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Published with the support of the Academy for Social Sciences, this volume provides an illuminating look at topics of concern to everyone at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Leading social scientists tackle complex questions such as immigration, unemployment,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-01-08
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At a time when significant social status, economic resources, and political opportunities seem to become ever more unequally distributed and only available to a few, this book represents the first systematic effort in recent years to develop a sociological model of...
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Polity
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2015-01-08
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In Challenging Neoliberalism at Turkey's Gezi Park, Gürcan and Peker explore the events of May 31, 2013, when what began as a localized demonstration against the demolition of Gezi Park, a public park in Istanbul turned into a nationwide protest cycle with an...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-01-07
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This student-friendly introduction to the archaeology of ancient Egypt guides readers from the Paleolithic to the Greco-Roman periods, and has now been updated to include recent discoveries and new illustrations. • Superbly illustrated with photographs, maps, and site...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-01-07
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In the late 1960s, a whole pantheon of thinkers regarding themselves as radicals stole a part of the anarchic praxis of late capitalism, turned it into philosophy, and with the resulting set of views turned against the foundations of the system in a purportedly radical...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-01-06
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This collection explores the ways in which traumatic experience becomes a part of public memory. It explores the premise that traumatic events are realities; they happen in the world, not in the fantasy life of individuals or in the narrative frames of our televisions...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-01-06
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Das Kinder- und Jugendtheaterzentrum in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland fördert die Vielfalt der Darstellenden Künste, die sich an ein junges Publikum wenden. Zum 25-jährigen Bestehen beschreiben Experten aus Theorie und Praxis Modellprojekte zur Autorenförderung, zum...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-01-06
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Dieser Band vereint Forschungsbeiträge der 6. Konferenz der Internationalen Feuchtwanger Gesellschaft, die im Herbst 2013 zum Thema Lion Feuchtwangers Berliner Jahre 1925 bis 1933, seine Leser im Exil, in Deutschland und weltweit nach 1945 im Jüdischen Museum Berlin...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-01-06
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Invisibility Studies explores current changes in the relationship between what we consider visible and what invisible in different areas of contemporary culture. Contributions trace how these changes make their marks on various cultural fields and investigate the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-01-06
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As novel, complex social problems increase, especially those involving vulnerable people who reside in challenging places, the limitations of conventional research methods implemented by just one or two investigators become apparent. Research and development...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-01-06
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In the areas of peacebuilding and conflict resolution, the word ‘reconciliation’ has often been branded a negative term because it implies a resolution agreed upon by all parties in a given society, which for many seems an unachievable ideal. This book looks at the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-01-06
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Die Studie analysiert erstmals die Einführung einer gesetzlichen Unfallversicherung in China in den 2000er Jahren, basierend auf umfangreichen Feldforschungen. Mit der Unfallversicherung hat sich China für die Idee individueller sozialer Rechte geöffnet, die weder in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-01-06
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Die vielfach konstatierte Asymmetrie zwischen ökonomischer und sozialer europäischer Integration hat durch die Eurokrise(n) weiter zugenommen. Neben der wachsenden grenzüberschreitenden Reichweite institutionalisierter Regulationsstrukturen im Feld der europäischen...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2015-01-05
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How do women experience the identity changes involved in becoming mothers for the first time? Throughout in depth case examples, Wendy Hollway demonstrates how a different research methodology, underpinned by a psychoanalytically informed epistemology, can transform our...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-01-05
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This book focuses on the creation of space as an activity. The argument draws not only on aspects of movement in time, but also on a cultural and specifically social context influencing the creation of the spatial habitus. The book reconsiders existing theories of time...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-01-05
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From the website Women Scorned comes Snapshots of Infidelity, a collection of stories from women across the world who have faced infidelity in some way - from lovers taking a secret mistress, to being "the other woman", and a startling surprise revealed after the death...
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Headline Accent
Parution :
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
Parution :
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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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
Parution :
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...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-01-02
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