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This interdisciplinary endeavour portrays the central features of militant movements which hold totality as an important part of their doctrinal core. Revisiting the importance of modernity, utopianism, eschatology, charisma, psychology and the history of ideas, Mihai...
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Springer VS
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2016-10-24
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This is the first book to examine social learning and innovation in hunter–gatherers from around the world. More is known about social learning in chimpanzees and nonhuman primates than is known about social learning in hunter–gatherers, a way of life that characterized...
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Springer
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2016-10-22
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Replacement of Neanderthals by Modern Humans Series
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Water is an essential element in the future of cities. It shapes cities’ locations, form, ecology, prosperity and health. The changing nature of urbanisation, climate change, water scarcity, environmental values, globalisation and social justice mean that the models of...
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Springer
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2016-10-22
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This book presents post-Marxist theoretical approaches towards social critique and offers discourse analytical tools for critical research. How is a normative critique possible? The author, working at the crossroads of sociological discourse analysis and social...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-10-21
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This book is a critical edition of six lectures by Alain Leroy Locke, the intellectual progenitor of the Harlem Renaissance. In them, Locke offers an Inter-American philosophical account of important contributions made by Afrodescendant peoples to the art, literature,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-10-21
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Die ZU|Schriften bewegen sich im Rahmen der Unterscheidung von Komplexität und Kontingenz, um die Überlegung diskutieren zu können, dass jede soziale Umgebung ein vernetzter, komplexer Zusammenhang ist, der sich in ein verstehbares und bearbeitbares,...
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Springer VS
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2016-10-21
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Komplexität und Kontingenz
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This book analyses how developmental projects in a globalizing Delhi have brought about neglect, exclusion and alienation of certain sections of population, while benefiting others. It discusses the physical, economic and social displacement of people in...
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Springer
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2016-10-21
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This book, based on the author's ethnographic fieldwork in the Palestinian West Bank from 1995 to 1996, aims to provide an honest, authentic, and accurate accounting of the nitty-gritty, day-to-day challenges, rewards, failures, and successes of doing fieldwork in a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-21
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This volume focuses on the specific relationship between the institutional impunity, lack of public safety and public space in failing to prevent organized sexual murder. The murder of women on the U.S.-Mexican border is a complex phenomenon with multiple geographic,...
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Springer
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2016-10-21
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Ruth Achenbach develops a model of individual return migration decision making, which examines both the process and the decisive factors in return migration decision making of Chinese highly skilled workers and students in Japan. She proposes to answer a question yet...
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Springer VS
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2016-10-21
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Exploring the nexus of American Studies and the Medical Humanities, this book examines the interdisciplinary interfaces between disease and American cultures and literatures. It traces the appropriation of yellow fever to legitimize the young nation and its embeddedness...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-10-21
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Antonio Piazza verfasste sein Erzählwerk in der zweiten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts. Die Kommunikationsstrategien der weit verbreiteten Moralischen Periodika waren ihm aus seiner eigenen journalistischen Tätigkeit geläufig. Wie sehr die Moralblätter für den...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-10-21
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This book describes current practices in science communication, from citizen science to Twitter storms, and celebrates this diversity through case studies and examples. However, the authors also reflect on how scholars and practitioners can gain better insight into...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-20
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'Grayson Perry for King and Queen of England' Caitlin MoranGrayson Perry has been thinking about masculinity - what it is, how it operates, why little boys are thought to be made of slugs and snails - since he was a boy. Now, in this funny and necessary book, he...
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Penguin
Parution :
2016-10-20
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This book explores everyday realities of young Muslim women in Britain, who are portrayed as antithetical to the British way of life in media and political discourse. The book captures how geo-political events, and national tragedies continue to implicate individuals...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-19
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Gloria von Papen Robredo untersucht am Beispiel zweier Landesverbände der Freien Wohlfahrtspflege Problemdefinitionen und –lösungen sowie Handlungsorientierungen beim Umgang mit Migration in Deutschland. Sie rekonstruiert die Programmatik und die Art und Weise ihrer...
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Springer VS
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2016-10-19
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Transformation des Sozialen – Transformation Sozialer Arbeit
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Thorsten Heimann geht der Frage nach, wie sich kulturelle Unterschiede im Umgang mit Klimawandel an europäischen Küsten beschreiben und erklären lassen. Dazu entwickelt er das Konzept des relationalen Kulturraums, erarbeitet umweltsoziologische Erklärungsansätze und...
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Springer VS
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2016-10-19
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This book demonstrates different statistical techniques for analyzing health-related data as well as providing new techniques for forecasting and/or projecting the incidence of diseases/disorders. It presents information on a variety of health related issues from the...
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Springer
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2016-10-19
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Applied Demography Series
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Misogyny Online explores the worldwide phenomenon of gendered cyberhate as a significant discourse which has been overlooked and marginalised. The rapid growth of the internet has led to numerous opportunities and benefits; however, the architecture of the cybersphere...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2016-10-19
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This guidebook, aimed at those interested in studying media industries, provides direction in ways best suited to collaborative dialogue between media scholars and media professionals.While the study of media industries is a focal point at many universities around the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-19
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