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Offering a negative definition of art in relation to the concept of culture, this book establishes the concept of ‘art/culture’ to describe the unity of these two fields around named-labour, idealised creative subjectivity and surplus signification. Contending a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-12-12
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In dem Buch zur Geschichte der Sozialen Arbeit wird ausgeführt, wie Soziale Bewegungen die Entstehung und Profilierung der Profession, der Institutionen und Methoden Sozialer Arbeit beeinflusst haben. Von der Rettungshausbewegung über die Sexual- und...
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Springer VS
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2017-12-12
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Through analysis of data held by the National Crime Agency on organised crime groups, and in-depth analysis of qualitative interviews with convicted fraudsters and enforcement professionals, this detailed study fills a significant gap in the contemporary literature on...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-12-12
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The study of childhood in academia has been dominated by a mono-cultural or WEIRD (Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic) perspective. Within the field of anthropology, however, a contrasting and more varied view is emerging. While the phenomenon of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-12-12
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Die Autorinnen und Autoren des vorliegenden Sammelbandes analysieren, wo innerhalb der türkischen Gesellschaft Prozesse der Grenzziehung eine Rolle spielen: zwischen Minderheiten und der Mehrheitsgesellschaft, innerhalb des Staatsapparats oder außenpolitisch an den...
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Springer VS
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2017-12-12
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This book provides a key analysis of the development of the Catholic Church in Taiwan, and considers the challenges it faces in contemporary times. It examines how the 1949 revolution in Mainland China brought a great number of Chinese intellectuals to Taiwan and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-12-12
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Christianity in Modern China
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Der Band enthält die wichtigsten Beiträge des Autors zur Theorie rationaler politischer Akteure. Ihr Grundthema betrifft die Möglichkeiten des Umgangs mit Unsicherheit, sei es im Bemühen um konsequenzenbedachte Entscheidungen, sei es im Wege der Organisationsgestaltung....
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Springer VS
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2017-12-11
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Wirtschaft + Gesellschaft
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This book explores the mediated struggles for autonomy, land rights and social justice in a context of growing authoritarianism and persistent coloniality in Nicaragua. To do so, it draws on in-depth fieldwork, analysis of media texts, and decolonial and other cultural...
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Springer
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2017-12-09
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SpringerBriefs in Latin American Studies
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This volume provides an accessible scientific introduction to the historical geography of Tropical Pacific Islands, assessing the environmental and cultural changes they have undergone and how they are affected currently by these shifts and alterations. The book...
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Springer
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2017-12-08
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World Regional Geography Book Series
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This book is an interdisciplinary project that brings together ideas from aesthetics, philosophy, psychology, and music sociology as an expansion of German philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer’s theory on the aesthetics of play.This way of thinking focuses on an ontology of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-08
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Sound
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Der Band liefert Analysen zur Professionskultur unterschiedlicher Berufsfelder, führt diese zusammen und macht strukturelle Gemeinsamkeiten und Differenzen sichtbar. Die Herausgeber_innenDr. Silke Müller-Hermann ist Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Institut...
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Springer VS
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2017-12-08
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The book discusses the multiple issues of a digital research ethic in its interdisciplinary diversity. Digitization and mediatization alter social behavior and cultural traditions, thereby generating new objects of study and new research questions for the social...
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Springer VS
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2017-12-08
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The Handbook of East and Southeast Asian Archaeology focuses on the material culture and lifeways of the peoples of prehistoric and early historic East and Southeast Asia; their origins, behavior and identities as well as their biological, linguistic and cultural...
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Springer
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2017-12-08
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Demography is not destiny. As Giacomo Casanova explained over two centuries ago: 'There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our own lives.' Today we are shaping them and our societies more than ever before. Globally, we have never had fewer children per...
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Polity
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2017-12-08
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Pain in one form or another is probably the most common symptom presented to medical and healthcare professionals. Long a subject of biomedical interest, more recent biopsychosocial theories have extended the study of pain as a concept which is highly individual in the...
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Polity
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2017-12-08
Collection :
Key Themes in Health and Social Care
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From the rise of terrorism to the uncertainties associated with economic crisis and recession, our age is characterized by fear. Fear is the expression of a society on unstable foundations. Most of us feel that our social status is under threat and our future prospects...
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Polity
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2017-12-08
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This is not a book that provides a new integrated theory of religious change in modern societies, but rather one that develops theoretical elements that contribute to the understanding of some contemporary religious developments. Most of the approaches in sociology of...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-12-08
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Media are central to our experiences and understandings of sex, whether in the form of familiar 'mainstream' genres, pornographies and other sex genres, or the new zones, interactions and technosexualities made possible by the internet and mobile devices. In this...
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Polity
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2017-12-08
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'He writes history like nobody else. He thinks like nobody else ... He sees the world as a whole, with its limitless fund of stories' Bryan Appleyard, Sunday TimesWhere have the people in any particular place actually come from? What are the historical complexities in...
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Penguin
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2017-12-07
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This collection examines what happens when one country’s experience of dealing with its traumatic past is held up as a model for others to follow. In regional and country studies covering Argentina, Canada, Japan, Lebanon, Rwanda, Russia, Turkey, the United States and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-07
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