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This book explores humanity’s thoughts and ideas about extraterrestrial life, paying close attention to the ways science and culture interact with one another to create a context of imagination and discovery related to life on other worlds. Despite the recent explosion...
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Springer
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2016-08-26
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Dieser Band schließt eine wichtige Lücke in den politischen und wissenschaftlichen Debatten um Gleichstellung, indem die zahlreichen Herausforderungen, die die Entwicklung und Bewertung von Indikatoren für Gleichstellung mit sich bringen, umfassend dargestellt und...
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Springer VS
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2016-08-26
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This book is focussing on the results of the mobil.LAB Doctoral Research Group “Sustainable mobility in the metropolitan region of Munich” for its first phase. It highlights the key findings of young scientists from diverse disciplines on selected issues of sustainable...
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Springer VS
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2016-08-26
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This book is an investigation of the cultural work involved in the social process of achieving and maintaining legitimacy as a not-for-profit arts or media organization in the twenty-first century. Within this work, Larsen advances an approach to studying organizational...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-08-25
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In recent years, global migration has transformed in terms of its numbers and reach, its political significance, and its impact. The rising rates of international migration have been matched by growing public and media interest around the world. Today, the political and...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-08-25
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This book illuminates the decision-making processes of the US Supreme court through an examination of several prisoners' rights cases. In 1964, the Supreme Court declined to hear prisoners’ claims about religious freedom. In 2014, the Supreme Court heard a case that...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-08-25
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This book discusses the role of the prison in Europe across a divide of over 200 years. Inspired by the travels of the prison reformer John Howard (1726-1790), who visited prisons across Europe in the eighteenth century, it fundamentally reflects on centuries of the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-08-25
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In this 10th Anniversary text, Thomas M. Skovholt and Len Jennings paint an elaborate portrait of expert or "master" therapists. The book contains extensive qualitative research from three doctoral dissertations and an additional research study conducted over a...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-08-25
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In this 10th Anniversary text, Thomas M. Skovholt and Len Jennings paint an elaborate portrait of expert or "master" therapists. The book contains extensive qualitative research from three doctoral dissertations and an additional research study conducted over a...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-08-25
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This book sheds new light on the complex inter-relations that make up class, power, local history and space. It turns community thinking on its head by understanding community not as an object but as a relational process with sociality at its core. Based on...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-08-24
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This book presents a close reading of the work of the Mexican writer and Nobel Prize Laureate, Octavio Paz. It does so from the specific perspective of sociology and the more general perspective of the social sciences. The book identifies opportunities for relating Paz’...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-08-23
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Gregor Wiedemann evaluates text mining applications for social science studies with respect to conceptual integration of consciously selected methods, systematic optimization of algorithms and workflows, and methodological reflections relating to empirical research. In...
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Springer VS
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2016-08-23
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Der Band behandelt erstmals systematisch die Wechselwirkungen zwischen Pegida und anderen gesellschaftlichen Instanzen. Denn die Bewegung lässt sich nicht hinreichend aus der sozialen Herkunft oder der Mentalität der Demonstrierenden verstehen.Die Analyse von Diskursen,...
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Springer VS
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2016-08-22
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This volume investigates a historical account of the development of landscapes management at Borobudur. In the 1970s and 1980s, there was large scale heritage conservation intervention of the Borobudur Temple by UNESCO and a simultaneous attempt of a wider...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-08-22
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Mit diesem Band sollen wichtige Texte der Stadtforschung einem breiten Publikum vorgestellt werden, das sich für heutige und zukünftige Fragen der Stadtentwicklung interessiert. Es werden vor allem Texte aus den Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften vorgestellt, die in den...
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Springer VS
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2016-08-22
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New Developments in the Bioarchaeology of Care evaluates, refines and expands existing concepts and practices in the developing field of bioarchaeological research into health-related care provision in the past.Evidence in human remains that indicates an individual...
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Springer
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2016-08-22
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Based on ethnographic research within the extreme metal community, Unger offers a thought-provoking look at how symbols of authenticity and defilement fashion social experience in surprising ways. Exploring the many themes and ciphers that comprise this musical...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2016-08-22
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This interdisciplinary Handbook brings together into one coherent volume a range of international authors, who firmly establish the relevance of war within the discipline of criminology. The chapters address emerging and prevailing issues in the criminological study of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-08-22
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Biocultural or biosocial anthropology is a research approach that views biology and culture as dialectically and inextricably intertwined, explicitly emphasizing the dynamic interaction between humans and their larger social, cultural, and physical environments. The...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2016-08-22
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Legitimacy is an essential concept
in politics. But what is it? This book seeks to answer this question through
adopting Weber’s sociological approach to legitimacy. Weber argues that we
should not only understand legitimacy from the perspective of the political
order,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-08-20
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