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This book uses a post-modern approach to explore how Japanese returnee students (kikokushijo) and former returnees who work in Japanese industry, negotiate multiple identities. Methodological triangulation is used to study inner perception of face, emotional state and...
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Springer
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2014-05-05
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This book identifies and analyzes livelihood impacts of recent environmental and socio-economic changes in urban and rural settings of the mountainous state of Himachal Pradesh, north western Himalaya, India. The findings of the research deal with the broader objectives...
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Springer
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2014-05-02
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Culture of Memory in South Asia reconfigures European representations of India as a paradigmatic extension of a classical reading, which posits the relation between text and context in a determined way. It explores the South Asian cultural response to European “textual”...
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Springer
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2014-05-02
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Globalized Water presents a compilation of voices that forms a unique scientific exploration of contemporary water management models and governance issues. The book describes the water paradox—how a local resource has become a global product—and the implications of this...
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Springer
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2014-05-01
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The events surrounding the Trayvon Martin murder, trial and acquittal bring to public and private discourse the violent, brutal murders of Emmett Till, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Dr. King, while bringing back to memory the racially provoked murders of Black American...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2014-05-01
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This book argues that interior architects have a responsibility to practice their profession in collaborative ways that address the needs of communities and of to be the agents of social justice and cultural heritage. The book is divided into three sections, based on...
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Springer
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2014-04-30
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This collection highlights and extends contemporary women's and gender studies by presenting theoretical analyses and innovative research conceptualizations, applications and methodologies via a diverse variety of popular-in-the-classroom topics, such as changing...
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Springer
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2014-04-30
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Considerable socio-political change has re-configured the discursive space once occupied by ‘utopia’. Within the cultures of late capitalism and the organisational matrices of bio-political administration, that space is no longer animated by images of idealised states...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-04-29
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"Brilliant... explains how the rhetoric of competition has invaded almost every domain of our existence." - Evgeny Morozov, author of To Save Everything, Click Here "A sparkling, original, and provocative analysis of neoliberalism... a distinctive account of the...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2014-04-29
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Die Energiewende ist die gesellschaftliche Herausforderung unserer Zeit, aber ein Verzicht auf Energie aus fossilen Energieträgern hat massive Konsequenzen: Eine solche Gesellschaft braucht nicht weniger sondern mehr Staat, wertet den Boden als Ressource und Standort...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-04-28
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The Great War continues to play a prominent role in contemporary consciousness. With commemorative activities involving seventy-two countries, its centenary is a titanic undertaking: not only ‘the centenary to end all centenaries’ but the first truly global period of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-04-28
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Is the U.S. as a country still capable of finding common ground and effective policy responses in the 21st century, or are the dividing lines within U.S. society actually becoming too deep and too wide to bridge, with potentially grave consequences for American social,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-04-25
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Der Tango und der Lunfardo als sprachliche Varietät sind zwei eng miteinander verbundene Phänomene des dynamischen Sprachkontaktes und der Migrationskultur am Río de la Plata. Sprechen aber tangueros in Buenos Aires anders als porteños, die mit dem Tango noch nie in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-04-25
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THE BESTSELLING MODERN CLASSIC. OVER HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD.'Brilliant and hilarious' GRAYSON PERRY'A delightful read' SUNDAY TIMES'Laugh out loud' MARTIN PARR'Absolutely brilliant' JENNIFER SAUNDERS'An entertaining, clever book' TELEGRAPHWITH A NEW FOREWORD BY...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2014-04-24
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The volume deals with the evolution and metamorphoses of the political elite in the Habsburg lands and the neighbouring countries during the long 19th century. It comprises fourteen studies, compiled by both renowned scholars in the field and young researchers from...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-04-23
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Was ist die Zeit? Inwiefern bringen die deutschen und bulgarischen Tempora den Zeitbezug zum Ausdruck? Ist ein Zusammenhang des Satzrahmens im Deutschen mit dem Lebensraum der Germanen oder der Nacherzählformen im Bulgarischen mit der Kultur der Protobulgaren denkbar?...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-04-23
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This fully-updated and revised third edition addresses the changes to law and practice in relation to adoption and permanency, the children’s hearing system and the implications of the provisions of the Children and Young People (S) Act 2014 and other related matters,...
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Learning Matters
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2014-04-22
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Dieser Band enthält neu bearbeitete Versionen der Referate der Tagung Jacob Grimm – Begründer der Germanistik, die anlässlich des 150. Todestages von Jacob Grimm veranstaltet wurde. Neben der Präsentation der wichtigen Ereignisse aus dem Leben von Jacob Grimm und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-04-22
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Wales – Region oder Nation? Jahrhundertelang sah man inWales nur eine europäische Randlandschaft. In Großbritannien fallen die Waliser auf mit Selbständigkeitsbestrebungen. Diese Textsammlung dokumentiert, wieWales in den Gesichtskreis der Europäer getreten ist....
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-04-22
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This book focuses on the connection between action and verbal communication, exploring topics such as the mechanisms of language processing, action processing, voluntary and involuntary actions, knowledge of language and assertion. Communication modelling and aspects of...
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Springer
Parution :
2014-04-21
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