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This study investigates long-lasting cultural constructions of childbirth. Four symbolic patterns of childbirth emerge from the analysis of a variety of texts ranging from myths, philosophy, literature and religion to ethics of modern medicine. On a symbolic level «The...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-03-04
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One of the most exciting recent developments in archaeology and history has been the adoption of new perspectives which see human societies in the past-as in the present-as made up of networks of interlinked individuals. This view of people as always connected through...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-03-04
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The discipline of religious studies has historically tended to focus on discrete ritual mistakes occurring in the context of individual performances as outlined in ethnographic or sociological studies; scholars have largely overlooked the extensive discussions of ritual...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-03-04
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Der thematische Fokus dieses Sammelbandes liegt auf den scheinbaren Abweichungen von der Norm, der diskursiven Vermittlung "schöner" Körper durch Bild und Text sowie auf den Methoden der Körperinszenierung und -optimierung. Neue Aspekte hinsichtlich dominanter...
Editeur :
Centaurus Verlag & Media
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2016-03-04
Collection :
Feministisches Forum
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Articulations of Capital offers an accessible, grounded, yet theoretically-sophisticated account of the geographies of global production networks, value chains, and regional development in post-socialist Eastern and Central Europe. Proposes a new theorization of global...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2016-03-03
Collection :
RGS-IBG Book Series
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This edited volume brings together experts from around the world to provide coverage and analysis of infrastructure's role in Internet governance, both now and in the future. Never in history have conflicts over Internet governance attracted such widespread attention....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-03-02
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Since the Second World War, art crime has shifted from a relatively innocuous, often ideological crime, into a major international problem, considered by some to be the third-highest grossing criminal trade worldwide. This rich volume features essays on art crime by the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-03-02
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In her latest book, Dr. Louise Kaplan, author of the groundbreaking Female Perversions , explores the fetishism strategy, a psychological defense that aims to tame, subdue, and if necessary, murder human vitalities. Through an exploration of such cultural phenomena as...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-03-01
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We may know pornography when we see it, but the business of pornography is a surprisingly elusive subject. Reliable figures about the industry are difficult to come by and widely disputed, but one matter that is hardly debatable is that pornography is a major and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-03-01
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Broken Three Times is a story about child abuse in America. It begins with snapshots from a mother's abusive childhood, then fast-forwards to her family's first involvement with Connecticut protective services when her children are eleven and ten. After a brief...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-03-01
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Although white-collar crime has caused a substantial amount of damage on both the individual and societal levels, it often ranks below street crime as a matter of public concern. Thus, white-collar crime remains an ambiguous and even controversial topic among academics,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-03-01
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*WINNER OF THE 2017 PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION* 'Beautifully written, thought-provoking, and unforgettable ... If you want a good understanding of how the issues that cause poverty are intertwined, you should read this book' Bill Gates, Best Books of 2017'Essential....
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Penguin
Parution :
2016-03-01
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This book is concerned with the contexts, nature and quality of the participation of young people in European democratic life. The authors understand democracy broadly as both institutional politics and civic cultures, and a wide range of methods are used to analyse and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-02-29
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Transforming Post-Catholic Ireland is the first major book to explore the dynamic religious landscape of contemporary Ireland, north and south, and to analyse the island's religious transition. It confirms that the Catholic Church's long-standing 'monopoly' has well and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-02-26
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Superintendents play a large role in the formation of relationships and networks within their neighborhood; and yet, no study in social science has focused on them. Williams closes this knowledge gap through ethnographic fieldwork, providing an in-depth analysis of the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-02-26
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Walt Whitman wrote: «The real war will never get into the books.» To this day, however, American soldier-authors write about their war and translate traumatic experiences into language accessible to the reader. Veterans of the recent Iraq war do not differ here. Joining...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-02-26
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Kulturkritik ist oft als ein spezifisch deutsches Phänomen beschrieben worden. Seit Sterns Studie über «Kulturpessimismus als politische Gefahr» war das Augenmerk vermehrt auf die Nähe zum Nationalismus gerichtet. Seitdem verblieb die deutscheKulturkritik im...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-02-26
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This volume constitutes a first step towards an ever-deferred interdisciplinary dialogue on cultural traits. It offers a way to enter a representative sample of the intellectual diversity that surrounds this topic, and a means to stimulate innovative avenues of...
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Springer
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2016-02-26
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Claudio
Kullmann legt die erste umfassende Studie zur jüngeren Entwicklung der
Deutschen Katholikentage vor. Mit einer Zusammenstellung aus quantitativen und
qualitativen Methoden wie statistischen Verfahren, Expertenbefragung und
Netzwerkanalyse untersucht er vor dem...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2016-02-25
Collection :
Politik und Religion
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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 ORWELL PRIZEThe remarkable story of a unique series of studies that have touched the lives of almost everyone in Britain todayOn 3rd March 1946 a survey began that is, today, the longest-running study of human development in the world, growing to...
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Penguin
Parution :
2016-02-25
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