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This book is a social critique of the cultural taboo of the female virginity in the Middle East. It highlights the unobtainability of this cultural myth and its multilevel destructive influences on various aspects of social life.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-05-19
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New technologies may have transformed human societies, but not much has been written on how they are impacting people in Africa and other developing regions, in terms of how they use technology to enhance their socioeconomic conditions in everyday life. This book...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-05-19
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This book identifies and engages with an analysis of racism in the Caribbean region, providing an empirically-based theoretical re-framing of both the racialisation of the globe and evaluation of the prospects for anti-racism and the post-racial.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-05-19
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This book follows the transnational lives of children growing up as British Bangladeshi individuals in multicultural London. Exploring the array of international events, communities and forces which influence them, Zeitlyn examines the socialisation practices among...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-05-19
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Contemporary understanding of human subjectivity has come a long way since the Cartesian 'thinking thing' or Freud's view of the self struggling with its unconscious. We no longer think of ourselves as stable and indivisible units or combinations thereof - instead, we...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2015-05-19
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Working within a framework of environmental philosophy and environmental ethics, this book describes and postulates alternative understandings of nature in Indian traditions of thought, particularly philosophy. The interest in alternative conceptualizations of nature...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-05-19
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This book discusses the political and economic history and geography of Georgia, the problems it has faced, and how it has overcome and is still overcoming them. In most countries, at the end of the 20th century the successful resolution of social-economic, political,...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-05-18
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Udo Dengel untersucht das (migrations-)biographische und quasi-professionelle Erfahrungswissen älterer, herkunftsheterogen verorteter MigrantInnen in dem Tätigkeitsfeld des Migrations- und Integrationsengagements in Deutschland. Er geht auf der Basis...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2015-05-18
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Soziale Investitionen
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This open access book draws on award-winning cross-generational research comparing the complex and life-changing processes of settlement among Albanian migrants and their adolescent children in three European cities: London (UK), Thessaloniki (Greece), and Florence...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-05-18
Collection :
IMISCOE Research Series
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This book discusses a new breed of racism, namely language racism, which is spreading both in the USA and in Europe, as well as other parts of the world. The book is a manifesto promoting a more positive view of linguistic and cultural diversity.
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2015-05-15
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Using qualitative research data on Mexican/Mexican Americans and their historias de éxito that center on Mexican centric concepts such as buen trabajador, bien educado, and buena gente, Octavio Pimentel reveals that when social networks guide personal goals in these...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2015-05-15
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This book explains in fascinating detail how economic and social transformations in pre-1600 Japan led to an industrious revolution in the early modern period and how the fruits of the Industrious Revolution are what have supported Japan since the eighteenth century,...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-05-14
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American Education in Popular Media explores how popular media has represented schooling in the United States over the course of the twentieth century. Terzian and Ryan examine prevalent portrayals of students and professional educators while addressing contested...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-05-13
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This volume focuses on the gradual emergence of modern Indian philosophy through the cross-cultural encounter between indigenous Indian and Western traditions of philosophy, during the colonial period in India, specifically in the 19th and early 20th centuries.This...
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Springer
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2015-05-13
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The contributors respond to the absence of critical debate surrounding the ways in which spaces of the city do not merely contain, but also constitute, urban poverty.The volume explores how the spaces of the city actively produce and reproduce urban poverty....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-05-12
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The dominant cultural script is that the Baby Boomers have 'had it all', thereby depriving younger generations of the opportunity to create a life for themselves. Bristow provides a critical account of this discourse by locating the problematisation of the Baby Boomers...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-05-12
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In der ersten umfassenden Untersuchung zum Bücherverleih und zu den Bibliotheken in Schweizer Gefängnissen und Justizvollzugseinrichtungen zeigt Thomas Sutter auf, wie Organisation, Strukturen und personelle Faktoren die Gefängnisbibliotheksarbeit beeinflussen und...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2015-05-12
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Proof of a ground-breaking psychological theory: that the fear of death is the hidden motive behind almost everything we do.'A joy ... The Worm at the Core asks how humans can learn to live happily while being intelligently aware of our impending doom, how knowledge of...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2015-05-12
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Islamismus und Dschihadismus bedrohen die Weltordnung – durch ihren Terrorismus und ihre globale Expansion. Wilfried Röhrich diskutiert die Politisierung des Islam und analysiert die islamistisch-dschihadistischen Organisationen vor allem der al-Qaida und des...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2015-05-11
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Die Staats- und Rechtsordnung der DDR ist in einer streitigen, oftmals ideologiebehafteten Diskussion. Der Band versammelt für juristisch und politisch Interessierte zeitgenössische bzw. rückschauende rechts- wie sozialwissenschaftlich fundierte Beiträge.Die...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2015-05-11
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