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This book analyses efforts to advance the rights of Indigenous People within peace-building frameworks: Section I critically explores key issues concerning Indigenous Peoples’ Rights (struggles for land, human, cultural, civil, legal and constitutional rights) in...
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Springer
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2016-10-25
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This book analyses parental anxieties about their children’s healthcare issues in urban China, engaging with wider theoretical debates about modernity, risk and anxiety. It examines the broader social, cultural and historical contexts of parental anxiety by analysing a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-25
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This book uniquely focuses on the role of family law in transnational marriages. The author demonstrates how family law is of critical importance in understanding transnational family life. Based on extensive field research in Morocco, Egypt and the Netherlands, the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-25
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This book provides a timely criminological investigation into the rapidly growing sale of fake medicines online. Some estimates suggest that the fake medicine trade has now overtaken marijuana and prostitution as the world's largest market for criminal traffickers.This...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-25
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Music and Social Dynamics in Nigeria explores the diverse ways in which music reflects, and is shaped by, historical and social dynamics of life in Nigeria. Contributors to this volume include some of the leading scholars of Nigerian music, such as Joshua Uzoigwe, Laz...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-10-25
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Multicultural societies are a phenomenon that can be increasingly observed worldwide. This book focuses on the question of how individuals living within a multicultural society experience the meeting of cultures. Murdock combines both a thorough review of the ...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-24
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In diesem Band wird das Spannungsverhältnis von Kontinuität und Wandel in Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft aus einer interdisziplinären, wissenschaftlichen und praxisnahen Perspektive beleuchtet. Die Spannweite der Themen reicht hierbei von Arbeit und Beschäftigung,...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2016-10-24
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This edited volume presents a detailed portrait of couples living with mixed HIV status, where one partner is HIV-positive and the other negative. Readers will come to understand the various and complex ways in which these mixed-status, or serodiscordant couples build a...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-10-24
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This interdisciplinary endeavour portrays the central features of militant movements which hold totality as an important part of their doctrinal core. Revisiting the importance of modernity, utopianism, eschatology, charisma, psychology and the history of ideas, Mihai...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2016-10-24
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This is the first book to examine social learning and innovation in hunter–gatherers from around the world. More is known about social learning in chimpanzees and nonhuman primates than is known about social learning in hunter–gatherers, a way of life that characterized...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-10-22
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Replacement of Neanderthals by Modern Humans Series
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Water is an essential element in the future of cities. It shapes cities’ locations, form, ecology, prosperity and health. The changing nature of urbanisation, climate change, water scarcity, environmental values, globalisation and social justice mean that the models of...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-10-22
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This book presents post-Marxist theoretical approaches towards social critique and offers discourse analytical tools for critical research. How is a normative critique possible? The author, working at the crossroads of sociological discourse analysis and social...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-21
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This book is a critical edition of six lectures by Alain Leroy Locke, the intellectual progenitor of the Harlem Renaissance. In them, Locke offers an Inter-American philosophical account of important contributions made by Afrodescendant peoples to the art, literature,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-21
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Die ZU|Schriften bewegen sich im Rahmen der Unterscheidung von Komplexität und Kontingenz, um die Überlegung diskutieren zu können, dass jede soziale Umgebung ein vernetzter, komplexer Zusammenhang ist, der sich in ein verstehbares und bearbeitbares,...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2016-10-21
Collection :
Komplexität und Kontingenz
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This book analyses how developmental projects in a globalizing Delhi have brought about neglect, exclusion and alienation of certain sections of population, while benefiting others. It discusses the physical, economic and social displacement of people in...
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Springer
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2016-10-21
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This book, based on the author's ethnographic fieldwork in the Palestinian West Bank from 1995 to 1996, aims to provide an honest, authentic, and accurate accounting of the nitty-gritty, day-to-day challenges, rewards, failures, and successes of doing fieldwork in a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-21
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This volume focuses on the specific relationship between the institutional impunity, lack of public safety and public space in failing to prevent organized sexual murder. The murder of women on the U.S.-Mexican border is a complex phenomenon with multiple geographic,...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-10-21
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Ruth Achenbach develops a model of individual return migration decision making, which examines both the process and the decisive factors in return migration decision making of Chinese highly skilled workers and students in Japan. She proposes to answer a question yet...
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Springer VS
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2016-10-21
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Exploring the nexus of American Studies and the Medical Humanities, this book examines the interdisciplinary interfaces between disease and American cultures and literatures. It traces the appropriation of yellow fever to legitimize the young nation and its embeddedness...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-10-21
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Antonio Piazza verfasste sein Erzählwerk in der zweiten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts. Die Kommunikationsstrategien der weit verbreiteten Moralischen Periodika waren ihm aus seiner eigenen journalistischen Tätigkeit geläufig. Wie sehr die Moralblätter für den...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-10-21
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