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Labouring Lives unravels the huge changes which have so fundamentally altered the life courses of ordinary women over the past one hundred and fifty years, namely the changes in marriage and fertility patterns. Using dynamic data from Dutch population registers and...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2014-12-09
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This book features 18 essays that explore the ways people communicate in the Arab world, from the Unites Arab Emirates to Qatar, Saudi Arabia to Oman. While there is a concentration of studies from the Gulf Arab states, the collection spans perspectives from Iraq,...
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Springer
Parution :
2014-12-08
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This comparative study of European time transfers reveals the full extent of transfers in the form of unpaid work and highlights the existence of important gender differences in household time production. A large quantity of goods and services are produced by household...
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Springer
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2014-12-08
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In this important book Niklas Luhmann - one of the leading social thinkers of the late 20th century - analyses the emergence of ‘love' as the basis of personal relationships in modern societies. He argues that, while family systems remained intact in the transition from...
Editeur :
Polity
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2014-12-08
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This book examines the relationship between urban migrant movements, struggles and digitality which transforms public space and generates mobile commons. The authors explore heterogeneous digital forms in the context migration, border-crossing and transnational...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-12-05
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Die empirische Wahlforschung beobachtet seit längerem die Abnahme von Parteibindungen in der Wählerschaft. Damit einher geht eine Zunahme elektoraler Volatilität sowie eine immer spätere Wahlentscheidung. Lässt sich vor diesem Hintergrund ein stärkeres...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-12-05
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Den Nachbar verstehen. Seine Mentalität. Seine Andersartigkeit. Die eigenen Vorurteile überwinden. All das ist nicht nur eine Aufgabe im zwischenmenschlichen Bereich. Sie gilt auch für die Nachbarschaft unterschiedlicher Nationen. Völkerverständigung bedarf einer...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-12-05
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Der Sammelband zur internationalen Tagung «Fremd unter den Menschen» in Weimar 2010 vereinigt Beiträge zur Poetik und Textologie der Dichterin Gertrud Kolmar, die im Jahr 1943 ihr Leben in Auschwitz verlor. Die Aufsätze führen die Diskussion um eine außerständige...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-12-05
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Drawing on a wealth of oral interviews, Conversations on Black Leadership uses the lives of prominent African Americans to trace the contours of Black leadership in America. Included here are fascinating accounts from a wide variety of figures such as John Lewis,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-12-04
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In Psychosocial aspects of niqab wearing Nina Bosankic explores the various motives which lead young women living in post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina to adopt the niqab (full face veil). She uses a grounded theory approach to examine this decision which is often...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-12-04
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The essays in this book not only examine the variety of atheist expression and experience in the Western context, they also explore how local, national and international settings may contribute to the shaping of atheist identities. By addressing identity at these...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-12-04
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This edited volume offers a collection of papers that present a comparative analysis of the development of Shari’a in countries with Muslim minorities, such as America, Australia, Germany, and Italy, as well as countries with Muslim majorities, such as Malaysia,...
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Springer
Parution :
2014-12-04
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Taking a global and interdisciplinary approach, Children and Media explores the role of modern media, including the internet, television, mobile media and video games, in the development of children, adolescents, and childhood. Primer to global issues and core research...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-12-04
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For over half a century, the Middle East has been major migration corridor for domestic workers from Asia and Africa. This book Illuminates the multidimensionality of these workers' lives as they engage in finding a balance between acting and being acted upon, struggle...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-12-04
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Advancing Digital Humanities moves beyond definition of this dynamic and fast growing field to show how its arguments, analyses, findings and theories are pioneering new directions in the humanities globally.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-12-03
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This Brief explores the role of social crime prevention as a crime reduction strategy in the developing world. "Social crime prevention" focuses on the social and economic factors that may contribute to violence and criminal behavior in a community. Particularly in the...
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Springer
Parution :
2014-12-03
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Despite the fact that the globalization process tends to reinforce existing inequality structures and generate new areas of inequality on multiple levels, systematic analyses on this very important field remain scarce. Hence, this book approaches the complex question of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-12-03
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In Argentina, Colombia, and Peru, there has been an out-pouring of popular-performative activities that have asked citizens to pose questions about the social order and about the memories of recent atrocities. Cala Buendía looks at ways in which cultural producers...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-12-03
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This book analyzes how strategic intelligence can support decision-makers in national policing organizations to anticipate transnational organized crime (TOC). The authors examine case studies from Australia, Canada and the UK, and argue for the development of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-12-03
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After a Facebook rebellion in Egypt and Twitter protests in Turkey, the internet has been proclaimed as a globe-shifting, revolutionizing force that can incite complex social phenomena such as collective actions. This book critically assesses this claim and highlights...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-12-02
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