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Radio’s influence can be found in almost every corner of new media. Radio in the Digital Age assesses a medium that has not only survived the challenges of a new technological age but indeed has extended its reach. This is not a book about digital radio, but rather...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-12-04
Collection :
Digital Media and Society
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This book highlights an important moment in the history of Romanian sociology: The idea of getting involved in the knowledge and construction of social life as well as the virtues of the sociologic monograph method that were promoted by the Bucharest Sociologic School...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-12-04
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This book examines the intertwined relationship between contemporary Polish politics and national culture by focusing on the phenomenon of discrimination. The object of the analysis is the language of the League of Polish Families, a populist party that recreated the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-12-04
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Das Buch analysiert anhand bisher kaum erschlossenen Archivmaterials die Geschichte des Cottbuser Zentralgefängnisses von 1945 bis 1990 und behandelt darüber hinaus zentrale Aspekte des DDR-Strafvollzugs. Die meisten Insassen – vor allem politische Gefangene,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-12-04
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Contemporary scholars have begun to explore non-normative sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression in a growing victimization literature, but very little research is focused on LGBTQ communities’ patterns of offending (beyond sex work) and their...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-12-04
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Dieser Band versammelt historische, kunstgeschichtliche, medien- und literaturwissenschaftliche Analysen zu diversen visuellen und textlichen Repräsentationen armer und fremder Familien von der Frühen Neuzeit bis zur Gegenwart. Indem das traditionsreiche Konzept Familie...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-12-04
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Als erster Mensch im Weltraum umkreiste der sowjetische Luftwaffenoffizier Jurij Gagarin am 12. April 1961 in seinem Raumschiff Vostok die Erde. Mehr als 50 Jahre nach dem Ereignis und lange nach Ende des Kalten Kriegs genießt Gagarin weiterhin Aktualität. Der Körper...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-12-04
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Diseases are everyday, ordinary occurrences intimately related to people’s daily lives. However, as the metaphor of the “Sick Man of East Asia” emerged against the backdrop of a weak modern China, health care and the curing of diseases were turned into grand state...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-12-03
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The redesign of Potsdamer Platz depicts the struggle to revive Berlin, Germany. This central and highly visible square has undergone a series of strategic revisions to restore its vitality and so to meet place-enhancing objectives. Specifically, the book critically...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-12-03
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Based on a study using online ethnography as the major research method, this book explains why and how men in Hong Kong use QQ—an online instant messenger—to “chase” women in mainland China, especially in the neighboring city of Shenzhen. Chasing women through QQ is a...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-12-03
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?This volume discusses how diasporas have evolved and engaged in economic, social and cultural domains of their host and home countries across the globe. The volume is divided into six parts: Issues, Challenges and Development Experiences; Diaspora Finance and Economic...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-12-02
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The present volume focuses on the jurisprudence of national, supranational and international jurisdictions (and quasi-juridictions) as regards the legal status of same-sex couples. Its aim is to explore the content, rationale, functioning and potential of the different...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-12-02
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Since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976, fourteen women have been put to death in the United States. The criminal justice system defines crimes committed by women in a particularly gendered context. Wretched Sisters is unique in its analysis of the legal...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2013-12-01
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Contesting Ethnoarchaeologies provides a systematic overview of major non-American traditions of ethnoarchaeology, with a particular focus on Europe and Asia. It explores all stages of their research agenda. These ethnoarchaeologies were embedded in theoretical...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-11-30
Collection :
One World Archaeology
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Four years after the actual implementation of its casino deregulation policy, Macao has surpassed Las Vegas as the world’s top gambling destination in terms of annual turnover. Also, various recent surveys have put Macao at the very top of the list in terms of per...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-11-29
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This book studies some important issues in China’s labor market, such as rural labor migration, employment and wage discrimination, the new dual labor market, and economic returns on schooling, using the newer and representative data and advanced estimation models.This...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-11-29
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Das Institut für Sozialforschung entstand 1923 entgegen aller in Deutschland bestehenden universitären Logik. Der im 20. Jahrhundert einzigartigen Arbeitsgruppe war es um Alltagsfolgen der Widersprüche warenproduzierender Gesellschaften zu tun. Eine ideologiekritische...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-27
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At present, the name and writings of Philip Rieff (1922-2006) hang under a sign of neglect. This book is an attempt to identify precisely what has been lost through this lack of critical attention, arguing that Rieff’s lifework marks a singular contribution to the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-27
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Dieser zweite Band von Kinder brauchen [Zwischen]Räume versteht sich als ein Plädoyer für die Schaffung eines Rahmens bzw. zeigt Handlungsmöglichkeiten im selbstbestimmten, kindlichen (Er-)Lebensraum durch uns Erwachsene auf. Das Buch ist mit seinen Beiträgen nicht als...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-27
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The book won the Surveillance Studies Network Book Prize 2014. The book argues that the mobile as a political technology in a broad sense facilitates the global export of the Western concept of individuality. This empowers those subjectivities and mindsets which can...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-27
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