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This book presents research that focuses on Sustainable Development in Asia. Chapters are extended works of papers presented at Communication/Culture and The Sustainable Development Goals (CCSDG): Challenges for a New Generation, an international conference held in...
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Springer
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2016-11-04
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This book provides a significant new interpretation of China's rapid urbanization by analyzing its impact on the spread of Protestant Christianity in the People's Republic. Demonstrating how the transition from rural to urban churches has led to the creation of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-11-04
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This book is an ethnographic account of San Francisco’s most inner city neighborhood, the Tenderloin. Using its streets as campus and its people as teachers, Stannard-Friel uses storytelling as a way of explaining why inner city social problems, such as homelessness,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-11-04
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Diese Studie ist eine aktuelle Bestandsaufnahme zum freiwilligen Engagement. Die Ergebnisse basieren auf dem Deutschen Freiwilligensurvey, der 2014 zum vierten Mal im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend (BMFSFJ)durchgeführt wurde. Die...
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Springer VS
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2016-11-03
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The Oxford Handbook of the Aztecs, the first of its kind, provides a current overview of recent research on the Aztec empire, the best documented prehispanic society in the Americas. Chapters span from the establishment of Aztec city-states to the encounter with the...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-11-03
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This book explores young adults' experiences and understandings of sexualised violence within licensed venues. Although anecdotally common, unwanted sexual attention in pubs and clubs has been the focus of relatively little criminological analysis.This text provides the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-03
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There has been a significant increase in the focus on sex offending in recent years in both the academic and public spheres. From heightened media attention on sex crimes to new waves of legislation aimed at crime prevention, issues related to sexual assault,...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-11-03
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Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Oxford Centre for Criminology, this edited collection of essays seeks to explore the changing contours of criminal justice over the past half century and to consider possible shifts over the next few decades.
The question of how...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-11-03
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The contributions to this volume map the surprisingly multifarious circumstances in which trauma is invoked – as an analytical tool, a therapeutic term or as a discursive trope. By doing so, we critically engage the far too often individuating aspects of trauma, as well...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-03
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This open access book presents an innovative study of the rise of unmarried cohabitation in the Americas, from Canada to Argentina. Using an extensive sample of individual census data for nearly all countries on the continent, it offers a cross-national, comparative...
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Springer
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2016-11-03
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In 2014, the ethics and politics of hospitality were brought into stark relief. Three years into the Syrian conflict, which had already created nearly 2.5 million refugees and internally displaced 6.5 million, the UN called on industrialised countries to share the...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2016-11-03
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Der Sammelband liefert Befunde zu aktuellen Forschungsfeldern der (Un-)Sicherheit und Kriminalprävention in europäischen Städten. So lässt sich beobachten, dass insbesondere genuin urbane Formen abweichenden Verhaltens und abweichender Situationen zunehmend...
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Springer VS
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2016-11-03
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This book analyzes the recent growth of Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Fuzhou, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Nanjing, and Hong Kong, seven major Chinese coastal cities. The authors detail theoretical mechanisms, spatial and non-spatial models of development, all while exploring possible...
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Springer
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2016-11-03
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This book explores the use of technology in young people’s social lives against a backdrop of “online safety measures” put in place by the UK government to ensure safe and risk free engagement with online services. The UK landscape is used as a case study to compare the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-02
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This series of four volumes honors the lifetime achievements of the distinguished activist and scholar Elise Boulding (1920–2010) on the occasion of her 95th birthday. This first anthology documents the breadth of Elise Boulding’s contributions to Peace Research,...
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Springer
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2016-11-02
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This book brings together research findings from a variety of disciplines in this integrated study of the migration of Ukrainian nationals to the EU. It contextualizes and historicizes this migration against the background of the series of crises experienced by Ukraine...
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Springer
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2016-11-02
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IMISCOE Research Series
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Die Autorin zeigt, wie Köpersprache wahrgenommen wird und welche Formen der Körpersprache es gibt (Gesten, Bewegungen etc.), wie sie eingesetzt werden und was sie bedeuten. Buchstäblich von Kopf bis Fuß »übersetzt« sie dann die Körpersprache. Angefangen mit der...
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Wiley-VCH
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2016-11-02
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Für Dummies
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This book identifies the strengths and weaknesses of different methodological approaches to research in communication and social change. It examines the methodological opportunities and challenges occasioned by rapid technological affordances and society-wide...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-01
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This edited volume presents a structured approach to a new lean education curriculum, implemented for the education of engineers, managers, administrators as well as human resources developers. The authorship comprises professors and lecturers, trainers and...
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Springer
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2016-11-01
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Martin Luther King, Jr. famously expressed his dream that his children would "one day not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." In his vision, a person's ethical qualities would be understood in spite of his or her body rather...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-11-01
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