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Stigma leads to poorer health. Edited by Brenda Major, John F. Dovidio, and Bruce G. Link, The Oxford Handbook of Stigma, Discrimination, and Health provides compelling evidence from various disciplines in support of this thesis and explains how and why health...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-11-15
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This edited collection explores the continuing appeal of nationalism around the world. The authors’ ground-breaking research demonstrates the ways in which national priorities and sensibilities frame an extraordinary array of activities, from classroom...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-11-15
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These ethnographically-based studies of diverse urban experiences across the world present cutting edge research and stimulate an empirically-grounded theoretical reconceptualization. The essays identify ethnography as a powerful tool for making sense of life in our...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-11-14
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This unique study explores the vampire as host and guest, captor and hostage: a perfect lover and force of seductive predation. From Dracula and Carmilla, to True Blood and The Originals, the figure of the vampire embodies taboos and desires about hospitality, rape and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-11-14
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Offers an understanding of offensive media content Closes a research gap by presenting new research with 90 members of the public in the UK and Germany with whom the authors sat and watched a wide ranging set of television programmes before conducting focus groups and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-11-14
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This book explores the meanings and practices of vintage lives. It focuses on the non-mainstream subculture of vintage clothes and lifestyle, specifically that of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, and asks how those engaged in the culture place themselves within the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-11-14
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This book visualizes mortality dynamics in the Lexis diagram. While the standard approach of plotting death rates is also covered, the focus in this book is on the depiction of rates of mortality improvement over age and time.This rather novel approach offers a more...
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Springer
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2017-11-14
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The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis
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This book is about poison and poisonings; it explores the facts, fears and fictions that surround this fascinating topic. Poisons attract attention because they are both dangerous and hard to discover. Secretive and invisible, they are a challenging object of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-11-14
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Das vorliegende Buch soll das Forschungsfeld einer Soziologie ökonomischen Wissens und der Wirtschaftswissenschaften konturieren. Zwar liegen mittlerweile einige soziologische Arbeiten in diesem Bereich vor, von einer klar identifizierbaren Forschungsrichtung mit...
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Springer VS
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2017-11-14
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Edition Theorie und Kritik
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This book explores intersections of theory and practice to engage queer theory and education as it happens both in and beyond the university. Furthering work on queer pedagogy, this volume brings together educators and activists who explore how we see, write, read,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-11-14
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Heinrich Popitz, Hans P. Bahrdt, Ernst A. Jüres und Hanno Kesting haben mit diesem Buch eine Pionierstudie zum Gesellschaftsbild des Arbeiters in der frühen deutschen Nachkriegsgeschichte vorgelegt und damit einen ersten Einblick in die Sozialstruktur der frühen...
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Springer VS
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2017-11-14
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Dieses Buch zeigt Marketern, welche neuen Chancen sich durch die Digitalisierung und die momentan entstehenden Smart Cities für das Marketing ergeben. Alexander Gutzmer fordert dazu auf, Marke, Stadt und Digitalisierung umfassend neu – und zusammen zu denken. Auf Basis...
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Springer Gabler
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2017-11-14
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An urgent account of sexual politics, feminism, and the rules of power in America-and a potent vision for the way forward As a veteran feminist and agenda-setting sex educator, Jaclyn Friedman is on the frontlines of the war for equity between the sexes. In Unscrewed,...
Editeur :
Seal Press
Parution :
2017-11-14
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This book is the first to provide an in-depth analysis about the history, urban development, planning, and preservation of the Lhasa city over the last thirteen centuries. It studis the old Lhasa city as part of Tibet's social and historical evolution process,...
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Springer
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2017-11-13
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Wer sich einen Überblick über die Geschichte der deutschsprachigen Soziologie und über soziologiehistorische Konzepte und Methoden verschaffen möchte, wird in diesem Handbuch umfassend fündig. Band 1 gibt zentrale Einblicke in die sozialen und kognitiven Dimensionen der...
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Springer VS
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2017-11-13
Collection :
Springer Reference Sozialwissenschaften
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This book highlights cyber racism as an ever growing contemporary phenomenon. Its scope and impact reveals how the internet has escaped national governments, while its expansion is fuelling the spread of non-state actors. In response, the authors address the central...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-12
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This book describes and understands the many factors that influence a person’s behavior towards digital technologies, and how that affects the person’s potential to benefit from digital society. The ability to adapt to these new technological environments - and the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-11-10
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Der Band nimmt die für die Migrationsforschung grundlegende Frage auf, wer auf welche Weise vor dem Hintergrund welcher Interessen aus welchen Gründen Einfluss auf räumliche Bewegungen und Prozesse der Niederlassung von Migrantinnen und Migranten gewonnen hat und...
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Springer VS
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2017-11-10
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This book examines the reception of rhetoric and the rhetoric of reception. By considering salient rhetorical traits of rhetorical utterances and texts seen in context, and relating this to different kinds of reception and/or audience use and negotiation, the authors...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-10
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As the former capital of two great empires—Eastern Roman and Ottoman—Istanbul has been home to many diverse populations, a condition often glossed as cosmopolitanism. The Greek-speaking Christian Orthodox community (Rum Polites) is among the oldest in the urban society,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-10
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