cultural prominence, and popular music, with a particular emphasis on Hendrix’s relationships to the cultural politics of race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class, and nation. Hendrix, an itinerant “Gypsy” and “Voodoo...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-03-28
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This book examines the effects of faith schools on social cohesion and inter-ethnic relations. Faith schools constitute approximately one third of all state-maintained schools and two fifths of the independent schools in England. Nevertheless, they have historically...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-03-28
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This book examines Tokyo’s changes, current challenges, and future trends through a new kind of regional geography and serves as an important source of comprehensive information about the past, present, and future perspectives of Tokyo as a global city. Regional...
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Springer
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2018-03-28
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Worin liegt die Bedeutung randständiger Dinge für kulturbildende Prozesse? Der Band untersucht ästhetische Entwürfe und theoretische Konzeptualisierungen materieller Peripherien vom 19. Jahrhundert bis in die Gegenwart. Diese werden anhand spezifischer Objekt- und...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2018-03-28
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Financial struggles of American families are headline news. In communities across the nation, families feel the pinch of stagnant and sometimes declining incomes. Many have not recovered from the Great Recession, when millions lost their homes and retirement savings....
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-03-28
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Der Band fragt nach dem Verhältnis von Mediatisierungsforschung und dem Kommunikativen Konstruktivismus. Aus verschiedenen soziologischen, medien- und kommunikationswissenschaftlichen Perspektiven wird theoretisch und anhand von empirischen Beispielen diskutiert, ob und...
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Springer VS
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2018-03-28
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Dieses Open Access Buch ist ein Beitrag zur Methodik transdisziplinärer Forschung, und zwar für transformative wie nicht-transformative Forschung, für solche innerhalb wie außerhalb von Reallaboren. Methoden der Wissenserzeugung, Wissensintegration und Transformation...
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Springer VS
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2018-03-28
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Der Begriff des Migrationsregimes erfreut sich großer Beliebtheit. Er verspricht einen analytischen Zugriff auf die Komplexität der Beziehung von Migration und Regulation. Dabei wird er jedoch sehr unterschiedlich genutzt und gedeutet. Die Herausgeber des Sammelbandes...
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Springer VS
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2018-03-26
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This book takes a reproductive justice approach to argue that surrogacy as practised in the contemporary neoliberal biomarkets crosses the humanitarian thresholds of feminism. Drawing on her ethnographic work with surrogate mothers, intended parents and medical...
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Springer
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2018-03-26
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This book examines how complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) – as knowledge, philosophy and practice – is constituted by, and transformed through, broader social developments. Shifting the sociological focus away from CAM as a stable entity that elicits...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-03-26
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