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This book focuses on the human and societal aspects of sustainable development. Three major perspectives are considered: governance and its influence on sustainable development; urban environments and their broader human and environmental impacts; and disaster...
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Springer
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2017-10-26
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Das vorliegende Werk beschreibt Bedeutung, Aufgaben, Organisation und Umsetzung der Altenselbsthilfe in Deutschland. Es wendet sich an politische Institutionen, Entscheider im Sozialmanagement, z.B. Kommunalstellen sowie an alle Bereiche, die mit Altenarbeit zu tun...
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Springer
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2017-10-26
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This book investigates post-industrial American cities as sites of struggle where political identities are mobilized and new modes of citizenship are articulated.This interdisciplinary analysis gleans insights from anthropology, literary criticism, cultural studies,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2017-10-26
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This book presents a description and analysis of sociolinguistics written from a demographer’s perspective. It synthesizes the data on the materials, methods, and issues of this interdisciplinary field, pulling together the scattered materials published in this...
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Springer
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2017-10-25
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This open access wide-ranging collation of papers examines a host of issues in studying second-generation immigrants, their life courses, and their relations with older generations. Tightly focused on methodological aspects, both quantitative and qualitative, the volume...
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Springer
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2017-10-25
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Life Course Research and Social Policies
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Many of the beings in this book – Cheiron, Pan, Acheloos, the Sirens and others – will be familiar from the narratives of Greek mythology, in which fabulous anatomies abound. However, they have never previously been studied together from a religious perspective, as...
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Presses universitaires de Liège
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2017-10-25
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Kernos suppléments
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The motif of the ‘identity quest’ features strongly in much contemporary French women’s writing, but nowhere more so than in the work of Nina Bouraoui. Author of numerous books since 1991 and winner of the 2005 Prix Renaudot, Bouraoui persistently explores the question...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2017-10-25
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This book provides comprehensive information on the materials excavated at Pech de l’Azé IV, both by the original excavator François Bordes in the 1970s, and more recently by the authors and their scientific team. Applying a range of new excavation and analytical...
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Springer
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2017-10-24
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Cave and Karst Systems of the World
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This book comprehensively explores the changes in the Chinese spiritual world from the perspective of transition and transformation. Chinese feeling, a brand-new concept corresponding to Chinese experience, refers to the vicissitudes that 1.3 billion Chinese people have...
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Springer
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2017-10-24
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Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path
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This book examines the causes and consequences of suicide from the perspective of economics. The approach here differs from those in medical, psychiatric, epidemiological, and sociological studies of suicide and is thus novel in a way that highlights the importance of...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-10-24
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Economy and Social Inclusion
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This volume offers an empirical perspective on the so-called first generation of human rights. It explores the legitimization of these human rights by individual people, both because of their religion and because of their vision of what constitutes human dignity. The...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-10-20
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Religion and Human Rights
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This book highlights the reality of malnutrition among school-age children in India and relates it with dietary adequacy, diversity and choice. Using empirical data from field research conducted in Karnataka, India, it documents the nutritional status of school-going...
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Springer
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2017-10-20
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This focused case study analyses the roots of super-diversity in a place where immigration is an emerging phenomenon, Northwestern Spain (Galicia). It is characterized by a mostly rural population, an aging demographic, and a historically depressed economy. Yet the...
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Springer
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2017-10-18
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Migration, Minorities and Modernity
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This book provides insights into the history, development, and practice of restorative justice methods in China. Traditionally in China, mediation has played an important role in criminal proceedings, which has many characteristics in common with the “Western” concept...
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Springer
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2017-10-16
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Springer Series on Asian Criminology and Criminal Justice Research
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From mobile phones to consoles, tablets and PCs, we are now a generation of gamers. The PlayStation Dreamworld is – to borrow a phrase from Slavoj Zizek – the pervert's guide to videogames. It argues that we can only understand the world of videogames via Lacanian dream...
Editeur :
Polity
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2017-10-16
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Theory Redux
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In the wake of Edward Snowden's revelations, and concern that the internet has heightened rather than combated various forms of political and social inequality, it is time we ask: what comes after a broken internet? Ramesh Srinivasan and Adam Fish reimagine the internet...
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Polity
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2017-10-16
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In this important book, Niklas Luhmann uses his powers as an analyst of the social system to examine two of the most important concepts which hold that system together and allow it to evolve: trust and power. He criticises those theoretical accounts whose roots lie in...
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Polity
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2017-10-16
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This important new book from one of the world's leading sociologists of sport weaves together social theory, history and political economy to provide a highly original analysis of the complex relationship between sport and modernity. Incorporating a powerful set of...
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Polity
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2017-10-16
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The SAGE Handbook of the 21st Century City focuses on the dynamics and disruptions of the contemporary city in relation to capricious processes of global urbanisation, mutation and resistance. An international range of scholars engage with emerging urban conditions and...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2017-10-16
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In the space of another generation, the population of the earth will rise by 2.5 billion. Yet the real problem we face is not so much the increase in numbers as the fact that growth will be highly uneven. Whereas rich countries will see aging populations with little...
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Polity
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2017-10-16
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