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We live in a world that is increasingly difficult to understand. It is not just changing: it is metamorphosing. Change implies that some things change but other things remain the same capitalism changes, but some aspects of capitalism remain as they always were....
Editeur :
Polity
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2016-09-02
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This book explores trends in migration from Bulgaria to Switzerland since Bulgaria joined the European Union (EU) in 2007. Due to several unique factors, this in-depth case study provides a basis for understanding transnational migration in a wider European context....
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-09-01
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This far-sighted volume describes emerging trends and challenges in university-level social sciences education in an era marked by globalization, austerity, and inequity. It spotlights solution-focused and interdisciplinary methods of teaching, developed to match...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-08-30
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This book is a collection of work by scholars currently pursuing research on human security and insecurities in Southeast Asia. It deals with a set of ‘insecurities’ that is not readily understood or measurable. As such, it conceptually locates the threats and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-08-30
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Asia in Transition
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This Brief provides an overview and history of the definition of serial homicide, from the perspectives of psychology, medicine, criminology and forensics. It reviews research to provide a standard definition of serial homicide (as opposed to multiple or mass homicide),...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-08-30
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SpringerBriefs in Criminology
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This book launches a debate on the need to evaluate criminal policies and, what is more complex and ambitious, to develop an evaluation method. The contributions address topics such as the general methodology for evaluating public policy, preparing criminal statistics,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-08-27
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This volume brings together a series of original contributions made by international experts dedicated to guiding efforts in preventing crime. The collection is divided into seven sections that cover cutting edge approaches to crime prevention: 1) the offenders’...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-08-27
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JungakademikerInnen unterschiedlicher Fachgebiete haben sich mit der Idee den interdisziplinären sowie interkulturellen wissenschaftlichen Dialog zu fördern ans Werk gemacht und setzen sich in ihren Beiträgen mit internationalen Fragen beziehungsweise regionalen Themen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-08-26
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This book explores humanity’s thoughts and ideas about extraterrestrial life, paying close attention to the ways science and culture interact with one another to create a context of imagination and discovery related to life on other worlds. Despite the recent explosion...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-08-26
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This book presents a close reading of the work of the Mexican writer and Nobel Prize Laureate, Octavio Paz. It does so from the specific perspective of sociology and the more general perspective of the social sciences. The book identifies opportunities for relating Paz’...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-08-23
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Sociology
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This volume investigates a historical account of the development of landscapes management at Borobudur. In the 1970s and 1980s, there was large scale heritage conservation intervention of the Borobudur Temple by UNESCO and a simultaneous attempt of a wider...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-08-22
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New Developments in the Bioarchaeology of Care evaluates, refines and expands existing concepts and practices in the developing field of bioarchaeological research into health-related care provision in the past.Evidence in human remains that indicates an individual...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-08-22
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Biocultural or biosocial anthropology is a research approach that views biology and culture as dialectically and inextricably intertwined, explicitly emphasizing the dynamic interaction between humans and their larger social, cultural, and physical environments. The...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-08-22
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This book explores aspects of the ancient civilization in West Asia, which has had a great impact on modern human society—agriculture, metallurgy, cities, writing, regional states, and monotheism, all of which appeared first in West Asia during the tenth to first...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-08-19
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This anthology analyzes societal and cultural aspects of modern Japan. It identifies the dynamic trend and undercurrent in Japan by addressing three key areas: modernization, internationalization, and memory and imagination. Using interdisciplinary and multi-language...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-08-18
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This timely reference examines the psychological and social phenomena of mass and serial murder, bringing scholarly depth to a frequently sensationalized subject. Its review of the literature features case studies of serial and mass murderers to expand on salient...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-08-18
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Das algerische Kino begleitet die Geschichte des Landes seit dem Unabhängigkeitskrieg. Es reflektiert Entwicklungen und Probleme des modernen Algerien, dessen enge und konfliktreiche Beziehung zu Frankreich sowie die nationale Krise im Bürgerkrieg. Aus filmhistorischer,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-08-16
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By examining the implementation dynamics of EU Readmission Agreements (EURAs), this book addresses the practical reasons why irregular immigrants cannot be expelled. EURAs are one of the vital legal instruments framing EU external migration law with regard to the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-08-15
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Law
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At the start of studies on health communication, scholars were primarily concerned with showing the ethical implications of a new approach to care and with collecting evidence to demonstrate its greater effectiveness as opposed to the paternalistic and mechanistic...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2016-08-15
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Die Autorin untersucht das Formenspektrum griechischer visueller Poesie in ihrer sprachlichen und kulturgeschichtlichen Spannbreite: Vom antiken Technopägnion, den Kuben und Trigona, über die byzantinischen «gewebten Verse» oder die neuzeitlichen figurierten Lobgedichte...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-08-15
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