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Didier Maleuvre argues that works of art in Western societies from Ancient Greece to the interconnected worlds of the Digital Age have served to rationalize and normalize an engagement with bourgeois civilization and the city. Maleuvre details that the history of art...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-22
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This Handbook provides the hidden common threads that tie sociological inquiry together and featuring eminent scholars, it separates itself from its predecessors in substance and organization. Rather than rehashing old debates or longingly gazing at the past, this book...
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Springer
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2016-06-22
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Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research
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This book explains the transformation of the nation into a cosmonation (or multisite nation) through the reunification of the homeland with its diaspora. The book elaborates on how the mechanisms of linkages, connections, and networking interact to form distributed...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-21
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This book examines how movements from below pose challenges to the status quo. The 2010s have seen an explosion of protest movements, sometimes characterised as riots by governments and the media. But these are not new phenomena, rather reflecting thousands of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-06-21
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This book is an academic work which reviews and critiques the research literature concerning violent games and their alleged effects on players. It examines the debates about the potential effects of these games and the divisions between scholars working in the field....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-21
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This book explores the identity of Texas as a state with a large and severe penal system. It does so by assessing the narratives at work in Texas museums and tourist sites associated with prisons and punishment. In such cultural institutions, complex narratives are...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-20
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This book contextualizes how having a doula, or labor-support woman, present during childbirth results in lower rates of medical interventions. American women are inundated with views that childbirth is inherently risky, their bodies deficient, and therefore...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-20
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Refugees from the violence of wars and the brutality of famished lives have knocked on other people's doors since the beginning of time. For the people behind the doors, these uninvited guests were always strangers, and strangers tend to generate fear and anxiety...
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Polity
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2016-06-20
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Die Autoren stellen in diesem essential fest, dass Selbständigkeit und
Unternehmertum Ausdruck von sozialem und ökonomischem Wandel sind. Sie
geben Antworten auf die Fragen, welche Strukturen selbstständiger
Erwerbstätigkeit sich warum herausgebildet haben. Es wird...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2016-06-17
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Die Autorin stellt Herman Wirth (1885–1981) vor, der in den 1930er Jahren ein bekannter und umstrittener Gelehrter war. Der zirkumpolare Norden galt ihm als Quelle aller Kultur. Von dort trug die nordische Rasse die urmonotheistische Hochkultur in die Welt. Urschrift,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-06-17
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This volume examines ten economically advanced countries in Europe and Asia that have experienced different levels of fertility decline. It offers readers a cross-country perspective on the causes and consequences of low birth rates and the different policy responses to...
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Springer
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2016-06-16
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This book aims to familiarize readers in a very simple and easy manner
the rules and proper procedures of rational debate. It will help reduce
the frustration that many experience when engaging in debates. The proper
conduct of debate is both fun and mentally...
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Copernicus
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2016-06-16
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This book presents a compendium of the urban layout maps of 2-mile square downtown areas of more than one hundred cities in developed and developing countries—all drawn at the same scale using high-resolution satellite images of Google Maps. The book also presents...
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Springer
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2016-06-16
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Die Autoren analysieren Strukturen und Entwicklungslinien des aktuellen Linksextremismus. Durch die Auswertung einer repräsentativen Umfrage und durch Befragungen von Jugendlichen zu linksextremen Einstellungen gelangen sie zu einer Charakterisierung von...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-06-16
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Facing Heidegger’s critique of modern technology, the author analyses the question of technology and ethical responsibility and the call for reflexivity towards technology. He examines Heidegger‘s thoughts about how science and technology conceal the enigmatic and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-06-16
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In recent years, global migration has transformed in terms of its numbers and reach, its political significance, and its impact. The rising rates of international migration have been matched by growing public and media interest around the world. Today, the political and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-06-16
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Who exactly are the middle classes in India? What role do they play in contemporary Indian politics and society, and what are their historical and cultural moorings? The authors of this volume argue that the middle class has largely been understood as an ‘income/...
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OUP India
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2016-06-16
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For more than a decade the 'Muslim question' on integration and alleged extremism has vexed Europe, revealing cracks in long-held certainties about the role of religion in public life. Secular assumptions are being tested not only by the growing presence of Muslims but...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-06-16
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The thoroughly revised Women in Culture 2/e explores the intersections of gender, race, sexuality, gender identity, and spirituality from the perspectives of diverse global locations. Its strong humanities content, including illustrations and creative writing, uniquely...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-06-16
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Dieses Buch interpretiert das Werk der Schriftstellerin, Übersetzerin und selbsternannten pädagogischen Theoretikerin Therese Huber «neu» und betrachtet es in einem gesellschaftshistorischen, kulturell orientierten Bezugsrahmen. Die Autorin zeigt auf, dass die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-06-16
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