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The study deals with challenging questions of long-term future of global economy and the mankind. Focusing not only on what happens in the economic sphere but also on cultural, social, political, de……続きを見る

Current knowledge about effective internet addiction treatment is limited. This book explores how 20 international internet addiction therapy experts experience the presenting problem of internet ad……続きを見る

This book provides a ground-breaking, interaction-based framework of rituals, drawing on multiple research disciplines. It examines ritual as a relational action constructed in interaction through p……続きを見る

Over the last three decades, Europe's generous social benefits have encouraged a massive surge of 'welfare migration,' especially of low skilled laborers. At the same time, the US has attracted many……続きを見る

Private Equity in Poland focuses on the private equity industry and emerging markets in Poland. Poland represents the most developed private equity industry in Central and Eastern Europe and is one ……続きを見る

Climate Change Adaptation and Human Capabilities explores learning, health, mobility, and play as climate capabilities and produces new insights into the depth of climate change impact on social lif……続きを見る

Novel Perspectives on German-Language Comics Studies: History, Pedagogy, Theory gathers an international team of contributors from two continents whose innovative scholarship demonstrates a regard f……続きを見る

Essay aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Politik - Politische Theorie und Ideengeschichte, , 7 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: (...) Machiavelli betont die politische Roll……続きを見る

Ob Integration oder Schulstreit, Migration oder Jugendkriminalität, Arbeitslosigkeit oder Finanzkrise, ob Gesundheitsreform oder Kriegseinsatz deutscher Soldaten: Roland Koch hat sich diesen schwier……続きを見る

Re-issue of this highly acclaimed book, previously published by Cambridge University Press under the title In The Court of the Jade Emperor: Stories from Old China - first edition 1993, second editi……続きを見る

Dealing with time is intimately linked to sustainability, because sustainability, at its core, involves long-term ethical claims. To live up to them, decision and policy-making has to consider long-……続きを見る

From the river valleys of interior British Columbia south to the hills of northern Oregon and east to the continental divide in western Montana, hundreds of cliffs and boulders display carved and pa……続きを見る

Wissenschaftlicher Aufsatz aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Politik - Politische Theorie und Ideengeschichte, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Wenn im Zusammenhang mit Machiavellis Principe von Tugende……続きを見る

This work reports on the Vietnam war as seen by the GI in the jungles. It discusses current attitudes, views from Saigon, Hanoi and Phnom Penh, and other locales in the countryside. 続きを見る

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Politische Soziologie, Majoritäten, Minoritäten, Note: sehr gut (1,0), Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (Institut für Soziologie)……続きを見る

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Soziales System, Sozialstruktur, Klasse, Schichtung, Note: 1,0, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (Institut für Soziologie), 26 Qu……続きを見る

Natural Hazards focuses on hazards as the interface between humanity and its needs for space and resources, as well as on the ongoing geologic processes of Earth and features many new Canadian examp……続きを見る

Violence, radicalisation, déshumanisation... Qu'est-ce que la prison dit de notre société ? Cette enquête exceptionnelle menée dans quatre grandes prisons françaises – Fleury-Mérogis, Fresnes, Lille……続きを見る

On August 20th, 1989, privileged brothers 21-year-old Lyle and 18-year-old Erik Menendez gunned down their parents in their Beverly Hills mansion. Entertainment executive Jose Menendez was shot in t……続きを見る

The election for the American president garners a global interest but many feel bored to go through turbid and turgid details. The American presidential race is a year-long marathon. The book will t……続きを見る

Among the ways that digital media has transformed political activism, the most remarkable is not that new media allows disorganized masses to speak, but that it enables organized activist groups to ……続きを見る

Is the existing trade agreement good enough? Get facts, not spin! The basic trade and cooperation agreement has proved woefully insufficient for Britain's needs. It has reduced the supply of doctors……続きを見る

Elementary Forms of Social Relations introduces the reader to social life as a perpetual quest by individuals to gain attention, respect and regard (status) accompanied by an effort to marshal defen……続きを見る

How people make sense of illness is, in part, culturally determined. Existing community beliefs and presuppositions are organized as cultural models, which “make meaning” of new situations such as t……続きを見る

*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked a……続きを見る

*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked a……続きを見る

Set at the intersection of Human Rights, social justice and Literature, this cutting edge book examines a range of literary texts, fiction, plays and poetry, and through them considers representatio……続きを見る

This pivot analyzes the historical emergence of legal graffiti and how it has led to a new ethos among writers. Examining how contemporary graffiti writing has been brought into new relationships wi……続きを見る

′In his beautifully balanced, clear and broad-ranging account of a fast-changing field, Paul Hodkinson has successfully brought together myriad perspectives with which to critically analyse today′s ……続きを見る

In this major undertaking David Keenan translates and contextualizes over 100 tales from the Notes from the Hut for Examining the Subtle, a collection of 1,200 tales and observations by Chi Yun, one……続きを見る