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In the shadow of a French national narrative which demonises and rejects local specificities, highly differentiated territorial political spaces have been created, shaped by identity, decentralisation, and public policy. This book analyses regional power in France and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-04-14
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Popular Media Cultures explores the relationship between audiences and media texts, their paratexts and interconnected ephemera. Authors focus on the cultural work done by media audiences, how they engage with social media and how convergence culture impacts on the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-04-14
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The question of whether or not George Eliot was what would now be called a feminist is a contentious one. This book argues, through a close study of her fiction, informed by examination of her life's story and by a comparison of her views to those of contemporary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-04-14
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Drawing on insights from international organization and securitization theory, the author investigates the World Health Organization and how its approach to global health security has changed and adapted since its creation in 1948. He also examines the organization's...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-04-14
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This reference offers the nuanced understanding and practical guidance needed to address domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking in diverse religious communities. Introductory chapters sort through the complexities, from abusers' distorting of sacred...
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Springer
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2015-04-14
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Digital technology has forever changed the way media is created, accessed, shared and regulated, raising serious questions about copyright for artists and fans, media companies and internet intermediaries, activists and governments. Taking a rounded view of the debates...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2015-04-14
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This book focuses on China’s urban development. In China, the process of allowing more rural migrants to become registered city residents in urban areas remains stagnant despite its importance to the Chinese government and the existence of a national consensus about it....
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Springer
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2015-04-14
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In The Road to Character David Brooks, best-selling author of The Social Animal and New York Times columnist, explains why selflessness leads to greater successYou could say there are two kinds of virtues in the world, the résumé virtues and the eulogy virtues. The...
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Penguin
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2015-04-14
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One of the major characteristics of our contemporary culture is a positive, almost banal, view of the transgression and disruption of cultural boundaries. Strangers, migrants and nomads are celebrated in our postmodern world of hybrids and cyborgs. But we pay a price...
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Polity
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2015-04-14
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This book provides original insight into the way we now engage and remember national history. Drawing on fieldwork and analysis of international case studies on state commemoration, memorialization, recreational and tourism and times of disaster and crisis, the author...
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Springer
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2015-04-13
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Abortion is a legal, common, and safe medical procedure that one in three American women will undergo. Yet ever since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973, anti-abortion forces have tried nearly every tactic to eliminate it. Legislative and judicial developments dominate the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-04-13
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Die Beiträge des vorliegenden Bandes beschäftigen sich mit Grundlagen und Systematisierungen, Übergangsmanagement, Arbeitsintegration und temporärer Beschäftigung im Kontext von Migration. In besonderer Weise wird dabei die Bedeutung Sozialer Arbeit im Kontext von...
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Springer VS
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2015-04-13
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The way sociology frames the relation between formality and informality is not only complex and multifaceted, but has also evolved over time. This volume offers contributions by international authors that illustrate distinct types of theoretical framings and present...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-04-13
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Between 2010 and 2013 the European Science Foundation project «Cuius Regio» undertook a study of the reasons for cohesion of some European regions, including the analysis of the ways for cohesion of two peripherical Iberian entities: Portugal and Catalonia. A scientific...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-04-13
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In den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten wurde in der (Deutsch)Schweizer Öffentlichkeit viel über Zuwanderinnen und Zuwanderer aus dem postjugoslawischen Raum – im speziellen aus Serbien – diskutiert. So war in den Medien, der Politik und an den Stammtischen die Rede von...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-04-13
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Dieses Buch zeigt die Auswirkungen kultureller Unterschiede auf die Gesprächsführung und bietet besonders Praktikern und Studierenden einen innovativen Ansatz mit zahlreichen Fallbeispielen. Im Fokus stehen theoretische Erkenntnisse und Methoden für den kommunikativen...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2015-04-10
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Global Injustice Symbols and Social Movements examines our collective moral and political maps, dotted with symbols shaped by political dynamics beyond their local or national origin and offers the first systematic sociological treatment of this important phenomenon.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-04-09
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Ethics, Diversity, and World Politics argues for the importance of the diversity of human ethical systems in world politics, defending the vitality of a 'pluralist' position in debates about how to ethically assess and respond to political challenges.
Rooted in the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-04-09
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Legal Highs are without doubt the biggest drug scourge to blight the world since recreational drugs first hit the streets more than 100 years ago. Their growing menace opens up a new front in the drug war, shifting the battle line from the Colombian jungles, Moroccan...
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Quercus
Parution :
2015-04-09
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The past twenty years have witnessed a renewal of interest in feminist activism on both sides of the Atlantic. In part this has been a response to neoliberal and neoconservative attacks, both implicit and explicit, on the gains made by feminists during the 1960s and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-04-08
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