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Im europäischen Spitzenfußball dominiert eine kleine Gruppe von Vereinen. Diese statistische Untersuchung analysiert für die vier wichtigsten europäischen Ligen – Bundesliga, Premier League, Primera División, Serie A – die Tendenz zur Dominanz weniger Vereine. Ein Blick...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-29
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There are at least 48 identified prehistoric stone circles in Scotland. In truth, very little is known about the people who erected them, and ultimately about what the stone circles were for. Most stone circles are astronomically aligned, which has led to the modern...
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Springer
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2012-11-28
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This searching examination of the life and philosophy of the twentieth-century Indian intellectual Jarava Lal Mehta details, among other things, his engagement with the oeuvres of Martin Heidegger, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Jacques Derrida. It shows how Mehta’s sense of...
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Springer
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2012-11-28
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Den facettenreichen Begriff Ehre an der Schnittstelle sozialgeschichtlicher und literarischer Auseinandersetzungen in Russland stellt diese Studie in den Mittelpunkt. Dabei wird deutlich, dass die russische Ehrtradition Berührungspunkte und Differenzen zur...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-28
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Die Beiträge dieses Bandes befassen sich mit dem sogenannten Slawenoserbischen, der Schriftsprache der Serben im späten 18. und in den ersten Jahrzehnten des 19. Jahrhunderts, sowie mit dem Werk, Leben und Zeitalter des Sprachreformers Sava Mrkalj, dessen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-28
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?Ethics and Rock Art: Images and Power addresses the distinctive ways in which ethical considerations pertain to rock art research within the larger context of the archaeological ethical debate. Marks on stone, with their social and religious implications, give rise to...
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Springer
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2012-11-28
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SpringerBriefs in Anthropology
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This volume explores and discusses how privacy is understood today. What is privacy? What strategies are used to achieve or to protect the individual’s privacy? How are our conceptions of privacy evolved throughout times and cultures? Given the multidimensional...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-20
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In this fully updated and expanded second edition, Carol Grbich provides a guide through current issues in the analysis of qualitative data. Packed with detailed examples, a glossary, further reading lists and a section on writing up, this book is exactly what you need...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2012-11-19
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It is vital that social work managers and leaders are able to deliver and manage effective supervision to their teams. Recent social work reports such as the Munro Review into Child Protection (2011) identified poor supervision as a barrier to good and effective social...
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Learning Matters
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2012-11-19
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Walter Benjamins (1892-1940) Faszination für das Spiel durchzieht nahezu sein ganzes Leben. Schon in seiner Habilitationsschrift Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels, die er 1916 während seiner Studienzeit entwarf und 1925 abschloss, fasst er das barocke Theater als ein...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-19
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The contentious relationship between modernism and totalitarianism is a key element in the architectural history of the twentieth century. Post-war historiography refused to admit any overlap between the high modernism of the 1920s and the architecture of National...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-16
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Ilija Trojanow, born in Bulgaria in 1965 and brought up in East Africa, established his name as an international writer with the novel Der Weltensammler or The Collector of Worlds (2006), about the cross-cultural Victorian adventurer Sir Richard Francis Burton. Since...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-16
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This volume contains selected papers from an international conference of the same name held at Queen Mary, University of London, on 10-11 November 2010. The contributions from scholars working in the fields of modern political and cultural history, political science,...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-16
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Drawing on research from eleven countries across four continents, the 16 chapters in the volume bring perspectives from various specialties in anthropology and human ecology, institutional analysis, historical and political ecology, geography, archaeology, and land...
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Springer
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2012-11-15
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Human-Environment Interactions
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'This right which I claim for myself and for all those like me is the right to choose the person whom I love' Peter WildebloodIn March 1954 Peter Wildeblood, a London journalist, was one of five men charged with homosexual acts in the notorious Montagu case. Wildeblood...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2012-11-15
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Founded on the core notion that we have reached a turning point in the governance, and thus the conservation, of ecosystems and the environment, this edited volume features more than 20 original chapters, each informed by the paradigm shift in the sector over the last...
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Springer
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2012-11-13
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Studies in Ecological Economics
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Research, Action and Policy: Addressing the Gendered Impacts of Climate Change presents the voices of women from every continent, women who face vastly different climate events and challenges. The book heralds a new way of understanding climate change that incorporates...
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Springer
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2012-11-13
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Historical archives of vertical photographs and satellite images acquired for other purposes (mainly declassified military reconnaissance) offer considerable potential for archaeological and historical landscape research. They provide a unique insight into the character...
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Springer
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2012-11-12
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Did you know that where you were born may affect when you die?
The Population of the UK explains how geography - in the widest sense - makes a difference to life outcomes. It explains the geographical differences in key socio-economic variables - like education, health,...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2012-11-12
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Immigration has become a contentious issue in Europe in recent decades, with immigrants being accused of resisting integration and threatening the secular fabric of nationhood. The most extreme form of this unease has invented and demonized an Islamic ‘other’ within...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-12
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