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In this new edition of his acclaimed book, Richard Giulianotti provides a critical sociological interpretation of modern sport. As global festivals such as the Olympic Games and football’s World Cup demonstrate, sport’s social, political, economic and cultural...
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Polity
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2015-11-18
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This book offers a comprehensive review of the far-reaching social changes that have taken place since the start of the Chinese economic reform and opening up of Chinese society over 30 years ago. As such, it examines various aspects of the social transformation of...
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Springer
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2015-11-18
Collection :
China Insights
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This book deals with the implementation of the rights of the child as enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 21 countries from Europe, Asia, Australia, and the USA. It gives an overview of the legal status of children regarding their most salient...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-11-17
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Ius Comparatum - Global Studies in Comparative Law
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Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls is a manifesto and call to arms for women of all sizes and ages. With smart and spirited eloquence, veteran blogger Jes Baker calls on women to be proud of their bodies, fight against fat-shaming, and embrace a body-positive worldview...
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Seal Press
Parution :
2015-11-17
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This unique book focuses on the hybridization of grassroots participation in planning, implementing, and developing gender-responsive budgeting. It explores the possibilities for gender sensitive budgeting when implemented using techniques that have been popularized by...
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Springer
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2015-11-17
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Are human beings less violent than before? Why do we adopt certain moral and political judgements? Why is the gap between rich and poor getting bigger? How do we decide which criminal policies are effective? What is the Population Challenge for the 21st Century? What is...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2015-11-16
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This book examines changes of citizenship in the light of dislocated habitations. It highlights the ways in which the membership in a local community is shifting away from national frameworks, and explores the dislocations brought about by transnational and cosmopolitan...
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Springer
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2015-11-12
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The 25th anniversary edition of the groundbreaking New York Times bestseller, with a new afterword by the author--which offers a new vision of what it is to be a manIn this timeless and deeply learned classic, poet and translator Robert Bly offers nothing less than a...
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Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2015-11-10
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Recent decades have seen an upsurge of research with and about young children, their families and communities. The Handbook of Early Childhood Research will provide a landmark overview of the field of early childhood research and will set an agenda for early childhood...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2015-11-10
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"This is a book about who we are today, and how we have become who we are. It is about the engineers of the modern soul, the entrepreneurial self. It is essential reading for all those who care about the incessant demands placed on us to become more than we are, to...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2015-11-09
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This book brings together diverse perspectives from the newest generation of scholars from Canada and China to better understand China in the 21st century. It examines China's socio-political structure, its particular relationship with Canada, and interaction with the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-11-07
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This book offers fresh insights into how companies can engage with, and make use of, the modern metropolis. Based on actor-network theory and the resource-based view of the firm, it demonstrates how the contemporary city can be seen – and used – as a resource for...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-11-07
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Dieses Buch beschäftigt sich mit der Tanzimât-Periode, welche den Zeitraum von 1839 bis 1876 umfasst und den Beginn der Neuordnung von Recht und Gesellschaft in der osmanischen Geschichte darstellt. Tanzimât bedeutet übersetzt «heilsame Neuordnung». Die Neugestaltung...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-11-06
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L’autore si occupa del senso di oggetti in scrittrici migranti postcoloniali sulla base di un close reading di opere di scrittrici di espressione italiana. La parte introduttiva dà ragione del possibile significato degli oggetti in opere letterarie di carattere...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-11-06
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This brief introduces a human rights approach to social work research and evaluation, compares it to traditional research approaches, and explains how to apply it in real world social work research. The author draws from a human rights framework that incorporates...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-11-05
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Rights-Based Approaches to Social Work
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In the last two decades, both the conception and the practice of participatory culture have been transformed by the new affordances enabled by digital, networked, and mobile technologies. This exciting new book explores that transformation by bringing together three...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2015-11-05
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Recent advances in ICT have given rise to new socially disruptive technologies: AmI and the IoT, marking a major technological change which may lead to a drastic transformation of the technological ecosystem in all its complexity, as well as to a major alteration in...
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Atlantis Press
Parution :
2015-11-05
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This volume centers on the application of social theory to commingled remains with special focus on the cultural processes that create the assemblages as a way to better understand issues of meaning, social structure and interaction, and lived experience in the past....
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Springer
Parution :
2015-11-05
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Rabea Haß analysiert den Freiwilligen Wehrdienst erstmals aus einer subjektorientierten Perspektive. Basierend auf umfangreichen empirischen Erhebungen entwickelt die Autorin eine aussagekräftige Typologie von sechs verschiedenen Soldatentypen im Freiwilligen...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-11-05
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Is feminism still a dirty word? We asked twenty-five of the brightest, funniest, bravest young women what being a feminist in 2015 means to them.We hear from Laura Bates (of the Everyday Sexism Project), Reni Eddo-Lodge (award-winning journalist and author), Yas Necati...
Editeur :
Virago
Parution :
2015-11-05
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