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At a time of increasing government austerity, it is vital that managers and leaders within health and social care organisations have a critical understanding of good planning and budgeting skills. This handbook will guide managers through the complex area of the...
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Auf der Arbeitstagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie im Oktober 1961 hielten Karl R. Popper und Theodor W. Adorno Referate zur «Logik der Sozialwissenschaften». Dies leitete den «Positivismusstreit» in der deutschen Soziologie ein, an dem sich prominent vor...
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Die Partizipation von Postmigranten als Künstler und Publikum an der deutschen Kultur wird in diesem Buch exemplarisch an den Bühnen der Stadt Köln aufgezeigt. Drei Theaterhäuser, das Schauspiel Köln, das Comedia Theater und die Bühne der Kulturen – Arkadas Theater...
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In dieser Einführung in das archäologisch-kulturhistorische Vergleichen und Deuten werden die Grundlagen der archäologischen Forschung systematisch dargestellt. Es wurde in seiner Form zusammen mit Hamburger Studierenden erarbeitet und besteht aus einem Textteil, einem...
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Dem Geschlecht als sozialer Strukturkategorie kommt im Rahmen der Geschlechterforschung eine besondere Bedeutung zu. Diese Kategorie beinhaltet ein bedeutendes Potenzial zur Erklärung der sozialen Ungleichheit: die soziale Organisation der Arbeitsteilung, der...
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Evidenzbasierte Medizin ist im klinischen Alltag nicht immer von Nutzen, da vor allem chronisch kranke Patienten oft komplexe Krankheitsbilder mit einer individuellen Mischung aus körperlichen, psychischen und sozialen Problemen zeigen. Wie bewältigen Patienten und ihre...
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Largely forgotten during the second half of the nineteenth century and throughout most of the twentieth century, Constance de Salm (Constance-Marie de Théis, Mme Pipelet de Leury, later Princess de Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyck,) finally attracted the attention of such...
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Through narrative analysis, Ordinary Theologies highlights the intersectionality of gender, race, and religio-spirituality. It examines the relationship of past and current religio-spiritual leadership understandings that contest the status quo in U.S. schools. The...
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Pragmatism has experienced a renaissance in social theory in recent years. This is no wonder since the so-called classical pragmatists, especially John Dewey and George Herbert Mead, outlined a highly original theory of social life. This book builds on pragmatist ideas...
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The paradigmatic values underlying British and German higher education emphasise personal growth, the wholeness of the individual, intellectual freedom and the pursuit of knowledge, which cumulatively can be viewed as a form of academic essentialism. However, these...
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The question of individual agency lies at the heart of any political and social theory aiming to analyse the social conditions that shape reality. Drawing mainly on the works of Luce Irigaray, Judith Butler, Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, this book endeavours to...
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Italian children’s literature has a diverse and unusual tradition of fantasy. With the exception of Carlo Collodi’s Pinocchio, however, it has remained almost entirely unknown outside of Italy. Why is it thatItalian children’s fantasy has remained such a well-kept...
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The Griqua people are commonly misunderstood. Today, they do not figure in the South African imagination as other peoples do, nor have they for over a century. This book argues that their comparative invisibility is a result of their place in the national narrative. In...
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This book focuses on Cuban and Cuban-American crime fiction of the 1990s and early twenty-first century. Contemporary authors, writing in both English and Spanish, have created new hybrid forms of the crime fiction genre that explore the problematic cultural interaction...
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This book investigates a central contradiction in the Enlightenment thinking of emancipatory German women’s writing of the nineteenth century. Ida von Hahn-Hahn, Fanny Lewald, and Ottilie Assing wrote passionate arguments in favor of the emancipation of women, Jews, and...
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The domestic sphere, the ideological as well as physical context of female life during the nineteenth century, featured prominently in German women’s writing of the period. Women writers, such as Fanny Lewald, Ida von Hahn-Hahn and E. Marlitt, who had begun to dominate...
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How does sport shape society? This book seeks to answer this question by examining the meaning of sport in French society and the construction of local, national and, increasingly, global identities through sport. It begins by reassessing modern sport’s emergence and...
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The author focuses on how development-oriented non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and microfinance institutions (MFIs) are suited to the dual development process of improving the wellbeing and empowerment of the poor and other marginalized peoples (especially women)...
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The fear of parasites – with their power to invade, infest, and transform the self – writhes and wriggles through cultures and religions across the globe, reflecting a very human revulsion of being invaded and consumed by both internal and external forces. However, in...
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This book enhances our understanding of France and the United States by focusing on their intercultural relations. Baudelaire and Emerson have at the core of their thinking the very notion of how to reconcile individual and collective experience, a theme that is...
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