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  • 1
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    New York, NY [u.a.] : Psychology Press
    ISBN: 9781848728080 , 1848728085
    Language: English
    Pages: XIX, 530 S. , graph. Darst.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2009 Online-Ressource ebrary online Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Edition: [S.l.] Ebrary
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Understanding culture
    DDC: 306.01
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    Keywords: Culture Philosophy ; Culture Research ; Culture Study and teaching ; Culture Study and teaching ; Culture Research ; Culture Philosophy ; Ohne direkten Regionalbezug Kultur/Sprache/Kunst ; Theorie/Methodik ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Kultur ; Interdisziplinäre Forschung ; Kulturtheorie ; Kulturwissenschaften
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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  • 2
    ISBN: 9781845208141 , 1845208145 , 9781845208134 , 1845208137
    Language: English
    Pages: VII, 190 S.
    Edition: English ed., 1. publ.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2011 Online-Ressource ebrary online Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Edition: [S.l.] Ebrary Berg new media series
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Green, Nicola, 1969 - Mobile communications
    DDC: 302.231
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    Keywords: Wireless Internet Social aspects ; Mobile communication systems Social aspects ; Cellular telephones Social aspects ; Wireless Internet Social aspects ; Mobile communication systems Social aspects ; Cell phones Social aspects ; Mobile Telekommunikation ; Soziologie ; Handy ; Kommunikation ; Neue Medien ; Kommunikation
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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  • 3
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    Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
    ISBN: 0230210376 , 9780230210370
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiv, 282 p) , ill
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Everyday multiculturalism
    DDC: 305.8
    Keywords: Cultural pluralism ; Multiculturalism ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Alltag ; Interaktion ; Kulturkontakt ; Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
    Abstract: This book explores everyday lived experiences of multiculturalism in the contemporary world. Drawing on place-based case studies, contributions focus on encounters and interactions across cultural difference in super-diverse cities to explore what it means to inhabit multiculturalism in our everyday lives
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Multiculturalism and Everyday Life; Part I: Neighbourhoods; Part II: Food; Part III: Shopping; Part IV: Leisure; Part V: Everyday Solidarities, Everyday Politics; Part VI: Everyday Tensions; Index
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  • 4
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    Berlin : Mouton de Gruyter
    ISBN: 3110213486 , 9783110213485
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xii, 261 p) , 24 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Language, power, and social process 25
    Parallel Title: Print version Coerced Confessions : The Discourse of Bilingual Police Interrogations
    DDC: 306.44
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    Keywords: Bilingualism Social aspects ; Police questioning Social aspects ; Intercultural communication Social aspects ; Critical discourse analysis Social aspects ; Discourse Analysis Sociolinguistics ; Language and the Law ; USA ; Polizei ; Vernehmung ; Zweisprachigkeit ; Hispanos ; Diskursanalyse
    Abstract: The book presents a discourse analysis of police interrogations involving U.S. Hispanic suspects accused of crimes. The study is unique in that it concentrates on interrogations involving suspects whose first language is not English and police officers who have a rudimentary knowledge of Spanish. The volume examines the pitfalls of using police officers as interpreters at custodial interrogations. Susan Berk-Seligson, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA.
    Abstract: The book presents a discourse analysis of police interrogations involving U.S. Hispanic suspects accused of crimes. The study is unique in that it concentrates on interrogations involving suspects whose first language is not English and police officers who have a rudimentary knowledge of Spanish. It examines the pitfalls of using police officers as interpreters at custodial interrogations. Using an interactional sociolinguistic discourse analytical approach, the book offers a microlinguistic examination of interrogations involving persons accused of murder, child molestation, and kidnapping. Communication difficulties are shown to arise from suspects' limited proficiency in English and police officers' equally limited proficiency in Spanish, coupled with the unwillingness of these officers to remain in interpreter footing. The volume demonstrates how pidginization and asymmetrical communicative accommodation can emerge in such situations of highly unequal power relations. It also demonstrates how cultural factors such as acquiescence to interlocutors of greater authority and higher socioeconomic status can lead persons of certain Latin American backgrounds to engage in ""gratuitous concurrence"", answering ""yes"" to police questions even when it is clear that that these yes-tokens are not truly affirmative responses to those questions. In addition, the book provides evidence of the kinds of abuse that can result from police interrogations that are not electronically recorded. Coerced Confessions reviews appellate cases involving police interpreters spanning a thirty-four-year period, and concludes that the Miranda rights are placed in jeopardy when a police officer is assigned the role of interpreter at a custodial interrogation.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-247) and indexes , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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  • 5
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    New York : Palgrame Macmillan
    ISBN: 9780230617834
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (ix, 180 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    DDC: 306.091
    Keywords: Culture Study and teaching ; Linguistics ; Semiotics ; Nature conservation ; Sociology ; Cultural studies ; Pop-Kultur ; Symbolismus ; Mythos
    Abstract: This book delves into the reasons why pop culture, and all of its "X-Rated" features, are so appealing to masses of people, even though they may hate to love it
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  • 6
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    Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0521873819 , 052169602X , 1282393979 , 9780511647932 , 9780521873819 , 9780521696029
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 314 S.) , 23 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Key topics in sociolinguistics
    Parallel Title: Print version Language and Identity
    DDC: 306.44
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    Keywords: Nationalism ; Language and languages Political aspects ; Group identity ; Identity politics ; Sociolinguistics
    Abstract: Outlines the relationship between our identity as members of groups and the language varieties important to each group
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 Identity, the individual and the group; 3 Identifying ourselves; 4 Language, dialect and identity; 5 Dialect and identity: beyond standard and nonstandard; 6 Language, religion and identity; 7 Language, gender and identity; 8 Ethnicity and nationalism; 9 Assessments of nationalism; 10 Language and nationalism; 11 Language planning and language ecology; Glossary; Notes; References; Index
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-309) and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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  • 7
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    New York : Columbia University Press
    ISBN: 0231146523 , 9780231146524
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xvi, 274 p) , map , 24 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version Thin Places : A Pilgrimage Home
    DDC: 305.89549
    Keywords: Armbrecht, Ann ; Women anthropologists Biography ; Yamphu (Nepalese people) Social life and customs ; Women anthropologists Biography ; Women anthropologists - Nepal - Hedanga ; Hedanga (Nepal) Social life and customs
    Abstract: Thin Places is an eloquent meditation on what it means to move between cultures and how one might finally come home, a particular paradox in a culture that lacks deep ties to the natural world. During the 1990s, Ann Armbrecht, an American anthropologist, made several trips to northeastern Nepal to research how the Yamphu Rai acquired, farmed, and held onto their land; how they perceived their area's recent designation as a national park and conservation area; and whether-as she believed-they held a wisdom about living on the earth that the industrialized West had forgotten. What Armbrecht fou
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part 1; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; Part 2; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12; 13; 14; Part 3; 15; 16; 17; 18; 19; Part 4; 20; 21; 22; 23; 24; 25; 26; 27; 28; Bibliography
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-274) , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    URL: Cover
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  • 8
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    Amsterdam [u.a.] : Benjamins
    ISBN: 1282395467 , 9789027210210
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 277 S.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Dialogue studies 4
    DDC: 303.48/2
    Keywords: Communication ; Intercultural communication
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    URL: Volltext  (lizenzpflichtig)
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  • 9
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    Hoboken, NJ : Wiley
    ISBN: 9781848211339 , 0470611987 , 9780470611982
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xvi, 254 p) , map
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: ISTE v.147
    Uniform Title: États-Unis face au défi du développement durable. 〈engl.〉
    Parallel Title: Print version Sustainable Development in the USA
    DDC: 304.6
    Keywords: Environmental policy ; Cities and towns Growth ; Sustainable development ; United States Population
    Abstract: After WWII, the United States of America proposed their way of life, based on an unlimited consumption of land, goods, and energy, as a model for the entire world. Nowadays, this expansionist model has reached its limits. This book provides a comprehensive study of the geographical basis of the American settlements, assuming that part of the U.S. overshooting is related to geography because of harsh climates and the continental size of the Nation, but another part is the result of a cultural habits of expansion and segregation. Urban Sprawl, for instance, is the real Achille's heel of America
    Description / Table of Contents: Sustainable Development in the USA; Table of Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1. The American Territory; 1.1. A continent-nation with a dispersed population; 1.2. Major geographical areas; 1.3. Unfavorable climatic factors; 1.4. Physical geography of the US; Chapter 2. Developing the Territory; 2.1. Agricultural regions; 2.2. An agriculture which does not influence settlement; 2.3. The abundance and limits of natural resources; 2.4. Working towards the sustainable management of the American forest; 2.5. Fossil resources-abundance and dependence; 2.6. The case of fossil fuels
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.6.1. The world's second largest producer of coal2.6.2. Oil - a strategic dilemma; 2.6.3. Natural gas - a highly desirable resource; 2.7. Environmental protection; Chapter 3. A Rapidly Growing Population; 3.1. A relatively high fertility rate due to immigration; 3.2. Life expectancy and aging; 3.3. Aging - regional disparities; 3.4. Immigration to the United States of America; 3.5. The country's gateways; Chapter 4. A Multi-ethnic Nation; 4.1. Native peoples; 4.2. A nation of immigrants; 4.3. The African-American question; 4.4. America and Mexico
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.5. Geography of the population of Asian originChapter 5. Regional Dynamics; 5.1. Main features of settlement in the US territory; 5.1.1. The United States in 1930; 5.1.2. America in 1970; 5.1.3. The United States in 2005; 5.2. The dynamics of regional settlement between 1930 and 2005; Chapter 6. Economic Change and Territories; 6.1. A changing economy; 6.2. Economic growth; 6.3. Industrial change; 6.4. A population on the move; 6.5. Migration of retired populations; Chapter 7. A Suburban Nation; 7.1. Urban sprawl; 7.2. Big cities; 7.3. Consequences of urban sprawl on sustainable development
    Description / Table of Contents: 7.4. Urban sprawl is not only a big city phenomenonChapter 8. Urban Fragmentation and Sprawl; 8.1. Social divisions find expression in land use patterns; 8.1.1. Atlanta; 8.1.2. Detroit; 8.1.3. Houston; 8.1.4. Portland; 8.2. The challenge of governance in fragmented metropolitan areas; 8.3. The crisis of cities; Chapter 9. New Orleans in Dangerous Waters; 9.1. The physical components of natural hazards; 9.2. Increased vulnerability from urban sprawl; 9.3. The consequences of a natural disaster; Conclusion; Glossary; References; List of Tables and Figures; Index
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  • 10
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    New York [u.a.] : McGraw-Hill
    ISBN: 1281845280 , 0071508635 , 9780071508636
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVI, 368 S.) , Ill
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    DDC: 303.4834 22
    Keywords: Computers and civilization ; Computer networks ; Technology and youth ; Generation Y
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  • 11
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    Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell
    ISBN: 9781405168823 , 1444308270 , 9781444308273
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xviii, 252 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Blackwell studies in discourse and culture
    Parallel Title: Available in another form
    DDC: 306.440945/24
    Keywords: Italian language Dialects ; Language and culture ; Sociolinguistics ; Bergamo (Italy) Intellectual life 21st century
    Abstract: Introduction -- Bergamasco in use : the feel of everyday speaking -- Gendering language -- Bergamasco on stage : poetry and theater -- Modern campanilismo : the value of place -- Bergamo, Italy, Europe : speaking contextualized -- Conclusion
    Description / Table of Contents: IntroductionBergamasco in use : the feel of everyday speaking -- Gendering language -- Bergamasco on stage : poetry and theater -- Modern campanilismo : the value of place -- Bergamo, Italy, Europe : speaking contextualized -- Conclusion.
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  • 12
    ISBN: 155885522X , 9781611920147 , 9781558855229
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xxxix, 360 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Hispanic civil rights series
    Uniform Title: Influencias de las ideas modernas. 〈engl.〉
    Parallel Title: Print version Absolute equality
    DDC: 305.42097295
    Keywords: Puerto Rican literature ; Feminism
    Description / Table of Contents: Absolute equality: an early feminist perspective. PrologueInfluences of modern ideas -- Philosophical, naturalist, psychological, and moralist notes, annotations, thoughts, concepts, definitions, maxims, and reflections -- Interesting letters from a Panamanian anarchist -- The corruption of the rich and of the poor ... -- Marriage without love, consequence, adultery -- how poor women are prostituted -- In the country, free love -- After her death -- Influencias de las ideas modernas. Prólogo -- Influencias de las ideas modernas -- Notas, apuntes, pensamientos, conceptos, definiciones, sentenicas y reflexiones filósoficas, naturistas, psicológicas, moralistas -- Cartas interesantes de un ácrata de Panamá -- La corrupción de los ricos y la de los pobres ... -- Matrimonio sin amor, consecuencia, el adulterio -- Cómo se prostituyen las pobres -- En el campo, amor libre -- Después de muerta.
    Note: Includes a facsimile of the original Spanish ed , Includes bibliographical references , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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  • 13
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    ISBN: 9789264059542
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (424 p.) , ill.
    Keywords: Energy
    Abstract: By 2010 there will be over 3.5 billion mobile phones subscribers, 2 billion TVs in use around the world and 1 billion personal computers.This book examines how "smart" this equipment is from an energy efficiency perspective and what the potential is for energy savings. It includes a global assessment of the changing pattern in residential electricity consumption over the past decade and an in-depth analysis of the role played by electronic equipment. It reviews the influence that government policies have had on creating markets for more energy efficient appliances and identifies new opportunities for creating smarter, more energy efficient homes.
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  • 14
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    ISBN: 9789264073173
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (416 p.) , ill.
    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Transport, energy and CO 2
    DDC: 628.5/32
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    Keywords: Verkehr ; Kraftstoff ; Treibhausgas-Emissionen ; Welt ; Energy ; OECD ; Verkehrspolitik ; Klimaschutz ; Nachhaltigkeit
    Abstract: Car ownership is set to triple by 2050, trucking activity will double and air travel could increase fourfold. This book examines how to enable mobility without accelerating climate change. It finds that if we change the way we travel, adopt technologies to improve vehicle efficiency and shift to low-CO2 fuels, we can move onto a different pathway where transport CO2 emissions by 2050 are far below current levels, at costs that are lower than many assume. The report discusses the prospects for shifting more travel to the most efficient modes and reducing travel growth rates, improving vehicle fuel efficiency by up to 50% using cost-effective, incremental technologies, and moving toward electricity, hydrogen, and advanced biofuels to achieve a more secure and sustainable transport future. If governments implement strong policies to achieve this scenario, transport can play its role and dramatically reduce CO2 emissions by 2050.
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  • 15
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    ISBN: 9789264063785
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (144 p.) , ill.
    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Keywords: Energy
    Abstract: Measuring and assessing how much has been done by member countries over the years to follow their underlying principles is not an easy task. Each country is unique in terms of economy, geography, climate, energy resources, etc. Taking into account some of these specificities, the IEA Scoreboard 2009 compares what has been achieved by member countries in diversifying their energy mix, in promoting non-fossil fuels and energy efficiency, in encouraging research and development, and, more generally, in creating a policy framework consistent with their shared policy goals. Since the IEA Scoreboard 2009 is published in conjunction with the 35th anniversary of the IEA, 35 themes, ranging from diversification to prices, show how IEA countries have performed in their efforts to attain energy security, environmental protection and economic growth. This book, which combines statistical rigour with easy access and readability, is an ideal resource for anyone who would like to have a quick overview of energy development in IEA member countries over the last 35 years. The publication also includes selected energy-related statistics for over 140 countries, economies and regions in the world.
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  • 16
    ISBN: 9789264077171
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    Keywords: Energy
    Abstract: Combined heat and power and district heating and cooling (DHC) represent a series of proven, reliable and cost-effective technologies that are already making an important contribution to meeting global heat and electricity demand.This report follows the March 2008 report that hightlighted the energy, economic and environmental benefits of CHP and DHC (IEA, 2008). That report also provides a technical introduction to CHP/DHC and describes its global status and potential.
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    San Francisco, CA : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
    ISBN: 9781576756256 , 1576756254
    Language: English
    Pages: XIV, 222 S.
    Edition: 2. ed., [rev. and updated]
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2010 Online-Ressource ebrary online Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Edition: [S.l.] Ebrary
    Series Statement: A BK business book
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Thomas, David C., 1947 - Cultural intelligence
    DDC: 658.049
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    Keywords: Intercultural communication ; Cross-cultural orientation ; Cultural awareness ; Corporate culture ; Business anthropology ; Management Cross-cultural studies ; Intercultural communication ; Führung ; Interkulturelle Kompetenz ; Internationales Management
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  • 18
    ISBN: 9789264077201
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    Keywords: Energy
    Abstract: A number of renewable electricity technologies, such as wind, wave, tidal, solar, and run-of-river hydro share a characteristic that distinguishes them from conventional power plants: their output varies according to the availability of the resource. This is commonly perceived to be challenging at high shares, but there is no intrinsic, technical ceiling to variable renewables’ potential. Variability has to be looked at in the context of power system flexibility: if a power system is sufficiently flexible, in terms of power production, load management, interconnection and storage, the importance of the variability aspect is reduced.
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    ISBN: 9789264043428
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (96 p.) , ill.
    Series Statement: Energy Policies of IEA Countries
    Keywords: Energy ; Luxembourg
    Abstract: The Inernational Energy Agency's periodic review of Luxembourg's energy policies and programmes. It analyses the energy challenges facing Luxembourg and provides critiques and recommendations for further policy improvements. Since the last review in 2004, Luxembourg has reformed its energy policies across all sectors, has fully liberalised its electricity and natural gas markets, and is actively participating in the development of the evolving Central West European regional electricity system. Luxembourg has also prepared a broad action plan on energy efficiency, improved the support system for renewable energy sources and revised taxes to mitigate climate change. The country’s energy policy in the coming decade will be shaped by the EU 2020 targets that call for substantial reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, and strong increases in renewable energy and energy efficiency. These targets will be hard to meet, given that roughly half of energy-related CO2 emissions come from transport fuel use by foreign truckers and motorists, and that Luxembourg’s potential for producing much more renewable energy is limited. Luxembourg is heavily dependent on oil. Although oil sources are well diversified by country of origin, more than 85% of oil stocks are held in neighbouring countries and often based on short-term leasing contracts. This leaves the country vulnerable to potential oil supply disruptions. Luxembourg should swiftly implement a plan to improve the security of oil supply.
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    ISBN: 9789264073159
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (268 p.) , ill.
    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Keywords: Energy ; Chile
    Abstract: Drawing on the experience of IEA member countries, this IEA review assesses Chile’s major energy challenges and provides recommendations. Six main themes emerge: the successful liberalisation of the power sector in the 1980s; the essential role played by the state in ensuring energy security; the re-formulation of Chile’s long-term energy policy; the proposed reorganisation of the institutional framework; greater independence for the system operators; and the need for a clear framework of regulation so that long-term investment decisions integrate social and environmental costs.
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    ISBN: 9789264068735
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (150 p.) , ill.
    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Keywords: Energy
    Abstract: Electricity accounts for more than 40 % of global energy-related CO2 emissions. This issue is most pressing for developing countries where growth in power demand is particularly high, fueling the risk of irreversible investment in CO2-intensive capacity, the so-called “carbon lock-in”. Sectoral Approaches in Electricity – Building Bridges to a Safe Climate shows how the international climate policy framework could effectively support a transition towards low-CO2 electricity systems in developing countries. Sectoral approaches are intended to address sectors that require urgent actions, without waiting for countries to take nation-wide commitments. Earlier IEA publications have extensively reviewed developed countries’ efforts to steer generation away from carbon-intensive production modes, from dedicated support to low-carbon technologies to, increasingly, the reliance on CO2 pricing via emissions trading. Following the same logic, there are proposals seeking to use the international carbon market to drive changes at sectoral level in developing countries. This publication illustrates the pros and cons of such an approach in a few key emerging economies. It also asks how international climate policy could support and enhance ongoing efforts on end-use energy efficiency - an essential piece of the climate change/electricity puzzle.
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    ISBN: 9789264088061
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (36 p.)
    Series Statement: IEA Technology Roadmaps
    Keywords: Energy
    Abstract: The cement energy technology roadmap outlines a possible transition path for the industry to make continued contributions towards a halving of global CO2 emissions by 2050. As part of this contribution, this roadmap estimates that the cement industry could reduce its direct emissions 18% from current levels by 2050. This roadmap is a first step. It is only attainable with a supportive policy framework, and appropriate financial resources invested over the long term.
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    ISBN: 9789264088177
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (52 p.)
    Series Statement: IEA Technology Roadmaps
    Keywords: Energy
    Abstract: This energy technology roadmap focuses on electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles (EV/PHEV), presenting for the first time a detailed scenario for their evolution from annual production of a few thousand to over 100 million vehicles by 2050. It finds that the next decade is a key “make or break” period for EVs and PHEVs: governments, the automobile industry, electric utilities and other stakeholders must work together to roll out vehicles and infrastructure in a coordinated fashion, and ensure that the rapidly growing consumer market is ready to purchase them. The roadmap concludes with a set of near-term actions to achieve the roadmap’s vision.
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    ISBN: 9789264048164
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (320 p.) , ill.
    Keywords: Energy ; China, People’s Republic
    Abstract: China’s coal, mined locally and available at a relatively low cost, has brought enormous benefits to energy consumers in China and to those outside the country who enjoy the products of its coal-based economy. Yet from another perspective, China’s coal use has a high cost. Despite progress, health and safety in the thousands of small coal mines lag far behind the standards achieved in China’s modern, large mines. Environmental degradation is a real and pressing problem at all stages of coal production, supply and use. Adding to these burdens, emissions of carbon dioxide are of concern to the Chinese government as it embarks on its own climate protection strategy. Technology solutions are already transforming the way coal is used in China and elsewhere. This study explores the context in which the development and deployment of these technologies can be accelerated. Providing a large amount of new data, it describes in detail the situation in China as well as the experiences of other countries in making coal cleaner. Above all, the report calls for much greater levels of collaboration – existing bi-lateral and multi-lateral co-operation with China on coal is found lacking. China’s growing openness presents many commercial opportunities. Establishing a global market for cleaner coal technologies is key to unlocking the potential of technology – one of ten major recommendations made in this study.
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    ISBN: 9789264077164
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    Keywords: Energy
    Abstract: Clean coal technologies (CCTs) have been developed and deployed to reduce the environmental impact of coal utilisation over the past 30 to 40 years. Initially, the focus was upon reducing emissions of particulates, SO2, NOX and mercury. The coal sector – producers, consumers and equipment suppliers – as well as governments and agencies in countries where coal is essential, have a long experience of stimulating clean coal technology deployment.
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    ISBN: 9789264043404
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (152 p.) , ill.
    Series Statement: Energy Policies of IEA Countries
    Keywords: Energy ; Netherlands
    Abstract: This comprehensive review analyses the energy challenges facing the Netherlands in 2008 and provides critiques and recommendations for further policy improvements. It urges the government to provide policy continuity – such as in promotion regimes for renewable energy – to underpin a sustainable investment climate. It also highlights the need for closer co-ordination among national, regional and local authorities.
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    ISBN: 9789264088122
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (52 p.)
    Series Statement: IEA Technology Roadmaps
    Keywords: Carbon dioxide capture and storage ; Energietechnik ; Finanzierung ; Gesetz ; Entwicklung ; Tendenz ; Szenario ; Reduktion ; Rückgang ; Kohlendioxid ; Internationale Kooperation ; Umweltpolitik ; Global Kohlendioxid-Abscheidung und -Lagerung ; Energietechnik ; Finanzierung ; Rechtliche Regelung ; Entwicklungsperspektive und -tendenz ; Szenario ; Reduzierung/Rückgang ; Kohlendioxid ; Internationale umweltpolitische Zusammenarbeit ; Energy ; Erde
    Abstract: This energy technology roadmap on carbon capture and storage (CCS) identifies, for the first time, a detailed scenario for the technology’s growth from a handful of large-scale projects today to over three thousand projects by 2050. It finds that the next decade is a key “make or break” period for CCS; governments, industry and public stakeholders must act rapidly to demonstrate CCS at scale around the world in a variety of settings. The roadmap concludes with a set of near-term actions that stakeholders will need to take to achieve the roadmap’s vision.
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    ISBN: 9789264061996
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    Keywords: Energy
    Abstract: Electricity production is responsible for 32% of total global fossil fuel use, accounting for 132 EJ, and 41%, or 10.9 Gt of energy-related CO2 emissions. Improving the efficiency of electricity production therefore offers economic benefits and a significant opportunity for reducing dependence on fossil fuels, which helps to combat climate change and improve energy security.A set of indicators has been developed to analyse the energy efficiency of electricity production from fossil fuels on a global level and for a number of key countries and regions.
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    ISBN: 9789264039544
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource , ill.
    Keywords: Energy
    Abstract: This paper explores different measures of energy efficiency performance (“MEEP”) and considers the importance of so-called boundary definitions when measuring energy performance, and how these affect the appropriateness of country comparisons to guide policy decisions. The paper also addresses the limitations of both energy intensity and technology diffusion indicators as measures of energy efficiency performance. A case study on Japan’s iron and steel industry illustrates the critical role of proper boundary definitions for a meaningful assessment of energy efficiency in industry.
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    ISBN: 9789264060364
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (156 p.) , ill.
    Series Statement: Energy Policies of IEA Countries
    Keywords: Energy ; Spain
    Abstract: This review analyses the energy challenges facing Spain and provides critiques and recommendations for further policy improvements. It finds that since the last IEA in-depth review in 2005, Spain has made significant progress in improving its energy policy. In Europe, the country is now leading in gas diversification and LNG development. Together with Portugal, it has set up the common Iberian electricity market, MIBEL, and has strong ambitions in developing it further. It has also become prominent in developing wind and solar energy technology, and succeeded in integrating large amounts of intermittent power in the electricity grid. Along with other IEA member countries, Spain has set ambitious climate and energy security targets. Achieving these will require a transition to a low-carbon economy. Spain will need to increase its efforts to reduce CO2 emissions, particularly in the transport but also the critical power sector. As fossil fuels still provide more than half of electricity,Spain will need to keep open all the options - including nuclear, renewables, and the technology of carbon capture and storage - for making its power sector less carbon-intensive. The country should also increase its efforts to limit peak electricity demand through energy efficiency. Spain has substantially de-regulated its electricity and gas tariffs, and developed a financial plan to end the large deficit that had built up under the previous tariff regime. Prices for many small electricity users, however, are still regulated and low enough to potentially distort the market. In addition, the still remaining subsidies for domestic coal production should be eliminated and replaced by direct social policy measures.
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    ISBN: 9789264088184
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (52 p.)
    Series Statement: IEA Technology Roadmaps
    Keywords: Windenergie ; Energietechnik ; Entwicklung ; Tendenz ; Investition ; Kosten-Nutzen-Kalkulation ; Energiepolitik ; Umweltpolitik ; Einstellung ; Akteur ; Energiewirtschaft ; Reduktion ; Rückgang ; Kohlendioxid ; Global Windkraft ; Energietechnik ; Entwicklungsperspektive und -tendenz ; Investition ; Kosten-Nutzen-Relation ; Energiepolitik ; Umweltpolitik ; Haltung von Akteuren zu Einzelfragen ; Energiewirtschaft ; Reduzierung/Rückgang ; Kohlendioxid ; Energy ; Erde
    Abstract: Wind energy is perhaps the most advanced of the “new” renewable energy technologies, but there is still much work to be done. This energy technology roadmap identifies the key tasks that must be undertaken in order to achieve a vision of over 2 000 GW of wind energy capacity by 2050. Governments, industry, research institutions and the wider energy sector will need to work together to achieve this goal.
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    ISBN: 9789264075696
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (200 p.) , ill.
    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Implementing energy efficiency policies 2009
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    Keywords: Energieeinsparung ; Energiepolitik ; Welt ; Energy ; Bericht ; Internationale Energieagentur ; Mitgliedsstaaten ; Energiepolitik ; Effizienz
    Abstract: This book presents 25 energy efficiency recommendations from the IEA which could, if implemented globally without delay, reduce global CO2 emissions by 8.2 gigatonnes per year by 2030 – equivalent to roughly two-times the amount of current EU CO2 emissions. This innovative book provides the first assessment of IEA member countries’ progress on implementing energy efficiency policy. Using a rigorous evaluation process, it finds that while these countries are implementing a full range of energy efficiency measures, their efforts fall short. Pressing energy, climate and financial challenges require even more energy efficiency policy action – particularly in the transport sector. To address this action gap, IEA member countries must urgently ramp up their energy efficiency policy efforts. The IEA and its member countries can play a critical role in promoting the Agency’s call for “Worldwide Implementation Now” (W.I.N.) of energy efficiency. What will it be? W.I.N or lose the opportunity?
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    ISBN: 9789264076884
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (192 p.) , ill.
    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Cities, towns & renewable energy
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    Keywords: Nachhaltige Stadtentwicklung ; Stadt ; Energieversorgung ; Energieeinsparung ; Erneuerbare Energie ; Welt ; Energy ; Environment ; Urban, Rural and Regional Development ; Stadtökologie ; Energieversorgung ; Erneuerbare Energien ; Energieeinsparung
    Abstract: Local governments have the power to influence the energy choices of their citizens. Many cities and towns have already encouraged energy efficiency measures. Even so, as demand for energy services continues to grow, the energy infrastructure that every city and town depends on will need to be expanded, upgraded or replaced. This provides the opportunity to increase the deployment of renewable energy technologies and decentralised energy systems, and hence gain the multi-benefits of increased energy security, climate change mitigation and sustainable development, but also the social benefits of reduced air pollution, such as improved health and employment. Many combinations of policies have been employed to stimulate local renewable energy development. These policies include: local governance by authority; providing resources; enabling private actors; leading by example; allowing self-governance. Mega-city mayors, down to small-town officials, have successfully introduced such policies, although these vary with location, local resources and population. Cities, Towns and Renewable Energy – “ Yes In My Front Yard “ includes several case studies chosen to illustrate how enhanced deployment of renewable energy projects can result, regardless of a community’s size or location. The goals of this report are to inspire city stakeholders by showing how renewable energy systems can benefit citizens and businesses, assist national governments to better appreciate the role that local municipalities might play in meeting national and international objectives, and help accelerate the necessary transition to a sustainable energy future.
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    Paris : International Energy Agency
    ISBN: 9789264042179
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (100 p.)
    Keywords: Energy
    Abstract: In its latest publication, Development of Competitive Gas Trading in Continental Europe, the IEA examines the history of major gas markets’ development in OECD Europe, and explores the possible expansion of trading through the mechanism of different hubs across the region. Lessons learned from North American markets on the benefits of regulatory convergence and investor-friendly legal framework are an important part of the analysis. Competitive trading based on transparent, non-discriminatory rules in a flexible and integrated European gas market will lead to more efficiency, timely investment, and greater market resilience, therefore ensuring more security for both customers and suppliers in the long term.
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    ISBN: 9789264060388
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (180 p.) , ill.
    Series Statement: Energy Policies of IEA Countries
    Keywords: Energy ; Portugal
    Abstract: The International Energy Agency's 2009 review of Portugal's energy policies and programmes. This edition finds that Portugal has made considerable efforts to strengthen its energy policy since the last IEA in-depth review in 2004. A large number of IEA recommendations have been successfully implemented, including greater diversification of the energy mix and increased energy policy co-ordination. A new National Energy Strategy, published in October 2005, identified three principal means for meeting Portugal’s policy goals: the promotion of renewable energy, increased energy efficiency and competition in energy markets. Over a short period of time, Portugal has become a leader in terms of renewable energy development. Well-designed incentive mechanisms and the adoption of ambitious targets ensure hydro, wind and other technologies will continue to grow. The National Action Plan for Energy Efficiency was enacted in 2008, and Portugal aims to implement energy efficiency measures equivalent to 9.8% of total final energy consumption by 2015. This plan complements a well developed and co-ordinated climate change policy. Further steps have been taken towards the liberalisation of energy markets, including the innovative creation of a single operator for the transport of natural gas and electricity, natural gas storage and operation of the Sines LNG terminal. Still, a number of challenges remain. Energy markets are not as competitive as policy makers may have wished, and energy research and development policy coordination needs to be strengthened. This review provides sectoral critiques of existing policy and recommendations for further improvements. It is intended to serve as an indispensable guide for Portuguese policy makers as they travel along the path to a more sustainable energy future.
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    New York, N.Y : Routledge
    ISBN: 0415961491 , 9780415961493
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (ix, 272 p) , ill
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Routledge research in cultural and media studies 16
    DDC: 391.009
    Keywords: Fashion History
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Introduction : Inserting fashion into space , Tracking fashions : risking it all at the Hippodrome de Longchamp , Framing the Victorians : photography, fashion, and identity , On The golden stairs : the spectacle of the Victorian woman in white , Maurice de Rothschild's "Remembrances of things past" : costume obsession and decadence, the collection of a Belle époque dandy , Fashion's chameleons : camouflage, "conspicuousness," and gendered display during World War I , Making the Princeton man : collegiate clothing and campus culture, 1900-20 , Elegance and spectacle in Berlin : the Gerson fashion store and the rise of the modern fashion show , The city boutique : Milan and the spaces of fashion , Libertine acts : fashion and furniture , Dressing rooms : women, fashion, and the department store , The logic of the mannequin : shop windows and the realist novel , Allure of the silent beauties : mannequins and display in America, 1935-70 , "A house that is made of hats" : the Lilly Daché building, 1937-68 , From "Paradise" to cyberspace : the revival of the bourgeois marketplace , Armani/architecture : the timelessness and textures of space , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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  • 37
    ISBN: 9780230103245
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiii, 211 p) , ill
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection
    Keywords: Finance ; Banks and banking ; Macroeconomics ; Finance ; Banks and banking ; Macroeconomics ; Finance ; Banking ; Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics
    Abstract: This book is a collection of research papers that contribute to the understanding of ongoing developments in financial institutions and markets both in the United States and globally
    Abstract: This book is a collection of research papers that contribute to the understanding of ongoing developments in financial institutions and markets both in the United States and globally
    URL: Volltext  (lizenzpflichtig)
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    Chichester, U.K : Wiley-Blackwell
    ISBN: 140513240X , 1405132418 , 9781405132404 , 9781405132411
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xxvii, 300 p) , ill., maps
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version Social history of Byzantium
    DDC: 306.09495
    Keywords: Byzantine Empire Social conditions ; Byzantine Empire History ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: With original essays by leading scholars, this book explores the social history of the medieval eastern Roman Empire and offers illuminating new insights into our knowledge of Byzantine society. Provides interconnected essays of original scholarship relating to the social history of the Byzantine empireOffers groundbreaking theoretical and empirical research in the study of Byzantine societyIncludes helpful glossaries of sociological/theoretical terms and Byzantine/medieval terms
    Abstract: With original essays by leading scholars, this book explores the social history of the medieval eastern Roman Empire and offers illuminating new insights into our knowledge of Byzantine society. Provides interconnected essays of original scholarship relating to the social history of the Byzantine empireOffers groundbreaking theoretical and empirical research in the study of Byzantine societyIncludes helpful glossaries of sociological/theoretical terms and Byzantine/medieval terms
    Description / Table of Contents: Towards a social history of Byzantium / John HaldonMen, women, Eunchs: gender, sex, and power / Liz James -- Family structure and the transmission of property / Angeliki E. Laiou -- The social function of the law / Bernard Stolte -- Social relations and the land: the Early Period / Peter Sarris -- Land and power in the Middle and Later Period / Peter Frankopan -- The producing population / Michel Kaplan -- Social elites, wealth, and power / John Haldon -- Court society and aristocracy / Paul Magdalino -- Church and society: iconoclasm and after / Michael Angold -- A monastic world / Alice-Mary Talbot.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    URL: Volltext  (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
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    Chichester, U.K : Wiley-Blackwell
    ISBN: 9781405161596 , 1444311093 , 9781444311099
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xvi, 302 p) , ill
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version The Ethics of Cultural Appropriation
    DDC: 306
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    Keywords: Ethnic relations Political aspects ; Cultural property Social aspects ; Acculturation Political aspects ; Intercultural communication Political aspects ; Ethnic relations Moral and ethical aspects ; Indigenous peoples Civil rights ; Cultural property Protection ; Moral and ethical aspects ; Intercultural communication Moral and ethical aspects ; Acculturation Moral and ethical aspects ; Minorities Civil rights
    Abstract: The Ethics of Cultural Appropriation undertakes a comprehensive and systematic investigation of the moral and aesthetic questions that arise from the practice of cultural appropriation.:.; Explores cultural appropriation in a wide variety of contexts, among them the arts and archaeology, museums, and religion.; Questions whether cultural appropriation is always morally objectionable.; Includes research that is equally informed by empirical knowledge and general normative theory.; Provides a coherent and authoritative perspective gained by the collaboration of philosophers and specialists in th
    Abstract: The Ethics of Cultural Appropriation undertakes a comprehensive and systematic investigation of the moral and aesthetic questions that arise from the practice of cultural appropriation. Explores cultural appropriation in a wide variety of contexts, among them the arts and archaeology, museums, and religionQuestions whether cultural appropriation is always morally objectionableIncludes research that is equally informed by empirical knowledge and general normative theoryProvides a coherent and authoritative perspective gained by the collaboration of philosophers and specialists in the field who
    Description / Table of Contents: The Ethics of Cultural Appropriation; Table of Contents; Ethics of Cultural Appropriation Research Group Members; Preface; Artist Statement; 1: Introduction; 2: Archaeological Finds: Legacies of Appropriation, Modes of Response; 3: The Appropriation of Human Remains: A First Nations Legal and Ethical Perspective; 4: The Repatriation of Human Remains; 5: 'The Skin Off Our Backs' Appropriation of Religion; 6: Genetic Research and Culture: Where Does the Offense Lie?; 7: Appropriation of Traditional Knowledge: Ethics in the Context of Ethnobiology
    Description / Table of Contents: 8: A Broken Record: Subjecting 'Music' to Cultural Rights9: Objects of Appropriation; 10: Do Subaltern Artifacts Belong in Art Museums?; 11: 'Nothing Comes from Nowhere': Reflections on Cultural Appropriation as the Representation of Other Cultures; Index
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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    ISBN: 9789264068612
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (324 p.) , ill.
    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Energy technology transitions for industry
    DDC: 333.7965
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    Keywords: Energietechnik ; Industrie ; Energiekonsum ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Energy ; Energiewirtschaft ; Energieverbrauch ; Technischer Fortschritt
    Abstract: Industry accounts for one-third of global energy use and almost 40% of worldwide CO2 emissions. Achieving substantial emissions reduction in the future will require urgent action from industry. What are the likely future trends in energy use and CO2 emissions from industry? What impact could the application of best available technologies have on these trends? Which new technologies are needed if these sectors are to fully play their role in a more secure and sustainable energy future? Energy Technology Transitions for Industry addresses these questions through detailed sectoral and regional analyses, building on the insights of crucial IEA findings, such as Energy Technology Perspectives 2008: Scenarios and Strategies to 2050. It contains new indicators and methodologies as well as scenario results for the following sectors: iron and steel, cement, chemicals, pulp and paper and aluminium sectors. The report discusses the prospects for new low-carbon technologies and outlines potential technology transition paths for the most important industrial sectors.
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    ISBN: 1847883664 , 1847883672 , 1847883680 , 9781847883667 , 9781847883674 , 9781847883681
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (viii, 245 p) , ill
    Edition: English ed
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Uniform Title: Wann is Mode? 〈engl.〉
    Parallel Title: Print version When clothes become fashion
    DDC: 746.9/2
    Keywords: Aesthetics ; Costume Psychological aspects ; Fashion design ; Clothing trade ; Fashion ; Costume Psychological aspects ; Fashion ; Fashion design ; Aesthetics ; Clothing trade
    Abstract: "When, how and why do clothes become fashion? Fashion is more than mere clothing. It is a moment of invention, a distillation of desire, a reflection of a zeitgeist. It is also economically relevant relying on an intricate network of manufacture, marketing and retail. Fashion is both medium and message but it does not explain itself. It requires language and images for its global mediation. It develops from the prescience of the designer and is dependent on acceptance by observers and wearers alike. When Clothes Become Fashion explores the structures and strategies which underlie fashion innovation, how fashion is perceived and the point at which clothing is accepted or rejected as fashion. The book provides a clear theoretical framework for understanding the system of fashion - its aesthetic premises, plurality of styles, performative impulses, social qualities and economic conditions."--publisher's website
    Description / Table of Contents: Fashion Theory.Does Fashion Need a Theory?Textiles as MaterialClothes as FormFashion as SystemInvention and Innovation.When Is Invention?When Is Creativity?When Is Innovation?When Clothes Become Fashion.When Is Fashion?When Is Fashion Art?When Is Fashion Design?
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    Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press
    ISBN: 9780826516756
    Language: English
    Pages: XXIV, 231 S.
    Edition: 2. ed.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2009 Online-Ressource ebrary online Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Edition: [S.l.] Ebrary
    DDC: 306.70981
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    Keywords: Sex customs Brazil ; Sexual ethics Brazil ; Sexual behavior surveys Brazil ; Sexual ethics ; Sexual behavior surveys ; Sex customs ; Brasilien ; Sexualität
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    Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press
    ISBN: 9780674032965 , 9780674053939
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xvii, 246 p) , ill , 18 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Nathan I. Huggins lectures
    Parallel Title: Print version Political worlds of slavery and freedom
    DDC: 306.3/620973
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    Keywords: Garvey, Marcus ; Universal Negro Improvement Association ; Political participation History 20th century ; Political participation History 19th century ; Slavery Political aspects ; History ; Slaves Emancipation ; Black nationalism History 20th century ; Slave insurrections History 19th century ; African Americans Politics and government 19th century ; African Americans Politics and government 20th century ; Garvey, Marcus 1887-1940
    Abstract: "Steven Hahn's provocative new book challenges deep-rooted views in the writing of American and African-American history. Moving from slave emancipations of the eighteenth century through slave activity during the Civil War and on to the black power movements of the twentieth century, he asks us to rethink African-American history and politics in bolder, more dynamic terms."--Jacket
    Description / Table of Contents: "Slaves at large" : the emancipation process and the terrain of African American politicsDid we miss the greatest slave rebellion in modern history? -- Marcus Garvey, the UNIA, and the hidden political history of African Americans.
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    ISBN: 9789264075696
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (PDF-Datei: 130 S.) , graph. Darst.
    Parallel Title: Druck-Ausg. Implementing energy efficiency policies 2009
    DDC: 339.4/86214
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    Keywords: Electronic books ; Bericht ; Internationale Energieagentur ; Mitgliedsstaaten ; Energiepolitik ; Effizienz
    Abstract: This book presents 25 energy efficiency recommendations from the IEA which could, if implemented globally without delay, reduce global CO2 emissions by 8.2 gigatonnes per year by 2030 - equivalent to roughly two-times the amount of current EU CO2 emissions. This innovative book provides the first assessment of IEA member countries' progress on implementing energy efficiency policy.  Using a rigorous evaluation process, it finds that while these countries are implementing a full range of energy efficiency measures, their efforts fall short. Pressing energy, climate and financial challenges
    Description / Table of Contents: Table of contents; Executive summary; Introduction; Energy efficiency policy context; Strengths and innovations in energy efficiency policy; Challenges and areas for improvement in energy efficiency policy; Summarising progress with IEA member country implementation of the 25 energy efficiency policy recommendations; Country reports; Call to action; Abbreviations and acronyms; References; Annex 1 - Consolidated list of 25 IEA energy efficiency recommendations;
    Note: Description based upon print version of record
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    ISBN: 9789264068735
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (PDF-Datei: 186 S.) , graph. Darst.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Sectoral approaches in electricity
    DDC: 301.31
    Keywords: Climatic changes Environmental aspects ; Electricity Health aspects ; Electric power production Environmental aspects ; Atmospheric carbon dioxide Environmental aspects ; Entwicklungsländer ; Elektrizitätsversorgung ; Kohlendioxidemission ; Klimaschutz ; Nachhaltigkeit
    Abstract: Electricity accounts for more than 40 % of global energy-related CO 2 emissions. This issue is most pressing for developing countries where growth in power demand is particularly high, fueling the risk of irreversible investment in CO 2 -intensive capacity, the so-called "carbon lock-in". Sectoral Approaches in Electricity - Building Bridges to a Safe Climate shows how the international climate policy framework could effectively support a transition towards low-CO 2 electricity systems in developing countries. Sectoral approaches are intended to address sectors that require urgent actions, wit
    Description / Table of Contents: Table of contents; Executive summary; Introduction; 1. Tackling climate change in the electricity sector; 2. Presenting options for international sectoral approaches; 3. Policy options to transform power generation; 4. Targeting carbon lock-in: case studies on electricity; 5. Next steps; 6. References;
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-176) , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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    ISBN: 9789264076884
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (192 S.)
    DDC: 333.794
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    Keywords: Nachhaltige Stadtentwicklung ; Stadt ; Energieversorgung ; Energieeinsparung ; Erneuerbare Energie ; Welt ; Renewable energy sources ; Energy policy ; Power resources Forecasting ; Energy development Forecasting ; Graue Literatur ; Fallstudie
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    Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
    ISBN: 0674035089 , 9780674035089 , 9780674054769
    Language: English
    Pages: vii, 307 p. S. , 25 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif. ebrary 2010 Electronic reproduction Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version Disturbing the peace
    DDC: 305.896/073
    Keywords: African Americans History 1877-1964 ; African Americans History 1863-1877 ; Legends History and criticism ; Ballads History and criticism ; African Americans Social life and customs ; African Americans Music ; History and criticism ; Police power History ; Police-community relations History
    Abstract: Includes bibliographical references and index
    Abstract: The Black tradition from Ida B. Wells to Robert Charles -- The strange career of bras-coupé -- Uncle Remus and the Atlanta Police Department -- The Black tradition from George W. Johnson to Ozella Jones
    Description / Table of Contents: The Black tradition from Ida B. Wells to Robert CharlesThe strange career of bras-coupé -- Uncle Remus and the Atlanta Police Department -- The Black tradition from George W. Johnson to Ozella Jones.
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    New York : Columbia University Press
    ISBN: 0231146647 , 0231518390
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xii, 210 p) , ill , 22 cm
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    Parallel Title: Print version How Women Got Their Curves and Other Just-So Stories : Evolutionary Enigmas
    DDC: 305.4
    Keywords: Women Evolution ; Women - Evolution
    Abstract: So how did women get their curves? Why do they have breasts, while other mammals only develop breast tissue while lactating, and why do women menstruate, when virtually no other beings do so? What are the reasons for female orgasm? Why are human females kept in the dark about their own time of ovulation and maximum fertility, and why are they the only animals to experience menopause?David P. Barash and Judith Eve Lipton, coauthors of acclaimed books on human sexuality and gender, discuss the theories scientists have advanced to explain these evolutionary enigmas (sometimes called "Just-So sto
    Description / Table of Contents: Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; Epilogue; Notes; Index
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    New York : Columbia University Press
    ISBN: 0231144083 , 0231520026
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xxix, 414 p) , ill , 24 cm
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    Parallel Title: Print version Marriage and Family : Perspectives and Complexities
    DDC: 306.850973
    Keywords: Parenting ; Families ; Marriage ; Families -- United States ; Marriage -- United States ; Parenting -- United States ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Family life has been radically transformed over the past three decades. Half of all households are unmarried, while only a quarter of all married households have kids. A third of the nation's births are to unwed mothers, and a third of America's married men earn less than their wives. With half of all women cohabitating before they turn thirty and gay and lesbian couples settling down with increasing visibility, there couldn't be a better time for a book that tracks new conceptions of marriage and family as they are being formed.The editors of this volume explore the motivation to marry and th
    Description / Table of Contents: Table of Contents ; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Acknowledgments ; Introduction; Part I: Perspectives on Marriage; 1. Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Marriage; 2. Marriage and Family: Th e Evolutionary Ecological Context; 3. A Gender Lens on Marriage; 4. Institutional, Companionate, and Individualistic Marriage:A Social Psychological Perspective on Marital Change; Part II: Contemporary Families; 5. Single Parenthood and Child Well-Being: Trends, Theories, and Evidence ; 6. Cohabitation and Parenthood: Lessons from Focus Groupsand In- Depth Interviews
    Description / Table of Contents: 7. An Examination of Child Well- Being in Stable Single- Parentand Married Families8. Reconsidering the Association Between Stepfather Familiesand Adolescent Well- Being; 9. Parenting by Gay Men and Lesbians: Beyond the CurrentResearch; Part III: Strengthening Marriage; 10. Supporting Healthy Marriage: Designing a Marriage EducationDemonstration and Evaluation for Low- Income Married Couples; 11. Differentiating Among Types of Domestic Violence: Implications for Healthy Marriages ; Part IV: The Future of Marriage; 12. The Growing Importance of Marriage in America
    Description / Table of Contents: 13. The Future of Marriage and the State: A Proposal14. Why Won't African Americans Get (and Stay) Married? Why Should They?; 15. Race, Immigration, and the Future of Marriage; Contributors; Index
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    Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xix, 490 p) , ill
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    Series Statement: Culture and psychology
    Parallel Title: Print version Cultural Transmission : Psychological, Developmental, Social, and Methodological Aspects
    DDC: 303.3/2
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    Keywords: Cognition and culture ; Learning, Psychology of ; Learning / Social aspects ; Ethnopsychology ; Socialization ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: State-of-the-art source book explaining how cultural information is transferred from one generation to the next within a family
    Description / Table of Contents: COVER; HALF-TITLE; SERIES-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; CONTRIBUTORS; 1 Introduction to Cultural Transmission: Psychological, Developmental, Social, and Methodological Aspects; INTRODUCTION; 1.0. CULTURAL TRANSMISSION: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH FIELD; 2.0. THE CARRIERS OF TRANSMISSION; 4.0. THE MECHANISM OF THE TRANSMISSION PROCESS; 5.0. DEVELOPMENTAL PERSPECTIVE ON TRANSMISSION; REFERENCES; 2 Theory and Research in Cultural Transmission: A Short History; INTRODUCTION; 1.0. EARLY THOUGHTS AND STUDIES ON CULTURAL TRANSMISSION; 2.0. THE SECOND PERIOD: 1950s, 1960s, AND 1970s
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.0. THE THIRD PERIOD: 1980s TO THE PRESENTREFERENCES; PART ONE EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE; 3 Cultural Transmission: A View from Chimpanzees and Human Infants; 4 Transmission, Self-Organization, and the Emergence of Language: A Dynamic Systems Point of View; 5 Relationship-Specific Intergenerational Family Ties: An Evolutionary Approach to the Structure of Cultural Transmission; PART TWO CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE; 6 An Ecocultural Perspective on Cultural Transmission: The Family across Cultures; 7 Intergenerational Relations and Cultural Transmission
    Description / Table of Contents: 8 Intergenerational Transmission, Social Capital, and Interethnic Contact in Immigrant Families9 Developmental Processes Related to Intergenerational Transmission of Culture: Growing Up with Two Cultures; 10 The Transmission Process: Mechanisms and Contexts; 11 Accounting for Parent-Child Value Congruence: Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Evidence; 12 Culture, Migration, and Family-Value Socialization: A Theoretical Model and Empirical Investigation with Russian-Immigrant Youth in Israel
    Description / Table of Contents: 13 Immigrant Parents' Age Expectations for the Development of Their Adolescent Offspring: Transmission Effects and Changes after ImmigrationPART THREE INTRACULTURAL VARIATIONS; 14 Intergenerational Transmission of Moral Capital across the Family Life Course; 15 Similarity of Life Goals in the Family: A Three-Generation Study; 16 The Intergenerational Transmission of Xenophobia and Rightism in East Germany; 17 Intergenerational Transmission of Violence; 18 ""Don't Trust Anyone over 25"": Youth Centrism, Intergenerational Transmission of Political Orientations, and Cultural Change
    Description / Table of Contents: 19 Value Transmission and Zeitgeist Revisited20 Epilogue: Toward a Model of Cultural Transmission; INDEX
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    Boulder, Colo : Westview Press
    ISBN: 0813343585 , 9780813343587
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiv, 537 p) , 23 cm
    Edition: 3rd ed
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version Ain't No Makin' It : Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood
    DDC: 305.5/690973
    Keywords: Social mobility Case studies ; Youth with social disabilities Case studies ; Equality Case studies ; Urban poor Case studies ; Fallstudiensammlung
    Abstract: Author Jay MacLeod 's classic ethnography-a defining work on the cycle of social reproduction and inequality as lived through the young men from the Clarendon Heights housing project-now includes a third section that continues the lives of the original Brothers and Hallway Hangers through new interviews and analysis
    Description / Table of Contents: Social immobility in the land of opportunitySocial reproduction in theoretical perspective -- Teenagers in Clarendon Heights : the Hallway Hangers and the Brothers -- The influence of the family -- The world of work : aspirations of the Hangers and Brothers -- School : preparing for the competition -- Leveled aspirations : social reproduction takes its toll -- Reproduction theory reconsidered -- The Hallway Hangers : dealing in despair -- The Brothers : dreams deferred -- Conclusion : outclassed and outcast(e) -- The Hallway Hangers : weeble, wobble, but we don't fall down -- The Brothers : finally finding a foothold -- Reproduction, redemption, and respect.
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    Berlin : Mouton de Gruyter
    ISBN: 3110196336 , 9783110196337 , 9783110199222 , 9781282073128
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiv, 278 p) , ill
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Applications of cognitive linguistics 8
    Parallel Title: Print version World Englishes : A Cognitive Sociolinguistic Approach
    DDC: 306.44
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    Keywords: Intercultural communication ; English language Variation ; Cognitive grammar ; English language ; Sociolinguistics ; applied linguistics English /language ; sociolinguistics ; Cognitive Linguistics ; Africa Languages ; Influence on English ; Englisch ; Afrika ; Sprachvariante ; Kognitive Linguistik ; Soziolinguistik ; Kulturkontakt
    Abstract: The book presents Cognitive Linguistics as a framework for the study of cultural variation in world Englishes and within languages in general by offering a corpus-based analysis of the linguistic realization of the cultural model of community in African English. It also reflects on the role of English in intercultural communication and positions Cognitive Linguistics within a wider hermeneutic tradition. Hans-Georg Wolf, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong; Frank Polzenhagen, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany.
    Abstract: The book is the first of its kind to establish Cognitive Linguistics as a research paradigm within the field of world Englishes. The authors survey the main tenets of both areas of linguistic enquiry and suggest that the theoretical and methodological apparatus developed both within Cognitive Linguistics generally and within its novel sub-discipline Cognitive Sociolinguistics can overcome certain limitations inherent in traditional approaches to cultural variation in language. They present a case study of the linguistic realization of the cultural model of community in African English as an exemplar for the investigation of cultural models in other varieties of English. Corpus-linguistic methods are combined with conceptual metaphor analysis and blending theory to elucidate a vast network of conceptualizations salient to speakers of African English. The findings, based on computer corpora and a range of additional sources, are discussed against the background of work in anthropology, religious studies, and political science. The book also reflects on the role of English in intercultural communication and concludes with a comparison of Cognitive Linguistics and pragmatic functionalism, placing the former in the wider framework of a hermeneutic philosophy that stresses dialogic understanding.
    Description / Table of Contents: Frontmatter ; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Preface; 1.1. Cognitive Linguistics and the study of world Englishes; 1.2. The world Englishes paradigm; 1.3. The Cognitive Linguistic paradigm and the study of language variation; 1.4. Scope, methodology, and empirical basis of our study; 2.1. Analytical tools: Conceptual metaphor, cultural models, conceptual networks; 2.2. Aspects of the African community model; 2.3. Interim summary; 2.4. The African community model and politics; 2.5. Summary and implications of the analysis
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.1. Arguments for a hermeneutic approach to the study ofintercultural communication3.2. Foci of a hermeneutic approach to intercultural communication and a critique of functionalist positions; 3.3. Intercultural understanding and the problem of relativism; 3.4. Concluding remarks; Backmatter
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    Hoboken, N.J : Wiley
    ISBN: 0470282312 , 1282682598 , 9780470282311 , 9781282682597
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xviii, 392 p) , ill , 24 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Wiley finance
    Parallel Title: Print version Advising Ultra-Affluent Clients and Family Offices
    DDC: 305.5/234
    Keywords: Rich people ; Investments Decision making
    Abstract: BA timely guide for financial professionals looking to tap into the lucrative world of the ultra-affluent/b The ultra affluent'defined here as those having $50 million or more in liquid assets'are an elite class who expect their financial advisors to not only preserve and grow their assets, but also help them with "soft" issues such as philanthropy and family governance. One of the biggest factors to success in this field is the relationship between the client and the advisor. In iAdvising Ultra-Affluent Clients and Family Offices/i, author and practicing investment consultant Michael Pompian provides a practical introduction to who the ultra-affluent actually are and reveals what it takes to build and maintain a solid relationship with them. Filled with in-depth insights and expert advice, this unique resource offers valuable information on issues that every advisor to the ultra-affluent must be familiar with
    Abstract: A timely guide for financial professionals looking to tap into the lucrative world of the ultra-affluent The ultra affluent-defined here as those having 50 million or more in liquid assets-are an elite class who expect their financial advisors to not only preserve and grow their assets, but also help them with "soft" issues such as philanthropy and family governance. One of the biggest factors to success in this field is the relationship between the client and the advisor. In Advising Ultra-Affluent Clients and Family Offices, author and practicing investment consultant Michael Pompian provide
    Description / Table of Contents: Advising Ultra-Affluent Clients and Family Offices; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part One: Introduction to Advising Ultra-Affluent Clients and Family Offices; Chapter 1: Who Are the Ultra-Affluent?; DEFINING THE ULTRA-AFFLUENT; QUANTIFYING ULTRA-AFFLUENCE AMONG TOTAL GLOBAL WEALTH; LOOKING TO THE FUTURE; A WORLD OF OPPORTUNITIES FOR ADVISERS; Chapter 2: Understanding the Mindset of the Ultra-Affluent Client; WHY ADVISING THE ULTRA-AFFLUENT IS DIFFERENT; WHAT ULTRA-AFFLUENT CLIENTS VALUE IN AN ADVISER; BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS BY ASKING QUESTIONS AND LISTENING TO THE ANSWERS
    Description / Table of Contents: MATCHING CLIENT WITH ADVISERCONSULTANT QUESTIONNAIRE; CONCLUSION; Chapter 3: Wealth Attitudes, Aspirations, and Investor Behavior of Ultra-Affluent Clients; FAMILY ASPIRATIONS; WEALTH ATTITUDES OF ULTRA-AFFLUENT CLIENTS; WHERE PSYCHOLOGY MEETS FINANCE; INVESTOR BIASES; CONCLUSION; Chapter 4: Noninvestment Best Practices; THE CHALLENGES ASSOCIATED WITH WEALTH; GUIDELINES FOR SUSTAINING MULTIGENERATIONAL WEALTH; CONCLUSION; Part Two: Investment Strategies for Ultra-Affluent Clients and Family Offices; Chapter 5: Practices of the Best Investment Organizations
    Description / Table of Contents: DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ENDOWMENTS AND PRIVATE INVESTORSINVESTMENT COMMITTEES; WHAT IS THE BEST ENDOWMENT GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE?; INVESTMENT POLICY STATEMENTS; KEY CONSIDERATIONS FOR PORTFOLIO OVERSIGHT; CONCLUSION; Chapter 6: Asset Allocation Considerations for Ultra-Affluent Clients and Family Offices; WHAT IS ASSET ALLOCATION?; THE IMPORTANCE OF ASSUMPTIONS IN THE ASSET ALLOCATION SELECTION PROCESS; THE IMPORTANCE OF ASSET ALLOCATION; CONSIDERATIONS IN ASSET ALLOCATION FOR INDIVIDUAL INVESTORS; Chapter 7: Domestic and International Equity
    Description / Table of Contents: INTRODUCTION TO U.S. AND INTERNATIONAL EQUITY SECURITIESTHE FIVE-STEP EQUITY STRATEGY PROCESS; Chapter 8: Domestic and International Bonds; INTRODUCTION TO BONDS; DESCRIPTIONS OF BOND ASSET CLASSES; Chapter 9: Private Equity; WHAT IS PRIVATE EQUITY AND HOW DOES IT WORK?; THREE PRIMARY TYPES OF PRIVATE EQUITY INVESTMENTS; CREATING A CUSTOMIZED PRIVATE EQUITY PROGRAM; Chapter 10: Hedge Funds; WHAT IS A HEDGE FUND?; HEDGE FUND INVESTING BY UACs AND FAMILY OFFICES; A HISTORY OF HEDGE FUNDS; THE LEGAL ENVIRONMENT OF HEDGE FUNDS; HEDGE FUND STRATEGIES; MANAGER SELECTION; Chapter 11: Real Assets
    Description / Table of Contents: THE PORTFOLIO BENEFITS OF REAL ASSETSREAL ESTATE: A LONG-TERM INFLATION HEDGE; NATURAL RESOURCES; Part Three: Multigenerational Considerations for Ultra-Affluent Clients and Family Offices; Chapter 12: Selecting an Adviser; TRUST: THE KEY INGREDIENT; HOW UACs SELECT AN ADVISER; QUESTIONS FOR PROSPECTIVE ADVISERS; CONCLUSION; Chapter 13: Selecting a Custodian and Investment Vehicle Structure; CUSTODIAL SERVICES; INVESTMENT VEHICLE STRUCTURE; CONCLUSION; Chapter 14: Considerations for Creating a Family Office; WHAT IS A FAMILY OFFICE?; CHALLENGES OF WEALTH
    Description / Table of Contents: PRACTICAL REASONS TO CREATE A FAMILY OFFICE
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    Malden, MA : Blackwell
    ISBN: 9781405189200 , 1444308823 , 1282116541 , 1444308831 , 9781444308822 , 9781282116542 , 9781444308839
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xvi, 213 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version Anthropology off the shelf
    DDC: 306
    Keywords: Ethnology Authorship ; Anthropologists Attitudes ; Literature and anthropology ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: In Anthropology off the Shelf, leading anthropologists reflect on the craft of writing and the passions that fuel their desire to write books.First of its kind volume in anthropology in which prominent anthropologists and 3 respected professionals outside the discipline follow the tradition of the “writers on writing” genre to reflect on all aspects of the writing processContributors are high-profile in anthropology and many have a strong presence outside the field, in popular cultureUnique in its format: short essays, revealing and straightforward in content and writing style
    Abstract: Introduction : the writer in the anthropologist / Maria D. Vesperi and Alisse Waterston -- Speaking truth to power with books / Howard Zinn -- Remember when writing was fun? : why academics should go on a low syllable, active voice diet / Karen Brodkin -- The bard / Carolyn Nordstrom -- Saggin' and braggin' / Lee D. Baker -- Stories for readers : a few observations from outside the academy / Andrew Barnes -- Writing poverty, drawing readers : stories in Love, sorrow and rage / Alisse Waterston -- Write ous indignation : Black girls, dilemmas of cultural domination and the struggle to speak the skin we are in / Signithia Fordham -- Writing truth to power : racism as statecraft / Arthur K. Spears -- Remembering Octavia / Sharon Ball -- Believing in anthropology as literature / Ruth Behar -- Walking in Zora's shoes or "seek(ing) out de inside meanin' of words" : the intersections of anthropology, ethnography, identity, and writing / Irma McClaurin -- Off the shelf and into oblivion? / Catherine Kingfisher -- "Don't use your data as a pillow" / S. Eben Kirksey -- The trope of the pith helmet : America's anthropology, anthropology's America / Micaela di Leonardo -- The book that wrote me / Roger Sanjek -- Fighting words / Paul Farmer -- Taking chances / Maria D. Vesperi
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction : the writer in the anthropologist / Maria D. Vesperi and Alisse WaterstonSpeaking truth to power with books / Howard Zinn -- Remember when writing was fun? : why academics should go on a low syllable, active voice diet / Karen Brodkin -- The bard / Carolyn Nordstrom -- Saggin' and braggin' / Lee D. Baker -- Stories for readers : a few observations from outside the academy / Andrew Barnes -- Writing poverty, drawing readers : stories in Love, sorrow and rage / Alisse Waterston -- Write ous indignation : Black girls, dilemmas of cultural domination and the struggle to speak the skin we are in / Signithia Fordham -- Writing truth to power : racism as statecraft / Arthur K. Spears -- Remembering Octavia / Sharon Ball -- Believing in anthropology as literature / Ruth Behar -- Walking in Zora's shoes or "seek(ing) out de inside meanin' of words" : the intersections of anthropology, ethnography, identity, and writing / Irma McClaurin -- Off the shelf and into oblivion? / Catherine Kingfisher -- "Don't use your data as a pillow" / S. Eben Kirksey -- The trope of the pith helmet : America's anthropology, anthropology's America / Micaela di Leonardo -- The book that wrote me / Roger Sanjek -- Fighting words / Paul Farmer -- Taking chances / Maria D. Vesperi.
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    ISBN: 9783110209242
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (vi, 122 p) , 24 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Communications monograph 6
    Parallel Title: Print version The Social Embeddedness of Media Use : Action Theoretical Contributions to the Study of TV Use in Everyday Life
    DDC: 302.23/45085
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    Keywords: Television broadcasting Social aspects ; Television Social aspects ; Mass media Social aspects ; Television and families ; Communication Research Television News Viewing ; Familie ; Fernsehen ; Medienkonsum ; Alltag
    Abstract: Scholars in the field of communication research have extensively studied television viewing in general and watching television news in particular. The book looks at the subject from an integrative theoretical perspective. Based on Schutzean sociology and action theoretical approaches to media use, the author argues that immediate social influences and other everyday life situations largely determine television use, and that the influence of short-term situational characteristics are often overlooked in person-centered explanatory models. In three empirical studies, the role of short-term situations and the influence of immediate social surroundings is analyzed. The use of Discrete Time Event History Analysis is an innovative way to look at household diary data. Findings reveal how family members influence each other in many ways. Watching television turns out to be an integral part of everyday life in the family, but also a force that may reduce family interaction. It is shown that television may serve as a surrogate for those family members that are not present, and that family members while present at home follow each others example. Partners are shown to mimic each other, children to mimic their parents, and parents follow the example set by their children. Television news viewing, in contrast to general television viewing is less determined by the immediate influence of others. Also, the individual motivations for news viewing vary throughout the day. First exposure to television news appears to be motivated by other factors than subsequent exposure. A need for 'surveillance' dominates first exposure, but subsequent exposure appears to be governed by other, more 'ritualistic' motivations. The book is important to scholars, graduate-level students and practitioners who are concerned with theoretical and methodological insights in the phenomenon of television viewing in everyday life.
    Description / Table of Contents: Frontmatter ; Contents; Chapter 1. The social embeddedness of media use: An introduction; Chapter 2. Transcending Uses and Gratifications: Media use as social action and the use of event history analysis; Chapter 3. The situational and time-varying context of routines in television viewing; Chapter 4. Watching television news in everyday life: An event history analysis; Chapter 5. The social character of parental and adolescent television viewing; Chapter 6. On the use of an action theoretical approach to television (news) viewing; Backmatter
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    Chichester, U.K : Wiley-Blackwell
    ISBN: 1405189347 , 1405189339 , 9781405189347 , 9781405189330
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xi, 299 p) , ill , 25 cm
    Edition: 2nd ed
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version Moral Panics : The Social Construction of Deviance
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    Keywords: Social problems ; Moral conditions ; Deviant behavior ; Moral panics ; Massenwahn ; Abweichendes Verhalten
    Abstract: Packed with new examples and material, this second edition provides a fully up-to-date exploration of the genesis, dynamics, and demise of moral panics and their impacts on the societies in which they take place.: Packed with updated and recent examples including terrorism, the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Towers, school shootings, flag burning, and the early-2000s resurgence of the "sex slave" scare; Includes a new chapter on the media, currently regarded as a major component of the moral panic; Devotes a chapter to addressing criticisms of the first edition as well as the moral panics conc
    Abstract: Packed with new examples and material, this second edition provides a fully up-to-date exploration of the genesis, dynamics, and demise of moral panics and their impacts on the societies in which they take place. Packed with updated and recent examples including terrorism, the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Towers, school shootings, flag burning, and the early-2000s resurgence of the "sex slave" scareIncludes a new chapter on the media, currently regarded as a major component of the moral panicDevotes a chapter to addressing criticisms of the first edition as well as the moral panics concept i
    Description / Table of Contents: MORAL PANICS; CONTENTS; Preface and Acknowledgements; Prologue; 1 Enter the Moral Panic; 2 The Moral Panic: An Introduction; 3 Three Theories of the Moral Panic; 4 The Moral Panic Meets Its Critics; 5 The Media Ignite and Embody the Moral Panic; 6 Deviance, Morality, and Criminal Law; 7 Collective Behavior; 8 Social Movements; 9 Social Problems; 10 The Renaissance Witch Craze; 11 Drug Abuse Panics; 12 The Feminist Anti-Pornography Crusade; Epilogue: The Demise and Institutionalization of the Moral Panic; References; Author Index; Subject Index
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    ISBN: 9781405158084 , 9781405158091 , 1444305050 , 1282138758 , 9781444305050 , 9781282138759
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xi, 228 p) , ill , 24 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: RGS-IBG book series
    Parallel Title: Print version Resistance, Space and Political Identities : The Making of Counter-Global Networks
    DDC: 303.48/2
    Keywords: Geopolitics ; Globalization Political aspects ; Power (Social sciences) ; Anti-globalization movement ; International relations
    Abstract: Utilizing research on networked struggles in both the 18th-century Atlantic world and our modern day, Resistance, Space and Political Identities: The Making of Counter-Global Networks challenges existing understandings of the relations between space, politics, and resistance to develop an innovative account of networked forms of resistance and political activity.:.; Explores counter-global struggles in both the past and presentincluding both the 18th-century Atlantic world and contemporary forms of resistance.; Examines the productive geographies of contestation.; Foregrounds the solidarities
    Abstract: Utilizing research on networked struggles in both the 18th-century Atlantic world and our modern day, Resistance, Space and Political Identities: The Making of Counter-Global Networks challenges existing understandings of the relations between space, politics, and resistance to develop an innovative account of networked forms of resistance and political activity.Explores counter-global struggles in both the past and present-including both the 18th-century Atlantic world and contemporary forms of resistanceExamines the productive geographies of contestationForegrounds the solidarities and geogr
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Space, Contestation and the Political; Part One: Networking the Political; Chapter One: Place and the Relational Construction of Political Identities; Chapter Two: Geographies of Solidarities and Antagonisms; Part Two: Geographies of Connection and Contestation; Chapter Three: Labourers' Politics and Mercantile Networks; Chapter Four: Making Democratic Spatial Practices; Chapter Five: Counter-Global Networks and the Making of Subaltern Nationalisms; Part Three: Political Geographies of the Counter-Globalization Movement
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter Six: Geographies of Power and the Counter-Globalization MovementChapter Seven: Constructing Transnational Political Networks; Conclusion: Towards Politicized Geographies of Connection; Notes; References; Index
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    Hoboken, N.J : Wiley-Interscience
    ISBN: 0470226544 , 0470245743 , 1281217204 , 9780470226544 , 9780470245743 , 9781281217202
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xii, 184 p) , ill , 23 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version Scientific Freedom : The Elixir of Civilization
    DDC: 303.48/3
    Keywords: Action research ; Research
    Abstract: Scientific Freedomoutlines what needs to be done to restore the freedom that can transform scientific understanding. The author defines Transformative Research (Venture Research) and explains how an initiative might be designed and implemented; discusses the revolutionary concept of low-risk, high-reward research; explains the wider significance of instability, and introduces the formidable Damocles Zone; explores threats to the university as an institution; and describes how a Transformative Research initiative might work in practice.
    Abstract: Scientific Freedom outlines what needs to be done to restore the freedom that can transform scientific understanding. The author defines Transformative Research (Venture Research) and explains how an initiative might be designed and implemented; discusses the revolutionary concept of low-risk, high-reward research; explains the wider significance of instability, and introduces the formidable Damocles Zone; explores threats to the university as an institution; and describes how a Transformative Research initiative might work in practice
    Description / Table of Contents: Scientific Freedom; Contents; List of Posters; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Damocles Zone; Chapter 2 Scientific Freedom and Transformative Research; Chapter 3 Mismanagement by Objectives: The Need for Fresh Approaches; Chapter 4 Searching for Planck's Successors; Chapter 5 Universities for the Twenty-First Century: The Case for a Fifth Revolution; Chapter 6 Venture (or Transformative) Research: How It Works in Practice; Chapter 7 The Venture Research Harvest; Bibliography; Index
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-177) and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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    New York : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
    ISBN: 9781282064614 , 0203877284 , 9780203877289
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xi, 341 p) , 24 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Edition: Hoboken Taylor & Francis
    Parallel Title: Print version Television and Public Policy
    DDC: 302.23/45
    Keywords: Political planning ; Television and politics
    Abstract: Television and Public Policy analyzes the current state of television systems in a selected group of countries, exploring the political, economic, and technological factors that have shaped the sector over the past two decades. By positioning the television sector within issues of media policy and the regulatory framework, the book questions what these trends mean for television, and the historical, political, and cultural role in our societies
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; PART ONE Americas; CHAPTER ONE Television in Canada: Continuity or Change?; CHAPTER TWO Television in Brazil; CHAPTER THREE United States of America: Continuity and Change; PART TWO Asia and the Pacific Rim; CHAPTER FOUR Australia: Concentration, Competition and Revaluing the Public Interest; CHAPTER FIVE China's Television in Transition; CHAPTER SIX Television in India: Growth Amid a Regulatory Vacuum; CHAPTER SEVEN The Dilemmas of Reforming Japan's Broadcasting System: Ambivalent Implications of Its Liberalization
    Description / Table of Contents: CHAPTER EIGHT Broadcasting and Public Policy: Television in New ZealandPART THREE Europe; CHAPTER NINE Ireland: From Cultural Nationalism to Neoliberalism; CHAPTER TEN Media Policy in Italy; CHAPTER ELEVEN Dutch Television: Between Community and Commodity; CHAPTER TWELVE Polish Television: All Encompassing Change; CHAPTER THIRTEEN Broadcasting Regulation in the United Kingdom: Shifting Public Policy Objectives; PART FOUR Southern Mediterranean/Middle East; CHAPTER FOURTEEN Egyptian TV in the Grip of Government: Politics Before Profit in a Fluid Pan-Arab Market
    Description / Table of Contents: CHAPTER FIFTEEN The Politics of Broadcasting in Iran: Continuity and Change, Expansion and ControlCHAPTER SIXTEEN Israel: From Monopoly to Open Sky; About the Contributors; Author Index; Subject Index
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    Malden, MA : Blackwell
    ISBN: 1282342134 , 9781282342132 , 0631235396 , 0631235388 , 9780631235392 , 9780631235385
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (ix, 175 p) , 22 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version Cultural globalization
    DDC: 303.48/2
    Keywords: Intercultural communication ; Acculturation ; Culture diffusion ; Culture and globalization ; Globalization Social aspects
    Abstract: "Cultural Globalization: A User's Guide is a personal and idiosyncratic journey through theories of culture and globalization. Drawing on diverse research literature from the fields of anthropology, cultural studies, cultural geography, and media studies, J. Macgregor Wise presents a new perspective through which to raise questions about globalization, a perspective framed by the concepts of territory, identity, and culture." "This book draws upon a myriad of examples from Asian, European, and North American youth culture and popular music. It is a vivid reminder that global processes are a part of who we are and what we do, and that these same processes carry with them the ethical questions of how to act in the world and how to care for others."--Jacket
    Description / Table of Contents: Culture at homeCulture and the global -- Global youth -- Global music -- Territories of cultural globalization.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-167) and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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    ISBN: 9780470114582
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xxv, 611 p) , ill
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    Parallel Title: Print version International handbook of stepfamilies
    DDC: 306.874/7
    Keywords: Stepfamilies Cross-cultural studies ; Stepfamilies ; Family ; Cross-Cultural Comparison
    Abstract: The International Handbook of Stepfamilies: Policy and Practice in Legal, Research, and Clinical Environments considers stepfamilies from an international context with information on contemporary research and its implications
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes , The demography of stepfamilies in the United States , Stereotypes of stepfamilies and stepfamily members , Stepfamilies in France since the 1990s , The social context of emerging stepfamilies in Japan , Stepfathers in cultural context : Mexican American families in the United States , Stepfathers in families , Resident mothers in stepfamilies , Sibling relationships in blended families , Resident parent-child relationships in stepfamilies , A longitudinal examination of marital processes leading to instability in remarriages and stepfamilies , Children's appraisals of relationships in stepfamilies and first families , The distribution of household tasks in first-marriage families and stepfamilies across Europe , Communication in stepfamilies , Kinship in stepfamilies , Children's relationships with nonresident parents , The diversity of stepmothers , Intergenerational relationships in stepfamilies , A clinician's view of "stepfamily architecture" , Research on interventions for stepfamily couples , The prevention and treatment of children's adjustment problems in stepfamilies , Legal structures and re-formed families , How relevant are U.S. family and probate laws to stepfamilies? , Where to from here? Stepfamilies and the future , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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    Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub
    ISBN: 1282341987 , 9780470695746 , 9781282341982 , 140517658X , 0470696486 , 1405176598 , 9781405176583 , 9780470696484 , 9781405176590
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xv, 252 p) , 23 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version Latinos in America
    DDC: 305.89/68073
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    Keywords: Hispanic Americans Ethnic identity ; Citizenship Philosophy ; Hispanic Americans Philosophy ; Ethnicity Philosophy ; Hispanic Americans Social conditions ; United States Ethnic relations ; Philosophy
    Abstract: A first-of-its-kind book that seriously and profoundly examines what it means philosophically to be Latino and where Latinos fit in American society. Offers a fresh perspective and clearer understanding of Latin American thought and culture, rejectinganswers based on stereotypes and fear Takes an interdisciplinary approach to the philosophical, social, and political elements of Hispanic/Latinoidentity, touching upon anthropology, history, cultural studies and sociology, as well as philosophy Written by Jorge J. E. Gracia, one of the most influential thinkers of Hispanic/Latino descent
    Description / Table of Contents: Latinos in America: Philosophy and Social Identity; Contents; Preface: The Latino Challenge; I Latino/a Identities; 1 Identities: General and Particular; 2 Individuation: Circularity and Demarcation; 3 Labels: Politics and Names; II Latinos/as in Society; 4 Marketplace: Survival and Flourishing; 5 Affirmative Action: Meaning and Justification; 6 Linguistic Rights: Language and Children; III Latino/a Philosophy; 7 Philosophy: Latino vs American; 8 Canon: Place and Future; 9 History: Role and Approach; Conclusion: Latinos in America; Bibliography; Index
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-238) and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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    New York : Columbia University Press
    ISBN: 0231143281 , 9780231143295 , 023151249X , 9780231143288 , 9780231512497
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xviii, 431 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Columbia international affairs online. Books
    Parallel Title: Print version Clash of Identities
    DDC: 305.80095694
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    Keywords: Group identity ; Palestinian Arabs Ethnic identity ; National security Social aspects ; Militarism Social aspects ; Israel Politics and government ; Psychological aspects
    Abstract: By revisiting the past hundred years of shared Palestinian and Jewish-Israeli history, Baruch Kimmerling reveals surprising relations of influence between a stateless indigenous society and the settler-immigrants who would later form the state of Israel. Shattering our assumptions about these two seemingly irreconcilable cultures, Kimmerling composes a sophisticated portrait of one side's behavior and characteristics and the way in which they irrevocably shaped those of the other.Kimmerling focuses on the clashes, tensions, and complementarities that link Jewish, Palestinian, and Israeli ident
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-414) and index , A model for analyzing reciprocal relations between the Jewish and Arab communities in mandatory PalestineCollective identity as agency and structuration of society : the Israeli example , The formation process of Palestinian collective identities : the Ottoman and colonial periods ; Between primordial and civil definitions of the collective identity : Eretz Israel or the state of Israel? ; State building, state autonomy, and the identity of society : the case of the Israeli state ; Patterns of militarism in Israel ; The social construction of Israel's national security ; Jurisdiction in an immigrant-settler society : the Jewish and democratic state ; Exchanging territories for peace : a macrosociological approach ; Nationalism, identity, and citizenship : an epilogue to the Yehoshua-Shammas controversy : a non-Platonic dialogue ; The power-oriented settlement : PLO-Israel : the road to the Oslo Agreement and back? ; Politicide : Ariel Sharon's legacy and the Palestinians. , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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    Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub
    ISBN: 1405154209 , 1405154217 , 0470694149 , 9781405154208 , 9781405154215 , 9780470694145
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xviii, 261 p) , ill., map, music , 26 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Blackwell studies in discourse and culture 2
    Parallel Title: Print version We Share Walls : Language, Land, and Gender in Berber Morocco
    DDC: 305.89/33064
    Keywords: Berbers Social conditions ; Acculturation ; Berbers Social life and customs ; Women ; Morocco Ethnic relations
    Abstract: We Share Walls: Language, Land, and Gender in Berber Morocco explores how political economic shifts over the last century have reshaped the language practices and ideologies of women (and men) in the plains and mountains of rural Morocco.Offers a unique and richly textured ethnography of language maintenance and shift as well as language and place-making among an overlooked Muslim groupExamines how Moroccan Berbers use language to integrate into the Arab-speaking world and retain their own distinct identityIlluminates the intriguing semiotic and gender issues embedded in the culturePart of the
    Description / Table of Contents: We Share Walls; Contents; List of Figures,Tables and Transcripts; Series Preface; Copyright Acknowledgments; Note on Transcription and Transliteration; Part I Prelude; 1 Introduction:Staying Put; 2 On Fieldwork Methods and Movements:"Song Is Good Speech "; Part II Dissonance:Gender; 3 The Gender of Authenticity; Part III Consonance:Homeland; 4 Building the Homeland:Labor,Roads,Emigration; 5 Voicing the Homeland:Objecti . cation,Order,Displacement; Part IV Antiphony:Periphery; 6 Transformation in the Sous Valley; 7 Ishelhin into Arabs?Ethnolinguistic Differentiating Practices in the Periphery
    Description / Table of Contents: Part V Resonance8 Mediating the Countryside:Purists and Pundits on Tashelhit Radio; 9 Conclusion; Notes; References; Index
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-256) and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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    ISBN: 9780521866606 , 9780521685580 , 052186660X , 0521685583
    Language: English
    Pages: X, 310 S. , graph. Darst.
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2009 Online-Ressource ebrary online Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Edition: [S.l.] Ebrary
    Series Statement: Structural analysis in the social sciences 30
    Series Statement: Structural analysis in the social sciences
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Kilduff, Martin, 1949 - Interpersonal networks in organizations
    DDC: 302.35
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    Keywords: Self-perception ; Social perception ; Social networks ; Organizational behavior Social aspects ; Power (Social sciences) ; Organizational behavior Social aspects ; Social networks ; Self-perception ; Social perception ; Power (Social sciences) ; Organisationsphsychologie ; Soziales Netzwerk ; Organisationskultur ; Organisationspsychologie ; Soziales Netzwerk ; Organisationsverhalten ; Soziale Wahrnehmung ; Soziales Netzwerk
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    ISBN: 9789264030770
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (128 p.) , ill.
    Series Statement: Energy Policies of IEA Countries
    Keywords: Energy ; Austria
    Abstract: This review thoroughly analyses Austrian energy policy and identifies the key challenges that need to be addressed. With recommendations for improvements, it is an important guide for Austrian policy makers toward a safer and cleaner energy future.
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    ISBN: 9789264030749
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (200 p.) , ill.
    Series Statement: Energy Policies of IEA Countries
    Keywords: Energy ; United States
    Abstract: The United States is the largest economy and energy user in the world. Significant developments have taken place in its energy policy since the last IEA review in 2002. Most important is the Energy Policy Act 2005 – a comprehensive energy legislation which has set new directions, including opening the way for a nuclear renaissance. Two closely connected challenges shape all debates on the nation’s energy policy path: how to increase security by reducing the dependence on imported supplies; and how to address growing emissions of greenhouse gases. This review takes an in-depth look at these issues and provides recommendations on how the United States can do more to answer the challenges of both improving its security of energy supply and lowering its emissions intensity, demonstrating the significant improvements that can already be realised through existing technologies.
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    ISBN: 9789264042155
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (324 p.) , ill.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Promoting energy efficiency investments
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    Keywords: Energieeinsparung ; Energiesparendes Bauen ; Welt ; Energiepolitik ; Gebäude ; Effektivität ; Förderung ; Unterstützung ; Energy ; Erde ; OECD ; Wohnungsbauförderung ; Energieeinsparung
    Abstract: Existing buildings are responsible for over 40% of the world’s total primary energy consumption. An impressive amount of energy could be saved simply by applying energy-efficient technologies. Yet, various market barriers inhibit energy efficiency improvements in existing buildings and result in energy savings that are significantly lower than potentials. This publication provides illustrations of policies and measures implemented in five IEA member countries and the European Union. Each case includes relevant background and contextual information, as well as a detailed evaluation of each policy according to five pre-defined criteria: relevance, effectiveness, flexibility, clarity and sustainability.
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    ISBN: 9264042148 , 9264042156
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. u.d.T. Promoting energy efficiency investments
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    Keywords: Energieeinsparung ; Energiesparendes Bauen ; Welt ; Energiepolitik ; Gebäude ; Effektivität ; Förderung ; Unterstützung ; Erde ; OECD ; Wohnungsbauförderung ; Energieeinsparung
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    ISBN: 9789264042193
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (416 p.) , ill.
    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Energy in the Western Balkans
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    Keywords: Energiepolitik ; Südosteuropa ; Albanien ; Bosnien-Herzegowina ; Kroatien ; Nordmazedonien ; Montenegro ; Serbien ; Kosovo ; Economic development Albania ; Economic development Former Yugoslav republics ; Energy policy Balkan Peninsula ; Power resources Balkan Peninsula ; Power resources Balkan Peninsula ; Statistics ; Energy ; Balkan Peninsula Economic conditions ; Südosteuropa ; Energiewirtschaft ; Energiebilanz ; Energiepolitik
    Abstract: The Western Balkans – composed of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo – is a complex region facing significant energy challenges. This is the first comprehensive review of energy policies and strategies in the Western Balkan region, and also covers important cross-cutting topics such as co-operation and energy trade, oil and gas transportation, and the links between energy and poverty. It identifies and assesses the reforms that are still needed to deliver efficient, modernised energy systems that can assist economic development, address energy poverty and reduce the environmental impacts of energy use.
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    ISBN: 9789264043343
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (148 p.) , ill.
    Series Statement: Energy Policies of IEA Countries
    Keywords: Energy ; Sweden
    Abstract: Sweden is one of the leading IEA countries in the use of renewable energy. As Sweden plans to further increase the use of renewable energy, it is crucial that these supplies are produced and used in the most sustainable manner for the environment and the economy as a whole. With regard to CO2 emissions, more can be done in all sectors, but as transport is the largest polluter and its emissions are increasing, it is the logical focus for Sweden’s efforts to reduce emissions further. This is a significant challenge. Nuclear provides almost half of the electricity in Sweden, at a low cost and without CO2 emissions. But the future of nuclear power in the national power mix is still uncertain, and Sweden will need to resolve the ambiguity about the future of nuclear power in the country. This review analyses the energy challenges facing Sweden and provides critiques and recommendations for further policy improvements. It is intended to provide input to Swedish energy policy makers to help them identify a path towards a more sustainable energy future.
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    ISBN: 9789264030725
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (144 p.) , ill.
    Series Statement: Energy Policies of IEA Countries
    Keywords: Energy ; Finland
    Abstract: This book takes an in-depth look at Finland’s energy policy today and, through comparisons with good examples in other IEA countries, provides critiques and recommendations for improvements to guide the country towards a sustainable energy future. While the review provides comprehensive coverage of all topics, this thematic report highlights energy efficiency and energy R&D.
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    ISBN: 9789264043381
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (224 p.) , ill.
    Series Statement: Energy Policies of IEA Countries
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. IEA energy policies review. The European Union ; 2008
    Keywords: Energy ; European Union ; Europäische Union ; Energiepolitik ; Geschichte 2008
    Abstract: For the first time, the IEA has reviewed the energy policies of the European Union which shape the energy use of almost 500 million citizens in 27 EU member countries. A unique entity governed under complex and almost constantly evolving structures, the EU constitutes a challenge for energy policy makers. Its energy policy has a global impact, not only because of its 16% share of world energy demand, but also because of the EU leadership in addressing climate change. Strong policy drives are underway in the EU to achieve the completion of the internal energy market, increase renewable energy supply, reduce CO2 emissions and make the EU more energy-efficient. Concerns about security of supply have also led to a greater focus on improved energy relations with supplier countries, and new institutional structures are being put in place. How much progress has been made in the field of security, internal market and external energy policies? And in which of these areas has the EU already implemented a fully integrated policy? IEA Energy Policies Review: The European Union - 2008 addresses these questions and also analyses the impact of the most recent major EU policy measures, in particular the Energy & Climate Package of January 2008 and the 3rd Liberalisation Package of September 2007. This book finds that both of these proposals are highly ambitious. But implementing them and reviewing both volume and allocation of energy R&D will be necessary to achieve a sustainable energy future in a fully competitive integrated EU energy market.
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    ISBN: 9789264043367
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (224 p.) , ill.
    Series Statement: Energy Policies of IEA Countries
    Keywords: Energy ; Japan
    Abstract: This review takes an in-depth look at the energy challenges facing Japan today and provides critiques and recommendations for policy improvements to help guide the country towards a more sustainable energy future. Declaring climate change and environment as a top priority of the 2008 G8 Summit in Hokkaido, host country Japan has demonstrated its commitment to pressing ahead in these domains. Already a world leader in advancing energy technology transfer and environmental policy, the country is determined to further improve its domestic policies, moving it towards a more sustainable and secure energy pathway for the long term. Along with other accomplishments, government support for energy R&D is very strong and policies to enhance the efficiency of appliances – both for domestic consumption and export – are models for other countries. Yet there is still room for progress. Most importantly, a greater reliance on market forces throughout the system could lead customers to choices that enhance security, raise economic efficiency and promote environmental protection. Particularly with respect to climate change goals – Japan is the world’s fifth-largest greenhouse gas emitter – strengthening the value on greenhouse gas emissions would help give consumers the appropriate signals they need to make the right choices. Enhancing energy savings through efforts aimed at particular sectors (sectoral approaches) could be a part of the overall policy mix, along with ongoing leadership in promoting energy efficiency. The government should continue to work to complement existing voluntary instruments with stronger ones, including ones that rely more on market incentives, and standards and requirements.
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    ISBN: 9789047428237
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xxi, 456 p) , ill., map
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Brill's Tibetan studies library vol. 10,11
    Series Statement: Brill eBook titles 2008
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Tibetan modernities
    DDC: 306.0951/509045
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    Keywords: Social change ; Social change ; Tibet Autonomous Region (China) Social conditions 20th century ; Tibet (China) Social conditions 20th century ; Konferenzschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Tibet ; Politischer Wandel ; Soziale Situation ; Soziokultureller Wandel
    Abstract: Preliminary Materials /R. Barnett and R.D. Schwartz -- Introduction: Tibet And Modernity /Ronald Schwartz -- Modernity, Memory And Agricultural Modernisation In Central Tibet, 1950–1980 /Emily T. Yeh -- The Flow Of Wealth In Golok Pastoralist Society: Towards An Assessment Of Local Financial Resources For Economic Development /Susan Costello -- Pollution And Social Networks In Contemporary Rural Tibet /Heidi Fjeld -- Embodying The Nation: Childbirth In Contemporary Tibet /Jennifer Marie Chertow -- Imaginaries Of Ladakhi Modernity /Martijn Van Beek -- Schooling And ‘Quality Education’ In The Tibetan Diaspora And Tibet /Ellen Bangsbo -- A Preliminary Note On Chinese Codeswitching In Modern Lhasa Tibetan /Kalsang Yeshe -- Twentieth Century Tibetan Painting /Tsewang Tashi -- Reflections On Tibetan Film /Chenaktshang Dorje Tsering -- Dancing To The Beat Of Modernity: The Rise And Development Of Tibetan Pop Music /Yangdon Dhondup -- Blue Lake: Tibetan Popular Music, Place And Fantasies Of The Nation /Anna Stirr -- Citizenship As Agency In A Virtual Tibetan Public /Tashi Rabgey -- Authenticity, Secrecy And Public Space: Chen Kuiyuan And Representations Of The Panchen Lama Reincarnation Dispute Of 1995 /Robert Barnett -- Appendix Books and Dissertations On 20th Century Tibet /R. Barnett and R.D. Schwartz -- Contributors /R. Barnett and R.D. Schwartz -- Index /R. Barnett and R.D. Schwartz.
    Abstract: This is the first major publication in the West to study modernity and its impact on contemporary Tibet. Based on field work by researchers from the fields of anthropology, sociology, environmental science, literature, art and linguistics, it presents essays on education, economics, childbirth, environment, caste, pop music, media and painting in Tibetan communities today. The findings emerge from studies carried out in Ladakh, Golok, Lhasa, Xining, Shigatse and other areas of the Tibetan world. It will provide important and sometimes surprising results for students of Tibet, China, Himalayan studies, as well as an important contribution to our understandings of modernity and development in the modern world
    Note: "PIATS 2003, Tibetan studies: Proceedings of the tenth seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Oxford, 2003 ; managing editor, Charles Ramble , Includes bibliographical references and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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    ISBN: 9780262083645
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource 1080 Seiten
    Edition: 3rd edition
    Edition: Online-Ausgabe Palo Alto, Calif ebrary Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    DDC: 303.48/3
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    Keywords: Technology ; Science ; Wissenschaft ; Technologie ; Gesellschaft
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    Paris : OECD Publishing and International Energy Agency
    ISBN: 9789264042216
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (200 p.) , ill.
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Deploying renewables
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    Keywords: Erneuerbare Energie ; OECD-Staaten ; G7-Staaten ; Energy ; Erneuerbare Energien ; Energiepolitik ; Effizienz
    Abstract: Deploying Renewables: Principles for Effective Policies examines the key factors that will determine the success of renewable energy policies and how current policies can be improved to encourage greater deployment of renewables. Responding to the Gleneagles G8 call for a clean and secure energy future, it highlights key policy tools to fast-track renewables into the mainstream. This analysis illustrates good practices by applying the combined metrics of effectiveness and efficiency to renewable energy policies in the electricity, heating and transport sectors. It highlights significant barriers to accelerating renewables penetration, and argues that the great potential of renewables can be exploited much more rapidly and to a much larger extent if good practices are adopted.
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    ISBN: 9780231128223 , 9780231128230
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (viii, 318 p) , ill
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version Globalizing the Streets : Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Youth, Social Control, and Empowerment
    DDC: 305.235086/923091732
    Keywords: Gangs Congresses ; Subculture Congresses ; Street youth Congresses ; Subculture - Congresses
    Abstract: Not since the 1960s have the activities of resistance among lower- and working-class youth caused such anxiety in the international community. Yet today the dispossessed are responding to the challenges of globalization and its methods of social control. The contributors to this volume examine the struggle for identity and interdependence of these youth, their clashes with law enforcement and criminal codes, their fight for social, political, and cultural capital, and their efforts to achieve recognition and empowerment. Essays adopt the vantage point of those whose struggle for social
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART 1. Youth, Social Control, and Surveillance; 1. Youth Experiences of Surveillance: A Cross-National Analysis; 2. From the Outside Looking In: Young People's Perceptions of Risk and Danger in an East London Borough; PART 2. Street Youth, Homelessness, and Displacement; 3. Living Free: Nomadic Traveling Among Homeless Street Youth; 4. Street Youth in New York City and Sao Paulo: Deconstructing the Striking Differences, Global Similarities, and Local Specifities; 5. Searching for Home: Russian Street Youth and the Criminal Community
    Description / Table of Contents: PART 3. Gangs and Street Cultures in the Globalized City6. Social Control and Street Gangs in Los Angeles; 7. Youth Subcultures, Resistance, and teh Street Organization in Late Modern New York; 8. Children of the Land, Fruit of the Ghetto; 9. Victimization, Resistance, and Violence: Exploring the Links Between Girls in Gangs; PART 4. Youth, Violence, and Subcultures of Whiteness; 10. Ethnic Envy: How Teens Construct Whiteness in Globalized America; 11. An Extreme Response to Globalization: The Case of Racist Skinhead Youth; 12. Columbine: The School Shooting as a Postmodern Phenomenon
    Description / Table of Contents: 13. 'Cause Fightin' Is Just Fightin': Caucasian Youth, Violence, and Social Exclusion in a Globalized AgePART 5. Innovative Interventions and Youth in Crises; 14. Integrating Interventions: Outreach and Research Among Street Youth in the Rockies; 15. Youth Force in the South Bronx; 16. Motivating and Supporting Activist Youth: A View from Nonformal Settings; Appendix: Agents of Change Responding to Violence and Exclusion; Contributors; Index
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    ISBN: 9781405157056 , 9781405157063 , 0470712953 , 9780470712955
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiii, 312 p) , ill., maps , 24 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Antipode book series
    Parallel Title: Print version Decolonizing Development : Colonial Power and the Maya
    DDC: 305.897/427072824
    Keywords: Mayas Agriculture ; Mayas Economic conditions ; Mayas Social conditions ; Toledo District (Belize) Economic conditions ; Toledo District (Belize) Social conditions ; Toledo District (Belize) Colonial influence
    Abstract: Winner of the 2010 James M. Blaut Award in recognition of innovative scholarship in cultural and political ecology (Honors of the CAPE specialty group (Cultural and Political Ecology)) Decolonizing Development investigates the ways colonialism shaped the modern world by analyzing the relationship between colonialism and development as forms of power.Based on novel interpretations of postcolonial and Marxist theory and applied to original research dataAmply supplemented with maps and illustrationsAn intriguing and invaluable resource for scholars of postcolonialism, development, geography, and
    Description / Table of Contents: Decolonizing Development: Colonial Power and the Maya; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Capitalism qua Development; Part I Colonizing the Maya; 1 Unsettling the Colonial Geographies of Southern Belize; 2 The Matter of the Maya Farm System; 3 An Archaeology of Mayanism; Part II Aporias of Development; 4 From Colonial to Development Knowledge: Charles Wright and the Battles over the Columbia River Forest; 5 Settling: Fieldwork in the Ruins of Development; 6 Finishing the Critique of Cultural Ecology: Reading the Maya Atlas; Conclusion
    Description / Table of Contents: BibliographyIndex
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    Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub
    ISBN: 9781405179010 , 144430271X , 9781444302714
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xix, 316 p) , ill., maps , 26 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version Early human kinship
    DDC: 306.83
    Keywords: Human evolution ; Kinship ; Prehistoric peoples ; Konferenzschrift 2005
    Abstract: Why "kinship"? : new questions on an old topic / Wendy James -- A brief overview of human evolution / John A.J. Gowlett and Robin Dunbar -- Kinship and material culture / archaeological implications of the human global diaspora / Clive Gamble -- Deep roots of kin : developing the evolutionary perspective from prehistory / John A.J. Gowlett -- Early human kinship was matrilineal / Chris Knight -- Alternating birth classes : a note from eastern Africa / Wendy James -- Tetradic theory and the origin of human kinship systems / Nicholas J. Allen -- What can ethnography tell us about human social evolution / Bob Layton -- Kinship in biological perspective / Robin Dunbar -- The importance of kinship in monkey society / Mandy Korstjens -- The meaning and relevance of kinship in great apes / Julia Lehmann -- Grandmothering and female coalitions : a basis for matrilineal priority? / Kit Opie and Camilla Power -- A phylogenetic approach to the history of cultural practices / Laura Fortunato -- Reconstructing ancient kinship in Africa / Christ Ehret -- The co-evolution of language and kinship / Alan Barnard -- Epilogue : reaching across the gaps / Hilary Callan
    Description / Table of Contents: Why "kinship"? : new questions on an old topic / Wendy JamesA brief overview of human evolution / John A.J. Gowlett and Robin Dunbar -- Kinship and material culture / archaeological implications of the human global diaspora / Clive Gamble -- Deep roots of kin : developing the evolutionary perspective from prehistory / John A.J. Gowlett -- Early human kinship was matrilineal / Chris Knight -- Alternating birth classes : a note from eastern Africa / Wendy James -- Tetradic theory and the origin of human kinship systems / Nicholas J. Allen -- What can ethnography tell us about human social evolution / Bob Layton -- Kinship in biological perspective / Robin Dunbar -- The importance of kinship in monkey society / Mandy Korstjens -- The meaning and relevance of kinship in great apes / Julia Lehmann -- Grandmothering and female coalitions : a basis for matrilineal priority? / Kit Opie and Camilla Power -- A phylogenetic approach to the history of cultural practices / Laura Fortunato -- Reconstructing ancient kinship in Africa / Christ Ehret -- The co-evolution of language and kinship / Alan Barnard -- Epilogue : reaching across the gaps / Hilary Callan.
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    Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub
    ISBN: 9780470712580 , 9781281840646 , 1405134054 , 1405134046 , 0470712813 , 9781405134057 , 9781405134040 , 9780470712818
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xvi, 279 p) , 23 cm
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    Series Statement: Studies in urban and social change
    Parallel Title: Print version Eurostars and Eurocities
    DDC: 304.8/4
    Keywords: Emigration and immigration Case studies Research ; Nationalism ; Transnationalism ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Fallstudiensammlung
    Abstract: Eurostars and Eurocities: Free Movement and Mobility in an Integrating Europe examines intra-European Union migration in the cities of Amsterdam, London and Brussels.Based on sixty in-depth interviews of free moving European citizens, and more than five years of ethnographic and documentary research, it uncovers the rarely studied human dimension of European integrationExamines the mobility, lifestyle and career opportunities created by the borderless society of the European Union, as well as the barriers that still persistAnalyses the new migration trends, challenges to the welfare state, and
    Description / Table of Contents: EUROSTARS AND EUROCITIES: FREE MOVEMENT AND MOBILITY IN AN INTEGRATING EUROPE; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Preface; 1 Freedom-Vrijheid-Liberté; 2 New Amsterdam; 3 London Calls; 4 Brussels-Brussel-Bruxelles; 5 Migration; 6 Mobility (1); 7 Mobility (2); 8 Settlement; 9 Integration (1); 10 Integration (2); 11 London Loves; 12 Old Amsterdam; 13 Anomie; 14 Europa; Postface; Appendix 1: Summary of Interviews; Appendix 2: A Note on Methodology; Notes; Bibliographical Essay; Index of Interviewees; Index
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    ISBN: 1405190418 , 1444307193 , 9781405190411 , 9781444307191
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xii, 362 p)
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    Parallel Title: Print version Transnational Agrarian Movements Confronting Globalization
    DDC: 305.5/633
    Keywords: Plant biotechnology Political aspects ; Transnationalism ; Culture and globalization ; Peasants ; Land reform ; Solidarity ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Readers of this book will encounter peasants and farmers who struggle at home and traverse national borders to challenge the World Trade Organization and other powerful global institutions.Studies the activists in Brazil who uproot plots of genetically modified soybeans, forest dwellers in Indonesia who chop down rubber plantations to cultivate rice to feed their families, 'runaway villages' in China that take up arms to resist corrupt officials, and Mexican migrants who, having exited in desperation, return from abroad to transform their communitiesLittle-known transnational agrarian movement
    Description / Table of Contents: Notes on Contributors; Foreword; 1 Transnational Agrarian Movements: Origins and Politics,Campaigns and Impact; 2 Peasants Make Their Own History,But Not Just as They Please ...; 3 Transnational Organizing in Agrarian Central America: Histories,Challenges,Prospects; 4 La Vía Campesina and its Global Campaign for Agrarian Reform; 5 'Late Mobilization ':Transnational Peasant Networks and Grassroots Organizing in Brazil and South Africa; 6 Mobilizing Against GM Crops in India,South Africa and Brazil
    Description / Table of Contents: 7 Trade and Biotechnology in Latin America:Democratization,Contestation and the Politics of Mobilization8 Claiming the Grounds for Reform: Agrarian and Environmental Movements in Indonesia; 9 Whose Rules Rule?Contested Projects to Certify 'Local Production for Distant Consumers '; 10 Migrant Organization and Hometown Impacts in Rural Mexico; 11 From Covert to Overt:Everyday Peasant Politics in China and the Implications for Transnational Agrarian Movements; 12 Where There Is No Movement: Local Resistance and the Potential for Solidarity; Index
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    Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub
    ISBN: 140514582X , 1405145838 , 0470712791 , 9781405145824 , 9781405145831 , 9780470712795
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (ix, 235 p) , ill., maps , 23 cm
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    Series Statement: RGS-IBG book series
    Parallel Title: Print version Climate and Society in Colonial Mexico : A Study in Vulnerability
    DDC: 304.2/50972
    Keywords: Water-supply History ; Human ecology History ; Subsistence economy History ; Mexico History Spanish colony, 1540-1810 ; Mexico Environmental conditions
    Abstract: By considering three case study regions in Mexico during the Colonial era, Climate and Society in Colonial Mexico: A Study in Vulnerability examines the complex interrelationship between climate and society and its contemporary implications.Provides unique insights on climate and society by capitalizing on Mexico's rich colonial archivesOffers a unique approach by combining geographical and historic perspectives in order to comprehend contemporary concerns over climate changeConsiders three case study regions in Mexico with very different cultural, economic, and environmental characteristics
    Description / Table of Contents: Climate and Society in Colonial Mexico: A Study in Vulnerability; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 A Vulnerable Society; 2 Climate, Culture and Conquest: North, South and Central Mexico in the Pre-European and Contact Period; 3 Exploring the Anatomy of Vulnerability in Colonial Mexico; 4 Responding to Crisis: Vulnerability and Adaptive Capacity in Colonial Mexico; 5 Dearth, Deluge and Disputes: Negotiating and Litigating Water and Climate in Colonial Mexico
    Description / Table of Contents: 6 Illusory Prosperity: Economic Growth and Subsistence Crisis in the Disastrous Eighteenth Century7 Regional, National and Global Dimensions of Vulnerability and Crisis in Colonial Mexico; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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    Chichester, England : Wiley
    ISBN: 0470032332 , 0470985550 , 9780470032336 , 9780470985557
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xviii, 385 p) , ill
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version International Migration in Europe : Data, Models and Estimates
    DDC: 304.8094
    Keywords: Bayesian statistical decision theory ; European Union countries Emigration and immigration ; European Union countries Emigration and immigration ; Forecasting ; Statistical methods ; European Union countries Emigration and immigration ; Mathematical models ; European Union countries Emigration and immigration ; Statistical methods
    Abstract: At present there is no unified treatment, drawing together models to allow a consistent and reliable set of migration flows, across countries. This text seeks to do exactly that, potentially improving policies, planning and understanding about migration processes worldwide, via the presentation of migration estimation and modeling techniques. These modeling techniques are explored from both frequentist and Bayesian perspectives. The vital concepts such as missing data and collection methods (and their possible harmonization) are discussed in depth, and there are whole chapters dedicated to bot
    Abstract: At present there is no unified treatment, drawing together models to allow a consistent and reliable set of migration flows, across countries. This text seeks to do exactly that, potentially improving policies, planning and understanding about migration processes worldwide, via the presentation of migration estimation and modeling techniques. These modeling techniques are explored from both frequentist and Bayesian perspectives. The vital concepts such as missing data and collection methods (and their possible harmonization) are discussed in depth, and there are whole chapters dedicated to bot
    Description / Table of Contents: International Migration in Europe; Contents; Contributors; Preface; 1 Introduction and outline; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Outline; 1.2.1 Definitions; 1.2.2 Frequentist and Bayesian approaches; 1.2.3 Structure of the book; References; Part I Data Issues; 2 Counting foreign-born and expatriates in OECD countries: a new perspective; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 A new database on immigrant populations; 2.3 Immigrant populations in OECD countries; 2.3.1 The foreign and foreign-born populations; 2.3.2 The geographic origin of immigrants; 2.3.3 The educational attainment of immigrant populations
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.4 Expatriates of OECD member countries residing in other member countries2.4.1 The extent of expatriation in OECD countries; 2.4.2 The educational attainment of expatriates; 2.5 Highly skilled expatriates from non-member countries in OECD countries; 2.5.1 Introduction; 2.5.2 Results; 2.6 Summary and conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; 3 Comparability of statistics on international migration flows in the European Union; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Empirical observations; 3.2.1 Double entry matrices; 3.2.2 Evolution of migration flows over time; 3.3 Data sources and definitions
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.3.1 Primary data sources3.3.2 Definitions; 3.4 Secondary data sources and data availability; 3.5 Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; 4 Evolution of international migration statistics in selected Central European countries; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Data sources and availability of statistics on international migration flows; 4.3 Definition of international migration in official flow statistics; 4.4 Trends in international migration flows; 4.5 Impact of migration definition on recorded volume of international migration flows; 4.6 Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References
    Description / Table of Contents: 5 Foreign migrants in Southern European countries: evaluation of recent data5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Overview of statistical sources; 5.2.1 Italy; 5.2.2 Spain; 5.2.3 Portugal; 5.2.4 Greece; 5.3 The evolution of foreign populations; 5.3.1 Italy; 5.3.2 Spain; 5.3.3 Portugal; 5.3.4 Greece; 5.4 Regularisation programmes; 5.5 Estimates of irregular migrants in Italy, Spain and Greece; 5.5.1 Italy; 5.5.2 Spain; 5.5.3 Greece; 5.6 Final remarks; References; Part II Models; 6 Models of migration: observations and judgements; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Data types and data structure
    Description / Table of Contents: 6.3 Probability models: generalities6.4 Probability models of migration; 6.4.1 State probabilities; 6.4.2 Transition probabilities; 6.4.3 Transition rates; 6.4.4 From transition probabilities to transition rates; 6.5 Incomplete data; 6.5.1 Adding statistical data; 6.5.2 Adding judgemental data; 6.6 Conclusion; References; 7 Bayesian estimation of migration flows; 7.1 Introduction; 7.1.1 Using log-linear models to explain migration flows; 7.1.2 Quasi-independence; 7.1.3 A brief overview of Raymer's approach; 7.2 A modelling framework; 7.2.1 The initial model; 7.2.2 The model
    Description / Table of Contents: 7.2.3 Markov chain Monte Carlo techniques
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    ISBN: 9789264041417
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (264 p.) , ill.
    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Keywords: Energy ; Gasspeicherung ; Kohlendioxid ; Unterirdische Lagerung ; Speichergestein ; Kohlendioxid ; Abscheidung ; Speicher ; Endlagerung ; Methode
    Abstract: Oil, coal and natural gas will remain the world’s dominant sources of energy over the next decades, with resulting carbon dioxide emissions set to increase to unsustainable levels. However, technologies that help reduce CO2 emissions from fossil fuels can reverse this trend. CO2 capture and storage (CCS) is particularly promising. CCS takes CO2 from large stationary sources and stores it in deep geological layers to prevent its release into the atmosphere. Responding to a G8 Gleneagles request, this study documents progress toward the development of CCS, covering capture, transportation and storage technologies and their costs; storage capacity estimates, regional assessment of CCS potential; legal and regulatory frameworks; public awareness and outreach strategies; and financial mechanisms and international mechanisms. It also discusses the role of CCS in ambitious new energy scenarios that aim for substantial emissions reduction. This publication elaborates the potential of CCS in coal-fuelled electricity generation and estimates for capture in the industry and fuel transformation sectors. Finally, it assesses the infrastructure needed to process and transport large volumes of CO2.
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    ISBN: 9789264042186
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (412 S.)
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Energy in the Western Balkans
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Economic development ; Economic development ; Power resources Statistics ; Power resources ; Energy policy ; Balkan Peninsula Economic conditions ; Balkan Peninsula Economic policy
    Abstract: The Western Balkans - composed of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo - is a complex region facing significant energy challenges. This is the first comprehensive review of energy policies and strategies in the Western Balkan region, and also covers important cross-cutting topics such as co-operation and energy trade, oil and gas transportation, and the links between energy and poverty. It identifies and assesses the reforms that are still needed to deliver efficient, modernised energy systems that can assist economic development, address energy poverty and reduce the environmental impacts of energy use.
    Abstract: The Western Balkans - composed of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo - is a complex region facing significant energy challenges. This is the first comprehensive review of energy policies and strategies in the Western Balkan region, and also covers important cross-cutting topics such as co-operation and energy trade, oil and gas transportation, and the links between energy and poverty. It identifies and assesses the reforms that are still needed to deliver efficient, modernised energy systems that can assist economi
    Description / Table of Contents: INTRODUCTION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; TABLE OF CONTENTS -; KEY MESSAGES; OVERVIEW; PART I. REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES; I. Energy Co-operation and Trade; II. Oil and Gas Transportation in Southeast Europe; III. Energy and Poverty; PART II. ENERGY POLICY SURVEYS; IV. Albania; V. Bosnia and Herzegovina; VI. Croatia; VII. FYR Macedonia; VIII. Montenegro; IX. Serbia; X. Kosovo 296; ANNEXES; I. Energy Balances and Key Statistical Data; II. International Energy Agency ""Shared Goals""; III. List of Acronyms and Unit Abbreviations; IV. References
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    Westport, Conn : Praeger
    ISBN: 9780313348266
    Language: English
    Pages: XIV, 210 S. , Ill., graph. Darst.
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2009 Online-Ressource ebrary online Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Edition: [S.l.] Ebrary
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Lucas, Henry C. Inside the future
    DDC: 303.483
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    Keywords: Information technology Social aspects ; Technological innovations Social aspects ; Technology Social aspects ; Technological innovations Social aspects ; Information technology Social aspects ; Technology Social aspects ; Technische Innovation ; Soziologie ; Informationstechnik ; Sozialer Wandel
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    ISBN: 9789264048294
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (240 p.) , ill.
    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Energy policy review of Indonesia
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    Keywords: Energiepolitik ; Indonesien ; Energy ; Indonesia ; Indonesien ; Energiepolitik
    Abstract: This comprehensive review offers an analysis of Indonesia’s energy sector, with findings and recommendations that draw on experience in IEA member countries. Six areas are suggested for priority attention, including progressive reduction in fuel and electricity subsidies, better implementation of policy, improving clarity of the investment framework, helping the energy regulators do their job more effectively, and harnessing a sustainable development agenda particularly renewable energy and energy efficiency.
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    Durham, NC : Duke University Press
    ISBN: 9780822390398 , 0822390396
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 345 p , ill , 23 cm
    DDC: 932.0072
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    Keywords: Egyptology ; Nationalism / History / Egypt
    Abstract: Introduction: The Egyptian Sculpture Room -- The Artifaction of the Memnon Head -- Ozymandias -- Conflicted Antiquities: Islam's Pharaoh and Emergent Egyptology -- The Antiqakhana -- Pharaonic Selves -- Two Pharaohs -- The Discovery of Tutankhamen's Tomb: Archaeology, Politics, Literature -- Nahdat Misr -- Pharaonism after Pharaonism: Mahfouz and Qutb
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    ISBN: 9789047432821
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Resource (xxxi, 294 p.) , 25 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif. ebrary 2010 Electronic reproduction Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: TANAP monographs on the history of the Asian-European interaction v. 9
    Series Statement: Brill eBook titles 2008
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Dewasiri, Nirmal Ranjith, 1965 - The adaptable peasant
    Dissertation note: Zugl.: Leiden, Univ., Diss.
    DDC: 306.3/49095493
    Keywords: Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie History 18th century ; Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie History 18th century ; Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie History ; 18th century ; Land tenure History 18th century ; Land tenure History 18th century ; Land tenure Sri Lanka ; History ; 18th century ; Sri Lanka Rural conditions 18th century ; Sri Lanka Rural conditions 18th century ; Sri Lanka Rural conditions ; 18th century ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Sri Lanka ; Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie ; Landwirtschaft ; Geschichte 1740-1800
    Abstract: This study investigates the structural changes in western Sri Lanka's agrarian society under the administration of the Dutch United East India Company (VOC). In the areas where peasant agriculture was the predominant form of production, changes in the land tenure system paved the way for a modern system of private property relations. A new class differentiation emerged and the indigenous chiefs turned into powerful landowners. In addition to this, new light is shed on the dynamics of caste formation as a result of the early colonial encounter
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    ISBN: 0231154941 , 023115495X , 023151090X
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xvi, 245 p) , col. ill., col. maps , 26 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: A Columbia / SSRC book
    Parallel Title: Print version The Measure of America : American Human Development Report, 2008-2009
    DDC: 306.0973/090511
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    Keywords: Quality of life Statistics ; Social indicators Statistics ; Quality of life -- United States -- Statistics ; Social indicators -- United States -- Statistics ; United States -- Social conditions -- 1980- -- Statistics ; United States Statistics Social conditions 1980-
    Abstract: The Measure of America is the first-ever human development report for a wealthy, developed nation. It introduces the American Human Development Index, which provides a single measure of well-being for all Americans, disaggregated by state and congressional district, as well as by gender, race, and ethnicity. The Index rankings of the 50 states and 436 congressional districts reveal huge disparities in the health, education, and living standards of different groups. Clear, precise, objective, and authoritative, this report will become the basis for all serious discussions concerning the reali
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Boxes, Figures, Maps, and Tables; Foreword: Amartya Sen; Foreword: William H. Draper III; Acknowledgments; Executive Summary; Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5; References; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index to Indicators; Maps At-A-Glance
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    Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press
    ISBN: 0674030605 , 9780674030602 , 0674030613 , 9780674030619 , 9780674041585
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (x, 277 p) , 24 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Harvard contemporary China series 15
    Parallel Title: Print version Popular protest in China
    DDC: 303.48/40951
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    Keywords: Political participation ; Social movements ; Konferenzschrift 2006 ; Konferenzschrift 2006 ; Konferenzschrift 2006 ; Konferenzschrift 2006 ; China ; Soziale Bewegung ; Politische Beteiligung
    Description / Table of Contents: Prologue : the new contentious politics in China : poor and blank or rich and complex? / Sidney TarrowIntroduction : studying contention in contemporary China / Kevin J. O'Brien and Rachel E. Stern -- Student movements in China and Taiwan / Teresa Wright -- Collective petitioning and institutional conversion / Xi Chen -- Mass frames and worker protest / William Hurst -- Worker leaders and framing factory-based resistance / Feng Chen -- Recruitment to Protestant house churches / Carsten T. Vala and Kevin J. O'Brien -- Contention in cyberspace / Guobin Yang -- Environmental campaigns / Yanfei Sun and Dingxin Zhao -- Disruptive collective action in the reform era / Yongshun Cai -- Manufacturing dissent in transnational China / Patricia M. Thornton -- Permanent rebellion? continuities and discontinuities in Chinese protest / Elizabeth J. Perry.
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    Chichester, UK : Wiley-Blackwell
    ISBN: 1405171057 , 1444305212 , 9781444305210
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiii, 292 p) , ill
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version Women at the Top
    DDC: 306.3/6
    Keywords: Work and family ; Women executives Family relationships
    Abstract: Using case studies of top-level women and research in the field, Women at the Top breaks new ground and offers new insight into how women can create dually-successful lives.explores the work histories, motivation, leadership styles, mentors, and family backgrounds of a diverse assortment of top-level womenincludes the case studies of the President of Old Navy/Gap, the Chairman of Deloitte and Touche, the VP of IBM operations, a Supreme Court Judge in China, President of Legislative Council in Hong Kong, several university presidents, and moreweighs the positive effects of multiple roles and po
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: For Women at the Top: How's the Weather up There?; Chapter 2: Learning from Mothers, Mentors, and Others; Chapter 3: Saving and Spending Time; Chapter 4: Happy Homemaker, Happy Marriage: The Female Executive Edition; Chapter 5: Cherished Children: Tales of Guilt and Pride; Chapter 6: Work-Family Spillover: From Conflict to Harmony; Chapter 7: Culture Counts: Leading as the World Changes; Chapter 8: Leading as Women: Styles, Obstacles, and Perceptions; Chapter 9: How to Lead a Dually Successful Life; References; Appendix: Biography of the Women Leaders; Index
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-245) and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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    Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell Pub
    ISBN: 063117222X , 1444305093 , 9780631172222 , 9781444305098
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiii, 293 p) , ill., maps , 24 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: The peoples of South-East Asia and the Pacific
    Parallel Title: Print version Malays
    DDC: 305.89/928
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    Keywords: Malays (Asian people)
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-274) and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    URL: Volltext  (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
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    New York : Routledge
    ISBN: 0415960959 , 0203928695 , 9780415960953 , 9780203928691
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xii, 226 p) , ill
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Routledge studies in linguistics 9
    Parallel Title: Print version Lesbian Discourses
    DDC: 306.76/63091752109045
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    Keywords: Lesbianism ; Lesbian feminist theory ; Gay and lesbian studies
    Abstract: The study represents the first book-length treatment of lesbian text and discourse, focusing on the changing notions of lesbian community as expressed in non-fictional texts published in the UK and the US between 1970 and 2004
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgments; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Lesbian Discourses, Lesbian Texts; 2 Approaches to Researching Lesbian Discourses; 3 Creating a Community: The 1970s; 4 Challenging the Community: The 1980s; 5 Contradicting Voices within the Community: The 1990s; 6 Consuming the Community: The 2000s; 7 Conclusion: Changing Images, Changing Communities; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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  • 96
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    New York : Columbia University Press
    ISBN: 0231145004 , 0231519362
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xi, 352 p) , ill , 24 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version The Multivoiced Body : Society and Communication in the Age of Diversity
    DDC: 301
    Keywords: Mass media Social aspects ; Intercultural communication ; Multiculturalism ; Mass media - Social aspects
    Abstract: Ethnic cleansing and other methods of political and social exclusion continue to thrive in our globalized world, complicating the idea that unity and diversity can exist in the same society. When we emphasize unity, we sacrifice heterogeneity, yet when we stress diversity, we create a plurality of individuals connected only by tenuous circumstance. As long as we remain tethered to these binaries, as long as we are unable to imagine the sort of society we want in an age of diversity, we cannot achieve an enduring solution to conflicts that continue unabated despite our increasing proximity to o
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; PART I - The Dilemma of Diversity; 1 The Age of Diversity; 2 History of the Dilemma; 3 Society as a Multivoiced Body; PART II - The Primacy of Voices; 4 Modernism and Subjectivity; 5 Postmodernism and Language; 6 The Primacy of Voices; 7 Communication and an Ethics for the Age of Diversity; PART III - The Political Dimension of the Multivoiced Body; 8 The Social Unconscious; 9 Globalization, Resistance ,and the New Solidarity; 10 Democracy and Justice in the Multivoiced Body; Notes; Index
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-330) and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    URL: Cover
    URL: Cover
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  • 97
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    Chichester, West Sussex, England : Wiley
    ISBN: 0470012870 , 0470066423 , 0470713097 , 9780470012871 , 9780470066423 , 9780470713099
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xxi, 473 p) , ill
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version Out in Psychology : Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Queer Perspectives
    DDC: 155.3/4
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    Keywords: Gays Psychology ; Sexual minorities Mental health services ; Gays Mental health services ; Sexual minorities Psychology ; Transsexualism psychology ; Homosexuality psychology ; Bisexuality psychology ; Gender Identity ; Mental Health Services
    Abstract: There has been a recent explosion of interest in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans Perspective Psychology amongst students and academics, and this interest is predicted to continue to rise. Recent media debates on subjects such as same-sex marriage have fuelled interest in LGBTQ perspectives. This edited collection showcases the latest thinking in LGBTQ psychology. The book has 21 chapters covering subjects such as same sex parenting, outing, young LGBTQ people, sport, learning disabilities, lesbian and gay identities etc. The book has an international focus, with contributors from UK, US, Cana
    Description / Table of Contents: Out in Psychology; Contents; About the Editors; List of Contributors; Foreword; CHAPTER 1: Introducing Out in Psychology; CHAPTER 2: From Lesbian and Gay Psychology to LGBTQ Psychologies: A Journey into the Unknown (or Unknowable)?; PART I: Histories and Commentaries; Power, Invisibility and Heteronormativity: Invitations to Paradox; CHAPTER 3: What Comes After Discourse Analysis for LGBTQ Psychology?; CHAPTER 4: Recognizing Race in LGBTQ Psychology: Power, Privilege and Complicity; CHAPTER 5: Personality, Individual Differences and LGB Psychology
    Description / Table of Contents: CHAPTER 6: Heteronormativity and The Exclusion of Bisexuality in PsychologyPART II: Lives and Experiences; The Challenge of Understanding LGBTQ Lives and Experiences; CHAPTER 7: A Minority Within a Minority: Experiences of Gay Men with Intellectual Disabilities; CHAPTER 8: Closet Talk: The Contemporary Relevance of the Closet in Lesbian and Gay Interaction; CHAPTER 9: Romance, Rights, Recognition, Responsibilities and Radicalism: Same-Sex Couples' Views on Civil Partnership and Marriage; CHAPTER 10: The Experience of Social Power in the Lives of Trans People
    Description / Table of Contents: CHAPTER 11: 'What Do They Look Like and Are They among Us?': Bisexuality, (Dis)closure and (Un)viabilityPART III: Work and Leisure; LGBTQ Psychologies Go To Work; CHAPTER 12: Heterosexism at Work: Diversity Training, Discrimination Law and the Limits of Liberal Individualism; CHAPTER 13: Out On The Ball Fields: Lesbians In Sport; CHAPTER 14: Homophobia, Rights and Community: Contemporary Issues in the Lives of LGB People in the UK; CHAPTER 15: Striving for Holistic Success: How Lesbians Come Out on Top; PART IV: Health and Practice; Bringing LGBTQ Psychology into Mainstream Practice
    Description / Table of Contents: CHAPTER 16: On Passing: The Interactional Organization of Appearance Attributions in the Psychiatric Assessment of Transsexual Patients1CHAPTER 17: Alcohol and Gay Men: Consumption, Promotion and Policy Responses; CHAPTER 18: Towards a Clinical-Psychological Approach to Address the Heterosexual Concerns of Intersexed Women; CHAPTER 19: Educational Psychology Practice with LGB Youth in Schools: Individual and Institutional Interventions; CHAPTER 20: Que(e)rying the Meaning of Lesbian Health: Individual(izing) and Community Discourses
    Description / Table of Contents: CHAPTER 21: Transsexualism: Diagnostic Dilemmas, Transgender Politics and the Future of Transgender CareIndex
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  • 98
    ISBN: 9027238944 , 9789027238948 , 9789027292704
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIII, 170 S.) , Ill , 25 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Converging evidence in language and communication research v. 7
    DDC: 306.4/4
    Keywords: Language and culture Congresses ; Language and languages Congresses Study and teaching ; Intercultural communication Congresses
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Chiefly papers from a theme session of the 8th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference held July 20-25, 2003, at the University of Logroño in La Rioja, Spain , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    URL: Volltext  (lizenzpflichtig)
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    Amsterdam [u.a.] : Benjamins
    ISBN: 1282152432 , 9789027254108 , 9789027291776
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 239 S.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Pragmatics & beyond N.S., 166
    DDC: 302.2
    Keywords: High school students ; Intercultural communication ; Silence
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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  • 100
    ISBN: 9789264030404
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (324 p.) , ill.
    Series Statement: Energy indicators
    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Tracking industrial energy efficiency and CO 2 emissions
    DDC: 333.79/65
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    Keywords: Energieversorgung ; Energiemanagement ; Energiekonsum ; Energieökonomik ; Treibhausgas-Emissionen ; Umweltbelastung ; Welt ; Energy ; Industrie ; Energieeinsparung ; Kohlendioxidemission ; Reduktion ; Nachhaltigkeit
    Abstract: Tracking Industrial Energy Efficiency and CO2 Emissions responds to a G8 request. This major new analysis shows how industrial energy efficiency has improved dramatically over the last 25 years. Yet important opportunities for additional gains remain, which is evident when the efficiencies of different countries are compared. This analysis identifies the leaders and the laggards. It explains clearly a complex issue for non-experts. With new statistics, groundbreaking methodologies, thorough analysis and advice, and substantial industry consultation, this publication equips decision makers in the public and private sectors with the essential information that is needed to reshape energy use in manufacturing in a more sustainable manner.
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