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Jean-Louis Rocca's admirably concise A Sociology of Modern China wears its scholarship lightly and paints an intimate and complex portrait of Chinese society, all the while avoiding clichés and simplifications. He delves into China's history and examines the country's...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-01-05
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In this pioneering book, Joseph Shaules presents exciting new research from cultural psychology and neuroscience. It sheds light on the hidden influence of culture on the unconscious mind, and helps people get more out of their intercultural journeys.The Intercultural...
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John Murray Business
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2015-01-05
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In an era in which class divisions are becoming starker than ever, some individuals are choosing to marry across class. The Power of the Past traces the lives of a subset of these individuals - highly-educated adults who married a partner raised in a class different...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-01-05
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While the booming humanitarian sector faces daunting challenges, humanitarian economics emerges as a new field of study and practice--one that encompasses the economics and political economy of war, disaster, terrorism and humanitarianism.
Carbonnier's book is the...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-01-03
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What are the functions of optimism in modern societies? How is hope culturally transmitted?What values and attitudes does it reflect? This book explores how and why powerful institutions propagate 'cultures of optimism' in different domains, such as politics, work, the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-01-02
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Occupy Wall Street burst onto the stage of history in the fall of 2011. First by the tens, then by the tens of thousands, protestors filled the streets and laid claim to the squares of nearly 1,500 towns and cities, until, one by one, the occupations were forcibly...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-01-02
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A Choice 2015 Outstanding Academic Title
Throughout history, Muslim men have been depicted as monsters. The portrayal of humans as monsters helps a society delineate who belongs and who, or what, is excluded. Even when symbolic, as in post-9/11 zombie films, Muslim...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-01-02
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Religious repression--the non-violent suppression of civil and political rights--is a growing and global phenomenon. Though most often practiced in authoritarian countries, levels of religious repression nevertheless vary across a range of non-democratic regimes,...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-01-02
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Ends of Assimilation examines how Chicano literature imagines the conditions and costs of cultural change, arguing that its thematic preoccupation with assimilation illuminates the function of literature. John Alba Cutler shows how mid-century sociologists advanced a...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-01-02
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Food has, for most of our species history, been intensely political: who gets to eat what, how often, and through what means? The scale of polity in question has shifted over time, from very local institutions dividing up grain piles to an international community...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-12-31
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While Guinness is a global product, it still contains references to Ireland and it occupies a particular place in imaginings of Irishness. Brewing Identities is unique in that, while it focuses on the (re)production of a specific kind of ethno-national identity–...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2014-12-30
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The symbols, signs, and traces of copyright and related intellectual property laws that appear on everyday texts, objects, and artifacts have multiplied exponentially over the past 15 years. Digital spaces have revolutionized access to content and transformed the ways...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2014-12-30
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With today's availability of Social Security and Medicare, we typically think of the older years as a stage in life where people are supported financially. However, of the more than 40 million old adults currently living in the US, many are struggling financially living...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-12-29
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The texts presented in this book trace the rise of culture as a major concern for development, international diplomacy, sustainability and national politics over the past two decades. As a major participant in anthropological field research, advocate for cultural...
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Springer
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2014-12-27
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This book offers a brand-new perspective on human trafficking as an illegal business. It also proposes a new form of networked action: combining the perspectives of academic researchers with those of highly skilled professionals involved in policymaking in this area,...
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Springer
Parution :
2014-12-26
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More than 50 years ago, President Kennedy gave an address to Congress that launched the community mental health movement in the U.S. This movement involved a vast and complex effort to replace the wholesale institutionalization of people with serious mental illnesses...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-12-26
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Migration has become, since the nineties, the subject of growing international discussion and cooperation. By critically analyzing the reports produced by international organisations on migration, this book sheds light on the way these actors frame migration and develop...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2014-12-23
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Die erziehungshistorische Forschung richtet ihre Analysen meist auf den Nationalstaat des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts. Wird ihr Narrativ näher beleuchtet, zeigt sich eine Gründungserzählung, die den eigenen Forschungsbereich als Teil Europas und des Westens konstruiert....
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-12-23
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Die Überschuldung privater Haushalte stellt eine zunehmende gesellschaftliche Herausforderung dar. Datenbestände wissenschaftsbasierter Sozialberichtserstattung weisen auf einen Anstieg der strukturellen Überschuldung hin.Die Mehrzahl der Betroffenen gehört einer...
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Springer VS
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2014-12-23
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Long the arena of philosophers, legal scholars, and political scientists, the interdisciplinary study of human rights has recently seen an influx of sociologists. Why is this so, and how do sociologists contribute to our understanding of human rights in the contemporary...
Editeur :
Polity
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2014-12-23
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