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This book offers a unique and innovative way of looking at the paradoxical consequences of human mobility. Based on a three-year transnational multi-sited longitudinal research project, it demonstrates that not all migrants acquire, transfer and implement social...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-11-09
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This book traces the origins of the Chinese Sisters of the Precious Blood in Hong Kong and their history up to the early 1970s, and contributes to the neglected area of Chinese Catholic women in the history of the Chinese Catholic Church. It studies the growth of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-11-09
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This book explores the 1907 Korean Revival Movement from a self psychological perspective. The examination of the psychological processes in the movement based on Heinz Kohut's self psychology can shed light on religious experiences as selfobject experiences by...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-11-09
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This book offers the first ethnographic account of the experiences of highly educated young professional women, hailed by the Chinese media as ‘white-collar beauties’. It exposes the organizational mechanisms – naturalization, objectification and commodification of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-11-08
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Dieses Buch ist eine Open-Access-Publikation unter einer CC BY-NC 4.0 Lizenz.Fabian Pfaffenberger bewertet den wissenschaftlichen Nutzen von Twitter, indem er mehrere gängige Erhebungs- und Analysemethoden betrachtet. Twitter ist mittlerweile eine beliebte Quelle für...
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Springer VS
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2016-11-08
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Everyone, it seems, is talking and arguing about Evidence-Based Practice (EBP). Those therapies and assessments designated as EBP increasingly determine what is taught, researched, and reimbursed in health care. But exactly what is it, and how do you do it?
The second...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-11-08
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This illuminating volume examines how the 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama developed as a trauma of culture. Throughout the book, Gill asks why the “four little girls” killed in the bombing became part of the nation’s collective...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-11-08
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Im Zentrum des essentials stehen die aktuellen Streiks von 2014/15, die in verschiedenen Branchen des Dienstleistungssektors stattgefunden haben, so bei der Bahn, der Lufthansa, der Post und den Kitas. Die Autorin verdeutlicht in ihrer Schrift den prägnanten Unterschied...
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Springer VS
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2016-11-08
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What it socialization?What is interaction?What do we mean by identity? How can we explain the notion of self?What do we mean by intra-action? The Sociology of the Individual is an innovative and though-provoking sociological exploration of how the ideas of...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2016-11-08
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This book addresses the eclipse of shame in Christian theology by showing how shame emerges in Christian texts and practice in ways that can be neither assimilated into a discourses of guilt nor dissociated from embodiment. Stephanie N. Arel argues that the traditional...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-11-08
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This book provides an up-to-date and comprehensive review and critique of the scientific evidence concerning the prevalence, nature and potential effects of food advertising and other forms of marketing on children. There is growing international concern about the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-11-07
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This book brings the visual dimension of environmental crimes and harms into the field of green criminology. It shows how photographic images can provide a means for eliciting narratives from people who live in polluted areas – describing in detail and from their point...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2016-11-07
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Dieses essential befasst sich mit der Situation junger Geflüchteter in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Neben den Gründen, warum Menschen fliehen und ihre Heimat verlassen, stehen im Zentrum dieses essentials die Fragen, was Integration politisch und gesellschaftlich im...
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Springer VS
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2016-11-07
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The book is devoted to social and political interdependencies of life and work, the interdependencies in which the ideas of loss and deprivation are the founding incentives of the precariousness of the position and the status of the human subject. Loss of property in...
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Springer VS
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2016-11-07
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This book analyses the making of the Chinese middle class that started in the 1990s using a constructivist approach. With the development of the Chinese economy, a new group of middle wage earners appeared. Chinese social scientists and state institutions promoted the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-11-07
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This book revives and revitalises the literary Gothic in the hands of contemporary women writers. It makes a scholarly, lively and convincing case that the Gothic makes horror respectable, and establishes contemporary women’s Gothic fictions in and against traditional...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-11-04
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This book is a timely examination of the tension between being a rock music fan and being a woman. From the media representation of women rock fans as groupies to the widely held belief that hard rock and metal is masculine music, being a music fan is an experience...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-11-04
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This book explores how technologies of media, medicine, law and governance enable and constrain the mobility of bodies within geographies of space and race. Each chapter describes and critiques the ways in which contemporary technologies produce citizens according to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-11-04
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This book analyses the reasons for relying on behavioural contraception methods among urban ‘elites’ in India and examines their efficacy in controlling fertility. It also traces variations in contraception choice over the reproductive cycle of women. Although...
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Springer
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2016-11-04
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This volume honors the lifetime achievements of the distinguished activist and scholar Elise Boulding (1920–2010) on the occasion of her 95th birthday. Known as the “matriarch” of the twentieth century peace research movement, she made significant contributions in the...
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Springer
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2016-11-04
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