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Traditionally, the study of entrepreneurial behavior focuses on such factors as (i) the personality characteristics that distinguish the entrepreneur from non-entrepreneur and (ii) demographic characteristics such gender, age, familiar antecedents and education. With...
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Springer
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2014-05-20
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Schwangere Frauen müssen über die Inanspruchnahme pränataler Untersuchungen entscheiden und nach Vorliegen des Befundes in manchen Fällen über einen Schwangerschaftsabbruch. Diese Entscheidungen sollten möglichst selbstbestimmt sein. Dazu kann Beratung beitragen. Das...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-05-20
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JungakademikerInnen unterschiedlicher Fachgebiete haben sich mit der Idee, den interdisziplinären sowie interkulturellen wissenschaftlichen Dialog zu fördern, ans Werk gemacht und setzen sich in ihren Beiträgen mit internationalen Fragen beziehungsweise regionalen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-05-20
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Pasura proposes a framework for understanding African diasporas as core, epistemic, dormant and silent diasporas. The book explores the origin, formation and performance of the Zimbabwean transnational diaspora in Britain and examines how the diaspora is constituted in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-05-19
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From the first hospitals to pioneering pharmacy techniques, the early history of medicine reflects the groundbreaking contributions of Islamic physicians and scientists. Less recognized, however, is the impact of Islam on the health and daily health practices of modern...
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Springer
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2014-05-17
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Cosmopolitan Borders makes the case for processes of bordering being better understood through the lens of cosmopolitanism. Borders are 'cosmopolitan workshops' where 'cultural encounters of a cosmopolitan kind' take place and where entrepreneurial cosmopolitans advance...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2014-05-16
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This book explores the morality of love and sex, and how distortions of these sometimes develop into abuse. Hayes argues that there are strong similarities between different kinds of abusive relationships, and that these similarities arise out of the common narratives...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-05-15
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Using narrative accounts from a sample of 69 New York City-based musicians of various genres who are self-acknowledged heroin users, the book addresses the reasons why these musicians started using heroin and the impact heroin had on these musicians' playing,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-05-14
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Anti-Black Racism and the AIDS Epidemic: State Intimacies argues that racial disparities in HIV rates reflect the organization of racialized poverty and structural violence. Challenging the popular perception of HIV, black vulnerability to HIV in the US is shown to be...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-05-14
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This is the first book to comprehensively examine Latin America's literary response to the deadly HIV virus. Proposing a bio-political reading of AIDs in the neoliberal era, Lina Meruane examines how literary representations of AIDS enter into larger discussions of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-05-14
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Research on gender, sex, and crime today remains focused on topics that have been a mainstay of the field for several decades, but it has also recently expanded to include studies from a variety of disciplines, a growing number of countries, and on a wider range of...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-05-14
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Digital Media Worlds tracks the evolution of the media sector on its way toward a digital world. It focuses on core economic and management issues (cost structures, value network chain, business models) in industries such as book publishing, broadcasting, film, music,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-05-13
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Focusing on a number of contemporary research themes and placing them within the context of palpable changes that have occurred within football in recent years, this timely collection brings together essays about football, crime and fan behaviour from leading experts in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-05-13
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An ethnographic study of gender, place and belonging, Affective Intensities introduces readers to the embodied sensations, flows and experiences of being in extreme music scenes in Australia and Japan.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-05-13
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In sozialen Organisationen ist die Leitung von Teams und teilautonomen Arbeitsgruppen die unterste Führungsebene. Das Buch fokussiert diese und die nächsthöheren Leitungsebenen. Die Erörterung der theoretischen Grundlagen umfasst ausgewählte Aspekte von Arbeitsgruppen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-05-13
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Modernizing Democracy brings together scholars focusing the role of associations and associating in contemporary societies. Organizations and associations have been identified as the “meso level of society” and as the “basic elements of democracy”. They are important...
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Springer
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2014-05-13
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Long before the recent «Arab Spring», when the topic of democracy with in many Muslim countries took center stage internationally, Malaysia’s Anwar Ibrahim, an energetic and charismatic politician, had been one of the most vocal global proponents of the compatibility of...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2014-05-13
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Church members among the ethnic Somali population in the Horn of Africa constitute a culturally marginalized and persecuted minority. Despite more than a hundred years of Protestant missionary efforts, the growth of the church has remained slow and protracted. The very...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2014-05-13
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The Future of Church Planting in North America looks to Jesus as the model for life and ministry as he said, «As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you». In exploring this passage, the author asks, what does this passage mean in church-planting terms? How do...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2014-05-13
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This book covers two lesser known but important members of the Italian Mafia: the ’Ndrangheta and the Sacra Corona Unita. Italian criminal organizations, in particular Mafia, are one of the most commonly researched organized crime groups, usually focusing on the...
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Springer
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2014-05-13
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