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This book analyses the relationship between the media and politics in new democracies in Europe and other parts of the world. It does so from both theoretical and empirical angles.
How is power being mediated in new democracies? Can media function independently in the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-10-08
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A Berlin Republic brings together writings on the new, united Germany by one of their most original and trenchant commentators, Jürgen Habermas. Among other topics, he addresses the consequences of German history, the challenges and perils of the post-Wall era, and...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2015-10-08
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Those who advocate ideas about "postmodernity" and "post-industrialism" offer radical critiques of existing social and political institutions. But they provide very little in place of those institutions. It is all very well to criticize the limitations of social...
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Polity
Parution :
2015-10-08
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In this book the authors examine the relations between work and time and explore the possibilities of developing new and more flexible working patterns.
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2015-10-08
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This book provides a concise and integrated overview of hypothesis testing in four important subject areas, namely linear and nonlinear models, multivariate analysis, and large sample theory. The approach used is a geometrical one based on the concept of projections and...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-10-08
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It’s exhausting, being Irish. The constant self-flagellation is enough to put anybody off their breakfast.Why are we so hard on ourselves? Is it the post-colonial overhang following centuries of oppression at the hands of a litany of foreign invaders? Or is it...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2015-10-08
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Das Handbuch stellt Studierenden mit Bachelor- und Masterabschlüssen soziologischer und sozialwissenschaftlicher Studiengänge das große Spektrum an Berufsfeldern wirklichkeitsnah vor und unterstützt sie dabei, berufliche Pläne zu konkretisieren, indem Strukturen von...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2015-10-07
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Using Kenneth Burke's concept of dramatism as a way of exploring multiple motivations in symbolic expression, Tibet on Fire examines the Tibetan self-immolation movement of 2011-2015. The volume asserts that the self-immolation act is an affirmation of Tibetan identity...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-10-07
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Heritage of Our Times is a brilliant examination of modern culture and its legacy by one of the most important and deeply influential thinkers of the 20th century. Bloch argues that the key elements of a genuine cultural tradition are not just to be found in the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2015-10-07
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Das vorliegende Buch nimmt Formen alltäglicher Routinen in den Blick, die meist nicht hinterfragt werden: Sie sind in sich evident und geben keinen Anlass zur Infragestellung. So betrachtet, ist der Alltag – zumindest subjektiv – ,sicher‘. Er ist soziale Kontrolle, die...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2015-10-07
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"Helga Nowotny's exploration of the forms and meaning of time in contemporary life is panoramic without in any way partaking of the blandness of a survey. From the artificial time of the scientific laboratory to the distinctively modern yearning for one’s own time, she...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2015-10-07
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This is a brilliant study of the nature of love in modern society. Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim argue that the nature of love is changing fundamentally, creating opportunities for democracy or chaos in personal life.
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2015-10-07
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In this timely new book Wellmer intervenes in the highly topical debates on modernity and post-modernity. Discussing the work of Adorno, Habermas, Peter Burger and Jean-François Lyotard, among others, he offers a penetrating analysis of the aesthetic, ethical and...
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Polity
Parution :
2015-10-07
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The people who inhabited Southwest Europe from 30,000 to 13,000 years ago are often portrayed as big game hunters – and indeed, in some locations (Cantabrian Spain, the Pyrenees, the Dordogne) the archaeological record supports this interpretation. But in other places,...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-10-07
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In diesem Handbuch wird der empirische Forschungsstand zum Thema „Kulturpublikum“ im deutschsprachigen Raum umfangreich und systematisch aufgearbeitet. Ausgehend von theoretischen, methodischen und begrifflichen Grundlagen der Kulturpublikumsforschung zeigen die...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2015-10-07
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Werewolf Histories is the first academic book in English to address European werewolf history and folklore from antiquity to the twentieth century. It covers the most important werewolf territories, ranging from Scandinavia to Germany, France and Italy, and from Croatia...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-10-06
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Throughout history, the nature and mystery of death has captivated artists, scientists, philosophers, physicians, and theologians. This eerie chronology ventures right to the borderlines of science and sheds light into the darkness. Here, topics as wide ranging as the...
Editeur :
Union Square & Co.
Parution :
2015-10-06
Collection :
Union Square & Co. Chronologies
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In Urban Land Rent, Anne Haila uses Singapore as a case study to develop an original theory of urban land rent with important implications for urban studies and urban theory. Provides a comprehensive analysis of land, rent theory, and the modern city Examines the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-10-06
Collection :
IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
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Damir Softic rekonstruiert die Karrierewege von Bundestagsabgeordneten mit Migrationshintergrund und erforscht die Bedingungen, unter denen Migranten erstmalig Zugang zur politischen Elite in Deutschland erhalten. Er analysiert die Widrigkeiten des politischen Aufstiegs...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2015-10-05
Collection :
Studien zur Migrations- und Integrationspolitik
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Making Sense of Self-Harm provides an alternative approach to understanding nonsuicidal self-injury; using Cultural Sociology to analyse it more as a practice than an illness and exploring it as a powerful cultural idiom of personal distress and social estrangement that...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-10-05
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