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?This volume decentres the view of urbanisation in India from large agglomerations towards smaller urban settlements. It presents the outcomes of original research conducted over three years on subaltern processes of urbanization. The volume is organised in four...
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Springer
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2017-03-01
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This collection of eleven new essays contains the latest developments in analytic feminist philosophy on the topic of pornography. While honoring early feminist work on the subject, it aims to go beyond speech act analyses of pornography and to reshape the philosophical...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-03-01
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The public intellectual has a long and storied history. Previously, the public intellectual was always expected to opine on a broad array of topics, from foreign policy to economics. Yet in recent years a new kind of thinker has supplanted that archetype: the thought...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-03-01
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In Spectacular Men, Sarah E. Chinn investigates how working class white men looked to the early American theatre for examples of ideal manhood. Theatre-going was the primary source of entertainment for working people of the early Republic and the Jacksonian period, and...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-03-01
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This book describes why conventional methods fall short to solve the comparability problem and introduces three successive innovations to overcome these shortcomings. Comparability of results from different surveys using different items for the same topic is greatly...
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Springer
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2017-02-28
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This book provides the first full-length, English-language investigation of the multiple and often contradictory ways in which mothers who kill their children were portrayed in 1970s Japan. It offers a snapshot of a historical and social moment when motherhood was being...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-02-28
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This book examines how conflict has affected the rights of youth in Northeast India. Examining youth engagement in protracted conflict and its impact on youth rights, the author considers the complex issues besieging the region, including armed insurgency, conflicts...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-02-28
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With the rise of wealth inequalities, our cities are changing dramatically. This collection critically engages with and advances existing debates on the super-rich and their roles in these transformations. An interdisciplinary range of contributions from...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-02-28
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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
Parution :
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
Parution :
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...
Editeur :
Polity
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2017-02-27
Collection :
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
Parution :
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
Parution :
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
Parution :
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...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-02-24
Collection :
The Urban Book Series
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