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This book looks at the centerpiece of the international women’s rights discourse, the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), and asks to what extent it affects the lives of women worldwide. Rather than assuming a trickle-down...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-08-13
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Sexual offending has become a mainstay item of reporting in our daily newspapers, and television news bulletins. This book offers an account of the policing of sexual offences and the difficulties that confront the police in the investigation of these intrusive...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2016-08-13
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This book discusses already established accounts about the sexualization of children through a theoretical and an empirical framework which bring together popular culture, consumption, sexuality, selfhood and childhood. Adopting the view that the debate about the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-08-13
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In this book, Meenakshi Gigi Durham outlines and advances a progressive feminist framework for digital ethics in the technosexual landscape,
exploring the complex and evolving interrelationships between sex and tech.Today we live in a “sexscape,” a globalized assemblage...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-08-13
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Encountering evidence of postmortem examinations - dissection or autopsy in historic skeletal collections is relatively rare, but recently there has been an increase in the number of reported instances. And much of what has been evaluated has been largely descriptive...
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Springer
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2016-08-13
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Drawing on research evidence and media coverage, this book explores a number of key debates surrounding cyberbullying. The increasing digitization of society affords many benefits; however, some of these benefits are offset by more adverse consequences....
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2016-08-12
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This book introduces readers to neo-mercantile planning theory in the context of spatial regional integration in Africa. It proposes a new approach that rethinks neo-liberalism as the meta-theory of planning in Africa, and pioneers an original school of thought that...
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Springer
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2016-08-12
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This book provides a unique perspective on the behind the scenes planning of London's Olympic legacy. The author had unprecedented access to the legacy organisations, institutions, and individuals involved with the 2012 Games.This has allowed her, in a highly accessible...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-08-12
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This book provides readers with two major practical insights. Firstly, on the basis of statistical inquiry it identifies the significance of socio-cultural elements that encourage user-instigated transformation. Secondly, it employs layout pattern analysis to...
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Springer
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2016-08-12
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This edited book is the first major review of what has been achieved in Borneo Studies to date. Chapters in this book situate research on Borneo within the general disciplinary fields of the social sciences, with the weight of attention devoted to anthropological...
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Springer
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2016-08-12
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Asia in Transition
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In this book, Julius-Kei Kato lets the theories and experiences of Asian American hybridity converse with and bear upon some aspects of Christian biblical and theological language. Hybridity has become a key feature of today’s globalized world and is, of course, a key...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-08-10
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?This volume overlooks the distinct expressions and awareness of volunteering in the lived reality of people from different regions of the world. By casting the net widely this book not only expands the geographic reach of experiences, models and case studies but also...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-08-10
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This book explores the way today’s interconnected and digitized world marked by social media, over-sharing, and blurred lines between public and private spheres shapes the nature and fallout of scandal in a frenzied media environment. Today’s digitized world has erased...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-08-10
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Prostitution bears the unique title of being both the "world's oldest profession" and one of the least understood occupations. Unlike most of the crime and family literature, prostitution appears to have all the features of traditional markets: prices, supply and demand...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-08-10
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This book addresses the idea that victims remain contested and controversial participants of justice in the twenty-first century adversarial criminal trial. Victims are increasingly participating in all phases of the criminal trial, with new substantive and procedural...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-08-10
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This book explores Muslims’
civic and political participation in Australia and Germany, shedding light on
their individual experiences, motives for, and personal implications of their
multi-faceted engagement. Based on in-depth interviews with Muslims who have
been...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-08-09
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This book is intended as a basis for advanced treatment of concepts in project management. In the current scenario where most questions are answered through the internet, the knowledge element in project management has come under the influence of disruptive...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-08-09
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Based on a novel class scheme and a unique compilation of German and American data, this book reveals that intergenerational class mobility increased over most of the past century. While country differences in intergenerational mobility are surprisingly small, gender,...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2016-08-09
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'A shining alternative to high-stress modern parenting, and families from New Delhi to New York will shout with joy' Heather Shumaker, author of It's OK Not to Share and It's OK to Go Up the SlideDISCOVER THE PARENTING SECRETS OF THE HAPPIEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLDWhat...
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Piatkus
Parution :
2016-08-09
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Lars Guenther analysiert die Gründe für die jeweilige Berichterstattung über wissenschaftliche Evidenz von Wissenschaftsjournalisten vor dem Hintergrund des Spannungsverhältnisses Wissenschaft – Journalismus – Öffentlichkeit. Die Ergebnisse der eigenen Studien, die...
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Springer VS
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2016-08-09
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