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The book deals with the analysis of key political actors in the ‘new democracies’ from Central and Eastern Europe. It is focused on character of elites, particularly political ones, and their role in the process of societal change.The author argues that elite...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-04-22
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This textbook offers a brief overview of the main philosophical schools of the two most significant cultures in ancient Asia, from where these thoughts have spread widely – it concerns ancient India and China. Most important philosophical concepts of that region like...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-04-22
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This textbook offers a brief overview of the basic approaches to the scientific scrutiny of religion. To remain uninterested in examining religion is more difficult than examining any other object of research. In relation to issues of religion, we cannot stand as...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-04-22
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Im Jahre 1896 erwarb die Nationalgalerie in Berlin als erstes Museum einer europäischen Metropole – noch vor Paris – Werke der französischen Impressionisten. Ihr Direktor Hugo von Tschudi setzte sich damit bis zu seiner Demission 1909 über die wilhelminische...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-04-22
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This textbook discusses and systemises several selected topics of philosophical anthropology. The problem of man cannot be grasped through only one main principle or aspect (as the principle of his or her «humanity»). The chapters of this book rather outline several...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-04-22
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This book deals with the relationship between the catholicity of the Church and ethnicity. Churches confess their «catholicity» – which means that they declare that their members belong to one community; but at the same time, the churches are often internally divided...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-04-22
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The last decade has seen a growing body of research about globalization and climate change in the Caribbean. This collection is a significant addition to the literature on a topic that is of critical importance to the region. It explores research from a number of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-21
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Kinship, Love, and Life Cycle in Contemporary Havana, Cuba is an ethnographic analysis of gender, kinship, and love in contemporary Cuba. The book documents how low-income Havana residents negotiate their social relations through gendered caring practices over the life...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-21
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This insightful book examines the Black African diaspora in Britain through an examination of its demography, recent patterns of migration, changing patterns of residence, and socio-economic position. It provides an analysis of the areas where Black Africans face...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-20
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This book takes up the queer girl as a represented and rhetorical figure within film, television and video. In 1987, Canada’s Degrassi Junior High featured one of TV’s first queer teen storylines. Contained to a single episode, it was promptly forgotten within both the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-20
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This book seeks to enhance the cultural dimension of sustainable development and particularly focuses on minor historic centers and their natural and rural landscapes. In a society becoming ever more globalized, without territorial restrictions in the production of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-04-19
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This multidisciplinary collection of nine previously unpublished essays presents new research in three interlocking domains: tribal history with a special emphasis on Native women in the Southeast, language revitalization efforts and the narrative knowledge inherent in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-04-19
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The serial killer has become an obsession ever since Jack the Ripper became a media sensation, embedding a new and horrifying type of murderer into our cultural consciousness – one who kills darkly and in the dark. All popular media – print, radio, television, and so on...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-04-19
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This volume presents multiple idiographic, archaeological studies of vernacular watercraft from North America and the Caribbean. Rather than attempt to synthesize all vernacular types, this volume focuses on ship construction data recovered through archaeological...
Editeur :
Springer
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2016-04-19
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This groundbreaking anthology examines the phenomenon of crime and our historical understanding – and misunderstanding – of the criminal mind through the lens of the humanities, unpacking foundational concepts in criminology and criminal investigative analysis through...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-04-19
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Within the context of the Lutheran Church in Nigeria, Gongola Diocese, this book examines the issues of the interpretation, transmission, and appropriation of the doctrine of justification by faith alone. Using contextualization as the main tool in this exploration,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-04-19
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The Handbook of International Crisis Communication Research articulates a broader understanding of crisis communication, discussing the theoretical, methodological, and practical implications of domestic and transnational crises, featuring the work of global scholars...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-04-18
Collection :
Handbooks in Communication and Media
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Der vorliegende Band liefert fundierte Analysen zur
theoretischen Einordnung eines aktuellen gesellschaftlichen Phänomens zwischen
innovativen, wertverändernden und zugleich disruptiven Technologien sowie dem
gesellschaftlichen und kulturellen Wandel.
Lifelogging, die...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2016-04-15
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About 9,000 Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany settled in Australia between 1933 and 1945, a small fraction of the hundreds of thousands who fled. Although initially greeted with a mixed reception as «enemy aliens», some of these refugees remained and made a significant...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-04-15
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Die Monografie umreißt die polonistische Textsortenforschung in ihren wichtigsten Strömungen und Entwicklungslinien. Teil I führt in den theoretischen Kontext ein und stellt das Begriffsinstrumentarium der Forschungsdisziplin vor. Es wird dabei eine integrative...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-04-15
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