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Inga Haese erweitert die stadtsoziologische Forschung um die Perspektive des Charismas. Sie zeigt, dass der Prozess von Stadtentwicklung nur über den Fokus auf handelnde Akteurinnen und Akteure verstanden werden kann. Auf der Grundlage einer ethnographischen Studie, die...
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Springer VS
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2016-10-06
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Stadt, Raum und Gesellschaft
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This book applies the psychopathy concept toward the understanding of crime. Drawing on hundreds of studies and his own clinical, research, and practitioner experience working with the most antisocial and violent offenders, the author demonstrates that psychopathy...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-05
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This study explores the social functions of literature from the perspective of policymakers, writers, readers and residents in contemporary Cuba. It provides a new perspective on post-59 Cuban literature that underlines how cultural policy has made literature a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-05
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This volume describes research in computational design which implements shape grammars or space syntax for morphological analysis, applying these scientific and rule-based methodologies to cultural aspects of the field. The term ‘cultural DNA’ describes the effort to...
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Springer
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2016-10-05
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This book provides a critical and theoretically-informed assessment of the nature and types of structural change occurring in the Irish welfare state in the context of the 2008 economic crisis. Its overarching framework for conceptualising and analysing welfare state...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-10-04
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Winner of the 2017 J. Anthony Lukas PrizeShortlisted for the 2017 Hurston/Wright Foundation AwardFinalist for the 2017 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in JournalismLonglisted for the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non Fiction On an average day in...
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Bold Type Books
Parution :
2016-10-04
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This book discusses innovative responses and reforms developed in critical areas of urban governance in European countries. It examines the impact of European Union’s policies on the urban agenda and on local governance, and the impact of the transition to democracy in...
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Springer
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2016-10-04
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This book presents an incisive outline of the historical development and geography of cities. It focuses on three themes that constitute essential foundations for any understanding of urban form and function. These are: (a) the shifting patterns of urbanization...
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Springer
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2016-10-04
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Global Understanding
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This book illustrates the benefits to be gained from digitally networked communication for health, education and transitioning economies in developing nations (Sierra Leone and Papua New Guinea) and developed nations. Growing powers of e-citizenship can help build...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-10-04
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Global Understanding
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The first book of its kind, Sociology and the New Materialism explores the many and varied applications of "new materialism," a key emerging trend in 21st century thought, to the practice of doing sociology.
Offering a clear exposition of new materialist theory and...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2016-10-04
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The study is set against the backdrop of the urbanization trend in present-day China, and focuses on the relationship between farmers who have lost their land (“land-lost farmers”) and local government. Particularly, it applies the extended case method to answer the...
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Springer
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2016-10-04
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This is a collection of fifteen essays which expose weaknesses in western epistemological frames of reference that for centuries have limited our views, and, thus, our experiences of animal being, including our own. The volume contributes to current discussions of new...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-03
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Engendering Human Rights brings together distinguished scholars and feminist activists in a collection of essays on human rights in Africa. Contributors explore the formulating, monitoring, reporting, and implementation of human rights in Africa and the African...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-03
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Tijd voor de dood beschrijft de vele mogelijkheden van bewust en oprecht afscheid nemen van een overledene. Het schrijft niet voor hoe er afscheid genomen moet worden, maar is een pleidooi om dit op een persoonlijke manier en stap voor stap te doen. Dit boek is een...
Editeur :
Bohn Stafleu van Loghum
Parution :
2016-10-03
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For most of recorded history, men have held nearly all of the most powerful leadership positions. Today, although women occupy an increasing percentage of leadership positions, in America they hold less than a fifth of positions in both the public and private sectors....
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-10-03
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This book explores diverse communities living in Central Asia and the Caucasus, who are generally gathered under the umbrella term of ‘Gypsies’, their multidimensional identities, self-appellations and labels given to them by surrounding populations, researcher and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-01
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Autorität ist das Thema dieses Buches. Eskalationen im Polizeidienst, die offenbar im Zuge der Individualisierung eine neue Qualität erreicht haben, erfordern ein Umdenken der Polizei. Das betrifft besonders das antiquierte Autoritätsverständnis der Polizei. Wie aber...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2016-09-30
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This book examines domestic extremism and what is popularly referred to as radicalization. The fear of domestic extremism has been used to dismantle democracy and erect national security states throughout North America, Western Europe, and beyond. Yet, despite the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-09-30
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Raciolinguistics reveals the central role that language plays in shaping our ideas about race and vice versa. The book brings together a team of leading scholars-working both within and beyond the United States-to share powerful, much-needed research that helps us...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-09-30
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Das Interview gehört zu den meistgenutzten Darstellungsformen in den Medien und ist eine unerlässliche Recherchemethode im Redaktionsalltag. Allerdings haben viele Journalisten geschulten Gesprächspartnern und Kommunikationsstörungen nur wenig entgegenzusetzen. Die dazu...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2016-09-30
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