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Polish Solidarity was a phenomenon combining a trade union, a social movement and general ideas of freedom and solidarity. Led by Lech Walesa it contributed greatly to the evolution of the old system and to its final collapse in 1989, followed then by the end of the...
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Despite representing significant portions of the advertising, marketing, and public relations work force, the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) community has largely been ignored by scholarly research in strategic communications. With the exception of...
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Despite its inherent negative implications as a purveyor of essentialism, the concept of hybridity holds a great deal of critical purchase in the postcolonial world. Hybridity allows identities and cultures to be conceptualized as different and manifold, allowing for...
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Labouring Lives unravels the huge changes which have so fundamentally altered the life courses of ordinary women over the past one hundred and fifty years, namely the changes in marriage and fertility patterns. Using dynamic data from Dutch population registers and...
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From brutal Nazi killers to Hanukkah heroes in the ’hood, tough Jews refute images of doomed Holocaust victims, wandering Jews of exile before them, and the post-war ‘nice Jewish boys’ who followed. They foster belligerent responses to polemics of fear and self-hatred,...
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This is the first book-length study of the groundbreaking work of Rey Chow, whose work has transformed the fields of postcolonialism, cultural studies, film, ethnicity and gender. It describes and explains the features and the breadth of Chow's interventions and...
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Die empirische Wahlforschung beobachtet seit längerem die Abnahme von Parteibindungen in der Wählerschaft. Damit einher geht eine Zunahme elektoraler Volatilität sowie eine immer spätere Wahlentscheidung. Lässt sich vor diesem Hintergrund ein stärkeres...
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Der Sammelband zur internationalen Tagung «Fremd unter den Menschen» in Weimar 2010 vereinigt Beiträge zur Poetik und Textologie der Dichterin Gertrud Kolmar, die im Jahr 1943 ihr Leben in Auschwitz verlor. Die Aufsätze führen die Diskussion um eine außerständige...
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Den Nachbar verstehen. Seine Mentalität. Seine Andersartigkeit. Die eigenen Vorurteile überwinden. All das ist nicht nur eine Aufgabe im zwischenmenschlichen Bereich. Sie gilt auch für die Nachbarschaft unterschiedlicher Nationen. Völkerverständigung bedarf einer...
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This book examines both the obvious and less obvious ways in which Germans struggle with their Nazi past. It embraces only a small part of a complex problem, which is impossible for an individual author to grasp in its entirety and character. The main intention, which...
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Zoulei is an endangered language spoken by several hundred speakers in China’s Guizhou Province and adjacent areas. It is a variety of the Ahou dialect of the highly diverse Gelao group within the Tai-Kadai language family.Zoulei is a typical isolating and analytic...
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Esta obra contiene las actas del seminario doctoral «Las Relaciones exteriores y políticas de la Unión Europea y la cooperación en el Mediterráneo», organizado por la Fundación Academia Europea de Yuste con la colaboración de la Red SEGEI en el Real Monasterio de Yuste...
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Visual Anthropology in Sardinia explores the technique, style and methodology of documentary films about Sardinia, investigating how such films construct different experiences and identities, and reflecting on the advantages of the medium of documentary film over...
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This ism-busting text is an enormously accessible account of the key philosophical and theoretical ideas that have informed geographical research. It makes abstract ideas explicit and clearly connects it with real practices of geographical research and knowledge. ...
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How does control of media resources serve political and economic ends? What is the impact of media concentration and monopoly in the era of technology convergence, with not just traditional and ‘new’ media but also consumer electronics, telephony and computing...
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This book sets out a clear framework for conducting participatory research with children and young people within a discussion of the rights of the child. Through extensive case studies and a close review of contemporary literature, in relation to early childhood through...
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Working with families, carers, groups and communities is something all social work students must prepare for. Written to guide you through these varied and complex groupwork situations, this book explores the knowledge, skills and values required for groupwork practice....
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"An invaluable text for all those interested in cities and economic change. Empirically grounded, theoretically informed, and written in a highly accessible way to help students understand processes underlying the changing urban economy, urban governance, and the role...
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Verschiedene Erscheinungen von Fundamentalismus stellen mit zunehmender Pluralisierung der Lebensstile, mit der (post-)modernen Enttraditionalisierung und Multikulturalität in Europa und weltweit eine wachsende Gefahr dar: theokratische und evangelikale Tendenzen in...
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Die Arbeit untersucht das Phänomen vereinbarter Arbeitnehmervertretungsstrukturen in der betrieblichen Praxis.Die Grundlage der Studie bildet die Auswertung von (Betriebs-)Vereinbarungen, soziologischen Fallstudien und rechtstatsächlichen Untersuchungen.Die darin...
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