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Die Studie analysiert erstmals die Einführung einer gesetzlichen Unfallversicherung in China in den 2000er Jahren, basierend auf umfangreichen Feldforschungen. Mit der Unfallversicherung hat sich China für die Idee individueller sozialer Rechte geöffnet, die weder in...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-01-06
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Das Kinder- und Jugendtheaterzentrum in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland fördert die Vielfalt der Darstellenden Künste, die sich an ein junges Publikum wenden. Zum 25-jährigen Bestehen beschreiben Experten aus Theorie und Praxis Modellprojekte zur Autorenförderung, zum...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-01-06
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Dieser Band vereint Forschungsbeiträge der 6. Konferenz der Internationalen Feuchtwanger Gesellschaft, die im Herbst 2013 zum Thema Lion Feuchtwangers Berliner Jahre 1925 bis 1933, seine Leser im Exil, in Deutschland und weltweit nach 1945 im Jüdischen Museum Berlin...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-01-06
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Invisibility Studies explores current changes in the relationship between what we consider visible and what invisible in different areas of contemporary culture. Contributions trace how these changes make their marks on various cultural fields and investigate the...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-01-06
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Die vielfach konstatierte Asymmetrie zwischen ökonomischer und sozialer europäischer Integration hat durch die Eurokrise(n) weiter zugenommen. Neben der wachsenden grenzüberschreitenden Reichweite institutionalisierter Regulationsstrukturen im Feld der europäischen...
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Springer VS
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2015-01-05
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Europa – Politik – Gesellschaft
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How do women experience the identity changes involved in becoming mothers for the first time? Throughout in depth case examples, Wendy Hollway demonstrates how a different research methodology, underpinned by a psychoanalytically informed epistemology, can transform our...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-01-05
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This book focuses on the creation of space as an activity. The argument draws not only on aspects of movement in time, but also on a cultural and specifically social context influencing the creation of the spatial habitus. The book reconsiders existing theories of time...
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Springer
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2015-01-05
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From the website Women Scorned comes Snapshots of Infidelity, a collection of stories from women across the world who have faced infidelity in some way - from lovers taking a secret mistress, to being "the other woman", and a startling surprise revealed after the death...
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Headline Accent
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2015-01-05
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In an era in which class divisions are becoming starker than ever, some individuals are choosing to marry across class. The Power of the Past traces the lives of a subset of these individuals - highly-educated adults who married a partner raised in a class different...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-01-05
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In this pioneering book, Joseph Shaules presents exciting new research from cultural psychology and neuroscience. It sheds light on the hidden influence of culture on the unconscious mind, and helps people get more out of their intercultural journeys.The Intercultural...
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John Murray Business
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2015-01-05
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While the booming humanitarian sector faces daunting challenges, humanitarian economics emerges as a new field of study and practice--one that encompasses the economics and political economy of war, disaster, terrorism and humanitarianism.
Carbonnier's book is the...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-01-03
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What are the functions of optimism in modern societies? How is hope culturally transmitted?What values and attitudes does it reflect? This book explores how and why powerful institutions propagate 'cultures of optimism' in different domains, such as politics, work, the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-01-02
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Occupy Wall Street burst onto the stage of history in the fall of 2011. First by the tens, then by the tens of thousands, protestors filled the streets and laid claim to the squares of nearly 1,500 towns and cities, until, one by one, the occupations were forcibly...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-01-02
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Throughout history, Muslim men have been depicted as monsters. The portrayal of humans as monsters helps a society delineate who belongs and who, or what, is excluded. Even when symbolic, as in post-9/11 zombie films, Muslim...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-01-02
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Religious repression--the non-violent suppression of civil and political rights--is a growing and global phenomenon. Though most often practiced in authoritarian countries, levels of religious repression nevertheless vary across a range of non-democratic regimes,...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-01-02
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Ends of Assimilation examines how Chicano literature imagines the conditions and costs of cultural change, arguing that its thematic preoccupation with assimilation illuminates the function of literature. John Alba Cutler shows how mid-century sociologists advanced a...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-01-02
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Food has, for most of our species history, been intensely political: who gets to eat what, how often, and through what means? The scale of polity in question has shifted over time, from very local institutions dividing up grain piles to an international community...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-12-31
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While Guinness is a global product, it still contains references to Ireland and it occupies a particular place in imaginings of Irishness. Brewing Identities is unique in that, while it focuses on the (re)production of a specific kind of ethno-national identity–...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2014-12-30
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The symbols, signs, and traces of copyright and related intellectual property laws that appear on everyday texts, objects, and artifacts have multiplied exponentially over the past 15 years. Digital spaces have revolutionized access to content and transformed the ways...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2014-12-30
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With today's availability of Social Security and Medicare, we typically think of the older years as a stage in life where people are supported financially. However, of the more than 40 million old adults currently living in the US, many are struggling financially living...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-12-29
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