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This book provides the first book-length, English-language account of the political ethics of large-scale, Western-based humanitarian INGOs, such as Oxfam, CARE, and Doctors Without Borders. These INGOs are often either celebrated as heroes or do-going machines or...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-01-29
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This practice-oriented text presents evidence-based assessment methods and interventions that have been extensively field-tested in child welfare settings. The contributors offer empirical and field insights, comprehensive treatment models, and curricula in key areas...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-01-28
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The development of this inaugural Handbook of Oncology Social Work: Psychosocial Care for People With Cancer provides a repository of the scope of oncology social workers' clinical practice, education, research, policy and program leadership in the psychosocial care of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-01-28
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Strangers by Choice explores voluntary otherness as a philosophy of life. This philosophy is asocial in the sense that its followers tend to privilege separateness over belonging, and yet it does not lead to alienation or isolation from society. Building on Simmel’s...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-01-28
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The urgent need for the study of exclusive identities in conflict is ever more apparent in a globalizing world in which societies are becoming multicultural and complex and in which inter-cultural contact and the co-existence of languages and cultures comes increasingly...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-01-28
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Im Fokus dieser Studie stehen zwei Schritte: Erstens soll das Ereignis Katyn in der polnischen Erinnerungskultur verortet und sein Stellenwert für die polnische Gesellschaft erfasst werden, zweitens soll dargestellt werden, welche Auswirkungen diese Aufarbeitung auf die...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-01-28
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Why are we so concerned about drugs and crime? Is the relationship between drug-taking and criminal behaviour as straightforward as it is sometimes made to appear? What should be done about the problem? This thought-provoking book argues that much current thinking...
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Polity
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2015-01-28
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Crime and Society
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Winner of the 2016 Grawemeyer Award in Religion
Global health efforts today are usually shaped by two very different ideological approaches: a human rights-based approach to health and equity-often associated with public health, medicine, or economic development...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-01-28
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The guiding theme of the book is a traditional institution of Tajik culture: mahalla – neighborhood. For centuries it has sustained the existence of Tajik culture, and in times of the greatest religious persecution in the USSR it has helped Islam to survive. In this...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-01-28
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How do you spot an area poised for gentrification? Is spring or winter the best time to put your house on the market? Will a house on Swamp Road sell for less than one on Gingerbread Lane? The fact is that the rules of real estate have changed drastically over the past...
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Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2015-01-27
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Politicians, business leaders and citizens look with hope to the Latin American middle class for political stability and purchasing power, but the economic position of the middle class remains vulnerable. The contributors document the remarkable emergence of this middle...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-01-27
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Hamed El-Said investigates Counter-de-Rad programmes in Muslim majority and Muslim minority states. This multifaceted book provides a new approach to evaluate Counter-de-Rad Programmes and develops a holistic framework which will allow policy-makers and practitioners to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-01-27
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Urban Geography a comprehensive introduction to a variety of issues relating to contemporary urban geography, including patterns and processes of urbanization, urban development, urban planning, and life experiences in modern cities. Reveals both the diversity of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-01-23
Collection :
Critical Introductions to Geography
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This is the first book to consider the moral regulation of the female body through an analysis of the crime of infanticide. An in-depth perspective from the nineteenth century to the present, Cossins provides a revealing insight into the history of a little-known but...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-01-22
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This collection is an engaging exploration of how Bourdieu's key concepts - field, habitus and capital - help us re-think the status of childhood. The authors are committed to improving the social status and well-being of childhood in social, economic and political...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-01-22
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Unlawful Combatants brings the study of irregular warfare back into the centre of war studies. The experience of recent and current wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria showed that the status and the treatment of irregular fighters is one of the most central and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-01-22
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This is an engaging interdisciplinary guide to the unique role of language within ethnography. The book provides a philosophical overview of the field alongside practical support for designing and developing your own ethnographic research. It demonstrates how to...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2015-01-22
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This book aims to promote the synergistic usage of advanced computational methodologies in close relationship to geospatial information across cities of different scales. A rich collection of chapters subsumes current research frontiers originating from disciplines such...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-01-22
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Raymond Williams: A Short Counter-Revolution amply demonstrates the continuing relevance of Williams’s analysis, from the early 1980s, to our current situation. After thirty years of neoliberalism his insights still read as freshly and as incisively as they first did....
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2015-01-21
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Feminist Erasures presents a collection of essays that examines the state of feminism in North America and Western Europe by focusing on multiple sites such as media, politics and activism. Through individual examples, the essays reveal the extent to which feminism has...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-01-20
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