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The View from the Cheap Seats draws together myriad non-fiction writing by international phenomenon and Sunday Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman. From Make Good Art, the speech that went viral, to pieces on artists and legends including Terry Pratchett and Lou Reed,...
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Headline
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2016-05-31
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Emese Domahidi analysiert in dieser Studie anhand eines umfassenden systematischen Reviews die bislang unübersichtliche Forschungsliteratur zum Zusammenhang von Online-Mediennutzung und wahrgenommenen sozialen Ressourcen. Zunächst skizziert sie die theoretische...
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Springer VS
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2016-05-30
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This book offers a distinctive and novel approach to state-sponsored violence, one of the major problems facing humanity in the previous and now the twenty-first century. It addresses the question: how is it possible that large numbers of ordinary men and women are able...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-05-30
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The authors discuss the impact of foreign aid and tackle the question of why assessing the impact of aid is so difficult.The authors focus on peer-reviewed, cross-country studies published over the last decade and draw together some global-level assessments, considering...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-05-30
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This volume explores which relations produce or maintain masculinities
and certain gendered systems of power and the consequences of these gender
constructions that further gender research. To understand the meanings of
masculinity/masculinities and relationalities as...
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Springer
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2016-05-30
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This unique collection brings together international contributors from a range of disciplines to explore crime and responses to crime through a religious/faith-based lens. At a time when religion is under the media spotlight in terms of religiously-motivated hate crime,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-05-28
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The objective of this volume is to showcase the contemporary state of research on recognizing and evaluating the performance of stone age weapons from a variety of viewpoints, including investigating their cognitive and evolutionary significance. New archaeological...
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Springer
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2016-05-28
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This book originates from the work of contributors to initiatives and global networks promoting and pursuing lines of enquiry that recognise and probe relationships between sustainable consumption, design and production, and the implications of those relationships for...
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Springer
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2016-05-28
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This volume applies a systems science perspective to complex policy making dynamics, using the case of Indonesia to illustrate the concepts. Indonesia is an archipelago with a high heterogeneity. Her people consist of 1,340 tribes who are scattered over 17,508 islands....
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Springer
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2016-05-27
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Der Band entwirft Grundrisse einer kritischen Theorie des Antiziganismus, präsentiert aktuelle empirische Forschungsbefunde und entwickelt Handlungslinien für die politische Bildungsarbeit gegen Antiziganismus.
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Springer VS
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2016-05-27
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In this volume, twelve experts on Latin American politics investigate the ways in which the interaction between legislative institutions and the policy positions of key actors affects the initiation and passage of legislation, covering seven Latin American Countries:...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-05-27
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Few trends have had as much impact on television as formats have in recent years. Long confined to the fringes of the TV industry, they have risen to prominence since the late 1990s. Today, they are a global business with hundreds of programmes adapted across the world...
Editeur :
Polity
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2016-05-27
Collection :
Global Media and Communication
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The idea of progress guided human expectations and actions for over two centuries. From the Enlightenment onwards, it was widely believed that the condition of humankind could be radically improved. History had embarked on an unstoppable forward trajectory, realizing...
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Polity
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2016-05-27
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This book employs the image of “shrapnel,” bits of scattered metal that can hit purposeful targets or unwitting bystanders, to narrate the story of workplace power and gender discrimination. The project interweaves stories of gender shrapnel with an examination of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-05-27
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The Globalisation of Hate: Internationalising Hate Crime? is the first book to examine the impact of globalisation on our understanding of hate speech and hate crime. Bringing together internationally acclaimed scholars with researchers, policy makers and practitioners...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-05-26
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This book presents a detailed study on Aligarh’s urban fringe, focusing on the livelihood of the villagers who have lived there for generations, and on that of the migrants residing in the villages. As a Class-I city, located in the most populated state (Uttar Pradesh)...
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Springer
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2016-05-25
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Many people in the Western world are concerned that the social fabric of societies is fraying. This book constitutes the first-of-its-kind systematic account of social cohesion, from theory through methodology to empirical evidence. Readers are introduced to the...
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Springer
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2016-05-25
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The first of its kind, this book focuses on empirical studies into creative output that use and test the systems approach.The collection of work from cultural studies, sociology, psychology, communication and media studies, and the arts depicts holistic and innovative...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-05-25
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This volume examines how volunteers and non-profit programs encourage institutional change in prisons and offer individual support and services to people who are housed behind bars. Through a diverse set of chapters, including two that are co-written by current...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-05-25
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The Globalization of Hate: Internationalizing Hate Crime? is the first book to examine the impact of globalization on our understanding of hate speech and hate crime. Bringing together internationally acclaimed scholars with researchers, policy makers and practitioners...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-05-25
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