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This book explores the environment and cultural context of Colombian political novels published between 1951 and 1987. Challenging the label of «novelas de la violencia», the author analyses them as products of their own historical time and takes into account their...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-11-03
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Kultur- und Alltagsgeschichte Hamburgs zur Zeit der Frühaufklärung sind bisher nur wenig erforscht. Diesen unbefriedigenden Forschungsstand beklagt Birgit Kiupel in ihren Studien zu den Libretti der Hamburger Gänsemarkt-Oper immer wieder, wenn sie nach Bezügen zwischen...
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Centaurus Verlag & Media
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2015-11-03
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Research polls, media interviews, and everyday conversations reveal an unsettling truth: citizens, while well-meaning and even passionate about current affairs, appear to know very little about politics. Hundreds of surveys document vast numbers of citizens answering...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-11-02
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From a private nature walk to an engrossing novel, humans spend a vast amount of time engaged in solitary activities. However, despite the fact that individual activities are a prevalent part of everyday life, most scholarly research has been devoted to social...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-11-02
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Agent-based modelling in economics Lynne Hamill and Nigel Gilbert, Centre for Research in Social Simulation (CRESS), University of Surrey, UK New methods of economic modelling have been sought as a result of the global economic downturn in 2008.This unique book...
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Wiley
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2015-11-02
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In spite of America's identity as a liberal democracy, the vile act of lynching happened frequently in the Southern United States over the course of the nation's history. Indeed, lynchings were very public events, and were even advertised in newspapers, begging the...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-11-02
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Hong Kong's anti-corruption agency, ICAC, is hailed as among the world's best having almost completely purged systemic corruption within a decade of its inception. This book explains howHong Kong maintains the myth of a clean city and examines the prevalence of white...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-11-01
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The book addresses different areas of corpus-based translation studies, including corpus-based study of translation features, translator’s style, norms of translation, translation practice, translator training and interpreting. It begins by tracing the development of...
Editeur :
Springer
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2015-10-31
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Maya Stagge beschäftigt sich im Rahmen einer qualitativen Querschnittsstudie damit, welchen Einfluss die kulturelle Pluralität in Teams der Altenpflege auf das Teamgeschehen, die Zusammenarbeit und die Pflegequalität hat. Die Autorin setzt sich aus verschiedenen...
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Springer VS
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2015-10-30
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In einer bundesweiten Untersuchung zur Offenbarungsbereitschaft nach sexualisierter Gewalt in der Kindheit wurden 58 qualitative Interviews mit Frauen und Männern geführt. Der Band präsentiert Motive für das oft lange Schweigen von Betroffenen und analysiert...
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Springer VS
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2015-10-30
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Exam Board: OCRLevel: A-levelSubject: SociologyFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Build students' confidence to tackle the key themes of the 2015 OCR A-Level Sociology specification with this clear and accessible approach delivered by a team of leading...
Editeur :
Hodder Education
Parution :
2015-10-30
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Die Arbeit widmet sich dem Phänomen Corporate Cultural Responsibility und seiner Bedeutung für das Handlungsspektrum von Kulturorganisationen in Deutschland. Dabei wird herausgearbeitet, wie Kulturakteure, die unter dem verstärkten Druck zur Drittmittelakquise stehen,...
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Springer VS
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2015-10-30
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Can we rebuild trust in a time of increasing conflict and paralysis? Or rather, can we build trust, for the first time, wide and strong enough to bring us together to work on the complex problems of our age?
Relations of trust have been weakened over the past century...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-10-30
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We are living in a time of crisis which has cascaded through society. Financial crisis has led to an economic crisis of recession and unemployment; an ensuing fiscal crisis over government deficits and austerity has led to a political crisis which threatens to become a...
Editeur :
Polity
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2015-10-30
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This volume explores the interrelations between bodily boundaries and vulnerabilities. It calls attention to the vulnerability of bodies as an essential aspect of having boundaries and being bound to other bodies. The volume advances an understanding of embodiment as...
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Springer
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2015-10-30
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This book explores seriousness in practice in the unique sports context of contemporary women's flat track roller derby. The author presents a stimulating argument for a sociology of seriousness as a productive contribution to understandings of gender, organization and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-10-29
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Will austerity never end? This timely and insightful book argues that austerity seeks to set the terms of political and economic life for the foreseeable future, extending techniques of exclusion to ever-greater sections of the population.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-10-29
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This book draws upon data collected over an 18 year period with over 1000 boys and young men across Northern Ireland. Providing critical reflections on violence, masculinity and education, it uses the voices and experiences of young men to inform and influence research,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-10-29
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Volunteering and its nonprofit organizations have commonly been analyzed in economic terms, with volunteering being referred to as "unpaid (productive) work". This economic definition has been around far longer than that of volunteering conceived of as leisure, which is...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-10-29
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S. Matthew Liao argues here that children have a right to be loved. To do so he investigates questions such as whether children are rightholders; what grounds a child's right to beloved; whether love is an appropriate object of a right; and other philosophical and...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-10-29
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