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This book illustrates how leisure, as with other complex ideas that hold currency in today’s world, suffers at the level of common sense, due to a combination of oversimplification, moral depreciation, and even lack of recognition.Leisure’s modern legacy is both...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-07-17
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This book represents a germinal effort that urges all religious and world leaders to savor the mystical spirituality, especially the cosmology and spirituality of sacred sustainability of the indigenous peoples. The power of indigenous spirit world is harnessed for the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-07-17
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Midlife can be a time of great change for individuals and a "make or break" period for marriages. Couples navigate a relationship landscape defined by such lifecourse landmarks as "the empty nest," changing roles at home and at work, aging bodies, and the need to care...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2017-07-17
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For years, scholars hypothesized about what Islamists might do if they ever came to power. Now, they have answers: confusing ones. In the Levant, ISIS established a government by brute force, implementing an extreme interpretation of Islamic law. On the opposite end of...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-07-17
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Peter Paul Latzke zeigt, wie aus Qualitätsmanagement, Dienstleistungsmarketing, Arbeitsbedingungen und Fachwissen ein marktführendes Leistungsnetzwerk für arbeitsintensive Dienstleistungen gesponnen wird. Dabei verbindet er die marktsoziologischen Perspektiven des...
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Springer VS
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2017-07-15
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This edited volume presents the diversity of comparative criminology research in Asia, and the complex theoretical and methodological issues involved in conducting comparative research. With contributors both from the West and the East exploring these questions, the...
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Springer
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2017-07-15
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Citizenship, Belonging, and Nation-States in the Twenty-First Century contributes to the scholarship on citizenship and integration by examining belonging in an array of national settings and by demonstrating how nation-states continue to matter in citizenship analysis....
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-07-15
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Dieser praxisorientierte Marketingleitfaden führt durch den unübersichtlichen Dschungel der Möglichkeiten von Marktansprachen.Damit ist er einzigartig und richtungsweisend in dem Markt der Sozial- und Gesundheitswirtschaft und enthält sowohl die klassischen als auch die...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2017-07-14
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The essential revision guide for AS and 1st-year A level Sociology from trusted and best-selling author Ken Browne. This indispensable book provides everything you need to revise for the exams, with a clear topic-by-topic layout to recap key theories and central ideas....
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Polity
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2017-07-14
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The book provides an overview of key issues in the debate concerning the emergence of active citizenship in Europe.The specific focus of enquiry is the promotion of patterns of civic and political engagement and civic and political participation by the EU and the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-14
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Contemporary Archaeology and the City foregrounds the archaeological study of post-industrial and other urban transformations through a diverse, international collection of case studies. Over the past decade contemporary archaeology has emerged as a dynamic force for...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-07-14
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As the first book to introduce and analyze cultural studies in contemporary China, this volume is an important resource for Western scholars wishing to understand the rise and development of cultural studies in China. Organized according to subject, it includes...
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Springer
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2017-07-14
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This book provides a comprehensive profile of the development of sociology in Italy from the post-war period to the present day. The first English-language account of the history of Italian sociology, it focuses on the process of institutionalization of the discipline...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
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2017-07-13
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This book examines the issue of irregular transit migration to the EU by presenting the case of the Afghans. Focusing on the Afghans that arrive in and seek to move through Greece, it highlights the unique problems facing this distinctive migratory movement. Recognising...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-13
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This book examines the experiences of 49 second-generation exiles from South Africa. Using “generation” as an analytical concept, it investigates the relational, temporal and embodied nature of their childhoods in terms of kinship relations, life cycle, cohort...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-13
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This new dictionary provides clear and accessible definitions of a range of terms from within the fast-developing field of gender studies. It covers terms which have emerged out of gender studies, such as cyber feminism, double burden, and male gaze, and gender-focused...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-07-13
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This collection revisits classical anthropological treatments of the gift by documenting how people may be valued both through the requests they make and through what they give. Many humanitarian practitioners, the authors propose, regard giving to those in need as the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-13
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Autumnal Faces is a timely study within the ever-growing research on the ways older people and ageing itself have been conceptualized and represented in the popular imagination and, more specifically, in drama and on stage. Tracing this theme from the Renaissance to the...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2017-07-13
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Baseball stadia are places of memory, identity, athletic and architectural accomplishment. They are sites capable of arousing passion, sentimentality and a sense of community. The baseball stadium provides a unique lens through which to understand, explore and expand an...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2017-07-13
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This book treats William Faulkner's major fiction--from Flags in the Dust through to Absalom, Absalom!--to a searching reappraisal under the spotlight of a media-historical inquiry. It proposes that Faulkner's inveterate attraction to the paradigms of romance was...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-07-13
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