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This book examines the changing lifestyles in transforming societies, focusing on the interplay of lifestyle choices, social status and the society as a whole. When individuals choose their careers, mates or networks to belong to and to identify with, they are...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-05-17
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«Sie – und sie allein – war wirklich gefürchtet», sollte Sebastian Haffner einst über die Sturmabteilung (SA) urteilen. Die Parteitruppe der NSDAP eignete sich hervorragend als Bürgerkriegsarmee in einer schwachen Weimarer Demokratie. Die Ernennung Hitlers zum...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-05-17
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This book addresses environmental and climate change induced migration from the vantage point of migration studies, offering a broad spectrum of approaches for considering the environment/climate/migration nexus. Research on the subject is still frequently narrowed down...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-05-14
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?This volume explores China’s cultural heritage ideology and policies from three interrelated perspectives: the State and World Heritage tourism; cultural heritage tourism at undesignated sites, and the cultural politics of museums and collections. Something of a...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-05-14
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“This is the book parents have been waiting for”—Michael Thompson, coauthor of Raising Cain. The book that is “helpful, hopeful, and engaging”—Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Ph.D., Columbia University. It is the book that addresses the new reality for parents of kids in their 20s...
Editeur :
Workman Publishing Company
Parution :
2013-05-14
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As crime rates inexorably rose during the tumultuous years of the 1970s, disputes over how to handle the violence sweeping the nation quickly escalated. James Q. Wilson redefined the public debate by offering a brilliant and provocative new argument—that criminal...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2013-05-14
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The International Handbook on the Demography of Sexuality is the first book to specifically address the study of sexuality from a demographic perspective. Demographic research has largely paid little attention to sexuality as a whole, or sexual orientation in...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-05-13
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Social work agencies want newly-qualified workers who can practice as highly motivated and self-flourishing professionals. To get to this stage, social work degree students need to be critical, analytical and evaluative in their thinking, reading and writing. And while...
Editeur :
Learning Matters
Parution :
2013-05-13
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This book combines geostatistics and global mapping systems to present an up-to-the-minute study of environmental data. Featuring numerous case studies, the reference covers model dependent (geostatistics) and data driven (machine learning algorithms) analysis...
Editeur :
Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2013-05-10
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177,95€
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There has been, of late, a growing realisation that the pace and pattern of economic development of a country can hardly be understood and explained comprehensively in terms of the straitjacket of economics discipline alone. India is a prime example of the importance of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-05-09
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The way people think and act politically is not set in stone. People can and do change the fundamental cultural contours of their political situation. Their political culture does not only restrict imagination and action - it is also a resource for political creativity...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-05-09
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The media are home to an eclectic bunch of people. This book is about who they are, what they do, and what their work means to them. Based on interviews with media professionals in the United States, New Zealand, South Africa, andThe Netherlands, and drawing from both...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-05-08
Collection :
Digital Media and Society
ePub
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25,70€
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Kindschaftsverfahren, Einvernehmen, Mediation. Aber wo bleibt das Kind? Rechtfertigt eine Einigung der Eltern das Absehen von der Kindesanhörung? Kann ohne die persönliche Beteiligung des Kindes die Wahrung seiner Interessen sichergestellt werden? In dieser Arbeit...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-05-08
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This topical new book by Zygmunt Bauman explores the notion of identity in the modern world. As we grapple with the insecurity and uncertainty of liquid modernity, Bauman argues that our socio-political, cultural, professional, religious and sexual identities are...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-05-08
Collection :
Themes for the 21st Century
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45,20€
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Should governments be involved in economic affairs? Challenging prevailing wisdom about the benefits of self-regulating markets, Nina Bandelj and Elizabeth Sowers offer a uniquely sociological perspective to emphasize that states can never be divorced from economy. From...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-05-08
Collection :
Economy and Society
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20,40€
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The trinity of government, military and publics has been drawn together into immediate and unpredictable relationships in a "new media ecology" that has ushered in new asymmetries in the waging of war and terror. To help us understand these new relationships, Andrew...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-05-06
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The trinity of government, military and publics has been drawn together into immediate and unpredictable relationships in a "new media ecology" that has ushered in new asymmetries in the waging of war and terror. To help us understand these new relationships, Andrew...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-05-06
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67,80€
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Der griechische Geschichtsschreiber Herodot (5. Jh. v. Chr.) hat sich in den letzten Jahrzehnten aus einem Protohistoriker, der «zahllose Lügengeschichten» erzählt (so noch Ciceros Diktum), über einen geachteten, doch etwas naiven Vorläufer des Thukydides zu einem der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-05-06
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In this major new assessment of Zygmunt Bauman's work, Smith gives a clear introduction to this controversial and challenging sociologist.
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-05-06
Collection :
Key Contemporary Thinkers
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20,40€
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Alternative and Activist New Media provides a rich and accessible overview of the ways in which activists, artists, and citizen groups around the world use new media and information technologies to gain visibility and voice, present alternative or marginal views, share...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-05-06
Collection :
Digital Media and Society
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