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Second fiddle to love, fleeting and inauthentic, a disguise for sexual rivalry, a practice to be policed or, at most, a social mechanism aptly reinforcing traditional gender norms, female friendship did not always have a good reputation in canonical and didactic...
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Eine gute Allgemeinbildung hat so ihre Vorteile. Viele Menschen beurteilen im Privat- und im Berufsleben Menschen danach, was sie so von dem wissen, was sie wissen sollten. Dieses Buch hilft Ihnen, Ihr Wissen zu testen. So erfahren Sie, wie solide Ihr Wissen zu...
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With the increased digitisation of society comes an increased concern about who is left behind.
From societal causes to the impact of everyday actions, The Digital Disconnect explores the relationship between digital and social inequalities, and the lived consequences...
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Killer Cities uses a combination of social theory, polemic and close attention to empirical detail to tell the story of how and why cities cause mass animal death and, in the process, hasten the destruction of the planet. This book is not just a lament, however. It is ...
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Der Sammelband, der Siebenbürgen und Hermannstadt aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven erfasst, eröffnet die Publikationsreihe des Zentrums für linguistische, literarische und kulturelle Forschung (ZLLKF) an der Lucian-Blaga-Universität. Thematisch greift der Band einige...
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Der historischen Ritualforschung ist die Eigenschaft des Menschen, Gruppen zu formen und in diesen kollektive Identität zu entwickeln, seit langem bekannt. Die vorliegende Studie untersucht die kulturellen Praktiken Prozession und Heiltumsweisung auf ihre Bedeutung für...
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All people around the world are directly or indirectly under the influence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which appeared in China in December 2019, and the COVID-19 pandemic caused by it. This pandemic, which is still ongoing, has infected over 40 million people and killed...
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Considering that the press is one of the fundamental elements of democracy, this book investigates how the political agenda has been presented in the print media in Turkey. By using agenda setting and framing theories, this book analyzes the conference "Ottoman...
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Why are the arts and humanities under attack? And how can they fight back?
Historically these fields have suffered from a lack of prestige due to the utilitarian perspective of the «developed» world. While such utilitarian views have not been entirely fair on this...
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Media Representations of African American Athletes in Cold War Japan addresses the cross-cultural dialogue between Black America and Japan that was enabled through sports during the Cold War era. This topic has hitherto received little scholarly attention in both...
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What, exactly, is understanding? And how do people create, maintain, and manipulate states of understanding via communication? This book addresses these questions, drawing on interdisciplinary scholarship in cognitive science, communication, psychology, and pragmatics....
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As demographics change and the southern American region grows more multicultural, clashes between mentalities and contemporary population realties increase. Somalis in the Neo-South: African Immigration, Politics and Race offers a balanced and insightful look at Somalis...
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Sprache im Sinne der Wirklichkeitsstrukturierung oder gar -konstruierung steht im Mittelpunkt des sogenannten linguistic turn. Auf der anderen Seite istSprache selbst aber auch ein Kulturartefakt. Sie entwickelt sich als Produkt der menschlichen Evolution und ist als...
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Ist ‚gutes Leben‘ im Kapitalismus möglich? Diese Frage verhandeln Angestelltenromane seit ihrer Entstehung zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts. Die vorliegende Studie analysiert das Spektrum zwischen Müssen und Muße, Lust und Frust, Arbeit und freier Zeit vor dem Hintergrund...
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The Great War set in motion all of the subsequent violence of the twentieth century.The war took millions of lives, led to the fall of four empires, established new nations, and negatively affected others. During and after the war, individuals and communities struggled...
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This book discusses the political, social and cultural change of Western civilization since ancient Greek in the adventure of civic thought in political theory. The aim of this book is to contribute to the discussion of citizenship through "citizenship awareness",...
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Dieser Band ist das Ergebnis der wissenschaftlichen Auseinandersetzung mit den Problemen unserer Zeit, die durch die Globalisierungsfolgen geprägt ist. Die hier versammelten Texte unterstreichen die Bedeutung der Bewältigung der globalen Probleme: Umweltdesaster,...
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Introducing a broad range of innovative and creative qualitative methods, this accessible book shows you how to use them in research project while providing straightforward advice on how to approach every step of the process, from planning and organisation to writing up...
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Ellen Key (1849–1926) was one of Europe’s most influential thinkers on issues of motherhood and women’s sexuality during the early 1900s. This anthology maps how her ideas were reformulated in Europe’s five major language areas – English, German, French, Italian, and...
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This book identifies and examine the changing roles of Nigerian women: in the family, educational attainment and society as experienced and expressed by a sample of educated, Nigerian women. Five of the participants were children caught in Biafran (Nigerian) war and...
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