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In Wilhelm Genazinos Roman Das Glück in glücksfernen Zeiten wird nichts Geringeres verhandelt als die existenzielle Suche des Protagonisten nach einem sinnvollen Leben. Matthias Hoffmann untersucht das Buch als kritischen Gegenwartsroman und verbindet die Lektüre mit...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-06-09
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The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina is one of the darkest chapters in American history.The storm caused unprecedented destruction, and a toxic combination of government neglect and socioeconomic inequality turned a crisis into a tragedy. But among the rubble, there is...
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Bold Type Books
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2015-06-09
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Agent-based modeling/simulation is an emergent approach to the analysis of social and economic systems. It provides a bottom-up experimental method to be applied to social sciences such as economics, management, sociology and politics as well as some engineering fields...
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Springer
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2015-06-05
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This book covers several dimensions of the undercount of young children in the U.S. Decennial Census, examines the data from the 2010 U.S. Decennial Census in detail and looks at trends in the undercount of children over time. Other aspects included are the geographic...
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Springer
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2015-06-05
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On the global stage, China is often seen to be a homogenous nation when, in fact, it is a diverse multi-ethnic society, with 55 minority nationality groups recognized by the government. Scattered across the vast landmass, ethnic minorities in China occupy a precarious...
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Polity
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2015-06-05
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China Today
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Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015Sex in China introduces readers to some of the dramatic shifts that have taken place in Chinese sexual behaviours and attitudes, and public discussions of sex, since the 1980s. The book explores what it means to talk about ?sex?...
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Polity
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2015-06-05
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China Today
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Examining key countries in every region of world, this handbook presents population profiles and analyses concerning racial/ethnic disparities and changing intergroup relations. Inside, prominent scholars from various parts of the world and disciplines address the links...
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Springer
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2015-06-03
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This open access book explores how research and policymaking in the field of migrant integration have developed historically and how this interrelationship plays out in the strongly politicised climate of opinions on migration in Europe. It features interdisciplinary...
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Springer
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2015-06-02
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Based on a heart-rending and much discussed series in the Washington Post, this is the story of one woman and her family living in the projects in Washington, D.C. A transcendent piece of writing, it won the Pulitzer Prize and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. For...
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Basic Books
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2015-06-02
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This is the first book to systematically describe the formation and historical changes of the Monpa people’s area (Monyul) through its nature, society, culture, religion, agriculture and historically deep ties with Bhutan, Tibet and the Tibetan Buddhist faith. The state...
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Springer
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2015-06-01
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This open access book collects ten essays that look at intra-regional migration in the Southern Balkans from the late Ottoman period to the present. It examines forced as well as voluntary migrations and places these movements within their historical context, including...
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Springer
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2015-06-01
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IMISCOE Research Series
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The book presents an analysis of humour in a selection of British comedy productions.The conceptual integration theory devised by Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner, also known as blending, provides the tool for explaining the creation of humour in detail. It seems that...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-05-31
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There are alternatives to neoliberal market economies: basic income, the money of the common and degrowth. This study highlights the potential of dissent from the initial questioning of the dominant system to the creation of new political agendas. It discusses the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-05-31
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European culture has been greatly influenced by the Christian Church and Greek and Roman culture. However, the peoples of Europe’s remote past, whom the Greeks, Romans, and their medieval heirs called the «barbarians», also left their mark. Closely examining ancient and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-05-31
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One of the great problems among most theologians and theologies today is to restrict and to think of theology only in terms of mere intellectual enquiry without any fundamentum in rei in the lives of peoples. The book is aimed at overcoming this gap. It establishes this...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-05-31
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What can post/colonial studies and their approaches contribute to our understanding of the Austro-Hungarian (k.u.k.) occupation and administration of Bosnia-Herzegovina from 1878 to 1914? This anthology presents some possible answers to this research question which...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2015-05-31
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Is it possible to bridge two faiths, to cross through myriad cultures, and to seek to understand some of today’s great global crises from the viewpoint of the other? With an estimated 5 million Muslims in the United States, Islam is a faith that invites attention....
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2015-05-31
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Paul’s Sexual and Marital Ethics in 1 Corinthians 7: An African-Cameroonian Perspective provides readers with an innovative interpretation ofPaul’s pastoral and pedagogical approach and solutions to the multifaceted ethical problems presented to him by the Corinthian...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2015-05-31
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Kann Kulturpolitik als Strukturpolitik wirksam werden? Welche Kulturbegriffe liegen der deutschen und italienischen Kulturpolitik zugrunde? Wie wirken sich die historischen, strukturellen und finanziellen Ausgangsbedingungen für Kulturpolitik auf die konkreten...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-05-31
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Somali Oral Poetry and the Failed She-Camel Nation State: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Deelley Poetry Debate (1979–1980) examines the most expressive medium inSomali culture and politics, that is, oral poetry, in its ideological and discursive dimension. Oral...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2015-05-31
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