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Facing Heidegger’s critique of modern technology, the author analyses the question of technology and ethical responsibility and the call for reflexivity towards technology. He examines Heidegger‘s thoughts about how science and technology conceal the enigmatic and...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-06-16
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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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2016-06-16
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Dieses Buch interpretiert das Werk der Schriftstellerin, Übersetzerin und selbsternannten pädagogischen Theoretikerin Therese Huber «neu» und betrachtet es in einem gesellschaftshistorischen, kulturell orientierten Bezugsrahmen. Die Autorin zeigt auf, dass die...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-06-16
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Who exactly are the middle classes in India? What role do they play in contemporary Indian politics and society, and what are their historical and cultural moorings? The authors of this volume argue that the middle class has largely been understood as an ‘income/...
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OUP India
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2016-06-16
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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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2016-06-16
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This book covers organized crime groups, empirical studies of organized crime, criminal finances and money laundering, and crime prevention, gathering some of the most authoritative and well-known scholars in the field. The contributions to this book are new chapters...
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Springer
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2016-06-16
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This is the definitive, unique account of the disaster in which 96 men, women and children were killed, hundreds injured and thousands traumatised. It details the appalling treatment endured by the bereaved and survivors in the immediate aftermath, the inhumanity of the...
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Mainstream Digital
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2016-06-16
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Opposing a binary perspective that consolidates ethnicity, religion, and nationalism into separate spheres, this book demonstrates that neither nationalism nor religion can be studied in isolation in the Middle East. Religious interpretation, like other systems of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-15
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This book analyzes the role of manga in contemporary Japanese political expression and debate, and explores its role in propagating new perceptions regarding Japanese history.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-06-15
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This book examines the varied ways in which Minister Farrakhan’s Resurrected Nation of Islam appeals to men from different backgrounds. Dawn-Marie Gibson investigates a number of themes including faith, family, and community, making use of archival research and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-06-15
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This book brings together a diverse set of clinicians, scholars, and researchers actively using systemic family therapy ideas within the context of ongoing or recent humanitarian intervention. The contributions focus on critical issues specific to the practice of family...
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Springer
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2016-06-15
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This book is the result of direct observation of the author born in Toraja, South Sulawesi, Indonesia. It provides a short description of many aspects of Toraja geography, government system, religion, population, education, health and medical care, language, social...
Editeur :
Editions L'Harmattan
Parution :
2016-06-15
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Nomino ergo sum
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In diesem Sammelband werden Probleme in der Evaluation von Studium und Lehre aufgezeigt und ein möglicher Umgang mit ihnen erörtert. Obgleich Evaluationen in Form von Befragungen Studierender zur Lehr- und Studiensituation flächendeckend verbreitet sind, weisen die...
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Springer VS
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2016-06-15
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Climate is an enduring idea of the human mind and also a powerful one. Today, the idea of climate is most commonly associated with the discourse of climate-change and its scientific, political, economic, social, religious and ethical dimensions. However, to understand...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2016-06-15
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An unflinching account of what it means to be a young black man in America today, and how the existing script for black manhood is being rewritten in one of the most fascinating periods of American history. How do you learn to be a black man in America? For young black...
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Bold Type Books
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2016-06-14
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Political Science has traditionally employed empirical research and analytical resources to understand, explain and predict political phenomena. One of the long-standing criticisms against empirical modeling targets the static perspective provided by the model-invariant...
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Wiley
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2016-06-13
Collection :
Wiley Series in Computational and Quantitative Social Science
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This book documents and investigates the stories we have told and continue to tell about technology—now the dominant feature of our civilization—in fiction, non-fiction, film, and advertising. It answers important questions about the meanings people ascribe to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-11
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This book brings together formally disparate literatures and debates on disability and technology in a way that captures the complex interplay between the two. Drawing on disability studies, technology studies and clinical studies, the book argues that interdisciplinary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-06-11
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This book presents the results of empirical research conducted by the authors, who personally surveyed the people they met on each and every street, square and public space in Budapest. It has four extensive chapters that discuss urban change and structure in Budapest...
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Springer
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2016-06-11
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Transforming Culture offers a discussion and exploration of American work culture that can serve as a guide for organizational-culture change through the description and explanation of a model for change used at GM. The book describes the model, discusses culture-change...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-11
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