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This book concerns the implications and interrelations of key concepts of culture, defending an updated communicative notion of culture as meaning-making against a series of current challenges. The first part of the book distinguishes four main concepts of culture,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-08-04
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The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multivolume history of the American nation. In the newest volume in the series,The Republic for Which It Stands, acclaimed historian Richard White offers a fresh and integrated interpretation of...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-08-04
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This is the third of five ambitious volumes theorizing the structure of governance above and below the central state.This book is written for those interested in the character, causes, and consequences of governance within the state.
This book sets out a measure of...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-08-04
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Why do people go to church? What about a congregation attracts new members? What is it that draws women and men differently into diverse types of congregations? Getting to Church assesses the deeply personal and gendered narratives around how women and men move toward...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-08-04
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This book advances research about China by providing an updated narrative of its entertainment life in the beginning of China’s twenty-first century. As the rest of the world continues to pay keen attention to developments in China’s politics, economy, and culture, the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-08-04
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Newspapers have long been enthralled by accounts of cute, cuddly, strange, dangerous and endangered beasts, and by extraordinary and sometimes apocryphal narratives of natural phenomena. This study explores the incidence of several such stories in the British press:...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2017-08-04
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This publication is one of the results of a conference organised in Lisbon in 2011 on the theme of African borders and their relationships with migration and mobility. The selected papers are a sample of the diverse perspectives on the general theme presented at the...
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Centro de Estudos Internacionais
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2017-08-04
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As the end result of a multidisciplinary investigation project conducted in Africa (PTDC/AFR/64207/2006, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia), this publication about Poverty and Peace in the Portuguese-speaking African Countries has the purpose, on one hand, of...
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Centro de Estudos Internacionais
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2017-08-04
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This book examines how the severe economic downturn following the 2007-2008 financial crisis affected the structural integration and quality of life of urban migrants in Europe and North America. It compares the experiences of migrants from Poland, Romania, Serbia,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-08-04
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The texts of the book focus on the problems and challenges of urban change, especially in Europe, in the contemporary context of intense mobility.The main topics are mobility, urban social structure, migrations, urban inequalities, urban activism, community,...
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Springer VS
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2017-08-03
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The study considers two generations of Anglo-Indian women in post-colonial India, and their social interaction with their community. It explores Anglo-Indian women as part of a cultural whole and as participants in the mainstream cultural claims of India. It...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-08-03
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Jens Lanfer präsentiert eine grundlagentheoretische Untersuchung gesellschaftlicher Innovationen. Für die Analyse von Innovationsprozessen stellt er ein systemtheoretisches Konzept vor, das sowohl eine angemessene Reichweite aufweist, um Innovationen in der Gesellschaft...
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Springer VS
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2017-08-03
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Das Ziel, das Dux mit der Untersuchung zur Moral verfolgt, ist, einsichtig zu machen, dass und wie sich die Moral als eine Form sozialer Vernunft aus einer Bedingungskonstellation der evolutiv erworbenen Verfassung heraus zu bilden vermochte und immer wieder zu bilden...
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Springer VS
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2017-08-03
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This book explores the social life of Muslim women and Christian minorities amid Islamic and Christian movements in urban Java, Indonesia. Drawing on anthropological perspectives and 14 months of participant observation between 2009 and 2013 in the multi-religious...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-08-03
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This volume analyses the quantification of the effect of factors measuring subjective well-being, and in particular on the metrics applied. With happiness studies flourishing over the last decades, both in number of publications as well as in their exposure, researchers...
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Springer
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2017-08-02
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This book offers a theoretical intervention into the normative ideals of public space that are deeply rooted in Western urbanism. It disrupts the binaries of presence/absence, inclusion/exclusion by presenting a series of case studies that vividly convey the complexity...
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Springer
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2017-08-02
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This book compiles research from leading experts in the social, behavioral, and cultural dimensions of sustainability, as well as local and global understandings of the concept, and on lived practices around the world. It contains studies focusing on ways of living,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-08-02
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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book presents insights into the lived realities of children with disabilities in primary schools in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It examines specific cultural and societal characteristics of Ethiopia that influence the...
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Springer
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2017-08-02
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Inclusive Learning and Educational Equity
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Sex is cheap. Coupled sexual activity has become more widely available than ever. Cheap sex has been made possible by two technologies that have little to do with each other - the Pill and high-quality pornography - and its distribution made more efficient by a third...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-08-02
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This book explores the human right to housing, presenting the findings of a global discourse analysis to analyse the right to housing from the perspective of theories on land policy and social citizenship. The book concludes that planners and policy makers will not be...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-08-02
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