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Maike Meyer beschäftigt sich in ihrer Dissertation mit Korruption in deutschen Kommunalverwaltungen. Dabei verfolgt sie zwei Fragen: In welchem Ausmaß, in welcher Form und wo tritt Korruption in kommunalen Verwaltungen auf? Welche individuellen und kontextuellen...
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Springer VS
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2017-02-08
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Taking Care of Business: Police Detectives, Drug Law Enforcement and Proactive Investigation offers a rich and insightful empirical study of drug investigations, based on extensive fieldwork undertaken with the specialist detective units of two English police services....
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OUP Oxford
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2017-02-08
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This book brings together several important essays examining the interface between identity, culture, and literature within the issue of cultural identity in South Asian literature. The book explores how one imagines national identity and how this concept is...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-02-08
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What makes a hit a hit? In Hit Makers, Atlantic Senior Editor Derek Thompson puts pop culture under the lens of science to answer the question that every business, every producer, every person looking to promote themselves and their work has asked. Drawing on...
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Penguin
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2017-02-07
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Die Beiträge des Buches befassen sich mit der Frage, was ‚Gesellschaft‘ bedeutet, wenn nahezu alle Lebensbereiche assistiert werden. Ob Blindenhund, Butler oder Assistent der Geschäftsführung, Herzschrittmacher oder Navigationssystem, Pflegeroboter oder Ambient Assisted...
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Springer VS
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2017-02-07
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Öffentliche Wissenschaft und gesellschaftlicher Wandel
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This book sheds new light on the way that, in the last decade, digital technologies have become inextricably linked to culture, economy and politics and how they have transformed feminist and queer activism.This exciting text critically analyses the contradictions,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-02-07
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This book advances new understandings of how technologies have been harnessed to improve the health of populations; whether the technologies really empower those who use information by providing them with a choice of information; how they shape health policy discourses;...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-02-07
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Dieses Buch befasst sich mit der Frage, inwieweit die übliche Dualität von Vertrauen und Misstrauen im Hinblick auf die Komplexitätsreduktion in Unternehmen greift. Die Autorin zeigt, dass sich die (Bertriebs-)Realität durch die Begriffe Vertrauen und Misstrauen alleine...
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Springer VS
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2017-02-07
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Andreas Christian Braun schafft mit seinem Vergleich der Theorien von Bruno Latour und Niklas Luhmann einen hohen Mehrwert für die soziologische Theoriebildung. Der Autor zeigt auf, dass sich beide Theoretiker von der Mikro- bis zur Makroebene zu allen Skalen des...
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Springer VS
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2017-02-07
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Little is known about the roles of fathers in non-western cultures. Given the changing socio-economic and political circumstances of China, Xu identifies the importance of investigating Chinese fathers, particularly in dual-earner families, as women’s participation...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-02-07
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This volume explores the churches of Ukraine and their involvement in the recent movement for social justice and dignity within the country. In November of 2013, citizens of Ukraine gathered on Kyiv's central square (Maidan) to protest against a government that had...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-02-07
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This book proposes a comprehensive theory of the loss of religion in human societies, with a specific and substantive focus on the contemporary United States. Kevin McCaffree draws on a range of disciplines including sociology, psychology, anthropology, and history to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-02-07
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Central to human life and experience, habitation forms a context for enquiry within many disciplines. This collection brings together perspectives on human habitation in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, social history, material culture, literature, art and...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2017-02-07
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The book offers an interdisciplinary discussion of the cognitive-semiotic interface between language, literature, and the arts, with a special focus on creativity and imagination. It brings together international contributors suggesting a wide range of innovative...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2017-02-07
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Christopher Kloë stellt in diesem Buch Samuel Huntingtons Hypothese eines Kampfes der Kulturen die Systematik einer Begegnung der Kulturen gegenüber. Diese wird durch das Mittel der medialen komischen Kommunikation von (Selbst-)Darstellungen anhand der Thesen von...
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Springer VS
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2017-02-06
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Featuring a timely presentation of total survey error (TSE), this edited volume introduces valuable tools for understanding and improving survey data quality in the context of evolving large-scale data sets This book provides an overview of the TSE framework and current...
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Wiley
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2017-02-06
Collection :
Wiley Series in Survey Methodology
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This volume will examine the varied roles that women and children play in period of warfare, which in most cases deviate from their perceived role as noncombatants. Using social theory about the nature of sex, gender and age in thinking about vulnerabilities to...
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Springer
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2017-02-06
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This book examines the nature of protest and the way in which the police and state respond to the activities associated with this term. Protest is explored within the context of the perceived decline in public engagement with recent general election contests. It is...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-02-06
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This book investigates image politics during elections and how the political discourse is reflected during the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections in 2012 by the media and the state. It reveals new dimensions of media geography in India and makes image construction and...
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Springer
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2017-02-04
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Using legal arguments consistent with international law, this book explores whether and under which circumstances a State (or States) may establish and militarily enforce safe zones in countries that produce large-scale refugee outflows so as to protect its (or their)...
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Springer
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2017-02-04
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