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This is the first scholarly book to explore the empowerment and the social service role of frontline police officers in the People’s Republic of China. It approaches the study of role strain and empowerment, informed by local empirical data and personal experience....
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Springer
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2015-04-23
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This volume focuses on how family-school partnerships are conceptualized, defined, and operationalized as well as the research that is needed to advance these foundational issues. Each chapter integrates prevailing approaches into a research-based framework for...
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Springer
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2015-04-22
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Throughout human history, religion and politics have entertained the most intimate of connections as systems of authority regulating individuals and society. While the two have come apart through the process of secularization, secularism is challenged today by the...
Editeur :
Polity
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2015-04-22
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Throughout human history, religion and politics have entertained the most intimate of connections as systems of authority regulating individuals and society. While the two have come apart through the process of secularization, secularism is challenged today by the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2015-04-22
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A Companion to the Anthropology of the Middle East presents a comprehensive overview of current trends and future directions in anthropological research and activism in the modern Middle East. Named as one of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles of 2016 Offers...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-04-22
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
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This book examines the planning and implementation of policies to create sustainable neighborhoods, using as a case study the City of Sydney. The authors ask whether many past planning and development practices were appropriate to the ways that communities then...
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Springer
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2015-04-21
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'Shocking, heartfelt and well-researched' New Statesman'A ground-shaping book that defines the edge of so many vital contemporary debates. Hers is a voice simultaneously behind and beyond the veil' Colum McCann'A fascinating, can't-look-away, whistle-stop tour of the...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2015-04-21
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Muslims for hundreds of years have been involved in philanthropic activities targeting poor and needy people through varied types of ‘third sector’ organizations (TSOs). Nonetheless, many people in Muslim majority countries (MMCs), not having freedom from hunger, face...
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Springer
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2015-04-20
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Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies
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Despite new scientific possibilities in diagnostics and therapy, chronic diseases – including cancer – continue to increase dramatically. This is not only a threat to peoples’ health, but also a financial problem. A new perspective is necessary: instead of treating...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-04-20
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The history of nations is a history of haves and have-nots, and as we approach the millennium, the gap between rich and poor countries is widening. In this engrossing and important new work, eminent historian David Landes explores the complex, fascinating and often...
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Abacus
Parution :
2015-04-20
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Dieser Band dokumentiert die Ergebnisse des Internationalen Alfred-Döblin-Kolloquiums an der Universität Warschau im Juni 2013, das sich die Untersuchung des Döblinschen Werkes aus interkultureller Perspektive zur Aufgabe stellte. Das interkulturelle Forschungsparadigma...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-04-20
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The book provides a panorama of Italian migrants’ activities in Polish economy, political life and, above all, culture.The motivations of Italians who decided to travel to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and quite often settled there permanently, the reasons which...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-04-20
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«Die vorliegende Untersuchung möchte Genaueres über die Abstammung der akademischen Jugend ermitteln. Die leitenden Fragestellungen waren: 1) Um wieviel lebhafter und bunter stellt sich die Umrekrutierung des Akademikerstandes dar, wenn man die jungen Akademiker nicht,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-04-20
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This volume is about the social identities of young Indigenous people in contemporary Australia, based on fieldwork in the rural community of Yarrabah, in Queensland.This case study of Yarrabah is based on seventeen ethnographic interviews with women and men in their...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-04-20
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Many interested reader will have put aside a work by Edith Stein due to its seeming inaccessibility, with the awareness that there was something important there for a future occasion. This collection of essays attempts to provide an idea of what this important something...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-04-20
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The second volume in the SIRCA book series investigates the impact of information society initiatives by extending the boundaries of academic research into the realm of practice. Global in scope, it includes contributions and research projects from Asia, Africa and...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-04-15
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This Brief presents preliminary findings from research in three prisons in Maharashtra, India on experiences of prison inmates there living with HIV. The study explores health care services in these prisons, and problems experienced by inmates in India living with HIV,...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-04-15
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Criminology
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This book breaks with convention and provides an overview of Chinese history in the form of special topics. These topics include the major issues of “A Scientific Approach to the Origins of Chinese Civilization,” “Ancient Chinese Society and the Change of Dynasties,”...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-04-15
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This reference offers the nuanced understanding and practical guidance needed to address domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking in diverse religious communities. Introductory chapters sort through the complexities, from abusers' distorting of sacred...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-04-14
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Digital technology has forever changed the way media is created, accessed, shared and regulated, raising serious questions about copyright for artists and fans, media companies and internet intermediaries, activists and governments. Taking a rounded view of the debates...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2015-04-14
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