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The book offers a valuable resource for students and statisticians whose work involves survey sampling. An estimation of the population parameters in finite and fixed populations assisted by auxiliary variables is considered. New sampling designs dependent on moments or...
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Springer
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2015-06-13
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Nachbarschaft erfährt aktuell in nationalen wie regionalen Programmen, in städtischen Leitpapieren und kommunalen Initiativen eine Hochkonjunktur. Ihr wird für die Erlangung von Gemeinschaft(en) im Lokalen eine besondere Rolle zugesprochen und sie kann – so die...
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Springer VS
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2015-06-12
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Sozialraumforschung und Sozialraumarbeit
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This book is a critical examination of certain basic issues and themes crucial to understanding how ethics currently interfaces with health care and biomedical research. Beginning with an overview of the field, it proceeds through a delineation of such key notions as...
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Springer
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2015-06-11
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This interdisciplinary reader offers a fascinating exploration of the intersection of biopolitics and utopia by employing a range of theoretical approaches. Each essay provides a unique application of the two concepts to topics spanning the social sciences and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-06-10
Collection :
Palgrave Series in Bioethics and Public Policy
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Prostitution stellt einen tabuisierten Randbereich der Gesellschaft dar, über den kaum fundierte Informationen und wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse vorliegen. Frauen, welche in derProstitution tätig sind, haben mit gesellschaftlichen Vorurteilen, sozialen...
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Springer VS
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2015-06-10
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Through both cultural and literary analysis, this book examines gender in relation to late Qing and modern Chinese intellectuals, including Mu Shiying, Bai Wei, and Lu Xun. Tackling important, previously neglected questions, Zhu ultimately shows the resilience and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-06-10
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This book offers new perspectives on gender-based violence in three regions where the subject has been taboo in everyday discourse often due to patriarchal cultural norms that limit women’s autonomy. The contributions to this book provide rare insight into not only the...
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Springer
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2015-06-10
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?Grundlegende Prämisse der Soziologie der Emotionen ist es, dass Gefühle für alle Aspekte des Sozialen relevant sind. Wenn Emotionen von Individuen und soziale Kontexte in einem Wechselverhältnis zueinander stehen, stellt sich die Frage, welche Formen sozialer...
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Springer VS
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2015-06-10
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This volume analyzes changing relationships between religion and national identity in the course of European integration. Examining elite discourse, media debates and public opinions across Europe over a decade, it explores how accelerated European integration and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-06-09
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If societies have only memories of war, of cruelty, of violence, then why are we called humankind? This book marks a new trajectory in Memory Studies by examining cultural memories of nonviolent struggles from ten countries. The book reminds us of the enduring cultural...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-06-09
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This monograph is the first academic work to apply a neo-Marxist approach to 20th-century Canadian social realist novels, pursuing a refreshingly (neo-)Marxist approach to such issues as Bakhtinian notions of the novelistic form and dialogism as applied to Canadian...
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Springer
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2015-06-09
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This book explores how we make sense of ourselves when work is precarious and intrinsically alienating. We know little about how this experience of work impacts the lives of men and women, and less about the way individuals understand themselves in the face of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-06-09
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Das Qualifikationsprofil „Bewegung in der frühen Kindheit“ (BiK) beschreibt Kompetenzen frühpädagogischer Fachkräfte für den Anwendungs- und Bildungsbereich Bewegung. Dabei werden auf der Grundlage eines kompetenzorientierten Profils sowohl bewegungsrelevante Grundlagen...
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Springer VS
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2015-06-09
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In Wilhelm Genazinos Roman Das Glück in glücksfernen Zeiten wird nichts Geringeres verhandelt als die existenzielle Suche des Protagonisten nach einem sinnvollen Leben. Matthias Hoffmann untersucht das Buch als kritischen Gegenwartsroman und verbindet die Lektüre mit...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-06-09
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The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina is one of the darkest chapters in American history.The storm caused unprecedented destruction, and a toxic combination of government neglect and socioeconomic inequality turned a crisis into a tragedy. But among the rubble, there is...
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Bold Type Books
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2015-06-09
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«Human Integrated Touch» (HI-Touch) is a pastoral care approach that could be a response to the lingering problems of Christianity marred by an insufficient organic link between faith and daily life in Nigeria. Arguing for an integrated approach to humans and the human...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-06-09
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This book explores the emerging forms and functions of contemporary mobile borders. It deals with issues of security, technology, migration and cooperation while addressing the epistemological and political questions that they raise. The 'borderities' approach...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-06-08
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Combining ethnographic, semiotic, and performative approaches, this book examines texts and accompanying acts of writing of national commemoration. The commemorative visitor book is viewed as a mobilized stage, a communication medium, where visitors' public performances...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-06-08
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In the past few decades, Spanish football has undergone a significant transformation, both on and off the pitch. Llopis-Goig analyses these trends, questioning the role of football in contemporary Spanish society and examining the historical reasons for its social...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-06-07
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Agent-based modeling/simulation is an emergent approach to the analysis of social and economic systems. It provides a bottom-up experimental method to be applied to social sciences such as economics, management, sociology and politics as well as some engineering fields...
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Springer
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2015-06-05
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