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This book provides a framework for understanding the global flows of cuisine both into and out of Asia and describes the development of transnational culinary fields connecting Asia to the broader world. Individual chapters provide historical and ethnographic accounts...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-08-18
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This book attempts to read the character of Mary in the infancy narratives of Luke and Matthew alongside the lives of experiences of the Indian surrogate mother living a postcolonial India. Reading Mary through these lenses helps us see this mother and her actions in a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-08-18
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Revolutions, social movements, religious and ethnic conflict, nationalism and civil rights, and transnational movements: these forms of contentious politics combine in Charles Tilly's and Sidney Tarrow's Contentious Politics. The authors present a set of analytical...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-08-18
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On a Saturday morning in December 1973, a section of New York's West Side Highway collapsed under the weight of a truck full of asphalt. The road was closed, seemingly for good, and the 80,000 cars that traveled it each day had to find a new way to their destinations....
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PublicAffairs
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2015-08-18
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Welchen Einfluss hat unsere Persönlichkeit auf unser Leben? Und wie, wenn überhaupt, können wir sie verändern? Dieses Buch zu lesen ist wie eine Einführungsvorlesung eines charmanten, geistreichen und bewunderten Professors zur Persönlichkeitspsychologie … Mein Ich, die...
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Springer Spektrum
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2015-08-18
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Youth crime and youth violence blights our communities and shapes the lives of many, whether they are victims, perpetrators or family members. This book examines the application of psychological thinking and practice when working with young people who display high risk...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-08-17
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This open access book examines the question of collecting and disseminating data on ethnicity and race in order to describe characteristics of ethnic and racial groups, identify factors of social and economic integration and implement policies to redress discrimination....
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Springer
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2015-08-17
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IMISCOE Research Series
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Formally, ownership of ideas is legally impossible, and can never be globally secured. Yet, in very real and significant ways these limits have been undone. In principle, ideas cannot be owned, yet, undoing the distinction between ideas and tangible manifestations, the...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2015-08-17
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Die Komplexität des Geschehens in der Sozialversicherung nimmt stetig zu. Zur Lösung der sich daraus ergebenden Problemstellungen ist auf dem Feld der Sozialversicherung eine Vielzahl von Disziplinen (u. a. Rechtswissenschaft, Ökonomie, Medizin, Informatik, Psychologie,...
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Springer VS
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2015-08-14
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The book takes a close look at the social dimensions of robotics. It examines some of the projects on which robotic engineers are presently working, explores the dreams and hopes connected with these undertakings and determines if there is a relation between automation...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-08-14
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Prosperity Gospel, a controversial strand in global Christianity, relates material wealth to divine blessing. Originating in American Pentecostal milieus, it is most successful in Africa. Authors from four continents present interdisciplinary, multi-sited and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-08-14
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??This brief summarizes the results of a two-year, international research project covering drug addiction treatment versus punishment in Austria, Poland, and Spain. It features: -An analysis of the national drug-related legislation and its application in these countries...
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Springer
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2015-08-14
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The added value of mixed methods research in poverty and vulnerability is now widely established. Nevertheless, gaps and challenges remain. This volume shares experiences from research in developed and developing country contexts on how mixed methods approaches can make...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-08-13
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The Dynamics of Jewish Latino Relationships centers around three themes: immigration, race and identity, and faith and religion. Each chapter explores an encounter that, for various reasons, has brought Latinos and Jews together on the same stage.
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Palgrave Pivot
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2015-08-13
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Robert Brückler erklärt, warum sich Demokratien in Krisensituationen wie der Irakkrise 2003 so deutlich in ihrem äußeren Konfliktverhalten unterscheiden. Mithilfe eines an Max Weber orientierten soziologischen Erklärungsmodells zeigt er auf, wie die Bedingungsfaktoren...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2015-08-13
Collection :
Studien zum Weber-Paradigma
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In the late 1930s the Lancashire town of Bolton witnessed a ground-breaking social experiment. Over three years, a team of ninety observers recorded, in painstaking detail, the everyday lives of ordinary working people at work and play - in the pub, dance hall, factory...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2015-08-13
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Recognized as a finalist for the CAE 2018 Outstanding Book Award!Part historic ethnography, part linguistic case study and part a mother’s memoir, Kisisi tells the story of two boys (Colin and Sadiki) who, together invented their own language, and of the friendship they...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2015-08-13
Collection :
New Directions in Ethnography
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Michael Bär untersucht Strukturen von Containerseehäfen im Ostseeraum, denn Containerterminals sind wichtige Schnittstellen bei der räumlichen Ausdehnung weltweit organisierter Transportlogistikabläufe. Der Autor nimmt eine Analyse zur logistischen Integration von...
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Springer VS
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2015-08-13
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?Forschung zu Gewalt in Paarbeziehungen und zu sexualisierter Gewalt steht, will sie nicht Ausblendungen reproduzieren und Artefakte erzeugen, vor besonderen methodischen Herausforderungen. Dies betrifft z.B. den Zugang zu Befragten, ethische Anforderungen und das...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2015-08-12
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Across the globe, more powers are being devolved to local and regional levels of government. This book provides an innovative analysis of such decentralisation in transition states in the Balkans. Using new and rich data, it shows how political elites use...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-08-11
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