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This book analyses the dual alienations of a coastal group rural men, the Murik of Papua New Guinea. David Lipset argues that Murik men engage in a Bakhtinian dialogue: voicing their alienation from both their own, indigenous masculinity, as well as from the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-03-27
Collection :
Culture, Mind, and Society
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This book explores how social media and its advances enables citizens to empower themselves during a crisis. The book addresses the key issues related to crises management and social media as the new platform to assist citizens and first responders dealing with multiple...
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Springer
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2017-03-27
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Daniela Wühr analysiert Dynamiken der Innovationspraxis in der Investitionsgüterindustrie. Dabei beleuchtet sie das nicht immer reibungslose Verhältnis von Innovationsarbeit und Innovationsprozess sowie die Herausforderung für die Branche, ihre Innovationsprozesse zu...
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Springer VS
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2017-03-27
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Der Band fokussiert das Erleben, das Erfahren und den Umgang mit Alter(n) und der Vergänglichkeit des Körpers in der Gegenwart. Diese Fragestellung geht nicht nur aus dem hervor, was als ‚demographischer Wandel‘ vielfach öffentlich diskutiert wird und bislang etwa in...
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Springer VS
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2017-03-27
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Die in diesem Band dargestellten Fallstudien zu einem internationalen Hochschulstudiengang dienen der Exploration und Sensibilisierung. Aufmerksam gemacht wird auf Bruch-, Konvergenz- und Emergenzstellen, die sich aus der Internationalisierung im Alltag der...
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Springer VS
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2017-03-27
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Andrea Hamp untersucht die wissenschaftliche Diskussion von Soziologinnen und Soziologen in einer Theoriendebatte. Die Autorin wendet sich auf der Grundlage der Konzepte neuerer Praxistheorien den Diskussionspraktiken zu und führt eine Toposanalyse von Begründungsweisen...
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Springer VS
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2017-03-24
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The fiery transformation of the dead is replete in our popular culture and Western modernity's death ways, and yet it is increasingly evident how little this disposal method is understood by archaeologists and students of cognate disciplines in the humanities and social...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-03-24
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Frederike Esche geht der Frage nach, ob der Verlust des Arbeitsplatzes neben der eigenen Lebenszufriedenheit auch die des Partners beeinträchtigt und ob die Folgen der Arbeitslosigkeit so gravierend sind, dass sie am Ende Partnerschaften zerstört. Mit Hilfe von...
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Springer VS
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2017-03-23
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This book offers the policy-maker or decision-maker key insights and practical information regarding the features of ethics frameworks best suited to the ethical assessment of human cognitive enhancement (HCE) applications, such as pharmaceutical cognitive enhancers and...
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Springer
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2017-03-23
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This volume offers a novel philosophical thesis on the ontology of religion, and proposes a new conceptual repertoire to deal with supernatural religion. Jibu Mathew George offers an interdisciplinary perspective on the source and dynamics of religious ideation...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-23
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Including over 600 A to Z entries, this original dictionary provides clear and succinct definitions of the terms used in the related and developing fields of occupational science and occupational therapy. Entries cover a broad range of topics from activities of daily...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-03-23
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Animals have played a fundamental role in shaping human history, and the study of their remains from archaeological sites--zooarchaeology--has gradually been emerging as a powerful discipline and crucible for forging an understanding of our past.
The Oxford Handbook of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-03-23
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50 common cultural mistakes made in business are presented in the form of short conversations which show that there's always a reason why people do the strange things they do, the reason is almost never to upset you, and there's always a way round.The Art of Doing...
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John Murray Business
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2017-03-23
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This book makes a timely contribution to debates surrounding transnational political participation, the relationship between diasporas and conflict, and the gendered experiences of migrants. It fills a significant lacuna in research by analysing how migrants relate to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-22
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Gernot Saalmann kritisiert in diesem essential, dass die erhebliche soziale Ungleichheit in Indien meist entweder mit dem Begriff der Kaste oder dem der Klasse analysiert wird. Seines Erachtens könnte man jedoch zugespitzt formulieren, es gebe eigentlich gar keine...
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Springer VS
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2017-03-22
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This book provides essential insights into Bhutan’s developmental challenges. It analyzes and scrutinizes the sovereign state’s developmental approach, including the idea of Gross National Happiness (GNH), which has replaced Gross National Product (GNP) as a measurement...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-03-21
Collection :
Contemporary South Asian Studies
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This book questions gendered readings of violence by analyzing how this paradigm has become normalized in Italy since the feminist term ‘femminicidio’, or ‘femicide’, entered the mainstream media during the 2013 general election. It also sheds light on discourses of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-21
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The illumination of African philosophy offered in this volume leads to the illumination of philosophy in general. Illuminating arises as an essential task of philosophy, whether African or not. What is illuminated is not already there, but is constituted at the moment...
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Springer
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2017-03-21
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American Routes provides a comparative and historical analysis of the migration and integration of white and free black refugees from nineteenth century St. Domingue/Haiti to Louisiana and follows the progress of their descendants over the course of two hundred years....
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-03-21
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Vulnerability reins our time. People know that their world is changing in ways that they cannot foresee. Communities disintegrate and boundaries lose their relevance. Drawing on the concept of vulnerability as an affective relation individuals hold with their world and...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2017-03-21
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