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This is the first book-length study of the groundbreaking work of Rey Chow, whose work has transformed the fields of postcolonialism, cultural studies, film, ethnicity and gender. It describes and explains the features and the breadth of Chow's interventions and...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2014-12-09
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In der stationären kardiologischen Rehabilitation steht kein geeignetes diagnostisches Instrument zur Verfügung, um individuelle und psychosoziale Probleme und Ressourcen der Rehabilitand_innen einzuschätzen. Dadurch werden bestehende individuelle, soziale, geschlechts-...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-12-09
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Die Autorin geht in dieser Arbeit der Fragestellung nach, wie aus Uwe Böhnhardt, einem der Kernmitglieder des Nationalsozialistischen Untergrunds (NSU), ein rechtsextremistischer Gewalttäter wurde. Sie interpretiert seine objektiven Lebensdaten unter Anwendung der...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-12-09
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Polish Solidarity was a phenomenon combining a trade union, a social movement and general ideas of freedom and solidarity. Led by Lech Walesa it contributed greatly to the evolution of the old system and to its final collapse in 1989, followed then by the end of the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-12-09
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Despite representing significant portions of the advertising, marketing, and public relations work force, the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) community has largely been ignored by scholarly research in strategic communications. With the exception of...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2014-12-09
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Despite its inherent negative implications as a purveyor of essentialism, the concept of hybridity holds a great deal of critical purchase in the postcolonial world. Hybridity allows identities and cultures to be conceptualized as different and manifold, allowing for...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-12-09
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Labouring Lives unravels the huge changes which have so fundamentally altered the life courses of ordinary women over the past one hundred and fifty years, namely the changes in marriage and fertility patterns. Using dynamic data from Dutch population registers and...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2014-12-09
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This book features 18 essays that explore the ways people communicate in the Arab world, from the Unites Arab Emirates to Qatar, Saudi Arabia to Oman. While there is a concentration of studies from the Gulf Arab states, the collection spans perspectives from Iraq,...
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Springer
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2014-12-08
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This comparative study of European time transfers reveals the full extent of transfers in the form of unpaid work and highlights the existence of important gender differences in household time production. A large quantity of goods and services are produced by household...
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Springer
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2014-12-08
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In this important book Niklas Luhmann - one of the leading social thinkers of the late 20th century - analyses the emergence of ‘love' as the basis of personal relationships in modern societies. He argues that, while family systems remained intact in the transition from...
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Polity
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2014-12-08
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This book examines the relationship between urban migrant movements, struggles and digitality which transforms public space and generates mobile commons. The authors explore heterogeneous digital forms in the context migration, border-crossing and transnational...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2014-12-05
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Die empirische Wahlforschung beobachtet seit längerem die Abnahme von Parteibindungen in der Wählerschaft. Damit einher geht eine Zunahme elektoraler Volatilität sowie eine immer spätere Wahlentscheidung. Lässt sich vor diesem Hintergrund ein stärkeres...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-12-05
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Den Nachbar verstehen. Seine Mentalität. Seine Andersartigkeit. Die eigenen Vorurteile überwinden. All das ist nicht nur eine Aufgabe im zwischenmenschlichen Bereich. Sie gilt auch für die Nachbarschaft unterschiedlicher Nationen. Völkerverständigung bedarf einer...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-12-05
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Der Sammelband zur internationalen Tagung «Fremd unter den Menschen» in Weimar 2010 vereinigt Beiträge zur Poetik und Textologie der Dichterin Gertrud Kolmar, die im Jahr 1943 ihr Leben in Auschwitz verlor. Die Aufsätze führen die Diskussion um eine außerständige...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-12-05
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Drawing on a wealth of oral interviews, Conversations on Black Leadership uses the lives of prominent African Americans to trace the contours of Black leadership in America. Included here are fascinating accounts from a wide variety of figures such as John Lewis,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-12-04
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The essays in this book not only examine the variety of atheist expression and experience in the Western context, they also explore how local, national and international settings may contribute to the shaping of atheist identities. By addressing identity at these...
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Springer
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2014-12-04
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This edited volume offers a collection of papers that present a comparative analysis of the development of Shari’a in countries with Muslim minorities, such as America, Australia, Germany, and Italy, as well as countries with Muslim majorities, such as Malaysia,...
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Springer
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2014-12-04
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Taking a global and interdisciplinary approach, Children and Media explores the role of modern media, including the internet, television, mobile media and video games, in the development of children, adolescents, and childhood. Primer to global issues and core research...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2014-12-04
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Poverty and Shame: Global Experiences explores Nobel laureate Amartya Sen's contention that shame lies at the absolutist core of poverty. It draws on a wealth of empirical evidence to demonstrate how paying greater attention to the psychological and social consequences...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-12-04
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For over half a century, the Middle East has been major migration corridor for domestic workers from Asia and Africa. This book Illuminates the multidimensionality of these workers' lives as they engage in finding a balance between acting and being acted upon, struggle...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-12-04
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