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Oikos – Domus – Household: The Many Lives of a Common Word describes historic episodes in the lives of these words, from the Greek oikos and Roman domus to our current family and home. The episodes highlight their function as controlling metaphors used very differently...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2013-09-16
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In diesem Teil des Systems der Philosophie gilt es die Beziehung der prinzipiellen Struktur der Subjektivität zu dem «Ich» als der ganze, lebendige Mensch zu bestimmen. Diese konkrete individuelle Verwirklichung des Menschen kommt in seiner Freiheit, die sein Wesen als...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-09-16
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A Legacy of Shame is the first in-depth study of shame in French narratives of the Second World War and the Nazi Occupation of France. Wartime shame continues to be a recurrent theme in literature and film and is an ongoing topic of cultural and political debate and yet...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-09-16
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Amischgemeinschaften in Nordamerika bestehen seit 300 Jahren in einer sie umschließenden Moderne. Es gelingt ihnen, ihre typischen Traditionsformen und Lebensweisen beharrlich und erfolgreich über lange Zeiträume aufrechtzuerhalten und sich als religiöse Minderheit zu...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-09-16
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Disgust is a strong, immediate visceral reaction. While it may feel like a purely instinctive response, the cultural meanings ascribed to particular objects, bodies or behaviours play a significant role in determining whether or not they are experienced as disgusting....
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-09-16
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By opposing sectarian discourses with the universal weapons of history, philology and anthropology, in short, the entire arsenal of science and reason, the history of religions of the past enables us to deflate modern myths, and not only those of others but also our...
Editeur :
Collège de France
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2013-09-15
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Leçons inaugurales
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Every age invents a new way of writing history, or at least seeks to shed light on the present by examining the past differently. For the past thirty years the amount of data produced by archaeology, especially by preventive excavations, has grown exponentially, thus...
Editeur :
Collège de France
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2013-09-15
Collection :
Leçons inaugurales
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??This book examines sports doping from production and distribution, detection and punishment. Detailing the daily operations of the trade and its gray area as a semi-legal market, the authors cover important issues ranging from athletes most at risk to the role of...
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Springer
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2013-09-14
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Transition to Parenthood moves beyond a one-study focus and captures multidisciplinary work on all families making the transition to parenthood. The book covers societal trends, changes, and most importantly expectations. Focus is also placed on how families are...
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Springer
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2013-09-11
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As World War II raged overseas, Harlem witnessed a battle of its own. Brimming with creative and political energy, the neighborhood's diverse array of artists and activists took advantage of a brief period of progressivism during the war years to launch a bold cultural...
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Basic Books
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2013-09-10
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This book is the product of a collaborative effort involving partners from Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America who were funded by the International Development Research Centre Programme on Women and Migration (2006-2011). The International Institute of Social Studies...
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Springer
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2013-09-06
Collection :
Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace
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This book presents both theoretical contributions and empirical applications of advanced statistical techniques including geo-additive models that link individual measures with area variables to account for spatial correlation; multilevel models that address the issue...
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Springer
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2013-09-06
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The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis
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This book provides an overview of debates about whether we are entering into a phase of social existence without precedent - the 'information society'. Intended as a bridge between the literatures of 'social theory' and the 'social impact of technology', this study...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-09-06
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YouTube is one of the most well-known and widely discussed sites of participatory media in the contemporary online environment, and it is the first genuinely mass-popular platform for user-created video. In this timely and comprehensive introduction to howYouTube is...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-09-04
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Digital Media and Society
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From «supersizing it» to hoarding, we are living in an age of excess. Whether it is cars or housing, American culture is being driven by the old adage that «bigger is better». Yet, although we often overlook it, nowhere is this rhetoric of excess more on display than...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2013-09-01
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Indirect questioning is a crucial topic in surveys of human populations. When the issue is about a stigmatizing characteristic (for example about illegal drug use), standard survey methodologies are destined to fail because, as expected, people are not willing to reveal...
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Springer
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2013-08-31
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Media are fundamental to our sense of living in a social world. Since the beginning of modernity, media have transformed the scale on which we act as social beings. And now in the era of digital media, media themselves are being transformed as platforms, content, and...
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Polity
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2013-08-29
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This text collates and examines the jurisprudence that currently exists in respect of blood-tied genetic connection, arguing that the right to identity often rests upon the ability to identify biological ancestors, which in turn requires an absence of adult-centric veto...
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Springer
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2013-08-28
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The creative industries are the subject of growing attention among policy-makers, academics, activists, artists and development specialists worldwide. This engaging book provides a global overview of developments in the creative industries, and analyses how these...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-08-27
Collection :
Global Media and Communication
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The book discusses the role of intellectuals in the modern world. Bauman connects this with current analyses of modernity and post-modernity.The theme of the book is that the tasks of intellectuals change from being 'legislators' to 'interpreters' with the transition...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-08-27
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