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In 1994, David Hernandez, a small-time drug-dealer in Spanish Harlem, got out of the drug business and turned his life over to God. After he joined Victory Chapel-a vibrant Bronx-based Pentecostal church-he saw his life change in many ways: today he is a member of the...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-01-04
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Language, Sexuality, and Power: Studies in Intersectional Sociolinguistics examines the diversity of sexuality as a social and linguistic phenomenon. Bringing together work on Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America and the Middle East, the volume explores...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-01-04
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Dieses essential klärt den vielschichtigen Begriff der Sicherheit, untersucht die Verantwortung für die Schaffung von Sicherheit und diskutiert, ob es umfassende Sicherheit überhaupt geben kann. Sicherheit ist ein Grundbedürfnis des Menschen – und gleichzeitig ist...
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Springer VS
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2016-01-04
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Das Buch untersucht die Geschichte eines der großen Automobilhersteller und der traditionsreichen Marke Audi erstmals im Spiegel ihrer Werbung. Die Autorin versteht Audi-Werbung als Kulturgut, das als zeitgeschichtliches Phänomen die Erforschung der Kulturgeschichte...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-01-04
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This book is based on detailed interviews with a group of Irish women who have experienced marital separation. It links the women’s accounts with literature on the values and beliefs about marriage, women and family which were prevalent when they were growing up in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-01-04
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Known around the world as a bastion of Catholicism and machismo, Latin America has emerged in recent years as the undisputed gay rights leader of the Global South. Even more surprising is that several Latin American nations have surpassed many developed nations,...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-01-04
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Featuring sixteen contributions from recognized authorities in their respective fields, this superb new mapping of women's writing ranges from feminine middlebrow novels to Virginia Woolf's modernist aesthetics, from women's literary journalism to crime fiction, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-03
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What is literary noir? How do British and American noir thrillers relate to their historical contexts? In considering such questions, this study ranges over hundreds of novels, analysing the politics and poetics of noir from the hard-boiled fiction of Hammett, Chandler...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-03
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This edited collection outlines the accomplishments, shortcomings, and future policy prospects of the 2005 UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, arguing that the Convention is not broad enough to confront the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-01-01
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This book reviews the key controversies surrounding the police power to stop and search members of the public. It explores the history and development of these powers, assesses their effectiveness in tackling crime and their impact on public trust and confidence as well...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-12-31
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Making European Citizens examines the forms of transnational citizenship developing in Europe. Active citizenship involves more than simply voting. Achieving mobilization at a transnational level may involve new democratic techniques and skills. The volume explores how...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-12-31
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Psychoanalysis has always grappled with its Jewish origins, sometimes celebrating them and sometimes trying to escape or deny them. Through exploration of Freud's Jewish identity, the fate of psychoanalysis in Germany under the Nazis, and psychoanalytic theories of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-12-31
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This book offers a provocative account of interdisciplinary research across the neurosciences, social sciences and humanities. Rooting itself in the authors' own experiences, the book establishes a radical agenda for collaboration across these disciplines. This book...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-12-30
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This ground-breaking work provides the first history of ideas about the sexual child in modernity. Beginning with twenty-first century panics about sexualization, the authors address why the sexual child excites such powerful emotions in the Anglophone west.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-12-30
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The Revelations of Asher: Toward Supreme Love in Self is an endarkened, feminist, new literacies event. It critically and creatively explores Black women’s terror in love. With poetry, prose, and analytic memos, Jeanine Staples shows how a group of Black women’s talk...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2015-12-30
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Diese Arbeit untersucht Improvisationsprozesse (creativity in performance) aus einer soziologischen Perspektive unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Dimensionen von Handeln, Interagieren und Wissen. Die Soziologie entwickelte in den letzten Jahren ein zunehmendes...
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Springer VS
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2015-12-29
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Cyber Ireland explores, for the first time, the presence and significance of cyberculture in Irish literature. Bringing together such varied themes as Celtic mythology in video games, Joycean hypertexts and virtual reality Irish tourism, the book introduces a new strand...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-12-29
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This book brings together thirteen timely essays from across the globe that consider a range of 'mediated youth cultures', covering topics such as the phenomenon of dance imitations on YouTube, the circulation of zines online, the resurgence of roller derby on the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-12-29
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Currently, we are witnessing a «border game» with participants on a global scale. The massive movement of illegal immigrants and refugees who have arrived in Europe over the last few months has led political leaders, activists’ movements and anonymous citizens to...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2015-12-29
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How can change in cultural Policy be explained? Through a comparative and historical analysis, this research sheds new light on the emergence, institutionalization and transformation of the cultural policies of two major Latin American countries: Mexico and Argentina....
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2015-12-29
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