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This volume contains high quality articles, originally published in Chinese in the Chinese Journal Jiuzhou Xuelin [Chinese Cultural Quarterly] and new articles written on special invitation by established scholars in the field. The theme of the volume is 'New...
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Springer
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2012-12-14
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Chinese Culture
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Many students and qualified workers in all areas of social work feel apprehension at the prospect of writing a formal report for a court or tribunal. Writing may be a fundamental skill, but it is one that students and practitioners cannot afford to take for granted....
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Learning Matters
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2012-12-14
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Mit der Arbeit wird in Form einer integrativen geschichtswissenschaftlichen Darstellung erstmals eine interdisziplinäre Studie vorgelegt, in der versucht wird, den Stand der Forschung über die Herkunft der Kurden durch Erkenntnisse der Evolutionären Anthropologie,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-12-14
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Die ambivalente Spiegelsymbolik, ein integraler Bestandteil der feministischen Reflexion, taucht auch konstant in Prosatexten zeitgenössischer österreichischer Autorinnen auf. Einerseits versinnbildlicht der Spiegel ein mehrdimensionales Gefängnis für das weibliche...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-12-12
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Asia, the location of the world’s fastest-growing economies, is also home to some of the fastest rates of urbanization humanity has ever seen, a process whose speed renders long-term outcomes highly unpredictable. This volume contrasts with much published work on the...
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Springer
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2012-12-11
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ARI - Springer Asia Series
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Attachment-Based Social Work with Children and Adolescents is a wide-ranging look at attachment theory and research, its application to youth populations, and its natural fit with the social work profession. This book covers the applicability of attachment theory to the...
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Springer
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2012-12-09
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Essential Clinical Social Work Series
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?Over the millennia, from stone tools among early foragers to clays to prized metals and mineral pigments used by later groups, mineral resources have had a pronounced role in the Andean world. Archaeologists have used a variety of analytical techniques on the materials...
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Springer
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2012-12-09
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Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology
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?Female offenders are often perceived as victims who commit crimes as a self-defense mechanism or as criminal deviants whose actions strayed from typical ‘womanly’ behavior. Such cultural norms for violence exist in our gendered society and there has been scholarly...
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Springer
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2012-12-09
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?This monograph analyzes current cultural resource management, archeological heritage management, and exhibitionary practices and policies in the People’s Republic of China. Academic researchers, preservationists, and other interested parties face a range of challenges...
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Springer
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2012-12-09
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The 2012 American Jewish Year Book, “The Annual Record of American Jewish Civilization,” contains major chapters on Jewish secularism (Barry Kosmin and Ariela Keysar), Canadian Jewry (Morton Weinfeld, David Koffman, and Randal Schnoor), national affairs (Ethan Felson),...
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Springer
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2012-12-09
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In many facets of Western culture, including archaeology, there remains a legacy of perceiving gender divisions as natural, innate, and biological in origin. This belief follows that men are naturally pre-disposed to public, intellectual pursuits, while women are...
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Springer
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2012-12-09
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Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology
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The Handbook of Asian Criminology aims to be a key reference for international scholars with an interest in the broad theme of international criminology in general, and the Asian region in particular. Contextualization is a key theme in this book.The role of context is...
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Springer
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2012-12-09
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This volume explores the connection between two phenomena usually thought to be utterly incongruous, even antithetical: ‘utopia’ and ‘everyday life’. It presents a series of essays, written over the last twenty years, which rethink the nature and prospects of utopianism...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-12-07
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This book aims to contribute to the debate on European cultural policy and cultural diplomacy as well as to fill in the gap that exists in this under-researched field. Europe is still struggling in formulating its common cultural policy that will present Europe as a...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-12-07
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Die gewerbsmäßige Überlassung von Arbeitnehmern ist eine volkswirtschaftlich bedeutende Branche, die in den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten stetig gewachsen und sehr heterogen ist.Die Qualität dieser Dienstleistung zu messen und sicherzustellen, dass eine gewünschte Qualität...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-12-05
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Sind Geben und Schenken immer reziproke Handlungen oder gibt es das «Ideal» der Gabe und worin liegt es? Die Arbeit zeigt anhand einer Literaturstudie den klassischen wie aktuellen Diskurs um das Geben und Schenken unter Einbezug der historischen, soziologischen,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-12-05
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Strategic Economic Decision-Making: Using Bayesian Belief Networks to Solve Complex Problems is a quick primer on the topic that introduces readers to the basic complexities and nuances associated with learning Bayes’ theory and inverse probability for the first time....
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Springer
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2012-12-05
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The formation of new countries after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European block necessarily brings about an increased awareness of national identity and has given rise to more urgent attempts to define national literary and cultural facts. Among the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-12-05
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As the income gap between developed and developing nations grows, so grows the cacophony of voices claiming that the quest to find a simple recipe for economic growth has failed. Getting Better, in sharp contrast, reports the good news about global progress. Economist...
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Basic Books
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2012-12-04
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Although the majority of China’s population is of the Han nationality (which accounts for more than 90% of China’s population), the non-Han ethnic groups have a population of more than 100 million. Until now, China has officially identified, except for other unknown...
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Springer
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2012-11-29
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