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There has been a significant increase in the focus on sex offending in recent years in both the academic and public spheres. From heightened media attention on sex crimes to new waves of legislation aimed at crime prevention, issues related to sexual assault,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-11-03
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Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Oxford Centre for Criminology, this edited collection of essays seeks to explore the changing contours of criminal justice over the past half century and to consider possible shifts over the next few decades.
The question of how...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-11-03
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The contributions to this volume map the surprisingly multifarious circumstances in which trauma is invoked – as an analytical tool, a therapeutic term or as a discursive trope. By doing so, we critically engage the far too often individuating aspects of trauma, as well...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-03
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This open access book presents an innovative study of the rise of unmarried cohabitation in the Americas, from Canada to Argentina. Using an extensive sample of individual census data for nearly all countries on the continent, it offers a cross-national, comparative...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-11-03
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In 2014, the ethics and politics of hospitality were brought into stark relief. Three years into the Syrian conflict, which had already created nearly 2.5 million refugees and internally displaced 6.5 million, the UN called on industrialised countries to share the...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2016-11-03
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This book explores the use of technology in young people’s social lives against a backdrop of “online safety measures” put in place by the UK government to ensure safe and risk free engagement with online services. The UK landscape is used as a case study to compare the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-02
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This series of four volumes honors the lifetime achievements of the distinguished activist and scholar Elise Boulding (1920–2010) on the occasion of her 95th birthday. This first anthology documents the breadth of Elise Boulding’s contributions to Peace Research,...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-11-02
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This book brings together research findings from a variety of disciplines in this integrated study of the migration of Ukrainian nationals to the EU. It contextualizes and historicizes this migration against the background of the series of crises experienced by Ukraine...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-11-02
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IMISCOE Research Series
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Die Autorin zeigt, wie Köpersprache wahrgenommen wird und welche Formen der Körpersprache es gibt (Gesten, Bewegungen etc.), wie sie eingesetzt werden und was sie bedeuten. Buchstäblich von Kopf bis Fuß »übersetzt« sie dann die Körpersprache. Angefangen mit der...
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Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2016-11-02
Collection :
Für Dummies
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This book identifies the strengths and weaknesses of different methodological approaches to research in communication and social change. It examines the methodological opportunities and challenges occasioned by rapid technological affordances and society-wide...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-01
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This edited volume presents a structured approach to a new lean education curriculum, implemented for the education of engineers, managers, administrators as well as human resources developers. The authorship comprises professors and lecturers, trainers and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-11-01
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Martin Luther King, Jr. famously expressed his dream that his children would "one day not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." In his vision, a person's ethical qualities would be understood in spite of his or her body rather...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-11-01
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Among the ways that digital media has transformed political activism, the most remarkable is not that new media allows disorganized masses to speak, but that it enables organized activist groups to listen. Beneath the waves of e-petitions, "likes," and hashtags lies a...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-11-01
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This work approaches the modern phenomenon of online dating, examining the ways people make use of its technical and social potential. In particular, the users' mate preferences, choices, strategies, and interactions are analyzed using the innovative method of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-11-01
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This book explores the impact of transnational migration on the views, feelings, and practices of home among migrants. Home is usually perceived as what placidly lies in the background of everyday life, yet migrants’ experience tells a different story: what happens to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-31
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Wissenschaftskommunikation ist zentral für moderne Wissensgesellschaften – und in den vergangenen Jahren immer vielfältiger geworden. Sie findet in der Wissenschaft auf Konferenzen oder in Fachpublikationen statt, in der Politik- und Unternehmensberatung, in Kampagnen,...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2016-10-31
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Aus historischer Perspektive wird in diesem Sammelband ein Blick auf Geschlecht bzw. Gender geworfen, wobei unterschiedliche Wissenschaftsdisziplinen zu Wort kommen – die Theologie, die Geschichtswissenschaft, die Germanistik sowie die Erziehungswissenschaft. Die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-10-31
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Die Studie befasst sich mit der interkulturellen nonverbalen Interaktion zwischen deutschen und marokkanischen Studierenden. Hierfür untersucht der Autor authentische interkulturelle Interaktionssituationen mit Mitteln der linguistischen Gesprächs- und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-10-31
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This book examines immigration to small cities throughout Canada. It explores the distinct challenges brought about by the influx of people to urban communities which typically have less than 100,000 residents. The essays are organized into four main sections:...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-10-31
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Alfred Ruppert untersucht in Form einer Einzelfallstudie, wie stark und auf welche Weise sich Rankings auf eine Universität auswirken. Er setzt sich mit der Frage auseinander, welche Transformationsprozesse stattfinden und welche sozialen Dynamiken und kulturellen...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2016-10-29
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