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This book debunks the foundations of contemporary government-led development policy. The author questions the predictability of success when using mainstream development doctrines and its underlying assumptions, approaching development from a sceptical standpoint, as...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-03-17
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‚Gedächtnis’ und ‚Erinnerung’ sind Leitthemen in der Wissenschaft und im gesellschaftlich-politischen Diskurs. - Dieser Band bündelt die verschiedenen Theorien, Terminologien und Methoden aus der Forschung zum individuellen und kollektiven Gedächtnis und geht...
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J.B. Metzler
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2017-03-16
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A new industrial revolution. The age of making. From bits to atoms. Many people are excited by the possibilities offered by new fabrication technologies like 3D printers, and the way in which they are being used in hacker and makerspaces. But why is the power of hacking...
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Polity
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2017-03-16
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Bernhard Schäfers erläutert in diesem essential die Entstehung der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft aus dem Geist von Aufklärung und den bürgerlichen Revolutionen, zumal der französischen 1789 und ihrer Folgen. Vorwärts treibende Elemente waren neben den Parolen von Freiheit...
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Springer VS
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2017-03-16
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Secularization in the Long 1960s: Numerating Religion in Britain provides a major empirical contribution to the literature of secularization. It moves beyond the now largely sterile and theoretical debates about the validity of the secularization thesis or paradigm....
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OUP Oxford
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2017-03-16
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In what ways are cities central to the evolution of contemporary global capitalism? And in what ways is global capitalism forged by the urban experience? This book provides a response to these questions, exploring the multifaceted dimensions of the city-capitalism...
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Polity
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2017-03-16
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The majority of immigrants settle in cities when they arrive, and few can deny the dynamic influence migration has on cities. However, a "one-size-fits-all" approach cannot describe the activities and settlement patterns of immigrants in contemporary cities.The...
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Polity
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2017-03-16
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Immigration and Society
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Computerspiele wie «Dragon Age: Inquisition», «Guild Wars 2» oder «Star Wars: The Old Republic» versprechen ihrem Publikum großartige, nachgerade «epische» Inhalte. Dieses Buch zeigt, wie sie das erreichen und welche Rolle dabei der Rezeption deutschsprachiger Epik des...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2017-03-16
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From the beginning of time, humans have been driven by both a fear of the unknown and a curiosity to know. We have always yearned to know what lies ahead, whether threat or safety, scarcity or abundance. Throughout human history, our forebears tried to create certainty...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-03-16
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Dieser Band befasst sich mit aktuellen Veränderungen von Geschlechterrollen. Dabei wird untersucht, ob es eine Reproduktion von Geschlechterbildern gibt oder ob eine Debatte um Chancengleichheit obsolet geworden ist. Anhand der Zahlen ist diese Frage zu verneinen: Die...
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Springer VS
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2017-03-15
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This book examines the current state of the technologically-caused unemployed, and attempts to answer the question of how to proceed into an era beyond technological unemployment. Beginning with an overview of the most salient issues, the experts collected in this work...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-03-15
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This book marks a critical contribution to the intercultural dialogue about immigration. Each year, thousands of Central Americans leave their countries and walk across Mexico, seeking to reach the United States. The author explores the dispossession...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-03-15
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In der Soziologie ist seit längerer Zeit ein zunehmendes Interesse an Architektur und Artefakten beobachtbar. Dabei wird daran erinnert, dass nicht nur immaterielle Zeichen, Symbole und Repräsentationen des Sozialen existieren, sondern auch Orte, Stoffe und Dinge....
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Springer VS
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2017-03-15
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This book explores the various ways in which different communities and peoples in Oceania respond to and engage with recent environmental challenges and concurrent socio-political reconfigurations. Based on empirical research, the book discusses topics such as...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-03-15
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This book is a practical, step-by-step introduction to microsimulation in demography. It shows how to use Modgen, a powerful and free microsimulation platform built by Statistics Canada. The authors' hands-on explanation of model development will help readers make their...
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Springer
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2017-03-15
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This book discusses the notion of “Hong Kong as Method” as it relates to the rise of China in the context of Asianization. It explores new Hong Kong imaginaries with regard to the complex relationship between the local, the national and the global. The major theoretical...
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Springer
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2017-03-15
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In diesem Band wird das gesellschaftspolitisch bedeutsame Themenfeld Diskriminierung umfassend dargestellt. Dabei wird von einem interdisziplinär tragfähigen Begriffsverständnis ausgegangen. Dargestellt werden der Stand der Forschung der relevanten wissenschaftlichen...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2017-03-15
Collection :
Springer Reference Sozialwissenschaften
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This book is a study of the lived experience of African men in Australia and New Zealand. The author employs a relational account of racism which foregrounds how the colonial shaped the contemporary, with the settler states of contemporary Australia and New Zealand...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-03-14
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This book explores cultural conceptions of the child and the cinematic absence of black children from contemporary Hollywood film. Debbie Olson argues that within the discourse of children’s studies and film scholarship in relation to the conception of “the child,”...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-03-14
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This book is novel not only in its theoretical framework, which places racialisation in post-communist societies and their modernist political projects at the centre of processes of global racism, but also in being the first account to examine both these new national...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-03-14
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