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This book explores the historical and archaeological evidence of the relationships between a coastal community and the shipwrecks that have occurred along the southern Australian shoreline over the last 160 years. It moves beyond a focus on shipwrecks as events and...
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Springer
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2015-05-25
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Dominic Kudlacek liefert eine kritische Aufarbeitung der theoretischen und empirischen Literatur zum Thema Akzeptanz von Videoüberwachung in Deutschland. Ferner werden die Ergebnisse einer empirischen Untersuchung zum Thema Videoüberwachung vorgestellt und dabei auch...
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Springer VS
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2015-05-25
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As policy-makers look first (and easily) for existing policy solutions which could be adapted from elsewhere, policy transfer becomes increasingly central to policy development. This book explores whether policy transfer in 'everyday' policy-making may be...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-05-25
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Die Europäische Union sieht sich heute in der Krise mit Dilemmata und Paradoxien konfrontiert, die ihren Bestand bedrohen. Maurizio Bach beleuchtet in diesem Band die Kernprobleme der europäischen Integration aus soziologischer Perspektive. Deutlich wird, dass die...
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Springer VS
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2015-05-22
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Neue Bibliothek der Sozialwissenschaften
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While policymakers in the world reiterate the importance of protecting voice diversity, traditional media conglomerates and new social media giants make their task increasingly challenging. This book assesses the current state of policy-making on media plurality and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-05-21
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*Perfect for fans of the Guilty Feminist* Hot (adj.) : (Of a person) Attractive 'a hot chick'Fem-i-n-ist (n.) : A person who supports feminism, the movement that advocates equal rights for womenPolly Vernon, Grazia columnist, Times feature writer (hair-flicker,...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2015-05-21
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Speaking Truths to Power: Policy Ethnography and Police Reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina presents a rigorous institutional-level analysis of the effects of globalisation on local policing, drawing on data generated from two ethnographic case studies conducted in 2011 in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-05-21
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Speaking Truths to Power: Policy Ethnography and Police Reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina presents a rigorous institutional-level analysis of the effects of globalisation on local policing, drawing on data generated from two ethnographic case studies conducted in 2011 in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-05-21
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As the youth gang phenomenon becomes an important and sensitive public issue, communities from Los Angeles to Rio, Cape Town to London are facing the reality of what such violent groups mean for their children and young people. Complex dangers and instabilities, as well...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-05-21
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Katharina Rathmann untersucht erstmals die Bedeutung struktureller Merkmale von Bildungssystemen (Differenzierung, Segregation, öffentlicher vs. privater Sektor) sowie Wohlfahrtsstaaten für das Ausmaß der sozialen Ungleichheit in der Gesundheit von Jugendlichen. Denn...
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Springer VS
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2015-05-20
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This multidisciplinary study focuses on the creative state as the nucleus of the work of numerous poets, artists, and philosophers from twentieth-century Spain. Beginning with cognitive science, Gala explores the mental processes and structures that underline creative...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-05-20
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Cultural Criminology: An Invitation traces the history, theory, methodology and future direction of cultural criminology. Drawing on issues of representation, meaning and politics, this book walks you through the key areas that make up this fascinating approach to the...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2015-05-20
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This book discusses a range of planning and management issues related to building urban resiliency. It covers such topics as urban, environmental, and transportation planning, historical preservation, emergency relief and management, geographic information systems (GIS)...
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Springer
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2015-05-20
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This book analyses the topic of protecting traditional cultural expressions (TCEs) in Latin America. It questions classic legal approaches and involves the interface of anthropology and law. The study analyses regional, national and local particularities of law on paper...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-05-19
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Crossroads in New Media, Identity and Law is a compilation of essays on the nexus of new information and communication technologies, cultural identity, law and politics. The essays provoke timely discussions on how these different spheres affect each other and co-evolve...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-05-19
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Cosmopolitanism and the Media explores the diverse implications of today's digital media environments in relation to people's worldviews and social practices. The book presents an empirically grounded account of the relationship between cosmopolitanized lifeworlds and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-05-19
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Social interaction is the engine which drives an individual's psychological development and it can create changes on all levels of society.Social Relations in Human and Societal Development includes essays by internationally renowned academics from a range of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-05-19
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The Occupy movement and the Arab Spring have brought global attention to the potential of social media for empowering otherwise marginalized groups. This book addresses questions like what happens after the moment of protest and global visibility and whether social...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-05-19
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This book offers a critical analysis of the effect of usage of locative social media on the perceptions and phenomenal experience of lived in spaces and places. Drawing on users accounts of location-based social networking, a digital post-phenomenology of place is...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-05-19
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Ted Schrecker and Clare Bambra argue that the obesity, insecurity, austerity and inequality that result from neoliberal (or 'market fundamentalist') policies are hazardous to our health, asserting that these neoliberal epidemics require a political cure.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-05-19
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