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This book explores the little-known world of scrappers and metal thieves. Benjamin F. Stickle bases his study on field research collected while traversing communities with thieves and scrappers. Drawing on candid interviews, observations of criminals at work, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-07-19
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This book studies both the tangible benefits and substantial barriers to sustainable development in the city of Phoenix, Arizona. Utilizing mixed research methods to probe downtown Phoenix’s political economy of development, this study illustrates how non-local...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-07-19
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This book studies the Japanese-American coffee farmers in Kona, Hawaii. Specifically, it sheds light on the role of first and second generation immigrants in the emergence of the Kona coffee agricultural economy, as well as factors that contributed to the creation of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-07-19
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This volume investigates the role of social media in European politics in changing the focus, frames and actors of public discourse around the EU decision-making process. Throughout the collection, the contributors test the hypothesis that the internet and social media...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-07-19
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This book explores the complexities of drugs policy in Britain, contradicting the over simplified representation found in the public sphere. It focuses on developments in Britain since the Misuse of Drugs Act of 1971, covering debates at national level and local...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-07-19
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This book gathers more than 150 peer-reviewed papers presented at the 5th INTBAU International Annual Event, held in Milan, Italy, in July 2017. The book represents an invaluable and up-to-date international exchange of research, case studies and best practice to...
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Springer
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2017-07-19
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Urban renewal has been the dominant approach to revitalizing industrialized communities that fall into decline. A national, community-based organization, the Skillman Foundation sought to engage in a joint effort with the University of Michigan's School of Social Work...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-07-19
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This book presents primary research conducted in Italy, USA, Australia and the UK on countering strategies and institutional perceptions of Italian mafias and local organized crime groups. Through interviews and interpretation of original documents, this study firstly...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-07-19
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Critical Criminological Perspectives
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This book traces the history of formative, enduring concepts, foundational in the development of the health disciplines. It explores existing literature, and subsequent contested applications. Feminist legacies are discussed with a clear message that early sociological...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-07-19
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Die Beiträge des Bandes zeigen und diskutieren das Potenzial einer mikrosoziologischen, prozessorientierten – qualitativen – Ungleichheitsforschung. Sie spüren Praktiken sozialer Besser- und Schlechterstellung in den Bereichen Bildung, Arbeit, soziale Beziehungen und...
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Springer VS
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2017-07-18
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Sozialstrukturanalyse
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In the aftermath of recent multiple leaks such as the Panama Papers, the Swiss leaks, the Lux leaks, and the Bahama leaks, this book offers an interesting view on the underlying conflicting interests that impede the adoption of more effective legislation to stop money...
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T.M.C. Asser Press
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2017-07-18
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This volume addresses how the rhetoric of feminist empowerment has been combined with mainstream representations of food, thus creating a cultural consciousness around food and eating that is unmistakably pathological. Throughout, Natalie Jovanovski discusses key texts...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-07-18
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This book challenges adult assumptions that young-people do not, cannot and should not think about death. The author uses everyday material objects in order to facilitate a range of conversations, revealing lively engagement with the topic. Cultural resources, such as...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-07-18
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Julian Stubbe aims at characterizing what novelty is in the becoming of objects and how the new becomes part of a shared reality. The study’s method is comparative and concerned with technological practice in science as well as in art. It draws on a detailed comparison...
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Springer VS
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2017-07-18
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In Begriffen wie „Arbeitsgesellschaft“, „Industriegesellschaft“ oder „kapitalistische Gesellschaft“ drückt sich die Hoffnung aus, über die Schlüsselkategorie „Arbeit“ nicht nur die Zustände in Betrieben, sondern in der Gesellschaft insgesamt erklären zu können. Dieses...
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Springer VS
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2017-07-18
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The book focuses on major aspects of Norbert Elias's social theory through research on supposed “minor” topics, such as manners, sports, leisure and cultural practices. While many of his publications became essential for scholars in the different disciplines concerned,...
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Springer VS
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2017-07-18
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Gegenstand des vorliegenden Bandes ist der mit dem Begriff der Ökonomisierung belegte gesellschaftliche Wandel der letzten vier Jahrzehnte. Ausgehend von einer Geschichte der Verwendungsweise des Begriffs, die bis zu John Stuart Mill und Karl Marx zurückreicht, wird...
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Springer VS
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2017-07-18
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The ideal of higher humanism challenges our modern civilization and its diminished image of the human being. A critique of the ideologies of "bourgeois humanism" provides a pathway toward the renascence of human identity and human dignity. Historical illustrations,...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2017-07-18
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Focusing on tradition, technology, and authority, this volume challenges classical understandings that mortuary rites are inherently conservative. The contributors examine innovative and enduring ideas and practices of death, which reflect and constitute changing...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-07-18
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Johannes Ebner untersucht, weshalb Brauchtumsfeste, Trachten und Volksmusik einen Boom erleben, auf welche gesellschaftlichen Probleme und Bedürfnisse dies hinweist und warum einige Bräuche sich als Identifikationsobjekt für breite soziale Schichten besser eignen als...
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Springer VS
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2017-07-18
Collection :
Figurationen. Schriften zur Zivilisations- und Prozesstheorie
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