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This edited collection addresses a substantial gap in the existing literature on filicide by presenting the latest research from empirical investigations around the world. Despite its low occurrence, little is known about the incidences, causes and circumstances of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-12-21
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This book explores the contours of a transformational sociology which seeks to reconsider the horizons of sociological imagination. It questions accepted modernist assumptions such as the equation of society and nation-state, the dualism of individual and society and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-12-20
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This open access book reports on research carried out as part of the European Union co-funded C.O.N.T.A.C.T. project which targeted hate speech and hate crime across a number of EU member states. It showcases the bearing that discourse analytic research can have on our...
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Springer
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2017-12-20
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SpringerBriefs in Linguistics
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Daniel Weber beschäftigt sich mit den Licht- und Schattenseiten von nationaler und europäischer Identifikation in Deutschland. Mithilfe einer quantitativ-empirischen Analyse zeigt er, dass gruppenbezogene Identifikation vor allem dann mit negativen Konsequenzen wie ...
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Springer VS
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2017-12-19
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Michalina Seekamp untersucht die Ursachen der Anpassungsträgheit der deutschen Musikindustrie im Angesicht disruptiver Technologien. Mittels einer empirischen Untersuchung weist sie nach, dass dieses im Extremfall existenzgefährdende Verhalten durch eine homogene...
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Springer Gabler
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2017-12-19
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Climb a mountain and experience the landscape. Try to grasp its holistic nature. Do not climb alone, but with others and share your experience. Be sure the ways of seeing the landscape will be very different. We experience the landscape with all senses as a complex,...
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Springer
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2017-12-19
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Landscape Series
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This authoritative and comprehensive edited volume presents current research on how demography can contribute to generating scientific knowledge and evidence concerning refugees and forced migration, developing evidence based policy recommendations on protection for...
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Springer
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2017-12-19
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This book is a reflection on the nature of confinement, experienced by prison inmates as everyday life. It explores the meanings, purposes, and consequences involved with spending every day inside prison. Female Imprisonment results from an ethnographic study carried...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-12-19
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Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
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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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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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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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54
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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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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
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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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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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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
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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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