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Gender Studies haben sich in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten als kulturwissenschaftlicher, interdisziplinärer und gesellschaftskritischer Diskurs etabliert. Sie analysieren die soziale und kulturelle Konstruktion von Geschlecht, kritisieren etablierte (meist unsichtbare)...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-11-25
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Ein Blick auf die Forschungslage zeigt, dass Max Brod zur Gruppe von relativ unbekannten Schriftstellern gehört. Die Gründe dafür liegen in seinem Schattendasein neben Franz Kafka. Der Nachlass Max Brods befindet sich verstreut in verschiedenen Archiven, vor allem in...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-11-25
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This collection of essays examines the relationship between the media and cosmopolitanism in an increasingly fragmented and globalizing world.This relationship is presented from multiple perspectives and the essays cover, amongst other themes, cosmopolitanization in...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-11-25
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The area around the German city of Kaiserslautern – or K-Town in American parlance – is home to approximately 50,000 Americans who live within the Kaiserslautern Military Community, the largest organized settlement of American citizens outside the U.S.A. This book...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-11-25
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Adolf Bastian etablierte die Ethnologie als akademisches Fach. Die Biographie seiner frühen Lebensphase war bislang ethnologiegeschichtlich ein Desiderat. Archivalische Quellen beleuchten Einflüsse auf sein Denken aus dem protestantischen Bremer Bürgertum und seiner...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-11-25
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This book addresses the impact of migration on the formation and transformation of identity and its continuous negotiations. Its ground is the understanding of identity as a complex social phenomenon resulting from constant negotiations between personal conditions,...
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Springer
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2014-11-24
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International Perspectives on Migration
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The explosion in the generation of information parallels the explosion of computational resources.The use of computers to collect, store and manipulate chemical information is at the heart of chemoinformatics. These methodologies, whose main target thus far has been the...
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Springer
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2014-11-21
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This book investigates small cities - cities and towns that are not well known or internationally branded, but are facing structural economic and social issues after the Global Financial Crisis. They need to invent, develop and manage new reasons for their existence....
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Springer
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2014-11-21
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SpringerBriefs in Geography
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This book represents the most important academic achievements won by Dr. Renzhi Hou, one of the founding fathers of and pioneering researchers in the modern historical geography of China. His collected papers and speeches, spanning from the 1940s to the 1990s, serve as...
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Springer
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2014-11-21
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This book, in its 114th year, provides insight into major trends in the North American Jewish communities, examining the recently completed Pew Report (A Portrait of Jewish American), gender in American Jewish life, national and Jewish communal affairs and the US and...
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Springer
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2014-11-19
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This Handbook brings together scholars from around the world in addressing the global significance of, controversies over and alternatives to intellectual property (IP) today. It brings together over fifty of the leading authors in this field across the spectrum of...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2014-11-18
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The book explores police legitimacy and crime control, with a focus on the European region. Using comparative case studies, the contributions to this timely volume examine the effects of a transition to democracy on policing, public attitudes towards police legitimacy,...
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Springer
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2014-11-18
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This book explores the challenges population decline presents for Europe’s urban and rural areas. It features recent demographic data and trends not only for Europe as a whole, but also for selected countries, and compares growth and shrinkage from a historical as well...
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Springer
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2014-11-18
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"Woodman and Wyn have produced a text that offers conceptual clarity and real depth on debates in youth studies. The authors skilfully guide us through the main sociological theories on young people and furnish us with sophisticated critiques from which to rethink...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2014-11-17
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Archaeological evidence - i.e. presence of exogenous, foreign material objects (pottery, obsidian and so on) - is used to make inferences on ancient trade, while population movement can only be assessed when the biological component of an ancient community is analyzed...
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Springer
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2014-11-17
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SpringerBriefs in Archaeology
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What is the impact of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on the human condition? In order to address this question, in 2012 the European Commission organized a research project entitled The Onlife Initiative: concept reengineering for rethinking societal...
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Springer
Parution :
2014-11-16
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This is the book to focus on a new phenomenon emerging in the twenty-first century: the rapidly aging and decreasing population of a well-developed country, namely, Japan. The meaning of this phenomenon has been successfully clarified as the possible historical...
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Springer
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2014-11-14
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With many OECD countries experiencing a decline in their populations, this book offers a theoretical model of coping with demographic change and examines different strategies that societies have used to come to terms with demographic change. In particular, it details...
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Springer
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2014-11-12
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European Studies of Population
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The volume contributes to disrupt the old grand narrative of cultural contact and colonialism in Spanish and Portuguese America in a wide and complete sense. This edited volume aims at exploring contact archaeology in the modern era. Archaeology has been exploring the...
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Springer
Parution :
2014-11-11
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The use of the cognitive interviewing method for survey question testing has proliferated and evolved over the past 30 years. In more recent years the method has been applied to the evaluation of information letters and leaflets and to research consent forms. This book...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2014-11-10
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