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Können Kriege aus humanitären Gründen gerecht sein? Der Autor verfolgt die lateinamerikanischen Antworten auf diese Frage von der Eroberung des Kontinents bis in die Gegenwart. Er zeigt, wie sich Philosophen, Völkerrechtler und Diplomaten angesichts des iberischen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-10-23
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Based on intensive fieldwork among the Finnish Roma, the Kaale, between 1995 and 2015, this book explores their traditional songs. It presents an introduction to the subject of traditional Romani music and offers different interpretations of how the Roma themselves...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-10-23
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Over the last decades Clifford Geertz’ interpretive anthropology has played an important role in the field of socio-cultural anthropology. The study presents the critical reception of his thoughts in Western countries and Polish anthropology. Interpretive anthropology...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-10-23
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In diesem Buch geht es um demokratische Mehrheitsabstimmungen, von denen der Marquis de Condorcet im 18. Jahrhundert bemerkte, dass sie zu nicht umsetzbaren («paradoxen») Beschlüssen führen können, auch wenn die einzelnen Entscheidungsträger «vernünftig» (rational)...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-10-23
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How do social work students learn to use research to underpin their practice decisions?How do they learn that research is not an activity unconnected to their professional role and responsibilities, but rather acts as a foundation for their knowledge?
By using the...
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Learning Matters
Parution :
2015-10-19
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Media pilgrimage has become a booming business in the 21st century. Fans of television shows, rock groups and books flock to places associated with their favorite series, artist or writer, trying to embody and perhaps understand what inspired the beloved piece of work,...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2015-10-19
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Social work with vulnerable adults is becoming increasingly centred on a key piece of legislation: the Mental Capacity Act. The Act provides a framework for protecting the vulnerable while allowing those who may lack capacity to have certain safeguards enshrined in law....
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Learning Matters
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2015-10-12
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This sharp, innovative book champions the rising significance of ethnographic research on the use of digital resources around the world. It contextualises digital and pre-digital ethnographic research and demonstrates how the methodological, practical and theoretical...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2015-10-09
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Intricacies of Patriotism presents a selection of concepts of patria along with their corresponding forms of patriotism. The various contributions represent different backgrounds and draw a picture of patria as a universal value that is indispensible to one’s sense of...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-10-09
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The book presents an outline of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from the 16th to the 18th century and offers a view of the realities of political life, organization of the judiciary, the economy, coexistence of different ethnic groups and religions, high and popular...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-09-30
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From Multitude to Crowds: Collective Action and the Media presents a study of collective action in the 21st century. Experts from Sociology, Political Science, Philosophy, Political Communication and Media Studies offer a multidisciplinary approach to social formations...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-09-30
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Bringing together boxing writers from different cultural and disciplinary perspectives, this book offers a vital and original contribution to the understanding of this enduringly fascinating and controversial sport. This collected volume investigates what is at stake in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-09-30
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Das Buch behandelt die Theologie des brasilianischen Jesuiten und Fundamentaltheologen João Batista Libanio. Es bietet zunächst eine Präsentation seiner Bibliografie und Biografie. Ein besonderes Augenmerk gilt dabei der Bedeutung seiner Heimat in Brasilien, Minas...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-09-25
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"Discussions about the contemporary online world are often in a one-dimensional manner shaped by moral panics about online trolling, cyberbullying, cybercrime, terrorists online, etc. The associated right-wing extremist agenda for Internet politics is about control,...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2015-09-25
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Das Buch nimmt die Eickstedt-Sammlung aus Südindien zum Ausgangspunkt und verbindet ethnologische Forschung im Museum mit postkolonialer Kritik an der Aneignung von Objekten und Fotografien. Dabei vermittelt die Sammlung als ethnohistorische Quellen ein Bild der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-09-25
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The ways in which the Internet is managed and controlled-often labeled as Internet Governance- are usually considered as standing on four main pillars: Technology, Market Laws, State Regulation and Uses. Nevertheless, its specific features, the consequences of the...
Editeur :
Presses des Mines
Parution :
2015-09-21
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"Neatly and succinctly takes readers through ways to understand and interpret the label of ‘antisocial’ behaviour in a wider context, showing how it is socially, historically and culturally produced as well as understood in professional health and policing or...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2015-09-15
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This book bears witness to the tightening of bonds that has been taking place among the Brazilian and the German historiographical communities in the last years. It presents a wide array of historiographical issues by various scholars: the role played by history writing...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-09-11
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Die Bedeutung mentaler Faktoren im Sport gilt als unbestritten; das Schlagwort «Mentale Fitness» findet insbesondere im (Hoch-)Leistungs-, aber auch im Freizeitsport zunehmend Verwendung. Dieses Werk richtet sich an alle aktiven Tennisspielerinnen und Tennisspieler, die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-08-31
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How does the visual nature of spectacle inform the citizenry, destabilize the political, challenge aesthetic convention and celebrate cultural creativity? What are the limits – aesthetic, political, social, cultural, economic – of spectacle?How do we explain the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-08-31
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