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'Uproarious . . . [Phillips and Elledge] pair the abundant good humour of this book with a warning about the corrosive effects of conspiracy theories' The TimesFrom the Satanic Panic to the anti-vaxx movement, the moon landing to Pizzagate, it's always been human nature...
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Wildfire
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2022-07-07
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Other animals are driven to spend essentially their whole lives just trying to get fed, stay alive, and get laid. That’s about it. The same was true for our proto-human ancestors. And modern humans of course also require a Survival Drive and a Sex Drive in...
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Springer
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2022-07-05
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Abschiebungen zeigen sich als ein umkämpftes Feld: Während einerseits an der Durchsetzung der Ausreisepflicht gearbeitet wird, wird andererseits versucht auf ihre Demontage hinzuwirken, um eine Abschiebung zu verhindern. Diese parallelen Praktiken...
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Springer VS
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2022-06-30
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We live in an era of experimentation – both if we look at the broader social world of politics, media and art and at the narrower context of academic knowledge production. This collection consists of 14 chapters by leading scholars in affect studies. They explore the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-06-27
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What is Magic?
Magic has been present throughout human cultures in history, proving equally constant and mutable. Defined as supernatural powers, an explanatory belief system or a form of entertainment, magic persists to this day in new kinds of magical thinking in our...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-06-23
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Farhaan Wali offers a timely contribution to the issues and problems involved in the de-radicalisation process. Trying to generate ethnographic insight into Islamism has always presented a problem for researchers seeking to comprehend Islamism. Islamist groups operate...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-06-20
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Das Buch möchte die theoretischen Ansätze von Helmuth Plessner und Hermann Schmitz in den Dialog bringen und für die soziologische Forschung fruchtbar machen. Entfaltet werden anthropologisch-phänomenologische Perspektiven auf Wechselwirkungen, Konflikte,...
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Springer VS
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2022-06-20
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Der Band ist dem 2021 verstorbenen polnischen Germanisten Józef Grabarek gewidmet. Diese Sammelmonografie möchte an den Verstorbenen erinnern und gibt einen Überblick über seine Veröffentlichungen. Wissenschaftler polnischer Universitäten beschäftigen sich neben...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2022-06-13
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This book provides a foundational look at social virtual worlds from the geographer’s perspective. How can the geographer’s craft be applied to social virtual worlds?This question is addressed through careful analysis of what social virtual worlds are, how interest in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-06-11
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«We live in an age defined by toxicity. Bacon and the contributors have produced a timely, astute collection that intelligently and creatively engages and analyzes the wide panoply of trauma and poisoned discourse. Entertaining, fascinating and, honestly, terrifying,...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-06-07
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Based on the success of the first published book on “Nondestructive Evaluation and Monitoring Technologies, Documentation, Diagnosis and Preservation of Cultural Heritage”, this book will includes peer reviewed papers submitted to the conference in form of single...
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Springer
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2022-06-04
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Das Handbuch Körpersoziologie verfolgt das Ziel, den grundlegenden Stellenwert des Körpers für soziologisches Denken zu veranschaulichen. Die Körpersoziologie begreift den Körper als bedeutsam für subjektiv sinnhaftes Handeln sowie als eine soziale Tatsache, die hilft,...
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Springer VS
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2022-06-02
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Reindeer have been an integral part of the lives of people in Northern Fennoscandia in prehistoric and historic times. Today, reindeer herding practices are changing fast due to climate change, land use pressures and new technologies. This book outlines recent advances...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-05-24
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In English and many other languages the name «Kon-Tiki» is a byword for adventure and the exotic. The journey of the Kon-Tiki from Peru to Polynesia in 1947 became one of the founding myths of the postwar world.In the voyage of six Scandinavians and a parrot on a balsa...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-05-19
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With applications throughout the social sciences, culture and psychology is a rapidly growing field that has experienced a surge in publications over the last decade. From this proliferation of books, chapters, and journal articles, exciting developments have emerged in...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-05-03
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This book explores the dark, unruly, and self-destructive side of gift-giving as represented in nineteenth-century literary works by American authors. It asserts the centrality and relevance of gift exchange for modern American literary and intellectual history and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-04-27
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Ethnographie setzt an der empirischen Erforschung von sozialem Handeln, Lebenswelten, Praktiken, institutionellen Kontexten und kulturellen Orientierungen durch Beobachtung, Ko-Präsenz, längerfristige Teilnahme und Teilhabe an dem zu untersuchenden Feld an. Ihre...
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Springer VS
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2022-04-26
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Der Band zeigt, dass heterogene und robuste soziale Netzwerke zum Schutz indigener Gemeinwälder beitragen. In Ecuador wird die Bewirtschaftung von Gemeinwäldern durch einen rapiden sozial-ökologischen Wandel gefährdet. Indigene Organisationen bewältigen die veränderten...
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Springer VS
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2022-04-25
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This volume is an annotated edition of Frida Peemüller’s memoirs of her time in German Samoa from 1910 to 1920. In her memoirs Frida Peemüller gives us a unique insight into what was happening in Samoa under the last years of the German administration, under New Zealand...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-04-12
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Arts Education institutions and programs create an excellent framework for personality development: learning knowledge, learning skills and learning life. Their attainment requires education to be a holistic concept of advancement that includes aesthetic practice and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-03-31
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