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This volume brings together a range of different specialists in the arts and cultural industries, as well as international academics and public intellectuals, to explore how media and communication practices for social change are currently being reconfigured in both...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-08-05
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Natural and manmade disasters do not affect everyone equally, especially when resources are not equally accessible. Girls and women in particular face heightened risks of violence and abuse and many countries bar female-headed households from receiving aid. Across the...
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Springer
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2014-08-05
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This book presents a selection of major research texts by Prof. Dr. Lourdes Arizpe Schlosser, a Mexican Pioneer in Anthropology. A global intellectual leader on culture, social development, sustainability, women's studies and indigenous groups, her texts provide both an...
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Springer
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2014-08-04
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Against the background of a long and continuing record of political instability in Africa, this edited collection presents a multi-disciplinary approach to selected issues in African political studies. The contributions explore a range of political and conflict...
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Springer
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2014-08-04
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Americans now learn about the Holocaust in high school, watch films about it on television, and visit museums dedicated to preserving its memory. But for the first two decades following the end of World War II, discussion of the destruction of European Jewry was largely...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-08-04
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This book is a concise guide on how to preserve, protect and analyse cultural heritage in private and public collections. Its focus is on three-dimensional works of art and archaeology crafted from materials like ceramics, glass, stone, metals, wood etc. It briefly...
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Springer
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2014-08-01
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Determining why, when, and to whom people feel compelled to be generous affords invaluable insight into positive and problematic ways of life. Organ donation, volunteering, and the funding of charities can all be illuminated by sociological and psychological...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-08-01
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This work fulfills the need for a conceptual and technical framework to improve understanding of Information Quality (IQ) and Information Quality standards. The meaning and practical implementation of IQ are addressed, as it is relevant to any field where there is a...
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Springer
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2014-08-01
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Seit ihren Anfängen befindet sich die Sozialpädagogik in einem Spannungsfeld zwischen Hilfe und Kontrolle sowie zwischen Familie und Staat. Sie bekämpft soziale Ungleichheiten und zugleich reproduziert sie diese in der Adressierung von sozialen Problemlagen. Die hieraus...
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Springer VS
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2014-08-01
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Beginning in the 1990s large numbers of women from Mainland China and Southeast Asia married men in Taiwan. They now number over 400,000, warranting some to call them «Taiwan’s Fifth Ethnic Group». This book argues that the rise of these marriages is a gendered and...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2014-08-01
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Is there a 'physics of society'? Philip Ball's investigation into human nature ranges from Hobbes and Adam Smith to modern work on traffic flow and market trading, across economics, sociology and psychology. Ball shows how much of human behaviour we can understand when...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2014-07-31
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Steckt unsere Demokratie in einer Krise? Fühlt sich die Politik nicht mehr an das allgemeine Wohl als ihr oberstes Ziel gebunden?Die wechselseitige Entfremdung zwischen Bürgerschaft und politischen Akteuren sollte in einer funktionierenden Demokratie ausgeschlossen...
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Springer VS
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2014-07-31
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Why are some civic associations better than others at getting--and keeping--people involved in activism? From MoveOn.org to the National Rifle Association, Health Care for America Now to the Sierra Club, membership-based civic associations constantly seek to engage...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-07-31
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Improving human characteristics goes beyond compensating for an impairment. This book explores the rich and complex relationship between enhancement and impairment, showing that the study of disability offers new ways of thinking about the social and ethical...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-07-30
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Evidence pertaining to continual violence throughout the life cycle coupled with the experience of growing old in a life permeated by intimate violence is scarce. And the focus is usually on the victims - usually, the older, battered women - and seldom on their aging...
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Springer
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2014-07-30
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This book analyses the practice of virginity testing endured by South Asian women who wished to enter Britain between the late 1960s and the early 1980s, and places this practice into a wider historical context. Using recently opened government documents the extent to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-07-29
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This book explores the structural tensions and conflicts that arise with the abolition of border controls between the EU's member states and how this conflict ridden relationship affects and is affected by the institutional shape of the EU's external borders.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-07-29
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Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), one of the most original and perceptive thinkers of the twentieth century, offered a unique insight into the profound impact of the media on modern society. Jaeho Kang’s book offers a lucid introduction to Benjamin’s theory of the media and...
Editeur :
Polity
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2014-07-29
Collection :
Theory and Media
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Online-Medien eröffnen Jugendlichen in Hinblick auf politisch relevante Information ein breites Spektrum an Handlungsmöglichkeiten, das sich vom Abrufen und Kommentieren aktuellster Nachrichten über das Weiterleiten interessanter Meldungen bis zum Demoaufruf via...
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Springer VS
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2014-07-29
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Welche Möglichkeiten der Reaktion auf sexualisierte Gewalt gibt es in pädagogischen Einrichtungen? Worin bestehen die Herausforderungen für einen angemessenen Umgang mit sexualisierter Gewalt? In ihren Beiträgen geben Sozial- und ErziehungswissenschaftlerInnen Antworten...
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Springer VS
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2014-07-28
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