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This book features more than 95 papers that were presented at the bi-annual Regional Conference on Science, Technology and Social Sciences, RCSTSS 2014, which was organized by Universiti Teknologi MARA Pahang. It covers topics ranging from communications studies,...
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Springer
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2016-07-29
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This book describes how Guyanese Hindus recreate Indian ethnic identity in contemporary Guyana and examines how Hindu traditions have been transformed in this multi-religious and multi-ethnic society. By illustrating the exchange and consumption of clothing, the book...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-07-29
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This book examines potential economic opportunities that countries can experience when fertility rates fall and the average life expectancy of the working age population increases. It presents detailed demographic and economic analysis of middle-income countries...
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Springer
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2016-07-29
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This book deals with slums as a specific question and a central focus in urban planning. It radically reverses the official version of the history of world cities as narrated during decades: slums are not at the margin of the contemporary process of urbanization; they...
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Springer
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2016-07-29
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Burkhard Bierhoff geht in diesem essential von der These aus, dass der Konsumkapitalismus die sexuelle Revolution der 1960er Jahre vollendet hat, indem er die Liebe hinter dem Konsum zum Verschwinden brachte und die Liebe als Konsum vereinseitigte. Der Autor stellt...
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Springer VS
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2016-07-28
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The overarching objective of this book is to summarize, extend, and update previous research on educational differences in family behavior in Japan. This is the first comprehensive treatment of the subject and the first to evaluate family differentials in Japan in the...
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Springer
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2016-07-28
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This book provides a critical, multiperspective, sociohistorical analysis of the role of food in postcolonial Indigenous, British and French settler relations. Drawing on archival resources from Australian explorers, settlers and nation builders, the book argues that...
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Springer
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2016-07-28
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This first-of-its-kind volume addresses the myriad of issues relating to—and reviews the plethora of responses to--premature births in the United States, both in national context and compared with other countries. In addition to current clinical data, it examines how...
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Springer
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2016-07-28
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??????This Brief provides a clearly outlined and accessible overview of the challenges in creating and enforcing hate crime legislation in the United States. As the author explains, while it is generally not controversial that hate crime behavior should...
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Springer
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2016-07-28
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This volume uses bioarchaeological remains to examine the complexities and diversity of past socio-sexual lives. This book does not begin with the presumption that certain aspects of sex, gender, and sexuality are universal and longstanding. Rather,...
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Springer
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2016-07-28
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The aim of the atlas is to provide images of taphonomic modifications, making it as comprehensive as possible with evidence presently available. This volume is intended both as a field guide for identifying taphonomic modifications in the field, and for use in the...
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Springer
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2016-07-28
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*Shortlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay*Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 by the Financial Times, Guardian, New Statesman, Observer, The Millions and Emerald Street'Flâneuse [flanne-euhze], noun, from the French. Feminine form of...
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Vintage Digital
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2016-07-28
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Am Beispiel jugendlicher Online-Nutzer zeigt Jessica
Einspanner-Pflock, dass Privatheit in der mediatisierten Zukunft nicht als
Gegensatz, sondern als ein integraler Bestandteil digitaler Öffentlichkeit zu
verstehen ist. Die Autorin entwickelt ein an der...
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Springer VS
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2016-07-28
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Liking Ike reveals the prominent role that celebrities and advertising agencies played in Dwight Eisenhower's presidency. Guided by Madison Avenue executives and television pioneers, Eisenhower cultivated famous supporters as a way of building the broad-based support...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-07-28
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Now updated and expanded, People and Nature is a lively, accessible introduction to environmental anthropology that focuses on the interactions between people, culture, and nature around the world. Written by a respected scholar in environmental anthropology with a...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2016-07-28
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Primers in Anthropology
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How are media and communications transforming armed conflicts?How are conflicts made visible in the media in different national and transnational settings?How does the media serve as a means by which various actors manage and communicate conflict?
These are some of the...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2016-07-28
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This book explores the contours of women's involvement in the Irish Republican Army, political protest and the prison experience in Northern Ireland. Through the voices of female and male combatants, it demonstrates that women remained marginal in the examination of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-07-27
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This books sets out to explain how and why religion came into being. Today this question is as fascinating as ever, especially since religion has moved to the centre of socio-political relationships. In contrast to the current, but incomplete approaches...
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Springer
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2016-07-27
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This book examines the phenomenon of urban fear – the increasing anxiety over crime and violence in Western cities despite their high safety – with a view to developing a comprehensive, critical, exploratory theory of fear, space, and urban planning that unravels the...
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Springer
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2016-07-27
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Hendrik Trescher zeigt, dass der Heimalltag von Menschen mit Behinderungen oftmals von Regulierung, Überwachung und asymmetrischen Abhängigkeitsverhältnissen geprägt ist. Er stellt fest, dass HeimbewohnerInnen vom Steuerungssystem der sogenannten Behindertenhilfe in...
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Springer VS
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2016-07-27
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