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Hate crime is a particularly pernicious form of criminal behaviour that has significant impacts upon victims, their families and wider communities. In this substantially revised and updated edition the book examines the nature, extent and harms of hate crime, and the...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2015-03-18
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What is the place of pluralism in the context of a dominant religion? How does the perception of religion as “tradition” and “culture” affect pluralism? Why do minorities’ demands for recognition often transform into exclusion? Through her ethnography of a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-03-18
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Exploring the transition of celebrities into institutional-electoral politics, the book argues that many insights developed by genre theorists could be highly instrumental to understand the celebrity politics phenomenon. It analyzes the historical and cultural...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-03-17
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Globalization and technological advances have had a dramatic impact on the relationship between media and politics. How can we understand the connection between the two in the present day? Alexa Robertson argues that we cannot understand the power of the one without...
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Polity
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2015-03-17
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Friedrich Kittler was one of the world’s most influential, provocative and misunderstood media theorists. His work spans analyses of historical ‘discourse networks’ inspired by French poststructuralism, influential theorizations of new media, through to musings on music...
Editeur :
Polity
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2015-03-17
Collection :
Theory Now
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Transcultural Teens provides readers with a window onto the cultural and linguistic creativity of the housing projects, or cité, that ring Paris, showing how young people of Algerian Arab origins play with language in fascinating ways that subvert commonly held notions...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2015-03-17
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New Directions in Ethnography
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Von der Frage geleitet, wie die Gegenwartskulturforschung aus der Berücksichtigung klanglicher Phänomene Erkenntnisgewinne ziehen kann, verknüpft die Studie Überlegungen aus Popkultur- und Soundscape-Forschung, Empirischer Kulturwissenschaft, Musikethnologie,...
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Springer VS
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2015-03-16
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Das Buch behandelt die Zuwanderung und Integration von Ausländern in Deutschland und Russland. Im Mittelpunkt steht die Auseinandersetzung mit den drei wichtigsten und aktuellsten Problematiken der Ausländerintegration: Zugang zu (Aus-)Bildung, Zugang zum Arbeitsmarkt...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-16
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Der Weg in ein nachhaltiges Ressourcenmanagement ist die Herausforderung des 21. Jahrhunderts. Diesen trotz gesellschaftlicher Unterschiede, wirtschaftlichen Anspruchs und persönlicher Interessen gangbar zu machen, erfordert eine Begründungsstrategie, die hinter...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-03-16
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Religion and Community in the New Urban America examines the interrelated transformations of cities and urban congregations. The authors ask how the new metropolis affects local religious communities and what role those communities play in creating the new metropolis....
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Oxford University Press
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2015-03-16
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As newer medical problems surface and existing ones appear to resist modern solutions, Africans are increasingly reaching for traditional healing practices and customary protective medicines. Using historical and phenomenological approaches, Traditional Medicine Making...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-16
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Dispelling widespread views that female same-sex desire is virtually absent from Italian literature and cultural production in the modern era, this groundbreaking study demonstrates that narratives of lesbianism are significantly more numerous than has been previously...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-16
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Hybrid Politics examines the combinations and competitions between older and newer media technologies, practices, actors, contents and logics, by exploring their potential and practical implications in terms of political participation. In this Swift, Laura Iannelli...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2015-03-15
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This book analyses gaming magazines published in Britain in the 1980s to provide the first serious history of the bedroom coding culture that produced some of the most important video games ever played.
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2015-03-13
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This timely Brief offers up-to-date findings about bullying--from trends and outcomes to assessment and identification--and workable approaches to combat this social epidemic on multiple fronts. The book examines links between bullying and mental health issues, the...
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Springer
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2015-03-13
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No matter how positive the intent of prospective parents, international adoption is fraught with emotional, medical, administrative, linguistic, and geopolitical issues. And while a wide range of professionals supports adopted children and their families in adjusting to...
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Springer
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2015-03-13
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This is essential reading for professionals making judgements under pressure. It demonstrates how self-leadership is not only about surviving but thriving in a continually changing environment and introduces key theories, skills and debates to help professionals deliver...
Editeur :
Learning Matters
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2015-03-13
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The author assesses the politics of different humanitarian interventions in the Mexico-US border region developing a unique perspective on the significance of people, places and things to contemporary border struggles.
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2015-03-12
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The Andes are attracting global interest again: they hold valuable mineral resources, tourists appreciate their great natural beauty and the diversity of indigenous cultures, climbers scale rock and ice faces, while many others are intrigued by regional political...
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Springer
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2015-03-12
Collection :
Springer Geography
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How can we guarantee a right to life or a right to health without also guaranteeing a decent environment in which to exercise these rights? It is becoming increasingly obvious that a high quality environment is key to the fundamental human rights of life and health, and...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-03-12
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