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This major study develops a new account of modernity and its relation to the self. Building upon the ideas set out in The Consequences of Modernity, Giddens argues that 'high' or 'late' modernity is a post traditional order characterised by a developed institutional...
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Polity
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2013-05-23
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Se è vero che la Forma Vrbis Marmorea di età severiana (inizio III sec.) continua ad essere la « forma » per eccellenza, ciò è dovuto, soprattutto, alla sua consistenza fisica (centinaia di frammenti che definiscono buona parte della topografia urbana) ; ma non è meno...
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Publications de l'École française de Rome
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2013-05-22
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Collection de l'École française de Rome
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Bardwell L. Smith offers a fresh perspective on c, the Japanese ceremony performed to bring solace to those who have experienced miscarriage, stillbirth, or abortion. Showing how old and new forms of myth, symbol, doctrine, praxis, and organization combine and overlap...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-05-22
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Few of us have been spared the agonies of intimate relationships. They come in many shapes: loving a man or a woman who will not commit to us, being heartbroken when we're abandoned by a lover, engaging in Sisyphean internet searches, coming back lonely from bars,...
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Polity
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2013-05-20
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Few of us have been spared the agonies of intimate relationships. They come in many shapes: loving a man or a woman who will not commit to us, being heartbroken when we're abandoned by a lover, engaging in Sisyphean internet searches, coming back lonely from bars,...
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Polity
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2013-05-20
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This book examines the changing lifestyles in transforming societies, focusing on the interplay of lifestyle choices, social status and the society as a whole. When individuals choose their careers, mates or networks to belong to and to identify with, they are...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-05-17
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“This is the book parents have been waiting for”—Michael Thompson, coauthor of Raising Cain. The book that is “helpful, hopeful, and engaging”—Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Ph.D., Columbia University. It is the book that addresses the new reality for parents of kids in their 20s...
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Workman Publishing Company
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2013-05-14
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The way people think and act politically is not set in stone. People can and do change the fundamental cultural contours of their political situation. Their political culture does not only restrict imagination and action - it is also a resource for political creativity...
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Polity
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2013-05-09
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This topical new book by Zygmunt Bauman explores the notion of identity in the modern world. As we grapple with the insecurity and uncertainty of liquid modernity, Bauman argues that our socio-political, cultural, professional, religious and sexual identities are...
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Polity
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2013-05-08
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Themes for the 21st Century
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Should governments be involved in economic affairs? Challenging prevailing wisdom about the benefits of self-regulating markets, Nina Bandelj and Elizabeth Sowers offer a uniquely sociological perspective to emphasize that states can never be divorced from economy. From...
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Polity
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2013-05-08
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Economy and Society
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New challenges that emerged in the postwar era have given rise to ongoing debate about the place of religion in public life, in the United States and in other established democracies, and this debate has dramatically reshaped the way scholars, policymakers, and...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-05-07
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In this major new assessment of Zygmunt Bauman's work, Smith gives a clear introduction to this controversial and challenging sociologist.
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Polity
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2013-05-06
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Key Contemporary Thinkers
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Alternative and Activist New Media provides a rich and accessible overview of the ways in which activists, artists, and citizen groups around the world use new media and information technologies to gain visibility and voice, present alternative or marginal views, share...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-05-06
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Digital Media and Society
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For the understanding and interpretation of the religions of times past, the imagery of those cultures has always been an important source of information, besides the written sources (if at all available) and the ever-richer archaeological material. The topic of this...
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Presses universitaires de Liège
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2013-05-06
Collection :
Kernos suppléments
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Today autism has become highly visible. Once you begin to look for it, you realize it is everywhere. Why? We all know the answer or think we do: there is an autism epidemic. And if it is an epidemic, then we know what must be done: lots of money must be thrown at it,...
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Polity
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2013-05-03
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In this important new book Jorge Larrain examines the trajectories of modernity and identity in Latin America and their reciprocal relationships. Drawing on a large body of work across a vast historical and geographical range, he offers an innovative and wide-ranging...
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Polity
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2013-05-02
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Europa und die Türkei: Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit den verfassungsrechtlichen Fragen der Übertragung von Hoheitsrechten auf die EU bezüglich der türkischen Verfassungsordnung, möglichen verfassungsrechtlichen Konflikten und entsprechenden Lösungen. Aufgrund der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-05-02
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Although the Polish immigrant movement in Germany has existed for more than 150 years, this fact is not reflected in the shape or standing of contemporary organisations. The history of Polish associations in Germany is an example that demonstrates, on the one hand,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-05-02
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Die aus Frankreich eingewanderten Hugenotten sind zweifellos die prominenteste Minderheit innerhalb der frühneuzeitlichen Geschichte Preußens. Unter dem Schirm einer eigenen Kolonie hatten sie sich im 18. Jahrhundert schichtübergreifend in alle relevanten Lebens- und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-05-02
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Jugendliche müssen sich in einer rasch wandelnden Welt behaupten, ohne die innere Kontinuität und den Kontakt zu den Ursprüngen zu verlieren. Zunehmende Individualisierung und der Einfluss moderner Medien zwingen sie, sich immer wieder neuen Situationen anzupassen und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-05-01
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