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The epidemic of scandals unleashed by the Savile Scandal highlights the precarious status of relations of trust.The rapid escalation of this crisis offers insights into the relationship between anxieties about childhood and the wider moral order. This book explains why...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2013-03-19
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While many worry about population overload, this book highlights the dramatic fall in fertility rates globally exploring questions such as why are parents having fewer babies? Will this lead to population decline? What will be the impact of a world with fewer children...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-03-08
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In the last decade, 45% of all marriages in the U.S. were between people of different faiths. The rapidly growing number of mixed-faith families has become a source of hope, encouraging openness and tolerance among religious communities that historically have been...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-03-04
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What is the relationship between religion and multi-player online roleplaying games? Are such games simply a secular distraction from traditional religious practices, or do they in fact offer a different route to the sacred?
In eGods, a leading scholar in the study of...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-02-25
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During 2007 and 2008, the Belgian School at Athens undertook its first ever excavation on Crete, at the Minoan site of Sissi on the north coast of the island. Located at a few kilometres from the palatial site of Malia, the Sissi settlement presents aique test caSe to...
Editeur :
Presses universitaires de Louvain
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2013-02-21
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AEGIS
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Based on studies conducted in the UK and USA, this book investigates the experiences of suppliers and consumers of masculinized domestic services, exploring issues such as increasing inequality, migration, the rise of commoditized domestic services, contemporary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-02-21
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This book explores how digital communication generates new intimacies and meanings of friendship in a networked society, developing a theory of mediated intimacies to explain how social media contributes to dramatic changes in our ideas about personal relationships,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-02-21
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The rate of social change has speeded up in the last three decades, but how do we explain this? This volume ventures what the generative mechanism is that produces such rapid change and discusses how this differs from late Modernity. Contributors examine if an...
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Springer
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2013-02-20
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What does it mean to "act black" or "act white"? Is race merely a matter of phenotype, or does it come from the inflection of a person's speech, the clothes in her closet, how she chooses to spend her time and with whom she chooses to spend it?What does it mean to be...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-02-19
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Der Band bietet mit 33 Beiträgen einen umfassenden Überblick über den Stand der Medienwirkungsforschung. In den sechs Teilen gibt es jeweils einen Grundlagenbeitrag und mehrere Vertiefungstexte zu folgenden Feldern: (1) kommunikationswissenschaftliche Grundlagen und...
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Springer VS
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2013-02-18
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Through a case study in a Chicago public school, Means demonstrates that, despite the fragmentation of human security in low-income and racially segregated public schools, there exist positive social relations, knowledge, and desire for change that can be built upon to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-02-12
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This book makes the case for an urgent praxis of critical spatial literacy for African women. It provides a critical analysis of how Asante women negotiate and understand the politics of contemporary space in Accra and beyond and the effect it has on their lives,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-02-06
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Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora
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This book explores the many varied ways in which family and intimate lives are realized through mobility: from leaving home, courtship, relationship breakdown, moving house, commuting, family holidays through to children's mobilities, documenting how mobility creates,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-02-05
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The field of Urban Dynamics itself is based on the systems engineering concept that all complex systems (and cities and urban areas are no exception) are comprised of independent and often smaller, more understandable sub-components with relationships to one another....
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Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2013-02-04
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Geographical Information and Urban Transport Systems Urban transport systems need to be analyzed from various perspectives: the offer on one hand, the demand on the other hand, but also their negative externalities (risks of transport systems). These three dimensions...
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Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2013-02-04
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Psychology has focused more on personalities in poverty -- pathologizing -- than on contexts for poverty reduction (Pick & Sirkin, 2010). As a result, the discipline has inadvertently sequestered and isolated itself, and its potential contribution, from poverty...
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Springer
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2013-02-01
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The figure of the stranger is in serious need of revision, as is our understanding of the society against which the stranger is projected. Under conditions of globalization, inside/outside markers have been eroded and conventional indicators of 'we-ness' are no longer...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-01-21
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Dieses Buch schlägt mit Weltorganisationen ein Konzept für die Beschreibung und Untersuchung internationaler Organisationen vor und diskutiert dessen Mehrwert in begrifflich-konzeptioneller, theoretischer und empirischer Hinsicht. Im Vordergrund steht die Frage, was das...
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VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
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2013-01-19
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The phrase "I'm spiritual but not religious" has become a cliché. It's easy to find God amid the convenience of self-styled spirituality -- but is it possible (and more worthwhile) to search for God through religion? Minister and celebrated author Lillian Daniel gives a...
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Jericho Books
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2013-01-15
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Peripheries emerge as a result of shifts in economic and political decision-making at various scales. Therefore peripheral spaces are not a “natural” phenomenon but an outcome of the intrinsic logic of uneven geographical development in capitalist societies. Discussing...
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Springer VS
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2013-01-12
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