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This book investigates food security and the implications of hyper-urbanisation and rapid growth of urban populations in Africa. By means of a series of case studies involving African cities of various sizes, it argues that, while the concept of food security holds...
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Springer
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2016-09-23
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This volume combines rigorous empirical and theoretical analyses with political engagement to look beyond reductive short-hands that ignore the historical evolution and varieties of Islamic doctrine and that deny the complexities of Muslim societies' encounters with...
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Springer
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2016-09-23
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Despite explicit commitments to gender equality, women experience complex modes of disadvantage and discrimination in all nations of the world. Offering sophisticated insights into the persistence of gendered differences in opportunities, roles, power, and rights in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-09-23
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This book provides an appreciative, sociological engagement with accounts of the embodied practice of self-injury. It shows that in order to understand self-injury, it is necessary to engage with widely circulating narratives about the nature of bodies, including that...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-09-23
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This monograph explains what economic analysis is, why it is important, and forms it can take in policing and criminal justice. Costs are important in all forms of economic analysis but their collection tends to be partial and inadequate in capturing key information. A...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-09-23
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This book analyzes the increase in contemporary European migration to Japan, its causes and the lives of Europeans in Japan. Desconstructing the picture of highly skilled, privileged, cosmopolitan elites that has been frequently associated with white or Western...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-09-23
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Das Buch beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, ob und inwiefern die Einbindung in soziale Netzwerke das individuelle Geburtenverhalten beeinflusst. Hauptaugenmerk liegt dabei ganz im Sinne der analytischen Soziologie auf der systematischen Aufarbeitung der Mechanismen, die...
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Springer VS
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2016-09-23
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Familienforschung
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This book tells the story of nearly five decades of Indian migration to Australia from the late 1960s to 2015, through the eyes of migrants and their families. Firstly, there is the marked increase of Indian migrants, shifting from the earlier professionals to a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-09-23
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Der Sammelband analysiert die grundsätzliche Bedeutung, die Animation in unserer medialisierten Welt einnimmt. Animation bewegt Bilder, Emotionen, die Kunst, die Industrie und wandelt auch die Forschung – sie stellt traditionelle Disziplinen und Theorien des...
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Springer VS
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2016-09-23
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Why has crime fiction become a global genre? How do writers use crime fiction to reflect upon the changing nature of crime and policing in our contemporary world? This book argues that the globalization of crime fiction should not be celebrated uncritically....
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-09-23
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This book explores how personalized content and the inherent networked nature of the mobile media could and do lead to positive externalities in social progress in Asian societies. Empirical studies that examine uses of the mobile phone and apps (voice mailing, SMS,...
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Springer
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2016-09-23
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Marc Neu untersucht das sozialstaatliche Instrument der im SGB II geregelten Grundsicherung für Arbeitsuchende in Hinblick auf soziale Exklusion und Inklusion. Im Ergebnis wird deutlich, dass die SGB II-Leistungen im Sinne des „Förderns und Forderns“ in der Regel weder...
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Springer VS
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2016-09-23
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Shih-cheng Lien untersucht die Bedeutung der gestiegenen Frauenerwerbstätigkeit für die Veränderungen von Wohnstandort und räumlicher Mobilität. Mit Hilfe einer sekundärstatistischen Analyse des Sozioökonomischen Panels (SOEP) für die Jahre 1993 bis 2008 analysiert sie...
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Springer VS
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2016-09-23
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This book is the first work that comprehensively presents the accounts of Lia Eden, a former flower arranger who claims to have received divine messages from the Archangel Gabriel and founded the divine Eden Kingdom in her house in Jakarta.This book places Lia Eden’s...
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Springer
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2016-09-22
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In the mediated digital era, communication is changing fast and eating up ever greater shares of real-world power. Corporate battles and guerrilla wars are fought on Twitter. Facebook is the new Berlin, home to tinkers, tailors, spies ? and terrorist recruiters. We...
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Polity
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2016-09-22
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Dieser Band informiert über die zentralen Werke der Naturwissenschaften von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart z.B. von Euklid, Kopernikus, Galilei, Newton, Linné, Lavoisier, Darwin, Mendel, Hertz, Einstein, Schrödinger und Latour. - Die Einleitung bietet einen Überblick über...
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J.B. Metzler
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2016-09-22
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Fifty years after its publication, Bryan Wilson's Religion in Secular Society (1966) remains a seminal work. It is one of the clearest articulations of the secularization thesis: the claim that modernizations brings with it fundamental changes in the nature and status...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-09-22
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Die Beitragsautoren dieses Bandes thematisieren das Quartier in seiner zunehmend wichtigen Funktion für die Gesundheit der Bevölkerung. Sie gehen der Frage nach, wie die Verbindung zwischen Quartiersentwicklung und Gesundheitsförderung konzeptualisiert werden kann, denn...
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Springer VS
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2016-09-21
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This book presents possible alternatives and interpretations to the well established notion in the mostly western discourse on public space. The discourse on public space as understood in the democratic-rationalist tradition, when applied to the Singaporean public...
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Springer
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2016-09-21
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This book examines contemporary Afro-Latin@ literature and its depiction of the multifaceted identity encompassing the separate identifications of Americans and the often-conflicting identities of blacks and Latin@s. The Afro-Latin@ Experience in Contemporary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-09-21
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