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Follow Britain's most wanted man into London's underworld and back out again Ray Bishop was on the run, skulking in a dealer's house in north London, when an image of his face flashed up on the TV, accompanied by a public warning. The assembled company were aghast, and...
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Virgin Digital
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2014-07-10
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The explosive rise in the U.S. incarceration rate in the second half of the twentieth century, and the racial transformation of the prison population from mostly white at mid-century to sixty-five percent black and Latino in the present day, is a trend that cannot...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-07-10
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How do we conceptualize the relationship between suffering, art, and aesthetics from within the broader framework of social, cultural, and political thought today? This book brings together a range of intellectuals from the social sciences and humanities to speak to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-07-09
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From Tony Hsieh to Amy Chua to Jeremy Lin, Chinese Americans are now arriving at the highest levels of American business, civic life, and culture. But what makes this story of immigrant ascent unique is that Chinese Americans are emerging at just the same moment when...
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PublicAffairs
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2014-07-08
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This edited collection captures the intersection between migration, mobility and childhood studies. Contributors explore under-researched child and youth short-term and micro movements within major migration fluxes that occur in response to migration and global change.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-07-08
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This book develops an exploratory theory of immigration in multilevel states addressing two themes: governance and political parties. It examines not only how, and by whom, immigration policy is decided and implemented at different levels, but also how it has become a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-07-08
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Der Beitrag diskutiert die Rolle der Mittelschichten in den Transformationsprozessen der arabischen Welt in der jüngeren Geschichte. Rachid Ouaissa vertritt die These, dass die arabischen Mittelschichten zwar die Hauptträger von Protesten sind, jedoch keine...
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Springer VS
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2014-07-08
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„Die“ Jungen als homogene soziale Gruppe gibt es ebenso wenig wie „die“ Benachteiligung der Jungen oder „die“ Jungenpolitik als Rezept. Reinhard Winter beschreibt die Legitimation und reale Problempunkte der Jungenpolitik und nennt die zentralen Spannungsfelder....
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Springer VS
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2014-07-08
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This book explores how gender intersects with political violence, and particularly terrorism. We ask how gender relations and understandings of femininity and masculinity influence political violence, which includes politics related to terrorism, state terrorism, and...
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Springer
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2014-07-08
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This book focuses on observing and understanding the urban planning and relevant development patterns applied to the creation of urban districts against the backdrop of the current rapid urbanization and transformation of Shanghai on its way to becoming a world city....
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Springer
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2014-07-08
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This volume illustrates both theoretically and empirically the differences between religious diversity and religious pluralism. It highlights how the factual situation of cultural and religious diversity may lead to individual, social and political choices of organized...
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Springer
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2014-07-08
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Vor rund 100 Jahren prägte Max Weber den heute noch unverzichtbaren Begriff des Monopols der legitimen physischen Gewaltsamkeit. Doch wie sieht das Gewaltmonopol des frühen 21. Jahrhunderts aus? Diese Arbeit widmet sich einer in Recht und Politik nur wenig beleuchteten...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-07-08
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?Cinur Ghaderi zeigt die Veränderungen von Identitäten und Wertvorstellungen von politisch aktiven MigrantInnen, die aus einer Konfliktregion kommen. Im Fokus stehen ihre Selbstverortungen und der Wandel ihrer politisierten Identität. Sie macht multiple Formen der...
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Springer VS
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2014-07-08
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Studien zur Migrations- und Integrationspolitik
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This book educates whilst also challenging the contemporary schools of thought within philosophical and religious ethics. In addition, it underlines the fact that the substance of ethics in general and bioethics/healthcare ethics specifically, is much more expansive and...
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Springer
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2014-07-08
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Die Wissenssoziologische Diskursanalyse (WDA) verbindet theoretische Grundlegungen der wissenssoziologischen Tradition von Peter Berger und Thomas Luckmann mit Diskursperspektiven von Michel Foucault. Sie zielt auf die Diskursanalyse gesellschaftlicher...
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VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
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2014-07-08
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Wang's book offers an empirically rich and conceptually nuanced analysis of how local state agents maintain control over village self-governance in China. His careful analysis of primary documents enables him to explicate the formal mechanisms used by members of the...
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Springer
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2014-07-08
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This book is the last work of the author’s trilogy on Chinese rural politics. In the background of prominent social conflicts since the 1990s during China’s social transformation, the author conducted in-depth comparative analyses of several conflicts to understand the...
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Springer
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2014-07-08
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This book explores changes in the social, economic and political processes underpinning the mechanisms for the management of human mobility and cohabitation in the Mediterranean region, while suggesting comparisons with the situation in the Americas. It considers the...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2014-07-08
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This book is the result of ethnographic research carried out in the Academic College of Judea & Samaria (ACJS), located in the West Bank of Israel/Palestine. The book deals with Israeli citizenship and identity, and examines the ways in which it is being understood and...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-07-08
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This brief focuses on the “doing” of procedural justice: what the police can do to implement the principles of procedural justice, and how their actions can improve citizen perceptions of police legitimacy. Drawing on research from Australia (Mazerolle et al), the UK...
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Springer
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2014-07-08
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