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This book examines the trends, underlying factors, and policy implications of fertility declines in three East Asian countries: Japan, South Korea, and China. In contrast to Western countries that have also experienced fertility declines to below-replacement levels,...
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Springer
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2019-03-23
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SpringerBriefs in Population Studies
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Marco Jöstingmeier analysiert die aktuellen Innovationen in der Finanzmarkt- und Bankenregulierung und zeigt, wie systemisches Risiko als neuartiges Problem in den Fokus der Bankenaufsicht rückt. Am Fall der makroprudenziellen Finanzaufsicht wird deutlich, wie neue...
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Springer VS
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2019-03-23
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Organisation und Gesellschaft - Forschung
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Creative hubs have become a cornerstone of economic and cultural policy with only the barest amount of discussion or scrutiny. This volume offers the first interrogation of creative hubs, with ground-breaking critical writing from a combination of established scholars...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-03-23
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This book questions how policies for the metropolis become Europeanised. The book analyses how spatial concepts and political ideas permeate the European multi-level system. Through an interpretive comparison of five contexts, the book provides an overview of the...
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Springer
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2019-03-23
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Springer Geography
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This book critically examines the last few decades of discussion around sex and violence in the media, on social media, in the courtroom and through legislation. The discursive struggles over what constitutes "sexual violence", "victims" and "offenders" is normally...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-03-23
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Palgrave Studies in Crime, Media and Culture
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Libraries have historically played a role as a community builder, providing resources and spaces where knowledge can be archived, shared and created. They can also play a pivotal role in fostering the public's understanding of science and scientific processes. From...
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Chandos Publishing
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2019-03-22
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There is a scarcity of professional literature and research that focuses on women's spiritual development and experiences and how they may differ from those of men. For women, the spiritual is often inner-focused, rather than transcendent; relational, rather than...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-03-22
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Under what circumstances do subjects become visible? And how do subjects themselves change and move the circumstances that allow them to appear? Rather than describing medial, architectural, or rhetorical arrangements that are readily available to subjects, or...
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Springer VS
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2019-03-21
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This book offers a materialist critique of mainstream human rights discourse in the period following 9/11, examining literary works, critical histories, international declarations, government statutes, NGO manifestos, and a documentary film. The author points out some...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-03-21
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Human Rights Interventions
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Quantitative Anthropology: A Workbook contributes an anthropological perspective to quantitative methods. The book's authors address characteristics of quantitative data, entering and manipulating data in SPSS, graphical displays, distributions and measures of central...
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Academic Press
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2019-03-21
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In April 1988, Valerie Solanas - the writer, radical feminist and would-be assassin of Andy Warhol - was discovered dead in her hotel room, in a grimy corner of San Francisco. She was only 52; alone, penniless and surrounded by the typed pages of her last writings.In...
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Maclehose Press
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2019-03-21
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Using a phenomenological and multi-sited ethnographic approach, this book focuses on children’s uses of digital media in three sites—London, Casablanca and Beirut—and situates the study of Arab children and screen media within a wider frame, making connections between...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2019-03-20
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This book explores the lives of male sex workers living in Dublin, Ireland. It focuses on the stories of young Brazilian and Venezuelan migrants who use their micro-celebrity on social media to construct a brand that can be converted into financial advantage within the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-20
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How are our personal soundtracks of life devised? What makes some pieces of music more meaningful to us than others? This book explores the role of memory, both personal and cultural, in imbuing music with the power to move us. Focusing on the relationship between...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-19
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This book examines the ways in which Arab civil society actors have attempted to influence public policies. In particular, the book studies the drive towards a change of policies that affect women and their well-being. It does so through the lens of women civil society...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-19
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Nachhaltigkeit stellt die Frage des guten Lebens. Sie meint Resilienz und Lernfähigkeit, um Krisen vorzubeugen oder zu überwinden, die unsere Existenz und ein friedliches Zusammenleben gefährden. In der bisherigen Nachhaltigkeitsdebatte hat die soziale Ungleichheit...
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Springer VS
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2019-03-19
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essentials
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In this ethnographic examination of women’s mosques in the Maldives, anthropologist Jacqueline H. Fewkes probes how the existence of these separate buildings—where women lead prayers for other women—intersect with larger questions about gender, space, and global Muslim...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-03-19
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This volume provides a multidisciplinary perspective on a set of transformations in social practices that modify the meaning of everyday interactions, and especially those that affect the world of labour. The book is composed of two types of texts: some dedicated to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-18
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This book examines the British government’s response to the ‘superfluous women problem', and concerns about post-war unemployment more generally, by creating a migration society that was tasked with reducing the number of single women at home through overseas...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-18
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Entscheiden Sie sich für ein Studium an einer Universität, ist die Fähigkeit zum ,wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten‘ unerlässlich. Sie entscheidet nicht zuletzt über den Erfolg des Studiums. Gerade zu Studienbeginn können hier einige ,Tücken lauern‘. Dieses essential ...
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Springer VS
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2019-03-18
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