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This book highlights an interdisciplinary terrain where the humanities and social sciences combine with digital methods. It argues that while disciplinary frictions still condition the potential of digital projects, the nature of the urban phenomenon pushes us toward an...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2015-07-30
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If you look carefully at how things are actually made in China - from shirts to toys, apple juice to oil rigs - you see a reality that contradicts every widely-held notion about the world's so-called economic powerhouse. From the inside looking out, China is not a...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2015-07-30
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Julia Tonn untersucht, inwiefern organisationale Strukturen und Prozesse bei der Entstehung und Aufrechterhaltung der Unterrepräsentanz von Frauen in Führungspositionen privatwirtschaftlicher Unternehmen in Deutschland beteiligt sind. Die Fragestellung folgt demnach dem...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2015-07-29
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This book reconceptualises the concept of moral economy in its relevance for, and application to, the criminal justice system in England and Wales. It advances the argument that criminal justice cannot be reduced to an instrumentally driven operation to achieve fiscal...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2015-07-29
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This book explores the dynamics of the interaction between the development of creative industries and urban land use in Nanjing, a metropolis and a growth pole in the Yangtze River Delta. In the last two decades, China's economy has been undergoing dramatic...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-07-29
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This book shifts analytical focus from macro-politicization and securitization of Islam to Muslims' choices, practices and public expressions of faith. An empirically rich analysis, the book provides rich cross-country evidence on the emergence of autonomous faith...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-07-28
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Islam and Nationalism
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Middle India and Rural-Urban Development explores the socio-economic conditions of an ‘India’ that falls between the cracks of macro-economic analysis, sectoral research and micro-level ethnography. Its focus, the ‘middle India’ of small towns, is relatively unknown in...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-07-28
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This book examines the intersection of mental health and digital technology to make informed decisions about the new options provided by digital technology. It highlights the rise in online therapy and social media and examines the ethical dilemmas involved in online...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-07-28
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This book will help students and researchers to clarify a complex concept that is often over simplified in media and cultural studies, the sociology of culture and cultural policy. It updates established theoretical and methodological debates in the study of taste and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-07-28
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Alison Horbury investigates the reprisal of the myth of Persephone - a mother-daughter plot of separation and initiation - in post-feminist television cultures where, she argues, it functions as a symptom expressing a complex around the question of sexual difference -...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-07-28
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This ground-breaking collection examines the erosion of the legal boundaries traditionally dividing civil detention from criminal punishment. The contributors empirically demonstrate how the mentally ill, non-citizen immigrants, and enemy combatants are treated like...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-07-28
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What meaning can be found in calamity and suffering? This question is in some sense perennial, reverberating through the canons of theology, philosophy, and literature. Today, The Politics of Consolation reveals, it is also a significant part of American political...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-07-28
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The ego-net approach to social network analysis, which takes discrete individual actors and their contacts as its starting point, is one of the most widely used approaches in the field. This is the first textbook to take readers through each stage of ego-net research,...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2015-07-27
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Drawing on decades of industrial experience, this insightful and practical guide uses case studies and an interdisciplinary perspective to explain the fundamentals of simulation training to improve performance of high-risk professional activities. It seeks to identify...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-07-24
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This book deals with one strand of the intense debate concerning the links between law and development, namely the coordination of innovation processes and legal change. It analyzes how innovation, and ultimately development, can be fostered or hindered by existing or...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-07-24
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Der vorliegende Band profiliert die veränderte Situation der soziologischen Theoriebildung und der Gesellschaftstheorie, die sich infolge der Globalisierung seit Anfang der 1990er Jahre eingestellt hat. Die veränderte Situation betrifft die Zentrum- und...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2015-07-24
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This book examines recent debates on the political dynamics of cosmopolitanism, particularly in its connection with European civil society and the public sphere. The aim of the volume is to trace to what extent cosmopolitanism corresponds to «second modernity», with the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-07-24
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Mit der Erkundung und Eroberung der Neuen Welt beginnt die Geschichte eines europäischen Bewusstseins von Globalisierung. Das Schlüsselthema unserer Zeit hat besonders in der Aufklärung Konjunktur. Die hierfür zentrale «Berliner Debatte» legt die entscheidenden Fragen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-07-24
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Der Bedeutung und Funktion von Metaphern nachzugehen und darüber aufzuklären, ist Aufgabe der Metaphorologie. Dieses Buch legt eine differenzierte Auseinandersetzung mit Hans Blumenbergs Metaphorologie vor, deren unterschiedliche Konzeptionen die Autorin in drei...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-07-24
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Das Buch befasst sich mit Kaiser Michael IX. Palaiologos, der in der Literatur bisher kaum beachtet, sondern als «Mitkaiser» ohne selbstständige Funktionen gesehen wurde. Helga Gickler untersucht die Gründe dafür. Die abwertende lateinische Übersetzung des...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-07-24
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