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This book sets forth a new area in the study of extraordinary individuals in religious traditions. It develops the category of “Religious Genius” as an alternative to existing categories, primarily “saint.” It constructs a model by which to appreciate these individuals,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-06-29
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The National Border Patrol Museum (NBPM) in El Paso, Texas, presents a view of the history, culture, and life along the U.S.-Mexico border that is not offered in any other museum in the world. Moreover, it provides an opportunity to study and understand people and life...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-06-29
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Since its beginnings in the middle of the 19th century, fashion has been narrated through multiple media, both visual and verbal, and for such different purposes as marketing and advertising, art, costume history, social research and cultural dissemination. In this...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-06-29
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Der vorliegende Sammelband stellt am Beispiel der mittelalterlich geprägten Stadt Ravensburg die Methode der Kulturkonzeption vor. Ausgewiesene Experten im Bereich Stadt(teil)entwicklung und Kulturentwicklungsplanung sowie Studierende zeigen das Vorgehen am realen Fall....
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Springer VS
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2017-06-28
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This book explores the use of English within otherwise local-language conversations by two continental European social media communities. The analysis of these communities serves not only as a comparison of online language practices, but also as a close look at how...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-06-28
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This book concerns various modes of being transnational among a diasporic population—Armenians in Germany—by drawing parallels between the first and second generation migrants. It puts forth the questions as to whether or not, and which kind of transactional...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2017-06-28
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Dieses Buch erörtert die Grundannahmen, auf denen der quantitative bzw. der qualitative Forschungsansatz beruhen. Hierzu wird ein materialistisch-deterministisches Welt- und Menschenbild (quantitative Forschung) einem humanistischen Menschenbild in Verbindung mit...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2017-06-28
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This book aims to fill a void in the literature on the contributions of the state to the social protection, educational training, and human security of its overseas citizens. Additionally, Michel S. Laguerre seeks to explain the rise of the postdiaspora condition: an...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-06-28
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A groundbreaking exploration of the sociology of dementia — with contributions from distinguished international scholars and practitioners. Organised around the four themes of personhood, care, social representations and social differentiation Provides a critical look...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-06-28
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Sociology of Health and Illness Monographs
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Over the years, impairment has been discussed in bioarchaeology, with some scholars providing carefully contextualized explanations for their causes and consequences. Such investigations typically take a case study approach and focus on the functional aspects of...
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Springer
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2017-06-28
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"Brodie is whip smart; merging pop-culture references with vulnerable, personal experiences to create a collection that reads like a hilarious catch-up call with an old friend. What a pleasure to hear from this fresh, extremely relevant point of view." Abbi Jacobson,...
Editeur :
Hachette Australia
Parution :
2017-06-27
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This book is about how people construct career stories: the stories we use to make sense of our work life. Mark Scillio explores the idea of security in the current turbulent employment climate, investigating employment experiences in developed, wealthy countries like...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-06-27
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This stimulating volume uses multiple lenses to analyze the complex causes of health disparities affecting minorities, in particular African Americans, and explains how this knowledge can be used to reduce their destructive effects. Pinpointing genetic,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-06-27
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This book examines nobrow, a cultural formation that intertwines art and entertainment into an identifiable creative force. In our eclectic and culturally turbocharged world, the binary of highbrow vs. lowbrow is incapable of doing justice to the complexity and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-06-27
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In dem Band werden neue Anforderungen in unterschiedlichen Handlungsfeldern beschrieben und diskutiert, die sich ganz grundsätzlich und zwangsläufig im Umgang mit Geflüchteten ergeben: Menschen mit traumatisierenden Erfahrungen benötigen konkrete Hilfen, minderjährige...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2017-06-27
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This book examines the impacts of China’s urbanization on the country’s economic development, clan culture, rural societies, minority resident areas, natural environment, women, and public policy reforms, drawing on official statistics, independent survey data,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-06-26
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From selfies and memes to hashtags and parodies, social media are used for mundane and personal expressions of political commentary, engagement, and participation. The coverage of politics reflects the social mediation of everyday life, where individual experiences and...
Editeur :
Polity
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2017-06-26
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In this book, leading and emerging scholars consider the mixed critical responses to Lena Dunham’s TV series Girls and reflect on its significance to contemporary debates about postfeminist popular cultures in a post-recession context. The series features both familiar...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-06-23
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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 :
2017-06-23
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This book explores the gendered history of the Troubles, the rise of the Northern Ireland Women’s Coalition, and the role of community development as a new field in Northern Ireland. Nearly twenty years after the Belfast or Good Friday Agreement that ended the Troubles...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-06-22
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