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Ein Blick auf die Forschungslage zeigt, dass Max Brod zur Gruppe von relativ unbekannten Schriftstellern gehört. Die Gründe dafür liegen in seinem Schattendasein neben Franz Kafka. Der Nachlass Max Brods befindet sich verstreut in verschiedenen Archiven, vor allem in...
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This collection of essays examines the relationship between the media and cosmopolitanism in an increasingly fragmented and globalizing world.This relationship is presented from multiple perspectives and the essays cover, amongst other themes, cosmopolitanization in...
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The area around the German city of Kaiserslautern – or K-Town in American parlance – is home to approximately 50,000 Americans who live within the Kaiserslautern Military Community, the largest organized settlement of American citizens outside the U.S.A. This book...
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Adolf Bastian etablierte die Ethnologie als akademisches Fach. Die Biographie seiner frühen Lebensphase war bislang ethnologiegeschichtlich ein Desiderat. Archivalische Quellen beleuchten Einflüsse auf sein Denken aus dem protestantischen Bremer Bürgertum und seiner...
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This Handbook brings together scholars from around the world in addressing the global significance of, controversies over and alternatives to intellectual property (IP) today. It brings together over fifty of the leading authors in this field across the spectrum of...
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"Woodman and Wyn have produced a text that offers conceptual clarity and real depth on debates in youth studies. The authors skilfully guide us through the main sociological theories on young people and furnish us with sophisticated critiques from which to rethink...
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The use of the cognitive interviewing method for survey question testing has proliferated and evolved over the past 30 years. In more recent years the method has been applied to the evaluation of information letters and leaflets and to research consent forms. This book...
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This book investigates nationalisms and the emergence of national identities among the Indigenous peoples across North America. It examines the many difficulties which the Native communities have had to face in order to assert themselves as nations, as well as looking...
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The book explains managerial performance through self-identity aspects. It proposes identity instruments for the evaluation, prognosis and growth of managerial performance. A qualitative study was performed on Romanian managers to discover the identity conditionings of...
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This book argues that power struggles between internal and diasporic elites play a central role in the development of political agendas that have the potential to shift national borders. The author uses Albania as the primary case study, examining how the understanding...
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Die sogenannte ungarndeutsche Literatur ist ein schwer zu handhabendes Phänomen, da ihre Bedeutung – wie oft bei deutschsprachiger Literatur außerhalb des deutschen Sprachraums – weit über ihre rein literarische hinausgeht. Der Band wirft einen zeitgenössischen Blick...
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Wilhelm Christian Weitling zählte zu den bedeutendsten deutschen Frühsozialisten und Organisatoren der frühproletarischen Bewegung. Diese politische Biographie befasst sich mit dem Leben Weitlings von der Kindheit über die Ausbildung bis zum revolutionären Demokraten...
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The book investigates the European debate on culture and identity by pointing to those uses of language that shape the image and perception of migrants in host societies.The term ‘foreigner’ is highly sensitive to changes experienced by communities. Its meanings...
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At a time when evidence-based practice is the standard bearer for understanding health behaviour, problems and interventions, ensuring that researchers know the appropriate designs and methods for their research is more paramount than ever. Health Intervention Research...
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Im Spannungsfeld zwischen kollektiver Koalitionsfreiheit und Arbeitsvertragsfreiheit untersucht diese Arbeit, unter welchen Voraussetzungen die Substitution feststehenden Arbeitsentgelts durch eine Beteiligung der Arbeitnehmer am Erfolg bzw. Kapital des Arbeit gebenden...
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The status of Hong Kong English has been an increasing concern among the local population. Despite prolific research into attitudes towards language variation within the field of sociolinguistics in general, very few studies have focused on the Hong Kong context....
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The Quicksands of Belief:The Need for Skepticism draws on history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and the cognitive sciences in an accessible, non-academic style in order to argue that humans don’t question enough. Instead, uncritically accepting the often absurd...
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Migration as a process has achieved increasing attention in the context of nation-states and globalisation. In linguistics the field of language contact is particularly associated with this phenomenon. This book investigates the connection between language usage,...
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The Works of Richard Oschanitzky analyses the German-Romanian composer and pianist’s output in the context of Socialist Romania (1965 to 1979). By the means of music historiography, archive research and musicological analyses, the composer’s contributions to the...
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Der Fokus der Jugendsprachforschung liegt auf dem Gesprächsverhalten in weiblichen und männlichen Peergruppen, Analysen gemischter Gruppen erfolgten bisher nicht. Diese Studie schließt diese Forschungslücke und untersucht die Sprachhandlungsmuster Lästern, Frotzeln und...
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