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The study presents a chronotope of linguistic and cultural changes that took place in England and Wales between the 4th and 8th centuries. It encompasses the areas of South Wales and Eastern England and describes the cultural practices of preliterate Anglo-Saxon and...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-12-02
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This book provides the first overarching, empirically grounded, critical analysis of child trafficking as an idea, ordering principle, and artefact of politics. It examines (once) hegemonic anti-child trafficking discourse, policy and practice, and does so by placing...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-01
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Paul U. Unschuld bietet eine kulturhistorisch begründete Analyse der politischen Geschichte Chinas der vergangenen zwei Jahrhunderte. Ein erster Teil beschreibt die verschiedenen Traumata, die dem Land im 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert durch ausländische Interventionen...
Editeur :
Springer Vieweg
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2016-12-01
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Die Wohlfahrtsverbände als föderale Organisationen stehen unter zunehmendem Veränderungsdruck. Ihre föderale Organisationsform erfordert spezifische innovative Ansätze, um diesen Herausforderungen begegnen zu können. Der Band stellt in Grundsatzbeiträgen und...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2016-12-01
Collection :
Sozialwirtschaft innovativ
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Terrorism has become an everyday reality in most contemporary societies. In a context of heightened fear can juries be trusted to remain impartial when confronted by defendants charged with terrorism? Do they scrutinize prosecution cases carefully, or does emotion trump...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-01
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In just over a decade, the Brazilian faith healer known as John of God has become an international superstar. Oprah Winfrey, Ram Dass, Wayne Dyer, and Shirley MacLaine have all visited him, as have the wealthy and the desperately ill. Renowned for performing surgeries...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-12-01
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Today there are nearly six million children under the age of five living in poverty in the world's richest country. Blanket statements are often tossed around in the political arena, public debate sphere, and progressive rhetoric. But the statistic remains intangible...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-12-01
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With the arrival in Europe of over a million refugees and asylum seekers in 2015, a sense of panic began to spread within the continent and beyond. What is a Refugee? puts these developments into historical context, injecting much-needed objectivity and nuance into...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-12-01
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This book is a study of contemporary Radio 4 output, covering the entire broadcast day. Radio is largely neglected by media and cultural studies. The small body of existing work on Radio 4 is predominantly historical, focusing on institutional history, or sociological,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-01
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This edited collection brings together leading scholars to comparatively investigate national security, surveillance and terror in the early 21st century in two major western jurisdictions, Canada and Australia. Observing that much debate about these topics is dominated...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-01
Collection :
Crime Prevention and Security Management
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Thoughts and feelings about home traditionally provided people of all cultures with a firm sense of where they belonged, and why. But with the world rapidly changing, many of our basic notions are becoming problematic. Both internationally and within countries,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-12-01
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Thoughts and feelings about home traditionally provided people of all cultures with a firm sense of where they belonged, and why. But with the world rapidly changing, many of our basic notions are becoming problematic. Both internationally and within countries,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-12-01
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A trail-blazing and inspiring collection of essays on art, feminism, neuroscience and psychology featuring The Delusions of Certainty, winner of the European Essay Prize 2019.As well as being a prize-winning, bestselling novelist, Siri Hustvedt is widely regarded as a...
Editeur :
Sceptre
Parution :
2016-12-01
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This book looks at the humor that artists and editors believed would have appeal in four different countries. Ian Gordon explains how similar humor played out in comic strips across different cultures and humor styles. By examining Skippy and Ginger Meggs, the book...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2016-11-30
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This book investigates the stardom of Lady Gaga within a cultural-sociological framework. Resisting a reductionist perspective of fame as a commodity, Mathieu Deflem offers an empirical examination of the social conditions that informed Lady Gaga’s rise to fame. The...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-30
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Der Sammelband bündelt aktuelle wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse zum Forschungsbereich Social Media im Sport und bietet zugleich durch ausgewiesene Praxisexperten Einblick in die Vermarktung des Sports über Soziale Medien. Durch interdisziplinäre Betrachtung aus den...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2016-11-30
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This book provides a sociological examination of young people’s pathways into, and out of, substance abuse. Drawing from in-depth, life-history interviews with over sixty young people who have experienced problematic drug use, the author uses participants’...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-30
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Slechthorendheid en doofheid zijn ernstige handicaps. In Nederland hebben ongeveer 1,3 miljoen mensen geen goed gehoor en de helft van hen ondervindt daarvan werkelijk hinder. De situatie in België is vergelijkbaar. Geen goed gehoor, wat nu? biedt informatie over de...
Editeur :
Bohn Stafleu van Loghum
Parution :
2016-11-30
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The book introduces Tadeusz Kotarbinski’s philosophy of action into the mainstream of contemporary action-theoretical debates. Piotr Makowski shows that Kotarbinski–Alfred Tarski’s teacher and one of the most important philosophers of the renowned Lvov-Warsaw...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-30
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This book discusses violence and its connection with religion, sport and popular culture. It highlights the religious dimensions of violence and the role of violence in the religion and culture of the American South. Extending into popular culture, it then...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-11-30
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