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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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2016-09-29
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This book makes a timely and engaging contribution to geography’s resurgent interest in art and artistic practice, as well as to growing geographical concerns with embodied or pre-reflective experience. It introduces Eugene Gendlin’s philosophical and methodological...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2016-09-29
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The Kam language of China possesses fifteen tones – more than any other language. Yet it has long been neglected as an area of research, especially from the perspective of discourse analysis. This study initiates the exploration of the interface between grammar and...
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Springer
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2016-09-29
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This innovative volume introduces readers to a variety of disciplinary and methodological approaches used to examine the intersections of religion and migration. A range of leading figures in this field consider the roles of religion throughout various types of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-09-28
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This book offers a cross-cultural comparison of French and British cosmetics advertisements and explores how the discourse of beauty advertising represents ideas about femininity in French and English language contexts. As the global beauty industry expands and...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2016-09-28
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This highly original book is an ethnographic noir of how Big Data profits from patient private health information. The book follows personal health data as it is collected from inside healthcare and beyond to create patient consumer profiles that are sold to marketers....
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-09-27
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This research-based book outlines career models for artists, methods of creative engagement, artistic options including individuality and branding, production practices, the realities of being a musician in the new industries, and implications for popular music...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-09-27
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Das deutsche Wissenschaftssystem befindet sich in einem langfristigen, inkrementellen Wandlungsprozess und hat nach wie vor viele Baustellen, so dass es lohnt, den Fortgang der Arbeiten weiterhin kritisch zu begleiten. Genügend Gründe, die 2010 erschienenen Beiträge...
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Springer VS
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2016-09-27
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Springer Reference Sozialwissenschaften
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This volume presents a comprehensive analysis of global future scenarios and their impact on a growing, shared culture. Ever since the end of the Cold War, a diverse range of future concepts has emerged in various areas of academia—and even in popular journalism. A...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-09-27
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Der Sammelband umfasst vielfältige, aktuelle Erkenntnisse zum Fanverhalten im Sport, u.a. zur Kommerzialisierung im Fußball, der Fan-Kommunikation 3.0, den Einflussfaktoren der Fanarbeit in Vereinen und komplexen Netzwerken, dem Misstrauen gegenüber der Polizei sowie...
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Springer VS
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2016-09-26
Collection :
Angewandte Forschung im Sport
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This book challenges and revises existing ways of thinking about leaving care policy, practice and research at regional, national and international levels. Bringing together contributors from fifteen countries, it covers a range of topical policy and practice issues...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-09-26
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Mit Aufkommen des Internets ergeben sich für die Medien- und Informationsethik zahlreiche neue Problemstellungen. Neben traditionellen Fragen nach journalistischer Ethik im Rundfunk- und Printbereich rücken zunehmend ethische Probleme in Bezug auf digitale Medien in den...
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J.B. Metzler
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2016-09-26
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This book offers a philosophical analysis of what it is to be a human being in all her aspects. It analyses what is meant by the self and the I and how this feeling of a self or an I is connected to the brain. It studies specific cases of brain disorders, based on...
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Springer
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2016-09-26
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In this book, the author seeks to understand China’s urban redevelopment from the theoretical perspective of the local entrepreneurial state. China’s rapid socio-economic transformations since 1978 have been in large part attributed to China’s state transformations. The...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-09-26
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Bach and Tuning is strictly concerned with the identification of a historically accurate tuning paradigm that applies to the great majority of Johann Sebastian Bach’s music. OnceBach has his personal tuning aesthetic acknowledged, a new dimension of meaning is invoked...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-09-26
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This book analyses the instruments and approaches offered by public international law to resolve cultural heritage related disputes and facilitate the return of illicitly transferred objects to their countries of origin. In addition to assessing the instruments...
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Springer
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2016-09-24
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This book emerges from the author's 35 years of research and thought about the Songhay people of Niger.This ethnographic novel follows the life of Omar Dia, the oldest son of a West African sorcerer. When his father falls ill and dies, the great sorcerer...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-09-24
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This study traces the genealogy of Saint Perpetua’s story with a straightforward yet previously overlooked question at its center: How was Perpetua remembered and to what uses was that memory put? One of the most popular and venerated saints from 200 CE to the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-09-23
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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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