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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
Parution :
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
Parution :
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
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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...
Editeur :
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...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-11-30
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Religious Studies
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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...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-29
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Exam Board: AQALevel: AS/A-levelSubject: SociologyFirst Teaching: September 2016First Exam: June 2017Build students' understanding with this concept-driven approach to the 2015 AQA A-level Sociology specification, written by a team of leading subject authors and...
Editeur :
Hodder Education
Parution :
2016-11-28
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This book centers around mid-level charismatic pastors in Ghana. Karen Lauterbach analyzes pastorship as a pathway to becoming small “big men” and achieving status, wealth, and power in the country. The volume investigates both the social processes of becoming a pastor...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-25
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This book explores the personal experiences of professionals who are a part of the post-colonial and late-industrializing reality in the global value chain in Singapore. Looking at Chinese Singaporean employees at a French multi-national firm, the author explores the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-24
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This volume examines the changing role of Marian devotion in politics, public life, and popular culture in Western Europe and America during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book brings together, for the first time, studies on Marian devotions across the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-23
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This book examines the urban legacy of the 2014 football World Cup in Brazil across the seven cities that hosted matches. The authors, all experts and natives of South America, analyse the context and impacts of hosting the World Cup for each of the host cities....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-23
Collection :
Mega Event Planning
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This book draws on case examples of contemporary black activism in South Manchester and contrasts them with events that surrounded C.L.R. James and his activism between 1935 and 1950. In doing so, the author considers what Brexit, the Labour Party and Theresa May’s...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-23
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