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This book demonstrates principles of Ancestor Veneration Avatars (AVAs), by running avatars based on eleven deceased members of one family through ten highly diverse virtual worlds from the violent Defiance to the intellectual Uru: Myst Online, from the early EverQuest...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2016-07-12
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"An excellent primer on what it means to live digitally. It should be required reading for adults trying to understand the next generation." -- Nicholas Negroponte, author of Being Digital The first generation of children who were born into and raised in the digital...
Editeur :
Basic Books
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2016-07-12
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Social work in the 21st century is facing great change and upheaval in a period of Government austerity measures. From worsening pay rates to limited resources, these are increasingly challenging times in which social workers practice. It is therefore important that...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2016-07-12
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Gerhard Preyer rekonstruiert in diesem essential den harten Kern von Shmuel N. Eisenstadts allgemeiner Soziologie, wie Eisenstadt sie in der Untersuchung der Beziehung zwischen Handeln (Kreativität) und Struktur sowie zwischen Kultur und Sozialstruktur durchgeführt hat....
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Springer VS
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2016-07-12
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Der Band gibt einen Einblick in eine disziplinär ausdifferenzierte Forschungspraxis der Komik in (post-)migrantischen und Kulturgrenzen überschreitenden Kontexten. In den jeweiligen Untersuchungsgegenständen fragen AutorInnen nach dem sozialen Sinn, nach Funktionen und...
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Springer VS
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2016-07-12
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This book takes the head-scratching out of human sexuality. Personal construct theory provides the foundation for a psychosocial explanation of sexuality that views everyday social interaction as key to the development of sexual identity and desires. The theory...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-07-11
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For a long time, resource conservationists have viewed environmental conservation as synonymous with wilderness and wildlife resources only, oblivious to the contributions made by cultural and heritage resources. However, cultural heritage resources in many parts of the...
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Springer
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2016-07-11
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Exploring how people negotiate and reconcile, construct and re-construct their distinctive gender and ethnic identities in a cross-cultural context, Hu examines what happens when two distinct cultures meet at the intimate interface of marriage and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-07-11
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Survey Methodology is becoming a more structured
field of research, deserving of more and more academic attention. The
SAGE Handbook ofSurvey Methodology explores both
the increasingly scientific endeavour of surveys and their growing complexity,
as different data...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
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2016-07-11
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Keine andere Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftstheorie beherrscht die Tagespolitik, aber auch die Medienöffentlichkeit und das Alltagsbewusstsein von Millionen Menschen fast auf der ganzen Welt so stark wie die neoliberale. Die vorliegende Publikation versteht sich als...
Editeur :
VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
Parution :
2016-07-11
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Although episodes of resistance and contention in authoritarian and authoritarian-like regimes constitute the majority of mass political movements worldwide, the theories and models of popular contention have been developed on liberal-democratic assumptions. Prompted by...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
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2016-07-11
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The twenty-first century workplace compels Americans to be more flexible, often at a cost to their personal well-being. InThe Disrupted Workplace, Benjamin Snyder examines how three groups of American workers construct moral order in a capitalist system that demands...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
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2016-07-08
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This book analyses post-migration social networks via the notion of superdiversity. Approaching diversity as relational and complexly configured through multiple migration-related differentiations, it challenges us to rethink how we talk about and classify migrant...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2016-07-08
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This book is devoted to the study
of the interplay
between religious rules and State law. It explores
how State recognition of religious rules can affect the degree of legal
diversity that is available to citizens and why such recognition sometime
results in more...
Editeur :
Springer
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2016-07-07
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In a rapidly urbanizing India, what is the future of nature conservation? How does the march of development impact the conflict between nature and people in India’s cities? Exploring these questions, Nature in the City examines the past, present and future of nature in...
Editeur :
OUP India
Parution :
2016-07-07
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The march towards a ‘new India’ began with its entry onto the global stage as a rising economic power, impelled by liberalization policies and the forces of globalization.The success of India’s information technology (IT) industry symbolizes these larger developments,...
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OUP India
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2016-07-07
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This original book studies a wide variety of mediating institutions, both organizational and non-organizational, in workplaces, residential areas, and in wider society. Focusing upon institutions in the Thames Gateway and with case studies across south-east London,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-07-06
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This book explores what it is like to be involved in
contemporary open adoption, characterised by varying forms of contact with
birth relatives, from an adoptive parent point of view.
The author’s fine-grained interpretative phenomenological
analysis of adopters’...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-07-05
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This book challenges
the prevailing view that local authorities are irrelevant in immigration
policy-making. Presenting an in-depth ethnographic study of the recent
implementation of local ‘diversity policies’ in the Netherlands, Belgium and
United Kingdom, it...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-07-05
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The results of the last European
Elections of 2014 confirmed the rise of right and far right 'populist' parties
across the EU.The success of a range of parties, such as Denmark’s Dansk Folskeparti, Slovenia’s Slovenska demokratska stranka,
France’s Front...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-07-04
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