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This edited collection examines concepts and realities of motherhood in the ancient world. The collection uses essays on the Roman Empire, Mesoamerica, the Philippines, Egypt, and India to emphasize the concept of motherhood as a worldwide phenomenon and experience....
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-03-07
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This book describes the pottery trade activities of the residents of the community of San Bartolomé de los Olleros in Piura, Peru. Based on extensive interviews with potters and traders, it explains why the barter of pots continues to be practiced, and explores how...
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Springer
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2017-03-07
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The Masses are the Ruling Classes proposes the radical, yet seemingly innocuous view that social policy in the United States is determined by mass consent. Contemporary explanations of decision making in the US typically attribute power over policy making to a variety...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-03-07
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In this book, specialists and scholars present a comprehensive account of the latest developments in Chinese new media. The articles explore important areas such as security of cyberspace in China; the development of WeChat and micro-blogs; public opinions of social...
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Springer
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2017-03-07
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This interdisciplinary monograph applies the theory of games of strategy (or game theory) to an important subset of American literature: minoritarian texts. Fittingly, John von Neumann's game theory, as a mathematical subdiscipline practically abandoned by its founder...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-03-07
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This book examines international labour migrants in the context of South–South migration with a focus on Bangladeshi migration to Singapore. Two principal questions in the South–South migration are addressed: Why and how individuals migrate for work; and what impact...
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Springer
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2017-03-07
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A veteran war correspondent journeys to remote mountain communities across the globe-from Albania and Chechnya to Nepal and Colombia-to investigate why so many conflicts occur at great heights Mountainous regions are home to only ten percent of the world's population...
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Basic Books
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2017-03-07
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When Gertrude Williams retired in 1998, after forty-nine years in the Baltimore public schools,The Baltimore Sun called her "the most powerful of principals" who "tangled with two superintendents and beat them both." In this oral memoir, Williams identifies the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-03-06
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This collection presents a comparative study of the impact of slavery on the literary and cultural imagination of the Americas, and also on the impact of writing on slavery on the social legacies of slavery's history. The chapters examine the relationship of slavery and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-03-06
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‘Through a series of excellent essays this volume uses concrete ethnographic analyses of memory practices in different parts of the globe to offer theoretical reflections on how memory shapes and is shaped by mobility in time and space.’ - Marianne Hirsch, Columbia...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-03-03
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This book examines the relationships between ethnic and Indigenous minorities and the media in Australia. The book places the voices of minorities at its centre, moving beyond a study of only representation and engaging with minority media producers, industries and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-03-03
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Hanan Badr vergleicht die medialen Terrorismusdiskurse in Deutschland und Ägypten mittels einer Framinganalyse. Die Autorin greift in ihrer Studie auf kommunikations- und politikwissenschaftliche Theorien zurück und erläutert anhand eines umfangreichen Mediensamples die...
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Springer VS
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2017-03-03
Collection :
Studies in International, Transnational and Global Communications
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Die Kommunikationswissenschaft hat sich national unterschiedlich entwickelt, unterliegt aber auch transnationalen Einflüssen. Der Band vergleicht kommunikationswissenschaftliche Forschung in Europa, den USA und exemplarisch einigen Schwellenländern. Welche Großregionen...
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Springer VS
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2017-03-03
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This volume is a collection of empirical and theoretical research papers in the social sciences regarding the Balkans and the Near East written by researchers from several different universities and institutions. The studies include a wide range of topics from economic,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2017-03-03
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This book explores how the children of Iranian immigrants in the US utilize the internet and develop digital identities. Taking Los Angeles—the long-time media and cultural center of Iranian diaspora—as its ethnographic field site, it investigates how various web...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-03-02
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This book investigates the gender revolution in urban planning and public policy. Building on feminist urban studies, it introduces the concept of genderfication as a means of understanding the consequences of post-Fordist gender notions for the city. It traces the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-03-02
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Komik, Humor, Witz, Ironie, Satire, Parodie, Komödie. Das Handbuch gibt einen Überblick über die vielfältigen Formen und Themen des Komischen, erläutert methodische Zugänge und bietet so eine Bestandsaufnahme der aktuellen Komikforschung. Dabei werden zunächst...
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J.B. Metzler
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2017-03-02
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In the opening decades of the twentieth century, Germany was at the cutting edge of arts and humanities scholarship across Europe. However, when many of its key thinkers - leaders in their fields in classics, philosophy, archaeology, art history, and oriental studies -...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-03-02
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This book depicts one South Indian village during the fifty-year period when women’s education became a possibility—and then a reality. Despite illiteracy, religious ritual marking them as inferior, and pre-pubertal marriages, the daughters and granddaughters of the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-03-02
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?Christian Rennert stellt die Fragen in den Fokus, aus welchen sozialen Milieus sich Berufsakademie- und Fachhochschulstudierende in den Bundesländern Baden-Württemberg, Sachsen und Thüringen rekrutieren und warum sie ein solches Studium aufnehmen. Mit Verweis auf...
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Springer VS
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2017-03-01
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