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Post-crisis perspectives refer to scenarios after a crisis, possible options of dealing with them, and the importance for defining these scenarios. This anthology seeks to identify paths and perspectives that go beyond the contemporary economic crisis. In searching for...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-06-11
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Bringing together sociology of the body with powerful examinations of educational theory and social class, Henry examines how children's experiences of school and pedagogy are shaped by their bodies and the ideas of social class and class identity that their bodies...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2014-06-11
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The Cultural and Social Foundations of Education
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Wie werden Tiere in der Literatur dargestellt? Welche spezifischen Funktionen übernehmen sie in verschiedenen kulturellen Traditionen?Wie differieren ihre Darstellungen in unterschiedlichen Medien? Am Beispiel prominenter Tierfiguren sowie an bis dato eher...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-06-11
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Female Images of God in Christian Worship: In the Spirituality of TongSungGiDo of the Korean Church examines problems that arise from the use of exclusively patriarchal images in modern Christian worship. The author asserts that female images in the Bible could help...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2014-06-11
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Based on archival research, this volume is concerned with the treatment of «fallen women» and prostitutes at the London Lock Hospital and Asylum throughout the nineteenth century. As venereally-diseased women, they were treated in the hospital for their physical...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-06-11
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In art and literature, animals appear not only as an allegoric representation but as a reference which troubles the border between humanity and animality. The aim of this book is to challenge traditional ways of confronting animality with humanity and to consider how...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-06-11
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How do individuals, communities, and institutions react to crime, disorder, and social control events?How do such incidents shape the contours of social order and the make-up of society? Why do some crimes and disorders matter more than others in influencing how we...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-06-11
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Poor, But Sexy: Reflections on Berlin Scenes offers readers a varied cross-section of the city’s scenes, providing a prismatic view of one of Europe’s mythical cultural capitals. The authors gathered here address a range of topics, including Turkish gay clubs, queer...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-06-11
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Die Aufsätze dieses Bandes befassen sich mit Raumvorstellungen, die sich in Österreich-Ungarn ausgeprägt und über die Zeit der Doppelmonarchie hinweg weitergewirkt haben. Trotz ihrer thematischen Vielfalt, die von der Belletristik über den Journalismus bis zur Musik und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-06-11
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This volume addresses the directions that studies of archaeological human remains have taken in a number of different countries, where attitudes range from widespread support to prohibition. Overlooked in many previous publications, this diversity in attitudes is...
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Springer
Parution :
2014-06-10
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This Brief provides a theoretical and conceptual development of a new Risk Assessment Toolbox (RAT) for the early detection of violent extremists. It is based on a neurocognitive perspective, conceptualized as ‘neuroplasticity-in-action’ arising from brain-based neural...
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Springer
Parution :
2014-06-10
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Media Framing of the Muslim World examines and explains how news about Islam and the Muslim world is produced and consumed, and how it impacts on relations between Islam and the West. The authors cover key issues in this relationship including the reporting on war and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-06-08
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TRANSLATED BY CONSTANCE BORDE AND SHEILA MALOVANY-CHEVALLIERANNOTATED AND INTRODUCED BY MARTINE REID'Everyone who cares about freedom and justice for women should read The Second Sex' GuardianSimone de Beauvoir famously wrote, 'One is not born, but rather becomes,...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2014-06-05
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A social tragedy is a collective representation of injustice. Baker demonstrates how social tragedies facilitate moral action and discusses a series of contemporary case studies – the death of Princess Diana, Zinédine Zidane's 2006 World Cup scandal, KONY 2012 – to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-06-05
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Have you ever fallen out with someone close to you over your political ideas or convictions or felt that a personal relationship was damaged because you disagreed about politics? There is no more interesting or diverse country than France to study how our political...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-06-05
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Here, Björklund shows that Swedish literary discourses on lesbianism provocatively contrast with a widely accepted view that attitudes toward homosexuality have gradually become more tolerant. The lasting power of negative discourses upends the assumption that Sweden's...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-06-05
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This resounding defence of the principles of free expression revisits the Satanic Verses uproar of 1989, as well as subsequent incidents such as the Danish cartoons controversy, to argue that the human right of free speech is by no means so secure that it can be taken...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-06-05
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This book offers a fresh look at Taiwan's state workers in from the postwar period to the present day and examines the rise and fall of labor insurgency in the past two decades. Challenging the conventional image of docile working class, it unearths a series of workers...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-06-05
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The search for meaning is an essential human activity. It is not just about agreeing on some definitions about the world, objects, and people; it is an ethical process of opening up to find new possibilities. Langlois uses case studies of social media platforms...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-06-05
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The concealment of income, wealth and profits in tax havens has brought the topic of offshoring into public debate, but as John Urry shows in this important new book offshoring is a much more pervasive feature of contemporary societies. These often secretive activities...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-06-05
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