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This book examines the construction of Euroscepticism in civil society discourse, focusing on Turkey’s possible EU-membership, the ongoing political struggles between different political camps in Turkey and general Western discourse. Applying semi-structured qualitative...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-11-03
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The book demonstrates how illustrated printed books played an active role in identity-building processes in the Hungarian Kingdom. It shows the influence of Latin-language histories of Hungary in the areas of imagery of the Hungarian political community, visual...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-11-03
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Created by Abraham Cahan in 1906, the advice column A Bintel Brief ran as the most enduring feature of the New York Yiddish newspaper Forverts for over seven decades. This study takes a closer look at the letters and responses to A Bintel Brief thereby revealing the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-11-03
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This book explores the environment and cultural context of Colombian political novels published between 1951 and 1987. Challenging the label of «novelas de la violencia», the author analyses them as products of their own historical time and takes into account their...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-11-03
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Published in 1972, New Portuguese Letters addressed censored issues – such as the colonial war, immigration, the Catholic Church, violence, and the legal and social status of women – becoming a symbol of resistance against the Fascist Portuguese regime. Privileging...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-11-03
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Kultur- und Alltagsgeschichte Hamburgs zur Zeit der Frühaufklärung sind bisher nur wenig erforscht. Diesen unbefriedigenden Forschungsstand beklagt Birgit Kiupel in ihren Studien zu den Libretti der Hamburger Gänsemarkt-Oper immer wieder, wenn sie nach Bezügen zwischen...
Editeur :
Centaurus Verlag & Media
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2015-11-03
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Research polls, media interviews, and everyday conversations reveal an unsettling truth: citizens, while well-meaning and even passionate about current affairs, appear to know very little about politics. Hundreds of surveys document vast numbers of citizens answering...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-11-02
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In spite of America's identity as a liberal democracy, the vile act of lynching happened frequently in the Southern United States over the course of the nation's history. Indeed, lynchings were very public events, and were even advertised in newspapers, begging the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-11-02
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From a private nature walk to an engrossing novel, humans spend a vast amount of time engaged in solitary activities. However, despite the fact that individual activities are a prevalent part of everyday life, most scholarly research has been devoted to social...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-11-02
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Agent-based modelling in economics Lynne Hamill and Nigel Gilbert, Centre for Research in Social Simulation (CRESS), University of Surrey, UK New methods of economic modelling have been sought as a result of the global economic downturn in 2008.This unique book...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2015-11-02
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Hong Kong's anti-corruption agency, ICAC, is hailed as among the world's best having almost completely purged systemic corruption within a decade of its inception. This book explains howHong Kong maintains the myth of a clean city and examines the prevalence of white...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-11-01
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The book addresses different areas of corpus-based translation studies, including corpus-based study of translation features, translator’s style, norms of translation, translation practice, translator training and interpreting. It begins by tracing the development of...
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Springer
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2015-10-31
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Maya Stagge beschäftigt sich im Rahmen einer qualitativen Querschnittsstudie damit, welchen Einfluss die kulturelle Pluralität in Teams der Altenpflege auf das Teamgeschehen, die Zusammenarbeit und die Pflegequalität hat. Die Autorin setzt sich aus verschiedenen...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2015-10-30
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In einer bundesweiten Untersuchung zur Offenbarungsbereitschaft nach sexualisierter Gewalt in der Kindheit wurden 58 qualitative Interviews mit Frauen und Männern geführt. Der Band präsentiert Motive für das oft lange Schweigen von Betroffenen und analysiert...
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Springer VS
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2015-10-30
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Exam Board: OCRLevel: A-levelSubject: SociologyFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Build students' confidence to tackle the key themes of the 2015 OCR A-Level Sociology specification with this clear and accessible approach delivered by a team of leading...
Editeur :
Hodder Education
Parution :
2015-10-30
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Die Arbeit widmet sich dem Phänomen Corporate Cultural Responsibility und seiner Bedeutung für das Handlungsspektrum von Kulturorganisationen in Deutschland. Dabei wird herausgearbeitet, wie Kulturakteure, die unter dem verstärkten Druck zur Drittmittelakquise stehen,...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2015-10-30
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Can we rebuild trust in a time of increasing conflict and paralysis? Or rather, can we build trust, for the first time, wide and strong enough to bring us together to work on the complex problems of our age?
Relations of trust have been weakened over the past century...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-10-30
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We are living in a time of crisis which has cascaded through society. Financial crisis has led to an economic crisis of recession and unemployment; an ensuing fiscal crisis over government deficits and austerity has led to a political crisis which threatens to become a...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2015-10-30
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This volume explores the interrelations between bodily boundaries and vulnerabilities. It calls attention to the vulnerability of bodies as an essential aspect of having boundaries and being bound to other bodies. The volume advances an understanding of embodiment as...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-10-30
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This book explores seriousness in practice in the unique sports context of contemporary women's flat track roller derby. The author presents a stimulating argument for a sociology of seriousness as a productive contribution to understandings of gender, organization and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-10-29
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