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In the early 1900s the Catholic Church appealed, for the first time in its history, directly to women to reassert its religious, political and social relevance in Italian society. This book examines how the highly successful conservative Catholic women's movements that...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-06-26
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Drawing on research from the Timescapes Study, this volume discusses the life chances and experiences of children and young people, parents and older generations. A unique qualitative longitudinal study forms the basis for the chapter contributions, delivering...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-06-26
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This timely volume offers an in-depth theoretical analysis of children's experiences growing up with mobile internet technologies. Drawing on up-to-date research, it explores the relationship between childhood as a social and cultural construction and the plethora of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-06-25
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Science Fiction, Alien Encounters, and the Ethics of Posthumanism offers a typology of alien encounters and addresses a range of texts including classic novels of alien encounter by H.G. Wells and Robert Heinlein; recent blockbusters by Greg Bear, Octavia Butler and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-06-24
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The culture of twenty-first century America revolves around narcissistic death, violence, and visions of doom. Foster explores this culture of the apocalypse, from hoarding and gluttony to visions of the post-apocalyptic world.
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Palgrave Pivot
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2014-06-24
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As the lead writer for BBC Anglophenia, Fraser McAlpine (a man assembled from almost every region of the UK*) spends his life explaining Brits to foreigners. Now he lifts the lid on our Marmite pot of nations and takes you on a journey from the Isle of Wight to...
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John Murray Business
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2014-06-24
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Rather than turning backward and remembering 9/11, this book sets out to reflect on how the events of September 11, 2001, have shifted our perspectives on a whole series of political, economic, social, and cultural processes. Beyond 9/11 raises the question how the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-06-24
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‘[Go] behind the glamorous shop fronts and the glitzy shop floors of Britain’s department stores... Here the hidden history is revealed.’ Saga MagazineMeet the shopgirls and hear their incredible true stories of life behind the counter. In this lively and colourful...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2014-06-24
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This book gives a thorough introduction to the theoretical and practical aspects of planning, conducting and analysing data from Respondent Driven Sampling surveys, drawing on the experiences of experts in the field as well as pioneers that have applied Respondent...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-06-23
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This welcome new resource for international students in art, design, and media provides clear explanations of the terminology they must master in order to fulfill their academic potential and enrich their professional careers. Offers a much-requested new resource that...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2014-06-23
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Welche Strategien entwickeln Konsumentinnen und Konsumenten von Drogen, um die aus dem Konsum folgenden Schäden zu minimieren? Lassen sich im Konsumverhalten Betroffener Methoden identifizieren, die auf eine Begrenzung und Regulierung des Konsums zielen? Kann die...
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Springer VS
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2014-06-23
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How are ethnographic knowledge and anthropological theory created out of field experiences? Spanning Papua New Guinea, Taiwan, and Scotland, and Ireland, Stewart and Strathern show how fieldwork in apparently different areas can lead to unexpected comparisons and...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-06-20
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Jacob Kinnard offers an in-depth examination of the complex dynamics of religiously charged places. Focusing on several important shared and contested pilgrimage places-Ground Zero and Devils Tower in the United States, Ayodhya and Bodhgaya in India, Karbala in Iraq-he...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-06-20
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The ability to adapt to a changing environment has ensured the continued survival of the human race into the 21st century.The challenges to be faced in this century are now well documented by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.The effects of...
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Springer
Parution :
2014-06-19
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This interdisciplinary collection places corporate security in a theoretical and international context. Arguing that corporate security is becoming the primary form of security in the twenty-first century, it explores a range of issues including regulation,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-06-18
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Crime Prevention and Security Management
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Winner of the British Society of Criminology Book Prize, 2015Fleetwood explores how women become involved in trafficking, focusing on the lived experiences of women as drug mules. Offering theoretical insights from gender theory and transnational criminology, Fleetwood...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-06-18
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There are millions of children experiencing parental imprisonment all over the world. This book is about their problems, human rights and how they are treated throughout the justice process from the arrest of a parent to imprisonment and release.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-06-18
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This volume assesses contemporary church responses to multicultural diversity and resisted categories of social difference, with a central focus on whether or how racial, ethnic, religious, sexual, and gender differences are validated by churches (and especially black...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-06-18
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Für die Lösung komplexer, gesellschaftlicher Herausforderungen sind soziale Innovationen von enormer Bedeutung. In dem Herausgeberband kommen 18 Sozialinnovatoren zu Wort, deren Lösungen eine der folgenden 5 gesellschaftlichen Herausforderungen adressieren:...
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Springer VS
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2014-06-18
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The authors select sermons by Martin Luther King Jr. and Jeremiah Wright to as a framework to examine the meaning of God in America as part of the formational religio-political narrative of the country.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-06-18
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