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At the turn of the twenty-first century, American media abound with images and narratives of bodily transformations.At the crossroads of American, cultural, literary, media, gender, queer, disability and governmentality studies, the book presents a timely intervention...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-05-26
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Cash Transfers and Basic Social Protection offers a ground-breaking analysis of the discourses that facilitated the rise of cash transfers as instruments of development policy since the 1990s. The author gives a detailed overview of the history of social protection and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-05-26
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Featuring interviews, conversations and observations from a multi-sited ethnography of Ecuadorean musicians and their families, this book offers an innovative response to previous analyses of globalization and indigenous languages, demonstrating how transcultural...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-05-26
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Family members are increasingly likely to provide caregiving for older adults as the US population ages. This book summarizes what we know about caregiving by spouses and other intimate partners, adult children, siblings, grandchildren, friends, and other relatives, as...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2015-05-26
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This book aims to present concepts, knowledge and institutional settings of arts management and cultural policy research. It offers a representation of arts management and cultural policy research as a field, or a complex assemblage of people, concepts, institutions,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-05-26
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Through an analysis of Chinese migration to Europe, this volume examines the most pressing migration and integration issues facing many societies today, from the political and policy-based challenges of managing increasingly diverse communities, to individual lived...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-05-26
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Die AutorInnen dieses Bandes gehen der Frage nach, wie eine komplexe, aufeinander abgestimmte öffentliche Erziehung der Heranwachsenden gestaltet werden kann und welche Reformschritte dafür notwendig sind. Es wird deutlich, dass der nachhaltige soziale Wandel auch die...
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Springer VS
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2015-05-25
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This book explores the historical and archaeological evidence of the relationships between a coastal community and the shipwrecks that have occurred along the southern Australian shoreline over the last 160 years. It moves beyond a focus on shipwrecks as events and...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-05-25
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Dominic Kudlacek liefert eine kritische Aufarbeitung der theoretischen und empirischen Literatur zum Thema Akzeptanz von Videoüberwachung in Deutschland. Ferner werden die Ergebnisse einer empirischen Untersuchung zum Thema Videoüberwachung vorgestellt und dabei auch...
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Springer VS
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2015-05-25
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As policy-makers look first (and easily) for existing policy solutions which could be adapted from elsewhere, policy transfer becomes increasingly central to policy development. This book explores whether policy transfer in 'everyday' policy-making may be...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-05-25
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Die Europäische Union sieht sich heute in der Krise mit Dilemmata und Paradoxien konfrontiert, die ihren Bestand bedrohen. Maurizio Bach beleuchtet in diesem Band die Kernprobleme der europäischen Integration aus soziologischer Perspektive. Deutlich wird, dass die...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2015-05-22
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Neue Bibliothek der Sozialwissenschaften
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While policymakers in the world reiterate the importance of protecting voice diversity, traditional media conglomerates and new social media giants make their task increasingly challenging. This book assesses the current state of policy-making on media plurality and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-05-21
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*Perfect for fans of the Guilty Feminist* Hot (adj.) : (Of a person) Attractive 'a hot chick'Fem-i-n-ist (n.) : A person who supports feminism, the movement that advocates equal rights for womenPolly Vernon, Grazia columnist, Times feature writer (hair-flicker,...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2015-05-21
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Speaking Truths to Power: Policy Ethnography and Police Reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina presents a rigorous institutional-level analysis of the effects of globalisation on local policing, drawing on data generated from two ethnographic case studies conducted in 2011 in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-05-21
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Speaking Truths to Power: Policy Ethnography and Police Reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina presents a rigorous institutional-level analysis of the effects of globalisation on local policing, drawing on data generated from two ethnographic case studies conducted in 2011 in...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-05-21
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As the youth gang phenomenon becomes an important and sensitive public issue, communities from Los Angeles to Rio, Cape Town to London are facing the reality of what such violent groups mean for their children and young people. Complex dangers and instabilities, as well...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-05-21
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Katharina Rathmann untersucht erstmals die Bedeutung struktureller Merkmale von Bildungssystemen (Differenzierung, Segregation, öffentlicher vs. privater Sektor) sowie Wohlfahrtsstaaten für das Ausmaß der sozialen Ungleichheit in der Gesundheit von Jugendlichen. Denn...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2015-05-20
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This multidisciplinary study focuses on the creative state as the nucleus of the work of numerous poets, artists, and philosophers from twentieth-century Spain. Beginning with cognitive science, Gala explores the mental processes and structures that underline creative...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-05-20
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Cultural Criminology: An Invitation traces the history, theory, methodology and future direction of cultural criminology. Drawing on issues of representation, meaning and politics, this book walks you through the key areas that make up this fascinating approach to the...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2015-05-20
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This book discusses a range of planning and management issues related to building urban resiliency. It covers such topics as urban, environmental, and transportation planning, historical preservation, emergency relief and management, geographic information systems (GIS)...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-05-20
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