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This book analyses the instruments and approaches offered by public international law to resolve cultural heritage related disputes and facilitate the return of illicitly transferred objects to their countries of origin. In addition to assessing the instruments...
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Springer
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2016-09-24
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This book investigates food security and the implications of hyper-urbanisation and rapid growth of urban populations in Africa. By means of a series of case studies involving African cities of various sizes, it argues that, while the concept of food security holds...
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Springer
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2016-09-23
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This volume combines rigorous empirical and theoretical analyses with political engagement to look beyond reductive short-hands that ignore the historical evolution and varieties of Islamic doctrine and that deny the complexities of Muslim societies' encounters with...
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Springer
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2016-09-23
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This book explores how personalized content and the inherent networked nature of the mobile media could and do lead to positive externalities in social progress in Asian societies. Empirical studies that examine uses of the mobile phone and apps (voice mailing, SMS,...
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Springer
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2016-09-23
Collection :
Mobile Communication in Asia: Local Insights, Global Implications
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This book is the first work that comprehensively presents the accounts of Lia Eden, a former flower arranger who claims to have received divine messages from the Archangel Gabriel and founded the divine Eden Kingdom in her house in Jakarta.This book places Lia Eden’s...
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Springer
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2016-09-22
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In the mediated digital era, communication is changing fast and eating up ever greater shares of real-world power. Corporate battles and guerrilla wars are fought on Twitter. Facebook is the new Berlin, home to tinkers, tailors, spies ? and terrorist recruiters. We...
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Polity
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2016-09-22
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This book presents possible alternatives and interpretations to the well established notion in the mostly western discourse on public space. The discourse on public space as understood in the democratic-rationalist tradition, when applied to the Singaporean public...
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Springer
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2016-09-21
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Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements
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This book presents an overview of the challenges that cities in Latin America and Asia are facing regarding the preservation of their tangible and intangible heritage. It argues that urban heritage has a value that transcends the mere object’s value, constituting a...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-09-20
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The Urban Book Series
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The book reflects on the current dimensions of tourism and patrimony in Brazil. It presents cultural realities as resources for the resolution of tensions between different communities and the establishment of their identities.The book also presents memories and...
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Springer
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2016-09-19
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Latin American Studies
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Aimed directly at those who aspire to be university leaders in these turbulent times, and written as an academic counterpart to Machiavelli's The Prince, The Academic Caesar explores four themes that are central to the contemporary university: its Caesar-leaders, its...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2016-09-19
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This book is a collection of papers written by researchers, teachers, administrators, analysts and graduate students working and doing research in the field of social sciences. The topics in the book include a wide range of studies from the analysis of social science...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-09-19
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This book presents the nature, challenges and successful cases of female entrepreneurship in Iran. The first part of the book provides a comprehensive insight into Iran’s entrepreneurship ecosystem and its accessibility for women by exploring and analyzing data from...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-09-16
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In this new fifth edition, there is a strong focus on the increasing concern over infrastructure resilience from the threat of serious storms, human activity, and population growth. The new edition also looks technologies that urban transportation planners are...
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Springer
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2016-09-16
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In the sixth edition of Contested Knowledge, social theorist Steven Seidman presents the latest topics in social theory and addresses the current shift of 'universalist theorists' to networks of clustered debates. Responds to current issues, debates, and new social...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-09-15
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"Brilliant, painful, enlightening, tearful, tragic, sad, and funny, this photo-essay book is at its core about healing, and about the social justice work that still needs to be done in the era of hip-hop, Black Lives Matter, and the historic presidency of Barack Obama."...
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Bold Type Books
Parution :
2016-09-13
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This book discusses the multifaceted concept of disability in the context of India. Through analyses of theoretical propositions of disability in South Asia and empirical explorations of the lives of persons with disabilities in India, this book not only brings to the...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-09-13
Collection :
Dynamics of Asian Development
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Wer denkt, des Deutschen Lieblingsgetränk sei Bier, der irrt: Es ist der Kaffee. Ein Deutscher trinkt im Jahr durchschnittlich 146 Liter Kaffee. Dabei wird die Auswahl zwischen den Geschmacksvarianten und den Arten der Zubereitung immer größer. Es gibt jetzt Pads,...
Editeur :
Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2016-09-12
Collection :
Little Black Books (Deutsche Ausgabe)
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The Sociology of Healthcare Safety and Quality presents a series of research-informed readings on the sociological contributions of technologies, practices, experiences, and organizational quality and safety across a range of healthcare contexts. Represents the first...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-09-12
Collection :
Sociology of Health and Illness Monographs
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Die Autorin beschäftigt sich in ihrer Untersuchung mit der Identifizierung von Schwierigkeiten im Rahmen des Prozesses der Wiedereingliederung von Mitarbeitenden nach einer Auslandsentsendung. Der Fokus liegt dabei vor allem auf der beruflichen Integration der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-09-12
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