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In the spring of 1969, 101 students received master’s degrees from Columbia University’s prestigious School of Journalism, where they had learned the trade as it was then practiced. Most hoped to start a career in newspapers, radio, television or magazines, the...
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Death is silent; all the ‘tales’ we hear about it – be they of a religious, philosophical, scientific or artistic nature – are told by other humans. but specific deaths are often utilised to reconfirm or challenge existing societal structures, values and belief systems....
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Die Deutschen waren im Triest der habsburgischen Spätzeit die drittgrößte Nationalität nach Italienern und Slowenen. Der Autor beschreibt, wie deutsche Wirtschaftstreibende, Freiberufler, Beamte und Arbeiter das gesellschaftliche Leben der Stadt mitprägten, sei es in...
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The book contains analyses and interpretations of multidimensional perspectives in philosophical, economical and psychological research on imagination.The authors analyse Russian (N. Bierdiajew) and French philosophy and anthropology (G. Bachelard, G. Durand), German...
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Mit Inkrafttreten des Reichsimpfgesetzes 1874 formierten sich die latent vorhandenen Kritiker zu einer organisierten Impfgegnerschaft. Um deren Beweggründe, Argumente und die Verbindungen der Protagonisten untereinander zu erfassen, bietet sich ein regionaler...
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This work traces the historical and legal developments surrounding the public awareness of sexual harassment in the United States. The book looks at the issue from a theoretical perspective, analyzes relevant Supreme Court decisions, and discusses the reactions to the...
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Der Band befasst sich mit deutschsprachigen Emigrantinnen und Emigranten, die auf der Flucht vor dem Nationalsozialismus ins lateinamerikanische Exil gingen. Dort wirkten sie in doppelter Hinsicht als kulturelle Mittler und Verbreiter demokratischer Ideen: Zum einen...
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Dieser Band behandelt die wichtigsten Entwicklungen, Tatsachen und Persönlichkeiten der slawischen Kulturgeschichte. Der Autor befasst sich nicht nur mit den slawischen Sprachen und Literaturen, sondern untersucht auch die Geschichte der Religion und des Bildungswesens....
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The SAGE Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Religion takes a three-pronged look at this, namely investigating the role of religion in society; unpacking and evaluating the significance of religion in and on human history; and tracing and outlining the social forces and...
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This volume explores the writing practices and book collections of a range of individuals in early modern Kent including monks, a mariner and an apothecary as well as members of the gentry and clergy and urban administrators. In a county with ready access to...
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Relational sociology is coming increasingly to the fore on the international academic stage. As it invariably happens in such circumstances, when a new paradigm attracts a growing number of scholars, researchers and practitioners, it is almost inevitably interpreted and...
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Global Childhoods in International Perspective gathers a wide spectrum of contributors from Europe, the U.S., South Asia, South Africa and Latin America, who, attuned with present dilemmas in the area of childhood studies, discuss some key theoretical and empirical...
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The contributions in this collection underline the vibrancy as well as complexity that characterizes the study of American literature and culture in the twenty-first century with regard to the exploration and understanding of ethnicity and gender.The book aims at...
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This book presents a historical panorama of the Polish avant-garde in Berlin from 19th century historical avant-garde until the recent art. Looking at specific artistic strategies and development of modernist paradigm both in the pre- and post-Second World War period...
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Privacy on the internet is challenged in a wide variety of ways - from large social media companies, whose entire business models are based on privacy invasion, through the developing technologies of facial recognition, to the desire of governments to monitor our every...
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American Studies has witnessed the emergence of major freeways, as well as more obscure lanes, while featuring ideological collisions during the last decades of the 20th century and at the beginning of the present millennium. The volume undertakes to contribute a...
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The essays incorporated into this volume share an ambitious interest in investigating death
as an individual, social and metaphorical phenomenon that may be exemplified by themes
involving burial rituals, identity, and commemoration.The disciplines represented are...
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The UK housing market is in crisis. House-prices are spiralling out of control, rents are rising faster than wages, and there is a serious shortage of new affordable homes. But what caused this crisis and what can we do about it?
In this book, established housing...
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Geographies of Embodiment provides a critical discussion of the literatures on the body and embodiment, and humanism and post-humanism, and develops arguments about "otherness" and "encounter" which have become key ideas in urban studies, and studies of the city. It...
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