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Winner of the Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities
Three understandings of the nature of religion--religion as experience, symbolic meaning, and power--have dominated scholarly discussions, in succession, for the past hundred years. Proponents of each of these three...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-10-01
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Men who act abusively have their own story to tell, a journey that often begins in childhood, ripens in their teenage years, and takes them down paths they were hoping to never travel.Men Who Batter recounts the journey from the point of view of the men themselves....
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Oxford University Press
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2014-10-01
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TV-Serien haben in den letzten Jahren explosionsartig an kultureller Bedeutung gewonnen. Sie haben den Film als führendes Unterhaltungsmedium und damit auch als Mittel zur sozialen Distinktion längst abgelöst. Literatur-, Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften haben...
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Springer VS
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2014-09-30
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This book uses identity theories to explore the struggles of indigenous peoples against the domination of the settler imaginary in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States. The book argues that a new relational imaginary can revolutionize the way settler...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-09-29
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How people move from deviant to conventional lifestyles is an issue that has attracted considerable interest over the past few years. However, much of this work has focused on men desisting from crime. This book provides one of the first examinations of desistance which...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-09-29
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Contributors from diverse backgrounds explore a range of issues in relation to the media and journalism's role in ascribing meaning to tourism practices. This fascinating account offers a thoroughly international and interdisciplinary perspective on an increasingly...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-09-29
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This book explores mobile representations in government policy, literature, visual arts, music, and research and examines the methodological potential of these representations and the ways in which representations co-produce mobilities.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-09-29
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It is sometimes assumed that fantasizing stands in contrast to activism. This book, however, argues that fantasy plays a central role in social movements. Drawing on psychoanalysis and psychosocial theories, Fantasy and Social Movements examines the relationships...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-09-29
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During the past 10 years following the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, invaluable lessons have been learned and great changes have been observed. Immediately after the disaster, the second World Conference on Disaster Reduction was held in Kobe, Japan, and formulated the...
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Springer
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2014-09-29
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Disaster Risk Reduction
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Technik, so vermuteten wir lange, beherrsche uns, weil ihre Entwicklung einer eigendynamischen Logik folgt, die uns als außergesellschaftliches Faktum erschien, die gesellschaftliche Entwicklung bestimmt.Technik, so behaupteten wir später, sei maßgeblich Resultat...
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Springer VS
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2014-09-29
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The last decade of the 20th century was marked by a shift in how welfare-states deal with those at the bottom of the income ladder. This shift involved the introduction/strengthening of work-obligations as a condition for receiving minimum income benefits - which, in...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-09-29
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Zukunftsforschung, Foresight, Futures Studies, aber auch Technikfolgenabschätzung und Trendforschung zeichnen sich durch eine auf die Zukunft gerichtete Forschungsperspektive aus. Daraus ergeben sich grundsätzliche Besonderheiten, die es bei der Konzeption von Studien...
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Springer VS
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2014-09-29
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Ben Light puts forward an alternative way of thinking about how we engage with social networking sites. He analyses our engagements social networking sites in public, at work, in our personal lives and as related to our health and wellbeing, emphasizing the importance...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-09-26
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Der Kulturjournalismus befindet sich im Umbruch. Das klassische Feuilleton steht unter Begründungsdruck, gleichzeitig wachsen Formate und Zuständigkeiten des Kulturjournalismus. Das vorliegende Buch gibt einen aktuellen Überblick über ein zentrales Feld der medialen...
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Springer VS
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2014-09-26
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While the success of national and international law enforcement cooperation to suppress organized crime means that stable, large-scale criminal organizations like the Cosa Nostra or the Japanese Yakuza have seen their power reduced, organized crime remains a concern for...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-09-26
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This is a book that integrates what is known from a wide variety of disciplines about the nature of storytelling and how it influences and transforms people's lives. Drawing on material from the humanities, sociology, anthropology, neurophysiology, media and...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-09-26
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Why do we share so much about our lives on social media when we often have little idea who might be reading or viewing? David R. Brake examines the causes and consequences of moving towards a radically open society.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-09-25
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Immigrant incorporation is a critical challenge for France and other European societies today. Black Africans migrants are racialized and endowed with an immigrant status, which carries low status and is durable into the second generation. This book elucidates the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-09-25
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This collection argues that although constitutionalism has traditionally been the primary mechanism for facilitating the mutual accommodation of sub-state and state national societies in plurinational states.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-09-25
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This book concerns the Beijing Hutong and changing perceptions of space, of social relations and of self, as processes of urban redevelopment remove Hutong dwellers from their traditional homes to new high-rise apartments. It addresses questions of how space is humanly...
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Springer
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2014-09-25
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