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The book takes a close look at the social dimensions of robotics. It examines some of the projects on which robotic engineers are presently working, explores the dreams and hopes connected with these undertakings and determines if there is a relation between automation...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-08-14
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Prosperity Gospel, a controversial strand in global Christianity, relates material wealth to divine blessing. Originating in American Pentecostal milieus, it is most successful in Africa. Authors from four continents present interdisciplinary, multi-sited and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-08-14
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??This brief summarizes the results of a two-year, international research project covering drug addiction treatment versus punishment in Austria, Poland, and Spain. It features: -An analysis of the national drug-related legislation and its application in these countries...
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Springer
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2015-08-14
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The added value of mixed methods research in poverty and vulnerability is now widely established. Nevertheless, gaps and challenges remain. This volume shares experiences from research in developed and developing country contexts on how mixed methods approaches can make...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-08-13
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The Dynamics of Jewish Latino Relationships centers around three themes: immigration, race and identity, and faith and religion. Each chapter explores an encounter that, for various reasons, has brought Latinos and Jews together on the same stage.
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Palgrave Pivot
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2015-08-13
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Robert Brückler erklärt, warum sich Demokratien in Krisensituationen wie der Irakkrise 2003 so deutlich in ihrem äußeren Konfliktverhalten unterscheiden. Mithilfe eines an Max Weber orientierten soziologischen Erklärungsmodells zeigt er auf, wie die Bedingungsfaktoren...
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Springer VS
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2015-08-13
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Studien zum Weber-Paradigma
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In the late 1930s the Lancashire town of Bolton witnessed a ground-breaking social experiment. Over three years, a team of ninety observers recorded, in painstaking detail, the everyday lives of ordinary working people at work and play - in the pub, dance hall, factory...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2015-08-13
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Recognized as a finalist for the CAE 2018 Outstanding Book Award!Part historic ethnography, part linguistic case study and part a mother’s memoir, Kisisi tells the story of two boys (Colin and Sadiki) who, together invented their own language, and of the friendship they...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2015-08-13
Collection :
New Directions in Ethnography
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Michael Bär untersucht Strukturen von Containerseehäfen im Ostseeraum, denn Containerterminals sind wichtige Schnittstellen bei der räumlichen Ausdehnung weltweit organisierter Transportlogistikabläufe. Der Autor nimmt eine Analyse zur logistischen Integration von...
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Springer VS
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2015-08-13
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Forschung zu Gewalt in Paarbeziehungen und zu sexualisierter Gewalt steht, will sie nicht Ausblendungen reproduzieren und Artefakte erzeugen, vor besonderen methodischen Herausforderungen. Dies betrifft z.B. den Zugang zu Befragten, ethische Anforderungen und das...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2015-08-12
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Across the globe, more powers are being devolved to local and regional levels of government. This book provides an innovative analysis of such decentralisation in transition states in the Balkans. Using new and rich data, it shows how political elites use...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-08-11
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This book studies the relationship between women, ageing and celebrity. Focusing on an array of case studies and star/celebrity images, it aims to examine the powerful, contradictory and sometimes celebratory ways in which celebrity culture offers a crucial site for the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-08-11
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The inspiring story of three young Sudanese boys who were driven from their homes by civil war and began an epic odyssey of survival, facing life-threatening perils, ultimately finding their way to a new life in America “A moving, beautifully written account, by...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
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2015-08-11
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This book identifies risk and protective factors influencing routes into, through and out of sexual exploitation and sex work. It explores how the sense made of key childhood and adult experiences influences the ability to manage roles and identities and choices they...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-08-11
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Travelling intensively to and for work helps but also challenges people to find ways of balancing work and personal life. Drawing on a large European longitudinal study, Mobile Europe explores the diversity and ambivalence of mobility situations and the implications for...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-08-11
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Named Sports Illustrated's best football book of all time and a #1 NYT bestseller, this is the classic story of a high school football team whose win-loss record has a profound influence on the town around them. Return once again to the timeless account of the Permian...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2015-08-11
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Ethnicity and ethnic parties have often been portrayed as a threat to political stability. This book challenges the notion that the organization of politics in heterogeneous societies should overcome ethnicity. Rather, descriptive representation of ethnic groups has...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-08-10
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Japanese animation has been given fulsome academic commentary in recent years. However, there is arguably a need for a more philosophically consistent and theoretically integrated engagement. While this book covers the key thinkers of contemporary aesthetic theory, it...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-08-10
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This book explores the literary and cultural history behind certain Christmas and Halloween traditions, and examines the way that they have moved into broadcasting. It demonstrates how these horror traditions have become more domestic and personal, and how they provide...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-08-10
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Gabriel Stängle untersucht, wie die Schüler einer Realschule die Prozesse sozialen Lernens wahrnehmen und wie sich das am häufigsten in Deutschland verwendete Life-Skills-Programm „Erwachsen werden“ auf die sozialen Kompetenzen auswirkt. Mit Hilfe der Grounded Theory...
Editeur :
Springer
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2015-08-10
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