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This book provides a unique perspective on addressing issues of various forms of violence against children from scholars within their own country. Bringing together cross-disciplinary expertise, this volume addresses a vast range of topics related to child abuse and...
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Springer
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2017-01-20
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Child Maltreatment
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The advent of social complexity has been a longstanding debate among social scientists. Existing theories and approaches involving the origins of social complexity include environmental circumscription, population growth, technology transfers, prestige-based...
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Springer
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2017-01-20
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Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation
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This book opens up a unique intellectual space where eleven female scholar-activists explore alternative forms of theorising social reality. These‘Women on the Verge’ demonstrate that a new radical subject– one that is plural, prefigurative, decolonial,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-01-20
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This volume is a collection of papers that address multiple issues of contemporary Turkish politics, presented at the “Contemporary Turkey at a Glance: Turkey Transformed? Power, History, Culture” conference. Articles on foreign policy analyze the impact of the changing...
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Springer VS
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2017-01-20
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This book examines the dynamic processes by which communities establish distinct notions of 'home' and 'belonging'. Focusing on the agency of diasporic groups, rather than (forced or voluntary) dispersion and a continued longing for the country of origin, it analyses...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-01-20
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This timely book provides an extensive account of national identities in three of the constituent nations of the United Kingdom: Wales, Scotland and England. In all three contexts, identity and nationalism have become questions of acute interest in both academic and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-01-20
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This thought-provoking book is an exploration of the ways religion and diverse forms of mobility have shaped post-apartheid Johannesburg, South Africa. It analyses transnational and local migration in contemporary and historical perspective, along with movements of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-20
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This Commentary provides the first comprehensive legal article-by-article analysis of the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). The Convention is the key international human rights instrument exclusively devoted to persons with...
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Springer
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2017-01-20
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This book investigates the September 11, 2001 attacks as a case study of cultural trauma, as well as how the use of widely-distributed, easily-accessible forms of popular culture can similarly focalize evaluation of other moments of acute and profoundly troubling...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-20
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Das Buch versammelt Beiträge namhafter SoziologInnen, die die soziologischen Ansätze von Norbert Elias für die aktuellen Problem und Fragen fruchtbar machen und sie so in einen aktuellen Kontext stellen.
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Springer VS
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2017-01-20
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Im zweiten Band seiner Trilogie zeigt Castells die beiden großen einander entgegengesetzten Trends in unserer Welt: Globalisierung und kollektive Identitätsbildung. Die Revolution der Informationstechnologie und die Erneuerung des Kapitalismus haben die...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-01-20
Collection :
Neue Bibliothek der Sozialwissenschaften
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Im zweiten Band der Trilogie wird untersucht, inwiefern sich die heutigen Gesellschaften als Geldgesellschaften verstehen und über „Geld“ konstituieren. Geldmythen über seine angebliche Produktivität stehen Vorstellungen gegenüber, in denen die Perspektive auf das Geld...
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Springer VS
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2017-01-20
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Der dritte Band der Trilogie beschreibt die wichtigsten Regelungsinstrumente zum Geld im Vertrags-, Finanzaufsichts-, Straf- und Steuerrecht. Sie haben nach Auffassung des Autors mit der ökonomischen Entwicklung nicht Schritt halten können und müssen neu gedacht werden.
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Springer VS
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2017-01-20
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What is it like to grow up as a South Asian British Muslim today?What are the experiences of South Asian Muslim parents bringing up their children in contemporary Britain? Identity and Upbringing in South Asian Muslim Families explores these questions within the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-20
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This book shows how suburban sprawl is at least partially a consequence of government spending and regulation, and suggests anti-sprawl policies that can make government smaller and/or less intrusive. Thus, the book responds to the widely held view that...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-20
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This book explores the growing role of cities and regions as sub-national actors in shaping global governance. Far from being merely carried along by global forces, cities have become active players in making and maintaining the networks and connections that give shape...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-20
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This book examines the life and works of Jane Addams who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (1931). Addams led an international women's peace movement and is noted for spearheading a first-of-its-kind international conference of women at The Hague during World War I. She...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-01-19
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Die sprachliche Integration von Jugendlichen aus Einwandererfamilien mit ihren spezifischen familialen, schulischen und gesellschaftlichen Voraussetzungen steht im Mittelpunkt der Analyse von Norbert Heimken. Für die Beurteilung der realen Sprachkompetenzen und ihrer...
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Springer VS
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2017-01-19
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This volume examines major issues facing successful women in academic science. In doing so, Sue Rosser outlines the persisting and shifting perspectives of women who have achieved seniority and remained in academia during the last fifteen years through survey data from...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-19
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This project offers a new critique of participatory media practices. While the concept of participatory culture is often theorised as embodying the possibility of a potentially utopian future of media engagement and participation, this book argues that the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-19
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