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Mother Zion in Deutero-Isaiah: A Metaphor for Zion Theology offers the unique perspective that personified mother Zion in Deutero-Isaiah is not just a metaphor used for a rhetorical purpose but a cognitive metaphor representing Zion theology, a central theme in the Book...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2013-11-27
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This book presents fourteen original contributions by authors examining the importance of dwellings and local communities in people’s everyday lives. Through qualitative research conducted in North America and Europe, the volume explores the ways in which home is...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-27
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Die Mexikanistik hat die Religion Mesoamerikas bisher mit altertumskundlichen Methoden erörtert. Hier werden vorrangig die religiösen Eigenaussagen der Mesoamerikaner ethnologisch analysiert. Dazu wird der Vergleich mit den nordamerikanischen, von Mesoamerika...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-27
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This book analyses the problematics of archaeological heritage management in the Canary Islands, which are echoed in other parts of the world where the indigenous heritage is under-represented. The present-day management of Canarian archaeological heritage has a very...
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Springer
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2013-11-26
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The book is a collection of essays, which aim to situate African legal theory in the context of the myriad of contemporary global challenges; from the prevalence of war to the misery of poverty and disease to the crises of the environment. Apart from being problems that...
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Springer
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2013-11-26
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Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice
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This book focuses on families and their changes in Taiwan and China. Traditional notions of what constitutes a family have been changing in China, Taiwan and other Asian countries. The chapters in this book provide interesting methodological and substantive...
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Springer
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2013-11-26
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The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis
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This book situates ethnic heterogeneity in the larger discussion of the welfare state and its redistributive outcomes, poverty and inequality. By using comprehensive, longitudinal data covering 1980 to 2010 from 17 high income countries, this analysis helps achieve a...
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Springer
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2013-11-26
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This book is one of four volumes on a major empirical migration study by leading Thai migration specialists from Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok) for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).this volume discusses the environmental impact of temporary shelters...
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Springer
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2013-11-26
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SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace
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This book, in its 113th year, provides insight into major trends in the North American Jewish community, examining Jewish education, New York Jewry, national and Jewish communal affairs, and the US and world Jewish population. It also acts as an important resource with...
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Springer
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2013-11-25
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This book is one of four volumes on a major empirical migration study by leading Thai migration specialists from Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok) for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).This volume reviews the livelihood opportunities for displaced persons...
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Springer
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2013-11-25
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SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace
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This book is one of four volumes on a major empirical migration study by leading Thai migration specialists from Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok) for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The camps on the Thai–Myanmar border are the result of the world’s...
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Springer
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2013-11-25
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SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace
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War-related separations challenge families in many ways. The worry and uncertainty associated with combat deployments provokes anxiety in family members left at home. Lengthy separations may challenge the personal, social, and economic coping resources of families at...
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Springer
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2013-11-23
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Risk and Resilience in Military and Veteran Families
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Match –fixing has become a widespread international problem in recent years. It includes everything from bribery of players, to putting undue influences on the owners of the soccer clubs, managers, coaches and others who have the ability to affect the final scores. In...
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Springer
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2013-11-23
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This book is one of four volumes on a major empirical migration study by leading Thai migration specialists from Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok) for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).This volume examines the protracted refugee situation at the...
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Springer
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2013-11-23
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SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace
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The first Bayesian Young Statisticians Meeting, BAYSM 2013, has provided a unique opportunity for young researchers, M.S. students, Ph.D. students, and post-docs dealing with Bayesian statistics to connect with the Bayesian community at large, exchange ideas, and...
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Springer
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2013-11-22
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A number of arguments are made by an international group of authors in this though provoking book about an understudied and socially important context.A future in which financial wealth transfers across the North-South divide from richer to poorer countries is far from...
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Springer
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2013-11-20
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Greening of Industry Networks Studies
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The Social Protection Floor Initiative promotes universal access to essential social transfers and services. Presently 80% of the global population does not enjoy a set of social guarantees that allows them to deal with life’s risks such as unemployment, ill health, and...
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Springer
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2013-11-19
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There is a strong connection between culture and parenting. What is acceptable in one culture is frowned upon in another. This applies to behavior after birth, encouragement in early childhood, and regulation and freedom during adolescence.There are differences in...
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Springer
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2013-11-19
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Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science
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Acclaimed as the "the most objective prosecutors in the world", the German prosecution service has long attracted the attention in the past of comparative law scholars. At first glance, the institutional position and statutory mandate of German prosecutors indicate that...
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Springer
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2013-11-19
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Klaus von Beyme is a distinguished German political scientist and recipient of the Mattei Dogan Award of Political Science (2012). In honour of his 80th birthday this book addresses political culture, cultural policy, art and politics. The first part on transformation...
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Springer
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2013-11-19
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