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Industrie und Postindustrie, Früh- und Spätkapitalismus, Moderne und Postmoderne liefern die Schlagwörter für diesen interdisziplinär orientierten Band. Es wurden Beiträge versammelt, die die komplexen Zusammenhänge zwischen der Entwicklung der europäischen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-09-17
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In the aftermath of the 60s “Black is Beautiful” movement and publication of The Color Complex almost thirty years later the issue of skin color has mushroomed onto the world stage of social science. Such visibility has inspired publication of the Melanin Millennium for...
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Springer
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2012-09-14
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Wir befinden uns inmitten einer dramatischen Zeitenwende. Ein wesentlicher Grund dafür ist, dass die Erde durch menschliche Aktivitäten bereits völlig überlastet ist – unsere Lebensgrundlagen sind «SMALL» geworden. Dadurch wächst die Gefahr, dass die lokalen und...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-09-14
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This book is an attempt to investigate the mechanisms governing the evolution of scandals over mass protests in communist Romania. It could also be framed as a study of the social-psychology of regime preservation. The main inquiry presented herein deals with the manner...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-09-14
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Carefully selected to reflect the latest research at the interface between public health and criminal justice in the US, these contributions each focus on an aspect of the relationship. How, for example, might a person’s criminal activity adversely affect their health...
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Springer
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2012-09-14
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The archaeology of war has revealed evidence of bravery, sacrifice, heroism, cowardice, and atrocities. Mostly absent from these narratives of victory and defeat, however, are the experiences of prisoners of war, despite what these can teach us about cruelty, ingenuity,...
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Springer
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2012-09-14
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Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology
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The subject of this book is discussing the income inequality of Chinese residents, its change and the factors that impact it. In this book all kinds of quantitative methods, including decomposing Gini Coefficients method, Fei-Ranis method, two-sectors model and other...
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Springer
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2012-09-13
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Gu Shutang Academic Fund of Economics
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It was the 1960s -- a time of economic boom and social strife. Young women poured into the workplace, but the "Help Wanted" ads were segregated by gender and the "Mad Men" office culture was rife with sexual stereotyping and discrimination. Lynn Povich was one of the...
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PublicAffairs
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2012-09-10
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Die Untersuchung entwickelt hermeneutisch-phänomenologisch eine Antwort auf die Frage, wie die Lebenswelt als Natur erfahren wird. Sie zeigt, wie der Naturbegriff bei Kant, insbesondere in den mathematischen Grundsätzen der «Kritik der reinen Vernunft», verarmt und wie...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-09-10
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Diese Untersuchung wirft einen Blick auf das oft übersehene Christentum Asiens. In Thailand konvertieren besonders Mitglieder ethnischer Minderheiten zu dieser «neuen» Religion. Anhand zweier Beispielminderheiten werden die Gründe hierfür untersucht. Hauptaugenmerk...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-09-10
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One of the most original assumptions is that political actors are groups of thematized information. They effectively test the political, traditional sources of meaning, and reservoirs of identity. The post-religiousness of the presentness is transcendentally neutral;...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-09-07
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Social rights in terms of welfare and work are disappearing from the European political agenda, the more so as austerity is assumed to be the only imperative response to the financial crisis. This book, which collects the results of the leading European integrated...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2012-09-06
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??Political transitions often create new law enforcement challenges. This Brief provides an examination of such special law enforcement challenges in the Northern Caucasas, both due to the unique structure of the crime groups that are active in the region, and to the...
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Springer
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2012-09-06
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SpringerBriefs in Criminology
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Execution is a gruesomely fascinating account of methods of judicial execution from around the world and through the ages, and includes such hair-raising categories as death by cannibalism, being sewn into an animal’s belly and a thousand cuts. In his own darkly...
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Summersdale
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2012-09-05
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Die Überlegungen zur Neuen Region versuchen Entwicklungen in unserer Gesellschaft zu erfassen, die ein neues Niveau im regionalen Selbstverständnis und in den Anforderungen an Organisation und Handlung erfordern. Es wird gezeigt, wie verschiedenste Akteure unter...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-09-05
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Brilliant Britain is an entertaining journey through the quirks, oddities and idiosyncrasies that define our nation and preserve us from the mundane and predictable, such as: • the royal pomp and pageantry of the State Opening of Parliament and the less well-known...
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Summersdale
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2012-09-05
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In Leben und Werk Wolfgang Hildesheimers kommt England der Status eines Kulturtopos zu, der in bestimmten Lebensphasen prominent, in anderen verschleiert in Erscheinung trat. Der Einfluss englischsprachiger Autoren prägte Hildesheimers Schaffen – von Shakespeare, Shaw,...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-09-05
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In a globalized world, discussions about migration and (inter)cultural identity call for a thorough analysis of the way in which people shape their cultural self-understanding. A comprehensive insight into these themes requires a study of the long-term development of...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2012-09-04
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Whether you drink it or not, alcohol is likely a potent part of your life: our culture is saturated in it. Ask any woman you know to tell you a drinking story, and she’ll come up with one—in fact, she may even come up with five. With friends and with...
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Seal Press
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2012-09-04
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In Chinese societies where both “money” and “gender” confer power, can a woman’s economic success relative to her husband’s bring about a more equal division of household labor? Lui’s qualitative study of “status-reversed” Hong Kong families, wherein wives earn more...
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Springer
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2012-09-03
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