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How should we approach cultural diversity in the workplace? Multinational corporations, transnational project teams and glocalised production and distribution processes raise challenging issues for communication and PR professionals. The complex nature of these...
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This book examines the great variety of experiences of the German people at the end of World War II, beginning with the frightening bombings, the passage of armies, the imprisonment of soldiers and civilians, the troop occupation of each of five separate zones, plus...
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From 1929 to 1952 Mexico underwent a period of intense nationalism as the state, newly emerging from the Mexican Revolution, sought to legitimize itself, consolidate its institutions, and promote economic growth. As a consequence, these years also witnessed a fervent...
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Long before the political mass-murders witnessed in the present century, western Europe experienced another kind of holocaust – the witch-hunts of the early modern period. Condemned of flying through the air, changing into animals, and worshipping the Devil, over a...
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Throughout the world, development policies have made great strides in addressing the structural inequalities that have traditionally characterized and divided world regions. Nonetheless, many development challenges remain, in part because effective governance strategies...
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This book examines the salience and role of ethno-national identities of young people in Bosnia and Herzegovina fifteen years after the end of the Bosnian War. The underlying argument is that ethno-national identities and boundaries in Bosnia are not constituted and...
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This book provides not only an understanding and appreciation of Georg von Albrecht’s musical art, but also links his compositional approach to a broader historical and theoretical context. The significance of the study lies in the discovery of a «missing historical...
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The underdevelopment of agriculture was an important subject during the negotiations for Romania’s accession to the European Union.The problem of backwardness in rural areas is, however, far from new and during the twentieth century several agrarian reforms attempted to...
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Ausgangspunkt der Abhandlung ist die Außen- und Binnenmigration in der Europäischen Union. Der Verfasser untersucht Grundlagen, Determinanten und Entwicklung des unionseuropäischen Migrationsrechts. Anhand eines interdisziplinären Ansatzes behandelt er die Grundbegriffe...
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This study entails a qualitative cultural film analysis of single women characters in six contemporary US-American movies released between 1999 and 2008. On the one hand, the focal point is the assessment of character portrayals and their embedding into their everyday...
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This book looks at the changing context of children and young people's services heralded by the structural, organisational and funding changes put forward in Eileen Munro's Review of Child Protection. It is strongly grounded in research and theory, and gives specific...
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Questions about dependence and independence are of crucial importance in relation to Latin America, given the region’s history and its current situation. They are particularly relevant at this time, with the bicentenary of independence being celebrated throughout the...
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China’s society and economy have been developing remarkably fast over the past three decades, and accordingly it makes continuing effort to conduct a judicial reform in order to upgrade its comparatively static legal system. The judicial reform changes a number of...
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This book offers an interdisciplinary and in-depth analysis of the relationship between intercultural dialogue and multi-level governance, seen from a human rights-based perspective. It brings together papers that were originally presented at international workshops...
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The Principle of Subsidiarity in Catholic Social Thought: Implications for Social Justice and Civil Society in Nigeria provides a theoretical and practical framework for a just vision of society. It focuses on how support for individuals and social groups in Nigeria can...
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Ausgehend von der «Kritischen Patriarchatstheorie» wird die Gabe als Paradigma und als zwischenmenschlicher Akt untersucht. Es handelt sich dabei um einen ersten Versuch, politische, ökonomische, kulturanthropologische sowie spirituelle Aspekte zu vereinen und das...
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This book brings together eighteen English language essays on the fringes, overlap, and tensions of memory and history that the author has published over the last three decades. It is characteristic that the two longest essays in this volume, and the most recent one,...
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Die Arbeit wurde mit dem Hauptpreis in der Kategorie Doktorarbeit im Rahmen des Allianz Nachwuchspreises für Demographie ausgezeichnet. Deutschland ist ein Zuwanderungsland. Der Anteil von Personen mit Migrationshintergrund wird bis zum Jahr 2030 auf mindestens 25...
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The volume contains papers presented at the fourth Workshop «American Ethnicity: Rethinking Old Issues, Asking New Questions» which took place in Krakow, Poland, on May 24th-25th, 2010.The event was organized by the Institute of American Studies and Polish Diaspora of...
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Noch am Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts orientieren sich Politiktheorie, Politikanalyse und Politische Ethik überwiegend an Gesellschafts- und Politikmodellen, die in den Denktraditionen von Newton und Descartes verhaftet sind. Dies hat unter anderem zur Folge, dass...
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