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Network Governance and the Differentiated Polity is the first of two volumes featuring a selection of key writings by R. A. W. Rhodes. Volume I collects in one place for the first time the main articles written by Rhodes on policy networks and governance between 1990...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-06-30
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This book argues that we are currently witnessing not merely a decline in the quality of social science research, but the proliferation of meaningless research, of no value to society, and modest value to its authors - apart from securing employment and promotion.
The...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-06-30
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Isabel Valdés Cifuentes überprüft in einem europäischen Vergleich, ob prekär Beschäftigte über eine schlechtere soziale Einbettung verfügen als Personen in regulärer Beschäftigung. Die Autorin zieht soziologische und sozialpsychologische Theorien heran und untersucht...
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Springer VS
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2017-06-30
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In The Power of Race in Cuba, Danielle Pilar Clealand analyzes racial ideologies that negate the existence of racism and their effect on racial progress and activism through the lens of Cuba. Since 1959, Fidel Castro and the Cuban government have married socialism and...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-06-30
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Interpretive Political Science is the second of two volumes featuring a selection of key writings by R.A.W. Rhodes. Volume II looks forward and explores the 'interpretive turn' and its implications for the craft of political science, especially public administration,...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-06-30
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This book offers an original new conception of visual story telling, proposing that drawing, depictive drawing and narrative drawing are produced in an encompassing dialogic system of embodied social behavior. It refigures the existing descriptions of visual...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-06-29
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This book examines how digital communications technologies have transformed modern societies, with profound effects both for everyday life, and for everyday crimes. Sexual violence, which is recognized globally as a significant human rights problem, has likewise changed...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-06-29
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Florian Lippuner zeichnet das biografische Gesamtbild von strukturellen Kopplungen und Transferprozessen im Rahmen der Computerspielnutzung nach. Der Autor untersucht, wie sich die Bedeutung des Spielens für einzelne Jugendliche und junge Erwachsene je nach Lebensphase...
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Springer VS
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2017-06-29
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This book considers the changing nature of intimacy in contemporary China, providing a unique case study of romantic subjectivities in young people in the world’s fastest growing economy. Since the implementation of reform in 1978, the economic and socio-cultural...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-06-29
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As commercial surrogacy in India dominates public conversations around reproduction, new kinds of families, and changing trends in globalization, its lived realities become an important aspect of emerging research. This book maps the way in which in vitro fertilization...
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OUP India
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2017-06-29
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Ausgehend von einer expliziten Definition des Öffentlichkeitsbegriffs entwickelt Jakob Jünger die Theorie unklarer Öffentlichkeit und überprüft diese empirisch. Er zeigt, dass Öffentlichkeit nicht nur eine makrosoziologische Entität, sondern mikrosoziologisch eine...
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Springer VS
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2017-06-29
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SEO practices for Baidu and other Chinese search engines are little known in the Western world. However, in order for a company to promote itself successfully in the Middle Kingdom, it is absolutely necessary to go online in China. ChineseSEO is not only about working...
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Wiley-ISTE
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2017-06-29
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This book sets forth a new area in the study of extraordinary individuals in religious traditions. It develops the category of “Religious Genius” as an alternative to existing categories, primarily “saint.” It constructs a model by which to appreciate these individuals,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-06-29
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The National Border Patrol Museum (NBPM) in El Paso, Texas, presents a view of the history, culture, and life along the U.S.-Mexico border that is not offered in any other museum in the world. Moreover, it provides an opportunity to study and understand people and life...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2017-06-29
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Since its beginnings in the middle of the 19th century, fashion has been narrated through multiple media, both visual and verbal, and for such different purposes as marketing and advertising, art, costume history, social research and cultural dissemination. In this...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2017-06-29
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Der vorliegende Sammelband stellt am Beispiel der mittelalterlich geprägten Stadt Ravensburg die Methode der Kulturkonzeption vor. Ausgewiesene Experten im Bereich Stadt(teil)entwicklung und Kulturentwicklungsplanung sowie Studierende zeigen das Vorgehen am realen Fall....
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Springer VS
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2017-06-28
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This book explores the use of English within otherwise local-language conversations by two continental European social media communities. The analysis of these communities serves not only as a comparison of online language practices, but also as a close look at how...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-06-28
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This book concerns various modes of being transnational among a diasporic population—Armenians in Germany—by drawing parallels between the first and second generation migrants. It puts forth the questions as to whether or not, and which kind of transactional...
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Springer VS
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2017-06-28
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Dieses Buch erörtert die Grundannahmen, auf denen der quantitative bzw. der qualitative Forschungsansatz beruhen. Hierzu wird ein materialistisch-deterministisches Welt- und Menschenbild (quantitative Forschung) einem humanistischen Menschenbild in Verbindung mit...
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Springer VS
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2017-06-28
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This book aims to fill a void in the literature on the contributions of the state to the social protection, educational training, and human security of its overseas citizens. Additionally, Michel S. Laguerre seeks to explain the rise of the postdiaspora condition: an...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-06-28
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