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This book addresses the changes in education practices, especially basic education, necessitated by the global challenges of climate change and sustainable development and in a context characterized by increasing poverty and inequality, migration and...
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Springer
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2016-12-08
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This open access book looks at the migration of Southern European EU citizens (from Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece) who move to Northern European Member States (Belgium, France, Germany, United Kingdom) in response to the global economic crisis.Its objective is twofold....
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Springer
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2016-12-08
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IMISCOE Research Series
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The book analyzes the methods used in the construction of the grounded type of sociological theory. It provides an overview of examples of qualitative research which are used for delineating the principal characteristics of methods employed in the construction of the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-12-08
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This book contributes to better recognition and comprehension of the interconnection between archaeology and political pressure, especially imposed by the totalitarian communist regimes. It explains why, under such political conditions, some archaeological reasoning and...
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Springer
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2016-12-06
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With the major goal of building an inclusive international community that promotes peace-related research and action, this volume reflects on local, national and global peace engagement and works towards transdisciplinary understandings of the role of psychology in...
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Springer
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2016-12-06
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Peace Psychology Book Series
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This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license.This book portrays men’s experiences of home alone leave and how it affects their lives and family gender roles in different policy contexts and explores how this unique parental leave design is implemented in these...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-12-06
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Life Course Research and Social Policies
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This book provides a practical, pedagogical perspective on conducting qualitative interviews with children and young people.
From designing and choosing the type of interview through to planning, structuring, conducting, and analysing them this book is a complete...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2016-12-05
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This book provides a wide range of studies on methods of assessing natural disaster risks and reducing those risks in the context of land use. A major benefit of the book is that it presents extensive research and practices from interdisciplinary perspectives through...
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Springer
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2016-12-05
Collection :
Disaster Risk Reduction
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The digital age is also a surveillance age. Today, computerized systems protect and manage our everyday life; the increasing number of surveillance cameras in public places, the computerized loyalty systems of the retail sector, geo-localized smart-phone applications,...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2016-12-05
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The study presents a chronotope of linguistic and cultural changes that took place in England and Wales between the 4th and 8th centuries. It encompasses the areas of South Wales and Eastern England and describes the cultural practices of preliterate Anglo-Saxon and...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-12-02
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A trail-blazing and inspiring collection of essays on art, feminism, neuroscience and psychology featuring The Delusions of Certainty, winner of the European Essay Prize 2019.As well as being a prize-winning, bestselling novelist, Siri Hustvedt is widely regarded as a...
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Sceptre
Parution :
2016-12-01
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This book discusses violence and its connection with religion, sport and popular culture. It highlights the religious dimensions of violence and the role of violence in the religion and culture of the American South. Extending into popular culture, it then...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-11-30
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Religious Studies
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The Handbook of the Criminology of Terrorism features a collection of essays that represent the most recent criminological research relating to the origins and evolution of, along with responses to, terrorism, from a criminological perspective. Offers an authoritative...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-11-29
Collection :
Wiley Handbooks in Criminology and Criminal Justice
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Exam Board: AQALevel: AS/A-levelSubject: SociologyFirst Teaching: September 2016First Exam: June 2017Build students' understanding with this concept-driven approach to the 2015 AQA A-level Sociology specification, written by a team of leading subject authors and...
Editeur :
Hodder Education
Parution :
2016-11-28
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Reflecting the currently growing eco-movement, this book presents to western readers Tao Yuanming, an ancient Chinese poet, as a representative of classical oriental natural philosophy who offered lived experience of “dwelling poetically on earth.” Drawing on Derrida’s...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-11-25
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China is home to one of the largest and oldest societies in the world, and presently contains fifty-six ethnic groups. Among them is the Zhuang, the largest of the minority populations, which partakes in a very long history of preliterate oral traditions. This volume...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-11-24
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This Brief fills a gap in criminological literature, as there are few empirically-based studies on delinquency of adolescent girls. It provides results of a longitudinal study, The Pittsburgh Girls Study (PGS), which includes 2,451 girls, followed annually from age...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-11-23
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Criminology
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Warum müssen Minderheiten geschützt und gefördert werden? Welche Minderheiten in Europa gibt es? Weshalb bedarf es wirksamer Minderheitenschutzsysteme auf verschiedenen Akteursebenen? Unter welchen Voraussetzungen können Minderheiten wirksam geschützt werden? Diesen und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-11-23
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This book provides a state of the art approach to participatory planning, and generates innovative thought in planning theory and knowledge study. The book introduces a new conceptual framework for participatory planning, one which redefines concepts that have been...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-11-22
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This volume honors the lifetime achievement of distinguished activist and scholar Elise Boulding (1920–2010) on the occasion of her 96th birthday. Known as the “matriarch” of the twentieth century peace research movement, she made significant contributions in the fields...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-11-21
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