ROLAND - Social & Cultural Studies 6

The new growth patterns and shifting wealth in the world economy fundamentally alter the basis for Western aid. This book demonstrates how Western development aid has been transformed over time, in ……続きを見る

Until now, social scientists studying Spanish politics have focused on party systems, regime transition, and election analysis, and anthropologists studying Spain have largely neglected its politica……続きを見る

Having been sexually abused by a boxing coach as a teen, and not knowing who to trust or tell, Roland Vandal found solace in drugs and alcohol. His battle with addiction, and his unwillingness to sp……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

Wie geht man heute vor die Hunde? Indem man zum Hamster wird. Zwei Philosophen und ein Kabarettist planen in ihrer Philosophischen Küche den gemeinsamen Ausbruch aus dem System. Aber was ist das eig……続きを見る

This book presents a cross-disciplinary and methodologically innovative study, combining historical macro-sociology and a sociology of emotions with historical anthropology and cultural studies. Dra……続きを見る

The current discourse of globalization is overwhelmingly centred upon the interconnectedness, or connectivity, of the contemporary world; to the great neglect of the issues of global culture and glo……続きを見る

Deutschland beschreitet in der Flüchtlingspolitik in Europa einen Sonderweg. Unter dem Banner humanitärer Hilfe werden Flüchtlinge ohne Begrenzung ins Land gelassen und finanziell versorgt. Bleibebe……続きを見る

This book argues that we are currently witnessing not merely a decline in the quality of social science research, but the proliferation of meaningless research, of no value to society, and modest va……続きを見る

The book deals with the long and rich scholarship on India in France since the beginning of 19th Century, with particular reference to the work of Louis Dumont. It considers the works of scholars an……続きを見る

After playing heroic roles in liberating us from the tyranny of European monarchies, Thomas Paine turned his revolutionary genius upon the moral tyranny of the Church, and published Age of Reason. A……続きを見る

Many of the richest energy-producing regions of the world are wrought with conflict and billions of the world's poorest suffer the daily insecurity of energy poverty. All the while our planet is inc……続きを見る

This volume, offers the thoughts of twenty scholars on the theory, history, and practice of representation. Two developments make a new appraisal of this subject timely. One is the decision of the U……続きを見る

This book not only explicates Stalin’s thoughts, but thinks with and especially through Stalin. It argues that Stalin often thought at the intersections between theology and Marxist political philos……続きを見る

Seit nunmehr drei Jahrzehnten schwelt die Atomkrise mit Nordkorea – und ein Ende scheint nicht in Sicht. Die USA haben in diesem weltpolitischen Konfl ikt stets eine Schlüsselrolle gespielt. Zwische……続きを見る

Black Male Frames charts the development and shifting popularity of two stereotypes of black masculinity in popular American film: "the shaman" or "the scoundrel." Starting with colonial times, Will……続きを見る

Although the Bene Israel community of western India, the Baghdadi Jews of Bombay and Calcutta, and the Cochin Jews of the Malabar Coast form a tiny segment of the Indian population, their long-term ……続きを見る

Nuestra vida cotidiana se alimenta de mitos: el automóvil, la publicidad, el turismo, el deporte. Aislados de la actualidad en la que emergen, aparecen como lo que son: la ideología de la cultura de……続きを見る

'No one can deny Paul Roland is a complete master of his subject.' Colin Wilson, author of The Occult and A Criminal History of Mankind Why did the country which produced Goethe, Beethoven, Bach, Sc……続きを見る

„Viel Feind, viel Ehr“, scheint derzeit die Devisedes nationalkonservativen Ministerpräsidenten Ungarns, Viktor Orbán, zu sein. Ohne Rücksicht auf Proteste im eigenen Land, ohne Rücksicht auf die ma……続きを見る

This masterpiece of scholarship and compression, the second edition of The African Experience, covers the entire span of human history across the African continent, from the earliest emergence of ho……続きを見る

Rare Earth Elements are a group of 17 metals which have a central role in modern industry, increasingly used in the fields of green technologies, high technological consumer goods, industrial and me……続きを見る

China is frequently described as a threat to regional and global stability and its rapidly rising demand for imported energy is seens as one cause of this threat. This book shows that domestic polit……続きを見る

In 1945, Hitler committed suicide in his bunker as the Third Reich collapsed and the Red Army swamped Berlin. But what was it like to live in Germany after World War II? This is the story of Germany……続きを見る

Conçus pour les étudiants des classes préparatoires aux grandes écoles, cet ouvrage de Géopolitique de l'Afrique et du Moyen-Orient de la collection " Nouveaux Continents " s'adresse aussi aux étudi……続きを見る

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2002 im Fachbereich Ethnologie / Volkskunde, Note: keine, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel (Anthropologisches Institut, Kiel), Veranstaltung: Begleitseminar zu den Spe……続きを見る

Sammelband aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Ethnologie / Volkskunde, Universität Hamburg (Institut für Ethnologie), Veranstaltung: Oberseminar 'Hexerei, Zauberei und Magie', 150 Quellen im Literatur……続きを見る

This is the first issue of the biannual, peer-reviewed Journal of Romanian Studies, jointly developed by The Society for Romanian Studies and ibidem Press. The new interdisciplinary journal examines……続きを見る

In der neuen Debattenreihe Impulse wird ein Impulstext in mehreren Repliken diskutiert. Im vorliegenden ersten Band geht es um die Frage, warum gerade heute Gruppenidentitäten so vehement vorangetri……続きを見る

In the heart of Louisiana's Atchafalaya Basin, a letter sent from an isolated settlement, addressed to Hautes-Pyrénées, France, and marked undeliverable, shows up at the Bayou Chene post office. Tha……続きを見る