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Critical pedagogy, political economics, and aesthetic theory combine with dialectical and materialist understandings of science, society, and revolutionary politics to develop the most radical goals of society and education. In Philosophy andCritical Pedagogy:...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2016-05-10
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Cultural sociology - or the sociology of culture - has grown from a minority interest in the 1970s to become one of the largest and most vibrant areas within sociology globally. In The SAGE Handbook ofCultural Sociology, a global range of experts explore the theory,...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2016-05-09
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Migration involves change of geographical place, social relations and cultural habits. This volume brings together contributions from an international group of scholars including studies of ritual change and social transformation in Singapore, Germany and the US. In...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-04-29
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The Doppelgänger – the double, twin, mirror image or alter ego of someone else – is an ancient and universal theme that can be traced at least as far back as Greek and Roman mythology, but is particularly associated with two areas of study: psychology, and German...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-04-29
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Das Buch thematisiert die neuen Anforderungen, denen die wechselseitige Interaktion von Wohlfahrtsverbandswesen, Sozialverwaltung und Sozialpolitik(-ern) ausgesetzt ist. Infolge gesellschaftlicher und politischer Veränderungen zeigt sich seit Mitte der 1990er Jahre ein...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-04-29
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Seit Jahrhunderten dienen die Körper der Frauen als Schlachtfelder. Doch erst vor 20 Jahren kam das Thema sexuelle Gewalt in bewaffneten Konflikten auf internationaler Ebene auf. Die Autorin untersucht den Beitrag der Vereinten Nationen zur Vorbeugung und Repression von...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-04-29
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"With great rigour, yet an enviable lightness of touch, Susan Pickard has written an engaging and accessible book that students will love." - Rosaline Gill, City University London "A scholarly tour de force that brings into focus the various disciplines, histories,...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2016-04-24
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The book deals with the question of resistance to Soviet hegemony in Central Europe after 1968, when Warsaw Pact troops invaded Czechoslovakia.The political and cultural situation in the context of Central Europe is presented through the life and work of the Slovak...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-04-22
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This textbook offers a brief overview of the main philosophical schools of the two most significant cultures in ancient Asia, from where these thoughts have spread widely – it concerns ancient India and China. Most important philosophical concepts of that region like...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-04-22
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This textbook offers a brief overview of the basic approaches to the scientific scrutiny of religion. To remain uninterested in examining religion is more difficult than examining any other object of research. In relation to issues of religion, we cannot stand as...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-04-22
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Im Jahre 1896 erwarb die Nationalgalerie in Berlin als erstes Museum einer europäischen Metropole – noch vor Paris – Werke der französischen Impressionisten. Ihr Direktor Hugo von Tschudi setzte sich damit bis zu seiner Demission 1909 über die wilhelminische...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-04-22
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This textbook discusses and systemises several selected topics of philosophical anthropology. The problem of man cannot be grasped through only one main principle or aspect (as the principle of his or her «humanity»). The chapters of this book rather outline several...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-04-22
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This book deals with the relationship between the catholicity of the Church and ethnicity. Churches confess their «catholicity» – which means that they declare that their members belong to one community; but at the same time, the churches are often internally divided...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-04-22
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Human behavior causes environmental problems which, in turn, affect people and whole societies. The author elaborates the role of the public in the discourse about environmental protection. As the public consists of socio-economic, legal and political actors, the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-04-22
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The book deals with the analysis of key political actors in the ‘new democracies’ from Central and Eastern Europe. It is focused on character of elites, particularly political ones, and their role in the process of societal change.The author argues that elite...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-04-22
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This multidisciplinary collection of nine previously unpublished essays presents new research in three interlocking domains: tribal history with a special emphasis on Native women in the Southeast, language revitalization efforts and the narrative knowledge inherent in...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2016-04-19
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The serial killer has become an obsession ever since Jack the Ripper became a media sensation, embedding a new and horrifying type of murderer into our cultural consciousness – one who kills darkly and in the dark. All popular media – print, radio, television, and so on...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2016-04-19
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This groundbreaking anthology examines the phenomenon of crime and our historical understanding – and misunderstanding – of the criminal mind through the lens of the humanities, unpacking foundational concepts in criminology and criminal investigative analysis through...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2016-04-19
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Within the context of the Lutheran Church in Nigeria, Gongola Diocese, this book examines the issues of the interpretation, transmission, and appropriation of the doctrine of justification by faith alone. Using contextualization as the main tool in this exploration,...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2016-04-19
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About 9,000 Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany settled in Australia between 1933 and 1945, a small fraction of the hundreds of thousands who fled. Although initially greeted with a mixed reception as «enemy aliens», some of these refugees remained and made a significant...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-04-15
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