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If you look carefully at how things are actually made in China - from shirts to toys, apple juice to oil rigs - you see a reality that contradicts every widely-held notion about the world's so-called economic powerhouse. From the inside looking out, China is not a...
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Polity
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2015-07-30
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This book explores the dynamics of the interaction between the development of creative industries and urban land use in Nanjing, a metropolis and a growth pole in the Yangtze River Delta. In the last two decades, China's economy has been undergoing dramatic...
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Springer
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2015-07-29
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Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research
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Middle India and Rural-Urban Development explores the socio-economic conditions of an ‘India’ that falls between the cracks of macro-economic analysis, sectoral research and micro-level ethnography. Its focus, the ‘middle India’ of small towns, is relatively unknown in...
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Springer
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2015-07-28
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Exploring Urban Change in South Asia
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The ego-net approach to social network analysis, which takes discrete individual actors and their contacts as its starting point, is one of the most widely used approaches in the field. This is the first textbook to take readers through each stage of ego-net research,...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2015-07-27
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Drawing on decades of industrial experience, this insightful and practical guide uses case studies and an interdisciplinary perspective to explain the fundamentals of simulation training to improve performance of high-risk professional activities. It seeks to identify...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-07-24
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This book deals with one strand of the intense debate concerning the links between law and development, namely the coordination of innovation processes and legal change. It analyzes how innovation, and ultimately development, can be fostered or hindered by existing or...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-07-24
Collection :
SxI - Springer for Innovation / SxI - Springer per l'Innovazione
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Mit der Erkundung und Eroberung der Neuen Welt beginnt die Geschichte eines europäischen Bewusstseins von Globalisierung. Das Schlüsselthema unserer Zeit hat besonders in der Aufklärung Konjunktur. Die hierfür zentrale «Berliner Debatte» legt die entscheidenden Fragen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-07-24
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Der Bedeutung und Funktion von Metaphern nachzugehen und darüber aufzuklären, ist Aufgabe der Metaphorologie. Dieses Buch legt eine differenzierte Auseinandersetzung mit Hans Blumenbergs Metaphorologie vor, deren unterschiedliche Konzeptionen die Autorin in drei...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-07-24
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Das Buch befasst sich mit Kaiser Michael IX. Palaiologos, der in der Literatur bisher kaum beachtet, sondern als «Mitkaiser» ohne selbstständige Funktionen gesehen wurde. Helga Gickler untersucht die Gründe dafür. Die abwertende lateinische Übersetzung des...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-07-24
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This book examines recent debates on the political dynamics of cosmopolitanism, particularly in its connection with European civil society and the public sphere. The aim of the volume is to trace to what extent cosmopolitanism corresponds to «second modernity», with the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-07-24
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This volume offers a view of modern Russian intellectual culture as shaped by the dynamic of conversions. The individual contributions examine a rich variety of personal conversions occurring in a culture in which the written word enjoyed a privileged status and,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-07-24
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This volume offers a new view on gender structuring in contemporary Slovenia and the persistence of the gender order – produced and reproduced through gender regimes in education, work, family life and politics. With a focus on the low presence of women in politics, the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-07-24
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Seit ca. 15 Jahren ist «Inklusive Entwicklung» als neue Strategie zur Einbeziehung von Menschen mit «Behinderung/en» in das entwicklungspolitische Feld in der Öffentlichkeit präsent. Isa Garde beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, ob und wie die Versprechungen von gerechterer...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-07-24
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?This book focuses on the social and societal context of women's mental health. Drawing from multidisciplinary perspectives and scholarship, it pays particular attention to how women's mental health is experienced at the personal level, yet it is influenced by their...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-07-23
Collection :
Advances in Mental Health and Addiction
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Many social work students find the study of mental health legislation a complex and at times challenging process. Acts of law can seem irrelevant and far-removed from everyday practice and the person-centred approach that many social workers take. This book introduces...
Editeur :
Learning Matters
Parution :
2015-07-22
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Pulling together the most salient, current issues in the field today, The Handbook of Gangs provides a significant assessment by leading scholars of key topics related to gangs, gang members, and responses to gangs. • Chapters cover a wide array of the most prominent...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-07-21
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Wiley Handbooks in Criminology and Criminal Justice
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Mobility and Ancient Society in Asia and the Americas contains contributions by leading international scholars concerning the character, timing, and geography of regional migrations that led to the dispersal of human societies from Inner and northeast Asia to the New...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-07-20
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Religion: An Anthropological Perspective provides a critical view of religion focusing upon important but overlooked topics such as religion, cognition, and prehistory; science, rationality, and religion; altered states of consciousness, entheogens and religious...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2015-07-20
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This selection of Ibrahim Malik’s short stories and poetry brings together an illustrative compendium of his works, which propose a genuine portrait of the numerous predicaments, concerns, apprehensions, and coercions from which the Arab community inside Israel suffers....
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2015-07-20
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This book investigates the Matthean use of bread and the breaking of bread in light of cognitive conceptual metaphor, which are not only intertwined within Matthew’s narrative plots but also function to represent Matthew’s communal identity and ideological vision. The...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2015-07-20
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