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The claim that ?LGBT rights are human rights? encounters fierce opposition in many parts of the world, as governments and religious leaders have used resistance to ?LGBT rights? to cast themselves as defenders of traditional values against neo-colonial interference and...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2016-03-21
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What's the use of sociology? The question has been asked often enough and it leaves a lingering doubt in the minds of many. At a time when there is widespread scepticism about the value of sociology and of the social sciences generally, this short book by one of the...
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Polity
Parution :
2016-03-21
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This is the first book in Polity's new 'Urban Futures' series.At the beginning of the twenty-first century, proclamations rang out that gentrification had gone global. But what do we mean by 'gentrification' today? How can we compare 'gentrification' in New York and...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2016-03-21
Collection :
Urban Futures
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The signing of the Convention on the protection of the Alps (Alpine Convention) by the Alpine States in 1991 heralded new practices and perspectives. This transnational project is intended to solve important challenges faced by the Alpine population. Convinced that the...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2016-03-18
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A la luz de los más recientes estudios jacobeos, escritos de peregrinación y la literatura ficcional o testimonial, en el volumen se contrastan relatos de viajeros a Compostela procedentes de los confines de Europa con la iconografía jacobea, incidiendo también en...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-03-18
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Does it make sense to speak of a European society, above and beyond its component states and regions? In this major new book William Outhwaite argues that it does. He goes beyond the study of individual states and specific regions of Europe to examine the changing...
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Polity
Parution :
2016-03-18
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The Hatton Garden Heist captured the public's imagination more than another other crime sinceThe Great Train Robbery. It was supposed to make a fortune for a team of old time professional criminals. Their last hurrah. A final lucrative job that would send the old...
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Quercus
Parution :
2016-03-17
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This book demonstrates the benefits of applying a new interdisciplinary approach that combines global change and human mobility. The term "globility" was coined in the year 2000 when the commission with the same name was created by the International Geographical Union...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-03-16
Collection :
Advances in Geographical and Environmental Sciences
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The relatively frequent occurrence of rapid onset and very brief, but often florid, psychotic states, with periodic recurrence, alongside relatively low rates of PTSD and chronic psychosis, were unexpected findings from the 2004 East Timor Mental Health Study, conducted...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-03-16
Collection :
Cultural Studies of Science and Medicine
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Work creates and transforms the social world. Its least predictable and most admired embodiment, artistic and scientific invention, seems to defy causal analysis and statistical regularities. Far more than the exploration of the conscious and infraconscious processes of...
Editeur :
Collège de France
Parution :
2016-03-16
Collection :
Leçons inaugurales
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This volume presents state of the art analyses from scholars dealing with a range of demographic topics of current concern, including longevity, mortality and morbidity, migration, and how population composition impacts intergenerational transfer schemes. New...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-03-15
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This volume brings together multidisciplinary, situated and nuanced analyses of contingent issues framing a rapidly changing India in the 21st century. It moves beyond the ready dichotomies that are often extended to understand India as a series of contrasts and offers...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-03-14
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This volume commemorates Richard H. Grathoff’s (1934–2013) contribution to interpretative sociology. Reconsidering the legacy of social phenomenology, it demonstrates the usefulness of concepts such as life-world, milieu and symbolic transcendence in the studies of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-03-11
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This book takes stock of opinion polls in communist and post-communist states, presents specific case studies and answers the question how opinion polls under conditions of censorship and lack of media pluralism differ from those in liberal democratic societies. These...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-03-11
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Leihmütter werden heute zunehmend von Paaren aus aller Welt in Anspruch genommen. Die Autorin geht den aktuellen Fragen, die dieser Trend aufwirft, insbesondere mit Blick auf das internationale Privat- und Zivilverfahrensrecht nach. Die Abstammung des Kindes, seine...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-03-11
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Gender and Peacebuilding offers a comprehensive and up to date analysis of how and why gender matters in contemporary peace operations. It draws on a wide range of examples from across the world to offer a nuanced account of the UN?s attempts to mainstream gender into...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2016-03-11
Collection :
Gender and Global Politics
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Since the first book was signed almost ten years ago, the Mediated Youth series has published nearly two dozen volumes, with more in process or production. This milestone provides the perfect opportunity to reflect on how the series has evolved, how it has contributed...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-03-10
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Polish up on the art of becoming the complete bachelor! Are you… Attending a formal dinner but worried you won’t know which fork to use? Planning a trip abroad but unsure of what to pack? Joining a yachting club and need to know the correct attire? Bursting with...
Editeur :
Summersdale
Parution :
2016-03-10
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Polish up on the art of becoming a true lady! Are you… Planning to visit a friend or family but don’t want to outstay your welcome? Going shopping on a budget but need to improve your negotiating techniques? Attending a formal event and would like to find the perfect...
Editeur :
Summersdale
Parution :
2016-03-10
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Using interviews with world-renowned and innovative hip-hop DJs, as well as technology manufacturers that cater to the market/culture, this book reveals stories behind some of the iconic DJ technologies that have helped shape the history and culture of DJing. More...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-03-10
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