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«What do you think is meant by the term ‘post-racial’ and how far do you think we’ve come, as a country, toward achieving it?» Helen Fox, a white teacher and scholar, asked variations of this question to 87 high school and college students, educators, administrators,...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2015-07-20
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This book investigates the interface of ethnicity with occupation, empirically observed in luxury international hotels in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It employs the two main disciplines of anthropology and sociology in order to understand the root causes and meaning of...
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Springer
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2015-07-16
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Im staatlichen Recht der Schwarzarbeitsbekämpfung stimmt der verkündete Wortlaut des SchwarzArbG 2004 mit dem dokumentierten Willen der Legislativakteure nicht überein. Informelle Tatbestands- und Verfolgungsprivilegien verbinden sich zu einem legislatorischen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-07-14
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This book collects and organizes the original studies presented at PROMS 2014 conference on theories and applications of Rasch model. It provides useful examples of the Rasch model used to address practical measurement problems across a range of different disciplines...
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Springer
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2015-07-10
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Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015In this lucid and intelligent guide, John Nerone traces the history of the media in public life. His unconventional account decenters professional journalism from its central role in providing information to the people and...
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Polity
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2015-07-09
Collection :
New Directions in Media History
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How are we to live with the wide varieties of sexuality and gender found across the rapidly changing global order? Whilst some countries have legislated in favour of same-sex marriage and the United Nations makes declarations about gender and sexual equality, many...
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Polity
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2015-07-09
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This distinctive volume expands our understanding of couple resilience by identifying and exploring specific mechanisms unique to intimate relationships that facilitate positive adaptation to life challenges. Committed partnerships represent a unique form of relational...
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Springer
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2015-07-08
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This book presents research concerning the effects of the Camino to Finisterre on the daily lives of the populations who live along the route, and the heritagization processes that exploitation of the Camino for tourism purposes involves. Rather than focusing on the...
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Springer
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2015-07-02
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GeoJournal Library
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The volume offers an exploration of methods for analysis of emotion in negotiation, such as cognitive modeling, discourse analysis, all testing, subsequent multidimensional scaling, impression rating, and graph modeling for conflict resolution, reasonable and...
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Springer
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2015-07-01
Collection :
Advances in Group Decision and Negotiation
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This work reviews the progress of children’s rights 25 years since the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. It studies the progress of that human rights instrument as part of an ongoing process. It examines how recent past, present and future...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-06-30
Collection :
Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and Research
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The Hizmet Movement initiated by Fethullah Gülen in Turkey in the 1960s is today active in more than 160 countries.The participants of Hizmet are often less visible among the Muslim minorities in Western societies. They do not build mosques or hold regular prayer...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2015-06-30
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In einer Untersuchung von etwa 170 Romanen und Novellen der Trivialliteratur aus der Zeit von 1849 bis 1945 werden die «Mechanismen» dieser Texte aufgezeigt. Die herangezogenen Werkgruppen sind: der Liebesroman, der Frauenroman, der historische Roman, der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-06-30
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This Festschrift acknowledges the scholarly work of Leo Schelbert and his mentorship of graduate students in the Department of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago where for 33 years he taught American history. Professor Schelbert has specialized in the...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2015-06-30
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Ballet Body Narratives is an ethnographic exploration of the social world of classical ballet and the embodiment of young ballet dancers as they engage in «becoming a dancer» in ballet school in England. In contrast to the largely disembodied sociological literature of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-06-30
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Prestige examines whether social prestige is still an important axis of the stratification hierarchy. It appears that prestige has lost some of the close connection with social position it had in estates societies.Prestige distribution patterns have changed and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-06-30
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This interdisciplinary collection of articles, written by scholars involved in translating the Bible into various languages around the world, demonstrates that such translation projects are promoting the vitality of local languages, both those that are endangered and...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2015-06-30
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Jerusalem has for centuries been known as the spiritual center for the three largest monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Yet Jerusalem’s other-worldly transcendence is far from the daily reality of Jerusalem, a city bombarded by conflict. The battle...
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Polity
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2015-06-29
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Sandra Schröder befasst sich mit dem Abstammungsrecht, das ein Kind juristisch seinen Eltern zuordnet. Da dieses Recht allen weiteren kindschaftsrechtlichen Fragen logisch vorgeschaltet ist, kommt dem Abstammungsrecht eine besondere Bedeutung zu. Die Autorin untersucht...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-06-26
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Um eine globale Dimension zu gewinnen, muss moderne Geschichtswissenschaft theoriefähig sein. Der Autor versteht sein Buch als eine Aufforderung zum Denken, als einen Versuch, ausgehend von der Theoriefähigkeit historischen Wissens, die Ausbildung einer historischen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-06-26
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Das Buch beschäftigt sich in Form einer Meinungsforschung unter südkoreanischen Studierenden und Professor/innen der Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien mit soziokulturellen Hintergründen und Erwartungen dieser Studierenden. Anlass ist die offensichtliche...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-06-26
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