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This book aims to study the intellectual lives of three Hong Kong intellectuals by narrating their lives as self-reflections on theories related to social margins. Drawing on insights from Paul Ricoeur, Hannah Arendt and Zygmunt Bauman, the author analyses their...
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This book is the result of a field research carried out by the author among a community of agriculturists in what was till recently the uttermost part of Southern Pakistani Balochistan. It deals with themes such as ways of living and representing spaces, constructing...
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Questo libro intende offrire una nuova prospettiva interpretativa di tre romanzi della letteratura femminile italiana scritti tra Ottocento e Novecento: Un matrimonio in provincia (1885) di Marchesa Colombi, Teresa (1886) di Neera e Una donna (1906) di Sibilla Aleramo....
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In the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, concerns about the environment and the future of global capitalism have dominated political and social agendas worldwide. The culture of excess underlying these concerns is particularly evident in the issue of...
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Geniale Entdeckungen wie auch gewöhnliche Praxen aus den Formal-, Ingenieur- und Naturwissenschaften prägen die Gartenkunst der Neuzeit. Seit jeher reagierte die Gartenkunst auf wissenschaftliche Revolutionen und gab wissenschaftlichen Ergebnissen, Methoden und Stilen...
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Diese Studie befasst sich mit der Entstehung von PEN-Zentren in der Schweiz und zeigt die Haltung ihrer Präsidenten als Schweizer Delegierte an den jährlich stattfindenden Kongressen des Internationalen PEN-Clubs, der sich in den Dreissiger- und Vierzigerjahren vor...
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New theories and theory-based methodological approaches have found their way into Comparative Education – just as into Comparative Social Science more generally – in increasing number in the recent past. The essays of this volume express and critically discuss quite a...
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Carefully researched and highly readable, this textbook explores what enables good and effective practice in local authority field social work delivered to children, young people and their families.
The book sets the context for local authority social work practice...
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Original, fresh and relevant this is a theoretically-informed practical guide to researching social relations. The text provides a mixed methods approach that challenges historical divisions between quantitative and qualitative research. It adopts a...
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This book details the evolution of Bengali culture (in both Bangladesh and West Bengal) since antiquity and argues for its modernization. Originally peripheral to Hindu civilization based in North India, Bengali culture was subjected to various forms of Sanskritization....
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"A sprightly, critical and intelligent guided tour around the mansion of media and communications/cultural research... enormously useful for students and researchers." - James Curran, Goldsmiths, University of London "A highly comprehensive guide to core concepts in...
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Derek Robbins has shown once again that he is one of the few Anglophone scholars with an exceptionally profound and impressively comprehensive knowledge of the history of modern European social thought. This book is a must for anybody interested in twentieth-century...
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This innovative book provides students and researchers alike with an indispensible introduction to the key theoretical issues and practical methods needed for data collection. It uses clear definitions, relevant interdisciplinary examples from around the world and...
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In order for science to advance, previous research findings must be reviewed and criticized. However, conveying criticism is particularly difficult for scientists who must, at the same time, try to maintain an impersonal stance. This co-edited collection of independent...
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The volume is an attempt to assess the meanings of 1989, in particular the multiple transformation processes and their effects in Eastern Europe. Obviously, the realities of the post-communist transformations have not met the expectations. Were the expectations too...
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An incredibly wide-ranging critical account of popular music. The book is an essential resource for all staff and students in the field' - John Storey, Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Sunderland Organized in accessible sections and...
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Every year, the month of October is decked out in pink, with countless posters calling on people to crusade against breast cancer through mammography. Why are public health officials, doctors, associations and laboratories so keen to do this? Are women really well...
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Das Thema «Kinderfachabteilungen» wird in seinen vielseitigen Dimensionen dargestellt. Dabei handelte es sich im Zweiten Weltkrieg um etwa 30 Tötungsstätten in der Psychiatrie und anderen Heileinrichtungen im «Großdeutschen Reich», in denen über 5.000 geistig und...
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Kann ein Altenpflegeheim ein neues Zuhause werden? Dieser Frage geht diese Mikrostudie, eine empirische Ethnographie der eigenen Kultur, über mehrere Jahre nach. Gegensätzliche Kriterien, die kaum miteinander vereinbar sind, treffen zusammen: Der caritative Gedanke, den...
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Die Wilden Cliquen Berlins erregten in den letzten Jahren der Weimarer Republik großes Aufsehen. Viele ihrer Zeitgenossen sahen in den provokativ auftretenden devianten Jugendgruppen eine Manifestation der sozialen, moralischen und politischen Not. Dabei stellten die...
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