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This book explores the moving qualities of mountains by utilising theories, ideas and processes which contribute to a larger understanding of these geological forms. In highlighting the fluid attributes of mountains the authors offer an alternative to the traditional...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-09-25
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Die Autoren untersuchen die diskursiven Formationen, Dispositive und Strategien in staatlichen, massenmedialen und verbandlichen Texten zur Schule. Es dominieren Zuschreibungen von rechtlichen Zuständigkeiten, Dramatisierungen des Schulgeschehens und Sorgen um das...
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Springer VS
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2017-09-25
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Theorie und Praxis der Diskursforschung
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The financial crisis of 2007–8 and its aftermath have resulted in the role of money and finance within the global economy becoming the subject of considerable debate in public, policy and media circles. Global Finance is a timely look at the contemporary...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2017-09-25
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This book tells a series of living stories about a domain of social activity, “the work and play of the mind,” in a particular historical epoch: the “information age.” The stories concern political processes and movements as varied as the World Trade Organization’s...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-23
Collection :
Frontiers of Globalization
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This book is a distinctive collection on transcultural encounters in knowledge production and consumption, which are situated at the heart of pursuit for cognitive justice. It uniquely represents transcultural dialogues between academics of Australia, China and...
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Springer
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2017-09-22
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This book is the first green criminology text to focus specifically on Latin America. Green criminology has always adopted a broad horizon and explicitly emphasised that environmental crimes and harms affect countries and cultures around the world. The chapters...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-22
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What happens to transnational norms when they travel from one place to another? How do norms change when they move; and how do they affect the place where they arrive? This book develops a novel theoretical account of norm translation that is located in between theories...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-09-22
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What happens to transnational norms when they travel from one place to another? How do norms change when they move; and how do they affect the place where they arrive? This book develops a novel theoretical account of norm translation that is located in between theories...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-09-22
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This book examines how identities associated with cycling are evoked, narrated and negotiated in a media context dominated by digital environments. Arguing that the nature of identity is being impacted by the changing nature of the material and semiotic resources...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-21
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This book examines how the beliefs and practices of each of the major world religions, as well as other belief systems, affect the variables that influence growth and development in the Global South. Evidence suggests that as countries develop, the influence of religion...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-21
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This book re-evaluates New Left and Marxist texts from the 1980s, in order to explore problems facing the study of ‘class’ which have emerged within Australian and international theories. The author contrasts the popular ideas of Connell, Bourdieu and the ‘Death of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-21
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Students change schools for a variety of reasons, and some students change more often than others -- a reality that can leave them feeling emotionally disconnected and often academically at risk. Welcoming Practices summarizes the research on school transition and makes...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-09-21
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Mapping and Monitoring Bullying and Violence is a guidebook for district and school education leaders and professionals to reduce incidents of violence and bullying and enhance students' well-being. Written in a step-by-step format, the text is designed to assist in...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-09-21
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In den Beiträgen des Bandes wird die Debatte um die digitale Transformation der sozialen Welt weitergeführt. Die Autorinnen und Autoren diskutieren die Bedeutung des Körpers in der Digitalisierung und die Rolle der digitalen Inszenierung für das leibliche...
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Springer VS
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2017-09-21
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The book offers new theoretical perspectives on innovation, analyzes innovation processes in diverse innovation fields, and presents case studies that reflect the diversity of innovations fields.To what extent and in what sense does innovation characterize our societies...
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Springer VS
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2017-09-21
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This exciting and timely collection showcases recent work on Cybercrime by members of Uclan Cybercrime Research Unit [UCRU], directed by Dr Tim Owen at the University of Central Lancashire, UK.This book offers up-to-date perspectives on Cybercrime based upon a Realist...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-21
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The Sociology of Sports-Talk Radio is the latest sports-media scholarship from the author of How Postmodernism Explains Football and Football Explains Postmodernism, winner of the 2017 Outstanding Book Award from the National Communication Association ’s Communication...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-20
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This book explores the life of economist and social scientist Wilhelm Lexis and the key demographic instrument named after him: the Lexis diagram. It describes this vital tool, which helps demographers visualize data, and examines its various forms through a specially...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-09-20
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This volume examines why the 2008 financial crisis with the subsequent Great Recession did not foster a major institutional transformation of the capitalist market economy. It highlights the role of ideas and public discourse in explaining institutional stability and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-20
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Taking a bioarchaeological approach, this book examines the Ancestral Pueblo culture living in the Four Corners region of the United States during the late Pueblo I through the end of the Pueblo III period (AD 850-1300). During this time, a vast system of pueblo...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-09-20
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