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Imagining Religious Communities tells the story of the Gupta family through the personal and religious narratives they tell as they create and maintain their extended family and community across national borders. Based on ethnographic research, the book demonstrates the...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-07-05
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This book makes a unique contribution to contemporary research into masculinities, men’s movements, and fathers’ rights groups. It examines the role of changing masculinities in creating equality and/or reinforcing inequality by analysing diverse men’s...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-07-05
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Rasant verbreitet sich im Zuge der Digitalisierung der Wille, alltägliches Geschehen nicht nur im Spektrum der Worte, sondern in Form von Zahlen zu dokumentieren. Im Kontext von Diabetes und Quantified Self analysiert Lisa Wiedemann in dieser Studie das sogenannte...
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Springer VS
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2019-07-05
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The woman's place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it is ancient, and it is deepThe revolutionary writings of Audre Lorde gave voice to those 'outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women'. Uncompromising,...
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Penguin
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2019-07-04
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A FRANK, FUNNY AND EMPOWERING CELEBRATION OF FEMALE PLEASUREAn orgasm will help you sleep and keep you looking younger, it doesn’t cost money and isn’t a scarce resource. So why is it that, like the pay gap, there is an ‘orgasm gap’ between women and men? The Hotbed...
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Vintage Digital
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2019-07-04
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Carmen Böhm liefert einen Beitrag zur diskursiven Erforschung des fachlichen Umgangs Klinischer Sozialarbeit mit der sozial prekären Lage Wohnungslosigkeit, auf Basis der eingangs dargelegten Hypothese, Wohnungslosigkeit als ambivalenten gesellschaftlichen Zustand zu...
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Springer VS
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2019-07-04
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This book covers the methodological, epistemological and practical issues of integrating qualitative and socio-anthropological factors into archaeological modeling.This text fills the gap between conceptual modeling (which usually relies on narratives describing the...
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Springer
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2019-07-04
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Computational Social Sciences
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In one of the few studies to draw upon cemetery data to reconstruct the social organization, social change, and community composition of a specific area, this volume contributes to the growing body of sociohistorical examinations of Appalachia. The authors herein...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2019-07-04
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This volume explores the phenomenon and trend of cultural buildings by investigating 10 typical cities in China from the first, second, and third tiers, and from the Chinese diaspora. Each grand theater design was the result of a high-profile international competition...
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Springer
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2019-07-04
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Steffen Bethmann untersucht die Effektivität und Wirkung privater Beiträge zum Gemeinwohl und die Entwicklung von Strategien sozialer Investoren. Er legt die organisationstheoretischen Grundlagen zur Erklärung von Stiftungshandeln und Innovationsfähigkeit von Stiftungen...
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Springer VS
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2019-07-04
Collection :
Soziale Investitionen
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This book describes how those individuals who are often most marginalised in postcolonial societies draw on age-old, non-western knowledge systems to adapt to the hardships characteristic of unequal societies in transformation. It highlights robust indigenous pathways...
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Springer
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2019-07-03
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International courts and other actors are increasingly taking into account pre-existing social structures and inequalities when addressing and redressing human rights violations, in particular discrimination against specific groups. To date, however, academic legal...
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Springer
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2019-07-03
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Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht
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The book is the first and general report of a series of six that reviews the practice of “China Dream” policy by the Zhejiang provincial government. “China Dream” is one of the most important state policies established by the present Chinese government and how to...
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Springer
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2019-07-03
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The dead are gone. They count for nothing. Yet, if we count the dead, their number is staggering. And they account for most of what is great about civilization. Compared to the greatness of the dead, the accomplishments of the living are paltry. Which is it then: are...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-07-03
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This book explores different forms of mediated offence in the context of Trump's America, Brexit Britain, and the rise of far-right movements across the globe. In this political landscape, the so-called ‘right to offend’ is often seen as a legitimate weapon against a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-03
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Through a thick ethnography of the Fez medina in Morocco, a World Heritage site since 1981, Manon Istasse interrogates how human beings come to define houses as heritage. Istasse interrogates how heritage appears (or not) when inhabitants undertake construction and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-03
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The theme of this book is the cultural construction in Zhejiang Province under the guidance of “China Dream” policy. It reviews the profound history of traditional culture in Zhejiang, and concludes with the modern practice and achievements by the local...
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Springer
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2019-07-03
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It has been shown time and again that even though all citizens may be accorded equal standing in the constitution of a liberal democracy, such a legal provision hardly guarantees state protections against discrimination and political exclusion. More specifically, why do...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-07-03
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This pivot considers the use of porcelain vessels within multi-dialect cultural spaces in the consumption of cooked food in Singapore. In a place of ubiquitous hawker centres and kopitiams (coffee shops), the potteries used to serve hawker foods have a strong presence...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-07-02
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This book presents an overview of the problem of urban violence in Caracas, and specifically in its barrios. It helps situate readers familiar or not with Latin American in the context that is Caracas, Venezuela, a city displaying one of the world’s highest homicide...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-07-02
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