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The past ten years have been marked by a series of high profile and heavily mediatised riots across the globe. From the overspill of racial tensions in Sydney to anti-police riots in London, democratic societies have witnessed powerful and costly outbursts of anger and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-05-14
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This book explores agency, reconciliation and minority return within the context of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia. It focuses on a community in North-West Bosnia, which successfully reversed the worst episode of ethnic cleansing prior to Srebrenica by fighting for...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-05-13
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Social media is said to radically change the way in which public communication takes place: information diffuses faster and can reach a large number of people, but what makes the process so novel is that online networks can empower people to compete with traditional...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-05-13
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The shift from traditional documentary to “factual entertainment” television has been the subject of much debate and criticism, particularly with regard to the representation of science. New types of factual programming that combine documentary techniques with those of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-05-13
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Most theories of radicalization focus on the birth of antidemocratic ideas, semantics, behavior patterns and organizations. However, such focus is one-sided: radicalization is as much about the forgetting of historical lessons and the weakening of a democratic...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-05-13
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Mobilität und Migration rücken Interkulturalität in den Fokus öffentlicher und wissenschaftlicher Aufmerksamkeit. Der Band geht der Frage nach, inwiefern das Land Luxemburg aufgrund seiner kulturellen, sozialen und sprachlichen Besonderheiten ein Labor für...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-05-13
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This book takes a bold epistemological approach to address the fundamental questions that urban design has faced since its inception – questions concerning its legitimacy, definition, nature, content, purpose, theory, methods, jurisdiction and above all its knowledge...
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Springer
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2016-05-13
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Die beiden mitteldeutschen Epen «Graf Rudolf» und «Herzog Ernst» spielen zwar in den neuesten Darstellungen der Geschichte der deutschen Regionalliteratur eine Rolle, aber ihre Einordnung in Gattungen lässt Fragen offen. Zur Diskussion stehen ihre Verbindung zur...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-05-13
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Wer wirkungsvoll lernen will, findet in diesem Buch die richtige Lernmethode für seinen Lernstoff. Jede Lerntechnik wird so beschrieben, dass man sie direkt anwenden kann. Ihre Wirkungsweise wird auf dem Hintergrund der Gedächtnispsychologie erklärt und ihre Wirksamkeit...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-05-12
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'In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.' John Muir Packed with absorbing countryside facts and tips on everything from birdwatching to identifying flora and fauna, this miscellany is the perfect companion for any nature lover. Whether you’re...
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Summersdale
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2016-05-12
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Che cos’è la critica sociale? Quali i suoi rapporti con una sociologia descrittiva che, in continuità con la tradizione weberiana, garantisca una determinata obiettività alle sue ricerche e ai suoi risultati? Queste le domande da cui prende le mosse la riflessione di...
Editeur :
Rosenberg & Sellier
Parution :
2016-05-12
Collection :
La critica sociale
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Un classico ritrovato. Si può definire così la prima pubblicazione integrale in italiano dell’opera maggiore di Gabriel Tarde, finalmente accessibile nell’edizione curata da Filippo Domenicali. Pubblicato a Parigi nel 1890, all’epoca della costituzione della sociologia...
Editeur :
Rosenberg & Sellier
Parution :
2016-05-12
Collection :
La critica sociale
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A Material Culture focuses on objects in Swahili society through the elaboration of an approach that sees people and things as caught up in webs of mutual interaction. It therefore provides both a new theoretical intervention in some of the key themes in material...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-05-12
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This book surveys the history, current status, and critical issues regarding the various mechanisms designed to control sex offenders. It shows that the social problem of sex offending is not apparently resolvable by any of the means currently employed.A large array of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-05-11
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This book examines wayfinding from a broad public health perspective and articulates what needs to be done to create better wayfinding for all people regardless of age, ability, or mode of transportation. Addressing both science and the human experience, the book brings...
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Springer
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2016-05-11
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"Culture of honor" is what social scientists call a society that organizes social life around maintaining and defending reputation. In an honor culture, because reputation is everything, people will go to great lengths to defend their reputations and those of their...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-05-11
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This book is a study of black masculinity in the twenty-first century. Through a series of critical and interdisciplinary essays, this work examines the image of the black male in American society as a Toby Waller stereotype. Toby Waller is the fictional, yet...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-05-11
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Dinge verraten etwas über Gesellschaften und ihre Mitglieder. Sie
repräsentieren Wissen und Geschichte(n), verdichten Identitätserfahrungen und
markieren sowohl Zugehörigkeiten wie auch Abgrenzungen.Dinge weisen über sich
hinaus, sie tragen Bedeutungen in sich, die im...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2016-05-11
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Critical pedagogy, political economics, and aesthetic theory combine with dialectical and materialist understandings of science, society, and revolutionary politics to develop the most radical goals of society and education. In Philosophy andCritical Pedagogy:...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-05-10
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Features a straightforward and concise resource for introductory statistical concepts, methods, and techniques using R Understanding and Applying Basic Statistical Methods Using R uniquely bridges the gap between advances in the statistical literature and methods...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2016-05-10
Collection :
Statistics in Practice
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