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In this book the author maintains that fertility declines independently of its “background”. Normally, fertility decline is thought to occur as a result of alteration in the socioeconomic background such as the decline of the infant mortality rate, urbanization, the...
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Springer
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2015-08-03
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Winner of the 2015 Pierre-Antoine Bernheim Prize for the History of Religion by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
After a century during which Confucianism was viewed by academics as a relic of the imperial past or, at best, a philosophical resource, its...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-08-03
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Finally, a practical guide to mixed methods research has been written with health and human services professionals in mind. Watkins and Gioia review the fundamentals of mixed methods research designs and the general suppositions of mixed methods procedures, look...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-08-03
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The archaeologies of food and warfare have independently developed over the past several decades. This volume aims to provide concrete linkages between these research topics through the examination of case studies worldwide. Topics considered within the book...
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Springer
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2015-08-03
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Rarely did ancient authors write about the lives of women; even more rarely did they write about the lives of ordinary women: not queens or heroines who influenced war or politics, not sensational examples of virtue or vice, not Christian martyrs or ascetics, but women...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-08-03
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Jennifer Kreß untersucht, wie ältere Menschen den Herausforderungen im Alltag durch den Einsatz neuer Medien begegnen können. Am Beispiel einer Onlinecommunity für die Zielgruppe der „silver surfer“ zeigt die Autorin, wie Unterstützungsmechanismen zur alltäglichen...
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Springer VS
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2015-07-31
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Mengyue Liu untersucht die Beziehung zwischen kulturellen, politischen und sozialen Institutionen in China in den letzten 30 Jahren. Er zeigt, dass Guanxi als soziale Institution eine „Macht ohne Gewehrläufe“ verkörpert, die in Wechselwirkung mit der kulturellen...
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Springer VS
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2015-07-31
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This Brief provides a detailed guide to national data sources that collect and report data on homicides in the United States, and some key international sources abroad. It provides in-depth coverage of well-known sources, and highlights more obscure sources, providing a...
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Springer
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2015-07-31
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This book focuses on values and valuation in the State of the Union addresses delivered by the former U.S. President George W. Bush. What values are invoked in the speeches? How are these values constructed? How can they be classified? How are particular construals of...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-07-31
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Aufbauend auf aktuellen empirischen Erkenntnissen entwickelt Melanie Herget Empfehlungen für zukunftsfähige Verkehrssysteme im ländlichen Raum. Anhand von problemzentrierten Interviews mit Müttern und Vätern in zwei ländlichen Regionen sowie auf Basis der Protection...
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Springer VS
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2015-07-31
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The service sector has not always received the attention it merits in industrial relations research when set against its enormous economic significance. One factor in this is certainly the highly diverse nature of services. Research attention has also lagged behind...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-07-31
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This book studies the history, literature and culture of Portuguese-speaking countries through the lens of utopia. The role of utopia in Portuguese literature is the object of fresh analyses ranging from Camões to Gonçalo M. Tavares, and António Vieira to José Saramago....
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-07-31
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Wie leisten Menschen Ordnung in Beziehungen?Wie gewinnt "Dreck" soziale Bedeutung? Von Totengräbern in Siebenbürgen zu lap-dancern in den USA haben sich die Beiträge einer "geerdeten Soziologie" verschrieben, die den Alltag neugierig betrachtet, um seine verborgenen...
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Springer VS
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2015-07-31
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In diesem Buch geht es um die Stadt als Organisationskontext und als lebendes System und die von der Zivilgesellschaft und der Bevölkerung ausgehenden Impulse zur Gestaltung und Absicherung von Inklusion. Die Erfindung von Inklusion im Sinne einer Gesellschaft für Alle...
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Springer VS
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2015-07-30
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Reflecting on a series of ethical and moral questions significant to contemporary Spanish culture, Cristina Sánchez-Conejero analyzes several issues related to sexuality in gender as they're portrayed Spanish film.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-07-30
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What did Britain look like to the Muslims who visited and lived in the country in increasing numbers from the late eighteenth century onwards? This book is a literary history of representations of Muslims in Britain from the late eighteenth century to the eve of Salman...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-07-30
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Mexican figures like La Virgen de Guadalupe, la Malinche, la Llorona, and la Chingada reflect different myths of motherhood inMexican culture. For the first time, Melero examines these instances of portrayed motherhood as a discursive space in the political, cultural,...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2015-07-30
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This book explores the identities, embodied experiences, and personal relationships of young people experiencing homelessness, and analyses these in relation to the material and symbolic position that youth homelessness occupies in modern societies. Drawing on empirical...
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Springer
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2015-07-30
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In recent decades, memory has become one of the major concepts and a dominant topic in philosophy, sociology, politics, history, science, cultural studies, literary theory, and the discussions of trauma and the Holocaust.In contemporary debates, the concept of memory is...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-07-30
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Gabi Schlag zeigt anhand einer interpretativen Rekonstruktion der intergouvernementalen Verhandlungen zur Europäischen Verteidigungsgemeinschaft (EVG) zwischen 1950–1954 und der Europäischen Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik (ESVP) zwischen 1998-2001, wie Europa und...
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Springer VS
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2015-07-30
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