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Featured in the Financial Times Best Books of the Year 2020
The evidence is rigorously marshalled and the...solutions equally clearly illuminated. A definitive study. - Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator, The Financial Times
In this vital new book, Britain's...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2020-09-16
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One moment life was normal, the next, governments around the world were imposing radical lockdowns of their populations. But why were decision-makers so readily ignoring centuries of hard-won civil freedoms? Where was the discussion of ethics and human rights? Why were...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2020-09-14
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Im Buch wird das Verhältnis zwischen dem Raum und der Kultur reflektiert. Die räumlichen Prägungen (Schlesien, Kärnten, Mähren, Ostpreußen) zeigen jene kulturellen Überschneidungen, die nicht eine Identität, sondern eine existentielle Wohnhaftigkeit des Raumes...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-09-14
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Opening Pathways, Building Bridges explores contemporary skilled migration and the brain drain using a bottom-up approach, based on a case study of Mexican scientists and engineers—or the Brains, as coined by the author—working in the UK. It provides an insight into how...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-09-14
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Owing to the proliferation of screens and networked culture, young fans have moved beyond being simply media consumers. Today they are content interpreters and creators—living in a remix culture, reconstructing transmedia narratives, and interacting with culture...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-09-08
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This edited volume features essays derived from presentations delivered at the 15th Biennial Public Address Conference held at Syracuse University in October 2016, as well as additional material. The Conceit of Context explores the often invoked—indeed a central term in...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-09-02
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Like all empires, the Soviet Empire was also based on the distinction centre–periphery. Although the Soviet Empire no longer exists, relationships between centres and peripheries still shape realities in the region. The book analyses the relevance of this distinction...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-08-20
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This carefully curated collection of the writings and speeches of W. McNeil (Mac) Lowry will provide significant information about and insight into a remarkable period in the second half of the twentieth century, when the foundations of the arts as they now exist in the...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-08-20
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Two fundamental and underlying principles drive White Evolution. The first is that evolution means constant movement in the fight against the virus of White supremacy. If the virus is evolving rapidly, then our critical consciousness needs to evolve faster in order to...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-08-11
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This second volume in the Hip-Hop Education series highlights knowledge of self as the fifth and often forgotten element of hip-hop. In many cases, a connection to hip-hop culture is one that has been well embedded in the identity of hip-hop educators. Historically,...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-08-06
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The late Dennis Carlson uses the alternative nature of the Burlington, Vermont-bred band, Phish, and the larger impact of rock n’ roll to look at youth and revolutionary music culture. A History of Progressive Music and Youth Culture is designed for those who work with...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-08-06
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Die Selbstverwaltung als tragendes Organisationsprinzip der Sozialversicherung scheint in jüngster Zeit zunehmend unter Druck. Sie ist nicht nur Gegenstand öffentlicher Debatten, sondern sieht sich auch mit tiefgreifenden gesetzlichen Veränderungen konfrontiert. Muss...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-08-06
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Aktuelle gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen zeigen, dass parallel zu einer fortschreitenden globalen Vernetzung und einer Zunahme an Komplexität viele Menschen (wieder) Wert auf persönliche, kulturelle und religiöse Identitäten legen.
Das Engagement für Offenheit, Dialog...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-07-29
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This book comprises studies on death in Spanish, British/American and German children’s literature, cinema and audiovisual fiction; several translations from English and German into Spain are analysed. References to death were censored in Spain, as they were omitted or...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-07-29
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Stellen auch Sie fest, dass zu viel Konsum und Besitz Sie nicht wirklich glücklich macht und Sie sich danach sehnen, die Dinge zu vereinfachen? Selim Tolga zeigt Ihnen, wie das geht. Praktische Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitungen helfen Ihnen beim Minimalisieren auf allen...
Editeur :
Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2020-07-28
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Für Dummies
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This book contributes to a historically evolving conversation about immigration as a facet of globalization in the European context. Focusing on literary and artistic works from the post–World War II era, the author uses a «call-and-response» structure – as in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-07-28
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This atlas portrays Thailand’s spatial structures and presents the country’s social and economic development in a territorial context. The Kingdom of Thailand has undergone many changes throughout its long history, and most recently during its vigorous growth from the...
Editeur :
IRD Éditions
Parution :
2020-07-28
Collection :
Atlas et cartes
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A compelling contribution to the largely understudied field of Latinx theatre, this book unpacks new developments in the Latinx and American cultural landscape registered by contemporary plays inspired and based on Greek tragic myths. It examines dramatic revisions of...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2020-07-24
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This reader investigates the changing face of the notion of culture, tracing how it emerged in some of the most important and controversial phases of the lively Anglo-American debate on the subject from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, including...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-07-23
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