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The hunt for beneficial owners is on. Like an elephant, the beneficial owner hides in the jungle of complex legal structures, waiting to be discovered by eager prosecutors. But what lies behind this metaphor? What is a Beneficial Owner? Is beneficial ownership a right?...
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Springer
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2013-10-02
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Migrant Memories provides an innovative perspective on the power of cultural memory and the influence of cinema on the Italian diaspora in Britain. Based on extensive interviews with Southern Italian migrants and their children, this study offers a fresh understanding...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-10-01
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The book forms a monograph of the local culture of the old Polish Livonia, practically absent in contemporary humanistic research. It includes historical and anthropological recapitulation of the phenomenon, but it also tries to describe cultural mechanisms...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-10-01
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The study of pre-Hispanic societies focuses not only on their most remarkable aspects—their technological developments, military exploits, political events, and economic achievements—but also on the everyday phenomena through which their ideology ...
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Cacciani, S.A. DE C.V.
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2013-10-01
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Der vorliegende Band stellt einen neuen Zugang für das Verständnis der Modernisierung Chinas seit den 1990er Jahren vor. Die Umstellung von der Plan- zur Marktwirtschaft verstehen wir nur dann angemessen, wenn wir die sozial-strukturellen Veränderungen der chinesischen...
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Springer VS
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2013-10-01
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Der Band ist eine Einführung in die Praxis, Wissenschafts- und Wissensthemen im Fernsehen zu präsentieren. Dinge neu zu erfahren, Einblicke in ungekannte Zusammenhänge zu erhalten oder an Orte zu gelangen, an denen noch nie zuvor jemand war, reizt Menschen seit...
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Springer VS
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2013-10-01
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Praxiswissen Medien
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The analysis of social distinction cannot indefinitely remain confined to logics of reasoning that are markedly ethnocentric. Rather than just applying the consecrated schemes of Veblen or Bourdieu, Daloz provides new foundations in this book for understanding 21st...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-09-25
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Every four days there are a million more people on the planet. More people and fewer resources. In this timely work, Alan Weisman examines how we can shrink our collective human footprint so that we don't stomp any more species - including our own - out of existence....
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Little, Brown Book Group
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2013-09-24
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This book addresses a rich corpus of contemporary narratives by authors who have come to Italy as migrants. It traces the figurative commonalities that emerge across these diverse texts, which together suggest the shape and substance of what might be termed ‘migrant...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-09-24
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This collection of new essays by scholars from across Europe focuses on the key theoretical and historical questions within the rapidly growing field of Iberian studies, which is taken by the authors to mean the methodological consideration of the Iberian peninsula as a...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-09-24
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This volume explores the forms of knowledge generated by exoticizing the subject studied. It analyzes monogamy in Western cultures from a cultural distance. First, from the cultural perspective of a Kenyan writer who underlines the moral evils unwittingly generated by a...
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Springer
Parution :
2013-09-20
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Oikos – Domus – Household: The Many Lives of a Common Word describes historic episodes in the lives of these words, from the Greek oikos and Roman domus to our current family and home. The episodes highlight their function as controlling metaphors used very differently...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2013-09-16
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In diesem Teil des Systems der Philosophie gilt es die Beziehung der prinzipiellen Struktur der Subjektivität zu dem «Ich» als der ganze, lebendige Mensch zu bestimmen. Diese konkrete individuelle Verwirklichung des Menschen kommt in seiner Freiheit, die sein Wesen als...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-09-16
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A Legacy of Shame is the first in-depth study of shame in French narratives of the Second World War and the Nazi Occupation of France. Wartime shame continues to be a recurrent theme in literature and film and is an ongoing topic of cultural and political debate and yet...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-09-16
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Because oral history interviews are personal interactions between human beings, they rarely conform to a methodological ideal. These reflections from oral historians provide honest and rigorous analyses of actual oral history practice that address the complexities of a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-09-11
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Morgan Spurlock's terrifying yet hilarious expose on the fast food industry, Don't Eat This Book.Praise forMorgan Spurlock: 'Valid, entertaining and funny as hell' - Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food NationA tongue-in-cheek - and burger in hand - look at the legal,...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2013-09-10
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How are time-honored tenets of faith, different ritual sensibilities, and newly emerging eschatological imaginaries articulated with other normative registers and moral susceptibilities in disputes? This book examines such questions through cases in Europe, the United...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-08-20
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What impact has technology had on cultural meanings, values, and symbols? This anthropological exploration shows how technologies produce novel and sometimes jarring realignments among cultural institutions.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-08-20
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Contemporary life in most nation-states is not truly cultural, but rather "culture-like," especially in large-scale societies. Beginning with a distinction between special events and everyday life, Lewis examines fundamental events including play, ritual,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-08-07
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1922. The spectacular year that F. Scott Fitzgerald chose as a backdrop for his most famous novel The Great Gatsby. It was also the year where James Joyce’s Ulysses and T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land were published, Alfred Hitchcock directed his first feature, the Ottoman...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2013-08-01
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