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Gender, Crime and Victimisation is a thoughtful and thought-provoking book, exploring gender patterns in both offending and victimisation. It offers a thorough examination of how these patterns in society are variously established and represented, researched, explained...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2010-11-15
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For those in developed nations, suddenly being without electricity is a disaster: power cuts have us fretting over the food stored in the freezer, and even a few hours without lights, televisions, or air conditioning is an ordeal. However, for an estimated 1.6 billion...
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Springer
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2010-11-08
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Ziel dieser Arbeit ist, durch eine interdisziplinäre Annäherung an Hermann Hesses Prosa die zentrale Rolle des sinceritas-Konzeptes in der hesseschen Poetik hervorzuheben. Sinceritas erweist sich als dynamischer Begriffskomplex, der immer der Epoche gemäß definiert...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2010-11-05
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«Nun meine ich, dass es überhaupt nicht selbstverständlich ist, das Geschlechterverhältnis und damit auch die ‘Konstruktion von Geschlecht’ auf Identitätsfestschreibungen zurückzuführen. Oder nochmals anders ausgedrückt: Es ist überhaupt nicht selbstverständlich, die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2010-11-05
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If the new cultural sociology is to gain firm grounds, it should rediscover the classic studies on cultural dynamics and cultural systems. This book contributes to a better understanding of Florian Znaniecki as an eminent culturologist and the lasting relevance of his...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2010-11-05
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Beginning and well-seasoned researchers alike face significant challenges in understanding the complexities of research designs arising from both within and across methodological paradigms, and in applying them in ways that maximise impact on knowledge, practice, and...
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Springer
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2010-11-04
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Methodos Series
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The Control of Violence in Modern Society, starts from the hypothesis that in modern society we will face an increasing loss of control over certain phenomena of violence. This leads to unpredictable escalations and violence can no longer be contained adequately by the...
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Springer
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2010-11-04
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Immigration is one of the most important stories of modern British life, yet it has been happening since Caesar first landed in 53 BC. Ever since the first Roman, Saxon, Jute and Dane leaped off a boat we have been a mongrel nation. Our roots are a tangled web. From...
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Abacus
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2010-11-04
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The re-conceptualization of South Africa as a democracy in 1994 has influenced the production and reception of texts in this nation and around the globe.The literature emerging after 1994 provides a vision for reconciling the fragmented past produced by the brutality of...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2010-11-01
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Mark R. Woodward’s Islam in Java: Normative Piety and Mysticism in the Sultanate of Yogyakarta (1989) was one of the most important work on Indonesian Islam of the era. This new volume, Java, Indonesia, and Islam, builds on the earlier study, but also goes beyond it in...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2010-10-28
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Featuring a collection of essays by leading experts, Female Sexual Offenders: Theory, Assessment and Treatment is the first book to bring together current research, clinical assessment, and treatment techniques of female sexual offenders into one accessible volume. ...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2010-10-28
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Nir Rosen's Aftermath, an extraordinary feat of reporting, follows the contagious spread of radicalism and sectarian violence that the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the ensuing civil war have unleashed in the Muslim world. Rosen -- who the Weekly Standard once bitterly...
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Bold Type Books
Parution :
2010-10-26
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International migration is becoming an increasingly important element of contemporary demographic dynamics and yet, due to its high volatility, it remains the most unpredictable element of population change. In Europe, population forecasting is especially difficult...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2010-10-23
Collection :
The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis
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This book approaches its subject matter in a way that combines a strong analytical and critical perspective with a historical and sociological framework for the understanding of the emergence of Science Studies.This is a novelty, since extant literature on this topic...
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Springer
Parution :
2010-10-22
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Synthese Library
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Nearly every night on every major network,"unscripted" (but carefully crafted) "reality" TV shows routinely glorify retrograde stereotypes that most people would assume got left behind 35 years ago.In Reality Bites Back, media critic Jennifer L....
Editeur :
Seal Press
Parution :
2010-10-19
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What are some of the connections that bind us to the stars? How have these connections been established? And how have people all around the world and throughout time reacted to the night sky, the sun and moon, in their poetry, mythology, rituals, and temples? This book...
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Springer
Parution :
2010-10-17
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Surveillance has a long-standing relationship with crime and its identification, prevention, detection and punishment. With information on each citizen spanning up to 700 databases, and over 4 million CCTV cameras in the United Kingdom alone, this book explores how new...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2010-10-15
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HAS AMERICA LOST ITS MARBLES? Television sensation Glenn Beck warns of White House plots to institute fascism, communism, and other terrifying “isms.”Radio titan Rush Limbaugh charges that a racist Obama regime encourages black schoolchildren to beat up...
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Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2010-10-12
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This book is a major source for scholars of the latest American poetry. These exciting essays comprise energy and documented discussions on experimentalism, multiculturalism, hyperspace, and gender. Anthologies and little magazines form the matrix for this exploration...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2010-10-06
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Although Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2004) was the first African American writer to win the Pulitzer Prize, she occupies a curious position in the larger black canon. Despite her importance, with the exception of very few critical accounts of her work, she has been usually...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2010-10-06
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