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This book locates, organizes and summarizes information about the use of child indicators in an advocacy context. It provides a conceptual framework that allows readers to see a wide variety of work as part of a unified field. It provides a description of key concepts...
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Springer
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2014-07-22
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This book examines in detail both historical and current legal concepts of ‘religious cultural heritage’ within the context of the European continent. The latter group is primarily based on the variety of sacred cultural elements emanating from the different religious...
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Springer
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2014-07-22
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When parents form families by reaching across social barriers to adopt children, where and how does race enter the adoption process? How do agencies, parents, and the adopted children themselves deal with issues of difference in adoption? This volume engages writers...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-07-22
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This book focuses on the issues of resilience and variability of desert pastoralists, explicitly challenging a set of traditional topics of the discourse around pastoralism in arid lands of the Old World. Based on a field research carried out on the Kel Tadrart Tuareg...
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Springer
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2014-07-19
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In der religionssoziologischen Forschung dominieren die Mikroebene der religiösen Individuen und die Makroebene der religiösen Felder bzw. Systeme. Demgegenüber kommt die Mesoebene der religiösen Sozialformen sowohl empirisch als auch konzeptionell oftmals zu kurz....
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Springer VS
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2014-07-18
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Leading sociologists outline the historical development of the discipline in Britain and document its continuing influence in this essential and comprehensive reference work. Spanning the Scottish enlightenment of the 18th century to the present day this...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-07-18
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Finnish Women Making Religion puts forth the complex intersections that Lutheranism, the most important religious tradition in Finland, has had with other religions as well as with the larger society and politics also internationally.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-07-17
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Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood examines the manifestations of blood and vampires in various texts and contexts. It seeks to connect, through blood, fictional to real-life vampires to trace similarities, differences and discontinuities. These movements will be seen...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-07-17
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Over the last several years, the debate about publics seems to have newly emerged. This debate critically reflects the Habermasian ideal of a (national) public sphere in a transnational context. However, it seems that the issue of a reconstruction of a global public...
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Polity
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2014-07-17
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The most significant philosopher of Being, Martin Heidegger has nevertheless largely been ignored within communications studies. This book sets the record straight by demonstrating the profound implications of his unique philosophical project for our understanding of...
Editeur :
Polity
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2014-07-17
Collection :
Theory and Media
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Today we hear much talk of crisis and comparisons are often made with the Great Depression of the 1930s, but there is a crucial difference that sets our current malaise apart from the 1930s: today we no longer trust in the capacity of the state to resolve the crisis and...
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Polity
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2014-07-17
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Norbert Elias has been recognized as one of the key social scientists of the 20th century at least in sociology, political science and history. This book will addressNorbert Elias's approach to empirical research, the use of his work in empirical research, and compare...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-07-17
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Religion is considered a key predictor of volunteering: the more religious people are, the more likely they are to volunteer. This positive association enjoys significant support in current research; in fact, it could be considered the ‘default perspective’ on the...
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Springer
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2014-07-17
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Bislang wurden in der historischen Diskursanalyse Fragen zur Funktion von Bildern in Diskursen noch wenig berücksichtigt. Die Beiträge des vorliegenden Bandes nehmen sich dieser Thematik an und zeigen, dass auch Bilder die Möglichkeitsbedingungen des Sag- und Denkbaren...
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Springer VS
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2014-07-17
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From Pakistan to Chechnya, Sri Lanka to Canada, pioneering women are taking their places in formal and informal military structures previously reserved for, and assumed appropriate only for men. Women have fought in wars, either as women or covertly dressed as men,...
Editeur :
Polity
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2014-07-17
Collection :
Gender and Global Politics
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Cities in industrialised countries have grown over time, yet shrinkage of cities occurs in many regions. This process has many impacts on urban ecology, which can be observed on urban brownfield sites in particular. The integration of these sites with sustainable urban...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-07-15
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Lange Zeit fristete der kulturelle Nationalismus ein Schattendasein in der Forschung. Zu Unrecht, denn der kulturelle Nationalismus spielt eine entscheidende Rolle in der Ausbildung einer nationalen Identität. Indem er die Menschen mit ihrer eigenen Vergangenheit und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-07-15
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This volume addresses the conditions allowing the transformation of specific children’s rights into capabilities in settings as different as children’s parliaments, organized leisure activities, contexts of vulnerability, children in care. It addresses theoretical...
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Springer
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2014-07-14
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This brief fills a gap in the studies of organized crime in Mexico (Kan 2012, Ríos 2011, Dell 2011) by documenting and mapping the post-2008 assassination of Mexican border police chiefs. It traces out a “systematic” of law-enforcement assassination in Northern Tier...
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Springer
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2014-07-14
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This book shows how participation of interpreters as mediators changes the dynamics of police interviews, particularly with regard to power struggles and competing versions of events. The analysis of interaction offers insights into language in the legal process.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-07-12
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