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This book introduces Cyber Justice as a viable approach for promoting good governance based on human rights norms in the internet. The author defines cyberspace as a borderless public space without common rules or government control mechanisms that protect and foster...
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Springer
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2017-07-30
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This book examines how sports journalists covered the historic coming out stories of National Basketball Association (NBA) veteran Jason Collins and football All-American Michael Sam in the context of sports’ “toy department” reputation as a field whose standards are...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-28
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This book examines economic transfers across generations and genders from a European perspective. It addresses key challenges that contemporary societies face in regards to ageing, welfare sustainability, and intergenerational and gender equity. Coverage also offers...
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Springer
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2017-07-28
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Improving the relationship between archaeology and local government represents one of the next great challenges facing archaeology –specifically archaeology done in urban settings. Not only does local government have access to powerful legal tools and policy mechanisms...
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Springer
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2017-07-28
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Focusing on Brazil, this book approaches the term “heritage” from not only a historical and architectural point of view, but also considers its artistic, archaeological, natural, ethnological and industrial aspects. The book is divided into four thematic sections –...
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Springer
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2017-07-28
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Why are some crimes identified as acts of terrorism, while others are not? How are critical terms like «terrorism» and «mass shooting» defined and understood in the 21st century? What are some of the causes of the unique American epidemic of mass shootings and gun...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-07-28
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Conceptually, Molefi Kete Asante: A Critical Afrocentric Reader is a reflexive analysis of the editor’s space in higher education over the past three decades. As a historical assessment, this reader is a narrative that offers a constructive perspective of...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-07-28
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This book draws on historical and cross-disciplinary studies to critically examine penal practices in Scandinavia. The Nordic countries are often hailed by international observers as ‘model societies’, with egalitarian welfare policies, low rates of poverty, humane...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-28
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This volume discusses the many recent significant developments, and identifies important problems, in the field of social indicators. In the last ten years the methodology of multivariate analysis and synthetic indicators construction significantly developed. In...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-07-27
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Mit dem Begriff der Wissensgesellschaft betonen Zeitdiagnosen den wachsenden Stellenwert von (wissenschaftlichem) Wissen für alle gesellschaftlichen Handlungsfelder. Eine noch wenig erforschte Konsequenz dieser Entwicklung ist das Erfordernis, Wissen zu kommunizieren...
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Springer VS
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2017-07-27
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This book examines the paradox of China and the United States’ literary and visual relationships, morphing between a happy duet and a contentious duel in fiction, film, poetry, comics, and opera from both sides of the Pacific. In the 21st century where tension between...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-26
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This book deals with the concept of leisure and the everyday leisure practices of a group of diverse single women in an urban setting—Mannheim, Germany. Vania Sandoval focuses on how social structure and individual choices relate to each other in the local context....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-26
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This book is one of the first to integrate psychological and medical anthropology with the methodologies of visual anthropology, specifically ethnographic film. It discusses and complements the work presented in Afflictions: Culture and Mental Illness in Indonesia, the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-26
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Media Ecology: An Approach to Understanding the Human Condition provides a long-awaited and much anticipated introduction to media ecology, a field of inquiry defined as the study of media as environments. Lance Strate presents a clear and concise explanation of an...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-07-26
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This book is about ways to understand masculinity as systemic and corporeal, structural and performative all at once. It argues that the tension between an understanding of “masculinity” in the singular and “masculinities” in the plural poses a problem that can better...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-26
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Stefanie Trümper entwickelt das Modell der nachhaltigen Erinnerung, mit dem sich das Verhältnis von Journalismus und Erinnerung theoretisch durchleuchten und operationalisieren lässt. Die Autorin zeigt, dass Erinnerungsfähigkeit eine wesentliche Voraussetzung für die...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2017-07-25
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Das Buch gibt eine Einführung und dient als Praxis-Handbuch für die Konzeptualisierung, Durchführung und Auswertung von Gruppendiskussionen in sozialwissenschaftlichen und wirtschaftspsychologischen Kontexten.Gruppendiskussionen gehören zu den Grundpfeilern qualitativer...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2017-07-25
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Today's economic system, premised on the sale of physical goods, does not fit the information age in which we live. The capitalist order requires the maintenance of an artificial scarcity in goods that have the potential for near infinite and almost free replication....
Editeur :
Polity
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2017-07-25
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This groundbreaking reference offers mental health professionals a rigorous, nuanced guide to working with abuse survivors with disabilities in religious communities. Expert contributors unravel complex intersections of disability, religion, and identity in the context...
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Springer
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2017-07-24
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Die Medien stecken in einer Dauerkrise – und daran ist nicht nur das Internet schuld. Sie leiden unter der ‚amerikanischen Krankheit’; Kommerzialisierung der Inhalte, Reduzierung der Investitionen und Minimierung des journalistischen Personals sind die Folge. Jahrelang...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-07-24
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