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Domestic burglary has fallen significantly over the past 20 years in many countries, but still remains a high volume crime. On top of substantial financial loss and property damage, burglary also leads to high levels of anxiety and fear of crime. The research presented...
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Springer
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2018-12-11
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This book focuses on the closely interlinked areas of refugee migration and health. It discusses the main challenges of the recent unprecedented, extremely diverse and mostly unregulated refugee migration wave for Germany and Europe, and offers a broader view of refugee...
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Springer
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2018-12-11
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Migration, Minorities and Modernity
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This book investigates the role of inference in argumentation, considering how arguments support standpoints on the basis of different loci. The authors propose and illustrate a model for the analysis of the standpoint-argument connection, called Argumentum Model of...
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Springer
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2018-12-10
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The Web has been with us now for almost 25 years. An integral part of our social, cultural and political lives, ‘new media’ is simply not that new anymore. Despite the rapidly expanding archives of information at our disposal, and the recent growth of interest in web...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2018-12-10
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What does it mean when images of refugees’ plight are shared on social media? Or when we respond to emotive NGO fundraising campaigns, or are heartened by do-good reality TV shows? Do these narratives offer incentives for genuine social change or only momentary feelings...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2018-12-10
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Millions of people around the world are forced to work without pay and under threat of violence. These individuals can be found working in brothels, factories, mines, farm fields, restaurants, construction sites and private homes: many have been tricked by human...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2018-12-10
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Dieser Band thematisiert nach der Verleihung des Titels „UNESCO City of Music“ an Hannover und Mannheim das Thema „Musik und Städte“ mit Beiträgen zu konkreten Musikstrategien von Städten wie Berlin, London oder Stockholm, internationalen Vergleichen der Musikförderung...
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Springer VS
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2018-12-08
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Jahrbuch für Musikwirtschafts- und Musikkulturforschung
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This book asks how thinking, governing, performing, and producing the urban differently can assist in enabling the creation of alternative urban futures. It is a timely response to the ongoing crises and pressing challenges that inhabitants of cities, towns, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-08
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Die Texte des Bandes befassen sich schwerpunktmäßig mit den Erfahrungen der Quartiersentwicklung im Globalen Süden und der Frage, wie es gelingen kann, selbst in Situationen geringster Ressourcenverfügbarkeit und größter Not menschenwürdige Lebensbedingungen auf der...
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Springer VS
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2018-12-08
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Die Arbeit stellt die erste Einführung und Übersicht zu soziologischen Arbeitsmarkttheorien im deutschsprachigen Raum vor und versucht einen Brückenschlag zwischen Wirtschafts- und Arbeitsmarktsoziologie. Anhand eines mehrdimensionalen Systematisierungskonzeptes werden...
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Springer VS
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2018-12-07
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Silver, Butter, Cloth advances current debates about the nature and complexity of Viking economic systems. It explores how silver and other commodities were used in monetary and social economies across the Scandinavian world of the Viking Age (c. 800-1100 AD) before and...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-12-07
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This book addresses the ‘three moments’ in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) asylum seekers’ and refugees’ efforts to secure protection: The reasons for their flight, the Refugee Status Determination process, and their integration into the host...
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Springer
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2018-12-06
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This book focuses on the Boko Haram insurgence in Nigeria, and provides information on the origin and growth of the sect, antecedent and historical factors behind the insurgence, assessing a variety of socio-political drivers. The structure, organization and ideology of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-06
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This book offers an interdisciplinary study of hip-hop music written and performed by rappers who happen to be out black gay men. It examines the storytelling mechanisms of gay themed lyrics, and how these form protests and become enabling tools for (black) gay men to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-06
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Silver, Butter, Cloth advances current debates about the nature and complexity of Viking economic systems. It explores how silver and other commodities were used in monetary and social economies across the Scandinavian world of the Viking Age (c. 800-1100 AD) before and...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-12-06
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Shaping a Science of Social WorkÂprovides a basic framework for a social work science within the context of academic disciplinarity and professional identity. Drawn from discussions at the annual IslandWood retreats for social work scholars, this book centers on a...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-12-06
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Dieses Open-Access-Buch präsentiert ein praxistheoretisches Konzept, das die Analyse verschiedener Aspekte und Formen kollektiven Handelns ermöglicht. Im Zentrum steht die Erweiterung des Handlungsverständnisses bei Anthony Giddens für Kollektive. Dabei werden...
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Springer VS
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2018-12-06
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Globalization, heralded for decades as a harbinger of prosperity, faces a huge backlash. Derided by right-wing nationalists as a ‘globalist’ plot to undermine traditional communities, and by left-wing critics as the rule of rampaging corporations, it’s become a...
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Polity
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2018-12-06
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) proclaimed the equality of all human beings in dignity and rights.The right to social security, however, has been taken more seriously only since the 2000s, through calls for 'Social Security for All' and 'Leaving no-one...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-12-06
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Stephanie Weiß untersucht erstmals das Konzept Design für Alle als Strategie sozialer Inklusion auf der Quartiersebene. Das Inklusionskonzept wird von der Autorin empirisch anhand von drei Fallstudien zu Wohnquartieren in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz...
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Springer VS
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2018-12-06
Collection :
Quartiersforschung
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