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This brief studies the phenomenon of street children in two cities in Peru. It looks at some of the conceptual issues and, after analysing why children are in the street and what behaviour and which aspirations they exhibit, deals with the policy issues and lessons to...
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Springer
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2014-10-28
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SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research
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This volume offers a comprehensible account of the development and evolution of moral systems. It seeks to answer the following questions: If morals are eternal and unchanging, why have the world’s dominant religious moral systems been around for no more than a mere...
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Springer
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2014-10-27
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Sociology
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Wilhelm Christian Weitling zählte zu den bedeutendsten deutschen Frühsozialisten und Organisatoren der frühproletarischen Bewegung. Diese politische Biographie befasst sich mit dem Leben Weitlings von der Kindheit über die Ausbildung bis zum revolutionären Demokraten...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-10-27
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This book describes Martin Bucer (1491-1551) as a teacher of theology, focusing on his time as Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge between 1549 and 1551. The book is centered on his 1550 Cambridge lectures on Ephesians, and investigates them in...
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Springer
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2014-10-27
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Studies in Early Modern Religious Tradition, Culture and Society
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The book investigates the European debate on culture and identity by pointing to those uses of language that shape the image and perception of migrants in host societies.The term ‘foreigner’ is highly sensitive to changes experienced by communities. Its meanings...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-10-27
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Americans are obsessed with celebrities. While our fascination with fame intensified throughout the twentieth century, the rise of the weekly gossip magazine in the early 2000s confirmed and fueled our popular culture’s celebrity mania. After a decade of diets and...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-10-22
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This book examines in detail the basic trajectory of the cultural transformation and brings to light the extrinsic conditions and intrinsic mechanisms involved. It focuses on the period from after the Opium Wars to the New Culture Movement, as the New Culture Movement...
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Springer
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2014-10-22
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At a time when evidence-based practice is the standard bearer for understanding health behaviour, problems and interventions, ensuring that researchers know the appropriate designs and methods for their research is more paramount than ever. Health Intervention Research...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2014-10-20
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This book provides new insights into the significant gap that currently exists between desired and actual fertility in Europe. It examines how people make decisions about having children and demonstrates how the macro-level environment affects micro-level...
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Springer
Parution :
2014-10-17
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Das Buch vermittelt sowohl die gesetzlichen und rechtsdogmatischen Grundlagen des Flüchtlingsrechts als auch die Geschichte des Asylrechts, ferner stellt es Ansätze für eine philosophische Reflexion des Migrations- und Flüchtlingsrechts unter menschenrechtlichen...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-10-16
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Im Spannungsfeld zwischen kollektiver Koalitionsfreiheit und Arbeitsvertragsfreiheit untersucht diese Arbeit, unter welchen Voraussetzungen die Substitution feststehenden Arbeitsentgelts durch eine Beteiligung der Arbeitnehmer am Erfolg bzw. Kapital des Arbeit gebenden...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-10-16
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The status of Hong Kong English has been an increasing concern among the local population. Despite prolific research into attitudes towards language variation within the field of sociolinguistics in general, very few studies have focused on the Hong Kong context....
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-10-16
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This concise book provides readers with a comprehensive overview and critical assessment of the key issues and varied strands of research relating to immigration and religion that have been produced during the past two decades. Religion, once a neglected topic in...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-10-16
Collection :
Immigration and Society
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The Quicksands of Belief:The Need for Skepticism draws on history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and the cognitive sciences in an accessible, non-academic style in order to argue that humans don’t question enough. Instead, uncritically accepting the often absurd...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2014-10-16
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Migration as a process has achieved increasing attention in the context of nation-states and globalisation. In linguistics the field of language contact is particularly associated with this phenomenon. This book investigates the connection between language usage,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-10-16
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The Works of Richard Oschanitzky analyses the German-Romanian composer and pianist’s output in the context of Socialist Romania (1965 to 1979). By the means of music historiography, archive research and musicological analyses, the composer’s contributions to the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-10-16
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Der Fokus der Jugendsprachforschung liegt auf dem Gesprächsverhalten in weiblichen und männlichen Peergruppen, Analysen gemischter Gruppen erfolgten bisher nicht. Diese Studie schließt diese Forschungslücke und untersucht die Sprachhandlungsmuster Lästern, Frotzeln und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-10-16
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South-North Dialogues on Queer Epistemologies, Embodiments and Activisms is composed of research presented at the fourth international Queering Paradigms Conference (QP4), held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In line with the QP project ethos of bringing together diverse...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-10-16
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Love seems like the most personal experience, one that touches each of us in a unique way that is more personal than social, and hence it is not surprising that it has been largely neglected by sociologists and social theorists. While it has long been a central...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-10-15
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In this new book, Ulrich Beck and the journalist Johannes Willms engage in a series of accessible conversations that reveal and explore the key elements in Beck’s thought. Ulrich Beck, one of the most important and influential contemporary social thinkers, reveals...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-10-15
Collection :
Conversations
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