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Robin Hofmann zeigt im vorliegenden Buch, wie in der Flüchtlingskrise die neue europäische Sicherheitsarchitektur zunehmend an ihre Grenzen stößt. Der Autor schlägt einen Bogen von der historischen Entwicklung einer gemeinsamen europäischen Kriminalitätsbekämpfung...
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Springer VS
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2016-10-28
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This book examines the phenomenon of the “digital city” in the US by looking at three case studies: New York City, San Antonio, and Seattle. Kristin Scott considers how digital technologies are increasingly built into the logic and organization of urban spaces and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-10-28
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One of the most remarkable stories of immigration in the last half century is that of Indians to the United States. People of Indian origin make up a little over one percent of the American population now, up from barely half a percent at the turn of the millennium. Not...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-10-28
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In this thought-provoking and engaging book, Mike Michael brings us a powerful overview of Actor-Network Theory. Covering a breadth of topics, Michael demonstrates how ANT has become a major theoretical framework, influencing scholarly work across a range of fields. ...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2016-10-28
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This study argues that the defining feature of contemporary advertising is the interconnectedness between consumer participation and calculative media platforms. It critically investigates how audience participation unfolds in an algorithmic media infrastructure in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-10-27
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This book spotlights how women leaders behave in chaotic environments and features examples of women who have been key figures in determining complex socio-economic outcomes throughout history. Women leaders can be seen on many high- levels in the political arena, be...
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Springer
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2016-10-27
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with foreword by Michael X. Delli Carpini, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, USAThis book critiques U.S. public policy about communication and offers guidelines to improve public safety and create strong democratic communities. The lack of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-10-27
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Anhand einer bundesweiten empirischen Studie liefert das vorliegende Buch einen fundierten Überblick über die gewerblichen Produktivgenossenschaften - sowie die beschäftigungsorientierten Sozialgenossenschaften - in Deutschland und deren beschäftigten Mitglieder....
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Springer VS
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2016-10-27
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This book introduces 'convenience' as the key concept to explain financial crime by white-collar criminals. Based on a number of fraud examination- reports from the United States and Norway, the book documents empirical evidence of convenience among white-collar...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-10-27
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Focusing on Shenzhen as a representation of the general urban village phenomenon in China, this book considers the impact of China’s economic reform on urbanization and urban villages over the past three decades. Shenzhen’s urban villages are some of the first of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-10-27
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The Palgrave International Handbook of Action Research offers a vivid portrait of both theoretical perspectives and practical action research activity and related benefits around the globe, while attending to the cultural, political, social, historical and ecological...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-10-26
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This book illuminates the hidden history of South Korean birth mothers involved in the 60-year-long practice of transnational adoption. The author presents a performance-based ethnography of maternity homes, a television search show, an internet forum, and an oral...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-26
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This book analyses efforts to advance the rights of Indigenous People within peace-building frameworks: Section I critically explores key issues concerning Indigenous Peoples’ Rights (struggles for land, human, cultural, civil, legal and constitutional rights) in...
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Springer
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2016-10-25
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This book analyses parental anxieties about their children’s healthcare issues in urban China, engaging with wider theoretical debates about modernity, risk and anxiety. It examines the broader social, cultural and historical contexts of parental anxiety by analysing a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-10-25
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This book uniquely focuses on the role of family law in transnational marriages. The author demonstrates how family law is of critical importance in understanding transnational family life. Based on extensive field research in Morocco, Egypt and the Netherlands, the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-10-25
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This book provides a timely criminological investigation into the rapidly growing sale of fake medicines online. Some estimates suggest that the fake medicine trade has now overtaken marijuana and prostitution as the world's largest market for criminal traffickers.This...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-10-25
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Music and Social Dynamics in Nigeria explores the diverse ways in which music reflects, and is shaped by, historical and social dynamics of life in Nigeria. Contributors to this volume include some of the leading scholars of Nigerian music, such as Joshua Uzoigwe, Laz...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2016-10-25
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Multicultural societies are a phenomenon that can be increasingly observed worldwide. This book focuses on the question of how individuals living within a multicultural society experience the meeting of cultures. Murdock combines both a thorough review of the ...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-10-24
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In diesem Band wird das Spannungsverhältnis von Kontinuität und Wandel in Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft aus einer interdisziplinären, wissenschaftlichen und praxisnahen Perspektive beleuchtet. Die Spannweite der Themen reicht hierbei von Arbeit und Beschäftigung,...
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Springer VS
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2016-10-24
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This edited volume presents a detailed portrait of couples living with mixed HIV status, where one partner is HIV-positive and the other negative. Readers will come to understand the various and complex ways in which these mixed-status, or serodiscordant couples build a...
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Springer
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2016-10-24
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