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This book examines interreligious dialogue from a European perspective. It features detailed case studies analysed from different disciplinary perspectives. These studies consider such activities as face-to-face discussion groups, public meetings, civic consultations...
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Springer
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2019-07-30
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Island Thinking is a cultural historical and geographical study of Englishness in a key period of cultural transformation in mid-twentieth century Britain as the empire shrank back to its insular core. The book uses a highly regional focus to investigate the imaginative...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-30
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This book examines how heteronormativity in higher education can be interrupted and resisted. Located within the theoretical framework of queer and critical pedagogy and based on extensive empirical research, the author explores the dynamics of heteronormativity and its...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-29
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Arbeit und Produktion sind im 21. Jahrhundert immer stärker grenzüberschreitend vernetzt. Dies galt aber bisher nicht in gleichem Maße für die Regulierung der Arbeits-, Beschäftigungs- und Partizipationsbedingungen der erwerbstätigen Menschen. Nationale Mechanismen und...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2019-07-29
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This open access book explores the emotional labour of crisis reporters in an original style that combines fictional and factual narrative. Exploring how journalists make sense of their emotional experience and development in relation to their professional ideology, it...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-29
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Sharp, in-depth and highly visual, this is the fully revised textbook and teaching aid for students, tutors and in-house learning and development teams keen to know more about the world of trends, forecasting, innovation thinking and strategic foresight.Designed and...
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Laurence King Publishing
Parution :
2019-07-29
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The figure of the «Muslim» woman or girl performs a crucial role in far-reaching socio-political debates in Germany. Indeed, such figures challenge the boundaries of gender equality and secularism and contest notions of tolerance and integration.The (in)visibility of...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-07-29
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This book sets forth a pedagogy for renewing the liberal arts by combining critical thinking, media activism, and design thinking. Using the StudioLab approach, the author seeks to democratize the social and technical practices of digital culture just as nineteenth...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-07-27
Collection :
Digital Education and Learning
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This book examines the representation of infertility, assisted reproduction, miscarriage, adoption and surrogacy in a wide range of media, including blogs, vlogs, social media posts and factual programming. In so doing, it illustrates how pregnancy loss, involuntary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-26
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The imperative of happiness dictates the conduct and direction of our lives. There is no escape from the tyranny of positivity. But is happiness the supreme good that all of us should pursue? So says a new breed of so-called happiness experts, with positive...
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Polity
Parution :
2019-07-26
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The pace of modern life is undoubtedly speeding up, yet this acceleration does not seem to have made us any happier or more content. If acceleration is the problem, then the solution, argues Hartmut Rosa in this major new work, lies in “resonance.”The quality of a human...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-07-26
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In the human quest for orientation vis-à-vis personal life and comprehensive reality the worldviews of religionists and humanists offer different answers, and science also plays a crucial role. Yet it is the ordinary, embodied experience of meaningful engagement with...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-26
Collection :
Studies in Humanism and Atheism
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Is being colorblind the most effective way to address overt and covert racism in schooling today? Should educators pretend that race doesn’t matter? Award-winning sociologist Laurie Cooper Stoll argues that, as long as society is stratified along racial lines, taking a...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-07-26
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This book discusses the unknown and remote urban experiment of modernist social practices and dreams of a better tomorrow. It describes the history of the Warsaw Housing Cooperative not as a historical relic or a single case study, but instead analyses this...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-07-25
Collection :
The Urban Book Series
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Michael Staack’s multi-year ethnography is the first and only comprehensive social-scientific analysis of the combat sport ‘Mixed Martial Arts’. Based on systematic training observations, the author meticulously analyses how Mixed Martial Arts practitioners conjointly...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-07-25
Collection :
Beiträge zur Praxeologie / Contributions to Praxeology
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The volume aims at analysing the migration processes of families from Greece following the financial crisis from 2009 onwards. It investigates whether and to what extent this ‘new’ and international migration represents a new phenomenon when compared to the so-called...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-07-24
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This volume offers a critical examination of the later philosophical views of Vladimir Solov’ëv, arguably Russia’s most famous and most systematic philosopher. It offers a philosophically informed approach to this pivotal figure and to his era. Inside, readers will...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-07-24
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This book in religious studies uses a Malaysian apostasy case study as a platform to investigate and discuss the broader radicalisation of apostates on social networking sites. It provides new insights into the emerging phenomenon of how social media tools are harnessed...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-07-23
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Religious Studies
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Bilder und bildliche Vorstellungen bestimmen von der frühesten Kommunikation an unseren Zugang zur Welt. Das Ziel des Bandes ist eine umfassende Aufklärung der Prägung unserer Welt durch die verwendetenBilder entlang ausgewählter Beispiele alltäglicher Bildlichkeit....
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Springer VS
Parution :
2019-07-23
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Der Sammelband zeigt einerseits die Vielfalt und das Potential einer pluralen Ökonomik auf, indem einführende Überblicke sowie exemplarische Vertiefungen von ökonomischen Perspektiven und Diskursen erfolgen. Andererseits versteht er sich als Debattenimpuls, bei dem auch...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-07-23
Collection :
Wirtschaft + Gesellschaft
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