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The book reveals how the ‘social value of art’ may have one meaning for a policy maker, another for a museum and still yet another for an artist – and it is therefore in the interaction between these agents that we learn the most about the importance of rhetoric and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-18
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This book uses an economic framework to examine the consequences of U.S. farm and food policies for obesity, its social costs, and the implications for government policy. Drawing on evidence from economics, public health, nutrition, and medicine, the authors evaluate...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-18
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Die Autoren untersuchen am Beispiel des Ankunftsquartiers Duisburg-Marxloh Herkunftssituation, Wanderungswege und -motive sowie die Lebenssituation von Zuwanderern aus Bulgarien und Rumänien. Sie analysieren die Einstellungen der schon länger im Quartier lebenden...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2017-07-07
Collection :
Quartiersforschung
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Uranium, the most atomically unstable natural element on earth, has a unique place in the global geopolitics of resources. It provides energy to millions of people and its isotopes are used to power spacecraft and in nuclear medicine. But it is also at the heart of many...
Editeur :
Polity
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2017-07-03
Collection :
Resources
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This book argues that the factors contributing to obesity as a product of food insecurity have risen largely from the exploitation of vulnerable communities. In the past, food insecurity has been understood as primarily a matter of famine, hunger, and undernutrition....
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2017-07-02
Collection :
Palgrave Series in Bioethics and Public Policy
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GDP is much more than a simple statistic. It has become the overarching benchmark of success and a powerful ordering principle at the heart of the global economy. But the convergence of major economic, social and environmental crises has exposed the flaws of our...
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Polity
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2017-06-30
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This book examines the use of presidential powers in Central and East Europe between 1990 and 2010. Focussing on presidential vetoes and the formation of governments, it maps patterns of presidential activism and its determinants across nine democracies. Thereby,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-06-20
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Presidential Politics
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Humans have become so powerful that we have disrupted the functioning of the Earth System as a whole, bringing on a new geological epoch – the Anthropocene – one in which the serene and clement conditions that allowed civilisation to flourish are disappearing and we...
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Polity
Parution :
2017-06-05
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This book describes and analyzes the new problems and challenges faced by China's non-governmental enterprises. In the post-WTO era, which has been particularly affected by the international financial crisis, there will be many problems and challenges that need to be...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-05-18
Collection :
Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path
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This is the first book to offer a comprehensive guide to involving patients in health technology assessment (HTA). Defining patient involvement as patient participation in the HTA process and research into patient aspects, this book includes detailed explanations of...
Editeur :
Adis
Parution :
2017-05-15
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This book examines the many ways in which the Communist Party in China is still revolutionary by focusing on how, in recent years, it has attempted to mobilize Party members to become ethical subjects. In the context of the Party’s history of the military revolution,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-05-11
Collection :
Politics and Development of Contemporary China
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In a fragile and conflict-ridden context such as the Gaza Strip, where the de facto Hamas government faces isolation and lacks international recognition, the provision of aid and development schemes challenges donors and CSOs delivering services to Palestinians. This...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-05-10
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The Great Financial Crash had cataclysmic effects on the global economy, and took conventional economists completely by surprise. Many leading commentators declared shortly before the crisis that the magical recipe for eternal stability had been found. Less than a year...
Editeur :
Polity
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2017-05-09
Collection :
The Future of Capitalism
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This book presents a conceptual and practical tool for those involved directly or indirectly in the planning and management of basic provision of water supply, wastewater and stormwater services in metropolitan regions by offering insights into governance paradigms and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-05-09
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Water Science and Technology
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Das Buch führt in die politik- und verwaltungswissenschaftliche Analyse der Ausführung von Gesetzen ein. Die AutorInnen erläutern, wie Strukturen und interne Prozesse in der Verwaltung sowie die Macht- und Interessenlagen der beteiligten Akteure die Wirkung von...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-04-26
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Eberhard von Einem geht in diesem essential der Frage nach, wie es Politik und Zivilgesellschaft schaffen können, alle Flüchtlinge, die sich nach Deutschland retten konnten, nicht nur in Notunterkünften, sondern in bezahlbaren Wohnungen des ‚normalen‘ Wohnungsmarktes...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-04-24
Collection :
essentials
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This volume focuses on recent experiences of return migration to Mexico and Central America from the United States. For most of the twentieth century, return migration to the US was a normal part of the migration process from Mexico and Central America, typically...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-04-19
Collection :
Immigrants and Minorities, Politics and Policy
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This book investigates key developments in China’s manufacturing industry from the perspectives of general evaluation, regional analysis, industrial analysis and enterprise analysis. Based on data for 1978 to 2013, it details the characteristics of the different stages,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-04-09
Collection :
Current Chinese Economic Report Series
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This book delivers timely research on the various interfaces of family and work, and their impacts on individual wellbeing in East and Southeast Asia. It highlights changing family structures and processes, with special attention to inter-generational relationships,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-04-08
Collection :
Quality of Life in Asia
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Rich in its spatial scope, this edited collection provides an extensive and detailed overview of contemporary Turkish foreign policy. From the founding principles of foreign policy in the early republic to changing patterns during the second half of the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-04-07
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