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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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??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...
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Springer VS
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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
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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...
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Springer
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2015-06-01
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The goal ofThe Oxford Handbook of African American Language is to provide readers with a wide range of analyses of both traditional and contemporary work on language use in African American communities in a broad collective.The Handbook offers a survey of language and...
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Oxford University Press
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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...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-06-01
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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
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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
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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...
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Springer VS
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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...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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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...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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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...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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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...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-05-31
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What can post/colonial studies and their approaches contribute to our understanding of the Austro-Hungarian (k.u.k.) occupation and administration of Bosnia-Herzegovina from 1878 to 1914? This anthology presents some possible answers to this research question which...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2015-05-31
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Is it possible to bridge two faiths, to cross through myriad cultures, and to seek to understand some of today’s great global crises from the viewpoint of the other? With an estimated 5 million Muslims in the United States, Islam is a faith that invites attention....
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2015-05-31
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Paul’s Sexual and Marital Ethics in 1 Corinthians 7: An African-Cameroonian Perspective provides readers with an innovative interpretation ofPaul’s pastoral and pedagogical approach and solutions to the multifaceted ethical problems presented to him by the Corinthian...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2015-05-31
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Kann Kulturpolitik als Strukturpolitik wirksam werden? Welche Kulturbegriffe liegen der deutschen und italienischen Kulturpolitik zugrunde? Wie wirken sich die historischen, strukturellen und finanziellen Ausgangsbedingungen für Kulturpolitik auf die konkreten...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-05-31
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Somali Oral Poetry and the Failed She-Camel Nation State: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Deelley Poetry Debate (1979–1980) examines the most expressive medium inSomali culture and politics, that is, oral poetry, in its ideological and discursive dimension. Oral...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2015-05-31
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Das Buch ist ein aktueller Beitrag zur Debatte um postkoloniale Perspektiven in der Kunstwissenschaft. Im Zentrum steht die DAK’ART-Biennale, an der sich ein gängiges identitätspolitisches Dilemma zeigt: Künstlerinnen und Künstler vom afrikanischen Kontinent müssen oft...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-05-31
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This book discusses the viability of «importing» the middle class to Poland. The 1990s were a step forward in the formation of the Polish middle class and, systematically yet barely discernible in daily life, the process was triggered by an increase in consumption and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-05-31
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