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Was sind die Widerständigkeiten des Jazz? Zu dieser Frage haben sich im Laufe der Jazzgeschichte zwei zentrale Interpretationen herausgebildet. So gilt Jazz einerseits als afroamerikanische Subversion gegen rassistische Unterdrückung. Andererseits wird das...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-09-23
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Im Mittelpunkt dieses Bandes stehen die methodologischen und methodischen Grundlagen der empirischen Analyse des sozialen Phänomens »Kriminalität«. Die Beiträge bieten einen Überblick über aktuelle Lösungsansätze für klassische Forschungsthemen der Kriminalsoziologie....
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Springer VS
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2014-09-22
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This book is based on the results of about forty years of work with one type of analysis of musical communication. It offers an elucidation of the meaning of music as, in addition to other factors, a fictive action and refers to the context of the intrapersonal,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-09-22
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Pastoralist traditions have long been extraordinarily important to the social, economic, political, and cultural life of western India. The Marathi-language oral literature of the Dhangar shepherds is not only one of the most important elements of the traditional...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-09-19
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'An extraordinary book . . . It will shake up your most fundamental beliefs about everyday experience, and it just might change your life.' Paul Bloom___For the millions of people who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris's new book is a guide to meditation as...
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Transworld Digital
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2014-09-18
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The news media has become a key arena for staging environmental conflicts. Through a range of illuminating examples ranging from climate change to oil spills, Media, Environment and the Network Society provides a timely and far-reaching analysis of the media politics of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-09-18
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Indigenous peoples have passed down vital knowledge for generations from which local plants help cure common ailments, to which parts of the land are unsuitable for buildings because of earthquakes. Here, Hendry examines science through these indigenous roots,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-09-18
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Examining the connection between the concept of authority and the transformation of the Ismaili imamate, Authority without Territory is the first study of the imamate in contemporary times with a particular focus on Aga Khan, the 49th hereditary leader of Shi?a Imami...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-09-18
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As much as Americans believe in the promise of an egalitarian, color-blind society, the reality is far from that ideal. People of color consistently lag behind their white counterparts in key quality-of-life areas. Despite many significant gains, widespread structural...
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Springer
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2014-09-18
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Both a scholarly and personal critique of current feminist Moroccan discourses, this book is a call for a larger-than-Islam framework that accommodates the Berber dimension. Sadiqi argues that current feminist discourse, both secular and Islamic ones, are not only...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-09-17
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Jonathan Wheeldon offers a rare and unusually reflective insider account of the transformational challenges of the music industry, and the cultural industries in general, over the past 15 years. He also makes a potentially valuable contribution to loosening the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-09-17
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This book focuses on Baldwin's experiences as a gifted black writer who fought valiantly against racism and wrote openly about homosexual relationships. Baldwin's God is a 'mysteriously impersonal' force he calls love- 'something . . . like a fire, like the wind,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-09-17
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This book deals with the formation of the post-Second World War reconstruction and planning machinery in Great Britain, the re-planning efforts undertaken in post-war London, and in particular the redevelopment programme regarding its central area in the form of the...
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Springer
Parution :
2014-09-16
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With the rise of smartphones and the proliferation of applications, the ways everyday media users and creative professionals represent, experience, and share the everyday is changing. This collection reflects on emergent creative practices and digital ethnographies of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-09-16
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The book argues that a universally widespread virility currently prevents humans from realizing their sexualities, which are originally the feminine and the masculine. This obstacle may be traced back to Renaissance humanism, whose core intention is to take control over...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-09-15
Collection :
Recovering Political Philosophy
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The middlebrow is a dominant cultural force in the twenty-first century. This book defines the new literary middlebrow through eight key features: middle class, feminized, reverential, commercial, emotional, recreational, earnest and mediated. Case studies include...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-09-15
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Die Senkung der Anzahl von Verkehrsunfällen und Unfallopfern stellt eine zentrale Herausforderung dar, sowohl aus Sicht des öffentlichen Gesundheitswesens als auch mit Blick auf volkswirtschaftliche Lasten. Aus diesem Grund kommt der kommunikativen Unfallprävention eine...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2014-09-15
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This Brief discusses methods to develop and maintain police – researcher partnerships. First, the authors provide information that will be useful to police managers and researchers who are interested in creating and maintaining partnerships to conduct research, work...
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Springer
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2014-09-15
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Muslim intellectuals may try to define something called British Islam, but the truth is that as theMuslim community of Britain has grown in size and religiosity, so too has the opportunity to found and run mosques which divide along ethnic and sectarian lines.
Just as...
Editeur :
Hurst
Parution :
2014-09-15
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This volume examines the processes and patterns of Araucanian cultural development and resistance to foreign influences and control through the combined study of historical and ethnographic records complemented by archaeological investigation in south-central Chile....
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-09-13
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