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This study entails a qualitative cultural film analysis of single women characters in six contemporary US-American movies released between 1999 and 2008. On the one hand, the focal point is the assessment of character portrayals and their embedding into their everyday...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-08-15
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Bringing together the perspectives of more than 40 internationally acclaimed authors, The Handbook of Global Media Research explores competing methodologies in the dynamic field of transnational media and communications, providing valuable insight into research practice...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2012-08-14
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Handbooks in Communication and Media
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The Handbook of Global Media Research “Ingrid Volkmer has collected an admirably rich, thought-provoking, and diverse collection of views to guide critical scholarship as our topic (‘the media’ and ‘media cultures’), methods (which must now be comparative), and the...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2012-08-14
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Handbooks in Communication and Media
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In this 3rd edition of the definitive work on health demography, Pol and Thomas offer an updated view of the field and a current perspective on the applications of health demography to contemporary issues. The significance of health demography within the field of...
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Springer
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2012-08-13
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The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis
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This book looks at the changing context of children and young people's services heralded by the structural, organisational and funding changes put forward in Eileen Munro's Review of Child Protection. It is strongly grounded in research and theory, and gives specific...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2012-08-13
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In the current panorama of urban growth and planning in many urban territories of western societies, open spaces are residual spaces of urban occupation or are reserved for eventual occupation. Open spaces have been viewed in this manner in the earlier stages of the...
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Springer
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2012-08-11
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Since the 1973 publication of Alain Peyrefitte’s prophetic When China Awakens, developments in East Asia have outstripped even the wildest predictions. China has undergone the fastest industrialization and urbanization process in history, yet tensions there are rising...
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Springer
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2012-08-10
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Questions about dependence and independence are of crucial importance in relation to Latin America, given the region’s history and its current situation. They are particularly relevant at this time, with the bicentenary of independence being celebrated throughout the...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-08-10
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China’s society and economy have been developing remarkably fast over the past three decades, and accordingly it makes continuing effort to conduct a judicial reform in order to upgrade its comparatively static legal system. The judicial reform changes a number of...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-08-09
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This book offers an interdisciplinary and in-depth analysis of the relationship between intercultural dialogue and multi-level governance, seen from a human rights-based perspective. It brings together papers that were originally presented at international workshops...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2012-08-08
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The Principle of Subsidiarity in Catholic Social Thought: Implications for Social Justice and Civil Society in Nigeria provides a theoretical and practical framework for a just vision of society. It focuses on how support for individuals and social groups in Nigeria can...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-08-08
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Ausgehend von der «Kritischen Patriarchatstheorie» wird die Gabe als Paradigma und als zwischenmenschlicher Akt untersucht. Es handelt sich dabei um einen ersten Versuch, politische, ökonomische, kulturanthropologische sowie spirituelle Aspekte zu vereinen und das...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-08-07
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Today, roughly 2 billion people use the internet, and its applications have flourished in number and importance. This volume will examine the growth and geography of the internet from a political economy perspective. Its central motivation is to illustrate that...
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Springer
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2012-08-01
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A New York Times bestseller America's unique prosperity is based on its creation of a middle class. In the twentieth century, that middle class provided the workforce, the educated skills, and the demand that gave life to the world's greatest consumer economy. It was...
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PublicAffairs
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2012-07-31
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This book brings together eighteen English language essays on the fringes, overlap, and tensions of memory and history that the author has published over the last three decades. It is characteristic that the two longest essays in this volume, and the most recent one,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-07-31
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Die Arbeit wurde mit dem Hauptpreis in der Kategorie Doktorarbeit im Rahmen des Allianz Nachwuchspreises für Demographie ausgezeichnet. Deutschland ist ein Zuwanderungsland. Der Anteil von Personen mit Migrationshintergrund wird bis zum Jahr 2030 auf mindestens 25...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-07-31
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Das Handbuch enthält eine umfassende Darstellung der Straftaten gegen die sexuelle Selbstbestimmung. Der Autor orientiert sich dabei an der gesetzlichen Systematik und behandelt dem entsprechend den dreizehnten Abschnitt des Besonderen Teils des Strafgesetzbuchs sowie...
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Springer
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2012-07-30
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The volume contains papers presented at the fourth Workshop «American Ethnicity: Rethinking Old Issues, Asking New Questions» which took place in Krakow, Poland, on May 24th-25th, 2010.The event was organized by the Institute of American Studies and Polish Diaspora of...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-07-27
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Ancient Greek myths shaped and were shaped by one of the most important culture in the history of the world. Even today, stories such as Oedipus, Narcissus, Odysseus and the Golden Fleece reverberate through our popular culture. This is the ideal introduction to Greek...
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Teach Yourself
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2012-07-27
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This mammoth book brings together some of the modern world's most head-scratching deaths and disappearances, from the murder of rap royalty Tupac Shakur to Princess Diana's car crash in Paris, via the poisoning of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko and JFK's...
Editeur :
Robinson
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2012-07-26
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