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The Slender Man entered the general popular consciousness in May 2014, when two young girls led a third girl into a wooded area and stabbed her. Examining the growth of the online horror phenomenon, this book introduces unique attributes of digital culture and...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2014-11-27
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Far from being the preserve of middle-class women from Northern Europe, au pairing is now booming worldwide. This collection, the first dedicated entirely to examining the lives of au pairs, traces their experiences across five continents showing how this form of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-27
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Significantly updated and expanded, this indispensable resource offers students and scholars alike real advice in navigating the ever-changing academic landscape. Offering practical guidance on graduate school, dissertation-writing, job interviews, promotions,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-26
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Puerto Rican soldiers have been consistently whitewashed out of the narrative of American history despite playing parts in all American wars since WWI. This book examines the online self-representation ofPuerto Rican soldiers who served during the War on Terror,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-26
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Exploring bilateral narratives of identity at a socio-discursive level from 1990 onwards, this book provides a new approach to understanding how Chile and Australia imagine and discursively construct each other in light of the bilateral Free Trade Agreement signed in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-26
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Through an empirical inquiry into three categories of offending women, Offending Women in Contemporary China: Gender and Pathways into Crime explores the socioeconomic conditions that facilitate womens' pathways into crime, and examines the interplay between gender,...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-11-26
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The integration of Muslims into European societies is often seen as a major challenge that is yet to be confronted. This book, by contrast, starts from the observation that on legal, political and organizational levels integration has already taken place. It showcases...
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Springer VS
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2014-11-26
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Dr. Urs Alter gibt einen Überblick zu Kommunikationskompetenzen und macht mit vielen praktischen Hinweisen Mut, durch Verhandeln Lösungen bei unterschiedlichen Standpunkten zu suchen. Verhandlungen sind in der Beziehung zwischen Menschen alltäglich. Da sie jedoch immer...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-11-26
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Field practice in archaeology varies greatly throughout the world, mainly because archaeological sites survive in very different ways in different counties. Many manuals see this as a problem - to be defeated by the imposition of standardised procedures. In this book...
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Springer
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2014-11-26
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Norway, Sweden, and Denmark are home to more than 90,000 transnational adoptees of Scandinavian parents raised in a predominantly white environment. This ethnography provides a unique perspective on how these transracial adoptees conceptualize and construct their sense...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-26
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Today, there is new appeal in the analysis of ethnicity, not merely as innate and fixed identities or fragmented and lost identities, but rather as wounded and then creatively reclaimed. Kearney discusses international examples of cultural wounding and healing and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-26
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The volume investigates the visualization of both ritual and decorative aspects of auspiciousness and protection in the form of celestial characters in art and architecture. In doing so, it covers more than two and a half millennia and a broad geographical area,...
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Springer
Parution :
2014-11-26
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In an increasingly mobile world with mounting concerns about the states' control of borders and migration, passports and citizenship rights matter more than ever. This book asks what citizenship ceremonies can tell us about how citizenship is understood through...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-25
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As governments, citizens and organizations have moved online there is an increasing need for academic enquiry to adapt to this new context for communication and political action. This adaptation is crucially dependent on researchers being equipped with the necessary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-25
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Religion-fuelled terrorism and attacks on freedom of expression have recently drawn headlines across Europe, either in protest or in support of extreme political or religious persuasions. This books explores interdisciplinary perspectives on public discussions...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-25
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Between 1915 and 1941, Tagore (1861-1941) and Gandhi (1869-1948) differed and argued about many things of personal, national, and international significance---satyagraha, non-cooperation, the boycott and burning of foreign cloth, the efficacy of fasting as a means of...
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Springer
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2014-11-25
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Verschiedene Erscheinungen von Fundamentalismus stellen mit zunehmender Pluralisierung der Lebensstile, mit der (post-)modernen Enttraditionalisierung und Multikulturalität in Europa und weltweit eine wachsende Gefahr dar: theokratische und evangelikale Tendenzen in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-11-25
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Die Arbeit untersucht das Phänomen vereinbarter Arbeitnehmervertretungsstrukturen in der betrieblichen Praxis.Die Grundlage der Studie bildet die Auswertung von (Betriebs-)Vereinbarungen, soziologischen Fallstudien und rechtstatsächlichen Untersuchungen.Die darin...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-11-25
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The three-part work provides a first synthetic account of the history of the Polish intelligentsia from the days of its formation to World War I. Part two (1832-1864) analyses the growing importance of the intelligentsia in the epoch marked by the triumph of the Polish...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-11-25
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The three-part work provides a first synthetic account of the history of the Polish intelligentsia from the days of its formation to World War I.The third part deals with the period between 1865 and 1918. It is the period of numerical growth of the intelligentsia,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-11-25
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