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Through a discussion of diverse art and media such as apocalyptic thrillers, rap, and television, Swirski debunks the American political system, sieving out fact from a sea of bipartisan untruths. Engaging with close analysis and multiple case studies, this book forges...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-06-03
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In this sweeping narrative history from the Great Depression of the 1930s to the Great Recession of today, Caring for America rethinks both the history of the American welfare state from the perspective of care work and chronicles how home care workers eventually became...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-06-03
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Examining the role and impact of technology on creative practice, and how technology evolution determines the forms and format of an artist's work, this book contextualizes technological revolutions with earlier encounters between craft and innovation, endorsing a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-06-03
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Building Noah's Ark for Migrants, Refugees, and Religious Communities examines religion within the framework of refugee studies as a public good, with the spiritual and material use of religion shedding new light on the agency of refugees in reconstructing their lives...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-06-03
Collection :
Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
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In order to better understand processes of European integration, this book offers a new perspective that compares past experiences of change to current transitional moments at the European level. It addresses key questions about European society, EU integration and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-06-02
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This open access book explores how research and policymaking in the field of migrant integration have developed historically and how this interrelationship plays out in the strongly politicised climate of opinions on migration in Europe. It features interdisciplinary...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-06-02
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Das Handbuch vereint Beiträge aus dem Fachgebiet der Bevölkerungssoziologie und beinhaltet eine aktuelle und breit aufgestellte soziologische Auseinandersetzung zum Thema Freizeit. In drei großen Themenblöcken vermessen die Autoren den gegenwärtigen Stand der Forschung....
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Springer VS
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2015-06-02
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??Der wechselseitige Einfluss von Wissen und Freiheit (und damit Demokratie) in modernen, hochkomplexen Gesellschaften wie auch der Wandel ihrer Beziehungen im Laufe der Moderne ist eines der faszinierendsten Themen unseres Zeitalters. Es handelt sich dabei wohl kaum um...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2015-06-02
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Based on a heart-rending and much discussed series in the Washington Post, this is the story of one woman and her family living in the projects in Washington, D.C. A transcendent piece of writing, it won the Pulitzer Prize and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. For...
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Basic Books
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2015-06-02
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This is the first book to systematically describe the formation and historical changes of the Monpa people’s area (Monyul) through its nature, society, culture, religion, agriculture and historically deep ties with Bhutan, Tibet and the Tibetan Buddhist faith. The state...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-06-01
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This open access book collects ten essays that look at intra-regional migration in the Southern Balkans from the late Ottoman period to the present. It examines forced as well as voluntary migrations and places these movements within their historical context, including...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-06-01
Collection :
IMISCOE Research Series
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The United States is the world leader in incarcerating citizens. 707 people out of every 100,000 are imprisoned. If those currently incarcerated in the US prison system were a country, it would be the 102nd most populated nation in the world. Aside from looking at the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-06-01
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Der Band stellt über 100 zentrale Texte aus dem Bereich der Organisationsforschung vor. Jeder Beitrag ist nach einem einheitlichen Schema aufgebaut und geht den folgenden Fragen nach: In welchem Kontext ist der Text entstanden (wovon möchte er sich abgrenzen, an welche...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2015-06-01
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Miriam Ströing untersucht anhand quantitativer Analysen mit den Daten der Studie „Vermögen in Deutschland“ (ViD), welche reichen Personen auf verschiedene Art und Weise und aus unterschiedlichen Motiven gesellschaftliche Verantwortung übernehmen, und welche nicht. Auf...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2015-06-01
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Lethal Spots, Vital Secrets provides an ethnographic study of varmakkalai, or "the art of the vital spots," a South Indian esoteric tradition that combines medical practice and martial arts. Although siddha medicine is officially part of the Indian Government's...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-06-01
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The book presents an analysis of humour in a selection of British comedy productions.The conceptual integration theory devised by Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner, also known as blending, provides the tool for explaining the creation of humour in detail. It seems that...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-05-31
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There are alternatives to neoliberal market economies: basic income, the money of the common and degrowth. This study highlights the potential of dissent from the initial questioning of the dominant system to the creation of new political agendas. It discusses the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-05-31
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European culture has been greatly influenced by the Christian Church and Greek and Roman culture. However, the peoples of Europe’s remote past, whom the Greeks, Romans, and their medieval heirs called the «barbarians», also left their mark. Closely examining ancient and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-05-31
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One of the great problems among most theologians and theologies today is to restrict and to think of theology only in terms of mere intellectual enquiry without any fundamentum in rei in the lives of peoples. The book is aimed at overcoming this gap. It establishes this...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-05-31
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