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The aim of the Handbook of Social Indicators and Quality of Life Research is to create an overview of the field of Quality of Life (QOL) studies in the early years of the 21st century that can be updated and improved upon as the field evolves and the century unfolds....
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Springer
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2011-11-25
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On May 2, 2011, at 1:03 a.m. in Pakistan, a satellite uplink was sent from the town of Abbottabad crackling into the situation room of the White House in Washington, D.C.: 'Geronimo, Echo, KIA'. These words, spoken by a Navy SEAL, put paid to Osama bin Laden's...
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Quercus
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2011-11-24
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Dr Bill Bass' work, and in particular his Body Farm, has furthered forensic anthropology and made it possible to prove from the discovery of a skeleton, no matter how much time has elapsed since death, how and when death occurred and to whom the body belonged. His work...
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Quercus
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2011-11-24
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Over the last 25 years a vast body of literature has been published on neighbourhood effects: the idea that living in more deprived neighbourhoods has a negative effect on residents’ life chances over and above the effect of their individual characteristics. The volume...
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Springer
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2011-11-22
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Geniale Entdeckungen wie auch gewöhnliche Praxen aus den Formal-, Ingenieur- und Naturwissenschaften prägen die Gartenkunst der Neuzeit. Seit jeher reagierte die Gartenkunst auf wissenschaftliche Revolutionen und gab wissenschaftlichen Ergebnissen, Methoden und Stilen...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-11-21
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Diese Studie befasst sich mit der Entstehung von PEN-Zentren in der Schweiz und zeigt die Haltung ihrer Präsidenten als Schweizer Delegierte an den jährlich stattfindenden Kongressen des Internationalen PEN-Clubs, der sich in den Dreissiger- und Vierzigerjahren vor...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-11-21
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Community corrections programs are emerging as an effective alternative to incarceration for drug-involved offenders, to reduce recidivism and improve public health and public safety. Since evidence-based practice is gaining recognition as a success factor in both...
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Springer
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2011-11-20
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Springer Series on Evidence-Based Crime Policy
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On Location: Heritage Cities and Sites merges the material and the social perspectives of preservation and historical interpretation in urban landscapes. The essays in this volume focus on the social life of historic cities and large-scale sites. They examine the ways...
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Springer
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2011-11-19
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A collection of memoirs of deeply personal experiences from South America to Africa, Unrooted Childhoods presents a cultural mosaic of today’s global citizens. In twenty stirring memoirs of childhoods spent packing, writings by the famous and the new—many published here...
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John Murray Business
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2011-11-18
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A collection of memoirs of deeply personal experiences from South America to Africa, Unrooted Childhoods presents a cultural mosaic of today's global citizens. In twenty stirring memoirs of childhoods spent packing, writings by the famous and the new-many published here...
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Quercus
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2011-11-18
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A Companion to Paleopathology offers a comprehensive overview of this rapidly growing sub- field of physical anthropology. Presents a broad overview of the field of paleopathology, integrating theoretical and methodological approaches to understand biological and...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-11-18
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
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This book examines from an archaeological perspective the social and economic changes that took place in Yucatán, Mexico beginning in the 18th century, as the region became increasingly articulated within global networks of exchange. Of particular interest is the...
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Springer
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2011-11-17
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This pioneering collection brings together an international group of scholars to explore the Vietnamese middle class. From the leisure pursuits of the colonial middle class to the impact of the new urban rich on landscape of the countryside, this interdisciplinary...
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Springer
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2011-11-17
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ARI - Springer Asia Series
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Qualitative Research is changing as a result of postmodern influences which have changed the way research is interpreted and understood. This has prompted questions which have been knocking at the door of qualitative research for some time now: Who is the researcher in...
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Springer
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2011-11-17
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New theories and theory-based methodological approaches have found their way into Comparative Education – just as into Comparative Social Science more generally – in increasing number in the recent past. The essays of this volume express and critically discuss quite a...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-11-17
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The practiceof archaeology has many different facets: from academia, to government, tocultural resource management, to public media. Considering the place of archaeology in society means understanding the rolesthat archaeology has in the present day and a...
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Springer
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2011-11-17
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Carefully researched and highly readable, this textbook explores what enables good and effective practice in local authority field social work delivered to children, young people and their families.
The book sets the context for local authority social work practice...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2011-11-15
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Original, fresh and relevant this is a theoretically-informed practical guide to researching social relations. The text provides a mixed methods approach that challenges historical divisions between quantitative and qualitative research. It adopts a...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2011-11-14
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This book details the evolution of Bengali culture (in both Bangladesh and West Bengal) since antiquity and argues for its modernization. Originally peripheral to Hindu civilization based in North India, Bengali culture was subjected to various forms of Sanskritization....
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2011-11-14
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'A beautifully written defence of human complexity in the face of the corporate mechanisation of our lives. If you are frustrated by automated queuing, this is one for you' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'An acerbic expose of the empty promise of the computer age' SUNDAY...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2011-11-10
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