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A consistent best-seller, the wide-ranging and authoritative Dictionary of Sociology was first published in 1994 and contains more than 2,500 entries on the terminology, methods, concepts, and thinkers in the field, as well as from the related fields of psychology,...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-09-11
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This book is presented by two authors who worked in close cooperation. The first part is written by Ewa Binczyk and discusses various postulates that have been formulated in response to the problem of the unwanted side-effects of the practical success of technoscience...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-09-10
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This book investigates Chinese comprehension and treatment of the relationship between language and reality. The work examines ancient Chinese philosophy through the pair of concepts known as ming-shi. By analyzing the pre-Qin thinkers’ discourse on ming and shi, the...
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Springer
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2014-09-10
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Entstehende Nationen brauchen Symbole. Das galt auch für Deutschland und Italien. Hier waren Nationaldenkmäler, Denkmalparks, Denkmalfeste und Mythen Teile dieser Symbolik. Dieses Buch untersucht Übereinstimmungen, Verbindungen und Unterschiede zwischen den deutschen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-09-10
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Der Band zeigt die Eigenarten der Schweiz an relevanten Stichworten aus Geschichte, Politik, Wirtschaft und Landwirtschaft sowie dem sozialen Leben und der eidgenössischen Mentalität auf. So offenbaren sich die eigentümlichen Aspekte der schweizerischen Identität anhand...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-09-10
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On the History of Rock Music follows the development of rock music from its origins up to the present time. It focuses on the relationship between the sound, improvisations and rhythms in particular styles, and gives specific attention to the development of rhythm. The...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-09-10
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Biblical Representations of Moab: A Kenyan Postcolonial Reading employs critical theories on colonial, anticolonial, and postcolonial ethnicity and African cultural hermeneutics to examine the overlap of politics, ethnicity, nationality, economics, and religion in...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2014-09-10
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This volume is a collection of essays on the process of obtaining a PhD degree at a Finnish university. The contributors share the common background of coming to Finland from abroad especially for the purpose of taking up PhD studies. They hail from different countries...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-09-10
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Probing deeply into texts by and about prominent Christian mystics, religious authors, and saints, German Mysticism and the Politics of Culture challenges the reader to rethink the medieval past as a contemporary presence. This «presence of the past» shapes memory of...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2014-09-10
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Developments: Encounters of Formation in the Latin American and Hispanic/Latino Bildungsroman, a notable contribution for students and scholars of Latin American, Brazilian, Hispanic and Latino literature, explores a significant but overlooked area in the literary...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2014-09-10
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Exploring the ambivalent grammar of empathy where questions of geo-politics and social justice are at stake - in popular science, international development, postcolonial fiction, feminist and queer theory - this book addresses the critical implications of empathy's...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-09-09
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Bringing together theories, ideas, insights and experiences of practitioners and researchers from Brazil, India, South Africa and the UK, this book explores children and young people's involvement in public action. The contributors consider the potential of children and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-09-09
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McDowell and Braniff explore the relationship between commemoration and conflict in societies which have engaged in peace processes, attempting to unpack the ways in which the practices of memory and commemoration influence efforts to bring armed conflict to an end and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-09-09
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Demenz ist eine der häufigsten alterskorrelierten Erkrankungen unserer Zeit. Die meisten Menschen mitDemenz werden aktuell von ihren Angehörigen in der eigenen Häuslichkeit begleitet und betreut, ohne dass die konkreten Gestaltungsprozesse bisher Gegenstand von...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2014-09-09
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Das Buch ist Fragen gewidmet, die sich heute in der Sozialgerontologie stellen, wenn es um die Bestimmung ihres wissenschaftlichen Status und um die politische Relevanz ihres Forschens geht. Ihr Gegenstand, das Altern, ist in ungeahntem Maße ein öffentliches Thema...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2014-09-09
Collection :
Alter(n) und Gesellschaft
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This book represents the volume of the International Musicological Conference «Musical Romania and Neighbouring Cultures. Traditions, Influences, Identities», which took place in Iasi (Romania) and was organised by the George Enescu University of Arts Iasi in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-09-08
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Despite global shifts in world power, racial conflict remains one of the major problems of contemporary social life. This concise and engaging book demonstrates the interplay between identity, power and conflict in the creation, persistence and transformation of...
Editeur :
Polity
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2014-09-08
Collection :
Political Sociology
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Social Work Live accesses multiple approaches to student learning: experiential, visual, and auditory. Carol Dorr emphasizes the important role of self-reflection and critical thinking in social work practice by paying special attention to process recordings and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-09-05
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African cultures and politics remain significantly affected by precolonial and postcolonial configurations of modernity, as well as hegemonic global systems. This project explores Africa's conversation with itself and the rest of the world, critiquing universalist...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-09-04
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Bridal magazines have become increasingly popular in Western society, proliferating the idea of a ‘princess bride’ on her ‘big day’. Yet little has been written on how the ever-expanding wedding media and the popular wedding culture constructs gender and affects the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-09-04
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