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In Beiträgen, die sich mit dem Bevölkerungsrückgang in der Bundesrepublik beschäftigen, liegt der Fokus regelmäßig auf Frauen und ihrer „Fertilität“, also der Potenz oder auch Entscheidung, Kinder (nicht) zu bekommen. Im Zusammenhang mit den sogenannten Neuen...
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Springer VS
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2014-09-12
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This book is open access under a CC BY license.This edited collection focuses on theories, language and migration in relation to multiculturalism in Japan and the Asia-Pacific. Each chapter aims to provide alternative understandings to current conflicts that have arisen...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-09-12
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This volume examines key aspects of the migration process that are particularly relevant in the Asian context. It looks into established concepts and theoretical propositions that have found application in other areas, particularly in the West and explores their...
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Springer
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2014-09-12
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Spirit possession involves the displacement of a human's conscious self by a powerful other who temporarily occupies the human's body. Here, Seligman shows that spirit possession represents a site for understanding fundamental aspects of human experience, especially...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-09-11
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The underground is a multi-faceted concept in African American culture. Peterson uses Richard Wright, KRS-One, Thelonius Monk, and the tradition of the Underground Railroad to explore the manifestations and the attributes of the underground within the context of a more...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-09-11
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Turkey has witnessed significant social, cultural, and political change over the last decades. This transformation has manifested itself in all segments of society and resulted in the alteration of political ideologies and institutions. The twelve authors of this volume...
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Springer VS
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2014-09-11
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This concise reference helps readers avoid the most commonplace errors in generating or interpreting engineering drawings. Applicable across multiple disciplines, Hanifan’s lucid treatment of such essential skills as understanding and conveying data in a drawing,...
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Springer
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2014-09-11
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At the Mogao Grottoes, a World Heritage site near Dunhuang city in Gansu Province, visitor numbers have increased inexorably since 1979 when the site opened. A national policy that identifies tourism as a pillar industry, along with pressure from local authorities and...
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Springer
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2014-09-11
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A consistent best-seller, the wide-ranging and authoritative Dictionary of Sociology was first published in 1994 and contains more than 2,500 entries on the terminology, methods, concepts, and thinkers in the field, as well as from the related fields of psychology,...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-09-11
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This book is presented by two authors who worked in close cooperation. The first part is written by Ewa Binczyk and discusses various postulates that have been formulated in response to the problem of the unwanted side-effects of the practical success of technoscience...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-09-10
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This book investigates Chinese comprehension and treatment of the relationship between language and reality. The work examines ancient Chinese philosophy through the pair of concepts known as ming-shi. By analyzing the pre-Qin thinkers’ discourse on ming and shi, the...
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Springer
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2014-09-10
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Entstehende Nationen brauchen Symbole. Das galt auch für Deutschland und Italien. Hier waren Nationaldenkmäler, Denkmalparks, Denkmalfeste und Mythen Teile dieser Symbolik. Dieses Buch untersucht Übereinstimmungen, Verbindungen und Unterschiede zwischen den deutschen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-09-10
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Der Band zeigt die Eigenarten der Schweiz an relevanten Stichworten aus Geschichte, Politik, Wirtschaft und Landwirtschaft sowie dem sozialen Leben und der eidgenössischen Mentalität auf. So offenbaren sich die eigentümlichen Aspekte der schweizerischen Identität anhand...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-09-10
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Probing deeply into texts by and about prominent Christian mystics, religious authors, and saints, German Mysticism and the Politics of Culture challenges the reader to rethink the medieval past as a contemporary presence. This «presence of the past» shapes memory of...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2014-09-10
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Developments: Encounters of Formation in the Latin American and Hispanic/Latino Bildungsroman, a notable contribution for students and scholars of Latin American, Brazilian, Hispanic and Latino literature, explores a significant but overlooked area in the literary...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2014-09-10
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On the History of Rock Music follows the development of rock music from its origins up to the present time. It focuses on the relationship between the sound, improvisations and rhythms in particular styles, and gives specific attention to the development of rhythm. The...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-09-10
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Biblical Representations of Moab: A Kenyan Postcolonial Reading employs critical theories on colonial, anticolonial, and postcolonial ethnicity and African cultural hermeneutics to examine the overlap of politics, ethnicity, nationality, economics, and religion in...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2014-09-10
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This volume is a collection of essays on the process of obtaining a PhD degree at a Finnish university. The contributors share the common background of coming to Finland from abroad especially for the purpose of taking up PhD studies. They hail from different countries...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-09-10
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Exploring the ambivalent grammar of empathy where questions of geo-politics and social justice are at stake - in popular science, international development, postcolonial fiction, feminist and queer theory - this book addresses the critical implications of empathy's...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-09-09
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Bringing together theories, ideas, insights and experiences of practitioners and researchers from Brazil, India, South Africa and the UK, this book explores children and young people's involvement in public action. The contributors consider the potential of children and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-09-09
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