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This volume captures the domestication of mobile communication technologies by families in Asia, and its implications for family interactions and relationships. It showcases research on families across a spectrum of socio-economic profiles, from both rural and urban...
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Springer
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2016-02-04
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This book intervenes in discussions of the fate of nationalism and national identity by exploring the relationship between state appropriation of marketing and branding strategies on the one hand, and, on the other, the commercial mobilization of nationalist discourses.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-02-03
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This book considers positions refugees take relative to the state, humanitarian actors and faith-based organisations in the humanitarian field. Attention is drawn to refugee agency as they negotiate circumstances of considerable constraint demonstrating relational...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-02-03
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This Year Book, now in its 115th year, provides insight into major trends in the North American Jewish communities and is the Annual Record of the North American Jewish Communities. The first two chapters of Part I examine Jewish immigrant groups to the US and Jewish...
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Springer
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2016-02-03
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Der demographische Wandel betrifft nicht nur die Allgemeinbevölkerung, sondern ebenso Menschen mit Einschränkungen in der Teilhabe. Vor diesem Hintergrund ergeben sich Herausforderungen, wie z. B. autonomes Handeln im hohen Alter sichergestellt oder die Lebensqualität...
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Springer VS
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2016-02-03
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'Learning Bodies’ addresses the lack of attention paid to the body in youth and childhood studies. Whilst a significant range of work on this area has explored gender, class, race and ethnicity, and sexualities – all of which have bodily dimensions – the body is...
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Springer
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2016-02-03
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In Border Lives, Sergio Chávez moves past Tijuana's notorious image as a hub of sex, drugs, and crime to tell the story of the diverse group of individuals who use both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border as a resource to construct their livelihoods. Based on ethnographic...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-02-03
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This book fills a gap in both literary and feminist scholarship by offering the first major study of femme fatales in hardboiled crime fiction. Maysaa Jaber shows that the criminal literary figures in the genre open up powerful spaces for imagining female agency in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-02-02
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Der Sammelband stellt Berichte aus der pädagogischen Geschlechterforschung vor, die zum einen grundlegende Perspektiven zur ethnographischen Methodologie formulieren und zum anderen konkrete Forschungsergebnisse aus ethnographischen Projekten im Kontext von Kindheit und...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2016-02-02
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Kinder, Kindheiten und Kindheitsforschung
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It has long been known that the pathway through the criminal justice system for those with mental health needs is fraught with difficulty. This interdisciplinary collection explores key issues in mental health, crime and criminal justice, including: offenders' rights;...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-02-02
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This book deals with the often-neglected link between indigenous languages, media and democracy in Africa. It recognizes that the media plays an amplifying role that is vital to modern-day expression, public participation and democracy but that without the agency to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-02-02
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In the hard sciences, which can often feel out of grasp for many lay readers, there are "great thinkers" who go far beyond the equations, formulas, and research. Minds such as Stephen Hawking philosophize about the functions and nature of the universe, the implications...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-02-02
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American charitable giving veers from the hyperbolically generous to the hyperbolically stingy. On some days, no one has a quarter to spare; in times of disaster, Americans will put their lives on hold to build houses for those displaced by hurricanes. The crucial...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-02-01
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The notion that an individual accused of a crime is presumed innocent until proven guilty is one of the cornerstones of the American criminal justice system. However, the presumption of innocence creates a number of practical and theoretical issues, particularly...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-02-01
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Dieses Buch stellt die Vielfalt jüdischen Lebens in Europa von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart dar. Ausgewiesene Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler aus Judaistik, Geschichte, Kunstgeschichte, Literaturwissenschaft und Katholischer Theologie beschreiben und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-02-01
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Welche Positionierungsräume öffnet und schließt das Genderregime Schule und wie gehen SchülerInnen damit um? Diesen Fragen gehen Monika Jäckle, Sandra Eck, Meta Schnell und Kyra Schneider nach und zeigen, wie Judith Butlers theoretische Ausarbeitungen zu...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2016-01-29
Collection :
Theorie und Praxis der Diskursforschung
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Zarah De Luca-Hellwig schließt in
ihrem Buch eine wesentliche Forschungslücke im Bereich der
Gender-Rhetorik, indem sie die Heterogenität der Geschlechtsklassen
in Bezug auf die Verwendung performativer, argumentativer oder
stilistischer Mittel belegt. Zugleich geht sie...
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Springer VS
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2016-01-29
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Der Autor zeigt auf, dass die Idee der Freiheit für Karl Jaspers die Grundlage seines politischen Denkens und seiner politischen Ethik darstellt. Jaspers beschreibt, dass der Mensch aus Freiheit und Verantwortung heraus handeln soll, wobei die Motivatoren dafür Vernunft...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-01-29
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How was it possible for a well-educated nation to support a regime that made it a crime to think for yourself? This was the key question for the Stuttgart-based author Anna Haag (1888–1982), the democratic feminist whose anti-Nazi diaries are analysed in this book. Like...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-01-29
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This monograph examines the influence of ideational and socio-economic factors on Japanese marriage and fertility behaviour. It also investigates the historical change in attitudes toward partnership and family in Japan, which, if current trends continue, can lead to...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-01-28
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