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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
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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...
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Springer VS
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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...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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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...
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Union Square & Co.
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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...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2015-10-06
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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
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2015-10-05
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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...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-10-05
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This book covers theoretical aspects of Catholic Religious Education in schools and examines them from multiple theoretical and contextual perspectives. It captures the contemporary academic and educational developments in the field of Religious Education while...
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Springer
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2015-10-05
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This work examines the valley of the Urubamba River in terms of vertical zonation, Incan impact on the environment, plant use, the history of exploration and the notion of discovery, the idea of land reform, and cultural contact with the European world. Winding its path...
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Springer
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2015-10-05
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Written in a clear and accessible style, with lots of examples from Anglo-American media, Gender and the Media offers a critical introduction to the study of gender in the media, and an up-to-date assessment of the key issues and debates. Eschewing a...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2015-10-02
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Beethoven is a classic study of the composer's music, written by one of the most important thinkers of our time. Throughout his life, Adorno wrote extensive notes, essay fragments and aides-memoires on the subject of Beethoven's music. This book brings together all of...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2015-10-02
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This book is the first to chronicle the story of Housing First (HF), a paradigm-shifting evidence-based approach to ending homelessness that began in New York City in 1992 and rapidly spread to other cities nationally and internationally. The authors report on the rise...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-10-02
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In the wake of the attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris on 7 January 2015, millions took to the streets to demonstrate their revulsion, expressing a desire to reaffirm the ideals of the French Republic: liberté, égalité, fraternité. But who were the millions...
Editeur :
Polity
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2015-10-02
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How does culture shape our thinking? In what ways do our social and cultural worlds enter into our mental worlds?How do the communities we belong to influence what we notice and what we ignore? What cultural variation do we see in cognition? What general patterns do we...
Editeur :
Polity
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2015-10-02
Collection :
Cultural Sociology
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Die empirisch fundierte Untersuchung von Laura Dobusch zum Diversity Management ermöglicht einen differenzierten Einblick in dessen Inklusionspotenzial für historisch benachteiligte Gruppen und offenbart gleichzeitig, dass Exklusionsrisiken fortbestehen oder dadurch...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2015-10-02
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Gesundheitsförderung - Rehabilitation - Teilhabe
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This revised edition of Pip Jones's extremely popular introduction to social theory, now benefiting from the collaboration of Shaun Le Boutillier and Liz Bradbury, has been carefully and thoroughly updated with the latest developments in this continually changing field....
Editeur :
Polity
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2015-10-02
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??This volume focuses on contemporary Confucianism, and collects essays by famous sinologists such as Guy Alitto, John Makeham, Tse-ki Hon and others. The content is divided into three sections – addressing the “theory” and “practice” of contemporary Confucianism, as...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-10-02
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Inequality in its many forms is becoming an ever greater problem in modern society. The revised edition of this popular book explains why it is so important to understand class and stratification, and how the tools used to analyse these divisions can help us to...
Editeur :
Polity
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2015-10-02
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Das Buch befasst sich chronologisch mit dem Zusammenhang von Jugendkulturen, populärer Musik, Sexualität und Geschlecht von Beginn der Bundesrepublik Deutschland bis in das neue Jahrtausend. Nach einem einleitenden Teil mit Erläuterungen zu den zentralen Themenfeldern...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2015-10-01
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Ethnographers rely on three related activities to conduct research in the field: observation, conversation, and participation. Observing others in their environments and using this data to inform and share conclusions is an essential part of any fieldworker's toolkit....
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-10-01
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