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Die Philosophie der Lebenskunst gehört seit Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts zu den aktuellen Denkrichtungen, die nicht nur in Lehre und Forschung vertreten, sondern auch von einem breiteren Publikum wahrgenommen werden. In ihr geht es um ein gelungenes, schönes und...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-12-26
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From Saturday Night Fever to Jersey Shore, Italian American youth in New York City have appropriated—and been appropriated by—popular American culture. Here, Donald Tricarico investigates how Italian ethnicity has been used to fashion Guido as a distinct youth style...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-24
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In the ever-changing information environment of the early twenty-first century, citizens and journalists alike are eagerly adapting to new technologies, and India is no different. The country’s communication revolution in the post-liberalization era has led to one of...
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OUP India
Parution :
2018-12-24
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This book examines the increasing marginalization of and response by people living in urban areas throughout the Western Hemisphere, and both the local and global implications of continued colonial racial hierarchies and the often-dire consequences they have for people...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-22
Collection :
Neighborhoods, Communities, and Urban Marginality
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American Juvenile Justice is a definitive volume for courses on the criminology and policy analysis of adolescence. The focus is on the principles and policy of a separate and distinct system of juvenile justice. The book opens with an introduction of the creation of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-12-21
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This book investigates the transnational experiences of Chinese Singaporeans who lived in one of four global cities: Hong Kong, London, New York, or Singapore. Plüss argues that these middle-class, well-educated, and often highly skilled migrants mostly experienced a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-21
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In this book Mark Bevir and Jason Blakely set out to make the most comprehensive case yet for an 'interpretive' or hermeneutic approach to the social sciences. Interpretive approaches are a major growth area in the social sciences today. This is because they offer a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-12-20
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In this important book, one of Latin America’s foremost critical theorists examines the use and abuse of memory in the wake of the social and political trauma of Pinochet’s Chile. Focusing on the period 1990–2015, Nelly Richard denounces the politics and aesthetics of...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2018-12-20
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For nearly two decades, the area surrounding the French port of Calais has been a temporary staging post for thousands of migrants and refugees hoping to cross the Channel to Britain. It achieved global attention when, at the height of the migrant crisis in 2015, all...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2018-12-20
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This book mobilises the concept of kitsch to investigate the tensions around the representation of genocide in international graphic novels that focus on the Holocaust and the genocides in Armenia, Rwanda, and Bosnia. In response to the predominantly negative readings...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-19
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This open access book approaches the anxieties inherent in food consumption and production in Vietnam. The country’s rapid and recent economic integration into global agro-food systems and consumer markets spurred a new quality of food safety concerns, health issues and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-19
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This book explores how the changing nature of work intersects with and influences young people’s views on their future. As an increasingly precarious service sector overtakes traditional industrial work, vocational education and training (VET) is held up as a panacea...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-19
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Engaging youth as leaders of social change offers the exponential benefits of personal empowerment, community enhancement, and economic transformation. Grounded both in interdisciplinary theory and an expansive set of practical case examples, Making Change uses an asset...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-12-19
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Rural people and communities continue to play important social, economic, and environmental roles at a time when societies are rapidly urbanizing. This unrivaled critical introduction, now in a comprehensively updated second edition, examines the causes and consequences...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2018-12-19
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Michael Lambertus examines the influence of perceived homosexual sexual and gender nonconform behaviors on the elicitation of two moral emotions, disgust and contempt, as well as moral judgment of male participants in his study. In doing so, he considers the extent to...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-12-18
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Jana Katharina Molle untersucht das gesetzliche und das konzeptionelle Beratungsverständnis im SGB II aus einer beratungstheoretischen Perspektive der Sozialen Arbeit und zeigt Möglichkeiten der Weiterentwicklung für die Beratung von langzeitarbeitslosen Personen auf....
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2018-12-18
Collection :
Soziale Arbeit als Wohlfahrtsproduktion
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Heimatgedanken! Die theologischen und kulturwissenschaftlichen Beiträge dieses Bandes aus der Reihe pop.religion: lebensstil – kultur – theologie suchen auf den Sachverhalt zu reagieren, dass nicht nur ein flacher, bunter Heimatbegriff in der...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2018-12-18
Collection :
pop.religion: lebensstil – kultur – theologie
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Focusing on the cultural and philosophic conflation between the "oriental" and the "ornamental," Ornamentalism offers an original and sustained theory about Asiatic femininity in western culture. This study pushes our vocabulary about the woman of color past the usual...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-12-18
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Mit YouTube hat sich im Internet eine Videoplattform etabliert, die einen eigenen subkulturellen Mikrokosmos darstellt und bei einigen, vor allem jüngeren Mediennutzergruppen eine starke Konkurrenz für das klassische Fernsehen darstellt. Neue Darstellungs- und...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2018-12-18
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Die Beiträge dieses Sammelbandes der Reihe Mediensymposium befassen sich mit der Intimisierung des Öffentlichen im digitalen Zeitalter.Die Autoren diskutieren die theoretischen Grundlagen der Grenzziehung zwischen dem Öffentlichen und dem Privaten/Intimen. Sie...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2018-12-18
Collection :
Mediensymposium
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