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This book takes students on a guided tour of the gang phenomenon through history, as well as current representations of gangs in literature and media. It includes:
- A detailed global overview of gang culture, covering, amongst others, Glasgow, Chicago, Hong Kong,...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2017-07-03
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By empirically assessing the competitiveness of 505 cities around the world from regional, national and other perspectives, this book not only ranks these cities but also presents a treasure trove of information with regard to each city’s relative strengths and...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-07-02
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Das Buch widmet sich der vergleichenden Untersuchung von zivilgesellschaftlichen Akteuren in den politischen Systemen Malaysias und Singapurs. Die Untersuchung hat den Anspruch, zum besseren Verständnis der Genese, Gestalt und Dynamiken von zivilgesellschaftlichen...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2017-07-01
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Cet ouvrage collectif retrace l'histoire de la théoie sociologique italienne d'époque positiviste à travers quelques-uns de ses représentants principaux comme Pareto, Lombroso ou encore Del Noce, etc. Mettre à disposition des chercheurs des outils scientifiques leur...
Editeur :
Editions L'Harmattan
Parution :
2017-07-01
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Harmattan Italia
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The study of the Neolithic transition constitutes a major theme in prehistoric research.The process of economic change, from foraging to farming, involved one of the main transformations in human behavior patterns. This volume focuses on investigating the neolithization...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-07-01
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Long a recipient of migrants from its surrounding areas, the Arabian Peninsula today comprises a mosaic of communities of diverse ethnic, cultural, linguistic and religious origins. For decades, while the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states have housed and employed...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-07-01
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This collection explores Canadian music’s commentaries on American culture. ‘American Woman, get away from me!’ - one of the most resonant musical statements to come out of Canada - is a cry of love and hate for its neighbour. Canada’s close, inescapable entanglement...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-06-30
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Network Governance and the Differentiated Polity is the first of two volumes featuring a selection of key writings by R. A. W. Rhodes. Volume I collects in one place for the first time the main articles written by Rhodes on policy networks and governance between 1990...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-06-30
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This book argues that we are currently witnessing not merely a decline in the quality of social science research, but the proliferation of meaningless research, of no value to society, and modest value to its authors - apart from securing employment and promotion.
The...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-06-30
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Isabel Valdés Cifuentes überprüft in einem europäischen Vergleich, ob prekär Beschäftigte über eine schlechtere soziale Einbettung verfügen als Personen in regulärer Beschäftigung. Die Autorin zieht soziologische und sozialpsychologische Theorien heran und untersucht...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-06-30
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In The Power of Race in Cuba, Danielle Pilar Clealand analyzes racial ideologies that negate the existence of racism and their effect on racial progress and activism through the lens of Cuba. Since 1959, Fidel Castro and the Cuban government have married socialism and...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-06-30
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Interpretive Political Science is the second of two volumes featuring a selection of key writings by R.A.W. Rhodes. Volume II looks forward and explores the 'interpretive turn' and its implications for the craft of political science, especially public administration,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-06-30
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This book offers an original new conception of visual story telling, proposing that drawing, depictive drawing and narrative drawing are produced in an encompassing dialogic system of embodied social behavior. It refigures the existing descriptions of visual...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-06-29
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This book examines how digital communications technologies have transformed modern societies, with profound effects both for everyday life, and for everyday crimes. Sexual violence, which is recognized globally as a significant human rights problem, has likewise changed...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-06-29
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Florian Lippuner zeichnet das biografische Gesamtbild von strukturellen Kopplungen und Transferprozessen im Rahmen der Computerspielnutzung nach. Der Autor untersucht, wie sich die Bedeutung des Spielens für einzelne Jugendliche und junge Erwachsene je nach Lebensphase...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-06-29
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This book considers the changing nature of intimacy in contemporary China, providing a unique case study of romantic subjectivities in young people in the world’s fastest growing economy. Since the implementation of reform in 1978, the economic and socio-cultural...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-06-29
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As commercial surrogacy in India dominates public conversations around reproduction, new kinds of families, and changing trends in globalization, its lived realities become an important aspect of emerging research. This book maps the way in which in vitro fertilization...
Editeur :
OUP India
Parution :
2017-06-29
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Ausgehend von einer expliziten Definition des Öffentlichkeitsbegriffs entwickelt Jakob Jünger die Theorie unklarer Öffentlichkeit und überprüft diese empirisch. Er zeigt, dass Öffentlichkeit nicht nur eine makrosoziologische Entität, sondern mikrosoziologisch eine...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-06-29
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SEO practices for Baidu and other Chinese search engines are little known in the Western world. However, in order for a company to promote itself successfully in the Middle Kingdom, it is absolutely necessary to go online in China. ChineseSEO is not only about working...
Editeur :
Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2017-06-29
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