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The purpose of this volume is to identify and analyze the mechanisms and processes through which concepts and institutions of transcultural phenomena gain and are given momentum. Applied to a range of cases, including examples drawn from ancient Greece and modern India,...
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Springer
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2014-11-04
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?Das Phänomen der Selbstmordattentäter ist historisch belegt und nicht auf bestimmte Religionen und Kulturen begrenzt. Trotzdem liegt der Fokus häufig auf Taten, die in einem islamischen Kontext verübt werden. Die zentralen Beweggründe für Selbstmordattentäter sind...
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Springer VS
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2014-11-04
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Was Salman Rushdie right to have written The Satanic Verses ? Were the protestors right to have done so? What about the Danish cartoons? This book examines the moral questions raised by cultural controversies, and how intercultural dialogue might be generated within...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-11-03
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This collection explores the productive potential of uncertainty for people living in Africa as well as for scholars of Africa. Eight ethnographic case studies from across the continent examine how uncertainty is used to negotiate insecurity, create and conduct...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-11-03
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This book argues that power struggles between internal and diasporic elites play a central role in the development of political agendas that have the potential to shift national borders. The author uses Albania as the primary case study, examining how the understanding...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-11-03
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Die sogenannte ungarndeutsche Literatur ist ein schwer zu handhabendes Phänomen, da ihre Bedeutung – wie oft bei deutschsprachiger Literatur außerhalb des deutschen Sprachraums – weit über ihre rein literarische hinausgeht. Der Band wirft einen zeitgenössischen Blick...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-11-03
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The book explains managerial performance through self-identity aspects. It proposes identity instruments for the evaluation, prognosis and growth of managerial performance. A qualitative study was performed on Romanian managers to discover the identity conditionings of...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-11-03
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Drawing on in-depth ethnographic fieldwork, Wessendorf explores life in a super-diverse urban neighbourhood. The book presents a vivid account of the daily doings and social relations among the residents and how they pragmatically negotiate difference in their everyday...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-11-03
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It is widely acknowledged that all archaeological research is embedded within cultural, political and economic contexts, and that all archaeological research falls under the heading ‘heritage’. Most archaeologists now work in museums and other cultural institutions,...
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Springer
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2014-11-01
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This volume offers a critical rethinking of the construct of youth wellbeing, stepping back from taken-for-granted and psychologically inflected understandings. Wellbeing has become a catchphrase in educational, health and social care policies internationally, informing...
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Springer
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2014-11-01
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This is the first monograph providing a comprehensive legal analysis of the criminalisation of migration in Europe. The book puts forward a definition of the criminalisation of migration as the three-fold process whereby migration management takes place via the adoption...
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Springer
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2014-10-31
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Die Science & Technology Studies sind ein interdisziplinäres und vor allem internationales Forschungsfeld, das sich mit den Wechselverhältnissen von Wissenschaft, Technik und Gesellschaft beschäftigt. In Theorie und Empirie erforschen sie die zunehmende...
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Springer VS
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2014-10-31
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This book focuses on community self-help and support groups specifically in the context of recovery movements in addiction and mental health care. The idea of groups of recovering people meeting together may seem like a simple one and not one requiring much effort and...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-10-31
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Es handelt sich bei diesem Band um eine Fallstudie, die in den Überschneidungsbereich der Organisations- und Risikosoziologie gehört. Exemplarisch wird an dem Schiffsunglück des Kreuzfahrtschiffs Costa Concordia ein Zusammenhang zwischen beiden Forschungsgebieten...
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Springer VS
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2014-10-31
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Leaving a religion is not merely a matter of losing or rejecting faith. For many, it involves dramatic changes of everyday routines and personal habits.
Davidman bases her analysis on in-depth conversations with forty ex-Hasidic individuals. From these conversations...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-10-31
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Die Jahresabschlüsse von Unternehmen bestehen aus einer Gewinn- und Verlustrechnung sowie einer Bilanz mit Anlagespiegel und Anhang. Unternehmen, die am Kapitalmarkt agieren, müssen Jahresabschlüsse nach IAS/IFRS (IAS: International Accounting Standard; IFRS:...
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Springer Vieweg
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2014-10-30
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In present-day political and moral philosophy the idea that all persons are in some way moral equals is an almost universal premise, with its defenders often claiming that philosophical positions that reject the principle of equal respect and concern do not deserve to...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-10-30
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This collection examines Axel Honneth's theory of recognition and the crucial role played by the media in struggles for recognition. It brings together debates on controversial aspects of Honneth's work and a set of intriguing empirical studies including with...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-10-29
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By using a wide diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches and by encompassing both cross-national and longitudinal analyses, this volume sheds new light on comparative political communication research, such as personalization, globalization,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-10-29
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The figure of the beautiful but lethal woman has haunted the Western imagination from ancient myth to contemporary film. Looking at news media, cinema, drama and other cultural forms, this study considers the interaction between representations of 'real life' 'femmes...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-10-29
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