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Focusing on ten islands through the Caribbean, this ethnography examines how charismatic religious leaders develop creative transnational religious networking strategies that help spread the movement and increase its potential to become a greater force in shaping the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-09-11
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This book demonstrates the pivotal role played by state confines in the geography of Balkan countries through powerful GIS and remote sensing analyses. It provides unique mapping perspectives on the Balkan region, with over 140 illustrations. The book is dedicated...
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Springer
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2016-09-10
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Springer Geography
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This book portrays the Himalayan-born River Saraswati, a legendary river that was the lifeline of a progressive and vibrant society for more than three thousand years. Written in simple language and richly illustrated, it highlights the events that resulted in the...
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Springer
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2016-09-10
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Providing a historical analysis of the impact of criminology on the rationale of punishment and the sentencing systems in Europe and the US between the 1870s and the 1930s, Reinventing Punishment: A Comparative History of Criminology and Penology in the 19th and 20th...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-09-10
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Frechheit oder Freiheit? Was galt als respektlos, ketzerisch oder obszön? Und was wurde als akademische Freiheit toleriert? Acht Essays decken die Spielräume auf, die Gelehrte der Frühen Neuzeit nutzten, um neues Gedankengut zu entfalten. Ein faszinierender Blick auf...
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J.B. Metzler
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2016-09-10
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Breaking away from the idea that sociology only ever elaborates the negative, Sociology for Optimists shows that sociology can provide hope in dealing with social issues through critical approaches that acknowledge the positive.
From politics and inequality to nature...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2016-09-10
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This book assesses the instruments and measures geared towards determining the EU's relations with it's neighbours. These are channelled on the one hand by the enlargement policy focusing on the Western Balkans and on the other hand by the neighbourhood policy which...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-09-10
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This edited volume is based on a highly original survey carried out between November 2011 and June 2012 among a panel of 6,000 voters. The panel was interviewed on 12 separate occasions about how and why they made their voting choices. The book focuses on how electoral...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-09-09
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This book is about ethnic diversity in voluntary organizations and seeks to explain whether intergroup contact contributes to the development of generalized trust. It relies on a novel multilevel design and data from Amsterdam in which 40 voluntary organizations and 463...
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Springer
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2016-09-09
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Comment appréhender les phénomènes reliant faits de nature et faits de société qui constituent la majeure partie des problèmes critiques et irrésolus contemporains ?Comment dépasser le grand partage fondateur de la modernité et surmonter la division du travail...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2016-09-09
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The spread of Salafism--often referred to as "Wahhabism"--in the West has intrigued and alarmed observers since the attacks of 9/11. Many see it as a fundamentalist interpretation of Islam that condones the subjugation of women and fuels Jihadist extremism. This view...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-09-09
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This collection is a great contribution to the field of violence and security studies. It presents six comparative, cross-regional analyses of violence and security, with both theoretical contributions and empirical researches conducted in Mexico, Morocco, Colombia,...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2016-09-09
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How do stories of particular events turn into global myths, while others fade away? What becomes known and seen as a global iconic event? In Stories without Borders, Julia Sonnevend considers the ways in which we recount and remember news stories of historic...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-09-09
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In this book, the author develops a relational concept of space that encompasses social structure, the material world of objects and bodies, and the symbolic dimension of the social world. Löw’s guiding principle is the assumption that space emerges in the interplay...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-09-09
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**THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER**Sapiens showed us where we came from. In our increasingly uncertain times, Homo Deus shows us where we're going.'Spellbinding' GuardianThe world-renowned historian and intellectual Yuval Noah Harari envisions a near future in which we face...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2016-09-08
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*Chosen as a Book of the Year by The Times, History Today and the Sunday Telegraph*‘Wonderfully entertaining, comprehensive and astute.’ The Times‘Genuinely hard to put down.’ BBC History MagazineFrom murder to duelling, highway robbery to mugging: the darker side of...
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Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2016-09-08
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This book asks how 21st century technologies such as the Internet, mobile phones and social media are transforming human memory and its relationship to gender. Each epoch brings with it new media technologies that have transformed human memory. Anna Reading examines the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-09-08
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Das Thema dieser Untersuchung ist das Verhältnis von Kultur und Industrie auf dem Weg ins 21. Jahrhundert. Im Zentrum steht die Frage nach dem Verhältnis der kritischen Theorie moderner Massenmedien und deren systemtheoretischer Rekonstruktion.
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Springer VS
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2016-09-08
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At the end of World War II the Allies faced a threefold challenge: how to punish perpetrators of appalling crimes for which the categories of 'genocide' and 'crimes against humanity' had to be coined; how to explain that these had been committed by Germany, of all...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-09-08
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Oliver Klosa betrachtet Web-TV auf der Grundlage eines Mehr-Methoden-Designs unter Berücksichtigung von Angeboten, Anbietern und Rezipienten, um die Einflussnahme möglicher Qualitätsfaktoren auf die Akzeptanz herauszuarbeiten. Durch diese multiperspektivische...
Editeur :
Springer Vieweg
Parution :
2016-09-08
Collection :
Schriften zur Medienproduktion
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