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Religion: An Anthropological Perspective provides a critical view of religion focusing upon important but overlooked topics such as religion, cognition, and prehistory; science, rationality, and religion; altered states of consciousness, entheogens and religious...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2015-07-20
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This selection of Ibrahim Malik’s short stories and poetry brings together an illustrative compendium of his works, which propose a genuine portrait of the numerous predicaments, concerns, apprehensions, and coercions from which the Arab community inside Israel suffers....
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2015-07-20
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This book investigates the Matthean use of bread and the breaking of bread in light of cognitive conceptual metaphor, which are not only intertwined within Matthew’s narrative plots but also function to represent Matthew’s communal identity and ideological vision. The...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2015-07-20
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«What do you think is meant by the term ‘post-racial’ and how far do you think we’ve come, as a country, toward achieving it?» Helen Fox, a white teacher and scholar, asked variations of this question to 87 high school and college students, educators, administrators,...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2015-07-20
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Tobias Staiger widmet sich in diesem Buch anhand einer empirischen Analyse der Callcenter-Tätigkeit der Bedeutung von gender in der Entstehung und Bewältigung von arbeitsbedingtem Stress. Er zeigt auf, dass Geschlechtsunterschiede in den Lebens- und...
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Springer VS
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2015-07-17
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Reuß-Markus Krauße entflechtet den Wandel der chinesischen Gesellschaft, indem er Modernisierung, Globalisierung und soziostrukturelle Hintergründe aufeinander abstimmt. Damit liefert er einen neuen universalen Ansatz zur Untersuchung von Modernisierung dieser und auch...
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Springer VS
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2015-07-17
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In seinem Buch analysiert Mathias Mejeh die Schulische Integration in einem organisationssoziologischen Zusammenhang. Dabei gelingt es ihm, auf einer neuartigen netzwerktheoretischen Grundlage entscheidende, mit dieser Problematik zusammenhängende Fragen evidenzbasiert...
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Springer VS
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2015-07-17
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This book seeks to answer the question 'Which institutional architecture for which kind of democracy for the EU?' by bringing two important recent debates together- the institutional analysis of the Union and its democratic assessment. The book examines a series of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-07-16
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This book investigates the interface of ethnicity with occupation, empirically observed in luxury international hotels in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It employs the two main disciplines of anthropology and sociology in order to understand the root causes and meaning of...
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Springer
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2015-07-16
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Disability and Disaster adds disaster research to the expanding area of disability studies. The book includes writings by international scholars and first-hand narratives from individuals with disabilities affected by disasters around the globe. Hazards described in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-07-15
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This work illuminates, identifies, and characterizes the influences and expressions of Bob Dylan's Political World throughout his life and career. An approach nearly as unique as the singer himself, the authors attempt to remove Dylan from the typical Left/Right...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-07-15
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Politik und andere Akteure in den (vor allem ostdeutschen) Regionen stehen vor der Aufgabe, den demografischen Wandel zu gestalten. Dabei sollen sie zugleich die Voraussetzungen für „selbsttragende Entwicklungen“ und „gleichwertige Lebensverhältnisse“ schaffen – und...
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Springer VS
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2015-07-15
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This volume examines developmentality and the archeology of its social practices, unfolding systemic failures that muffle progress. Economic, climate, and social justice are the areas of focus for this analysis of human-social development in the fog of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-07-15
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Atheist Secularism and Its Discontents takes a comparative approach to understanding religion under communism, arguing that communism was integral to the global experience of secularism. Bringing together leading researchers whose work spans the Eurasian continent, it...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-07-14
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This book provides an accessible introduction to bisexuality studies, set within the context of contemporary social theory and research. Drawing on interviews conducted in the UK and Colombia, it maps out the territory, providing a means of understanding sexualities...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-07-14
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Andreas Wagner untersucht in dieser ethnografischen Studie anhand von Kooperationen eines internationalen Kinderhilfswerkes mit Gemeindegruppen in Sambia, Äthiopien, Kenia, Uganda und Mosambik, wie durch die Zusammenarbeit international agierender NGOs mit lokalen...
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Springer VS
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2015-07-14
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This book confronts the barriers that face the cross-cultural application of western psychotherapy. It puts forward an argument for applying culture analysis, in which the therapist analyses the inconsistencies within the client's culture, before applying...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-07-14
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The Dialectic of Taste examines the aesthetic economy in the context of economic crises. It explains how a new concern for aesthetics, seen in artisan markets, was born out of the ashes of McDonaldization to become a potent force today, capable of both regulating social...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2015-07-14
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This book explores the critical questions of how and why criminal justice policies emerge, and examines how criminal justice policy is understood and applied by practitioners. It questions whether diversity in implementation implies policy failure or a sign of healthy...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-07-14
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Im staatlichen Recht der Schwarzarbeitsbekämpfung stimmt der verkündete Wortlaut des SchwarzArbG 2004 mit dem dokumentierten Willen der Legislativakteure nicht überein. Informelle Tatbestands- und Verfolgungsprivilegien verbinden sich zu einem legislatorischen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-07-14
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