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"[A] valuable account ... The Wrong Hands brilliantly guides us through [the] challenges to American democracy." -Howard P. Segal, Times Higher Education
Gun ownership rights are treated as sacred in America, but what happens when dissenters moved beyond firearm...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-06-15
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Population ageing is among the most important developments of our time. This book explores the profound challenges faced by an aging world. Leading experts from diverse disciplines describe the fundamental impact demographic aging has on pension systems, on the concepts...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-06-15
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This volume breaks new ground in the study of landscapes, both rural and urban. The innovative notion of this landscape collection is rupture. The book explores the ways in which societal, economic and cultural changes are transforming the meanings and understandings of...
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Springer
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2015-06-15
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This book traces how iconic writers - including Arthur Conan Doyle, J.M. Barrie, Rudyard Kipling, Virginia Woolf, Wilfred Owen, and Aldous Huxley - shaped their response to the loss of loved ones in the First World War through their embrace of mysticism.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-06-14
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This book studies how religion influences the way people in Colombia remember a massacre of 79 civilians that occurred in a Catholic church in 2002. It analyses how strategies of memorialisation are part of religious peacebuilding initiatives that aim to resist and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-06-13
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Emotionen lassen sich nicht auf innerpsychische Vorgänge reduzieren, sie finden auch nicht im Hirn statt,Emotionen haben vor allem mit dem Verhältnis der Menschen zueinander zu tun. In seiner faszinierenden Studie über die „ausrastenden Autofahrer“ und über das Weinen...
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Springer VS
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2015-06-13
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How can the diffusion and development of women's cricket as a global sport be explained? Women 's Cricket and Global Processes considers the emergence and growth of women's cricket around the world and seeks to provide a sociological explanation for how and why the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-06-13
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The book offers a valuable resource for students and statisticians whose work involves survey sampling. An estimation of the population parameters in finite and fixed populations assisted by auxiliary variables is considered. New sampling designs dependent on moments or...
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Springer
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2015-06-13
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Nachbarschaft erfährt aktuell in nationalen wie regionalen Programmen, in städtischen Leitpapieren und kommunalen Initiativen eine Hochkonjunktur. Ihr wird für die Erlangung von Gemeinschaft(en) im Lokalen eine besondere Rolle zugesprochen und sie kann – so die...
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Springer VS
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2015-06-12
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This book is a critical examination of certain basic issues and themes crucial to understanding how ethics currently interfaces with health care and biomedical research. Beginning with an overview of the field, it proceeds through a delineation of such key notions as...
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Springer
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2015-06-11
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This interdisciplinary reader offers a fascinating exploration of the intersection of biopolitics and utopia by employing a range of theoretical approaches. Each essay provides a unique application of the two concepts to topics spanning the social sciences and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-06-10
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Palgrave Series in Bioethics and Public Policy
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Prostitution stellt einen tabuisierten Randbereich der Gesellschaft dar, über den kaum fundierte Informationen und wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse vorliegen. Frauen, welche in derProstitution tätig sind, haben mit gesellschaftlichen Vorurteilen, sozialen...
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Springer VS
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2015-06-10
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Through both cultural and literary analysis, this book examines gender in relation to late Qing and modern Chinese intellectuals, including Mu Shiying, Bai Wei, and Lu Xun. Tackling important, previously neglected questions, Zhu ultimately shows the resilience and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-06-10
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This book offers new perspectives on gender-based violence in three regions where the subject has been taboo in everyday discourse often due to patriarchal cultural norms that limit women’s autonomy. The contributions to this book provide rare insight into not only the...
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Springer
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2015-06-10
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?Grundlegende Prämisse der Soziologie der Emotionen ist es, dass Gefühle für alle Aspekte des Sozialen relevant sind. Wenn Emotionen von Individuen und soziale Kontexte in einem Wechselverhältnis zueinander stehen, stellt sich die Frage, welche Formen sozialer...
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Springer VS
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2015-06-10
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This volume analyzes changing relationships between religion and national identity in the course of European integration. Examining elite discourse, media debates and public opinions across Europe over a decade, it explores how accelerated European integration and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-06-09
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If societies have only memories of war, of cruelty, of violence, then why are we called humankind? This book marks a new trajectory in Memory Studies by examining cultural memories of nonviolent struggles from ten countries. The book reminds us of the enduring cultural...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-06-09
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This monograph is the first academic work to apply a neo-Marxist approach to 20th-century Canadian social realist novels, pursuing a refreshingly (neo-)Marxist approach to such issues as Bakhtinian notions of the novelistic form and dialogism as applied to Canadian...
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Springer
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2015-06-09
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This book explores how we make sense of ourselves when work is precarious and intrinsically alienating. We know little about how this experience of work impacts the lives of men and women, and less about the way individuals understand themselves in the face of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-06-09
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Das Qualifikationsprofil „Bewegung in der frühen Kindheit“ (BiK) beschreibt Kompetenzen frühpädagogischer Fachkräfte für den Anwendungs- und Bildungsbereich Bewegung. Dabei werden auf der Grundlage eines kompetenzorientierten Profils sowohl bewegungsrelevante Grundlagen...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2015-06-09
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