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Living at the intersection of multiple identities in the United States can be dangerous. This is especially true for Native women who live on the more than 56 million acres that comprise America’s Indian Country – the legal term for American Indian reservations and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2015-12-29
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Die Autorin untersucht den Traditionalisierungseffekt bei verheirateten und unverheirateten Paaren. Anders als in der bisherigen wissenschaftlichen Forschung sieht sie die Gründe für diesen in der Institution Familie. Erkenntnisse der Familiensoziologie und der Frauen-...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-12-29
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The decision to reject motherhood is the subject of several key works of literature in French since the new millennium. This book looks at first-person accounts of voluntary childlessness by women writing in French.The book explores how women narrate their decision not...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-12-29
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This unique work of scholarship explores contemporary issues of male spectatorship and the importance of biography for art criticism in the work of Tracy Chevalier, Eunice Lipton, Anna Banti, Kate Braverman, and Susan Vreeland. Drawing upon feminist concepts on the male...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2015-12-29
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The recent emergence and increasing visibility of Islam as Italy’s second religion is an issue of undeniable importance. It has generated an intense and often polarized debate that has involved all the cultural, political and religious institutions of the country and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-12-29
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This book reconstructs fundamental aspects of family organization across historical Poland-Lithuania, one of the largest political entities in early modern Europe. Using a plethora of quantitative measurements and demographic microsimulation, the author captures and...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2015-12-29
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This book sets out an integrated systems model which utilizes a public health approach and 'whole of society' philosophy for preventing and responding to child sexual abuse. It guides those engaged in policy, practice and planning concerning gender based violence and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-12-28
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How do progressive social movements deal with religious pluralism? In this book, Timothy Peace uses the example of the alter-globalisation movement to explain why social movement leaders in Britain and France reacted so differently to the emergence of Muslim activism.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-12-28
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Shi-xu critiques universalism in discourse studies in terms of the cultural consequences of its current white, western standpoint and advocates a culturally pluralist approach, a theory and research methodology from an innovative position between Eastern and Western...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-12-28
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Say Hello to Your Incoming Class—They're Not Millennials Anymore Generation Z is rapidly replacing Millennials on college campuses. Those born from 1995 through 2010 have different motivations, learning styles, characteristics, skill sets, and social concerns than...
Editeur :
Jossey-Bass
Parution :
2015-12-28
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This book problematizes the ways in which the discourses of colorblindness and post-raciality are articulated in the age of Obama. Pinder debunks the myth that race does not matter and reconsiders the presumptive hegemony of whiteness through the dialectics of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-12-27
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What does it mean to be middle class in contemporary global cities?What do the middle classes do to these cities and what do these cities do to the middle classes? Do the middle classes engage in social mix or are they focused on 'people like us'? Based on comparative...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-12-27
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These essays address one of the most challenging debates in contemporary European media studies: the transition of the traditional Public Service Broadcasters into Public Service Media, as they widen their remit to produce and distribute public service content across...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-12-26
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Offering a series of case studies of recent media controversies, this collection draws on new perspectives in cultural studies to consider a wide variety of images. The book suggest how we might achieve a more subtle understanding of controversial images and negotiate...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-12-26
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This is the first book to examine the discourse of reality television. Chapters provide rigorous case studies of the discourse practices that characterise a wide range of generic and linguistic/cultural contexts, including dating shows in China and Spain, docudramas in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-12-26
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Sex work continues to provoke controversial legal and public policy debates world-wide that raise fundamental questions about the state’s role in protecting individual rights, status quo social relations, and public health. This book unites ethnographic research from...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-12-23
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This unique volume explores a growing collaboration between the sport and health sectors to deliver innovative public health interventions in the community. It explores the role of sport and sports settings as a vehicle for achieving health outcomes, as well as some of...
Editeur :
Springer
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2015-12-23
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Burkhard Bierhoff fragt in diesem essential, ob mit einer nachhaltigen
Produktions- und Konsumorientierung ein ökologisches Desaster noch
verhindert werden kann und ob es eine Alternative zur Weltzerstörung
durch Konsum gibt. Denn die heutige Lebensweise wird von...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2015-12-23
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This book offers a new way to justify privacy based on a theory derived from Buddhist insights. It uses insights obtained from the Buddhist teachings on Non-Self to create an alternative theory of privacy. In doing so, the author first spells out the inherent...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-12-22
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This volume describes a 3.6 million-years-old partial skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis from the Woranso-Mille, central Afar, Ethiopia.This specimen is the first adult partial skeleton to be recovered since Lucy’s (A.L. 288-1) discovery in 1974. It is older than...
Editeur :
Springer
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2015-12-22
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