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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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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,...
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Seal Press
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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
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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
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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
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2017-11-10
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This book examines how computer-based programs can be used to acquire ‘big’ digital cultural heritage data, curate, and disseminate it over the Internet and in 3D visualization platforms with the ultimate goal of creating long-lasting “digital heritage repositories.’...
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Springer
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2017-11-10
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At the end of life, our comfort lies mainly in relationships. In this book, Daniel Miller, one of the world's leading anthropologists, examines the social worlds of people suffering from terminal or long-term illness. Threading together a series of personal stories,...
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Polity
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2017-11-10
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Why are women still under-represented in politics? Can we speak of democracy when women are not fully included in political decision-making? Some argue that we are on the right track to full gender equality in politics, while others talk about women hitting the glass...
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Polity
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2017-11-10
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'Unbearably moving' Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe story of a young man's coming of age, a tender tribute to a life lost, and a devastating analysis of a broken system.Aged 15 and living in LA, Michael Allen was arrested for a botched carjacking. He was tried as an adult...
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Vintage Digital
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2017-11-09
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This book shows how the mnemonic imagination creatively uses the resources of photography and music in the registering and management of change. Looking in particular at major transitions and turning points, it covers key issues of identity for the remembering subject...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-09
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