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In this book, Ellen Swift uses design theory, previously neglected in Roman archaeology, to investigate Roman artefacts in a new way, making a significant contribution to both Roman social history, and our understanding of the relationships that exist between artefacts...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-02-09
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This book lays the conceptual groundwork for a coalition of struggles under the neoliberal age. In doing so, the author demonstrates that, despite talk of fragmention, divisions and conflicts, the present situation offers fresh opportunities for connecting diverse...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-02-08
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This book overcomes the dichotomies, generalizations and empirical shortcomings that surround the understanding of return migration within the migration–development–peace-building nexus. Using the concept of multidimensional embeddedness, it provides an encompassing...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-02-08
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Fanaticism, Racism, and Rage Online is a critical exploration of digital hate culture and its myriad infiltrations into the modern online community. The book examines radical movements that have emerged both on the fringes of the Internet, as well as throughout the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-02-08
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Using the case of the Chixoy Hydroelectric Dam in Guatemala, constructed between 1978 and 1983, this book examines the effects of displacement on the former residents of Río Negro, a community forcibly evicted and nearly eliminated by the military and paramilitary....
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Springer
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2017-02-08
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Fabian Liebrich untersucht, welchen Einfluss die Nutzung von E-Health-Angeboten auf die heutige Arzt-Patienten-Kommunikation (APK) hat und welche Folgen für das Verhältnis zwischen Arzt und Patient hierdurch zu erwarten sind. Der Autor geht diesen Fragen auf Basis des...
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Springer Vieweg
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2017-02-08
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Schriften zur Medienproduktion
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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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Keine Beobachtung (und auch kein Interview, keine Dokumentensichtung und keine Materialanalyse) ist theoriefrei denkbar. In dem vorliegenden Band wird dargestellt, wie Forschende im wissenschaftlichen „Tagesgeschäft“ zu theoretischen Einsichten gelangen. Konzeptionelle...
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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
Parution :
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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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
Parution :
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
Parution :
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
Parution :
2017-02-07
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