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In these troubled times, even the most pessimistic diagnosis of our future ends with an uplifting hint that things might not be as bad as all that, that there is light at the end of the tunnel. Yet, argues Slavoj Žižek, it is only when we have admitted to ourselves that...
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Penguin
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2017-05-11
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Leopold Ringel entwickelt die These, dass Organisationen beständig versuchen, ihr Inneres vor äußerer Einsicht zu verstecken, um eine idealisierte Selbstdarstellung aufrechtzuerhalten - auch dann, wenn sie sich dazu bekennen, mehr Transparenz herzustellen. Daraus folgt...
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Springer VS
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2017-05-11
Collection :
Organization & Public Management
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This provocative new introduction to the field of digital sociology offers a critical overview of interdisciplinary debates about new ways of knowing society that are emerging today at the interface of computing, media, social research and social life. Digital...
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Polity
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2017-05-11
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Community is a central idea in urban studies but remains conceptually vague and empirically difficult to work with. Building on existing theories of community, Talja Blokland offers an important contribution to defining and understanding this key theme. Blokland...
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Polity
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2017-05-11
Collection :
Urban Futures
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This book aims to bridge the gap between general CEO research, which is traditionally focused on positive aspects of leadership, and lesser understood research into CEO misconduct and crime. Gottschalk introduces convenience theory as an integrated explanation for CEO...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-05-11
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This book unveils an ignored aspect of the Brazilian history: how the colonization of the country shaped the sexuality of its indigenous population. Based on textual research, the authors show how the government and religious institutions gradually imposed the family...
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Springer
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2017-05-10
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Ana Ivanova untersucht anhand elaborierter Inhaltsanalysen von über 100.000 Zeitungsbeiträgen aus 21 Medien, 11 Ländern und multivariater Zeitreihenauswertungen, wie transnationale Governance und Betroffenheit die Entgrenzung nationaler, durch Massenmedien...
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Springer VS
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2017-05-10
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Der vorliegende Band bietet einen aktuellen Überblick über die Vielzahl neuerer sozialwissenschaftlicher Forschungen zur Bedeutung, Funktion und Theorie von Dispositiven in und für die Ökonomie. Denn die Ökonomie ist „instrumentiert“ – Organisationen und Märkte sind...
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Springer VS
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2017-05-10
Collection :
Interdisziplinäre Diskursforschung
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This book offers an innovative examination of the utopian impulse through performance as a proposition of practical engagement in the contemporary Americas. The volume compiles unique multidisciplinary and exploratory texts, applying diverse critical and artistic...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-05-09
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In this volume, the authors attempt to speak freely about the potential in religions both for violence and peace. I am confident that many impulses from this work will also impact the direction of churches and other religious communities, such that religions, all...
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Springer VS
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2017-05-09
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Vor dem Hintergrund der beruflich bedingten Mobilität fragt die vorliegende Studie von Matthias Berg nach der Rolle digitaler Medien bei der kommunikativen Beziehungspflege. Die qualitative Kommunikationsnetzwerkanalyse von 22 beruflich mobilen Menschen kommt zu dem...
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Springer VS
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2017-05-09
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Der vierte Band zum Themenbereich Pfadfinden enthält Beiträge zur Biographie des jüdischen Pfadfindergründers Alexander Lion in Deutschland und zu seinem Überleben in der Gestapohaft 1938/39. Die Beiträge thematisieren die ästhetische und pädagogische Praxis der...
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Springer VS
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2017-05-08
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This cutting edge work offers an alternative perspective on existing paradigms of modernization and development that originated in the West from the vantage point of non-western, late-modernizing societies. It considers how East Asian philosophical ideas enrich the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-05-08
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Provides busy social work and health care practitioners with an accessible guide to adult safeguarding in the context of mental capacity and financial abuse. Drawing on evidence and contemporary examples from practice this book will help readers understand the new...
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Learning Matters
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2017-05-08
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This very practical book will support students to meet the requirements of the compulsory Readiness for Direct Practice assessment. Useful for social work students and lecturers alike, it takes each of the 9 domains that students are tested on, breaks them down step-by...
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Learning Matters
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2017-05-08
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Although the issue of offender decision-making pervades almost every discussion of crime and law enforcement, only a few comprehensive texts cover and integrate information about the role of decision-making in crime. The Oxford Handbook of Offender Decision Making...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-05-08
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The photographer Luigi Ghirri (1943–1992) was one of the most significant Italian artists of the late twentieth century. This volume – the first scholarly book-length publication on Ghirri to appear in English – introduces his photographic and critical work to a broader...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2017-05-08
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Das Buch bündelt sozialpsychologische und kommunikationswissenschaftliche Befunde über die öffentliche Einstellung zu Muslimen und dem Islam in Deutschland im Kontext von Flüchtlingsdebatte und Terrorbedrohung 2015 und 2016. Die Ergebnisse stützen sich zum einen auf...
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Springer VS
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2017-05-05
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This collection presents a number of films and television programmes set in the North of England in an investigation of how northern identity imbricates with class, race, gender, rural and urban identities. Heading North considers famous screen images of the North, such...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-05-05
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During the past several decades, political philosophers have frequently clashed with one another over the question whether governments are morally required to remain neutral among reasonable conceptions of excellence and human flourishing. Whereas the numerous followers...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-05-05
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