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When you love someone, how does it feel? And when you desire someone, how is it different? In Mating in Captivity, Esther Perel looks at the story of sex in committed couples. Modern romance promises it all - a lifetime of togetherness, intimacy and erotic desire. In...
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Yellow Kite
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2012-02-16
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This book studies the adoption and diffusion of gender quotas in Latin America and beyond. Gender quotas are institutional mechanisms intended to increase the proportion of women rapidly and effectively in key decision-making political posts. Since the 1980s, gender...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-02-14
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The fear of parasites – with their power to invade, infest, and transform the self – writhes and wriggles through cultures and religions across the globe, reflecting a very human revulsion of being invaded and consumed by both internal and external forces. However, in...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-02-14
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This book enhances our understanding of France and the United States by focusing on their intercultural relations. Baudelaire and Emerson have at the core of their thinking the very notion of how to reconcile individual and collective experience, a theme that is...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-02-14
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The Boys Club: Male Protagonists in Contemporary African American Young Adult Literature is a study of prominent issues and themes such as education, identity, and racism in contemporary (i.e., post-Civil Rights era) young adult novels written primarily for African...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-02-14
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This book explores the perceptions and attitudes of Sinhalese Buddhists and Sinhalese Christians regarding the puberty ritual in Sri Lanka, thereby identifying a relevant Christian response to the ritual. The author utilized ANOVA and Mann-Whitney statistical tests to...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-02-14
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Sharp, bold and engaging, this book provides a contemporary account of why medical sociology matters in our modern society.
Combining theoretical and empirical perspectives, and applying the pragmatic demands of policy, this timely book explores society's response to...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2012-02-13
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Seit dem Systemwechsel in Osteuropa werden Vergangenheitsbilder, sprachliche Zuordnung und Konfessionszugehörigkeit zum Ausbau der Herrschaft nationaler Eliten benutzt. Dieser Prozeß beinhaltet die Ersetzung der kommunistischen Ideologie durch ethnonationale Identitäten...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-02-10
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This book examines the discourse surrounding the wireless, created by the Anglo-Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi. The wireless excited early twentieth-century audiences before it even became a viable black box technology. The wireless adhered to modernist...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2012-02-09
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Sociology
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This book deals with the «social side» of social psychology from diverse points of view. Several European authors analyse this topic from different theoretical and methodological perspectives. In particular, special attention is given to socio-historical frameworks,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-02-08
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Erfüllen gewachsene Demokratien in der industrialisierten Welt das Versprechen einer Volksherrschaft oder stehen sie unter dem Einfluss einer Elite aus Politik und Wirtschaft? Von dieser Frage ausgehend entwickelt die vorliegende Monographie ein Demokratiemodell, das...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-02-08
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Diese Festschrift ist ein lebendiges Zeugnis für die grosse Wirkung, die Dorothea Baumann als Musikpraktikerin und Musikwissenschaftlerin entfaltet hat. Über fünfzig international anerkannte Wissenschaftler und Wissenschaftlerinnen sowie Freunde und Freundinnen der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-02-08
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Narrating the Portuguese Diaspora presents a variety of perspectives on the Portuguese diaspora, from literature to identity discourse to biography and autobiography. The book is divided into three parts: reading literary identities within and without borders;...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-02-08
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Feminism and Migration: Cross-Cultural Engagements is a rich, original, and diverse collection on the intersections of feminism and migration in western and non-western contexts. This book explores the question: does migration empower women? Through wide-ranging topics...
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Springer
Parution :
2012-02-06
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Today, our cities are an embodiment of the complex, historical evolution of knowledge, desires and technology. Our planned and designed activities co-evolve with our aspirations, mediated by the existing technologies and social structures. The city represents the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2012-02-03
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Iron Curtains has been awarded Honorable Mention for the 2013 ASEEES Harvard Davis Center Book Prize! The prize is sponsored by Harvard University's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and is awarded annually by the Association for Slavic, East European, and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-02-03
Collection :
IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
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The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology is a complete reference guide, reflecting the scope and quality of the discipline, and highlighting emerging topics in the field. Global in focus, offering up-to-date topics from an interdisciplinary, international...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-02-02
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Sociology
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The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology is a complete reference guide, reflecting the scope and quality of the discipline, and highlighting emerging topics in the field. Global in focus, offering up-to-date topics from an interdisciplinary,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-02-02
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Sociology
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174,95€
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In the past ten years, much has changed in terms of youth justice policies in Canada as well as in the way Canadian society has evolved.Canada has a new Act governing youth crime, and there are indications that the Act will be revised again to make it "tougher" on youth...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2012-02-02
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Criminology
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The subject of the book is advanced statistical analyses for quantitative research synthesis (meta-analysis), and selected practical issues relating to research synthesis that are not covered in detail in the many existing introductory books on research synthesis (or...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2012-02-01
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