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This is the book to focus on a new phenomenon emerging in the twenty-first century: the rapidly aging and decreasing population of a well-developed country, namely, Japan. The meaning of this phenomenon has been successfully clarified as the possible historical...
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Springer
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2014-11-14
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Community development has lately gained much prominence, but the emphasis has remained on the economic and social welfare of communities, rather than the environment. By focusing on 'sustainable' development in Kenya, this study shows the importance of integrating...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2014-11-13
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Wars are frequently justified 'in our name'. Militarist values and practices co-opt us, permeating our language, invading our dream space, entertaining us at the movies or in front of game consoles. Our taxes pay for those war machines. Our loved ones are killed and...
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Virago
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2014-11-13
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Climate Change Adaptation and Human Capabilities explores learning, health, mobility, and play as climate capabilities and produces new insights into the depth of climate change impact on social life.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-11-12
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With many OECD countries experiencing a decline in their populations, this book offers a theoretical model of coping with demographic change and examines different strategies that societies have used to come to terms with demographic change. In particular, it details...
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Springer
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2014-11-12
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Die vorliegenden Texte nehmen Bezug auf die grundlegenden Arbeiten Howard S. Beckers, Herbert Blumers und Stanley Fishs, deren Ansätze in erster Linie die lokale Kategorisierung im interaktiven Raum zwischen in konkreten Situationen handelnden Menschen betonen.Sowohl...
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Springer VS
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2014-11-12
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The quadrennial summer Olympic Games are renowned for producing the world's biggest single-city cultural event. This mega-event attracts a live audience of millions, a television audience of billions, and generates incredible scrutiny before, during, and after each...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-11-12
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Idleness, Indolence and Leisure in English Literature is the first study to provide transhistorical perspectives and cutting-edge critical analyses of debates concerning idleness in English literature. The topicality of the subject is emphasized by two pieces of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-11-11
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The volume contributes to disrupt the old grand narrative of cultural contact and colonialism in Spanish and Portuguese America in a wide and complete sense. This edited volume aims at exploring contact archaeology in the modern era. Archaeology has been exploring the...
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Springer
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2014-11-11
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Das Buch „Organisation und Unsicherheit“ geht der Frage nach, wie Organisationen in der Gegenwart auf Unsicherheiten reagieren. Diese Unsicherheiten können organisationsintern erzeugt werden oder aus der Organisationsumwelt resultieren. Aus unterschiedlichen...
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Springer VS
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2014-11-11
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Premodern and early modern yoga comprise techniques with a wide range of aims, from turning inward in quest of the true self, to turning outward for divine union, to channeling bodily energy in pursuit of sexual pleasure. Early modern yoga also encompassed...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-11-10
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This volume examines the distinctive and highly problematic ethical questions surrounding conflict archaeology. By bringing together sophisticated analyses and pertinent case studies from around the world it aims to address the problems facing archaeologists working in...
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Springer
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2014-11-10
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Restoring the historicity and plurality of archaeological ethics is a task to which this book is devoted; its emphasis on praxis mends the historical condition of ethics. In doing so, it shows that nowadays a multicultural (sometimes also called “public”) ethic looms...
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Springer
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2014-11-10
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The use of the cognitive interviewing method for survey question testing has proliferated and evolved over the past 30 years. In more recent years the method has been applied to the evaluation of information letters and leaflets and to research consent forms. This book...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2014-11-10
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Diese Studie verfolgt eine Synthese von medienästhetischer und diskursanalytischer Perspektive. Dabei wird das Genre der TV-Kriegsserie als eine symbolische Form verstanden, durch die eine Gesellschaft über sich selbst reflektiert, indem sie ihre Vergangenheit in...
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Springer VS
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2014-11-10
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This edited volume aims at exploring a most relevant but somewhat neglected subject in archaeological studies, especially within Latin America: maroons and runaway settlements. Scholarship on runaways is well established and prolific in ethnology, anthropology and...
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Springer
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2014-11-10
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Das Berufswahlverhalten von Schülerinnen in MINT (Mathematik, Informatik, Naturwissenschaften und Technik) zu verändern und zu erweitern ist ein gesamtgesellschaftliches Anliegen.Vor diesem Hintergrund sind zahlreiche Projekte entstanden, die darauf zielen, Schülerinnen...
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Springer VS
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2014-11-07
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Revisiting Iris Marion Young on Normalisation, Inclusion and Democracy presents an innovative collection of politically and theoretically inspiring papers by feminist, queer and postcolonial writers. All authors engage with Young's politics of cultural difference and a...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-11-07
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Is Vladimir Putin macho, or is he a "fag"? Sex, Politics, and Putin investigates how gender stereotypes and sexualization have been used as tools of political legitimation in contemporary Russia. Despite their enmity, regime allies and detractors alike have wielded...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-11-07
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Conspiracy theories are a popular topic of conversation in everyday life but are often frowned upon in academic discussions. Looking at the recent spate of philosophical interest in conspiracy theories, The Philosophy ofConspiracy Theories looks at whether the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-06
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