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Global market competition and the political responses to globalization transform urban societies and states, and thus the cultures of capital cities in contemporary Europe. Vienna’s cultural district Museumsquartier and the planned Humboldt Forum on Berlin’s...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2012-04-20
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This volume contains articles most of which present empirical studies in the field of systematic musicology. Contributions in particular deal with aspects of melody including modeling and computer-assisted analysis as well as with various issues in sound and music...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-04-19
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This book argues that since 2001 the primary discursive context for articulating a European identity within the EU has increasingly become the idea of a common foreign policy for Europe. A new grand project of making Europe a true global player is being put forth and it...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2012-04-18
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Young women today have a bad reputation, and for good reason: They’re sexting their classmates, they spend more time on FaceBook than they do in class, and their appetite for material possessions and reality TV is matched only by their overwhelming apathy about...
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Seal Press
Parution :
2012-04-17
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For much of history, pirates and buccaneers constituted one of the most serious threats to maritime activities all over the world. More recently, apart from adventure stories and swashbuckling films, maritime piracy was largely thought of as a thing of the past. This...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2012-04-15
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People’s transnational ties and activities are acquiring ever greater importance and topicality in today’s world. The focus of this book lies in the complex and multi-level processes of migrant transnationalism in four transnational spaces: India-UK, Morocco-France...
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Springer
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2012-04-14
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International Perspectives on Migration
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In Exile and Identity in Autobiographies of Twentieth-Century Spanish Women, Karla P. Zepeda studies the experience of exile and its effects on identity in three autobiographies:In Place of Splendor by Constancia de la Mora, Memoria de la melancolía by María Teresa...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-04-13
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In the 1930s, the crises brought about by the Depression, climatic devastation, and the rearmament of Europe led Americans from all walks of life to believe that capitalism and technology had synthesized into a monstrous force that threatened the human race. And yet,...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-04-13
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Das frühe 20. Jahrhundert ist geprägt durch einen umfassenden Ausbau technischer und organisatorischer Funktionszusammenhänge und -ensembles, der sich quer durch alle öffentlichen Bereiche zieht. Die Erhöhung von Umschlaggeschwindigkeiten von Gütern, Personen und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-04-13
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What is it to care for another human being? How do we show compassion for each other? Is ‘social care’ an activity only for paid professionals? This book sets out on a radical re-examination of the nature of social care, the way it is practised, and its purpose. Rather...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-04-12
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This multidisciplinary edited volume examines wide-ranging exchanges between France and its Mediterranean neighbours and their impact. It questions the changing notion of a Mediterranean space and its representation, centrality and relevance in terms of France’s...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-04-12
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"Just as the necessary qualification for a good liar is a good memory, so the essential equipment of a would-be lie detector is a good timeline, and a decent archive." In No One Left to Lie To, a New York Times bestseller, Christopher Hitchens casts an unflinching eye...
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Twelve
Parution :
2012-04-10
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"If the courts and lawyers of this country will not do their duty, we shall watch as the victims and survivors of this man pursue justice and vindication in their own dignified and painstaking way, and at their own expense, and we shall be put to shame." Forget...
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Twelve
Parution :
2012-04-10
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Marc Freedman, hailed by theNew York Timesas "the voice of aging baby boomers [seeking] meaningful and sustaining work later in life," makes an impassioned call to accept the decades opening up between midlife and anything approximating old age for what they really are...
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PublicAffairs
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2012-04-10
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"A religious fundamentalist, a political operative, a primitive sermonizer, and an accomplice of worldly secular powers. Her mission has always been of this kind. The irony is that she has never been able to induce anybody to believe her. It is past time that she was...
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Twelve
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2012-04-10
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Die glanzvolle Herrschaft der Burgunderherzöge bedeutete einen Höhepunkt in der europäischen Kulturgeschichte. Ereignisse wie die Schlacht bei Murten und die Schlacht von Nancy beeinflussten das kulturelle Selbstverständnis insbesondere der Schweizer, Niederländer und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-04-05
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Die Befreiung aus gesellschaftlicher Unmündigkeit ist das Ziel der demokratischen Arbeiterbewegung. Diese Perspektive verbindet die Beiträge dieses Buches.Die Kritik am Kapitalismus, am Stalinismus und an der neo-liberalen Ideologie bildet den Interpretationsrahmen.Die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-04-03
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In diesem Band wird die islamistische Diktatur im Iran behandelt, die ihre eigene Bevölkerung unterdrückt, die iranische Bahai-Gemeinde zerstören will und eine große Barriere für die Gleichberechtigung der iranischen Frauen darstellt. Es geht um eine nicht reformierbare...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-04-03
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On its present course, the US faces a world of rising new countries that will compete with it ever more fiecely as its own power is declining. In order to slow and improve this steady leakage of power, the US must change course internationally, economically and...
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Abacus
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2012-04-03
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The intellectual renaissance of human geography has included a widespread engagement between its economic and cultural subdisciplines. This volume adopts a variety of conceptual and empirical perspectives on the encounters between economic and cultural geographers. It...
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Springer
Parution :
2012-04-02
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