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Wie wir alle wissen, sollte man zwei Themen unbedingt vermeiden, wenn man ein harmonisches Beisammensein unter Freunden genießen will: Politik und Religion.In gewissem Sinne verstößt das vorliegende Werk gegen diesen weisen Rat, weil es nämlich genau davon handelt, von...
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Centaurus Verlag & Media
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2016-12-27
Collection :
Beiträge zur Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart
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Global Urban Politics: Informalization of the State In what ways has global urbanization affected the political process? This book offers a reflection on the transformations of urban politics worldwide in the past four decades, from interpersonal street-level politics...
Editeur :
Polity
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2016-12-27
Collection :
Urban Futures
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Through historical and comparative research on the immigrant rights movements of the United States, France and the Netherlands, Cities and Social Movements examines how small resistances against restrictive immigration policies do – or don’t – develop into large and...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2016-12-27
Collection :
IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
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This book examines patterns of political engagement of long-term unemployed youth. The authors show how unemployment affects the personal, social, and political life of young people. Focusing on the case of Geneva in Switzerland, the study shows the importance of...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2016-12-22
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This book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the correlates and consequences of residential relocation. Drawing on multiple nationally representative data sets, the book explores historic patterns and current trends in household mobility; individuals’...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-12-22
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Der 24. Band der Schriftenreihe „Mannheimer Schriften zur Verwaltungs- und Versorgungswirtschaft“ befasst sich mit vielen aktuellen Themen und Kommentierungen zu arbeits-, verwaltungs- und europarechtlichen Urteilen.Aus dem Inhalt:Strategisches Hochschulmarketing unter...
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Centaurus Verlag & Media
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2016-12-21
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Das Buch basiert auf autobiografischen narrativen Interviews mit 20 hochaltrigen Menschen. Die Interviews geben einen Einblick in das Leben im sehr hohen Alter. Wenn alte Menschen über ihr Leben erzählen, dann ordnen, bewerten und bilanzieren sie ihr Leben. Sie...
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Centaurus Verlag & Media
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2016-12-21
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This book examines the roles that public space plays in gentrification. Considering both cultural norms of public behavior and the municipal regulation of behavior in public, it shows how commonplace acts in everyday public spaces like sidewalks, streets, and parks work...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-21
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Bringing together a range of authors from the multidisciplinary field of disability studies, this book uses disability and the experiences of disabled people living in the United States and Canada to explore and analyze dynamic sites of human interaction in both...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-20
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Jean Baudrillard is one of the most celebrated and most controversial of contemporary social theorists. This major work occupies a central place in the rethinking of the humanities and social sciences around the idea of postmodernism. It leads the reader on an...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2016-12-15
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Der Band befasst sich mit dem Verhältnis von Stadt und Infrastruktur, von Urbanisierung und Infrastrukturentwicklung. Je nach Konstellation symbolisieren und reproduzieren Infrastrukturen gesellschaftliche Beziehungen, können diese aber auch mit hervorbringen und...
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Springer VS
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2016-12-13
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This book aims to expand what scholars know and who is included in this discussion about black studies, which aids in the democratization of American higher education and the deconstruction of traditional disciplines of high education, to facilitate a sense of social...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-11
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This book examines the nature and regulation of the informal economy by means of a collective case study in a highly regulated Western country. The book, situated at the intersection of criminology and sociology, investigates the relation between formal, informal and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-10
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This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license.This book portrays men’s experiences of home alone leave and how it affects their lives and family gender roles in different policy contexts and explores how this unique parental leave design is implemented in these...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-12-06
Collection :
Life Course Research and Social Policies
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Bringing together the work of leading scholars of religion in imperial Japan and colonial Korea, this collection addresses the complex ways in which religion served as a site of contestation and negotiation among different groups, including the Korean Choson court, the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-05
Collection :
Religion and Society in Asia Pacific
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This book provides a wide range of studies on methods of assessing natural disaster risks and reducing those risks in the context of land use. A major benefit of the book is that it presents extensive research and practices from interdisciplinary perspectives through...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-12-05
Collection :
Disaster Risk Reduction
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This book examines smart growth entrepreneurs—innovators in government, development companies, architectural firms, and other organizations, who coalesce to shift policies and markets toward green planning and building practices. Cities across the world are trying...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-05
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The book introduces Tadeusz Kotarbinski’s philosophy of action into the mainstream of contemporary action-theoretical debates. Piotr Makowski shows that Kotarbinski–Alfred Tarski’s teacher and one of the most important philosophers of the renowned Lvov-Warsaw...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-30
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This book discusses violence and its connection with religion, sport and popular culture. It highlights the religious dimensions of violence and the role of violence in the religion and culture of the American South. Extending into popular culture, it then...
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Springer
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2016-11-30
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This book critically reviews recent social scientific investigations of consumption, a controversial topic with moral overtones, and of popular public interest and political and economic significance. The author explores how consumption affects personal identity and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-29
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