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Colonial Girlhood in Literature, Culture and History, 1840-1950 explores a range of real and fictional colonial girlhood experiences from Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa, India, New Zealand, Australia, England, Ireland, and Canada to reflect on the transitional state...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-08-25
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This book is one out of 8 IAEG XII Congress volumes, and deals with the theme of urban geology. Along with a rapidly growing world population, the wave of urban growth continues, causing cities to swell and new metropolitan centers to emerge. These global trends also...
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Springer
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2014-08-25
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Netzwerkressourcen sind zwar in vielfältigen Lebenssituationen hilfreich aber sozial ungleich verteilt. In diesem Buch wird ein Sozialkapital-Modell präsentiert, das beschreibt und erklärt, in welchem Ausmaß soziale Ressourcen aus persönlichen Netzwerken verfügbar sind...
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Springer VS
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2014-08-25
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Referencing key contemporary debates on issues like surveillance, identity, the global financial crisis, the digital divide and Internet politics, Andrew White provides a critical intervention in discussions on the impact of the proliferation of digital media...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-08-22
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This book is one out of 8 IAEG XII Congress volumes, and deals with the preservation of cultural heritage. In 1972, the World Heritage Convention linked in a single framework the concepts of nature conservation and the preservation of cultural sites. Since then,...
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Springer
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2014-08-21
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Kinderschutz ist seit Längerem ein „heißes“ Thema in Politik und Gesellschaft. Die zahlreichen Medienberichte über kritische Ereignisse in Familien und das (angebliche) Versagen zuständiger Instanzen erregen regelmäßig die Gemüter derer, die sich urteilsfähig fühlen –...
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Springer VS
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2014-08-21
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Die Neuen Medien eröffnen vielfältige Chancen für die Vermittlungsarbeit in Museen, Ausstellungshäusern und anderen Kultureinrichtungen. Vor allem ermöglichen sie eine verbesserte, direkte Einbeziehung der Besucher in die Inhalte.Die Auseinandersetzung mit Kunst wird so...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2014-08-21
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Feminists have long differed in their view of prostitution. While some regard it as a classic form of exploitation and degradation, others offer a more sympathetic interpretation of women's involvement in the sex industry. In this important new book, Maggie O'Neill...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-08-21
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'Pink is my favourite colour. I used to say my favourite colour was black to be cool, but it is pink – all shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink. I read Vogue, and I’m not doing it ironically, though it might seem that way. I once live-tweeted the...
Editeur :
Corsair
Parution :
2014-08-21
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This is a lucid study of Walter Benjamin's lifelong fascination with the city and forms of metropolitan experience, highlighting the relevance of Benjamin's work to our contemporary understanding of modernity.
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-08-21
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Examining a wide range of source material including popular culture, literature, photography, television, and visual art, this collection of essays sheds light on the misrepresentations of Latina/os in the mass media.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-08-20
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Human footprints provide some of the most emotive and tangible evidence of our ancestors. They provide evidence of stature, presence, behaviour and in the case of early hominin footprints, evidence with respect to the evolution of human gait and foot anatomy. While...
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Springer
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2014-08-20
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This book aims to assemble a variety of perspectives that have shaped the development of multicultural studies over the last years, and which today attempt at comprising the main contending lines of approach to both teaching and research within this rapidly expanding...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-08-20
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This book is a literary and cultural investigation of the different levels of identity as revealed in German films on and about Africa. Taking sexual, spatial, linguistic and body identities as its core concern, the book elucidates how the contemporary German film...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-08-20
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In der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts erlebte Bremen eine beispiellose seewirtschaftliche Blüte. Die Studie geht den kulturellen Folgen dieser Entwicklung nach und verbindet ethnologische Methoden mit historischer Recherche. Der Autor schildert die wirtschaftliche...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-08-20
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The immigration of Muslims to Europe and the integration of later generations presents many challenges to European societies. Unwanted builds on five years of ethnographic research with a group of fifty-five second-generation Muslim immigrant drug dealers in Frankfurt,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-08-20
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Culture is seen as a source for the development of society. Task of cultural policy is therefore to create and support structures that promote mobilization of creativity of the people and thus ensure welfare, innovation and pluralism. Such relationships have been...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-08-20
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In Each Child Is My Only One: Lotte Carlebach-Preuss, the Portrait of a Mother and Rabbi’s Wife, Miriam Gillis-Carlebach, the daughter of Rabbi Dr. Joseph Zvi Carlebach (1883–1942), last Chief Rabbi of Hamburg and its surroundings, describes her childhood in the lively...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2014-08-20
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This book reviews the remarkable growth, diversity and challenges of child sponsorship. It features the latest progress in child sponsorship practice and necessary tensions experienced by some organisations as they seek to maximise impact.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-08-19
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Arising from a scientific conference marking the 100th anniversary of her birth, this book honors the life and work of the social scientist and diplomat Ester Boserup, who blazed new trails in her interdisciplinary approach to development and sustainability.
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-08-19
Collection :
Human-Environment Interactions
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