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This book examines the conflict surrounding the latest redevelopment frontier in Chicago: the city’s South Side blues clubs and blocks. Like Chicago, cities such as Cleveland, St. Louis, Boston, Washington D.C., Indianapolis, Milwaukee, and Philadelphia are experiencing...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-02-01
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Latino and Muslim in America examines how so-called "minority groups" are made, fragmented, and struggle for recognition. The U.S. is poised to become the first nation whose collective minorities outnumber the dominant population, and Latinos play no small role in this...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-02-01
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In Negotiating Opportunities, Jessica McCrory Calarco argues that the middle class has a negotiated advantage in school. Drawing on five years of ethnographic fieldwork, Calarco traces that negotiated advantage from its origins at home to its consequences at school....
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Oxford University Press
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2018-02-01
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The resurgence of strong radical right-wing parties and movements constitutes one of the most significant political changes in democratic states during the past several decades, particularly in Europe.The radical right's comeback has notably attracted interest from...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-02-01
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This book represents the first multi-disciplinary introduction to the study of war crimes trials and investigations. It introduces readers to the numerous disciplines engaged with this complex subject, including: Forensic Anthropology, Economics and Anthropometrics,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-01-31
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This book offers trans-historical and trans-national perspectives on the image of “the artist” as a public figure in the popular discourse and imagination. Since the rise of notions of artistic autonomy and the simultaneous demise of old systems of patronage from the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-01-31
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The American Jewish Year Book, now in its 117th year, is the annual record of the North American Jewish communities and provides insight into their major trends.The first chapter of Part I is an examination of how American Jews fit into the US religious landscape, based...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-01-31
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This study focuses on impacts of the environmental and socio-economic transformation on the indigenous people's livelihoods in Vietnam's Central Highlands recent decades since the country's reunification in 1975.The first empirical section sheds light on multiple...
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Springer
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2018-01-31
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Kristina Seidelsohn stellt in diesem Buch die zentrale Frage, welchen Einfluss die sich wandelnden und zunehmend von Prekarität geprägten Arbeitsräume im Bereich der lokalen Ökonomie auf das Zusammenleben, die sozialen Konflikte und die soziale Kohäsion der...
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Springer VS
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2018-01-31
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Quartiersforschung
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This edited volume examines the role of local civil society in shaping understandings and processes of transitional justice in Africa – a nursery of transitional justice ideas for well over two decades. It brings together practitioners and scholars with intimate...
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Springer
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2018-01-30
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Are today's young adults gender rebels or returning to tradition? In Where the Millennials Will Take Us, Barbara J. Risman reveals the diverse strategies youth use to negotiate the ongoing gender revolution. Using her theory of gender as a social structure, Risman...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-01-30
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Benedikt Fecher zeigt, dass in der Bereitstellung und Nachnutzung von Daten erhebliches Potenzial für den wissenschaftlichen Fortschritt steckt. Dieses begründet er nicht nur mit dem effizienten Einsatz von Ressourcen, zum Beispiel durch Nachnutzung von existierenden...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2018-01-28
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Jan Brülle shows how poverty risks in Germany between 1992 and 2012 increased concentrated on those with low educational levels, in lower occupational positions, and with precarious employment careers, as the country’s welfare state failed to adapt to widening...
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Springer VS
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2018-01-28
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By examining cultural consumption, tastes and imaginaries as a means of relating to the world, this book describes the effects of globalization on young people from an aesthetic and cultural perspective. It employs the concept of aesthetico-cultural cosmopolitanism to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-01-28
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Der vorliegende Band beschäftigt sich mit einem Schlüsselbegriff der Zukunftspsychologie: Veränderung. Sie ist allgegenwärtig – und wird doch oft erst im Rückblick wahrgenommen. Zentrale Motivationsfaktoren wie persönliche und berufliche Weiterentwicklung verweisen...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2018-01-28
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Bringing together 25 case studies from archaeological projects worldwide, Engaging Archaeology candidly explores personal experiences, successes, challenges, and even frustrations from established and senior archaeologists who share invaluable practical advice for...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2018-01-26
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Though travelling is lauded as a means of enriching our lives, the emphasis is generally on the destination rather than the journey. Yet, throughout human history, routes have ferried not just people but books, scrolls, and art, in addition to armies, ambassadorial...
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OUP India
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2018-01-25
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A sparkling new translation of the classic work on violence and revolution as seen through mythology and artThe Ruin of Kasch takes up two subjects: "the first is Talleyrand, and the second is everything else," wrote Italo Calvino when the book first appeared in 1983....
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Penguin
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2018-01-25
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The three centuries which followed the conquests of Alexander are perhaps the most thrilling of all periods of ancient history. This was an age of cultural globalization: in the third century BC, a single language carried you from the Rhône to the Indus. A Celt from the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-01-25
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