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This book studies the historical changes of the cityscape of Nanjing from the point of view of geographical systems. Nanjing is a city located along the Yangtze River, originated 2500 years ago, after which ten dynasties established their capital dependent on the...
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Springer
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2016-07-15
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This book discusses Asia’s rapid pace of urbanization, with a particular focus on new spaces created by and for everyday religiosity. The essays in this volume – covering topics from the global metropolises of Singapore, Bangalore, Seoul, Beijing, and Hong Kong to the...
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Springer
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2016-07-15
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Barbara Junne befasst sich mit der Frage, wie
Qualitätsmanagement in Hamburger Kitas als eine gesellschaftlich konstruierte
Praktik entsteht, die die gegenseitige Rechenschaftslegung, d.h.
Accountability, befördert. Vor diesem Hintergrund kann Qualitätsmanagement...
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Springer VS
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2016-07-15
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This book positions script analysis as a useful and pragmatic tool, which can guide the selection and implementation of preventive measures in business environments. It illustrates how the concept aligns with the crime-specific orientation found in environmental...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-07-15
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This edited volume seeks to enhance our understanding of
the concepts of space and place in the study of digital work. It argues that
while digital work is often presented as 'placeless', work always takes place
somewhere with a certain degree of local embeddedness....
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-07-15
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The Handbook of Religion and Society is the most comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of a vital force in the world today. It is an indispensable resource for scholars, students, policy makers, and other professionals seeking to understand the role of religion in...
Editeur :
Springer
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2016-07-15
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Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research
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This book focuses on the recurring struggle over the meaning of the Anglican Church’s role in the Indian residential schools--a long-running school system designed to assimilate Indigenous children into Euro-Canadian culture, in which sexual, psychological, and physical...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-07-14
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In diesem Band werden die Werte und Wertentwicklungen Duisburger Schülerinnen und Schüler zwischen 2002 und 2008 untersucht. Die grundlegenden Dimensionen des allgemeinen Werteraumes, so wie er in der bekannten Wertetheorie von Helmut Klages beschrieben wird, können...
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Springer VS
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2016-07-14
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How did it feel to be faced with the prospect of being branded, pressed to death or boiled alive in oil? In this classic account of the history of torture, Geoffrey Abbott guides us through some of the worst torture methods known to man, from chilli powder punishment to...
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Summersdale
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2016-07-14
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The body is a rich object for aesthetic inquiry. We aesthetically assess both our own bodies and those of others, and our felt bodily experiences--as we eat, have sex, and engage in other everyday activities--have aesthetic qualities.The body, whether depicted or...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-07-14
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The SAGE Handbook of Global Policing examines and critically retraces the field of policing studies by posing and exploring a series of fundamental questions to do with the concept and institutions of policing and their relation to social and political life in today's...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2016-07-14
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Hans-Jürgen Göppner zeigt, dass es für eine „Hilfe“, die tatsächliche Hilfe sein soll, nicht genügt, aus der „Theorie“ auszuwählen, was gegebenenfalls brauchbar erscheint. Für eine wissenschaftlich fundierte Sozialarbeit sind wissenschaftliche Grundlagen ungenügend, die...
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Springer VS
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2016-07-14
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Vor dem Hintergrund zunehmender Proteste gegen Großprojekte und einer von einigen Vertretern aus Politik, Wirtschaft und Medien postulierten Industriefeindlichkeit in der deutschen Bevölkerung untersucht Anna-Lena Schönauer, welche Einstellung und Akzeptanz zur...
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Springer VS
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2016-07-14
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This book offers critical reflections on the intersections between criminology and queer scholarship, and charts future directions for this field. Since their development over twenty-five years ago, queer scholarship and politics have been hotly contested fields,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-07-13
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This book analyses the changing face of work, gender equality and citizenship in Europe. Drawing on in-depth research conducted in nine different countries, it focuses on the discourses, social relations and political processes that surround paid domestic labour. In...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-07-13
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Within the most recent discussion on smart cities and the way this vision is affecting urban changes and dynamics, this book explores the interplay between planning and design both at the level of the design and planning domains’ theories and practices.Urban...
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Springer
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2016-07-13
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This book explores the idea of the prison boundary, identifying where it is located, which processes and performances help construct and animate it, and who takes part in them. Although the relationship between prison and non-prison has garnered academic interest...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-07-13
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This book challenges the ways we think about human agency by looking at the creativity, ethics, and capacities for social transformation that are embedded in simple actions of “doing”. Stemming from ethnographic research with families in the United Kingdom as part of a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-07-13
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This book is an invitation to researchers who are committed to social change to look for ideas about transformation in an unexpected place – that is, in the data generated from empirical research. Informed by Critical Discourse Analysis and postmodern theory, it...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-07-13
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Entgegen dem gängigen Trend, Erziehung als statisches Merkmal zu verstehen, legt Christoph Weber seinen Fokus explizit auf Zusammenhänge zwischen Änderungen von Erziehungsdimensionen und Änderungen von externalisierenden Verhaltensproblemen. Unter Verwendung der Daten...
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Springer VS
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2016-07-13
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