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Outlining sociology’s distinctive contribution to childhood studies and our understanding of contemporary children and childhood, The Sociology of Children, Childhood and Generation provides a thought provoking and comprehensive account of the connections between the...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2015-12-01
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Found in many different religious cultures, the practice of making votive offerings into fire dates back to the earliest periods of human history. Throughout the tantric world, this kind of ritual offering practice is known as the homa. With roots in Vedic and...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-12-01
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This book introduces the background of China’s issue of nationality from the very beginning. Throughout the country’s history, all the nationalities that lived and prospered on Chinese land created a pattern of cultural diversity within national unity through their...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-11-30
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This book looks into the increasing conflict between the demand of economic growth and the already fragile ecological system condition in China. The prolonged urbanization process has escalated the erosion of natural environments and is increasing energy consumption....
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Springer
Parution :
2015-11-30
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This book looks at major contemporary conflicts —intra and interstate— in Southeast Asia from a conflict management perspective. Starting with the view that the conventional ASEAN conflict-management methods have ceased to be effective, it looks for new...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-11-30
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Group Work Research is an essential resource for anyone seeking to conduct research on groups or develop empirically based group work practices. It illustrates how to plan and conduct group work research, including studies of the impact of groups on individual members,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-11-30
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Facially wounded servicemen were perhaps the ultimate victims of the First World War. They became walking reminders of the conflict and their experiences reveal the impact of the war not only on the combatants but also on European societies at large. This book explores...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-11-30
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This book tells the story of how a group of far-sighted, academic researchers came to the aid of an overwhelmed local government. It details the history of the Washington State Census Board, which began in 1943 as part of an emergency measure during a massive wartime...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-11-28
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This book explains how to employ MASEM, the combination of meta-analysis (MA) and structural equation modelling (SEM). It shows how by using MASEM, a single model can be tested to explain the relationships between a set of variables in several studies.
This...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-11-28
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The Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)
promotes the endeavour of the practitioners of engineering and technology and
related sciences to solve the problems of national importance.The book is an
initiative of the INAE and a reflection
of the experiences of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-11-27
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Im Anschluss an Martin Heidegger, Ernst Bloch, Karl Bühler und Pirmin Stekeler thematisiert der Band eine neue Philosophie der Praxis, die die Heideggersch-Blochsche Existenzialanalyse der Stimmungen mit einer empraktischen Handlungs- und Wissenstheorie verknüpft. Das...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-11-27
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Views of Albion is the first comprehensive study of the reception of British art and design in Central Europe at the turn of the twentieth century. The author proposes a new map of European Art Nouveau, where direct contacts between peripheral cultures were more...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-11-27
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Music education has historically had a tense relationship with social justice. One the one hand, educators concerned with music practices have long preoccupied themselves with ideas of open participation and the potentially transformative capacity that musical...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-11-27
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Was ist das überhaupt: Gegenwartskultur? Und wie lässt sie sich erfassen? Mit diesen nur scheinbar einfachen Fragen begegnet eine als interdisziplinäres Projekt begriffene Kulturwissenschaft dem Problem ihrer Gegenstandskonstitution. Auf wechselnder Abstraktions- und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-11-27
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Dieses Buch informiert ausführlich und verständlich auf psychologischer Grundlage über Fähigkeiten, wie eine Paarbeziehung gestaltet und aufrechterhalten werden kann. Es geht um das Verständnis von komplexen Prozessabläufen, von Wechselwirkungen und von wertvollen...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-11-26
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Interest in international law has increased greatly over the past decade, largely because of its central place in discussions such as the Iraq War and Guantanamo, the World Trade Organisation, the anti-capitalist movement, the Kyoto Convention on climate change, and the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-11-26
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The UK Independence Party (Ukip) is the most significant new force in British politics for a generation. Under the leadership of Nigel Farage, the party has enjoyed a remarkable rise, winning the 2014 European Parliament elections as well as two parliamentary...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-11-26
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The UK Independence Party (Ukip) is the most significant new force in British politics for a generation. Under the leadership of Nigel Farage, the party has enjoyed a remarkable rise, winning the 2014 European Parliament elections as well as two parliamentary...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-11-26
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This
book provides readers the idea of systemically synthesizing various kind of
knowledge, which needs to combine analytical thinking and synthetic thinking.
Systems science is expected to help in solving contemporary complex problems,
utilizing interdisciplinary...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-11-26
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In diesem Band präsentieren die Herausgebenden das Forschungsgebiet der Bevölkerungssoziologie. Mit unterschiedlichen Fragestellungen der Bevölkerungssoziologie befasste Autoren und Autorinnen tragen durch ihre Beiträge dazu bei. Nach einem ausführlichen Überblick über...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2015-11-26
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