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As a species, we are currently experiencing dramatic shifts in our lifestyle, family structure, health, and global contact. Evolutionary Anthropology provides a powerful theoretical framework to study such changes, revealing how current environments and legacies of past...
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Springer
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2014-03-10
Collection :
Advances in the Evolutionary Analysis of Human Behaviour
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This much-needed book is a concise and accessible account of the contribution of feminist thinking to the study of crime. Tracing the intellectual history of criminology from its scientific foundations in the nineteenth century to its recent encounters with...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-03-10
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Based on two richly described case studies – a Pentecostal worship service and popular music festival – this book draws on sociology, theology and religious studies in order to understand the significance of ecstatic experience in these contexts. Interviews with...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-03-05
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Im Mittelpunkt dieser Festschrift für Professorin Joanna Jablkowska stehen Fragen, die im Zusammenhang mit dem kulturwissenschaftlichen ethical turn in der rezenten literaturwissenschaftlichen Forschung diskutiert werden. Der Zusammenhang zwischen Ethik und Literatur...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-03-05
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Cet ouvrage propose une étude de la question du genre dans l’œuvre d’Agota Kristof, écrivaine suisse francophone d’origine hongroise. La prépondérance des narrateurs masculins dans sa prose suggère la supériorité du masculin; ceci se reflète aussi sur le plan du contenu...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-03-05
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Einer der großen Stoffe der Weltliteratur wird hier zu seinen Ursprüngen zurückverfolgt. Die Spannweite reicht vom archaischen Totenkult über christliche Exegese im barocken Predigtexempel bis hin zu da Ponte/Mozarts Don Giovanni. Dabei wird deutlich, wie sich der Stoff...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-03-05
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Der Band schildert Geschichte und Gegenwart der deutsch-polnischen Beziehungen aus der Perspektive der gemeinsamen Migrationserfahrungen. Im ersten Teil widmen sich die Beiträge der Beschreibung der unterschiedlichen Migrationsformen auf dem Alten Kontinent und in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-03-05
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Demonstrates the power of the theoretical framework of analytical sociology in explaining a large array of social phenomena Analytical Sociology: Actions and Networks presents the most advanced theoretical discussion of analytical sociology, along with a unique set of...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2014-03-04
Collection :
Wiley Series in Computational and Quantitative Social Science
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73,95€
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This book is a clear, systematic, original and lively account of how media representations shape the way we see our and others’ lives in a global age. It provides in-depth analysis of a range of international media representations of disaster, war, conflict, migration...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-03-03
Collection :
Global Media and Communication
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20,40€
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Marital Communication provides insight into healthy relationships for those who want to better understand key communication processes between long-term, committed, romantic partners. Writing with students, teachers, researchers, practitioners, and couples in mind, this...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-03-03
Collection :
Key Themes in Family Communication
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Michel Foucault is recognized as one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers, however the authors in this volume contend that more use can be made of Foucault than has yet been done and that some of the uses to which Foucault has so far been put run the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-02-28
Collection :
Theory Now
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62,20€
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Cities in Relations advances a novel way of thinking about urban transformation by focusing on transnational relations in the least developed countries. Examines the last 20 years of urban development in Hanoi, Vietnam, and in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso Considers the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-02-28
Collection :
IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
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23,90€
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Translated by Carl Ipsen. This short book provides a succinct and masterly overview of the history of migration, from the earliest movements of human beings out of Africa into Asia and Europe to the present day, exploring along the way those factors that contribute to...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-02-28
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Psychometrically relevant population differences may limit the transferability of research instruments between migrants and their source population and may contribute to a low performance of quantitative questionnaires. Based on a review of existing taxonomies, this...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-02-27
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Written in an engaging and jargon-free style by a team of international and interdisciplinary experts, Modern Environments and Human Health demonstrates by example how methods, theoretical approaches, and data from a wide range of disciplines can be used to resolve...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-02-27
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151,95€
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Now in a revised and updated second edition, this volume provides an authoritative account of the current status of archaeological theory, as presented by some of its major exponents and innovators over recent decades. It summarizes the latest developments in the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-02-27
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28,30€
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Personalentwicklung 2020 informiert darüber, wie sich Gender, Diversität, Quotierung und Individualisierung im Personalmanagement durchsetzen und im Kontext des demographischen Wandels diePersonalentwicklung und die Personalführung transformieren.Personalentwicklung...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-02-27
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Around the world, many countries are increasing efforts to promote biomass production for industrial uses including biofuels and bio-products such as chemicals and bio-plastic. Against a backdrop of lively public debate on sustainability, bioenergy wields both positive...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-02-23
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Every year more than 270,000 students from all around the world come to study in the UK - and the number is growing by 10 per cent a year. At present, most students coming to the UK have to rely on information from their friends, and brief leaflets and booklets...
Editeur :
How to Books
Parution :
2014-02-21
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A timely and definitive narrative history of Israel in the context of the modern Jewish experience and the Middle East. Ideal for anyone seeking to understand the roots of the current conflict in Gaza.Written by one of Israel's most notable scholars, this volume...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2014-02-20
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