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This book investigates women’s ritual authority and the common boundaries between religion and notions of gender, ethnicity, and identity. Nanette R. Spina situates her study within the transnational Melmaruvathur Adhiparasakthi movement established by the Tamil Indian...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-02-28
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Since it first aired in 2011, Game of Thrones galloped up the ratings to become the most watched show in HBO’s history. It is no secret that creator George R.R. Martin was inspired by late 15th century Europe when writing A Song of Ice and Fire, the sprawling saga on...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2017-02-28
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Dieses Buch ermöglicht für Studierende einen Einstieg in die empirische Forschungnach den methodologischen Regeln im Sinne des Kritischen Rationalismus. Die von Karl Raimund Popper (1902-1994) ausgearbeitete Erkenntnistheorie und weitere Beiträge von ihm zu...
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Springer VS
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2017-02-28
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Der vorliegende Sammelband enthält zehn Beträge, die die Disziplin, Profession und Praxis der Sozialen Arbeit befruchten sollen. Als Handlungswissenschaft entwickelt sich die Soziale Arbeit ständig weiter, benötigt dafür jedoch fortwährend neue Impulse. Als...
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Springer VS
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2017-02-27
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The pace of modern life is accelerating. To keep up, we must keep on moving and adapting – constantly striving for greater happiness and success. Or so we are told. But the demands of life in the fast lane come at a price: stress, fatigue and depression are at an...
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Polity
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2017-02-27
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This book assembles multi-disciplinary contributions to delve deeper into ReThinking Management. The first part provides some foundational considerations and inspirations. Further chapters offer more specific links to the arts and creativity sectors as well as empirical...
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Springer VS
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2017-02-27
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Every arena of science has its own flash-point issues—chemistry and poison gas, physics and the atom bomb—and genetics has had a troubled history with race. As Jonathan Marks reveals, this dangerous relationship rumbles on to this day, still leaving plenty of leeway for...
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Polity
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2017-02-27
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Debating Race
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In the last quarter century, a new form of iconic architecture has appeared throughout the world's major cities. Typically designed by globe-trotting "starchitects" or by a few large transnational architectural firms, these projects are almost always funded by the...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-02-27
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Drawing on an original UK-wide study of public responses to humanitarian issues and how NGOs communicate them, this timely book provides the first evidence-based psychosocial account of how and why people respond or not to messages about distant suffering. The book...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-02-26
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This book focuses specifically on the experience and protection of indigenous, and particularly Sámi sacred sites in the Arctic. Sacred sites are being increasingly recognized as important reservoirs of Arctic cultural and biological diversity, as a means for the...
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Springer
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2017-02-24
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This book broadens the frameworks by which horror is generally addressed. Rather than being constrained by psychoanalytical models of repression and castration, the volume embraces M.M. Bakhtin’s theory of the grotesque body. For Bakhtin, the grotesque body is always a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-02-24
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This book investigates the new urban geographies of “smart” metropolitan regionalism across the Greater Seattle area and examines the relationship between smart growth planning strategies and spaces of work, home, and mobility. The book specifically explores Seattle...
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Springer
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2017-02-24
Collection :
The Urban Book Series
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This volume ethnographically explores the relation between secularities and religious subjectivities.As a consequence of the demise of secularization theory, we live in an interesting intellectual moment where the so-called ‘post-secular’ coexists with the secular,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-02-24
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This book responds to the reality that children and youth constitute a disproportionately large percentage of displaced populations worldwide. It demonstrates how their hopes and aspirations reflect the transient nature of their age group, and often differ from those of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-02-23
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This collection addresses the path to a new prosperity after the Great Recession. The contributors ask that if the 2008 crisis proved the unsustainability of the neoliberal development model, what does well-being mean today in advanced western democracies? What kind of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-02-23
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This book deftly extends previous research on post-1965 immigration to the United States in order to examine the cultural, socioeconomic, structural, and political adaptation of Eastern European immigrants after 1991. Also, the book engages in a systematic...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-02-23
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National Bestseller On January 21, 2017, millions of people gathered worldwide for the Women’s March, one of the largest demonstrations in political history. Together they raised their voices in hope, protest, and solidarity. This inspiring collection features 500...
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Artisan
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2017-02-23
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The cause of great power war is a perennial issue for the student of politics. Some 2,400 years ago, in his monumental History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides wrote that it was the growth of Athenian power and the fear that this power inspired in Sparta which...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-02-23
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This collection examines the impact of East Asian religion and culture on the public sphere, defined as an idealized discursive arena that mediates the official and private spheres. Contending that the actors and agents on the fringes of society were instrumental in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-02-23
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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
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2017-02-23
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