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Demand for Emerging Transportation Systems: Modeling Adoption, Satisfaction, and Mobility Patterns comprehensively examines the concepts and factors affecting user quality-of-service satisfaction. The book provides an introduction to the latest trends in transportation,...
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Elsevier
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2019-12-02
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This book addresses the worst problems currently facing humanity and those that may pose future threats. The problems are explained and approached through a scientific lens, and categorized based on data involving global mortality, vulnerability, and threat level. The...
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Springer
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2019-12-02
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This book provides an ethnographic account of the ways in which biomedicine, as a part of the modernization of healthcare, has been localized and established as the culturally dominant medical system in rural Bangladesh. Dr Faruk Shah offers an anthropological critique...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-12-02
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Food Discourse explores a fascinating, yet virtually unexplored research area: the language of food used on television cooking shows. It shows how the discourse of television cooking shows on the American television channelFood Network conveys a pseudo-relationship...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-12-02
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Die Autorinnen und Autoren des vorliegenden Sammelbandes untersuchen Umbrüche, Krisen und Widerstände in der Geschichte sowie der Gegenwart der Türkei. Im Zentrum steht die Frage, wie gesellschaftlicher und politischer Wandel in Kunst und Literatur verhandelt wird,...
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Springer VS
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2019-12-02
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This volume provides the essential vocabulary currently employed in discourses on the future in 50 contributions by renowned scholars in their respective fields, which examine future imaginaries across cultures and time. Not situated in the field of “futurology” proper,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-12-02
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Ausgewiesene Expertinnen und Experten analysieren die vielfältigen Erscheinungsformen muslimischen Glaubens in Deutschland. Neben Dschihadismus und Salafismus widmet sich der Band vor allem auch der schweigenden Mehrheit der Muslime, die ihren Glauben als Bestandteil...
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Springer VS
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2019-12-02
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Historically, social workers have confronted and alleviated many of society's most far-reaching and seemingly intractable challenges. As we move further into the 21st century, however, the field faces a renewed call to action as critical problems become more deeply and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-12-02
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This edited book aims to provide a new perspective on the identification and interpretation of short-term occupations in Paleolithic Archaeology.
The volume includes contributions with a particular focus on the definition and identification of short-term occupations...
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Springer
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2019-12-02
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Der Band bestimmt den Begriff der Begegnung als eigene, bedeutungstragende Kategorie und fokussiert zum ersten Mal systematisch und historisch Fragen der Interaktion zwischen Menschen und Tieren in Philosophie, Kunst, Literatur und in sozio-kulturellen Praktiken....
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-12-02
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Several months after a 2014 operation in the Gaza Strip, fifty-three Israeli Defense Forces combatants and combat-support soldiers were awarded military decorations for exhibiting extraordinary bravery. From a gendered perspective, the most noteworthy aspect of these...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-12-02
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This book explores the need for deep-seated social change in Myanmar if the country’s democratic transition and peace process is to deliver tangible benefits for those that have long faced profound vulnerability and marginalisation. Drawing on detailed case studies, it...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-11-30
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This book examines the diversity of practice in regional research and its contribution to local, national and global issues. Three themes are advanced here: Place and change, Transition and resilience, and Challenges for the future. Contributors embrace frameworks of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-29
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In this sweeping appraisal of the urban condition, David Wadley argues that anything less that high-level resolution in modelling the well-being of inhabitants is wasting precious time. Humanity is encountering rising entropy, caused by unsustainable economic and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-29
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Menschen, die nach vormodernen Verständnis bedürftig waren, benötigten i.d.R. lebensnotwendige Unterstützung durch Dritte. Neben privater Versorgung konnten Betroffene in Klöstern, Hospitälern und bei Medizinalvertretern Hilfe finden. Archäologisch wurde dieser Aspekt...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-11-29
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Im Fokus dieses Sammelbandes steht die Auseinandersetzung mit methodologischen und methodischen Herausforderungen von Forschungen im Kontext von Flucht und Migration. Die Suche nach kritischen Forschungszugängen, die zu einer Überwindung der Reproduktion...
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Springer VS
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2019-11-29
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International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Second Edition, Fourteen Volume Set embraces diversity by design and captures the ways in which humans share places and view differences based on gender, race, nationality, location and other factors—in other words, the...
Editeur :
Elsevier
Parution :
2019-11-29
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This open access book analyses the interplay of sustainable development and human rights from different perspectives including fight against poverty, health, gender equality, working conditions, climate change and the role of private actors. Each aspect is addressed...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-11-28
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Saskia Fuchs zeigt in ihrer Untersuchung, wie das soziale Kapital – insbesondere soziales Vertrauen – in Deutschland verteilt ist und welche Herausforderungen sowie Lösungsmöglichkeiten bei dessen Messung bestehen. Anhand der Daten des Sozioökonomischen Panels (SOEP)...
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Springer VS
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2019-11-28
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Winner of the Working-Class Studies Association's "Jake Ryan and Charles Sackrey Award for a Book about the Working-Class Academic Experience"This collection by three generations of women from predominantly working-class backgrounds explores the production of the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-28
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