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Religious exoticism implies a deeply ambivalent relationship to otherness and to religion itself: traditional religious teachings are uprooted and fragmented in order to be appropriated as practical methods for personal growth. Western contemporary societies have seen...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-05-01
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HAVE YOU EVER…Obsessed over your body’s ‘problem areas’?Killed an hour on the Sidebar of Shame?Wondered whether to try ‘50 Sex Tips to Please Your Man’?Felt worse after doing any of the above?Holly and Rhiannon grew up reading glossy mags and, like most women, thought...
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Vintage Digital
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2014-05-01
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This volume presents an extended reflection on human dependency and the need to 'care' and be 'cared for'. Philosophers, theologians, social theorists, economists, and professional caregivers to discuss the challenges of professional caregiving, analyzing how societies...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-05-01
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The events surrounding the Trayvon Martin murder, trial and acquittal bring to public and private discourse the violent, brutal murders of Emmett Till, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Dr. King, while bringing back to memory the racially provoked murders of Black American...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2014-05-01
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What makes us human?How did we develop language, thought and culture?Why did we survive, and other human species fail?The past 12,000 years represent the only time in the sweep of human history when there has been only one human species. How did this extraordinary...
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Pelican
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2014-05-01
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This book argues that interior architects have a responsibility to practice their profession in collaborative ways that address the needs of communities and of to be the agents of social justice and cultural heritage. The book is divided into three sections, based on...
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Springer
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2014-04-30
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This collection highlights and extends contemporary women's and gender studies by presenting theoretical analyses and innovative research conceptualizations, applications and methodologies via a diverse variety of popular-in-the-classroom topics, such as changing...
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Springer
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2014-04-30
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The Incas is a captivating exploration of one of the greatest civilizations ever seen. Seamlessly drawing on history, archaeology, and ethnography, this thoroughly updated new edition integrates advances made in hundreds of new studies conducted over the last decade....
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-04-30
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Peoples of America
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From a multi-sited ethnography with Swedish migrant women in the United States, Singapore and Spain, the book explores gender vulnerabilities and racial and class privilege in contemporary feminized migration, filling a gap in literature on race and migration.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-04-29
Collection :
Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship
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Through a rich ethnography of street and working children in Calcutta, India, this book offers the first sustained enquiry into postcolonial childhoods, arguing that the lingering effects of colonialism are central to comprehending why these children struggle to inhabit...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-04-29
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Considerable socio-political change has re-configured the discursive space once occupied by ‘utopia’. Within the cultures of late capitalism and the organisational matrices of bio-political administration, that space is no longer animated by images of idealised states...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-04-29
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"Brilliant... explains how the rhetoric of competition has invaded almost every domain of our existence." - Evgeny Morozov, author of To Save Everything, Click Here "A sparkling, original, and provocative analysis of neoliberalism... a distinctive account of the...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2014-04-29
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Der vollständig aktualisierte Ratgeber ermöglicht einen schnellen Zugriff auf die wichtigsten Akteure, verfahrensrelevante Themen und mögliche Strafen der Strafjustiz. Damit sollen u.a. Schöffen auf das staatspolitisch bedeutende Amt vorbereitet werden. Das Buch...
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Springer VS
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2014-04-29
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Die Energiewende ist die gesellschaftliche Herausforderung unserer Zeit, aber ein Verzicht auf Energie aus fossilen Energieträgern hat massive Konsequenzen: Eine solche Gesellschaft braucht nicht weniger sondern mehr Staat, wertet den Boden als Ressource und Standort...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-04-28
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The Great War continues to play a prominent role in contemporary consciousness. With commemorative activities involving seventy-two countries, its centenary is a titanic undertaking: not only ‘the centenary to end all centenaries’ but the first truly global period of...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-04-28
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Empirical studies of life science research and biotechnologies in Asia show how assemblages of life articulate bioethics governance with global moralities and reveal why the global harmonization of bioethical standards is contrived.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-04-25
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By examining averted school rampage incidents, this work addresses problematic gaps in school violence scholarship and advances existing knowledge about mass murder, violence prevention, bystander intervention, threat assessment, and disciplinary policy in school...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2014-04-25
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Wer etwas für das Verständnis seiner wissenschaftlichen Arbeit, für sein Fach und für wissenschaftliches Denken überhaupt tun will, muss nicht nur schreiben können; er muss es auch tun. Jutta von Campenhausen zeigt, warum es nicht reicht, Wissenschaftskommunikation den...
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Springer VS
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2014-04-25
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Is the U.S. as a country still capable of finding common ground and effective policy responses in the 21st century, or are the dividing lines within U.S. society actually becoming too deep and too wide to bridge, with potentially grave consequences for American social,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-04-25
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Der Tango und der Lunfardo als sprachliche Varietät sind zwei eng miteinander verbundene Phänomene des dynamischen Sprachkontaktes und der Migrationskultur am Río de la Plata. Sprechen aber tangueros in Buenos Aires anders als porteños, die mit dem Tango noch nie in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-04-25
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