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This book is the first to develop a history of the analogy between woman and slave, charting its changing meanings and enduring implications across the social movements of the long nineteenth century. Looking beyond its foundations in the antislavery and women’s rights...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-02-03
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A new, fully-revised and updated edition of the leading introduction to social movements and collective action – covers a broad range of approaches in the social sciences. Now in its third edition, Social Movements is the market-leading introductory text on collective...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2020-02-03
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European public discourse often frames (forced) migration solely as a security issue and ignores the implications of societal diversity for health, quality-of-life and well-being, in both Africa and Europe. The present volume offers an interdisciplinary and...
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Springer VS
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2020-02-03
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You hear a lot these days about "innovation and entrepreneurship" and about how "good jobs" in tech will save our cities. Yet these common tropes hide a stunning reality: local lives and fortunes are tied to global capital.You see this clearly in metropolises such as...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-02-03
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The transition to adulthood is a complex process, and college is pivotal to this experience.The Science of College aids entering college students--and the people who support them--in navigating college successfully, with up-to-date recommendations based upon real...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-02-03
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This book codifies, describes, and contextualizes group rituals and individual practices from world religious traditions. At the interface of religious studies, psychology, and medicine, it elucidates the cultural richness of practices and rituals from numerous world...
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Springer
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2020-02-03
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Why do so many conservative Christians continue to support Donald Trump despite his many overt moral failings?Why do many Americans advocate so vehemently for xenophobic policies, such as a border wall with Mexico?Why do many Americans seem so unwilling to acknowledge...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-02-03
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The book offers a cross-disciplinary perspective on various aspects of precariousness in contemporary culture and society, concentrating on the topographical aspects of sources and causes of uncertainty and anxiety. Precariousness and precarity are themselves...
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Springer VS
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2020-02-03
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This book is an extensive and thorough exploration of the ways in which the middle class in India select their spouse. Using the prism of matchmaking, this book critically unpacks the concept of the 'modern' and traces the importance of moralities and values in the...
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Springer
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2020-02-01
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This collected volume analyses labelling as a political and economic operation. It gathers contributions that focus on various domains, including the agri-food sector, the construction sector, eco-labelling, retail, health public policies and the energy sector,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-02-01
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Das Buch nähert sich dem Thema ‚Datengestützte Lernformate‘ im Kontext der Ausbildung von Lehrerinnen und Lehrern aus einer bilanzierenden Perspektive. Vorgestellt und zusammengefasst werden Rahmenbedingungen, theoretische Begründungen und Zielsetzungen des...
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Springer VS
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2020-01-31
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This volume seeks to analyse the emerging wave of data journalism in the Global South. It does so by examining trends, developments and opportunities for data journalism in the aforementioned contexts. Whilst studies in this specific form of journalism are increasing in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-01-31
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Die vermeintliche Beschleunigung des Lebenstempos ist eine der populärsten Annahmen der Gegenwart. Besonders Medien wird in diesem Prozess eine verstärkende Rolle zugesprochen.Die Studie von Stephan O. Görland analysiert die Interdependenzen zwischen Zeitumgang und...
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Springer VS
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2020-01-31
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This open access book collects the major discussions in divorce research in Europe. It starts with an understanding of divorce trends. Why was divorce increasing so rapidly throughout the US and Europe and do we see signs of a turn? Do cohabitation breakups...
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Springer
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2020-01-30
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Auch 50 Jahre nach 1968 sind die Kinder- und Jugendliteratur und -medien in vielfältiger Weise in politische und ideologische Horizonte eingespannt. Angesichts der aktuellen ‚Wiederkehr’ des Ideologischen und insbesondere nach dem kulturwissenschaftlichen Turn in den...
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J.B. Metzler
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2020-01-30
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Anna Jedrzejczyk untersucht Strategien zur Realisierung eines kohärenten internationalen Handlungsprogramms, das nicht nur auf die Gestaltung des Images eines Unternehmens als attraktiver Arbeitgeber abzielt, sondern auch auf das Motivieren potenzieller Bewerber, sich...
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Springer VS
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2020-01-30
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This collection pushes migration and "the minor" to the fore of literary anthropology. What happens when authors who thematize their “minority” background articulate notions of belonging, self, and society in literature? The contributors use “interface ethnography” and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-01-30
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Cultural Psychology draws upon major psychological topics, theories, and principles to illustrate the importance of culture in psychological inquiry. Exploring how culture broadly connects to psychological processing across diverse cultural communities and settings, it...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-01-30
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?This book gathers research and writings that reflect on traditional and current global issues related to art and aesthetics, gender perspectives, body theories, knowledge and learning. It illustrates these core dimensions, which are bringing together philosophy,...
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Springer
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2020-01-29
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This book argues that in the digital era, a reinvention of democracy is urgently necessary. It discusses the mounting evidence showing that digitalisation is pushing classical parliamentary democracy to its limits, offering examples such as how living in a filter bubble...
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Springer
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2020-01-29
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