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This book explores care-leavers’ access to their personal records. People who grew up in care in previous decades may know little about their family nor understand why they were placed in care nor how decisions were made about their lives. Personal records can be a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-01
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This book is an attempt to approach the issue of defining international terrorism, proposing that the most workable way to do so is to achieve due balance between the two principal driving forces of international law developments: State sovereignty interests and...
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T.M.C. Asser Press
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2017-08-01
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The role of women in the Italian mafias has long been overlooked. Reduced to victim status and relegated to domestic life in a male-dominated society, women serve as the mafia's respectable facade: virtuous and docile. It is hard to picture these immaculate figures...
Editeur :
Hurst
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2017-08-01
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The Guide to Interpersonal Psychotherapy is the definitive, practical guide to Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) for clinicians and researchers. IPT is a well-researched, time-limited, and diagnosis-focused therapy. An update and expansion of the original 1984, 2000,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-08-01
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In recent years "leaderless" social movements have proliferated around the globe, from North Africa and the Middle East to Europe, the Americas, and East Asia. Some of these movements have led to impressive gains: the toppling of authoritarian leaders, the furthering of...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-08-01
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This book provides a fresh look at one of the most enduring, absorbing, and universal questions human beings face: What happens to us after we die? In secular thought, the standard answer is simple: we disappear into oblivion. David Harmon takes us in a different...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-01
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This book presents an exploratory account of the origins and dynamics of cities. The author recounts how the essential foundations of the urbanization process reside in two interrelated forces. These are the tendency for many different kinds of human activity to gather...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-01
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This edited collection focuses on the sociology of 'social censure' – the sociological term advocated by Colin Sumner in his seminal writing of the 1980s and 1990s. Social censure has become increasingly important in contemporary criminological writing.This can...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-01
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One of the fastest growing religious movements in the Western world, neo-shamanism embraces notions and techniques borrowed from various tribal peoples and adapted to the life of contemporary urban dwellers. Until the twenty-first century, the neo-shamanism found in...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-08-01
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This book considers de-marginalization attesting that marginal regions have the potential for de-marginalization and are anchored in developmental terms on the following core themes: nature; tourism; ethnicity and general factors including migration. Adding to the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-08-01
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This book explores the role and purpose of journalism to spark and propagate change by investigating human rights journalism and its capacity to inform, educate and activate change. Downman and Ubayasiri maximize this approach by proposing a new paradigm of reporting...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-31
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This handbook provides a broad and comprehensive overview of the study of social movements and collective action, discussing the different disciplinary approaches that have developed. In addition to updated discussions of topics that were included in the 1st edition,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-07-31
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This book provides insight into the diverse ways young people from around the world are regenerating politics in innovative and multifaceted ways. The authors, who include academics and activists, challenge claims that young people are apolitical, apathetic and living...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-31
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This sociological work examines the phenomenon of the Death Café, a regular gathering of strangers from all walks of life who engage in “death talk” over coffee, tea, and desserts. Using insightful theoretical frameworks, Fong explores the common themes that constitute...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-31
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This book presents the theory and practical applications of the Master equation approach, which provides a powerful general framework for model building in a variety of disciplines. The aim of the book is to not only highlight different mathematical solution methods,...
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Springer
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2017-07-31
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This book examines the notion of identity through a multitude of interdisciplinary approaches. It collects current thinking from international scholars spanning philosophy, history, science, cultural studies, media, translation, performance, and marketing, each with an...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-31
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In dieser interdisziplinär angelegten Studie wird das Modell der personenbezogenen Kommunikation und Rezeption vorgestellt. Es zeigt, dass die betrachteten sozialen Konstrukte wie z. B. Prominente, Stars und (Sport-)Helden nicht nur in Bezug auf kleinere Gemeinschaften,...
Editeur :
Springer Gabler
Parution :
2017-07-31
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Lucia Sehnbruch befasst sich mit der Geschichte des Bildschirms ausgehend vom Mittelalter bis in die Moderne. Sie legt dar, dass in der langen Geschichte des Bildschirms eine Sichtbarkeits- bzw. Wissensordnung generiert wurde und wird, die unsere Wahrnehmung und...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2017-07-31
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Throughout the modern era the figure of the child has consistently reflected adult concerns about industrialisation, urbanisation, technology, consumerism and capitalism. Children represent a symbolic retreat from modern life, culturally aligned with fairy tales,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-07-31
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Wer sich im Netz bewegt, muss mit Beobachtung rechnen. Mit immer geringerem Aufwand sind sowohl Regierungen, Wirtschaftsunternehmen, Meinungs- und Konsumforschung als auch Privatpersonen in der Lage, Netzaktivitäten und Datenspuren zu erfassen und zu analysieren. Der...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2017-07-31
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