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The field of community psychology has focused on individuals' and groups' behavior in interaction with their social contexts, with an emphasis on prevention, early intervention, wellness promotion, and competency development. Over the past few decades, however,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-12-08
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"Key Concepts in Urban Studies is written in an accessible, concise way and introduces students to the key topics in urban studies. Drawing examples from different parts of the world, this authoritative resource exposes students to the diverse forms that cities take,...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2015-12-07
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Community reparation for young offenders involves unpaid work such as painting and decorating, litter picking and graffiti removal. Whilst remaining a major part of the youth justice landscape, concern has been raised about the poor quality of workplace provision.In...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2015-12-06
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As gender training is applied increasingly as a development solution to gender inequality, this book examines gender inequality in Pakistan's public sector and questions whether a singular focus on gender training is enough to achieve progress in a patriarchal...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-12-05
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This landmark collection brings leading scholars in the field of political communication to debate one of the most important questions of our age: Can the media serve democracy? For the media to be democratic, they must enter into a positive relationship with their...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-12-05
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State Voting Laws in America documents changing views on voting rights, emphasizing court rulings which shaped our understanding of what constitutes a legitimate right to vote.
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2015-12-05
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gesellschaftlich verbreitete und große Interesse an einem Leben als Aussteiger behandelt
Sascha Bachmann erstmals soziologisch, und widmet sich somit der Frage: „Was ist mit denen, die es durchziehen?“ Auf der Basis
empirischer Untersuchungen verschiedener Fälle und...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2015-12-05
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In this innovative treatment of the ethics of war, Ryan P. Cumming brings classical sources of just war theory into conversation with African American voices. The result is a new direction in just war thought that challenges dominant interpretations of just war theory...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-12-04
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Examining multi-agency working in response to anti-social behaviour, this book investigates the way in which the police, social work teams and the youth justice service work together on early intervention initiatives to help young people, and explores the complexities...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-12-04
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Weaving together a social history of the American beef industry with her own account of growing up in the shadow of her grandfather's cattle business, Halley juxtaposes the two worlds and creates a link between the meat industry and her own experience of the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-12-04
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Katherine Tonkiss offers a succinct account of constitutional patriotism theory, specifically arguing that it involves a commitment to free migration. She draws on qualitative research to explore the implications of this claim for the dynamics of post-national identity...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-12-04
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Andrew Taylor provides an overview of the origins, evolution, and impact of state failure since the 1990s. Avoiding quickly outdated country-based case studies, he focuses on failure as a process rather than an event, putting contemporary usage in a wider historical...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-12-04
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This book explores the nature of intimacy by revealing how the influence of individual, interpersonal and wider social factors create variations in self-disclosure, intimacy games and relationship habits. It describes how the dynamics of power and control in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-12-04
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A rich analysis of the discourses and figurations of 'crisis masculinity' around the turn of the twenty-first century, working at the intersection of performance and cultural studies and looking at film, television, drama, performance art, visual art and street theatre.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-12-04
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From Hollywood classics like Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights to the 1990s wave of Jane Austen films, adaptations of the British Nineteenth-century novel have been sensationally popular. This book examines how British and American filmmakers used the domestic novels of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-12-04
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Why have the minutiae of how parents raise their children become routine sources of public debate and policy making? This book provides in-depth answers to these features drawing on a wide range of sources from sociology, history, anthropology and psychology,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-12-04
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Offering a comprehensive overview of contemporary theoretical and programmatic issues in the fields of sustainability, culture, communication, development and social change, this book explores the relationship between communication and sustainability from a social...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-12-04
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This collection examines the diverse material cultures through which early modern women's writing was produced, transmitted, and received. It focuses on the ways it was originally packaged and promoted, how it circulated in its contemporary contexts, and how it was read...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-12-04
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Do participatory processes open a political space to marginalized groups and individuals? Or do they co-opt and coerce groups to reinforce existing inequitable relations? In an innovative comparative study which breaks with tradition this book explores these questions...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-12-04
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This book provides a fresh perspective on the emergence of public Muslim identities, traversing issues of Muslim-state engagement across government initiatives and church-state relations, across equalities agendas and the education system, the courts and the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-12-04
Collection :
Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series
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