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This book provides a comprehensive overview of the most recent development of Chinese cities. It discusses a broad range of subjects of urban planning, including environmental planning, transportation planning, historical preservation, economic development, geographic...
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Springer
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2015-08-27
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This book presents a novel proposal for establishing justice and social harmony in the aftermath of genocide. It argues that justice should be determined by the victims of genocide rather than a detached legal system, since such a form of justice is more consistent with...
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Springer
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2015-08-26
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A deep and intimate look at the lives of LGBTQ youth in foster care, vividly chronicling their struggles, fears and hardships, and revealing the force that allows them to carry on: the irrepressible power of hope. In this lyrical debut, Ryan Berg immerses readers in the...
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Bold Type Books
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2015-08-25
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This book provides a fresh interdisciplinary perspective on genre and identifies developments in genre studies in the early 21st century. Genre approaches are applied to examine a fascinating range of texts including ancient Greek poems, Holocaust visual and literary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-08-25
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An indispensable resource for all levels, this handbook provides up-to-date, in-depth summaries of the most important theories in criminology. Provides original, cutting-edge, and in-depth summaries of the most important theories in criminology Covers the origins and...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2015-08-25
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Wiley Handbooks in Criminology and Criminal Justice
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This Brief examines the role of Police Unions in law enforcement policy development. It provides an overview of the historical and political background of police labor unions, and takes a critical look at the shifting perception of labor unions from generally positive...
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Springer
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2015-08-25
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Die Wirtschafts- und Staatsschuldenkrise wird Europa noch über Jahre prägen und es werden zunehmend soziale Krisenerscheinungen in einzelnen Mitgliedsstaaten sichtbar. Mit diesem Sammelband wird die Grundfrage des solidarischen Handelns in Zeiten der Krise umfassend...
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Springer VS
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2015-08-24
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This volume focuses on context considerations in family-school partnership research. The book examines how cultural diversity, including differences in parenting (e.g., race, education, family history) and diverse school variables (e.g., location, population,...
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Springer
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2015-08-24
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Mobile Childhoods in Filipino Transnational Families focuses on the lived experiences of '1.5-generation' migrants with similar 'roots' (the Philippines), traversing different 'routes' (receiving countries). By shedding light on the diversified paths of their migratory...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-08-24
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Die Beiträge dieses Bandes thematisieren Auswirkungen neuer Steuerungs- und Verwertungslogiken, die sich unter dem Begriff der „unternehmerischen Stadt“ zusammenfassen lassen. Soziale Arbeit, die vorwiegend quartierbezogen agiert, sieht sich einer zunehmenden...
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Springer VS
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2015-08-24
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Im Rahmen der Vermögensforschung haben sich neben den Themen des Reichtums auch das Vermögen des Alters, der Generationen und der Gesundheit als wesentliche Perspektiven herausgestellt. Diese Potenziale sind zugleich wesentlich in der Gestaltung der aktuellen...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2015-08-23
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Rule by Aesthetics offers a powerful examination of the process and experience of mass demolition in the world's second largest city of Delhi, India. Using Delhi's millennial effort to become a 'world-class city,' the book shows how aesthetic norms can replace the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-08-21
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Care Ethics and Political Theory brings together new chapters on the nature of care ethics and its implications for politics from some of the most important philosophers working in the field today. Chapters take up long-standing questions about the relationship between...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-08-20
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The Sociology of Consumption: A Global Approach offers college students, scholars, and interested readers a state-of-the-art overview of consumption the desire for, purchase, use, display, exchange, and disposal of goods and services.The book’s global focus, emphasis on...
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Polity
Parution :
2015-08-20
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Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015Jean-Paul Sartre is often seen as the quintessential public intellectual, but this was not always the case. Until the mid-1940s he was not so well-known, even in France. Then suddenly, in a very short period of time, Sartre...
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Polity
Parution :
2015-08-20
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In der sozialwissenschaftlichen Raumforschung ist die Überlegung selbstverständlich geworden, dass Räume vor dem Hintergrund menschlicher Bedeutungszuschreibungen gesellschaftliche Wirklichkeit werden und als ‚soziale Konstruktionen’ verstanden werden müssen. Eine...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2015-08-20
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?This book examines the formation trajectory and development path of China’s newly formed urban areas, which was the result of an unprecedented massive urbanization process. The analysis is based on the case of Dezhou, Shandong Province. This book systematically...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-08-19
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This book provides a framework for understanding the global flows of cuisine both into and out of Asia and describes the development of transnational culinary fields connecting Asia to the broader world. Individual chapters provide historical and ethnographic accounts...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-08-18
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This book attempts to read the character of Mary in the infancy narratives of Luke and Matthew alongside the lives of experiences of the Indian surrogate mother living a postcolonial India. Reading Mary through these lenses helps us see this mother and her actions in a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-08-18
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Welchen Einfluss hat unsere Persönlichkeit auf unser Leben? Und wie, wenn überhaupt, können wir sie verändern? Dieses Buch zu lesen ist wie eine Einführungsvorlesung eines charmanten, geistreichen und bewunderten Professors zur Persönlichkeitspsychologie … Mein Ich, die...
Editeur :
Springer Spektrum
Parution :
2015-08-18
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