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??This brief summarizes the results of a two-year, international research project covering drug addiction treatment versus punishment in Austria, Poland, and Spain. It features: -An analysis of the national drug-related legislation and its application in these countries...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-08-14
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Criminology
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Recognized as a finalist for the CAE 2018 Outstanding Book Award!Part historic ethnography, part linguistic case study and part a mother’s memoir, Kisisi tells the story of two boys (Colin and Sadiki) who, together invented their own language, and of the friendship they...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-08-13
Collection :
New Directions in Ethnography
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In the late 1930s the Lancashire town of Bolton witnessed a ground-breaking social experiment. Over three years, a team of ninety observers recorded, in painstaking detail, the everyday lives of ordinary working people at work and play - in the pub, dance hall, factory...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2015-08-13
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Named Sports Illustrated's best football book of all time and a #1 NYT bestseller, this is the classic story of a high school football team whose win-loss record has a profound influence on the town around them. Return once again to the timeless account of the Permian...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
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2015-08-11
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Gabriel Stängle untersucht, wie die Schüler einer Realschule die Prozesse sozialen Lernens wahrnehmen und wie sich das am häufigsten in Deutschland verwendete Life-Skills-Programm „Erwachsen werden“ auf die sozialen Kompetenzen auswirkt. Mit Hilfe der Grounded Theory...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-08-10
Collection :
BestMasters
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This book focuses on assumptions underlying methods choice in program evaluation. Credible program evaluation extends beyond the accuracy of research designs to include arguments justifying the appropriateness of methods. An important part of this justification is...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-08-10
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A Companion to Heritage Studies BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO ANTHROPOLOGY A Companion to Heritage Studies “This Companion provides a gateway to heritage studies for students and scholars alike. Taken together, the essays testify to how exciting and dynamic this field has...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-08-10
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
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196,95€
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This book serves as an insightful ethnographic introduction to the language and oral traditions of the Inugguit, a sub-group of the Inuit who live in north-west Greenland. A unique work, it encompasses an overview of the grammar of Polar Eskimo – a language spoken by...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-08-07
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?Battlefields have been the object of fascination for millions of tourists and the subjects of elaborate interpretation projects. This volume will outline the process and results of developing the WWII Maritime Heritage Trail: Battle of Saipan Project. This book will...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-08-07
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'The capacity to affect and to be affected'. This simple definition opens a world of questions - by indicating an openness to the world. To affect and to be affected is to be in encounter, and to be in encounter is to have already ventured forth. Adventure: far from...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2015-08-06
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This book follows the history of the international law of peace and armed conflict over the last 25 years. It highlights both the parameters that have remained the same over the years as well as the new challenges now facing international law. The articles analyze new...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-08-04
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The internet and the mobile phone have disrupted many of our conventional understandings of ourselves and our relationships, raising anxieties and hopes about their effects on our lives. In this second edition of her timely and vibrant book, Nancy Baym provides...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2015-08-04
Collection :
Digital Media and Society
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This book discusses affirmative action or positive discrimination, defined as measures awarding privileges to certain groups that have historically suffered discrimination or have been underrepresented in specific social sectors. The book’s underlying rationale is that...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-08-03
Collection :
Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice
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In this book the author maintains that fertility declines independently of its “background”. Normally, fertility decline is thought to occur as a result of alteration in the socioeconomic background such as the decline of the infant mortality rate, urbanization, the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-08-03
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The archaeologies of food and warfare have independently developed over the past several decades. This volume aims to provide concrete linkages between these research topics through the examination of case studies worldwide. Topics considered within the book...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-08-03
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This Brief provides a detailed guide to national data sources that collect and report data on homicides in the United States, and some key international sources abroad. It provides in-depth coverage of well-known sources, and highlights more obscure sources, providing a...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-07-31
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Criminology
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This book focuses on values and valuation in the State of the Union addresses delivered by the former U.S. President George W. Bush. What values are invoked in the speeches? How are these values constructed? How can they be classified? How are particular construals of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-07-31
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This book studies the history, literature and culture of Portuguese-speaking countries through the lens of utopia. The role of utopia in Portuguese literature is the object of fresh analyses ranging from Camões to Gonçalo M. Tavares, and António Vieira to José Saramago....
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-07-31
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The service sector has not always received the attention it merits in industrial relations research when set against its enormous economic significance. One factor in this is certainly the highly diverse nature of services. Research attention has also lagged behind...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-07-31
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This book explores the identities, embodied experiences, and personal relationships of young people experiencing homelessness, and analyses these in relation to the material and symbolic position that youth homelessness occupies in modern societies. Drawing on empirical...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-07-30
Collection :
Perspectives on Children and Young People
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