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This is a comparative study of prisoners' human rights in England, Wales and the Netherlands. Over the years changes in Dutch penal policy have smoothed to some degree the sharp contrasting differences that were once characteristic of the English and the Dutch prison...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-04-06
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Die Beiträge des vorliegenden Bandes untersuchen Ereignisse, die sich tief in das Gedächtnis der Gesellschaft eingraben und eine kollektiv geteilte kulturelle Erfahrung des Spektakulären anzeigen: sogenannte Amokläufe und School Shootings. Neben der spektakulär...
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Springer VS
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2017-04-05
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This book contributes to current debates on the relationship between architecture and the social sciences, highlighting current interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary teaching as well as research and practice in architecture and urbanism. It also raises awareness about...
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Springer
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2017-04-05
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Remade in France: Anglicisms in the Lexicon and Morphology of French chronicles the current status of French Anglicisms, a popular topic in the history of the French language and a compelling example of the influence of global English. The abundant data come from...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-04-05
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This book provides an overview of marginality or marginalization, as a concept, characterizing a situation of impediments – social, political, economic, physical, and environmental – that impact the abilities of many people and societies to improve their human...
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Springer
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2017-04-04
Collection :
Perspectives on Geographical Marginality
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This book provides an up-to-date, critical review of theoretical concepts connecting artists and urban development. It focuses on the multidimensionality of potential and actually observed interactions between artists and cities and their impacts on urban space, its...
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Springer
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2017-04-04
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This book considers representations of wealth and the wealthy in videogames. The introduction explores the estrangement of wealth from everyday life in the contemporary west, and argues that videogames have contributed to modern life by dramatizing the economic...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-04-04
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This book contains the full research papers presented at the 20th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, held in 2017 at Wageningen University & Research in Wageningen, the Netherlands. The selected contributions show trends in the domain...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-04-03
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Der Band befasst sich mit der Bedeutung agrarischer Produktionsräume für die Stadt, wie sie vor allem in Agglomerationsräumen, wie dem Ruhrgebiet, im Rhein-Main-Raum oder im Großraum Stuttgart Bestandteil der Stadtlandschaft sind und insbesondere als...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-04-03
Collection :
Hybride Metropolen
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The authors focus on families who organize their lives in transnational social spaces within and at the outer borders of Europe, to offer a new perspective on transnational family life and to advance the knowledge on borders drawn by social inequality, discrimination...
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Springer VS
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2017-04-03
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This book is open access under a CC BY license.New media divide opinion; many are fascinated while others are disgusted.This book is about those who dislike, protest, and try to abstain from media, both new and old. It explains why media resistance persists and answers...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-04-03
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Dieser Band eröffnet vielseitige Perspektiven auf Wohnen und Raum. Obwohl das Phänomen Wohnen zentral für viele pädagogische Maßnahmen ist (u.a. Mutter-Kind-Einrichtungen, stationäre Erziehungshilfen, Jugendwohnheime, Altenhilfe, aufsuchende Sterbebegleitung),...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2017-04-03
Collection :
Sozialraumforschung und Sozialraumarbeit
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The sway of Islam in political life is an unavoidable topic of debate in Turkey today. Secularists, Islamists, and liberals alike understand the Turkish state to be the primary arbiter of Islam's place in Turkey--as the coup attempt of July 2016 and its aftermath have...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-04-03
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Why is it so hard to talk about sex and sexuality? In this crisp and compelling book, Amin Ghaziani provides a pithy introduction to the field of sexuality studies through a distinctively cultural lens. Rather than focusing on sex acts, which make us feel flustered and...
Editeur :
Polity
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2017-04-03
Collection :
Cultural Sociology
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Harald Schernthanner verfolgt das Ziel, aus geoinformatischer Sicht eine konzeptionelle Grundlage zur räumlichen Optimierung von Immobilienportalen zu schaffen. Dabei geht der Autor davon aus, dass Verfahren der räumlichen Statistik und des maschinellen Lernens zur...
Editeur :
Springer Spektrum
Parution :
2017-04-03
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This book tells the incredible true story of Ranulfo Juárez, a Mexican immigrant. After working for years in the fields of Oregon and becoming a U.S. citizen, Ranulfo started making plans to buy a small bakery in 2005. But not knowing if the economy would hold steady,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-04-01
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This book provides a conceptual framework for children's rights as well as specific strategies and opportunities for social workers to apply in their work. It guides social work professionals and students through the history of children's rights. It also...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-03-31
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This book examines the new ways of working and their impact on employees’ well-being and performance. It concentrates on job demands and flexible work emanating from current economic and organizational change, and assesses impact on workers’ health and performance. The...
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Springer
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2017-03-31
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Der Band lädt ein darüber nachzudenken, wie Fernsehserien Vaterschaft (und durchaus auch Mutterschaft) inszenieren und welche Momente der gesellschaftlichen Selbstreflexion und Projektion sich darin abzeichnen. Dabei gilt das besondere Interesse dem spezifischen...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2017-03-31
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This volume investigates how much governmental control is needed to reign in corporate and business greed and to make business "socially responsible" in Asia. It also questions whether business entities need to be reigned in by the government itself,...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-03-31
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