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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...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-02-19
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Der Band umfasst Beiträge, die einen orientierenden Überblick über klassische Schlüsselwerke der Migrationsforschung geben. Die Beiträge erläutern die ideengeschichtliche und theoretische Verortung der Schlüsseltexte, ihre Forschungsperspektive, zentrale empirische...
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Springer VS
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2015-02-19
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This book provides a critical perspective on people's response to disasters in the Philippines. It draws upon an array of case studies to discuss people's vulnerability, capacities and resilience in facing a wide range of different hazards.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-02-18
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This volume examines how generative mechanisms emerge in the social order and their consequences. It does so in the light of finding answers to the general question posed in this book series: Will Late Modernity be replaced by a social formation that could be called...
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Springer
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2015-02-18
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Feminism is not dead. This groundbreaking book advances a radical and pioneering feminist manifesto for today's modern audience that exposes the real reasons as to why women are still oppressed and what feminist activism must do to counter it through a vibrant and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-02-17
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This book examines the commemoration of 9/11 in American memorial culture. It argues that the emergence of counter-memories of September 11 has been compromised by the dominance of certain narrative paradigms – or, frames of memory – that have mediated the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-02-17
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In Is Shame Necessary? rising star Jennifer Jacquet shows that we have to use shame if we want to bring about political change and hold the powerful to accountIn cultures that champion the individual, guilt is seen as the cornerstone of conscience yet it proves impotent...
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Penguin
Parution :
2015-02-17
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What does it mean for men to join with women as allies in preventing sexual assault and domestic violence? Based on life history interviews with men and women anti-violence activists aged 22 to 70, Some Men explores the strains and tensions of men's work as feminist...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-02-16
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Exploring the Utopian Impulse presents a series of essays by an international and trans-disciplinary group of contributors that explores the nature and extent of the utopian impulse. Working across a range of historical periods and cultures, the essays investigate key...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-02-16
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This thesis provides a new approach to the Ethiopian Land Law debate. The basic argument made in this thesis is that even if the Ethiopian Constitution provides and guarantees common ownership of land (together with the state) to the people, this right has not been...
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Springer
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2015-02-13
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Despite the fact that countries transitioned to democracy, many citizens residing in peripheral regions continue to live under undemocratic rule. Democrats and Autocrats studies the existence of subnational undemocratic regimes (SURs) alongside national democratic...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-02-12
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Britain is beset by a crisis of purpose. For a generation we have been told the route to universal well-being is to abandon the expense of justice and equity and so allow the judgments of the market to go unobstructed. What has been created is not an innovative,...
Editeur :
Little, Brown Book Group
Parution :
2015-02-12
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This interdisciplinary study promotes the thesis that some contemporary Chinese ink artists succeed in using principles of traditional Chinese aesthetics to convey the union of self with nature, others and the universe. The investigation is a case study of the writings...
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Springer
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2015-02-12
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Sofija Stefanovic visits her eighty-year-old friend Bill and suspects he's being scammed over the internet - not for the first time. Compelled by Bill's devastating stories of online dating, heartbreak and bankruptcy,Sofija gets drawn into the underworld of romance...
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E-Penguin
Parution :
2015-02-11
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Reality TV has changed television and changed reality, even if we are not among the millions who watch. Written for a broad audience, this accessible overview addresses questions such as: How real is reality TV? How do its programs represent gender, sex, class, and...
Editeur :
Polity
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2015-02-11
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Key Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies
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The past decade brought forth a wave of excitement and promise for researchers and practitioners interested in community practice as an approach based on social justice principles and an embrace of community participatory actions. But, effective community practice is...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-02-11
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A distinctive contribution to the politics of citizenship and immigration in an expanding European Union, this book explains how and why differences arise in responses to immigration by examining local, national and transnational dimensions of public debates on Romanian...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-02-10
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This collection focuses on the multi-layered links between international events and identity discourses. With a unique line-up of international scholars, this book offers a diverse range of exciting case studies, including sports competitions, music festivals,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-02-10
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Balancing provocative criticism with clear explanations of complex ideas, this student-friendly introduction investigates the crucial role global entertainment media has played in the emergence of transitional capitalism. Examines the influence of global entertainment...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-02-09
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This book highlights the importance of diversity in overcoming issues of social and environmental degradation. It presents conceptual and practical strategies to celebrate local and Indigenous knowledge for improved community development and environmental...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-02-07
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