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Drawing from primary research studies in archaeology, historical analysis, literature, and art this interdisciplinary look at the history of child funerary practices and other vehicles of parental mourning is the only book of its kind. The purpose of this work is to...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2015-06-26
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Das Buch untersucht die Mechanismen der kulturellen Evolution, insbesondere die Rolle von Memen – kulturelle Muster also, die von Generation zu Generation weitergereicht werden. Gesellschaften durchlaufen einen evolutionären Prozess, Prinzipien wie Variation, Selektion...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-06-26
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Unter dem Rahmenthema Visionen und Illusionen fand am 4./5. April 2014 an der Universität Göteborg die 11. Arbeitstagung schwedischer Germanistinnen und Germanisten Text im Kontext statt. Der vorliegende Band versammelt ausgewählte Beiträge, die in ihrer Vielfalt...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-06-26
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Erklärte Ziele der Medizin sind Wiederherstellung, Erhaltung sowie Förderung der psychischen und physischen Gesundheit. Dabei wird in der alltäglichen Praxis oft die Grenzziehung zwischen dem «Normalen» und dem «Pathologischen» unreflektiert vorgenommen. Der Band ist...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-06-26
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Im Mittelpunkt dieses Bandes steht die Frage nach den materiellen Bedingungen der Entstehung und Übermittlung kulturwissenschaftlicher Praktiken und zentraler fachspezifischer Konzepte bzw. Denkstile vor dem Hintergrund der Buchkultur und deren Übergang zur digitalen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-06-26
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In the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, all five of the Chief Ministers since 1967 have been former actors. This provocative book debunks the notion of Bollywood as the synecdoche of Indian cinema to explore the hitherto less studied, yet highly influential cinema in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-06-26
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Ce volume collectif regroupe des articles appartenant à divers domaines de recherches (Philosophie, Études féministes et de Genre, Études littéraires, Études biographiques, Réception, Études politiques et juridiques). Les lecteurs y trouveront des analyses qui proposent...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-06-26
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Die Familie der Fürstin beschreibt das Wirken Marias von Sachsen (1515–1583) als Herzogin von Pommern im Kreis ihrer Kernfamilie hinsichtlich der Erziehung ihrer Kinder, des Aufbaus der ersten nachgewiesenen pommerschen Hofbibliothek und des weitgespannten Netzwerks von...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-06-26
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This book explores research on processes that influence family-school partnerships in support of student learning and education. It highlights research related to culture, contexts, and development as families and schools work together to promote smooth transitions and...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-06-25
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This book brings together new and leading scholars, who demonstrate the importance of research with children and from a child perspective, allowing for a fuller understanding of the meaning and impact of health and illness in children’s lives. Demonstrates the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-06-24
Collection :
Sociology of Health and Illness Monographs
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The book offers insights on whether international law can shape the politics of the Security Council and conversely, the extent to which the latter contribute to the development of international law. By providing a systematic analysis of the quantity and quality of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-06-23
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Law
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The third edition ofThe SAGE Handbook of Action Research presents an updated version of the bestselling text, including new chapters covering emerging areas in healthcare, social work, education and international development, as well as an expanded ‘skills’ section...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2015-06-19
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This volume provides researchers and scholars with a broad overview of the contributions of social psychologists and sociologists to the study of sexual relationships and sexual expression across the life course. These contributions include analyses of the dynamics of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-06-19
Collection :
Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research
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This book offers a complete and detailed account of the evolution of an internationally successful, evidence-based program that has been the result of almost two decades of action research into conflict and bullying. It addresses one of the most serious problems...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-06-15
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This volume breaks new ground in the study of landscapes, both rural and urban. The innovative notion of this landscape collection is rupture. The book explores the ways in which societal, economic and cultural changes are transforming the meanings and understandings of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-06-15
Collection :
Landscape Series
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The book offers a valuable resource for students and statisticians whose work involves survey sampling. An estimation of the population parameters in finite and fixed populations assisted by auxiliary variables is considered. New sampling designs dependent on moments or...
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Springer
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2015-06-13
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This book is a critical examination of certain basic issues and themes crucial to understanding how ethics currently interfaces with health care and biomedical research. Beginning with an overview of the field, it proceeds through a delineation of such key notions as...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-06-11
Collection :
International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
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This book offers new perspectives on gender-based violence in three regions where the subject has been taboo in everyday discourse often due to patriarchal cultural norms that limit women’s autonomy. The contributions to this book provide rare insight into not only the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-06-10
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This monograph is the first academic work to apply a neo-Marxist approach to 20th-century Canadian social realist novels, pursuing a refreshingly (neo-)Marxist approach to such issues as Bakhtinian notions of the novelistic form and dialogism as applied to Canadian...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-06-09
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«Human Integrated Touch» (HI-Touch) is a pastoral care approach that could be a response to the lingering problems of Christianity marred by an insufficient organic link between faith and daily life in Nigeria. Arguing for an integrated approach to humans and the human...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-06-09
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