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This volume brings together cutting-edge research from emerging and senior scholars alike representing a variety of disciplines that bears on human preferences for fairness, equity and justice. Despite predictions derived from evolutionary and economic theories that...
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Springer
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2017-09-18
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In this book, an international team of urban anthropologists, sociologists, and ethnographers argue that politics, intergroup relations, and development in cities cannot be understood without reference to the local contexts that endow each city with specific...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-09-18
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This volume looks at sustainable protection and sustainable use of cultural and natural heritage, particularly in view of the current challenges of the 21st century. For more than 40 years the World Heritage Convention has regulated the protection of the cultural and...
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Springer
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2017-09-18
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Bedia Akbas erzielt durch die forschungsmethodische Triangulation verschiedener quantitativer und qualitativer Erhebungsverfahren wegweisende Erkenntnisse auf der Ebene der Verbleibanalysen von Erzieher(inn)en mit ‚Migrationshintergrund‘. Die Autorin liefert bislang...
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Springer VS
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2017-09-18
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This book examines key sociological theories that have contributed to the understanding of the nature of social work, its organisation and delivery. It provides key sociological concepts and theories to help student social workers better understand the nature of their...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2017-09-18
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This book applies Owen’s unique genetic-social framework to the study of crime and criminal behaviour, with an emphasis on cybercrime. Moving beyond challenges which confront contemporary criminological theorizing such as: the stagnation of critical criminology, the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-09-18
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Sexual citizenship has become a key concept in the social sciences. It describes the rights and responsibilities of citizens in sexual and intimate life, including debates over equal marriage and women's human rights, as well as shaping thinking about citizenship more...
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Polity
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2017-09-18
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Exam Board: IBLevel: IBSubject: GeographyFirst Teaching: September 2017First Exam: Summer 2019Stretch your students to achieve their best grade with these year round course companions; provides comprehensive content on all topics, and practice questions to...
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Hodder Education
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2017-09-18
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Uta Schneider untersucht Normen und Leitbilder zur Automobilität bei Familien aus drei süddeutschen Großstädten mittels einer Kombination von Mobilitätstagebüchern und Paar- und Familieninterviews. Das Leitbild-Konzept aus der sozialwissenschaftlichen Technikforschung...
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Springer VS
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2017-09-16
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Studien zur Mobilitäts- und Verkehrsforschung
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The book uses Athens as a case study to identify the key features of urban anti-poverty policies in Greece and to discuss them in relation to policy developments in the crisis-ridden countries of Southern Europe.The idea of contested landscapes shapes the focus of the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-09-15
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This book fills the gap in existing literature by exploring other forms of political discourses in non-Western rap music. Theoretically, it challenges and explores resistance, arguing towards the need for different epistemological frameworks in which to look at...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-09-15
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In this book, Simmons argues that class, as much as race and gender, played a significant role in the development of Gothic and Horror fiction in a national context. From the classic texts of Edgar Allen Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne right through to contemporary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-09-15
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This book is the result of research into the considerable impacts the signing of the Schengen Agreement has had on the border regions of the signatory, in particular the Central European internal borders. The analysis provides an in-depth look at European integration,...
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Springer
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2017-09-15
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In einer empirisch gesättigten und innovativen Analyse der südafrikanischen Medienberichterstattung vor der Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft der Männer 2010 zeigt die Autorin Carolin Küppers, wie über das Massenereignis WM Diskurse über Sexarbeit verstärkt medial inszeniert...
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Springer VS
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2017-09-15
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Geschlecht und Gesellschaft
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This book brings together a diverse and wide-ranging group of thinkers to forge unsuspecting conversations across the humanist and non-humanist divide. How should humanism relate to a non-humanist world? What distinguishes “humanism” from the “non-humanist?”...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-14
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This book contests the negative portrayal of African immigrants as people who are not valuable members of South African society. They are often perceived as a threat to South Africa and its patrimony, accused of committing crime, taking jobs and competing for resources...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-09-14
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Der Band thematisiert gesellschaftliche Wandlungsprozesse, die im Kontext von FluchtMigration zu beobachten sind. Alle Beiträge vereint die Perspektive auf Migration als Normalzustand gesellschaftlicher Wirklichkeit. Die Analysen politischer Strukturen, die...
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Springer VS
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2017-09-14
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This study provides an up-to-date empirical account of Chinese female judges within the context of the Chinese legal system and wider society, revealing a deeper understanding of women in contemporary China. Shen explores the gendered nature of judging in post-Mao China...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-09-14
Collection :
Palgrave Advances in Criminology and Criminal Justice in Asia
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This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license.This book introduces new methods for measuring and analyzing residential segregation. It begins by placing all popular segregation indices in the “difference of group means” framework wherein index scores can be...
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Springer
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2017-09-14
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The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis
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This Brief proposes a criminological typology for understanding and addressing police misconduct. Through examination of each major type of police misconduct, the author proposes future research directions to deter and prevent misconduct.According to an...
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Springer
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2017-09-14
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