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Although it is rarely given sufficient consideration in either scholarly or political debates, early childhood education plays a crucial role in the integration process of young immigrants in European countries, since it not only enables the children to be integrated...
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Springer VS
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2020-06-08
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Wiener Beiträge zur Islamforschung
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This book fills a major gap in academic research, by exploring ‘urban resilience measures’ and ‘city management issues’ during disruptive disease outbreak events. Based on the overarching concept of ‘resilience thinking’, it addresses critical issues of preparedness,...
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Springer
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2020-06-08
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This book charts the trajectory of travel journalism from its print based origins to the emergence of hybridised multi-platform content. It considers how this has led to not only different kinds of travel journalism but different kinds of travel journalists; the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-06-08
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This book offers an interdisciplinary conversation on utopia clustered around cultural and communication practises in terms of political and ethical projects. It sheds light on cultural and discursive aspects characterising the polysemous concept of utopia conceived as...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-06-05
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Discover the cutthroat world behind the polite smiles and perky demeanors of morning news in the book that inspired the Apple TV series starring Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Aniston, and Steve Carrell.When America wakes up with personable and charming TV hosts, it's hard...
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Sphere
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2020-06-04
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Stereotypes often cast communism as a defunct, bankrupt ideology and a relic of the distant past. However, recent political movements like Europe's anti-austerity protests, the Arab Spring, and Occupy Wall Street suggest that communism is still very much relevant and...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-06-04
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Die in dem diesem Band vereinten Überlegungen, Aufsätze und Beiträge präsentieren anhand konkreter Beispiele die unterschiedlichen Forschungsperspektiven zu gemeinschaftlichen Wohnformen.Wohnen ist nicht nur Schutz vor Kälte und Regen oder ein Platz zum Schlafen. Wohnen...
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Springer VS
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2020-06-04
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Drones in Smart-Cities: Security and Performance is the first book dedicated to drones in smart cities, helping address the many research challenges in bringing UAVs into practice. The book incorporates insights from the latest research in Internet of Things, big data,...
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Elsevier
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2020-06-04
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This open access book explores machine learning and its impact on how we make sense of the world. It does so by bringing together two ‘revolutions’ in a surprising analogy: the revolution of machine learning, which has placed computing on the path to artificial...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-06-02
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This book is the empirical part of a broad research project on society in a global context, complementing the first, theoretical book, Theorizing Society in a Global Context. While the theoretical book set the framework for a long overdue readdressing of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-06-02
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Europe in a Global Context
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This open access book assembles landmark studies on divorce and separation in European countries, and how this affects the life of parents and children. It focuses on four major areas of post-separation lives, namely (1) economic conditions, (2) parent-child...
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Springer
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2020-06-02
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Dieser Open-Access-Sammelband bietet eine fundierte Grundlage für den Einstieg in die partizipative Forschung allgemein und in die Partizipative Gesundheitsforschung. Es werden Forschungsansätze und Methoden für die Erhebung und Auswertung in partizipativen...
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Springer VS
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2020-06-02
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The book provides an argument why realism is a viable metatheoretical framework for psychological science. By looking at some variations of realism such as scientific realism, critical realism, situational realism and Ferraris’ new realism, a realist view of...
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Springer
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2020-06-02
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This book challenges the narrative of Northern England as a failed space of multiculturalism, drawing on a historically-contextualised discussion of ethnic relations to argue that multiculturalism has been more successful and locally situated than these assumptions...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-06-02
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Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series
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This open access book shows how the politics of migration affect community building in the 21st century, drawing on both retrogressive and progressive forms of mobilization. It elaborates theoretically and shows empirically how the two master frames of nostalgia and...
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Springer
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2020-06-02
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This book presents an academic analysis of exorcism in Christianity. It not only explores the crisis and drama of a single individual in a fight against demonic possession but also looks at the broader implications for the society in which the possessed lives. In...
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Springer
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2020-06-01
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Die Praxis Sozialer Arbeit muss sich mit der Forderung nach Wirkungsnachweisen sozialer Interventionen im Allgemeinen und spezifisch auch im Kontext von Quartiersentwicklung auseinandersetzen. Anknüpfend an den wissenschaftlichen Diskurs zu Wirkungen in der Sozialen...
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Springer VS
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2020-06-01
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This book demonstrates how a local elite built upon colonial knowledge to produce a vernacular knowledge that maintained the older legacy of a pluralistic Sufism. As the British reprinted a Sufi work, Shah Abd al-Latif Bhittai's Shah jo risalo, in an effort to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-06-01
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Punishment policies and practices in the United States today are unprincipled, chaotic, and much too often unjust. The financial costs are enormous. The moral cost is greater: countless individual injustices, mass incarceration, the world's highest imprisonment rate,...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-06-01
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Required reading for anyone interested in the profound relationship between digital technology and society
Digital technology has become an undeniable facet of our social lives, defining our governments, communities,
and personal identities. Yet with these technologies...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-06-01
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