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This collection presents a diverse set of case studies and theoretical reflections on how criminologists engage with practitioners and policy makers while undertaking research. The contributions to this volume highlight both the challenges and opportunities associated...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-11-23
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This book argues that the breaking and re-making of frames of analysis underlie the history of theorizing in anthropology. Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew J. Strathern note that this mode of analysis risks fabricating over-essentialized dichotomies between viewpoints. The...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-23
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Warum müssen Minderheiten geschützt und gefördert werden? Welche Minderheiten in Europa gibt es? Weshalb bedarf es wirksamer Minderheitenschutzsysteme auf verschiedenen Akteursebenen? Unter welchen Voraussetzungen können Minderheiten wirksam geschützt werden? Diesen und...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-11-23
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Developing Cross-Cultural Measurement in Social Work Research and Evaluation, Second Edition is an applied practice-to-research text, with a focus on developing, assessing, and validating meaningful measurements across cultures and populations. This book deeply examines...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-11-23
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This volume examines the changing role of Marian devotion in politics, public life, and popular culture in Western Europe and America during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book brings together, for the first time, studies on Marian devotions across the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-23
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This book examines the urban legacy of the 2014 football World Cup in Brazil across the seven cities that hosted matches. The authors, all experts and natives of South America, analyse the context and impacts of hosting the World Cup for each of the host cities....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-23
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This book draws on case examples of contemporary black activism in South Manchester and contrasts them with events that surrounded C.L.R. James and his activism between 1935 and 1950. In doing so, the author considers what Brexit, the Labour Party and Theresa May’s...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-23
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How does the insecurity of work affect us? We know what job insecurity does to workers at work, the depressive effect it has on morale, productivity, and pay. We know less about the impact of job insecurity beyond the workplace, upon people's intimate relationships,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-11-22
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This timely book moves beyond struggling, suffering and loss to argue that forced migration often provides opportunities for men to pursue new relationships and re-organise their intimate lives. It focuses on the lived experiences of masculinity, sexuality and pursuit...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-22
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This book provides a state of the art approach to participatory planning, and generates innovative thought in planning theory and knowledge study. The book introduces a new conceptual framework for participatory planning, one which redefines concepts that have been...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-11-22
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This book analyzes how the socio-demographic and cultural diversity of societies affect the social interactions and attitudes of individuals and groups within them. Focusing on Germany, where in some cities more than one third of the population are first or...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-21
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This book explores the development of queer Gothic fiction, contextualizing it with reference to representations of queer sexualities and genders in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Gothic, as well as the sexual-political perspectives generated by the 1970s lesbian and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-21
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Die vorliegende Studie befasst sich mit der Lebensform des Menschen als geistige Lebensform. Seit wir wissen, dass die Lebensform des Menschen einem säkular verstandenen Universum zugehört und sich aus der Evolution heraus gebildet hat, ist die Frage unabweisbar,...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2016-11-21
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Gesammelte Schriften
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This volume honors the lifetime achievement of distinguished activist and scholar Elise Boulding (1920–2010) on the occasion of her 96th birthday. Known as the “matriarch” of the twentieth century peace research movement, she made significant contributions in the fields...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-11-21
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This book addresses the relationship between gossip, women, and film with regards to the genre of chick flicks. Presenting two case studies on the films Easy A (Will Gluck 2010) and Emma (Douglas McGrath 1996), Dang demonstrates that hearsay plays a defining...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2016-11-21
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This book presents the argument that health has special moral importance because of the disadvantage one suffers when subjected to impairment or disabling barriers. Christopher A. Riddle asserts that ill health and the presence of disabling barriers are human rights...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2016-11-21
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This book investigates whether and how reconciliation in Australia and other settler colonial societies might connect to the attitudes of non-Indigenous people in ways that promote a deeper engagement with Indigenous needs and aspirations. It explores concepts and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-11-18
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This book describes the experiences and successes of female innovators and entrepreneurs in the still largely male-dominated tech-world in twenty candid interviews. It highlights the varied life and career stories that lead these women to the top positions in the...
Editeur :
Apress
Parution :
2016-11-18
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In this book Sunggu Yang proposes five socio-ecclesial codes as unique faith fundamentals of Korean American Christianity. Drawing from rigorous research and years of ecclesial experience, Yang names the codes as follows: the Wilderness Pilgrimage code, the Diasporic...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-18
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This book provides a full account of the concept of fiber and fiber theory in eighteenth-century British medicine. It explores the pivotal role fiber played as a defining, underlying concept in anatomy, physiology, pathology, therapeutics, psychology, and the life...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-17
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