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This book by eminent author Jasbir Jain explores the many ways the diaspora remembers and reflects upon the lost homeland, and their relationship with their own ancestry, history of the homeland, culture and the current political conflicts. Amongst the questions this...
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Springer
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2017-09-13
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This book is the first full-length monograph to focus on Punchdrunk, the internationally-renowned theatre company known for its pioneering approach to immersive theatre. With its promises of empowerment, freedom and experiential joy, immersive theatre continues to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-06
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This book gives a comprehensive introduction to intercultural communication in the era of globalization. The reader is introduced to essential concepts in the field, different theories and methods of analysing communication, the importance of verbal and nonverbal...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-09-06
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Weird, decadent, degenerate, racially mixed, superstitious, theocratic, effeminate, and even hyper-literate, Byzantium has long been regarded by many as one big curiosity. According to Voltaire, it represented "a worthless collection of miracles, a disgrace for the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-09-01
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What makes a colour work?What do colours mean to artists or cultures? Why does grey make a colour stand out?What colour are the oceans? Why is the yellow of lemons something to treasure? Award-winning illustrator Marion Deuchars takes us on a journey through colour,...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2017-08-31
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This book details the current neoliberal restructuring of cities and its impact on the rise and spread of resistance and uprisings in different cities throughout the world. Through close ethnographic study the authors illuminate the strategies adopted for everyday life...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-31
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This volume addresses how black, middle class, second generation Caribbean immigrants are often overlooked in contemporary discussions of race, black economic mobility, and immigrant communities in the US. Based on rich ethnography, Yndia S. Lorick-Wilmot draws...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-29
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This book offers the first comprehensive and in-depth exploration of the way Chinese humor fits into broader discourses on Chinese identity and modernity in an increasingly globalized world throughout the period of modern China. It brings together the expertise of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-08-28
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This book is a contribution towards a better understanding of the nature of the international crime of human trafficking. It is an impulse towards finding a new way at the international levels, and encouraging cooperation among nations in the fight against human...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-08-23
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This book discusses egalitarianism in Scandinavian countries through historically oriented and empirically based studies on social and political change. The chapters engage with issues related to social class, political conflict, the emergence of the welfare state,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-17
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?Unter dem Leitbegriff einer „Affektivität des Sozialen“ geht der vorliegende Sammelband den Phänomenen Stimmungen und Atmosphären nach, indem er theoretische Ansätze und empirische Analysen aus Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften ins Gespräch bringt. Insgesamt loten die...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-08-17
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The Mediterranean and the Balearic Islands have always enticed the minds of British travellers. In the first years of the twentieth century, the tourist industry made the islands accessible for a wide number of visitors, who depicted them in pictures and words. In the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-08-15
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The Kurds, once marginal in the study of the Middle East and secondary in its international relations, have moved to centre stage in recent years.The contributors toThe Kurdish Question Revisited offer insights into how this once seemingly intractable, immutable...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-08-15
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The Kurds, once marginal in the study of the Middle East and secondary in its international relations, have moved to centre stage in recent years.The contributors toThe Kurdish Question Revisited offer insights into how this once seemingly intractable, immutable...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-08-15
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For the last 40 years, anthropotechnology has concentrated its efforts on the study and improvement of the working and living conditions of populations throughout the world. It guides the actors of the design processes by paying attention to the “human factor”: its...
Editeur :
Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2017-08-10
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Das Ziel, das Dux mit der Untersuchung zur Moral verfolgt, ist, einsichtig zu machen, dass und wie sich die Moral als eine Form sozialer Vernunft aus einer Bedingungskonstellation der evolutiv erworbenen Verfassung heraus zu bilden vermochte und immer wieder zu bilden...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-08-03
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This book explores the social life of Muslim women and Christian minorities amid Islamic and Christian movements in urban Java, Indonesia. Drawing on anthropological perspectives and 14 months of participant observation between 2009 and 2013 in the multi-religious...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-03
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One of the fastest growing religious movements in the Western world, neo-shamanism embraces notions and techniques borrowed from various tribal peoples and adapted to the life of contemporary urban dwellers. Until the twenty-first century, the neo-shamanism found in...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-08-01
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Wer sich im Netz bewegt, muss mit Beobachtung rechnen. Mit immer geringerem Aufwand sind sowohl Regierungen, Wirtschaftsunternehmen, Meinungs- und Konsumforschung als auch Privatpersonen in der Lage, Netzaktivitäten und Datenspuren zu erfassen und zu analysieren. Der...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-07-31
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Conceptually, Molefi Kete Asante: A Critical Afrocentric Reader is a reflexive analysis of the editor’s space in higher education over the past three decades. As a historical assessment, this reader is a narrative that offers a constructive perspective of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-07-28
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