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This book draws together the results of extensive research into the complex relationships that some modern European and Argentinean writers have enjoyed with food and wine. The European writers considered include Roland Barthes, Walter Benjamin, Honoré de Balzac,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-12-19
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Commissioned to celebrate the 40th year of Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, this book evaluates the role of the critical social scientist and how the point of their work is not simply to interpret the world but to change it Brings together leading critical...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2013-12-19
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Antipode Book Series
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Based on the swisspeace annual conference 2012, the publication examines the delicate balance between external interventions and locally-led initiatives. It addresses the question of what “local” means in the peacebuilding and development context; which actors on the...
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Springer
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2013-12-17
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SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace
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Richard Hoggart has been, perhaps, the best-known, and certainly the most affectionately acknowledged, British intellectual of the past sixty years. His great classic, The Uses of Literacy, provided for thousands of unsung working-class readers a wholly recognisable and...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-12-17
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Terror was central to the Nazi regime, and the Nazi concentration camps were places of horror where prisoners were dehumanized and robbed of their dignity and where millions were murdered. How did prisoners cope with the brutal and degrading conditions of life within...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-12-17
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67,80€
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This timely and engaging book argues that technoscientific advances are radically transforming the woman-machine relationship. However, it is feminist politics rather than the technologies themselves that make the difference. TechnoFeminism fuses the visionary insights...
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Polity
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2013-12-17
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Modern information and communication technologies, together with a cultural upheaval within the research community, have profoundly changed research in nearly every aspect. Ranging from sharing and discussing ideas in social networks for scientists to new collaborative...
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Springer
Parution :
2013-12-16
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This volume presents the first of two proceedings from the International Conference on the Replacement of Neanderthals by Modern Humans, which took place in Tokyo in November 2012. Focussing on a highly innovative working hypothesis called the ‘learning hypothesis’,...
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Springer
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2013-12-16
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Replacement of Neanderthals by Modern Humans Series
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This second edition of the widely praised Anthropology in Theory: Issues in Epistemology, features a variety of updates, revisions, and new readings in its comprehensive presentation of issues in the history of anthropological theory and epistemology over the past...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-12-16
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74,95€
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This book focuses on the methodology and analysis of state and local population projections. It describes the most commonly used data sources and application techniques for four types of projection methods: cohort-component, trend extrapolation, structural models, and...
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Springer
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2013-12-16
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The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis
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Forty-year-old Norah leaves Paris, her family and her career as a lawyer to visit her father in Dakar. It is an uncomfortable reunion - she is asked to use her skills as a lawyer to get her brother out of prison - and ultimately the trip endangers her marriage and her...
Editeur :
Maclehose Press
Parution :
2013-12-12
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This book is designed to introduce law students, legal actors and human rights activists, particularly participants in human rights dialogues with China, to the process and reality of a newly confident China’s participation in the international human rights system,...
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Springer
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2013-12-12
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This Brief explores emerging trends in drug use and distribution. This timely Brief examines recent examples of emerging drugs including salvia (from the plant Salvia divinorum), bath salts (and other synthetic stimulants) and so-called research chemicals (primarily...
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Springer
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2013-12-12
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SpringerBriefs in Criminology
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Patient mobility across Europe is markedly increasing and new generations will actively ask to be treated by the health-care system that best meets their needs. At a political level, the EU issued the EU Directive no. 24/2011/CE of 9th March 2011 concerning the...
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Springer
Parution :
2013-12-11
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Developments in Health Economics and Public Policy
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This book discusses modern aspects of Japanese religion in terms of cultural geography. To understand the function of religion, it is essential to examine it in the context of local societies. One of the distinguishing characteristics of Japanese religion is its...
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Springer
Parution :
2013-12-09
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Many of the world’s 7000 documented language groups are endangered due to falling rates of language and culture transmission from one generation to the next. Some endangered language groups have been the focus of efforts to reverse patterns of linguistic and cultural...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-12-09
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We live in a world where a tweet can be instantly retweeted and read by millions around the world in minutes, where a video forwarded to friends can destroy a political career in hours, and where an unknown man or woman can become an international celebrity overnight....
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-12-06
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«Music is no mere play of sound, no mere tonal texture, but has a significant psychic, spiritual/intellectual and social dimension. In other words: a musical art work is not merely an autonomous artifact but also document humain.» With this thesis – and with a view to...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-12-05
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Die bundesdeutschen Parteien haben in den letzten Jahren kontinuierlich Mitglieder verloren. Im Zeitraum von 1990 bis 2010 hat sich die Mitgliederbasis um gut 40 Prozent verringert. In dieser Arbeit werden anhand von Daten aus dem DFG-ProjektDie Deutsche...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-12-04
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Danneberg war ein außergewöhnlich kreativer und vielseitiger Politiker der österreichischen Sozialdemokratie in der Ersten Republik. Die Schwerpunkte seines sowohl den österreichischen Bundesstaat als auch das Land Wien gleichermaßen betreffenden Wirkens waren die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-12-04
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