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This book is a major contribution to our understanding of the condition of the immigrant and it will transform the reader’s understanding of the issues surrounding immigration. Sayad’s book will be widely used in courses on race, ethnicity, immigration and identity in...
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Polity
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2018-03-19
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Jacques Rancière gilt als einer der einflussreichsten französischen Philosophen der Gegenwart, in dessen gesamtem Werk immer wieder das Motiv der radikalen Kritik an der Sozialwissenschaft in Szene gesetzt wird. In dem Sammelband werden zahlreiche Denkmotive des...
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Springer VS
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2018-03-17
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This book addresses the ongoing problem of HIV in black South African women as a health inequity. Importantly, it argues that this urgent problem of justice is changeable. Sprague uses the capabilities approach to bring a theory of health justice, together with multiple...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-03-16
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Der Band bietet gezielte Untersuchungen zu Fragen der systematischen und konkreten Gestaltbarkeit von werbender Kommunikation im breiten Spektrum der heutigen Medienlandschaft. Anhand von interdisziplinären Untersuchungsmethoden werden Möglichkeiten zur optimalen...
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Springer VS
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2018-03-16
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Europäische Kulturen in der Wirtschaftskommunikation
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Our daily lives, our culture and our politics are now shaped by the digital condition as large numbers of people involve themselves in contentious negotiations of meaning in ever more dimensions of life, from the trivial to the profound. They are making use of the...
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Polity
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2018-03-16
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This important new book from one of the world's leading sociologists of sport weaves together social theory, history and political economy to provide a highly original analysis of the complex relationship between sport and modernity. Incorporating a powerful set of...
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Polity
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2018-03-16
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Self-help gurus, life coaches and business consultants love to tell us that we must strive for constant self-improvement to realize our full potential and become truly happy. But it doesn't seem to work - for many of us, life still seems hollow and meaningless. So...
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Polity
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2018-03-16
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This book provides a cross-disciplinary perspective on the degradation and deterioration of the cultural record encompassed by urban headstones located in parish churchyards. Its interdisciplinary approach allows the geomorphological analysis of rock weathering to be...
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Springer
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2018-03-16
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This manuscript is the 4th Volume of the Gesher Benot Ya‘aqov (GBY) monograph sub-series. The goal of the book is to publish the lithic assemblages originating in the excavations of the Acheulian site at Gesher Benot Ya‘aqov (GBY), Israel. The authors provide the...
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Springer
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2018-03-15
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This book provides a complex and intricate portrayal of Asian American high school girls – which has been an under-researched population – as cultural meditators, diasporic agents, and community builders who negotiate displacement and attachment in challenging worlds of...
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Springer
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2018-03-15
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This book examines the linguistic and discursive elements of social and economic policies and national political leader statements to read new meanings into debates on border protection, national sovereignty, immigration, economic indigenisation, land reform and black...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-03-15
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In July 2014 the Belgian newspaper Le Soir claimed that France, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Italy, Poland and the United States may lose between 43 and 50 per cent of their jobs within ten to fifteen years. Across the world, integrated automation, one key result of the...
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Polity
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2018-03-15
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Social theory needs to be completely rethought in a world of digital media and social media platforms driven by data processes. Fifty years after Berger and Luckmann published their classic text TheSocial Construction of Reality, two leading sociologists of media, Nick...
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Polity
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2018-03-15
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Developed from presentations given at the Cerisy SVSI (Sciences de la vie, sciences de l’information) conference held in 2016, this book presents a broad overview of thought and research at the intersection of life sciences and information sciences. The contributors to...
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Wiley-ISTE
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2018-03-15
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Creative Team Work describes a new way of doing rapid ethnography to capture the rich complexity and contradictions of social relations. It is about the imagination, stimulation, and reflection that can come with international, interdisciplinary teams sharing the...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-03-15
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We are living in an open sea, caught up in a continuous wave, with no fixed point and no instrument to measure distance and the direction of travel. Nothing appears to be in its place any more, and a great deal appears to have no place at all. The principles that have...
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Polity
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2018-03-15
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In this important book, Niklas Luhmann uses his powers as an analyst of the social system to examine two of the most important concepts which hold that system together and allow it to evolve: trust and power. He criticises those theoretical accounts whose roots lie in...
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Polity
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2018-03-15
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It is well known that the world is transitioning to an irrevocable urban future whose epicentre has moved into the cities of Asia and Africa. What is less clear is how this will be managed and deployed as a multi-polar world system is being born. The full implications...
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Polity
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2018-03-15
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This book proposes that romantic relationships—filtered through various socio-cultural sieves—can lead to the development of affective kin bonds, which underlie our sense of personhood and belonging. Sirisena argues that the process resembles an attempt to make...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-03-15
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Der vorliegende Band nimmt Wechselbeziehungen zwischen Gleichstellungspolitiken, strukturellen Diskriminierungsformen und prekären Arbeitsverhältnissen in der neoliberalen Hochschule in den Blick.Die Arbeits- und Lebenssituation von Wissenschaftler_innen hat sich in den...
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Springer VS
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2018-03-14
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