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This book elaborates the need, in a rapidly urbanizing world, for recognition of the ecological communities we inhabit in cities and for the development of an ethics for all entities (human and non-human) in this context. Children and their entangled relations with the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-05
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This collection chronicles the strategic uses of madness in works by black women fiction writers from Africa, the Caribbean, Canada, Europe, and the United States. Moving from an over-reliance on the “madwoman” as a romanticized figure constructed in opposition to the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-04
Collection :
Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora
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This book reinvigorates the debate about the origins and development of police culture within our changing social, economic and political landscape. An in-depth analysis and appreciation of the police socialisation, identity and culture literature is combined with a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-03
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This book demonstrates, in contrast to statistics that show declining consumption of physical formats, that there has not been a mass shift towards purely digital media. Physical releases such as special editions, DVD box-sets and Blu-Rays are frequently promoted and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-03
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This edited collection focuses on concepts of globalization, glocalization, transnationalism and cosmopolitanism. The contributions provide evidence of how in practice, global dynamics and individual lives are interrelated. It presents theoretical reflections on how the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-03
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This book examines how gendered agency emerges in peacebuilding contexts. It develops a feminist critique of the international peacebuilding interventions, through a study of transitional justice policies and practices implemented in Bosnia & Herzegovina, and local...
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Palgrave
Parution :
2017-11-03
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This volume explores both historical and current issues in English usage guides or style manuals. Guides of this sort have a long history: while Fowler's Modern English Usage (1926) is one of the best known, the first English usage guide was published in the UK in 1770,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-11-03
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This book examines internal fraud investigations in public and private organizations. It provides a theoretical framework of white-collar crime and convenience theory, to examine a number of case studies, including some cases brought to light by the Panama Papers....
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Springer
Parution :
2017-11-03
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This Brief explores police misconduct, through the lens of a 5-year study of civil liability cases against the New York Police Department in Kings County (Brooklyn), New York. The confluence of police misconduct and civil liability is an issue of growing concern for...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-11-03
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This handbook engages key debates in Australian and New Zealand criminology over the last 50 years. In six sections, containing 56 original chapters, leading researchers and practitioners investigate topics such as the history of criminology; crime and justice data; law...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-03
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This book explores the cultural and economic conditions fuelling the popularity of the polarizing Paleo diet in Australia. Based on ethnographic research in Melbourne and Sydney, Catie Gressier recounts the compelling narratives of individuals struggling with illness...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-03
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'The story of the negro in America is the story of America ... it is not a very pretty story'James Baldwin's breakthrough essay collection made him the voice of his generation. Ranging over Harlem in the 1940s, movies, novels, his preacher father and his experiences of...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2017-11-02
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Ursula Zender untersucht, weshalb türkisch-muslimische Migrantinnen im organisierten Sport in Deutschland so stark unterrepräsentiert sind. Sie geht der Frage nach, welche Faktoren den Zugang zum Sport im Allgemeinen und zum Sportverein im Besonderen bestimmen und...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-11-02
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Männliche Betroffene von sexualisierter Gewalt in Kindheit und Jugend stehen aufgrund von gesellschaftlich vorherrschenden Männlichkeitsanforderungen vor spezifischen Herausforderungen, wenn sie ihre Gewaltwiderfahrnisse aufdecken (wollen). In diesem Band wird auf...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-11-02
Collection :
Sexuelle Gewalt und Pädagogik
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Dieses Buch befasst sich mit alltäglichen Shoppingpraktiken chinesischer Studierender und ihrer Bedeutung für die Entwicklung konsumistischer Subjektivitäten. Ausgehend von ethnographischen und videographischen Untersuchungen werden Praktiken des Aus- und Anprobierens...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-11-02
Collection :
Konsumsoziologie und Massenkultur
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Die vorliegende Studie nähert sich den Lebenswelten radikalisierter Personen und analysiert das vielschichtige Phänomen mittels Biografieforschung.Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass es sich bei islamistischer Radikalisierung um einen aktiven Prozess der Auseinandersetzung des...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-11-02
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This book explores the concept of cyberplace as a mode of inhabiting the contemporary world. As a result, it suggests that, for many communities, unlocking cyberspace and inhabiting cyberplaces is now an integral part of their coming-to-the-globalised-world. Boos...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-02
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COROMANDEL. A name which has been long applied by Europeans to the Northern Tamil Country, or (more comprehensively) to the eastern coast of the Peninsula of India.This is the India highly acclaimed historian Charles Allen visits in this fascinating book. Coromandel...
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Little, Brown Book Group
Parution :
2017-11-02
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"Sayarer is a precise and passionate writer . . . The vast energy of his commitment to discover, observe and communicate makes for engrossing, often incandescent prose. We need writers who will go all the way for a story, and tell it with fire. Sayarer is a marvellous...
Editeur :
Arcadia Books
Parution :
2017-11-02
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Deaf children are not hearing children who can't hear, and having a deaf child is not analogous to having a hearing child who can't hear. Beyond any specific effects of hearing loss, deaf children are far more diverse than their hearing age-mates. A lack of access to...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-11-02
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