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We all know who The Girl is. She holds The Hero's hand as he runs through the Pyramids, chasing robots. Or she nags him, or foils him, plays the uptight straight man to his charming loser. She's idealised, degraded, dismissed, objectified and almost always...
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Virago
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2017-08-08
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This book provides a critical analysis of mainstreaming as one of the major contemporary trends in immigrant integration governance in Europe. Bringing together unique empirical material and theoretical insights on mainstreaming, it examines how, why and to what effect...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-08-07
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This book argues that homophobia plays a fundamental role in disputes for hegemony between antagonists during political transitions. Examining countries not often connected in the same research—Colombia and South Africa—the book asserts that homophobia, as a form of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-07
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Global Queer Politics
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This book presents a detailed analysis of Hawaii’s Opportunity Probation with Enforcement (HOPE) program. Developed by Judge Steven Alm in Hawaii in 2004, this model of ‘swift, certain and fair’ justice has been widely adopted across the United States. The book argues...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-07
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This is the first book to comprehensively cover the historical process leading to Taiwan’s integration with Mainland China in the seventeenth century. As such, it addresses the Taiwan question in the seventeenth century, presenting for the first time the process leading...
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Springer
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2017-08-05
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Susanne Becker geht der Frage nach, wie Sprechweisen alltäglich bewertet werden und wie diese Bewertungen mit ökonomischen Ungleichheiten in Verbindung stehen. Mittels empirischer Ergebnisse aus ihrer ethnografischen Forschung in zwei Stadtteilen illustriert die Autorin...
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Springer VS
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2017-08-04
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This book investigates how individual cancer narratives change in an age of networked social media. Through a range of case studies, it shows that a new type of entrepreneurial cancer narrative is currently evolving.This narrative is characterised by using illness to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-04
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This book concerns the implications and interrelations of key concepts of culture, defending an updated communicative notion of culture as meaning-making against a series of current challenges. The first part of the book distinguishes four main concepts of culture,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-04
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The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multivolume history of the American nation. In the newest volume in the series,The Republic for Which It Stands, acclaimed historian Richard White offers a fresh and integrated interpretation of...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-08-04
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This is the third of five ambitious volumes theorizing the structure of governance above and below the central state.This book is written for those interested in the character, causes, and consequences of governance within the state.
This book sets out a measure of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-08-04
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Why do people go to church? What about a congregation attracts new members? What is it that draws women and men differently into diverse types of congregations? Getting to Church assesses the deeply personal and gendered narratives around how women and men move toward...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-08-04
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This book advances research about China by providing an updated narrative of its entertainment life in the beginning of China’s twenty-first century. As the rest of the world continues to pay keen attention to developments in China’s politics, economy, and culture, the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-04
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Newspapers have long been enthralled by accounts of cute, cuddly, strange, dangerous and endangered beasts, and by extraordinary and sometimes apocryphal narratives of natural phenomena. This study explores the incidence of several such stories in the British press:...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-08-04
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This publication is one of the results of a conference organised in Lisbon in 2011 on the theme of African borders and their relationships with migration and mobility. The selected papers are a sample of the diverse perspectives on the general theme presented at the...
Editeur :
Centro de Estudos Internacionais
Parution :
2017-08-04
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ebook'IS
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As the end result of a multidisciplinary investigation project conducted in Africa (PTDC/AFR/64207/2006, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia), this publication about Poverty and Peace in the Portuguese-speaking African Countries has the purpose, on one hand, of...
Editeur :
Centro de Estudos Internacionais
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2017-08-04
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This book examines how the severe economic downturn following the 2007-2008 financial crisis affected the structural integration and quality of life of urban migrants in Europe and North America. It compares the experiences of migrants from Poland, Romania, Serbia,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-04
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The texts of the book focus on the problems and challenges of urban change, especially in Europe, in the contemporary context of intense mobility.The main topics are mobility, urban social structure, migrations, urban inequalities, urban activism, community,...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-08-03
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The study considers two generations of Anglo-Indian women in post-colonial India, and their social interaction with their community. It explores Anglo-Indian women as part of a cultural whole and as participants in the mainstream cultural claims of India. It...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-03
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Jens Lanfer präsentiert eine grundlagentheoretische Untersuchung gesellschaftlicher Innovationen. Für die Analyse von Innovationsprozessen stellt er ein systemtheoretisches Konzept vor, das sowohl eine angemessene Reichweite aufweist, um Innovationen in der Gesellschaft...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2017-08-03
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Das Ziel, das Dux mit der Untersuchung zur Moral verfolgt, ist, einsichtig zu machen, dass und wie sich die Moral als eine Form sozialer Vernunft aus einer Bedingungskonstellation der evolutiv erworbenen Verfassung heraus zu bilden vermochte und immer wieder zu bilden...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-08-03
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Gesammelte Schriften
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