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This book proposes a cosmopolitan ethics that calls for analyzing how economic and political structures limit opportunities for different groups, distinguished by gender, race, and class. The author explores the implications of criticisms from the social sciences...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-12-19
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This is the first book to critically examine Hollywood films that focus on male partner violence against women. These films include Gaslight, Sleeping with the Enemy, What’s Love Got to Do with It, Dolores Claiborne, Enough, and Safe Haven. Shaped by the contexts of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-12-19
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This book adopts a sociolinguistic perspective to trace the origins and enduring significance of hip-hop as a global tool of resistance to oppression. The contributors, who represent a range of international perspectives, analyse how hip-hop is employed to express...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-12-19
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Thanks to recent progress in biotechnology, surrogacy, transplantation of organs and tissues, blood products or stem-cell and gamete banks are now widely used throughout the world. These techniques improve the health and well-being of some human beings using products or...
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Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme
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2017-12-19
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Vivien Barlen beleuchtet die Teilhabe an betrieblicher Mitbestimmung als eine Dimension von Prekarität aus der Perspektive von Leih- und Werkvertragsarbeitnehmern und -nehmerinnen. Anhand problemzentrierter Leitfadeninterviews untersucht sie die Konfrontation der...
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Springer VS
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2017-12-19
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This edited collection explores the intersectionality of childhood and disability. Whereas available scholarship tends to concentrate on care-giving, parenting, or supporting and teaching children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities, the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-12-18
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About two hundred kilometers west of the city of Karachi, in the desert of Baluchistan, Pakistan, sits the shrine of the Hindu Goddess Hinglaj. Despite the temple's ancient Hindu and Muslim history, an annual festival at Hinglaj has only been established within the last...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-12-18
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The Grand Challenges for Social Work Initiative (GCSWI), which is spearheaded by the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare (AASWSW), represents a major endeavor for the entire field of social work. GCSWI calls for bold innovation and collective action...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-12-18
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Nadja Bieletzki explores how university presidents lead universities. She provides insights into the upper echelons of higher education management and focuses especially on university presidents in Germany. Special attention is given to the career background of...
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Springer VS
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2017-12-16
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Organization & Public Management
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Die sozial- und kulturwissenschaftliche Erforschung auditiver Phänomene ist stets mit spezifischen Wissensformen konfrontiert.Die Rolle, die Musik und andere Klänge in verschiedenen sozialen und kulturellen Kontexten spielen, hängt mit dem Wissen zusammen, welches in...
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Springer VS
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2017-12-16
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British interest in the Arctic has returned to heights not seen since the end of the Cold War; concerns about climate change, resources, trade, and national security are all impacted by profound environmental and geopolitical changes happening in the Arctic. Duncan...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-16
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Anna Monz zeigt die Auswirkungen beruflicher Mobilitätsanforderungen auf die Konstitution und Gestaltung von Paarbeziehungen in Familien. Dabei stellt sie unterschiedliche Formen der Kopräsenz vor und diskutiert die verbindende und trennende Wirkung digitaler...
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Springer VS
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2017-12-16
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Legal socialization is the process by which children and adolescents acquire their law related values, attitudes, and reasoning capacities. Such values and attitudes, in particular legitimacy, underlie the ability and willingness to consent to laws and defer to legal...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-12-15
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Tim Sawert geht in dieser Studie der Frage nach, wie sich die anhaltende und sogar zunehmende Beliebtheit von Latein als schulische Fremdsprache erklären lässt. Hierzu kombiniert der Autor die Theorie Bourdieus mit Ansätzen rationaler Wahl und greift auf eine...
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Springer VS
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2017-12-14
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This book brings together the fields of theatre, gender studies, and psychology/sociology in order to explore the relationships between what happens when women engage in violence, how the events and their reception intercept with cultural understandings of gender, how...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-14
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How we understand and define qualitative data is changing, with implications not only for the techniques of data analysis, but also how data are collected. New devices, technologies and online spaces open up new ways for researchers to approach and collect images,...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2017-12-14
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Das vorliegende Jahrbuch blickt reflektierend auf 25 Jahre Stadterneuerung zurück, zieht Bilanz und zeigt Zukunftsperspektiven auf.Im Jahr der deutschen Wiedervereinigung fand sich mit dem Arbeitskreis Stadterneuerung an deutschsprachigen Hochschulen eine Gruppe von...
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Springer VS
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2017-12-14
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This volume investigates how mothers can understand parenting as spiritual practice, and what this practice means for theological scholarship. An intergenerational and intercultural group of mother-scholars explores these questions that arise at the intersection of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-13
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This book addresses the complicated question of how markets and consumption create the possibilities for cross-cultural exchanges and the multicultural pleasures of omnivorous consumption, whilst at the same time building new boundaries and distinctions, paving the way...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-13
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This volume provides new approaches to the concept of media logics – developed by Altheide and Snow – by drawing on theoretical and empirical perspectives from international scientists working in the field of communications, media, political science, and sociology. In...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-12
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