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Die Studie behandelt die Stellung der Witwe in der frühen Kirche vom ersten bis zum fünften Jahrhundert. Auf der Grundlage ausgewählter Quellen wird die Witwenthematik sowohl im Kontext der profanen Umwelt als auch vor dem Hintergrund der biblischen Tradition...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-02
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This book makes a case for Margaret Mead's contributions to education discourses, which in retrospect appear visionary and profoundly democratic, non judgemental and transdisciplinary, and for their relevance for education today at primary, secondary and tertiary...
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Springer
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2015-02-27
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Das Buch zeichnet ein differenziertes Bild vom aktuellen Linksextremismus in Deutschland. Die Autoren werfen einen kritischen Blick auf den Forschungsstand, beschreiben die Geschichte des Linksextremismus und entwickeln auf Basis der Selbstdarstellungen typischer...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-02-26
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'Part autobiography, part heartfelt plea to change the way we look at gender, Girls will be Girls is an excellent primer on feminist theory. Every teenage girl should be given a copy' HOT PRESSBeing a woman is, largely, about performance - how we dress and modify our...
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Orion
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2015-02-26
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The volume addresses issues concerning prosody generation in speech synthesis, including prosody modeling, how we can convey para- and non-linguistic information in speech synthesis, and prosody control in speech synthesis (including prosody conversions). A high level...
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Springer
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2015-02-25
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The United States today is hopelessly polarized; the political Right and Left have hardened into rigid and deeply antagonistic camps, preventing any sort of progress. Amid the bickering and inertia, the promise of the 1960s -- when we came together as a nation to fight...
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Basic Books
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2015-02-24
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Tackling infectious disease, understanding radicalisation, improving productivity, siting new airport capacity, getting people to save for retirement – nearly all the issues facing the UK now and in the near future demand the urgent attention of those trained to study...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2015-02-23
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This book is a longitudinal story of seven Italian-Australian family business dynasties, spanning over a hundred years across three generations, and starting with the founding generation who migrated to Australia in the first half of the 20th century. With hard work and...
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Springer
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2015-02-23
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Management for Professionals
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At the present time, when so-called Islamic radicalism, terrorism and Jihadism occupy major media space, with Islam often depicted as the main culprit, the book attempts a tour de force. It proposes that Islam is as much victim as culprit in the history that has led to...
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Springer
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2015-02-23
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SpringerBriefs in Religious Studies
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Das Weimarer Dreieck zwischen Frankreich, Deutschland und Polen stellt eine neue Kooperationsform in Europa dar, die ihre Vorläufer in den ersten Jahren nach dem Fall des «Eisernen Vorhangs» hat. In der Rückschau wechselten sich in dieser Zusammenarbeit Erfolge und...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2015-02-20
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Ukraine’s protest movement of 2013–14, known as the Euromaidan, and its culmination, the people’s uprising in late 2013–early 2014 became one of the most dramatic world events in recent years. The accession of Crimea to the Russian Federation and military conflict in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-02-20
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This book is proposed as a contribution to postcolonial critiques of the colonial and postcolonial exotic. It investigates the exotic as a representation of colonial cultural difference in colonial discourse, culture and history, and its oppositional rewritings in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-02-20
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Four years after the 3.11 disaster in Japan, this acclaimed collection of ethnographies in English on the Japanese communities affected by the giant Tohoku earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters continues to be the only one of its kind. With a new preface offering an...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-02-20
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A familiar, beloved, and yet misunderstood character in the Japanese folktale tradition is the animal-woman, an earthly animal that assumes the form of a female human. In order to articulate the characteristics that make Japanese Animal-Wife tales unique, this...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2015-02-20
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Das Urteil des EGMR vom 3.12.2009 sowie die hierauf folgende Entscheidung des BVerfG vom 21.7.2010 zwangen den deutschen Gesetzgeber zur erneuten Aktivität im Bereich der elterlichen Sorge für nichteheliche Kinder. Ausgehend von der Notwendigkeit einer gesetzlichen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-02-20
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This book develops a philosophico-methodological analysis of prediction and its role in economics. Prediction plays a key role in economics in various ways. It can be seen as a basic science, as an applied science and in the application of this science. First, it is...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-02-19
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The main focus of this monograph on whistled speech is the result of a worldwide inquiry primarily based on the author’s unprecedented fieldwork and laboratory experience.The different questions raised by the origin and the evolution of whistled forms of languages are...
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Springer
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2015-02-19
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This volume examines how generative mechanisms emerge in the social order and their consequences. It does so in the light of finding answers to the general question posed in this book series: Will Late Modernity be replaced by a social formation that could be called...
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Springer
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2015-02-18
Collection :
Social Morphogenesis
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Exploring the Utopian Impulse presents a series of essays by an international and trans-disciplinary group of contributors that explores the nature and extent of the utopian impulse. Working across a range of historical periods and cultures, the essays investigate key...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-02-16
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This thesis provides a new approach to the Ethiopian Land Law debate. The basic argument made in this thesis is that even if the Ethiopian Constitution provides and guarantees common ownership of land (together with the state) to the people, this right has not been...
Editeur :
Springer
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2015-02-13
Collection :
Springer Theses
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