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This book is open access under a CC BY license.The first of its kind, this Open Access 'Report' is a first step in assessing the state of the humanities worldwide. Based on an extensive literature review and enlightening interviews the book discusses the value of the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-11-24
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This book is the first academic text to examine cynicism as a driving force in the context of post-war British culture. It maps a sensibility that transcends divisions between high and low culture, and encompasses figures such as Philip Larkin, John Lennon and Stephen...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-11-24
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This book addresses the impact of migration on the formation and transformation of identity and its continuous negotiations. Its ground is the understanding of identity as a complex social phenomenon resulting from constant negotiations between personal conditions,...
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Springer
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2014-11-24
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Teaching Adaptations addresses the challenges and appeal of teaching popular fiction and culture, video games and new media content, which serve to enrich the curriculum, as well as exploit the changing methods by which English students read and consume literary and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-11-21
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The explosion in the generation of information parallels the explosion of computational resources.The use of computers to collect, store and manipulate chemical information is at the heart of chemoinformatics. These methodologies, whose main target thus far has been the...
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Springer
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2014-11-21
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Am Beispiel des bislang größten in Deutschland generierten Internet-Phänomens, dem sogenannten „Blumenkübel-Hype“, untersucht Vivian Büttner, wie im digitalen Zeitalter Nachrichten auf die Seite Eins gelangen. Diese müssen nicht von hoher Relevanz sein - was inmitten...
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Springer VS
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2014-11-21
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This book investigates small cities - cities and towns that are not well known or internationally branded, but are facing structural economic and social issues after the Global Financial Crisis. They need to invent, develop and manage new reasons for their existence....
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Springer
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2014-11-21
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This book represents the most important academic achievements won by Dr. Renzhi Hou, one of the founding fathers of and pioneering researchers in the modern historical geography of China. His collected papers and speeches, spanning from the 1940s to the 1990s, serve as...
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Springer
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2014-11-21
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Es ist die zentrale Annahme aller konstruktivistischen Ansätze, dass wir im Erkennen Befangene sind, dass der Zugriff auf eine absolute Wahrheit unmöglich ist, unmöglich sein muss. In diesem Buch werden – ausgehend von Vorläufern und zentralen Bezugstheorien der...
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VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
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2014-11-20
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This book analyzes and compares the police's inner city presence in France, the US, and Britain. Its authors' research points to the idea that the creation of a more inclusive environment is a sound approach for cities looking to better maintain peace, reduce...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-11-20
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Neoliberalism, Media and the Political examines the condition of media and journalism in neoliberal cultures. Emphasizing neoliberalism's status as a political ideology that is simultaneously hostile to politics, the book presents a critical theoretical argument...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-20
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This book explores the processes of migration and integration within the West African sub-region and unearths subsisting promises and failures of the ECOWAS' intent of transmuting the sub-region into a single socio-economic (and political) entity.
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-11-20
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The book explains how social outcomes result from the influence of economic ideas which are themselves strongly impacted by the distribution of power in society.The book examines policies and programs of contending interests, emphasizing the importance of socio-economic...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2014-11-20
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Authors from a variety of disciplines dealing with diverse historical cases engage with the spatial deployment of violence and the possibilities for memory and resistance in contexts of state sponsored violence, enforced disappearances and regimes of exception....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-20
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This timely book provides a theoretical and empirical engagement with contemporary understandings of the governance of crime, safety and security. Using a Bourdieuian framework, Bowden explores concepts such as capital, habitus and symbolic power to present an analytic...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-20
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This book, in its 114th year, provides insight into major trends in the North American Jewish communities, examining the recently completed Pew Report (A Portrait of Jewish American), gender in American Jewish life, national and Jewish communal affairs and the US and...
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Springer
Parution :
2014-11-19
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In The Hyper(in)visible Fat Woman Gailey investigates the interface between fat women's perceptions of their bodies and of the social expectations and judgments placed on them. The book explores the phenomenon of 'hyper(in)visibility', the seemingly paradoxical social...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-19
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This volume focuses on challenges to the effective and proper use of human rights and tries to identify, through a series of case studies, strategies and contexts in which human rights advocacy can work in favor of human rights, as well as situations in which such...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-19
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Catholic or Protestant, recusant or godly rebel, early modern women reinvented their spiritual and gendered spaces during the reformations in religion in England during the sixteenth century and beyond. These essays explore the ways in which some Englishwomen struggled...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-19
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The book presents interpretations of culture, health, politics, and religion in Sweden today, Sweden transforms from the well-functioning but existentially bland economic wonder to a more fragmented and gloomy society. Contributors include scholars from film studies,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-19
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