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'Part autobiography, part heartfelt plea to change the way we look at gender, Girls will be Girls is an excellent primer on feminist theory. Every teenage girl should be given a copy' HOT PRESSBeing a woman is, largely, about performance - how we dress and modify our...
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Orion
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2015-02-26
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Domestic violence in adolescent romantic relationships is an increasingly important and only recently acknowledged social issue. This book provides conceptual frameworks for the design and evaluation of interventions with a focus on developing evidence based practice,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-02-25
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The volume addresses issues concerning prosody generation in speech synthesis, including prosody modeling, how we can convey para- and non-linguistic information in speech synthesis, and prosody control in speech synthesis (including prosody conversions). A high level...
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Springer
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2015-02-25
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The United States today is hopelessly polarized; the political Right and Left have hardened into rigid and deeply antagonistic camps, preventing any sort of progress. Amid the bickering and inertia, the promise of the 1960s -- when we came together as a nation to fight...
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Basic Books
Parution :
2015-02-24
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Migrant Capital covers a broad range of case studies and, by bringing together leading and emerging researchers, presents state-of-the-art empirical, theoretical and methodological perspectives on migration, networks, social and cultural capital, exploring the ways in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-02-24
Collection :
Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship
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Vor dem Hintergrund aktueller gesellschaftlicher Entwicklungen, aber auch angesichts der Ausdifferenzierungen des theoretischen Feldes stellen sich der Hermeneutischen Wissenssoziologie neue Probleme und Herausforderungen, die mit der Infragestellung des Subjektkonzepts...
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Springer VS
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2015-02-24
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Through what he terms "bibliographical sociology", Suman Gupta explores the presence of English-language publications in the contemporary Indian context – their productions, circulations and readerships – to understand current social trends.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-02-23
Collection :
New Directions in Book History
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Tackling infectious disease, understanding radicalisation, improving productivity, siting new airport capacity, getting people to save for retirement – nearly all the issues facing the UK now and in the near future demand the urgent attention of those trained to study...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2015-02-23
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This book is a longitudinal story of seven Italian-Australian family business dynasties, spanning over a hundred years across three generations, and starting with the founding generation who migrated to Australia in the first half of the 20th century. With hard work and...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-02-23
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At the present time, when so-called Islamic radicalism, terrorism and Jihadism occupy major media space, with Islam often depicted as the main culprit, the book attempts a tour de force. It proposes that Islam is as much victim as culprit in the history that has led to...
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Springer
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2015-02-23
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Die sichere Beherrschung des Zusammenspiels der verschiedenen Darstellungsebenen und die Übersetzung von Themen in konkrete miterlebbare Geschichten sind für Journalisten unerlässliche Voraussetzungen, um bei den Zuschauern genau die Wirkungen zu erreichen, die sie...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2015-02-20
Collection :
Praxiswissen Medien
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Das Weimarer Dreieck zwischen Frankreich, Deutschland und Polen stellt eine neue Kooperationsform in Europa dar, die ihre Vorläufer in den ersten Jahren nach dem Fall des «Eisernen Vorhangs» hat. In der Rückschau wechselten sich in dieser Zusammenarbeit Erfolge und...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2015-02-20
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Ukraine’s protest movement of 2013–14, known as the Euromaidan, and its culmination, the people’s uprising in late 2013–early 2014 became one of the most dramatic world events in recent years. The accession of Crimea to the Russian Federation and military conflict in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-02-20
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This book is proposed as a contribution to postcolonial critiques of the colonial and postcolonial exotic. It investigates the exotic as a representation of colonial cultural difference in colonial discourse, culture and history, and its oppositional rewritings in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-02-20
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Four years after the 3.11 disaster in Japan, this acclaimed collection of ethnographies in English on the Japanese communities affected by the giant Tohoku earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters continues to be the only one of its kind. With a new preface offering an...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-02-20
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A familiar, beloved, and yet misunderstood character in the Japanese folktale tradition is the animal-woman, an earthly animal that assumes the form of a female human. In order to articulate the characteristics that make Japanese Animal-Wife tales unique, this...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2015-02-20
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Das Urteil des EGMR vom 3.12.2009 sowie die hierauf folgende Entscheidung des BVerfG vom 21.7.2010 zwangen den deutschen Gesetzgeber zur erneuten Aktivität im Bereich der elterlichen Sorge für nichteheliche Kinder. Ausgehend von der Notwendigkeit einer gesetzlichen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-02-20
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Several years after the Arab Spring began, democracy remains elusive in the Middle East. The Arab Spring that resides in the popular imagination is one in which a wave of mass mobilization swept the broader Middle East, toppled dictators, and cleared the way for...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-02-19
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The main focus of this monograph on whistled speech is the result of a worldwide inquiry primarily based on the author’s unprecedented fieldwork and laboratory experience.The different questions raised by the origin and the evolution of whistled forms of languages are...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-02-19
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This book develops a philosophico-methodological analysis of prediction and its role in economics. Prediction plays a key role in economics in various ways. It can be seen as a basic science, as an applied science and in the application of this science. First, it is...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-02-19
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