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This book adds to knowledge about chief police officers in England and Wales by exploring their understandings of the right of police to exercise power. Their beliefs, motivations, backgrounds, and cultures are examined. Light is cast on how they perceive power,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-11-24
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Palgrave's Critical Policing Studies
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In this engaging and accessible book, Brookman draws upon several decades of her own research on homicide and violence, including ethnographic research on homicide investigation in the UK and USA and interviews with violent offenders, in order to unravel the...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2021-11-24
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Studien unter dem Vorzeichen der Kulturgerontologie verstehen das Alter nicht als eine biologisch definierte Lebensphase, sondern als Teil sozialer Praxis und kultureller Ordnung. Die interdisziplinäre Annäherung an die Lebensphase Alter passiert dabei vor dem...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2021-11-24
Collection :
Altern & Gesellschaft
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This Academy of Social Sciences report shows how UK social sciences are making powerful practical contributions to improving places – cities, regions, counties or countries – in the UK. It includes 24 case studies highlighting how university-based social scientists are...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2021-11-24
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Die Ansprüche an die Optimierung des Körpers in spätmodernen westlichen Gesellschaften scheinen in einem Spannungsverhältnis zu stehen zum Leib als jener Dimension des Körperlichen, die auf eine konstitutive Unverfügbarkeit und Begrenztheit verweist.Die vorliegende...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2021-11-24
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This Academy of Social Sciences report shows how UK social sciences are making powerful practical contributions to improving places – cities, regions, counties or countries – in the UK. It includes 24 case studies highlighting how university-based social scientists are...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2021-11-24
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Storytelling, a tradition that built human civilization, may soon destroy itHumans are storytelling animals. Stories are what make our societies possible. Countless books celebrate their virtues. But Jonathan Gottschall, an expert on the science of...
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Basic Books
Parution :
2021-11-23
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Using real-life examples, this book asks readers to reflect on how we—as an academic community—think and talk about race and racial identity in twenty-first-century America. One of these examples, Rachel Doležal, provides a springboard for an examination of the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-11-23
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This Open Access book investigates the methodological and ethical dilemmas involved when working with digital technologies and large-scale datasets in relation to ethnographic studies of digital migration practices and trajectories. Digital technologies reshape not...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-11-23
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The summer of 2016 saw one of the most significant citizen protests in the history of democratic South Korea, eventually culminating in the impeachment and conviction of then President Park Geun-hye for corruption. Concerns about the president's behavior were raised in...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-11-23
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The arts, and particularly music, are well-known agents for social change. They can empower, transform, or question. They can be a mirror of society's current state and a means of transformation. They are often the last refuge when all attempts at social change have...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-11-23
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Focused on the struggle to survive by the Jewish Poles stranded in the Polish countryside during the Holocaust, case studies collected in this volume are based on research carried out at Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance. Where possible, they are also...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-11-23
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This book includes studies carried out with a scientific purpose in gastronomy andhospitality in tourism and aims to provide theoretical and practical contributions toboth academicians and sector employees. In line with this purpose, the importanceand awareness of in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-11-23
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The transformation of the dominant model of centralized energy production from fossil fuels to renewable energies is at the center of the public and scientific debate, as well as the subject of national and European policies, as it is connected to highly topical issues...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-11-22
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It is startling to read how few sexual offenses are reported in a year; even more shocking to see how few reports lead to an arrest. Research on effective responses to sexual offenses is much needed and ongoing. This edited book presents the current state of research on...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-11-22
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This book has been prepared by pursuing a scientic goal in the eld of tourism andhotel management in order to create a resource for the academicians and sectorrepresentatives who conduct studies on the subject. Within this context, the book‘Dynamics of International...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-11-22
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This book focusses on the emergence of local governance networks and examines the role of street-level bureaucrats during this process. It aims to identify whether some organizations are favored as state partners, whereas others have a lower chance of becoming part of...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2021-11-20
Collection :
Stadtforschung aktuell
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Mädchen und Frauen mit türkischem Migrationshintergrund sind im organisierten Sport in Deutschland, im Vergleich zu einheimischenMädchen und Frauen, unterrepräsentiert. Da sie die größte herkunftslandbezogene Gruppe unter den Migrantinnen bilden, handelt es sich um eine...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2021-11-19
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The vision of this book is to bring together examples of grounded geographic research carried out in Latin America regarding territorial processes. These encompass a range of histories, processes, strategies and mechanisms, with case studies from ten countries and many...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-11-19
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This book combines content analysis of film and television cases, the examination of policy documents, and first-hand interview material with Danish industry professionals, tracing the pivotal moments in media and welfare state history to unite these two overlapping...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-11-19
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