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This book addresses how identity, structures, and agency affect women’s everyday lives in post-revolutionary Egypt. The authors analyses the topic both on a macro- as well as on a micro-level. Through interviews and workshops, women around Egypt express their own...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2017-07-07
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Studies in this book have been gathered on the occasion of two academic events in the field of Transnational Families, focusing on the Eastern-European space, from a – diversified – qualitative social research perspective. The volume places a special emphasis on a...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-07-07
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Dieses Buch stellt das Leben und Werk der österreichischen Dichterinnen jüdischer Herkunft Mimi Grossberg, Margarete Kollisch, Gertrude Urzidil und Maria Berl-Lee im New Yorker Exil zwischen 1938 und dem Anfang der 1980er Jahre vor. Dank ihrer Werke, ihrer literarischen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2017-07-07
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The book looks into the in situ organization of ethnic and racial categorization in interviews in English as a lingua franca. It proposes the combined ethnomethodological and conversation analytic approach.The author shows that the negotiation of ethnic identity...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2017-07-07
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This book takes students on a guided tour of the gang phenomenon through history, as well as current representations of gangs in literature and media. It includes:
- A detailed global overview of gang culture, covering, amongst others, Glasgow, Chicago, Hong Kong,...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2017-07-03
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Since 2007, the Belgian School at Athens has undertaken excavations on the Kefali or Buffo hill, east of the village of Sissi, on the north coast of Crete where a Minoan site was occupied approximately between 2500 and 1200 BC. This volume is the follow-up of an earlier...
Editeur :
Presses universitaires de Louvain
Parution :
2017-07-03
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AEGIS
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More than 100 years ago Sir Arthur Evans' spade made the first cut into the earth above the now well-known Palace at Knossos. His research at the Kephala hill as well as contemporary fieldwork at further sites on Crete saw the birth of a new discipline: Minoan...
Editeur :
Presses universitaires de Louvain
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2017-07-03
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AEGIS
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The National Border Patrol Museum (NBPM) in El Paso, Texas, presents a view of the history, culture, and life along the U.S.-Mexico border that is not offered in any other museum in the world. Moreover, it provides an opportunity to study and understand people and life...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-06-29
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Since its beginnings in the middle of the 19th century, fashion has been narrated through multiple media, both visual and verbal, and for such different purposes as marketing and advertising, art, costume history, social research and cultural dissemination. In this...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-06-29
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This book focuses on the development of Italian American cultural identity throughout the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Italy is becoming a destination, rather than a starting point for immigrants. Immigration remains a source of tension and debate both in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-06-22
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This book explores the boundary between «the private» and «the public» on Social Network Sites based on the sociability framework. The author analyses the roles of social norms and influences, benefits, and risks/costs, on the behaviors of SNSs users through models...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-06-19
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Im Mittelpunkt der Untersuchung steht die Frage, inwieweit Verknappung bewusst als funktionales Instrument und zeitgenössisches Stilmittel in Sprache, Kultur und neuen Medien eingesetzt wird. Der Sammelband untersucht das Phänomen der Verknappung zunächst als Strategie...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-06-19
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Reflexivity – the critical examination of how we see the world – is integral to good research practice. From this state-of-the-art, accessible tour of its history and contemporary relevance, readers will learn of its importance to social research and to society...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2017-06-19
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The main objective of this book is to highlight the most effective use of storytelling in several areas related to communication and the media. Thus, gender studies, political communication, digital media, advertising, crisis communication and PR activities as well as...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-06-15
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This book presents a collection of papers by researchers from several different institutions on a wide range of digital issues.
Digitalization describes the phenomenon of how knowledge is processed and the processed knowledge provides social transformations beyond...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-06-15
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This study documents various historical instances in the development of the concept «Common Good». The author reflects about Plato's theory of Forms, which is infused with the idea of good, as the first principle of being. Plato was not the first philosopher to address...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2017-06-14
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Die Regierungsübernahme durch die AKP 2002 war ein Erdrutsch auf breiter Ebene. Seitdem unterliegt die Türkei politisch und wirtschaftlich einem dynamischen Prozess. Dabei fallen nicht nur die AKP-Politiker auf, sondern auch die türkischen Unternehmer. Während die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-06-08
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Once only a sign, technologies have helped to transform brands into symbols that we constantly encounter in our natural and mediated environments. Moreover, the branding of culture marks a commercialization of society. Almost everywhere we look, a brand name or logo...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-06-06
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Die Bedeutung beruflicher Beratung Älterer wird aus individueller, arbeitsmarktbezogener und gesellschaftlicher Sicht gegenwärtig in allen einschlägigen nationalen und internationalen Dokumenten betont. Allerdings fehlt bislang eine systematische, wissenschaftsbasierte...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-06-01
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La presenza della sigillata gallica nella Transpadana occidentale è cosa nota da tempo, per lo meno agli studiosi locali, ma l’entità del fenomeno e il suo significato sul piano economico e delle relazioni commerciali sono ancora oggi molto poco evidenti a livello...
Editeur :
Publications de l'École française de Rome
Parution :
2017-06-01
Collection :
Collection de l'École française de Rome
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