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This volume illustrates both theoretically and empirically the differences between religious diversity and religious pluralism. It highlights how the factual situation of cultural and religious diversity may lead to individual, social and political choices of organized...
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Springer
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2014-07-08
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Vor rund 100 Jahren prägte Max Weber den heute noch unverzichtbaren Begriff des Monopols der legitimen physischen Gewaltsamkeit. Doch wie sieht das Gewaltmonopol des frühen 21. Jahrhunderts aus? Diese Arbeit widmet sich einer in Recht und Politik nur wenig beleuchteten...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-07-08
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This book educates whilst also challenging the contemporary schools of thought within philosophical and religious ethics. In addition, it underlines the fact that the substance of ethics in general and bioethics/healthcare ethics specifically, is much more expansive and...
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Springer
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2014-07-08
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Wang's book offers an empirically rich and conceptually nuanced analysis of how local state agents maintain control over village self-governance in China. His careful analysis of primary documents enables him to explicate the formal mechanisms used by members of the...
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Springer
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2014-07-08
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Understanding China
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This book is the last work of the author’s trilogy on Chinese rural politics. In the background of prominent social conflicts since the 1990s during China’s social transformation, the author conducted in-depth comparative analyses of several conflicts to understand the...
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Springer
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2014-07-08
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This book explores changes in the social, economic and political processes underpinning the mechanisms for the management of human mobility and cohabitation in the Mediterranean region, while suggesting comparisons with the situation in the Americas. It considers the...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2014-07-08
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This book is the result of ethnographic research carried out in the Academic College of Judea & Samaria (ACJS), located in the West Bank of Israel/Palestine. The book deals with Israeli citizenship and identity, and examines the ways in which it is being understood and...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-07-08
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This brief focuses on the “doing” of procedural justice: what the police can do to implement the principles of procedural justice, and how their actions can improve citizen perceptions of police legitimacy. Drawing on research from Australia (Mazerolle et al), the UK...
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Springer
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2014-07-08
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SpringerBriefs in Criminology
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Kultur ist ein komplexer Begriff, der in diesem Band aus unterschiedlichen fachlichen Perspektiven in Verbindung mit Bildung und Identität beleuchtet wird. Kulturbewusstsein bedeutet weitaus mehr, als nur ein größeres Wissen über Kultur(en) zu haben. Es wird durch...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-07-08
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Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015In recent years, immigration researchers have increasingly drawn on the concept of social capital and the role of social networks to understand the dynamics of immigrant experiences. How can they help to explain what brings...
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Polity
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2014-07-08
Collection :
Immigration and Society
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This book aims to provide a scholarly account of recent understandings and reflections on some of the prevalent and emerging issues in urban and regional China, such as urbanization, inequality, hukou (household registration) reforms, labor relations, not-in-my-backyard...
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Springer
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2014-07-08
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It looks as though the anthropology of nature is an oxymoron of sorts, given that for the past few centuries, nature has been characterized in the West by humans’ absence, and humans, by their capacity to overcome what is natural in them. But nature does not exist as a...
Editeur :
Collège de France
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2014-07-07
Collection :
Leçons inaugurales
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This data-oriented study aims at providing an onomasiological account of the historical synonyms of the term fallen woman from Old English up to Early Modern English. It focuses on linguistic mechanisms which are at work in the formation of euphemisms and dysphemisms...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-07-07
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This book dissiminates a selected collection of research texts from the Congress Hybrid Identities, held in 2011 in the Institute for Research into Identities and Society (University of Lleida, Catalonia, Spain). Outstanding researchers from Social and Humanities fields...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-07-07
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This book is about the city of Peiping in China, also known as Beijing and Peking, and a city of great historical significance. Divided into three parts, this work explores Peiping first as a frontier city at a time when the Great Wall was established, from the Chou...
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Springer
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2014-07-07
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This volume presents theoretical developments, applications and computational methods for the analysis and modeling in behavioral and social sciences where data are usually complex to explore and investigate. The challenging proposals provide a connection between...
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Springer
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2014-07-05
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This book gives a general view of sequence analysis, the statistical study of successions of states or events. It includes innovative contributions on life course studies, transitions into and out of employment, contemporaneous and historical careers, and political...
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Springer
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2014-07-02
Collection :
Life Course Research and Social Policies
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Newly revised and updated, the #1 must-read book for a new generation of feminists who refuse to accept anything less than equality and justice for all women Now in its updated second edition, Full Frontal Feminism embodies the forward-looking messages that bestselling...
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Seal Press
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2014-07-01
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A wide range of international contributions draw on theoretical and empirical sources to explore whether alternatives exist to both conceptualise and conduct research into what people do and don’t do, in relation to their health and experiences of illness. Presents a...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-07-01
Collection :
Sociology of Health and Illness Monographs
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This book discusses the perception of disease, healing concepts and the evolution of traditional systems of healing in the Himalayas of Himachal Pradesh, India. The chapters cover a diverse range issues: people and knowledge systems, healing in ancient scriptures,...
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Springer
Parution :
2014-06-30
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science
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