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This handbook provides an in-depth exploration of the entire journey of postgraduate research in the social and behavioural sciences, from enrolment to its culmination in the form of a thesis, dissertation or portfolio, and beyond. It is written in an accessible and...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-06-27
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FBI Special Agent Jeff Rinek had a gift for getting child predators to confess. All he had to do was share a piece of his soul . . .In the Name of the Children gives an unflinching look at what it's like to fight a never-ending battle against an enemy far more...
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Quercus
Parution :
2019-06-27
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In this poetic exploration of the auditory imagination, the third in his series on sonic aesthetics, Seán Street peoples silence with sound, travelling through time and space to the distant past, the infinite future and the shadow lands of the inner psyche. Our mind is...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-26
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Sound
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Janina Zölch untersucht, welchen Einfluss eine Migration in der Phase der Adoleszenz auf den Entwicklungsprozess von jungen männlichen Spätaussiedlern nimmt. Ausgehend von biographischen Interviews arbeitet sie ausführliche Fallrekonstruktionen sowie übergreifende...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2019-06-26
Collection :
Adoleszenzforschung
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In recent years there has been a growing interest in cognition within sociology and other social sciences. Within sociology this interest cuts across various topical subfields, including culture, social psychology, religion, race, and identity. Scholars within the new...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-06-26
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This book identifies, diagnoses and evaluates social and economic processes taking place in the rural areas of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) states in the last 25 years and affecting the immediate future, with a particular focus on their spatial diversity. It...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-06-26
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This book contends that conventional class concepts are not able to adequately capture social inequality and socio-cultural differentiation in Africa. Earlier empirical findings concerning ethnicity, neo-traditional authorities, patron-client relations, lifestyles,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-25
Collection :
Frontiers of Globalization
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This book uses empirical research to introduce the relationship between nationalism, militarism and masculinity. The co-constitution between these three factors is susceptible to change and hinders reconciliation, according to the author. Drawing on the case of Cyprus,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-25
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This book compiles several years of multi-faceted qualitative research on fitness doping to provide a fresh insight into how the growing phenomenon intersects with issues of gender, body and health in contemporary society.
Drawing on biographical...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-25
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This book provides a contemporary overview of the social-ecological and economic vulnerabilities that produce food and nutrition insecurity in various small island contexts, including both high islands and atolls, from the Pacific to the Caribbean. It examines the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-06-25
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From a Harvard scholar and former Obama official, a powerful proposal for curtailing violent crime in America Urban violence is one of the most divisive and allegedly intractable issues of our time. But as Harvard scholar Thomas Abt shows in Bleeding Out, we actually...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2019-06-25
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This book brings together multidisciplinarity, desirability and possibility of consilience of borderline studies which are topically diverse and methodologically innovative. It includes contemporary tribal issues within anthropology and other disciplines. In addition,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-06-25
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This book is about the institutional disrespect experienced by refugee immigrants at the hands of the state and its institutions. The desire to be treated respectfully is not felt only by refugees, but they are a much higher risk of not receiving it. Using a case study...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-06-24
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Spain After the Indignados/15M Movement explores how the aftershocks of the 2007 Great Recession restructured Spain’s political sphere and political imaginary. It brings together a representative sample of Spain’s leading progressive voices, including two of the five...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-24
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This volume examines the impact of wealth on quality of life and subjective well-being (SWB). As wealth is related to economic, environmental and social features of societies, this volume serves as an important resource in understanding economic and SWB. It further...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-06-24
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This book is an attempt to understand suicide from the perspective of a group of men who decided to take their own lives. Their stories imply that male suicide is not, as frequently portrayed, an impulsive action arising from particular, sex-specific, causes but relates...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-24
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Steffen Rudolph widmet sich in seiner Studie der empirischen Untersuchung digitaler Ungleichheiten mit dem besonderen Fokus auf Partizipation im Internet. Vor dem Hintergrund einer an Pierre Bourdieu anknüpfenden Perspektive zeigt sich, dass nicht nur der Zugang,...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-06-24
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This book uses crime-science and traditional criminological approaches to explore urban crime in the rapidly urbanising country Nigeria, as a case study for urban crime in developing nations. In Africa’s largest democracy, rapid unmanaged growth in its cities combined...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-22
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This edited collection uses critical theory in order to understand the rise of the Alt-Right and the election of Donald Trump—and, in doing so, to assert the necessity and value of various disciplines within the humanities. While neoliberal mainstream culture has...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-22
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This book explores the interconnected ways in which the control of knowledge has become central to the exercise of political, economic, and social power. Building on the work of International Political Economy scholar Susan Strange, this multidisciplinary volume...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-21
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