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This book discusses two moral panics that appeared in the media in late apartheid South Africa: the Satanism scare and the so-called epidemic of white family murder. The analysis of these symptoms of social and political change reveals important truths about whiteness,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-07-04
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This book presents research concerning the effects of the Camino to Finisterre on the daily lives of the populations who live along the route, and the heritagization processes that exploitation of the Camino for tourism purposes involves. Rather than focusing on the...
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Springer
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2015-07-02
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Der Alkoholkonsum Jugendlicher ist seit Jahren allgegenwärtiges Thema in Medien und Fachöffentlichkeit. Zuschreibungen und Dramatisierung bestimmen bisher überwiegend den Diskurs. Kaum werden jedoch die subjektiven und kollektiven Sinnstrukturen dieser riskanten...
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Springer VS
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2015-07-02
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Michael Finkel was a top New York Times Magazine journalist publicly fired and disgraced for making up a composite character for a big investigative news piece about Africa. This book is about how this brilliant, high achieving journalist found himself at that point in...
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Vintage Digital
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2015-07-02
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NOW A MAJOR SKY ATLANTIC SERIESFrom the international bestselling author of Gomorrah, this searing exposé reveals how dirty money and the drug trade are at the heart of our lives, our economy, and our worldIn many countries, 'zero zero' or double zero flour is the...
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Penguin
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2015-07-02
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Ina Epkenhans-Behr setzt am Politikfeld der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe an und untersucht die Beziehung zwischen öffentlichen und freien Trägern. Es geht um die Veränderungen in den Beziehungsmustern im Kontext von Verwaltungsmodernisierung und Ökonomisierung. Die Autorin...
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Springer VS
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2015-07-01
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In der vorliegenden Studie erzählt eine junge Generation von Zugewanderten und Einheimischen aus einem transnationalisierten Stadtteil mittels filmischer Bilder und Gesprächen von ihrem Alltag, ihren Träumen und Frustrationen. Die Jugendlichen stellen die eigenen...
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Springer VS
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2015-07-01
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Digitale Kultur und Kommunikation
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The volume offers an exploration of methods for analysis of emotion in negotiation, such as cognitive modeling, discourse analysis, all testing, subsequent multidimensional scaling, impression rating, and graph modeling for conflict resolution, reasonable and...
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Springer
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2015-07-01
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While gender and race often are considered socially constructed, this book argues that they are physiologically constituted through the biopsychosocial effects of sexism and racism. This means that to be fully successful, critical philosophy of race and feminist...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-07-01
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For most of the last century, popular and scholarly common sense has equated American evangelicalism with across-the-board social, economic, and political conservatism. However, if a growing chorus of evangelical leaders, media pundits, and religious scholars is to be...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-07-01
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Exploring more than 80 big ideas and key theories in a clear and simple way, this is the perfect introduction to the study of how humans live and interact with one another.Covering diversity and equality, globalization, human rights, modern urban living, and the role of...
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Dk
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2015-07-01
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Der Begriff des Finanzmarktkapitalismus wird in der deutschen Soziologie vielfach als neue Interpretationsfolie der aktuellen Entwicklungstendenzen des Kapitalismus genutzt. Die Akzentuierung der analytischen Inhalte, die mit dem Begriff jeweils verbunden werden, ist...
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Springer VS
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2015-06-30
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Annette von Alemann untersucht die Frage der gesellschaftlichen Verantwortung aus der Perspektive von Führungskräften von Unternehmen und Wirtschaftsverbänden in Deutschland. Wie nehmen diese Führungskräfte die Gesellschaft wahr, und wie verstehen sie ihre...
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Springer VS
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2015-06-30
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This work reviews the progress of children’s rights 25 years since the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. It studies the progress of that human rights instrument as part of an ongoing process. It examines how recent past, present and future...
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Springer
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2015-06-30
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This book is open access under a CCBY license.This book investigates child poverty from a philosophical perspective. It identifies the injustices of child poverty, relates them to the well-being of children, and discusses who has a moral responsibility to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-06-30
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Orgasmic Bodies explores how bodily experiences of orgasm are worked up as present/absent, complicated/straightforward, too slow/too fast, fake or real, in the doing of masculinities and femininities. Engaging with both science and popular culture it examines the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-06-30
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SlutWalk explores representations of the global anti-rape movement of the same name, in mainstream news and feminist blogs around the world. It reveals strategies and practices used to adapt the movement to suit local cultures and contexts and explores how social media...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-06-30
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The Hizmet Movement initiated by Fethullah Gülen in Turkey in the 1960s is today active in more than 160 countries.The participants of Hizmet are often less visible among the Muslim minorities in Western societies. They do not build mosques or hold regular prayer...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2015-06-30
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In einer Untersuchung von etwa 170 Romanen und Novellen der Trivialliteratur aus der Zeit von 1849 bis 1945 werden die «Mechanismen» dieser Texte aufgezeigt. Die herangezogenen Werkgruppen sind: der Liebesroman, der Frauenroman, der historische Roman, der...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-06-30
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This Festschrift acknowledges the scholarly work of Leo Schelbert and his mentorship of graduate students in the Department of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago where for 33 years he taught American history. Professor Schelbert has specialized in the...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2015-06-30
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