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This book studies the relationship between women, ageing and celebrity. Focusing on an array of case studies and star/celebrity images, it aims to examine the powerful, contradictory and sometimes celebratory ways in which celebrity culture offers a crucial site for the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-08-11
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The inspiring story of three young Sudanese boys who were driven from their homes by civil war and began an epic odyssey of survival, facing life-threatening perils, ultimately finding their way to a new life in America “A moving, beautifully written account, by...
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PublicAffairs
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2015-08-11
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This book identifies risk and protective factors influencing routes into, through and out of sexual exploitation and sex work. It explores how the sense made of key childhood and adult experiences influences the ability to manage roles and identities and choices they...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-08-11
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Travelling intensively to and for work helps but also challenges people to find ways of balancing work and personal life. Drawing on a large European longitudinal study, Mobile Europe explores the diversity and ambivalence of mobility situations and the implications for...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-08-11
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Named Sports Illustrated's best football book of all time and a #1 NYT bestseller, this is the classic story of a high school football team whose win-loss record has a profound influence on the town around them. Return once again to the timeless account of the Permian...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2015-08-11
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Ethnicity and ethnic parties have often been portrayed as a threat to political stability. This book challenges the notion that the organization of politics in heterogeneous societies should overcome ethnicity. Rather, descriptive representation of ethnic groups has...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-08-10
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Japanese animation has been given fulsome academic commentary in recent years. However, there is arguably a need for a more philosophically consistent and theoretically integrated engagement. While this book covers the key thinkers of contemporary aesthetic theory, it...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-08-10
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This book explores the literary and cultural history behind certain Christmas and Halloween traditions, and examines the way that they have moved into broadcasting. It demonstrates how these horror traditions have become more domestic and personal, and how they provide...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-08-10
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Gabriel Stängle untersucht, wie die Schüler einer Realschule die Prozesse sozialen Lernens wahrnehmen und wie sich das am häufigsten in Deutschland verwendete Life-Skills-Programm „Erwachsen werden“ auf die sozialen Kompetenzen auswirkt. Mit Hilfe der Grounded Theory...
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Springer
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2015-08-10
Collection :
BestMasters
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This book focuses on assumptions underlying methods choice in program evaluation. Credible program evaluation extends beyond the accuracy of research designs to include arguments justifying the appropriateness of methods. An important part of this justification is...
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Springer
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2015-08-10
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A Companion to Heritage Studies BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO ANTHROPOLOGY A Companion to Heritage Studies “This Companion provides a gateway to heritage studies for students and scholars alike. Taken together, the essays testify to how exciting and dynamic this field has...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-08-10
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
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Die AutorInnen dieses Sammelbandes widmen sich zum einen empirischen Erhebungen zur kulturellen Infra- und Angebotsstruktur der Städte Hagen und Smolensk in Form halbstandardisierter mündlicher und schriftlicher Bürger- und Besucherbefragungen. Zum anderen befassen sie...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2015-08-10
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Wie versteht man Kunstwerke? Der vorliegende Band schildert verschiedene Methoden, mit denen man sich Werken der Bildenden Kunst nähern und das Gesehene in einen Text übersetzen kann. Entwickelt wird die Darstellung der Bildhermeneutik auf den Ebenen der didaktischen...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2015-08-08
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This book serves as an insightful ethnographic introduction to the language and oral traditions of the Inugguit, a sub-group of the Inuit who live in north-west Greenland. A unique work, it encompasses an overview of the grammar of Polar Eskimo – a language spoken by...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-08-07
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?Battlefields have been the object of fascination for millions of tourists and the subjects of elaborate interpretation projects. This volume will outline the process and results of developing the WWII Maritime Heritage Trail: Battle of Saipan Project. This book will...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-08-07
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Adopting a truly global, theoretical and multidisciplinary perspective, Media Pluralism and Diversity intends to advance our understanding of media pluralism across the globe. It compares metrics that have been developed in different parts of the world to assess levels...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-08-06
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This book presents a fascinating analysis of expertise and policy formation, based on an in-depth study of the UK Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution. The Commission provided expert advice to governments from 1970 to 2011. Often portrayed as a scientific body,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-08-06
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'The capacity to affect and to be affected'. This simple definition opens a world of questions - by indicating an openness to the world. To affect and to be affected is to be in encounter, and to be in encounter is to have already ventured forth. Adventure: far from...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2015-08-06
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The Politics of Agrarian Reform in Brazil examines the interrelationships among peasant mobilization, agrarian reform and cooperativism in contemporary Brazil. Specifically, it addresses the challenges facing peasant movements in their pursuit of political and economic...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-08-05
Collection :
Social Movements and Transformation
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Dieser Band behandelt nicht nur deskriptiv das Phänomen des Rechtsextremismus, sondern analysiert die konkreten Strategien von Akteuren und Organisationen des gesamten rechten Spektrums – ihre Grundlagen, Bedingungen und Ausprägungen auf allen Ebenen der Gesellschaft....
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2015-08-05
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