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This book uses original research and interviews to consider the views of contemporary members of the Orange Order in Canada, including their sense of political and societal purpose, awareness of the decline of influence, views on their present circumstances, and hopes...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-22
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By analyzing the interactions between China’s central government and its local governments and enterprises, this book constructs an analytical framework of government-enterprise collusion, analyzing the impact of collusion within the China model on Chinese society....
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-08-22
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Bei dieser „Kleinen (Heimat)Geschichte des Rassismus“ handelt es sich um das erste Buch überhaupt, das die Entwicklung des Rassismus gezielt aus deutscher Perspektive beleuchtet. Der Herausbildung des an Hautfarben orientierten Rassismus wird dabei ebenso nachgegangen,...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2017-08-21
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This book is an empirical comparative study of the complexity of religion in the public spheres of the five Nordic countries. The result of a five-year collaborative research project, the work examines how increasingly religiously diverse Nordic societies regulate,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-20
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Religion, Politics, and Policy
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Das Ziel der Untersuchung von Nadine Bitterer ist die Aufdeckung handlungsanleitender Logiken und Praktiken, die eine zunehmende internationale Integration sowie scheinbar mobile Zirkulation von Immobilienanlagen ermöglichen. Am Beispiel des Büroimmobilienmarktes...
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Springer VS
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2017-08-18
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Lisa Abbenhardt untersucht die Frage, wie sich hilfebeziehende Gründende vor dem Hintergrund komplexer kontextueller Anforderungen und individueller biographischer Erfahrungen selbstständig machen. Anhand von sechs biographischen Fallanalysen untersucht die Autorin...
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Springer VS
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2017-08-17
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How does intentionally inflicting damage to material objects mediate the human experience in the prehistoric eastern Mediterranean? For all of the diversity in cultural practice in the civilisations of the Greek mainland and Aegean islands, Crete, Cyprus and the eastern...
Editeur :
Presses universitaires de Louvain
Parution :
2017-08-17
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AEGIS
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This book interrogates the role played by evaluation in 21st century governing. Using youth work in the UK as a case study, it challenges the narrative of evidence-based policy-making, arguing instead that evaluation research is used to discipline and control. At the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-17
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This book is the first overall and detailed discussion of contemporary Asia’s architectural theorisations and phenomena based on its heteroglossic and decolonisation character. Lin presents a theoretical journey of transdisciplinary reflection upon contemporary Asia’s...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-16
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Hanna Haag untersucht erstmals die familiale Tradierung DDR-bezogener Orientierungen im Beisein der Nachwendegeneration. Neben dem erfahrungsbasierten Wissen der Eltern fließt dadurch auch der retrospektive Blick der Kinder in den familialen Dialog über die...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-08-14
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Soziales Gedächtnis, Erinnern und Vergessen – Memory Studies
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This volume investigates various processes by which world religions become localized, as well as how local traditions in Southeast Asia and Melanesia become universalized. In the name of modernity and progress, the contemporary Southeast Asian states tend to press their...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-11
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This book provides a richly detailed contribution to the understanding of healthy volunteer experiences in clinical drug trials in the UK. Contemporary society, especially the West, has seen a significant increase in the production and use of pharmaceutical products,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-08
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This book explores religious epiphanies in which there is the appearance of God, a god or a goddess, or a manifestation of the divine or religious reality as received in human experience. Drawing upon the scriptures of various traditions, ancillary religious writings,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-08
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This publication is one of the results of a conference organised in Lisbon in 2011 on the theme of African borders and their relationships with migration and mobility. The selected papers are a sample of the diverse perspectives on the general theme presented at the...
Editeur :
Centro de Estudos Internacionais
Parution :
2017-08-04
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ebook'IS
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As the end result of a multidisciplinary investigation project conducted in Africa (PTDC/AFR/64207/2006, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia), this publication about Poverty and Peace in the Portuguese-speaking African Countries has the purpose, on one hand, of...
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Centro de Estudos Internacionais
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2017-08-04
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ebook'IS
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Jens Lanfer präsentiert eine grundlagentheoretische Untersuchung gesellschaftlicher Innovationen. Für die Analyse von Innovationsprozessen stellt er ein systemtheoretisches Konzept vor, das sowohl eine angemessene Reichweite aufweist, um Innovationen in der Gesellschaft...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2017-08-03
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This book explores the human right to housing, presenting the findings of a global discourse analysis to analyse the right to housing from the perspective of theories on land policy and social citizenship. The book concludes that planners and policy makers will not be...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-02
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In recent years "leaderless" social movements have proliferated around the globe, from North Africa and the Middle East to Europe, the Americas, and East Asia. Some of these movements have led to impressive gains: the toppling of authoritarian leaders, the furthering of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-08-01
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This book provides a fresh look at one of the most enduring, absorbing, and universal questions human beings face: What happens to us after we die? In secular thought, the standard answer is simple: we disappear into oblivion. David Harmon takes us in a different...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-01
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This book presents an exploratory account of the origins and dynamics of cities. The author recounts how the essential foundations of the urbanization process reside in two interrelated forces. These are the tendency for many different kinds of human activity to gather...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-01
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