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Community Intervention: Clinical Sociology Perspectives showcases important efforts to improve the quality of life in communities around the world. The book, a project of the clinical sociology division of the International Sociological Association, describes the...
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Springer
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2014-08-19
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This study reassesses the criminal body from sentencing to execution and afterlife, using the nineteenth-century Red Barn murder as a case study. Positioned within the burgeoning field of medical humanities, it places culture and power at the centre of debates...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2014-08-18
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The essays collected in this volume look at the way that Mozambican and Angolan literary works seek to narrate, re-create and make sense of the postcolonial nation. Some of the studies focus on individual works; others are comparative analyses of Angolan and Mozambican...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-08-18
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The Church and wider society in Northeast India have witnessed a number of shifts in ethnic identity and the resultant inter-ethnic conflicts since the 1980s are threatening the peaceful co-existence of various ethnic groups. Caught up in the throes of such ethnic...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-08-18
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This volume brings together interviews on the topic of the postcolonial nation and its narrations with prominent writers from Angola and Mozambique. The interviewees offer personal insights into the history of post-independence Angola and Mozambique and into the role of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-08-18
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This volume provides the first comprehensive overview of social psychological research on inequality for a graduate student and professional audience. Drawing on all of the major theoretical traditions in sociological social psychology, its chapters demonstrate the...
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Springer
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2014-08-18
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Handbook of the Sociology of Emotions Volume II presents all new chapters in the ever developing area of the sociology of emotions. The volume is divided into two sections: Theoretical Perspectives and Social Arenas of Emotions. It reviews major sociological theories on...
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Springer
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2014-08-18
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Analysing the historical circumstances and theoretical sources that have generated ideas about citizen and community participation in crime control, this book examines the various ideals, outcomes and effects that citizen participation has been held to stimulate and how...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-08-15
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This essay places the emerging brain-Internet interface within a broad historical context: that the Internet represents merely the next stage in a very long history of human cognition whereby the brain couples with symbolic technologies. Understanding this 'deep...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2014-08-15
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Young people and their activities always have been a part of history – yet such narratives have remained mostly untold and often lost in the sands of time. This unprecedented and international collection sheds light on youth’s hidden histories from the nineteenth...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2014-08-15
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Why Cultural Studies? is a rallying call for a reinvigoration of the project of cultural studies that provides a critical analysis of its meteoric rise to the academic fore and makes a convincing argument for the pressing need for a renewed investment in, and...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2014-08-14
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This timely and important work takes a critical look at the shifting role of police, who are becoming increasingly responsible for handling terrorism threats on top of their regular responsibilities. With an unprecedented empirical study, the authors of this book...
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Springer
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2014-08-14
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Dandys gelten weithin als elegante, eitle „Salonlöwen“, die in der Welt der Reichen und Schönen zu Hause sind und nichts anderes im Sinn haben, als es dort zu Ansehen und Prominenz zu bringen. Bei genauerer Analyse erweist sich diese Beschreibung als viel zu...
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Springer VS
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2014-08-14
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In this dynamic and wide-ranging collection of essays, prominent scholars examine the condition of church-state relations in the United States, France, and Israel. Their analyses are rooted in a wide variety of disciplines, ranging from ethnography and demography to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-08-13
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Based on extensive fieldwork that began in Argentina, this book asks how detained and disappeared persons inhabit the categories that international law has constructed to mark, judge, understand, and repair the horror.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-08-13
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This book examines social and natural environmental changes in present-day Laos and presents a new research framework for environmental studies from an interdisciplinary point of view. In Laos, after the Lao version of perestroika, Chintanakaan Mai, in 1986, for better...
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Springer
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2014-08-13
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Frequently in partnership, but sometimes at odds, religious institutions and public health institutions work to improve the well-being of their communities. There is increasing awareness among public health professionals and the general public that the social conditions...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-08-13
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This book presents the most serious and comprehensive study, by far, of American public perceptions about the meaning of space exploration, analyzing vast troves of questionnaire data collected by many researchers and polling firms over a span of six decades and...
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Springer
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2014-08-12
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News media reports on eminent domain often highlight outrage and heated protest. But these accounts, Debbie Becher finds, obscure a much more complex reality of how Americans understand property. Private Property and Public Power presents the first comprehensive study...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-08-12
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Wie verhalten sich Forschende im Forschungsfeld?Wie nehmen sie ihre Verantwortung als Forschende wahr?Wie gestalten sie die Beziehungen zu den Teilnehmenden und berücksichtigen deren Rechte? In diesem Sammelband reflektieren AutorInnen methodische und forschungsethische...
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Springer VS
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2014-08-12
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