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In one of the few studies to draw upon cemetery data to reconstruct the social organization, social change, and community composition of a specific area, this volume contributes to the growing body of sociohistorical examinations of Appalachia. The authors herein...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-07-04
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This volume explores the phenomenon and trend of cultural buildings by investigating 10 typical cities in China from the first, second, and third tiers, and from the Chinese diaspora. Each grand theater design was the result of a high-profile international competition...
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Springer
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2019-07-04
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Steffen Bethmann untersucht die Effektivität und Wirkung privater Beiträge zum Gemeinwohl und die Entwicklung von Strategien sozialer Investoren. Er legt die organisationstheoretischen Grundlagen zur Erklärung von Stiftungshandeln und Innovationsfähigkeit von Stiftungen...
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Springer VS
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2019-07-04
Collection :
Soziale Investitionen
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Urban Fuel Poverty describes key approaches to defining and alleviating fuel poverty in cities using a multidisciplinary perspective and multiple case studies. It provides empirical knowledge on the levels and intensities of energy poverty in urban areas, along with new...
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Academic Press
Parution :
2019-07-04
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This book describes how those individuals who are often most marginalised in postcolonial societies draw on age-old, non-western knowledge systems to adapt to the hardships characteristic of unequal societies in transformation. It highlights robust indigenous pathways...
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Springer
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2019-07-03
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International courts and other actors are increasingly taking into account pre-existing social structures and inequalities when addressing and redressing human rights violations, in particular discrimination against specific groups. To date, however, academic legal...
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Springer
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2019-07-03
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Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht
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The book is the first and general report of a series of six that reviews the practice of “China Dream” policy by the Zhejiang provincial government. “China Dream” is one of the most important state policies established by the present Chinese government and how to...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-07-03
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Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path
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The dead are gone. They count for nothing. Yet, if we count the dead, their number is staggering. And they account for most of what is great about civilization. Compared to the greatness of the dead, the accomplishments of the living are paltry. Which is it then: are...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-07-03
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This book explores different forms of mediated offence in the context of Trump's America, Brexit Britain, and the rise of far-right movements across the globe. In this political landscape, the so-called ‘right to offend’ is often seen as a legitimate weapon against a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-03
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Through a thick ethnography of the Fez medina in Morocco, a World Heritage site since 1981, Manon Istasse interrogates how human beings come to define houses as heritage. Istasse interrogates how heritage appears (or not) when inhabitants undertake construction and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-03
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology
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The theme of this book is the cultural construction in Zhejiang Province under the guidance of “China Dream” policy. It reviews the profound history of traditional culture in Zhejiang, and concludes with the modern practice and achievements by the local...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-07-03
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Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path
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It has been shown time and again that even though all citizens may be accorded equal standing in the constitution of a liberal democracy, such a legal provision hardly guarantees state protections against discrimination and political exclusion. More specifically, why do...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-07-03
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This pivot considers the use of porcelain vessels within multi-dialect cultural spaces in the consumption of cooked food in Singapore. In a place of ubiquitous hawker centres and kopitiams (coffee shops), the potteries used to serve hawker foods have a strong presence...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-07-02
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This book presents an overview of the problem of urban violence in Caracas, and specifically in its barrios. It helps situate readers familiar or not with Latin American in the context that is Caracas, Venezuela, a city displaying one of the world’s highest homicide...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-07-02
Collection :
The Latin American Studies Book Series
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Informelle Ratgebernetzwerke strukturieren den Fluss des Wissens und beeinflussen damit das Gelingen von Innovationsversuchen grundlegend. Philip Roth analysiert die Entwicklung solcher Netzwerke. Neben Partnerselektionsentscheidungen haben sich besonders...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2019-07-02
Collection :
Netzwerkforschung
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Michaela Quente befasst sich mit den Studienmotivationen, Erfahrungen und Haltungen von Studierenden in Bezug auf die Dimension Geschlecht. Tatsächlich erweisen sich die Geschlechterverhältnisse in einigen Fachkulturen und das entsprechende Fachwahlverhalten durch junge...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2019-07-02
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Successful integrative practice begins at the nexus of intrapersonal and interpersonal levels of macro practice, and requires a nuanced sensitivity to both. Integrative Practice in and for Larger Systems guides readers through the development of a cohesive practice...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-07-02
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This is a book about boys’ bodies, masculinities, and the ways in which boys navigate their lives from early childhood through to the beginning of adolescence. Drummond focuses on sport, health and physical activity, and adds context to the history of male...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-01
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India remains a country mired in poverty, with two-thirds of its 1.3 billion people living on little more than a few dollars a day. Just as telling, the country's informal working population numbers nearly 500 million, or approximately eighty percent of the entire labor...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-07-01
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Inuit have among the highest suicide rates in the world - ten times the national average.Inuit narratives of suicide provide clues as to what can and in some cases has been done to combat the problem, but until recently they have not circulated far beyondInuit...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-07-01
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