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Based on the thorough examination of French archival sources, this book examines in detail two industries in which women formed the majority of the workforce in France between 1890 and 1914. The choice of the tobacco and hat industries is particularly relevant in the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-08-27
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Die gegenwärtige verstärkte Migrationsdynamik sowie die damit einhergehende Diversifizierung der Weltgesellschaft statuieren eines: Unsere Lebenswelten sind so vielfältig wie nie zuvor geworden. In dieser Hinsicht werden Begriffe wie Integration, Inklusion oder...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-08-27
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As we approach a historic tipping point in the global trend toward urbanisation – within two decades urban dwellers will increase from 49% to 60% of the planet’s population – this book identifies and addresses a critical problem: water. The editors show how cities can...
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Springer
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2014-08-27
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The story of a rope, a symbol, and rough justice in America.The hangman's knot is a simple thing to tie, just a rope carefully coiled around itself up to thirteen times. But in those thirteen turns lie a powerful symbol, one that is all too deeply connected to America's...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
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2014-08-26
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This book identifies chances and barriers women face in their transition to adulthood in Egypt, Iran, Jordan, and Syria. Adopting a life course perspective, it provides a new integrative micro-macro-theoretical framework and innovative analyses of individual life...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-08-26
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This book shares and analyses the stories of Opal, a senior Alyawarra woman. Through her stories the reader glimpses the harsh colonial realities which many Aboriginal Australians have faced, highlighting the cultural embeddedness of autobiographical memory from a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-08-26
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Recent theorizing tends to position ordinary relationships as something we have lost, yet the nature of these relationships is not seriously engaged with. Drawing on rich empirical data, this book questions epochal claims about contemporary emotional lives, setting out...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-08-26
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Beeinflussen Religionen und Religionsgemeinschaften – vermittelt über Lebensführung, Werthaltungen, Minderheitenstatus, gemeinschaftliche Aktivitäten und Ressourcen – den Bildungserfolg von Kindern in industrialisierten Gesellschaften? Zur Beantwortung dieser Fragen...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2014-08-25
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Colonial Girlhood in Literature, Culture and History, 1840-1950 explores a range of real and fictional colonial girlhood experiences from Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa, India, New Zealand, Australia, England, Ireland, and Canada to reflect on the transitional state...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-08-25
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This book is one out of 8 IAEG XII Congress volumes, and deals with the theme of urban geology. Along with a rapidly growing world population, the wave of urban growth continues, causing cities to swell and new metropolitan centers to emerge. These global trends also...
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Springer
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2014-08-25
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Netzwerkressourcen sind zwar in vielfältigen Lebenssituationen hilfreich aber sozial ungleich verteilt. In diesem Buch wird ein Sozialkapital-Modell präsentiert, das beschreibt und erklärt, in welchem Ausmaß soziale Ressourcen aus persönlichen Netzwerken verfügbar sind...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2014-08-25
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Referencing key contemporary debates on issues like surveillance, identity, the global financial crisis, the digital divide and Internet politics, Andrew White provides a critical intervention in discussions on the impact of the proliferation of digital media...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-08-22
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This book is one out of 8 IAEG XII Congress volumes, and deals with the preservation of cultural heritage. In 1972, the World Heritage Convention linked in a single framework the concepts of nature conservation and the preservation of cultural sites. Since then,...
Editeur :
Springer
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2014-08-21
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Kinderschutz ist seit Längerem ein „heißes“ Thema in Politik und Gesellschaft. Die zahlreichen Medienberichte über kritische Ereignisse in Familien und das (angebliche) Versagen zuständiger Instanzen erregen regelmäßig die Gemüter derer, die sich urteilsfähig fühlen –...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2014-08-21
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Die Neuen Medien eröffnen vielfältige Chancen für die Vermittlungsarbeit in Museen, Ausstellungshäusern und anderen Kultureinrichtungen. Vor allem ermöglichen sie eine verbesserte, direkte Einbeziehung der Besucher in die Inhalte.Die Auseinandersetzung mit Kunst wird so...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2014-08-21
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This is a lucid study of Walter Benjamin's lifelong fascination with the city and forms of metropolitan experience, highlighting the relevance of Benjamin's work to our contemporary understanding of modernity.
Editeur :
Polity
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2014-08-21
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Feminists have long differed in their view of prostitution. While some regard it as a classic form of exploitation and degradation, others offer a more sympathetic interpretation of women's involvement in the sex industry. In this important new book, Maggie O'Neill...
Editeur :
Polity
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2014-08-21
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'Pink is my favourite colour. I used to say my favourite colour was black to be cool, but it is pink – all shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink. I read Vogue, and I’m not doing it ironically, though it might seem that way. I once live-tweeted the...
Editeur :
Corsair
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2014-08-21
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Examining a wide range of source material including popular culture, literature, photography, television, and visual art, this collection of essays sheds light on the misrepresentations of Latina/os in the mass media.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-08-20
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Human footprints provide some of the most emotive and tangible evidence of our ancestors. They provide evidence of stature, presence, behaviour and in the case of early hominin footprints, evidence with respect to the evolution of human gait and foot anatomy. While...
Editeur :
Springer
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2014-08-20
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