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The claim that ?LGBT rights are human rights? encounters fierce opposition in many parts of the world, as governments and religious leaders have used resistance to ?LGBT rights? to cast themselves as defenders of traditional values against neo-colonial interference and...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2016-03-21
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What's the use of sociology? The question has been asked often enough and it leaves a lingering doubt in the minds of many. At a time when there is widespread scepticism about the value of sociology and of the social sciences generally, this short book by one of the...
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Polity
Parution :
2016-03-21
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This is the first book in Polity's new 'Urban Futures' series.At the beginning of the twenty-first century, proclamations rang out that gentrification had gone global. But what do we mean by 'gentrification' today? How can we compare 'gentrification' in New York and...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2016-03-21
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Urban Futures
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This book renders an uncompromising verdict on the 'scourge' of our millennium: modernism, itself the artifact of certain late Eurocentric propensities. Kanth argues that while modernism is possessed of some virtues, they are purchased at far too high a cost - indeed a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-03-19
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Does it make sense to speak of a European society, above and beyond its component states and regions? In this major new book William Outhwaite argues that it does. He goes beyond the study of individual states and specific regions of Europe to examine the changing...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2016-03-18
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The signing of the Convention on the protection of the Alps (Alpine Convention) by the Alpine States in 1991 heralded new practices and perspectives. This transnational project is intended to solve important challenges faced by the Alpine population. Convinced that the...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2016-03-18
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A la luz de los más recientes estudios jacobeos, escritos de peregrinación y la literatura ficcional o testimonial, en el volumen se contrastan relatos de viajeros a Compostela procedentes de los confines de Europa con la iconografía jacobea, incidiendo también en...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-03-18
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The Hatton Garden Heist captured the public's imagination more than another other crime sinceThe Great Train Robbery. It was supposed to make a fortune for a team of old time professional criminals. Their last hurrah. A final lucrative job that would send the old...
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Quercus
Parution :
2016-03-17
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This book demonstrates the benefits of applying a new interdisciplinary approach that combines global change and human mobility. The term "globility" was coined in the year 2000 when the commission with the same name was created by the International Geographical Union...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-03-16
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This edited text explores immigration detention through a global and transnational lens. Immigration detention is frequently transnational; the complex dynamics of apprehending, detaining, and deporting undocumented immigrants involve multiple organizations that...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-03-16
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Der Autor untersucht, wie Menschen, deren Renteneintritt oft noch Jahrzehnte entfernt ist, das schwierige Vorhaben privater Altersvorsorge angehen. Dabei zeigt er, dass sich die in Politik und Öffentlichkeit verbreitete Vorstellung einer rationalen Organisation des...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2016-03-16
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Work creates and transforms the social world. Its least predictable and most admired embodiment, artistic and scientific invention, seems to defy causal analysis and statistical regularities. Far more than the exploration of the conscious and infraconscious processes of...
Editeur :
Collège de France
Parution :
2016-03-16
Collection :
Leçons inaugurales
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The relatively frequent occurrence of rapid onset and very brief, but often florid, psychotic states, with periodic recurrence, alongside relatively low rates of PTSD and chronic psychosis, were unexpected findings from the 2004 East Timor Mental Health Study, conducted...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-03-16
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This volume presents state of the art analyses from scholars dealing with a range of demographic topics of current concern, including longevity, mortality and morbidity, migration, and how population composition impacts intergenerational transfer schemes. New...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-03-15
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Klinische Soziale Arbeit ist – analog zur klinischen Psychologie – ein Ansatz, der das professionelle Handeln ins Zentrum der Wissensbildung stellt. Am Beispiel Sozialer Arbeit in der Psychiatrie wird gezeigt, welche Bedeutung der Verknüpfung transdisziplinären Wissens...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2016-03-15
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Der vorliegende Band versammelt Beiträge, die untersuchen, wie touristische Erfahrungen medial verarbeitet werden, Medieninhalte und -formen die touristische Erfahrung prägen und welche Interaktionsordnungen und Erlebensstrukturen sich hieraus ergeben. Beim...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2016-03-15
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This volume brings together multidisciplinary, situated and nuanced analyses of contingent issues framing a rapidly changing India in the 21st century. It moves beyond the ready dichotomies that are often extended to understand India as a series of contrasts and offers...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-03-14
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Dieser Band widmet sich aktuellen Fragen zur
Darstellung von Recht und Gerechtigkeit in Filmen und Serien und den
transportierten Inhalten oder den Auswirkungen der Mediendarstellungen auf die
RezipientInnen bzw. den Wechselwirkungen mit Kriminaljustiz und...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2016-03-14
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Dieser Band informiert über die zentralen Werke der Geschichtsschreibung von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart z.B. von Caesar, Tacitus, Schedel, Mommsen, Michelet, Burckhardt, Spengler, Friedell, Ranke, Droysen, Braudel, Koselleck, Fritz Fischer, Osterhammel etc. Die...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2016-03-14
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Walter J. Ongs Standardwerk erweist sich vor dem Hintergrund des heutigen Wandels von Medien, Kultur und Gesellschaft als relevanter denn je: Es bietet in anschaulicher Weise Einblicke in den Charakter mündlicher und schriftlicher Gesellschaften und führt damit vor...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2016-03-11
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