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This book explores the European welfare model, arguing that the rollout of European policies for welfare services has led to increased marketization. The author argues that the rise of profit-making in utilities, transport, child and health care is exacerbating rather...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-23
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This book discusses essential approaches and methods in connection with engineering education for sustainable development. Prepared as a follow-up to the 2015 Engineering Education in Sustainable Development (EESD) Conference held in British Columbia, Canada, it offers...
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Springer
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2016-06-23
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The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) is intended to provide an effective framework for responding to crimes of genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. It is a response to the many conscious-shocking cases where atrocities - on the worst scale...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-06-23
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Das Buch beabsichtigt die Forschungsmethodik einer systematischen Metaphernanalyse als Methode der qualitativen Forschung in ihrer Logik zu rekonstruieren. Die linguistische Metapherntheorie nach Lakoff und Johnson zielt auf alltägliche Denkmuster ab und hat darum...
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Springer VS
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2016-06-23
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For more than a decade the 'Muslim question' on integration and alleged extremism has vexed Europe, revealing cracks in long-held certainties about the role of religion in public life. Secular assumptions are being tested not only by the growing presence of Muslims but...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-06-23
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In dieser Studie rückt eine bis dato in journalistischen, politischen und wissenschaftlichen Veröffentlichungen kaum beachteter Gegenstand in den Fokus: Die Besonderheiten von Wirtschaften und Arbeiten in Musikszenen. Der Autor erweitert die post-traditionale...
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Springer VS
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2016-06-23
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Didier Maleuvre argues that works of art in Western societies from Ancient Greece to the interconnected worlds of the Digital Age have served to rationalize and normalize an engagement with bourgeois civilization and the city. Maleuvre details that the history of art...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-22
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This Handbook provides the hidden common threads that tie sociological inquiry together and featuring eminent scholars, it separates itself from its predecessors in substance and organization. Rather than rehashing old debates or longingly gazing at the past, this book...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-06-22
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Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research
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This book explains the transformation of the nation into a cosmonation (or multisite nation) through the reunification of the homeland with its diaspora. The book elaborates on how the mechanisms of linkages, connections, and networking interact to form distributed...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-21
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This book examines how movements from below pose challenges to the status quo. The 2010s have seen an explosion of protest movements, sometimes characterised as riots by governments and the media. But these are not new phenomena, rather reflecting thousands of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-21
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This book is an academic work which reviews and critiques the research literature concerning violent games and their alleged effects on players. It examines the debates about the potential effects of these games and the divisions between scholars working in the field....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-21
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This book explores the identity of Texas as a state with a large and severe penal system. It does so by assessing the narratives at work in Texas museums and tourist sites associated with prisons and punishment. In such cultural institutions, complex narratives are...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-20
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This book contextualizes how having a doula, or labor-support woman, present during childbirth results in lower rates of medical interventions. American women are inundated with views that childbirth is inherently risky, their bodies deficient, and therefore...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-20
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Refugees from the violence of wars and the brutality of famished lives have knocked on other people's doors since the beginning of time. For the people behind the doors, these uninvited guests were always strangers, and strangers tend to generate fear and anxiety...
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Polity
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2016-06-20
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Die Autorin stellt Herman Wirth (1885–1981) vor, der in den 1930er Jahren ein bekannter und umstrittener Gelehrter war. Der zirkumpolare Norden galt ihm als Quelle aller Kultur. Von dort trug die nordische Rasse die urmonotheistische Hochkultur in die Welt. Urschrift,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-06-17
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Die Autoren stellen in diesem essential fest, dass Selbständigkeit und
Unternehmertum Ausdruck von sozialem und ökonomischem Wandel sind. Sie
geben Antworten auf die Fragen, welche Strukturen selbstständiger
Erwerbstätigkeit sich warum herausgebildet haben. Es wird...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2016-06-17
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This volume examines ten economically advanced countries in Europe and Asia that have experienced different levels of fertility decline. It offers readers a cross-country perspective on the causes and consequences of low birth rates and the different policy responses to...
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Springer
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2016-06-16
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This book aims to familiarize readers in a very simple and easy manner
the rules and proper procedures of rational debate. It will help reduce
the frustration that many experience when engaging in debates. The proper
conduct of debate is both fun and mentally...
Editeur :
Copernicus
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2016-06-16
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This book presents a compendium of the urban layout maps of 2-mile square downtown areas of more than one hundred cities in developed and developing countries—all drawn at the same scale using high-resolution satellite images of Google Maps. The book also presents...
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Springer
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2016-06-16
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Die Autoren analysieren Strukturen und Entwicklungslinien des aktuellen Linksextremismus. Durch die Auswertung einer repräsentativen Umfrage und durch Befragungen von Jugendlichen zu linksextremen Einstellungen gelangen sie zu einer Charakterisierung von...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-06-16
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