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This open access book describes methods of mortality forecasting and discusses possible improvements. It contains a selection of previously unpublished and published papers, which together provide a state-of-the-art overview of statistical approaches as well as...
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Springer
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2019-03-28
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Demographic Research Monographs
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This volume deals with a key concept concerning the future: change. It is omnipresent and yet is often only perceived in retrospect. The book’s editor and founder of Psychological Future Management argues that we are currently experiencing the beginning of the most...
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Springer
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2019-03-28
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This book examines how genocide survivors rebuild their lives following migration after genocide. Drawing on a mixture of in-depth interviews and published testimony, it utilises Bourdieu’s concept of social capital to highlight how individuals reconstruct their...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-03-27
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Compromise after Conflict
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This book explores the insights that Cultural Astronomy provides into the classical Roman world by unveiling the ways in which the Romans made use of their knowledge concerning the heavens, and by shedding new light on the interactions between astronomy and heritage in...
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Springer
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2019-03-27
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Ob Terroranschläge, Flüchtlings- oder Finanzkrisen – die Herausforderungen der globalisierten Moderne legen jene Bereiche frei, die Durkheim als anomisch bezeichnete und deren Bearbeitung nach wie vor die zentrale Stellung moralischer Kommunikation verdeutlicht. Einiges...
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Springer VS
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2019-03-27
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The night and popular music have long served to energise one another, such that they appear inextricably bound together as trope and topos. This history of reciprocity has produced a range of resonant and compelling imaginaries, conjured up through countless songs and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-03-27
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Pop Music, Culture and Identity
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Simone Ines Linke beschreibt die stereotype und stark ästhetisierte Konstruktion medialer Landschaften und geht darauf ein, welche gesellschaftlichen Auswirkungen damit verbunden sind. Die Autorin zieht geographische, philosophische und soziologische Perspektiven heran...
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Springer VS
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2019-03-27
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RaumFragen: Stadt – Region – Landschaft
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Drawing on ethnographic encounters with self-identified gay men in Iran, this book explores the construction, enactment, and veiling and unveiling of gay identity and same-sex desire in the capital city of Tehran. The research draws on diverse interpretive, historical,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-03-27
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This book provides a comparison of the measurement in time and monetary units of unpaid domestic work in Colombia, Costa Rica, Uruguay, and the Hispanic ethnicity in the United States. A standardized technique allows the development of comparable estimates across...
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Springer
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2019-03-27
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What is the use of research in public debates and policy-making on immigration and integration? Why are there such large gaps between migration debates and migration realities, and how can they be reduced? Bridging the Gaps: Linking Research to Public Debates and Policy...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-03-27
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?Ist es Ihnen auch schon passiert, dass Sie im Aufzug auf den Knopf für das siebte Stockwerk gedrückt hatten, aber im fünften Stockwerk ausstiegen, weil alle anderen ausstiegen? Sie fahren nur dann weiter, wenn Sie diesen unbewussten Drang überwinden und sich mithilfe...
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Springer
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2019-03-26
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This volume offers a critical, cross-disciplinary, and international overview of emerging scholarship addressing the dynamic relationship between race and markets. Chapters are engaging and accessible, with timely and thought-provoking insights that different audiences...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-26
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The world abounds with conflicts and the associated communication practices and technologies that perpetuate and contest conflict as it occurs in place. All conflicts are crucially connected with place, and all conflicts are communicated in multiple ways. This book...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-26
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'A mesmerising book, full of story, truth, pain, lyricism, humour and astonishment: the stuff of a difficult life, fully lived, and masterfully transformed into art' SALMAN RUSHDIE'Intimate and wise, poignant and compassionate, redemptive and raw. You have to read this...
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Dialogue Books
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2019-03-26
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„Wenn Du Frieden willst, sorge für Gerechtigkeit“ steht in lateinischen Worten auf dem Grundstein des ersten Gebäudes der Internationalen Arbeitsorganisation (bekannt als ILO, deutsch: IAO), die vor 100 Jahren als Teil des Friedensvertrags von Versailles gegründet...
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Springer VS
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2019-03-26
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Karl Marx is one of the most influential writers in history. Despite repeated obituaries proclaiming the death of Marxism, in the 21st century Marx's ideas and theories continue to guide vibrant research traditions in sociology, economics, political science, philosophy,...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-03-26
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Der Band liefert eine kritische Bestandsaufnahme bestehender Subjektkonzeptionen der kommunikationswissenschaftlichen Forschung. Zudem werden Konzepte entwickelt um Subjektivität im Kontext aktueller theoretischer Debatten (u.a. Mediensoziologie, Cultural Studies,...
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Springer VS
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2019-03-26
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This book maps the changes in court advocacy in England and Wales over the last three centuries. Advocacy, the means by which a barrister puts their client’s case to the court and jury, has grown piecemeal and at an uneven pace; the result of a complex interplay of many...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-25
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Das Skandalöse:Das ist das Anrüchige, das Anstößige, das Obszöne, das Perverse.Es ist gleichzeitig das Faszinierende, das Spannende, das Aufregende — dasErregende. Die Geschichte des Films ist an die Geschichte seiner Skandale geknüpft.Die Skandale offenbaren sowohl...
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Springer
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2019-03-25
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This book examines the problem of relationships between culture and space. Highlighting the use of semiotics of culture as a basic concept of research, it describes the power of the cultural landscape in the context of culture philosophical research. Opening with a...
Editeur :
Springer
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2019-03-25
Collection :
Numanities - Arts and Humanities in Progress
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