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While a number of published works approach the shared concerns of Ireland and Scotland, no major volume has offered a sustained and up-to-date analysis of the cultural connections between the two, despite the fact that these border crossings continue to be politically...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-11-12
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There has been a recent focus on how practitioners can engage with continuing professional learning and development. This book is written to support and help busy social workers in front line practice, as well as those in leadership and management roles, to achieve the...
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Learning Matters
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2012-11-09
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Sachsen liegt im Herzen Europas, direkt an der Grenze zu den Staaten in Mittel- und Osteuropa, die durch einen mehr als 20 Jahre anhaltenden gesellschaftlichen Umgestaltungsprozess gekennzeichnet sind. Die durch ihre deutschen Minderheiten und Erinnerungskulturen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-11-09
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Dieses Buch befasst sich mit den Vorstellungen von Entwicklung, Menschenrechten und einem guten Leben aus der Sicht marginalisierter Gruppen. Im Fokus stehen indigene Völker in Lateinamerika (insbesondere die Mapuche in Chile) und Beduinen bzw. PalästinenserInnen. Der...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-09
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This collection of arresting and innovative chapters applies the techniques of anthropology in analyzing the role played by Islam in the social lives of the world’s Muslims. The volume begins with an introduction that sets out a powerful case for a fresh approach to...
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Springer
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2012-11-08
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The way people think about the Holocaust is changing.The particular nature of the transformation depends on people’s historical perspectives and how they position themselves and their nation or community vis-à-vis the tragedy. Understandably, European Muslims perceive...
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Springer
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2012-11-08
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It is obvious today that the democratic political regime cannot be considered reality without taking into account political parties; it is as obvious as the phenomenon of partidocracy, expressed through the quasi-total domination of parties in politics. Such judgements...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-11-08
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Translating Virginia Woolf is a collection of essays that discusses the theory and practice of translation from an interdisciplinary perspective, involving research areas such as literature, linguistics, sociolinguistics, cultural studies, and history. It is the outcome...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-11-08
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This book examines the dynamics of power within the families of married women who have migrated from rural areas to China's Dalian Economic Zone. Engaging the question of whether waged work gives women power in their families, this ethnographic study finds that women...
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Springer
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2012-11-06
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The wide-ranging scope of the Handbook of Life-Course Criminology covers genetics and environment, child offenders and late bloomers, the impact of school and peers, lifelong and time-limited criminal careers, and qualitative and quantitative methodologies. This unique...
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Springer
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2012-11-06
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Die Wende von 1989 bzw. 1991 hat die Religionsgemeinschaften in den ehemals kommunistischen Staaten Südosteuropas auf die Bühne der politischen Öffentlichkeit zurückgebracht. Sie wurden aufgewertet, aber nicht unbedingt in spiritueller, sondern in institutioneller,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-11-05
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This engaging and accessible introduction to geographic thought explores the major thinkers and key theoretical developments in the field of human geography. Covers the complete range of the development of theoretical knowledge of the field, from ancient geography to...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-11-05
Collection :
Critical Introductions to Geography
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This critical engagement with Doreen Massey’s ground-breaking work in geographic theory and its relationship to politics features specially commissioned essays from former students and colleagues, as well as the artists, political figures and activists whose thinking...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-11-05
Collection :
RGS-IBG Book Series
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This timely and innovative book analyses the lives of new female migrants in the EU with a focus on the labour market, domestic work, care work and prostitution in particular. It provides a comparative analysis embracing eleven European countries from Northern (UK,...
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Springer
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2012-11-02
Collection :
International Perspectives on Migration
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In diesem Buch wird die Geschichte der österreichischen Literatur seit der Gründung der eigenständigen Österreichischen Monarchie (1804) bis in die Gegenwart des 21. Jahrhunderts erzählt. Die Literaturgeschichte präsentiert einen Blick von außen und betrachtet die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-11-01
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This book endeavors to be a study of identity in Indian urban youth. It is concerned with understanding the psychological themes of conformity, rebellion, individuation, relatedness, initiative and ideological values which pervade youths’ search for identity within the...
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Springer
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2012-10-31
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The idea for this text stemmed from the fruitful experience gathered during the training course of 9 Nigerian university students organized in Naples from 3 to 18 September 2008 by the team of Fondazione IDIS-Città della Scienza under the project Science Centre Owerri....
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Springer
Parution :
2012-10-30
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In this fun, fresh, fat-positive anthology, fat activist and sex educator Virgie Tovar brings together voices from an often-marginalized community to talk about and celebrate their lives. Hot & Heavy rejects the idea that being thin is best, instead embracing the...
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Seal Press
Parution :
2012-10-30
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Glamour. Cosmo. SELF. Ladies’ Home Journal. Vogue. In an industry that has been in a downward spiral for years, these magazines—and other women-focused magazines like them—have not only retained their readership, they’ve increased it. Every...
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Seal Press
Parution :
2012-10-30
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Social science theory often builds on sets and their relations. Correlation-based methods of scientific enquiry, however, use linear algebra and are unsuited to analyzing set relations. The development of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) by Charles Ragin has given...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2012-10-23
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Political Science
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