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Molefi Kete Asante's Afrocentric philosophy has become one of the most persistent influences in the social sciences and humanities over the past three decades. It strives to create new forms of discourse about Africa and the African Diaspora, impact on education through...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-16
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What does social equality mean now, in a world of markets, global power and new forms of knowledge? In this new book, Raewyn Connell combines vivid research with theoretical insight and radical politics to address this question. The focus moves across gender equality...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-16
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What does social equality mean now, in a world of markets, global power and new forms of knowledge? In this new book, Raewyn Connell combines vivid research with theoretical insight and radical politics to address this question. The focus moves across gender equality...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-16
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-68%
56,50€
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This book examines the notion of children having full citizenship. It does so historically, through intellectual discourse, beliefs, and moral and ideological positions on children. It looks at the status and extent of knowledge of the position of children covering...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-04-15
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This book is part of the highly successful Transforming Social Work Practice series and is written specifically to support students on the social work degree. Full of practical activities, case studies and opportunities for students to critically reflect and explore...
Editeur :
Learning Matters
Parution :
2013-04-15
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In the new edition of this widely praised text, Alan Aldridge examines the complex realities of religious belief, practice and institutions. Religion is a powerful and controversial force in the contemporary world, even in supposedly secular societies. Almost all...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-12
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In the new edition of this widely praised text, Alan Aldridge examines the complex realities of religious belief, practice and institutions. Religion is a powerful and controversial force in the contemporary world, even in supposedly secular societies. Almost all...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-12
ePub
Offre spéciale
-7%
21,50€
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From Hegel to the present, the humanities and social sciences have revealed the volatile power of third agency. Systems of thought and practice are often disturbed by the presence of a figure that exceeds traditional binary oppositions. The articles in this volume trace...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-04-11
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This book deals with the political corruption which infested Peru during the Fujimori years (1990-2000). The work is not about petty corruption, the small bribe paid to the underpaid police officer to avoid being booked for a minor traffic violation, but addresses the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-04-11
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At the 25th International Colloquium of the Corpus Vitrearum, which took place in one of the greatest of all museums, The Hermitage in St. Petersburg, the researchers of many countries discussed stained glass collections for the first time. The present conference...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-04-11
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Während rund vier Jahrhunderten verfolgten geistliche und weltliche Gerichte angebliche Hexen, unter aktiver Mitwirkung der Bevölkerung. Aber nicht nur Erwachsenen machte man vom 15. bis ins frühe 18. Jahrhundert den Prozess. Auch zahlreiche Kinder, deren genaue Anzahl...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-04-11
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This book explores the concept of displacement in the fiction produced by the Chilean writer Isabel Allende between 1982 and 2000. Displacement, understood in the author’s analysis to encompass social, geographical, linguistic and cultural phenomena, is argued to play a...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-04-11
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Between 1870 and 2010 over half a million Slovaks migrated to the USA and Canada. As other ethnic groups from East Central Europe, they headed principally to the industrial triangle of the USA and to central Canada’s cities in search of work. Finding themselves in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-04-11
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People with intellectual disability cannot assume that they can speak up for and represent themselves. A host of socially constructed factors act as barriers to their becoming self-advocates. This book analyses the nature of these factors and investigates how the label...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-04-11
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CONCISE DICTIONARY OF SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGYCONCISE DICTIONARY OF SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY “The Concise Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology will provide invaluable assistance to anthropological researchers both old and new. It provides an...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-04-10
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-65%
79,95€
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When the Fifteenth Amendment of 1870 granted African Americans the right to vote, it seemed as if a new era of political equality was at hand. Before long, however, white segregationists across the South counterattacked, driving their black countrymen from the polls...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2013-04-09
ePub
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The Children’s Court is one of society’s most important social institutions. At the same time, it is steeped in controversy. This is in large measure due to the persistence and complexity of the problems with which it deals, namely, juvenile crime and child abuse and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-04-05
Collection :
Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and Research
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Fundraising may not seem like an obvious lens through which to examine the process of nation-building, but in this highly original book Lainer-Vos shows that fundraising mechanisms - ranging from complex transnational gift-giving systems to sophisticated national...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-05
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-7%
20,40€
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The diversity of gap year opportunities on offer is such that it is only limited by your imagination or your ambition. Packed with ideas on where to go and what to do, this guidebook will make your planning easier. OVER 220 CONTACT ORGANISATIONS VALUABLE ADVICE ON...
Editeur :
How to Books
Parution :
2013-04-04
ePub
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What role can the ordinary citizen perform in news reporting? This question goes to the heart of current debates about citizen journalism, one of the most challenging issues confronting the news media today. In this timely and provocative book, Stuart Allan introduces...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-03
Collection :
Key Concepts in Journalism
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