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A lively contemporary study combining in-depth scholarship with a focus on popular comedy and satireSuccessfully integrates numerous cross-cultural and trans-disciplinary perspectives on comedy and humour studiesOffers new research informed by practitioner perspectives...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-11-17
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This book explores 'civic engagement' as a politically active encounter between institutions, individuals and art practices that addresses the public sphere on a civic level across physical and virtual spaces. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, it tracks across the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-11-17
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This book illustrates how Arab women have been engaging in three ongoing, parallel struggles, before, during, and after the Arab Spring, on three levels, namely: the political struggle to pave the road for democracy, freedom, and reform; the social struggle to achieve...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-11-17
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Named a Best Book of the Year by the Economist, Wall Street Journal & Vox‘The father of virtual reality’ (Sunday Times) explains why virtual reality presents the ultimate test for humanity.‘Essential reading, not just for VR-watchers but for anyone interested in how...
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Vintage Digital
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2017-11-16
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This second edition of the Handbook reflects some of the foundational topics for disaster studies; current substantive, methodological or theoretical topics of interest; as well as new and emerging topics in the field. While highlighting some of the iconic themes of the...
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Springer
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2017-11-16
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What is good sex from the perspective of liberation theology? Thia Cooper argues that sex can be a way to know God. God created humans with a desire to be in relation with each other. From this understanding, sexual desire, sex, and partnerships are re-imagined...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2017-11-16
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This book focuses on subjugated indentured Indian women, who are constantly faced with race, gender, caste, and class oppression and inequality on overseas European-owned plantations, but who are also armed with latent links to the women’s abolition movements in the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-11-16
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Der vorliegende Band führt empirische Forschungsresultate aus unterschiedlichen Teilgebieten der Familien- und Arbeitsmarktsoziologie zusammen, die sich der Untersuchung der Folgen atypischer Beschäftigung für Familien und Partnerschaften widmen. Das Ziel des Bandes...
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Springer VS
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2017-11-16
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Familienforschung
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This book investigates the intersection of Indian society, the encoding of post-millennial modernity and ‘ways of seeing’ through the medium of Indian graphic narratives. If seeing in Indian cultures is a mode of knowing then what might we decode and know from the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-16
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This edited volume offers the first extended, cross-disciplinary exploration of the cumulative problems and increasing importance of various forms of media in the Middle East. Leading scholars with expertise in Middle Eastern studies discuss their views and perceptions...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-11-16
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This book examines how socio-political assumptions inform and shape the contestation of sexuality on the African continent. Across Africa, the idea that homosexuality is un-African, un-Christian, un-natural, and un-cultural is now well established.This book analyzes...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-16
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WINNER OF THE EUROPEAN ESSAY PRIZEFROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED'It's hard to overstate the pleasure and the comfort that such demystification provides . . . it does indeed make the world feel larger, more expansive, more alive to the touch'...
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Sceptre
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2017-11-16
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The proliferation of designated terrorist groups in majority-Muslim countries has greatly affected civilian populations. Humanitarian workers and
assets have been targeted by terrorist groups through the use of violent methods. This study addresses the state of...
Editeur :
Editions L'Harmattan
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2017-11-15
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Julia Drews untersucht die Bedeutung von Risiko- und Krisenkommunikation bei deutschen Behörden. Sie analysiert die Erwartungen von Journalisten an diese Kommunikationsprozesse und inwiefern Behörden diese Erwartungen erfüllen. Das Thema wird am Beispiel der Kritischen...
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Springer VS
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2017-11-15
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Axel Kuhn de- und rekonstruiert die bisherige Forschung zu Zeitschriften und Medienunterhaltung und entwickelt einen interdisziplinär-integrativen soziokulturellen Rahmen für weitere Erkenntnisse. Hierzu bestimmt er Zeitschriften historisch als sich evolutionär...
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Springer VS
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2017-11-15
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Stigma leads to poorer health. Edited by Brenda Major, John F. Dovidio, and Bruce G. Link, The Oxford Handbook of Stigma, Discrimination, and Health provides compelling evidence from various disciplines in support of this thesis and explains how and why health...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-11-15
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This edited collection explores the continuing appeal of nationalism around the world. The authors’ ground-breaking research demonstrates the ways in which national priorities and sensibilities frame an extraordinary array of activities, from classroom...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-11-15
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These ethnographically-based studies of diverse urban experiences across the world present cutting edge research and stimulate an empirically-grounded theoretical reconceptualization. The essays identify ethnography as a powerful tool for making sense of life in our...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-14
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This unique study explores the vampire as host and guest, captor and hostage: a perfect lover and force of seductive predation. From Dracula and Carmilla, to True Blood and The Originals, the figure of the vampire embodies taboos and desires about hospitality, rape and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-14
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Offers an understanding of offensive media content Closes a research gap by presenting new research with 90 members of the public in the UK and Germany with whom the authors sat and watched a wide ranging set of television programmes before conducting focus groups and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-14
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