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A classic work of anthropology that offers a groundbreaking exploration of what culture isNamed one of the 100 most important books published since World War II by the Times Literary Supplement “As an anthropologist, philosopher, political...
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Basic Books
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2017-08-15
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This book sheds light on the phenomenon of consecutive interpreting. It combines phenomenological and empirical analyses to build a communication theory of interpreting. The author begins by reviewing mainstream research on consecutive interpreting and then dissociates...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-08-15
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The American Southwest is one of the most important archaeological regions in the world, with many of the best-studied examples of hunter-gatherer and village-based societies. Research has been carried out in the region for well over a century, and during this time the...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-08-15
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The Mediterranean and the Balearic Islands have always enticed the minds of British travellers. In the first years of the twentieth century, the tourist industry made the islands accessible for a wide number of visitors, who depicted them in pictures and words. In the...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2017-08-15
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The Kurds, once marginal in the study of the Middle East and secondary in its international relations, have moved to centre stage in recent years.The contributors toThe Kurdish Question Revisited offer insights into how this once seemingly intractable, immutable...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-08-15
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The Kurds, once marginal in the study of the Middle East and secondary in its international relations, have moved to centre stage in recent years.The contributors toThe Kurdish Question Revisited offer insights into how this once seemingly intractable, immutable...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-08-15
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Often overlooked by journalists and scholars, the police forces of the African continents are a significant and little-studied phenomenon. This book seeks to redress that lacuna. The studies span the continent, from South Africa to Sierra Leone, keeping a strong...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-08-15
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The Enlightenment promised humanity a bright future of emancipation which never actuallymaterialized. Instead, our social order is still based on gender inequality, which rests upon afalse conviction: that the individual can be conceived of as separate from community;...
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Springer
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2017-08-14
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This book critically examines and theorizes the process of how return migrants reintegrate into their countries of origin. The result is a new methodology for understanding the experiences of return migrants, or their 'reintegration strategies'.This approach...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-08-14
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Bei dem vorliegenden Band handelt es sich um das erste Praxishandbuch, das präzise die vorhandenen Problemstellungen analysiert und aufzeigt, welche Prämissen für eine funktionierende Radikalisierungsprävention erfüllt sein müssen. Darüber hinaus bietet er einen...
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Springer VS
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2017-08-14
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This collection brings together the work of a range of scholars from around the world with different perspectives on one simple question: How can we assess the value of various entertainment products and forms?Entertainment is everywhere. The industries that produce it...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-08-14
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This critical account of the American Girl brand explores what its books and dolls communicate to girls about femininity, racial identity, ethnicity, and what it means to be an American. Emilie Zaslow begins by tracing the development of American Girl and situates the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-08-14
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Until now, the academic foundations of media ecology have been passed down primarily in the form of edited volumes, often by students of Neil Postman, or are limited to a focus on Marshall McLuhan and/or Postman or some other individual important to the field. Those...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2017-08-14
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Hanna Haag untersucht erstmals die familiale Tradierung DDR-bezogener Orientierungen im Beisein der Nachwendegeneration. Neben dem erfahrungsbasierten Wissen der Eltern fließt dadurch auch der retrospektive Blick der Kinder in den familialen Dialog über die...
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Springer VS
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2017-08-14
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Soziales Gedächtnis, Erinnern und Vergessen – Memory Studies
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This book focuses on the changes currently redefining parties and party systems in Israel and India with regard to parliamentary democracy, coalitional polity, electoral profiles and social diversity. It compares the nature of parties and party systems in Israel and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-08-13
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This collection explores the emergence of new spatialities and subjectivities in Brazilian films produced from the 1990s onwards, a period that became known as the retomada, but especially in the cinema of the new millennium. The chapters take spatiality as a powerful...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-08-12
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This book considers the intersections of race, gender and class in multicultural Australia through the lens of migration to the country. Focusing on Philippines-born migration, it presents the profile and history of this minority group through an examination of their...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-08-12
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This book describes the diverse manifestations of trauma and the ways in which trauma has shaped—and dismantled—our culture. Yochai Ataria describes how we are addicted to trauma and have become both its avid producers and consumers. Consequently, the culture in which...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-08-12
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This book explores how conditions for childbearing are changing in the 21st century under the impact of new biomedical technologies. Selective reproductive technologies (SRTs) - technologies that aim to prevent or promote the birth of particular kinds of children – are...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-08-12
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Wir alle nehmen regelmäßig gastgewerbliche Dienstleistungen in Anspruch. Doch wie sehen Berufswege, Arbeitsbedingungen und gesundheitliche Risiken für die Menschen aus, die diese Dienstleistungen erbringen? Dieses Buch behandelt Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten...
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Springer VS
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2017-08-11
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