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The concept of self-esteem is a fixture in the psychological and moral landscape of American society. This is especially true in the arena of childrearing: images and references to self-esteem are ubiquitous in academic, educational, and popular media. Yet, until now,...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-11-01
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Christiane Altmann untersucht erstmals die Debatte um den Lubavitcher rebe, Rabbi Schneerson, den sog. „Messias von Brooklyn“. Anders als die bisherigen Studien schildert die Autorin den Messianismus im Kontext jüdischer Konfliktstrategien und vertritt die These, dass...
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Springer VS
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2017-11-01
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This book analyses the Uyghur community, presenting a brief historical background of the Uyghurs and debating the challenges of emerging Uyghur nationalism in the early 20th century. It elaborates on key issues within the community, such as the identity and current...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-01
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At the end of a five-year journey to find out what religious Americans think about science, Ecklund and Scheitle emerge with the real story of the relationship between science and religion in American culture. Based on the most comprehensive survey ever...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-11-01
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?This volume documents how families, communities and some groups (single men, young ‘scarce’ women, parents) adapt and adjust to recent demographic shifts in China and India. It discusses how demographic change interacts with other processes of change, including changes...
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Springer
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2017-10-31
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This original collection brings islands to the fore in a growing body of scholarship on the Indian Ocean, examining them as hubs or points of convergence and divergence in a world of maritime movements and exchanges. Straddling history and anthropology and grounded in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-10-30
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This volume brings together international scholars to engage in the question of how film has represented a figure that for many is simply labelled ‘prostitute’. The prostitute is one of the most enduring female figures. She has global historical resonance and stories,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-30
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Social workers, whatever their specialism, practise with people at the margins of society. It is therefore essential that all social work students not only understand the powers and processes that lead to disadvantage and marginalisation but develop the knowledge and...
Editeur :
Learning Matters
Parution :
2017-10-30
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1947 publizierten Horkheimer und Adorno ihre Dialektik der Aufklärung. Von ihren Überlegungen zur Dialektik von Herrschaft und Befreiung, zu Aufklärung und faschistischer Barbarei hat das Kapitel über „Kulturindustrie“ sicher die breiteste und kontroverseste Rezeption...
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Springer VS
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2017-10-30
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This book takes as its point of departure a humble cell lying on the intersection of ideas as diverse and yet interlaced as life, knowledge, commerce, governance, and ethics. It seeks to deepen the understanding of stem cell entities and the concerns, hopes, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-30
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This book explores the elective affinity of religion and post-secularism with neoliberalism. With the help of digital capitalism, neoliberalism dominates, more and more, all aspects of life, and religion is not left unaffected. While some faith groups are embracing this...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-30
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This book addresses major population and development issues: fertility and reproductive health, migrations, gender, education, poverty and inequalities. To that aim it revisits and considerably enlarges Kingsley Davis’ 1963 theory of change and response, using...
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Springer
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2017-10-30
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This book focuses on the formal and informal reconciliation processes during conflict and post-conflict periods in various locations in the Asia-Pacific, and includes cases studies based on primary research conducted in countries such as Cambodia, Timor-Leste, Nepal,...
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Springer
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2017-10-29
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This collection examines the nerd and/or geek stereotype in popular culture today. Utilizing the media—film, TV, YouTube, Twitter, fiction—that often defines daily lives, the contributors interrogate what it means to be labeled a “nerd” or “geek.” While the nerd/geek...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-29
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This open access book presents fresh ethnographic work from the regions of Africa and Melanesia—where the popularity of charismatic Christianity can be linked to a revival and transformation of witchcraft. The volume demonstrates how the Holy Spirit has become an...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-29
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This book explores how low fertility levels could fundamentally change a country's population and society. It analyzes the profound effects below average birthrates have on virtually all aspects of society, from the economy to religion, from marriage to gender roles. An...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-10-27
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Isabella Bertmann investigates the connection between disability, poverty, and quality of life, and how social protection measures can influence this relationship. The focus of this study is on South Africa. On the basis of qualitative interviews conducted with...
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Springer VS
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2017-10-27
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This edited collection advances the call for continued multicultural dialogues within education. Dialogue and education are the two most essential tools that can help tackle some of the biggest problems we are facing across the globe, including fanaticism, chauvinistic...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-27
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This book systematically reviews the experiences and problems encountered in the development of China’s rural areas over the past three decades since the start of the country’s economic reform. As such, it addresses the most important aspects in terms of China’s rural...
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Springer
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2017-10-27
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Sowohl auf globaler als auch auf lokaler Ebene kennzeichnen ambivalente Entwicklungen zurzeit den Umgang mit den neuen Mobilitäts- und Migrationsprozessen in Deutschland. Die aktuellen restriktiven politischen und rechtlichen Strukturen fördern neue sozialräumliche...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2017-10-27
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