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In Psychosocial aspects of niqab wearing Nina Bosankic explores the various motives which lead young women living in post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina to adopt the niqab (full face veil). She uses a grounded theory approach to examine this decision which is often...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2014-12-04
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Advancing Digital Humanities moves beyond definition of this dynamic and fast growing field to show how its arguments, analyses, findings and theories are pioneering new directions in the humanities globally.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-12-03
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This Brief explores the role of social crime prevention as a crime reduction strategy in the developing world. "Social crime prevention" focuses on the social and economic factors that may contribute to violence and criminal behavior in a community. Particularly in the...
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Springer
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2014-12-03
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This book analyzes how strategic intelligence can support decision-makers in national policing organizations to anticipate transnational organized crime (TOC). The authors examine case studies from Australia, Canada and the UK, and argue for the development of...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2014-12-03
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Despite the fact that the globalization process tends to reinforce existing inequality structures and generate new areas of inequality on multiple levels, systematic analyses on this very important field remain scarce. Hence, this book approaches the complex question of...
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Springer
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2014-12-03
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In Argentina, Colombia, and Peru, there has been an out-pouring of popular-performative activities that have asked citizens to pose questions about the social order and about the memories of recent atrocities. Cala Buendía looks at ways in which cultural producers...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-12-03
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After a Facebook rebellion in Egypt and Twitter protests in Turkey, the internet has been proclaimed as a globe-shifting, revolutionizing force that can incite complex social phenomena such as collective actions. This book critically assesses this claim and highlights...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2014-12-02
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This book presents a study of remembrance practices emerging after the 2005 London bombings. Matthew Allen explores a range of cases that not only illustrate the effects of the organisation of remembrance on its participants, but reveal how people engaged in memorial...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-12-02
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This book examines both the obvious and less obvious ways in which Germans struggle with their Nazi past. It embraces only a small part of a complex problem, which is impossible for an individual author to grasp in its entirety and character. The main intention, which...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-12-02
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Die Studie untersucht den Zusammenhang von Schulentwicklung und Kultureller Bildung anhand ausgewählter Fallbeispiele. Sie stellt zugleich ein erstes Monitoring des Hessischen Landesprogramms KulturSchule dar, das Schulen unterstützt, die ein kulturelles Profil schärfen...
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Springer VS
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2014-12-02
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Zoulei is an endangered language spoken by several hundred speakers in China’s Guizhou Province and adjacent areas. It is a variety of the Ahou dialect of the highly diverse Gelao group within the Tai-Kadai language family.Zoulei is a typical isolating and analytic...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-12-02
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Die Autorinnen und Autoren nehmen paradigmatische Analysen von spezifischen Produktionen des Classical Hollywood aus genuin philosophischer Perspektive vor. Leitfragen weisen sie je kulturellen, generischen und/oder autorspezifischen Kontexten zu, wobei sowohl...
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Springer VS
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2014-12-02
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Neue Perspektiven der Medienästhetik
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Visual Anthropology in Sardinia explores the technique, style and methodology of documentary films about Sardinia, investigating how such films construct different experiences and identities, and reflecting on the advantages of the medium of documentary film over...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-12-02
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Esta obra contiene las actas del seminario doctoral «Las Relaciones exteriores y políticas de la Unión Europea y la cooperación en el Mediterráneo», organizado por la Fundación Academia Europea de Yuste con la colaboración de la Red SEGEI en el Real Monasterio de Yuste...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2014-12-02
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This book focuses on nuclear engineering education in the post-Fukushima era. It was edited by the organizers of the summer school held in August 2011 in University of California, Berkeley, as part of a collaborative program between the University of Tokyo and UC...
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Springer
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2014-12-01
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The Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region is highly vulnerable to earthquakes and water-induced disasters. This fragile mountain region is under tremendous stress from climate change and land-use degradation that has accelerated flash floods, river-line floods, erosion, and...
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Springer
Parution :
2014-12-01
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This ism-busting text is an enormously accessible account of the key philosophical and theoretical ideas that have informed geographical research. It makes abstract ideas explicit and clearly connects it with real practices of geographical research and knowledge. ...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2014-12-01
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How does control of media resources serve political and economic ends? What is the impact of media concentration and monopoly in the era of technology convergence, with not just traditional and ‘new’ media but also consumer electronics, telephony and computing...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2014-12-01
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The Long 1980s could be summed up handily in the annals of U.S. cultural history with the enduring markers of Ronald Reagan's presidency, Oliver Stone's film Wall Street, and Dire Straits's hit single "Money for Nothing." Despite their vast differences, each serves to...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-12-01
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This book sets out a clear framework for conducting participatory research with children and young people within a discussion of the rights of the child. Through extensive case studies and a close review of contemporary literature, in relation to early childhood through...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2014-12-01
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