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The extensively revised and updated second edition combines carefully chosen primary quotes with wide-ranging discussion and everyday illustrative examples to provide an in-depth introduction to classical and contemporary sociological theory. Combines classical and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-11-18
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This book will compare the approach and works of Norbert Elias, well known for his analysis of the civilizing process, his work on sport and violence and, more largely, his figurational approach, with other important social theories both classical and contemporary.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-11-18
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This carefully crafted ebook: “The Collected Political Works: Leviathan + De Cive (On the Citizen) + The Elements of Law + Behemoth, or The Long Parliament ” contains 4 books in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of...
Editeur :
e-artnow
Parution :
2013-11-15
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Schulische Gewaltprävention ist ein zentrales Element von Schulentwicklung. Verstanden als Förderstrategie, kann sie eine Präventions- und Interventionsmöglichkeit darstellen, die benachteiligten Kindern und Jugendlichen zugutekommt. Vor dem Hintergrund einer...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-15
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This work offers a political and historical analysis of Newark's modern politics since 1950, culminating with Mayor Cory Booker's rise to power and prominence both in the city and in American political consciousness. Newark's recent political history offers an...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-11-12
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Community Based System Dynamics introduces researchers and practitioners to the design and application of participatory systems modeling with diverse communities. The book bridges community- based participatory research methods and rigorous computational modeling...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-11-09
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The present work covers the latest developments and discoveries related to information reuse and integration in academia and industrial settings. The need for dealing with the large volumes of data being produced and stored in the last decades and the numerous systems ...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-11-08
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Informal folk narrative genres such as gossip, advice, rumor, and urban legends provide a unique lens through which to discern popular formations of gender conflict and AIDS beliefs. This is the first book on AIDS and gender in Africa to draw primarily on such...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-11-07
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Mulholland offers a scholarly, yet wholly accessible, critical engagement with young people's negotiation with the pornification of culture. This work foregrounds the affective dynamics in young people's institutional and everyday sexual peer cultures.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-11-07
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Drawing on insights from psychology, sociology, anthropology, religion, history, and literature, this book examines early and contemporary writings of male authors from across the Arab world to explore the traditional and evolving nature of father-son relationships in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-11-07
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While tracing the historical emergence of the café as a social institution and noting its multiple faces and functions in the modernity of the occident, three themes run like threads of varying texture through the chapters: the social connectivity and inclusion of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-11-07
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Through rich stories of African migrant women in Johannesburg, this book explores the experience of living between geographies. Author Caroline Kihato draws on fieldwork and analysis to examine the everyday lives of those inhabiting a fluid location between multiple...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-11-07
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The book aims to reconstruct and analyze the disputes over the Polish-Jewish past and memory in public debates in Poland between 1985 and 2012, from the discussions about Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah, Jan Blonski’s essayThe Poor Poles Look at the Ghetto, Jan Tomasz Gross’...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-05
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Questo è il secondo tomo di una trilogia: I. Differenziazione, non linearità, equilibrio (già pubblicato); II. Stati psichici e costanti dell’azione; III. Stati psichici e variabili dell’azione (che seguirà a breve). In questo secondo tomo si procede all’applicazione...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-04
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From the author of Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser's Reefer Madness: and Other Tales from the American Underground follows the money to uncover made the country rich: porn, pot and exploitation.In three linked essays, Eric Schlosser uncovers how dirty dealings and...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2013-10-31
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Twenty years ago Ulrich Beck published Risk Society, a book that called our attention to the dangers of environmental catastrophes and changed the way we think about contemporary societies. During the last two decades, the dangers highlighted by Beck have taken on new...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-10-29
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The book publishing industry is going through a period of profound and turbulent change brought about in part by the digital revolution. What is the role of the book in an age preoccupied with computers and the internet? How has the book publishing industry been...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-10-21
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The relationship between sociology and social critique has haunted the discipline since its origins. Does critique divert sociology from its scientific project? Or is critique the ultimate goal of sociology, without which the latter would be a futile activity...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-10-21
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Abortion is a contentious issue in social life but it has rarely been subjected to careful scrutiny in the social sciences. While the legalization of abortion has brought it into the public domain, it still remains a sensitive topic in many cultures, often hidden from...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-10-21
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Despite many predictions made over the last two hundred years that nation-states and nationalism are transient phenomena that will eventually fade away, the historical record and contemporary events show otherwise. Nationalism still remains the most popular, potent and...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-10-21
Collection :
Political Sociology
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