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As we grow up and grow old, embrace new experiences, try new roles, and adopt new technologies, our senses of time, space, connection, and identity are fundamentally explored through communication. Why, how, with whom, and to what end humans communicate reflect and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-03-10
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This book
analyzes practical and moral influences on voting decisions. Undermining the widespread
assumption that economic self-interest is the key determinant of voting choices,
it discovers that moral considerations rooted in religious traditions are often
the more...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-03-09
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Newly revised and updated, this classic manifesto is “a foundational text for anyone hoping to understand transgender politics and culture in the U.S. today” (NPR) A landmark of trans and feminist nonfiction, Whipping Girl is Julia Serano’s...
Editeur :
Seal Press
Parution :
2016-03-08
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A Companion to Popular Culture is a landmark survey of contemporary research in popular culture studies that offers a comprehensive and engaging introduction to the field. Includes over two dozen essays covering the spectrum of popular culture studies from food to...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-03-08
Collection :
Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies
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40,95€
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This volume informs the reader about new teachers in urban underserved schools and their development as teachers for social equity. The accounts of five novice teachers who grew up outside the communities in which they teach lead to chapters that contain advice for...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-03-07
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Bringing together archaeological, paleoenvironmental, paleontological and genetic data, this book makes a first attempt to reconstruct African population histories from out species' evolution to the Holocene. Africa during Marine Isotope Stages (MIS) 6 to 2...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-03-04
Collection :
Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology
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This study investigates long-lasting cultural constructions of childbirth. Four symbolic patterns of childbirth emerge from the analysis of a variety of texts ranging from myths, philosophy, literature and religion to ethics of modern medicine. On a symbolic level «The...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-03-04
ePub
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This volume addresses the crucial role of knowledge and innovation in coping with and adapting to socio-economic and political transformation processes in post-Soviet societies. Unique are the bottom up or micro-sociological and ethnographic perspectives offered by the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-03-04
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Articulations of Capital offers an accessible, grounded, yet theoretically-sophisticated account of the geographies of global production networks, value chains, and regional development in post-socialist Eastern and Central Europe. Proposes a new theorization of global...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-03-03
Collection :
RGS-IBG Book Series
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-62%
67,80€
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Walt Whitman wrote: «The real war will never get into the books.» To this day, however, American soldier-authors write about their war and translate traumatic experiences into language accessible to the reader. Veterans of the recent Iraq war do not differ here. Joining...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-02-26
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Kulturkritik ist oft als ein spezifisch deutsches Phänomen beschrieben worden. Seit Sterns Studie über «Kulturpessimismus als politische Gefahr» war das Augenmerk vermehrt auf die Nähe zum Nationalismus gerichtet. Seitdem verblieb die deutscheKulturkritik im...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-02-26
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This volume constitutes a first step towards an ever-deferred interdisciplinary dialogue on cultural traits. It offers a way to enter a representative sample of the intellectual diversity that surrounds this topic, and a means to stimulate innovative avenues of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-02-26
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This book answers the call for New
Urbanization, and proposes
a “5+9+6” national
spatial layout plan for the urbanization
of the 770 major cities in China.This macro pattern is based on a few
major metropolises at the center, and other cities supporting and benefitting...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-02-25
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This book presents contributions from researchers, practitioners and professional institutions that published papers in the Proceedings of the Educating Enterprising Engineers and Scientists conference, held in London, UK on 17th June 2015. The topics considered range...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-02-24
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This book offers a brand new point of view on immigration detention, pursuing a multidisciplinary approach and presenting new reflections by internationally respected experts from academic and institutional backgrounds. It offers an in-depth perspective on the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-02-24
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This book discusses that disasters, whether natural or man-made, are essentially a human phenomenon. When a city becomes gridlocked and its resources depleted, the collective resilience of those who remain on the ground becomes critical to its...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-02-24
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This open access book presents a comparative analysis of intergroup relations and migrant integration at the neighbourhood level in Europe. Featuring a unique collection of portraits of urban relations between the majority population and immigrant minorities, it...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-02-24
Collection :
IMISCOE Research Series
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This book
reviews contemporary research on urban infrastructure in 76 Ethiopian cities.
It examines urban infrastructure issues in these cities and covers a wide range
of topics from sustainability and smart cities to research methods employed by
urban infrastructure...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-02-24
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Geography
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??Archaeologies of Early Modern Spanish Colonialism illustrates how archaeology contributes to the knowledge of early modern Spanish colonialism and the "first globalization" of the 16th and 17th centuries. Through a range of specific case studies, this book offers a...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-02-22
Collection :
Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology
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This book examines the extent to which social position impacts exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV) and whether women with IPV exposure are more vulnerable to social inequities in health. At the intersection of sociological theories on health, gender, and policy,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-02-20
Collection :
Social Disparities in Health and Health Care
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