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    Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781580467100
    Language: English , Portuguese , English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 429 pages)
    DDC: 305.896/081
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    Keywords: Afrikaner ; Ethnizität ; Brasilien
    Abstract: In this absorbing new study, Niyi Afolabi exposes the tensions between the official position on racial harmony and the reality of marginalization experienced by Afro-Brazilians by exploring Afro-Brazilian cultural production as a considered response to this exclusion. The author examines major contributions in music, history, literature, film, and popular culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to reveal how each performance by an Afro-Brazilian artist addresses issues of identity and racism through a variety of veils that entertain, ridicule, invoke, provoke, protest, and demand change at the same time. Raising cogent questions such as the vital role of Afro-Brazilians in the making of Brazilian national identity; the representation of Brazilian women as hapless, exploited, and abandoned; the erosion of the influence of black movements due to fragmentation and internal disharmony; and the portrayal of Afro-Brazilians on the national screen as domestics, Afolabi provides insightful, nuanced analyses that tease out the complexities of the dilemma in their appropriate historical, political, and social contexts. Niyi Afolabi teaches Luso-Brazilian, Yoruba, and African Diaspora studies in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese as well as the John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
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    Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781846157462
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xlii, 301 Seiten)
    DDC: 304.80963
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    Keywords: Binnenwanderung ; Migration, Internal ; Äthiopien ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Development worldwide has increasingly involved displacement. Ethiopia is no exception; population displacement resulting from development as well as conflict, drought and conservation has been on the increase since the 1960s. The recent history of conflict in the Horn of Africa has led to large-scale population movements of refugees, returnees, internally displaced groups and demobilized soldiers. The context of drought and food insecurity in the mid-1980s and again in the early 2000s added a further rationale and impetus for organizing state-led resettlement programmes. This book brings together for the first time studies of the different types of development, conflict and drought induced displacement in Ethiopia, and analyses the conceptual, methodological and experiential similarities, overlaps and differences between these various forms. ALULA PANKHURST is an independent researcher and a member of the Forum for Social Studies; FRANCOIS PIGUET is a lecturer on the masters course of Advanced Studies in Humanitarian Action at the Geneva University. Published in association with the Centre Francais des Etudes Ethiopiennes (CFEE).
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  • 3
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511706127
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 111, ciii pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge library collection. Linguistics
    DDC: 994.5/0049915
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    Abstract: James Dawson first published Australian Aborigines in 1881, after deciding that his careful description of the tribes, languages, customs, and characteristics of the indigenous peoples of the western district of Victoria was too bulky for its originally intended publication in a newspaper. Essentially a field-inspired anthropological account of the dwindling Aboriginal population, written before the emergence of anthropology as a formal discipline, Dawson's book draws on his daughter's ability to speak the local languages and attempts a balanced description of a culture he considered ill-used and under-appreciated by white settlers. Minute details about clothing, tools, settlement and beliefs combine to depict a complex society that possessed highly ritualised customs deserving of respect. Dawson also included an extensive vocabulary of words in three indigenous languages that he hoped would facilitate further cross-cultural understanding. His work provides valuable source material for modern researchers in anthropology and linguistics.
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    London : Anthem Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781843313236
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 351 pages)
    DDC: 615.8/8
    Abstract: Nationalizing the Body examines the different meanings of modern medicine that were employed in colonial South Asia, and explores the different discourses that were constructed around modernity.
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    Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781846157714
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 223 pages)
    DDC: 306.420946
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    Abstract: This study makes an original contribution to scholarship by tracking and evaluating the significance of the various individuals and (particularly) institutions responsible for the traffic of ideas both between Spain and the outside world, and also within Madrid and the interior. This has not been attempted before, and it is a necessary supplement to the usual focus on individual authors and texts, allowing us to appreciate the importance of setting the latter in the context of the circuits of knowledge functioning in Spain in their time. It looks in breadth and in detail at the nature of Spain's cultural and intellectual exchanges with Europe in the early decades of the twentieth century. Three features make it original in its approach. It focuses on a broad range of institutions, including publishing houses and journals, as 'centres of exchange', and looks at how they promoted and facilitated Spain's contact with Europe. The second feature is that it foregrounds the idea of 'cultural imaginaries' as the driving force behind Spain's exchanges with Europe. Thirdly, in terms of territory, it departs from a Franco/German-centred concept of Europe, paying particular attention to a Europe of the margins, in the form of England and Russia, as two countries that held particular attractions for the Spanish mind. While being centred on Madrid for its case-studies, it also pays specific attention to issues of internal dissemination. ALISON SINCLAIR is Professor of Spanish at the University of Cambridge.
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    Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9789812308399
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 291 pages)
    DDC: 306.6970959
    Keywords: Zheng, He ; Islam ; Südostasien
    Abstract: Tan Ta Sen has modestly suggested that, as a book to illustrate the peaceful impact of culture contact, he is concerned to show how such cultural influences not only led to transmissions, conversions and transferences involving Inner Asian Muslims from China and Yunnan Muslims, Chams, Javanese, Malays, Arabs and Indians, but also enabled many Chinese in the Malay world to retain their non-Muslim cultural traits. In placing Cheng Ho's voyages in this context, the author offers a fresh perspective on a momentous set of events in Chinese maritime history. Professor Wang Gungwu, National University of Singapore. Tan Ta Sen's book on Cheng Ho and Islam in Southeast Asia is not the first one on the subject, but it is the first book that puts Cheng Ho's voyages in the larger context of "culture contact" in China and beyond. He has garnered numerous sources, from published documents to architectural sites and buildings, to support his arguments. He has done much more than previous scholars writing on this subject. - Professor Leo Suryadinata, Chinese Heritage Centre (Singapore). This long-awaited book is welcomed by the academic community - Tan Ta Sen has used historical facts to strengthen the argument on the existence of the "Third Wave", i.e. "the Chinese Wave", in the spread of Islam in the Southeast Asian region. Until now, we only know two major waves, i.e. the India-Gujarat Wave and the Middle East Wave through the development of trade relations. - Professor A. Dahana, University of Indonesia (Jakarta).
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    Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9789812309563
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 115 pages)
    DDC: 305.40959
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    Abstract: As a region, Southeast Asia has undergone enormous economic and social changes in the last few decades. Women as a collective have seen their lives transformed as a result of rapid development and economic growth. In exploring the progress made by Southeast Asian men and women, this book seeks to answer the following questions: (a) In what areas have women been able to achieve parity with men? (b) In what areas do women encounter specific disadvantages based on their gender as compared with men? and (c) How have women's concerns and problems been addressed by the governments in this region with the aim of encouraging gender equality? As the title of this book suggests, the chapters provide an analysis of the broad trends - including changes and continuities - in the experiences, interests and concerns of Southeast Asian women. The chapters examine the trends related to women in the following arenas: the family, economic participation, politics, health, and religion. In some arenas, the trends reflect the disadvantages women face, which in turn have led to gender gaps; in other areas, women's progress has been found to eclipse that of the men, although this tends to be the exception.
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511652011 , 0511809840 , 9780511652011 , 9780511809842
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 314 pages)
    Series Statement: Key topics in sociolinguistics
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Edwards, John, 1947 December 12- Language and identity
    DDC: 306.44
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    Keywords: Sociolinguistics ; Group identity ; Language and languages Political aspects ; Identity politics ; Nationalism ; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES ; Linguistics ; Sociolinguistics ; Group identity ; Identity politics ; Language and languages ; Political aspects ; Nationalism ; Sociolinguistics ; Identität ; Sprache ; Språksociologi ; Gruppidentitet ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "The language we use forms an important part of our sense of who we are - of our identity. This book outlines the relationship between our identity as members of groups - ethnic, national, religious and gender and the language varieties important to each group. What is a language? What is a dialect? Are there such things as language 'rights'? Must every national group have its own unique language? How have languages, large and small, been used to spread religious ideas? Why have particular religious and linguistic 'markers' been so central, singly or in combination, to the ways in which we think about ourselves and others? Using a rich variety of examples, the book highlights the linkages among languages, dialects and identities, with special attention given to religious, ethnic and national allegiances."--Jacket
    Abstract: 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.
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0521519314 , 9780521519311
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xii, 217 p) , ill., maps
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version Speaking Like a State : Language and Nationalism in Pakistan
    DDC: 306.44095491
    Keywords: Nationalism ; Language and culture ; Language policy ; Pakistan Languages ; Political aspects ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Examines language and culture's importance to political legitimacy using the example of Pakistan, and comparison with India and Indonesia
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Tables; Acknowledgments; Note on transliteration; Introduction; 1 Articulating a new nation; 2 Urdu and the nation; 3 The nation and its margins; 4 The case of Punjab, part I: elite efforts; 5 The case of Punjab, part II: popular culture; 6 History and local absence; 7 Bringing back the local past; 8 Speaking like a state: language planning; 9 Religion, nation, language; 10 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0521875811 , 9780521875813
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xxx, 481 p) , ill , 24 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version From Hellenism to Islam : Cultural and Linguistic Change in the Roman Near East
    DDC: 939/.405
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    Keywords: Writing History ; Inscriptions ; Middle East Religion ; Middle East Languages ; Middle East Civilization To 622 ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift 29.06.2003-02.07.2003 ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift 29.06.2003-02.07.2003 ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift 29.06.2003-02.07.2003 ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Considers how languages, peoples and cultures in the Near East interacted over the millennium between Alexander and Muhammad
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction: documentary evidence, social realities and the history of language; I The language of power: Latin in the Roman Near East; II Social and legal institutions as reflected in the documentary evidence; III The epigraphic language of religion; IV Linguistic metamorphoses and continuity of cultures; V Greek into Arabic; Index
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 052176050X , 9780521760508
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiii, 242 p) , ill , 24 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version Adoption in the Roman World
    DDC: 306.874
    Keywords: Adoption (Roman law) ; Adoption History ; Families History ; Rome Politics and government ; Rome Social conditions
    Abstract: "Adoption in other cultures and other times provides a background to understanding the operation of adoption in the Roman worlds. This book considers the relationship of adoption to kinship structures in the Greek and Roman world. It considers the procedures for adoption followed by a separate analysis of testamentary cases, and the impact of adoption on nomenclature. The impact of adoption on inheritance arrangements is considered, including an account of how the families of freedmen were affected. Its use as a mode of succession at Rome is detailed, and this helps to understand the anxiety of childless Romans to procure a son through adoption, rather than simply to nominate heirs in their wills. The strategy also had political uses, and importantly it was used to rearrange natural succession in the imperial family. The book concludes with political adoptions, looking at the detailed case studies of Clodius and Octavian"--Provided by publisher
    Abstract: "This is a book about the social and political impact of adoption in the Roman world, with the main emphasis on the period from the Gracchi to Hadrian, and a primary interest in its operation in Rome and Italy. It has a different focus from the work of Olli Salomies (1992) which concerns itself with adoptive and polyonomous nomenclature, with a special focus on the imperial period. It has some common ground with Jane Gardner's works, especially Family and Familia in Roman Law and Life (1998), although it is on the whole less legal, and more concerned with the practical operation of adoption in different situations"--Provided by publisher
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1 Adoption, kinship and the family: cross-cultural perspectives; Chapter 2 Kinship in Greece and Rome; Chapter 3 Greek adoptions: comparisons and possible influences on the Roman world; Chapter 4 Procedural aspects of Roman adoption; Chapter 5 The testamentary adoption; Chapter 6 Roman nomenclature after adoption; Chapter 7 Adoption and inheritance; Chapter 8 Roman freedmen and their families: the use of adoption; Chapter 9 Adoption in Plautus and Terence
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 10 Sallust and the adoption of JugurthaChapter 11 Adrogatio and adoptio from Republic to Empire; Chapter 12 Testamentary adoptions.- a review of some known cases; Chapter 13 Political adoptions in the Republic; Chapter 14 Clodius and his adoption; Chapter 15 The adoption of Octavian; Chapter 16 Political adoption in the early Empire at Rome, Pompeii and Ostia; the imperial family; Conclusion; Glossary; References; Index
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    Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781580467285
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 318 pages)
    DDC: 304.8096
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    Keywords: Ethnizität ; Migration ; Subsaharisches Afrika ; Nigeria ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Migration, whether forced or voluntary, continues to be an issue vital to Africa, arguably the continent most affected by internal displacement. Over centuries, in groups or as individuals, Africans have been forced to leave their homes to escape unfavorable natural, social, or political circumstances, or simply to seek better lives elsewhere. This essential volume establishes the centrality of human migration and movement to the evolution of African societies. Using oral, archaeological, and written sources, and focusing on various geographical areas, the contributors show that migration is a multifaceted phenomenon, historically varied in nature and character. 'Movements, Borders, and Identities in Africa' incorporates carefully selected case studies drawn from across the continent, and provides a broad but insightful overview of migration and its complex relationships to slavery, commerce, religion, architecture, material culture, poverty, diaspora life and identity formation, and the development of states and societies on the continent. Taken as a whole, this collection offers a groundbreaking interrogation of the myriad causes and effects of African migration, from the precolonial to the modern era. Contributors: Edmund Abaka, Maurice Amutabi, Toyin Falola, Ghislaine Geloin, Issiaka Mande, Jean-Luc Martineau, Pius S. Nyambara, Akinwumi Ogundiran, Adisa Ogunfolakan, Olatunji Ojo, Brigitte Kowalski Oshineye, Meshack Owino, Gerald Steyn, and Aribidesi Usman. Toyin Falola is the Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor of History and Distinuished Teaching at the University of Texas at Austin. Aribidesi Usman is associate professor of African and African American studies and anthropology at Arizona State University.
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    Bristol : Policy Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781847426031
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 224 pages)
    DDC: 306.8742
    Keywords: Fathers ; Fatherhood
    Abstract: Since 1997, child welfare services have been faced with new demands to engage fathers or develop father-inclusive services. This book emerges from work by the author as a researcher and educator over many years on the issues posed by this agenda for child welfare practitioners in a variety of contexts. In locating fathers, fathering and fatherhood within a historical and social landscape, the book addresses issues seldom taken up in practice settings. It explores diversity and complexity in fathering in different disciplines such as psychoanalysis, sociology and psychology and analyses contemporary developments in social policies and welfare practices.The author employs a feminist perspective to highlight the opportunities and dangers in contemporary developments for those wishing to advance gender equity. A key strength of the book is its inter-disciplinary focus. It will be required reading for students, graduate and post-graduate, of social work, social policy, sociology and child and family studies. Academic researchers will also find the book invaluable because of its breadth of scholarship.
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0521883121 , 9780521883122
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xxiii, 371 p) , ill., maps , 24 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Language, culture and cognition 9
    Parallel Title: Print version Language, Space, and Social Relationships : A Foundational Cultural Model in Polynesia
    DDC: 306.440996
    Keywords: Space and time in language ; Cognition and culture ; Psycholinguistics ; Tongan language Psychological aspects ; Sociolinguistics ; Tongan language Social aspects ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Discusses the relationship between language and the mental organisation of knowledge, based on research carried out in Polynesia
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1 A foundational cultural model in Tongan language, culture, and social relationships; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Why Tonga?; 1.3 The architecture of the mind and its internal working structure; 1.4 A blended approach to cognition; 1.5 Cultural models; 1.6 A foundational cultural model; 1.7 Polynesian selves and cognition; 1.8 Methodological issues; 1.9 Synopsis; 2 The Kingdom of Tonga: country, people, and language; 2.1 Where is Tonga?; 2.2 Tongan society and culture
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.3 Tongan language2.4 Three major field sites; Part I Space in Tongan language, culture, and cognition; 3 Space in Tongan language; 4 Space in Tongan cognition; 5 Tongan culture and space; Part II Radiality; 6 The radiality hypothesis; 7 Radiality in possession and time; 8 Radiality and the Tongan kinship terminology; Part III Radiality in social relationships; 9 Radiality and speech about social relationships; 10 Radiality and mental representations of social relationships; 11 Radiality in social networks; 12 A radial mind; References; Author Index; Subject Index
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    Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9789812309334
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 208 pages)
    DDC: 306.2
    Abstract: The publication of this book, comprising chapters written by distinguished scholars, is a timely recognition that these days we are bombarded by suggestions that knowledge is power, that we are operating in a knowledge economy, and that the greatest driver for financial growth and national development is the knowledge industry. There are more sources of knowledge available to a wider range of the world's population than ever before. The Internet has made the dissemination of knowledge possible in ways not contemplated fifty years ago. National boundaries are crossed with consummate ease. Knowledge is not like other assets. It can be accessed rapidly and used by thousands, often millions, of people. This makes knowledge as an asset that generated much of the wealth in the early development of most nations. And different countries and regions need different strategies to support and promote the growth of their knowledge economies. These call for nationally and regionally-based approaches, and they entail new dynamics and challenges in wealth creation, legal regulation, national and social organization and the protection of environmental and natural resources.
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    Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9789812309457
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxxi, 425 pages)
    DDC: 305.260959
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    Keywords: Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift
    Abstract: "A welcome and timely volume that realistically considers the challenges that the rapid increase in older persons pose for the family, community and society at large in the context of Southeast Asia. Most importantly, it shifts the focus from viewing older persons simply as liabilities to one that recognizes their value as an asset that can be enhanced through appropriate actions at each of these levels, especially ones that take into account the rapidly changing socio-economic and technological environment in which population ageing is taking place." - Professor John Knodel, Research Professor Emeritus, Population Studies Center and Professor Emeritus, Sociology, University of Michigan...
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511540310 , 9780511540318
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 388 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Sperling, Valerie Altered states
    DDC: 303.482
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    Keywords: Globalization Economic aspects ; World politics ; Democracy ; Civil society ; Civil society ; Democracy ; Globalization ; Economic aspects ; World politics ; Demokratie ; Globalisierung ; Internationale Politik ; Politische Elite ; Verantwortlichkeit ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Is globalization good for democracy? This book examines the accountability of transnational institutions and traces their impact on democratic governance
    Abstract: Transnational institutions and accountability -- For richer, for poorer: economic globalization -- Democracy from abroad?: political globalization -- Army for hire: transnational military forces: transnational military forces -- Trials and tribulations: transnational judicial institutions -- My country is the whole world: transnational civil society -- Conclusion: altered states and altered citizens.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511605390
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 342 pages)
    DDC: 306
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    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Human Capital and Institutions is concerned with human capital in its many dimensions and brings to the fore the role of political, social, and economic institutions in human capital formation and economic growth. Written by leading economic historians, including pioneers in historical research on human capital, the chapters in this text offer a broad-based view of human capital in economic development. The issues they address range from nutrition in pre-modern societies to twentieth-century advances in medical care; from the social institutions that provided temporary relief to workers in the middle and lower ranges of the wage scale to the factors that affected the performance of those who reached the pinnacle in business and art; and from political systems that stifled the advance of literacy to those that promoted public and higher education. Just as human capital has been a key to economic growth, so has the emergence of appropriate institutions been a key to the growth of human capital.
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0521760097 , 0521756677 , 9780521760096 , 9780521756679
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (x, 215 p) , 24 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version Visions of World Community
    DDC: 305.8
    Keywords: Multiculturalism ; Communities ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "Throughout the history of Western political thought, the creation of a world community has been seen as a way of overcoming discord between political communities without imposing sovereign authority from above. Jens Bartelson argues that a paradox lies at the centre of discussions of world community. The very same division of mankind into distinct peoples living in different places which makes the idea of a world community morally compelling has also been the main obstacle to its successful realization. His book offers a philosophical and historical analysis of the idea of world community by exploring the relationship between theories of world community and changing cosmological beliefs from the late Middle Ages to the present"--Provided by publisher
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1 A conceptual history of world community; 2 Paradoxes of world community; 3 In the beginning was the world; 4 Nationalizing community; 5 Reinventing mankind; 6 Globalizing community; 7 Community unbound?; Bibliography; Index
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511540744 , 0511581386 , 9780511540745 , 9780511581380
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 320 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Market and society
    DDC: 306.3/4
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    Keywords: Polanyi, Karl ; Polanyi, Karl ; Polanyi, Karl ; Polanyi, Karl ; Markets Social aspects ; History ; Social history ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; Markets ; Social aspects ; Social history ; Wirtschaftssoziologie ; Wirtschaftsordnung ; Sozioökonomischer Wandel ; History ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Introduction : Learning from Polanyi 1 / Keith Hart and Chris Hann -- Necessity or contingency : mutuality and market / Stephen Gudeman -- The great transformation of embeddedness : Karl Polanyi and the new economic sociology / Jens Beckert -- The critique of the economic point of view : Karl Polanyi and the Durkheimians / Philippe Steiner -- Towards an alternative economy : reconsidering the market, money and value / Jean-Michel Servet -- Money in the making of world society / Keith Hart -- Debt, violence and impersonal markets : Polanyian meditations / David Graeber -- Whatever happened to householding? / Chris Gregory -- Contesting The Great Transformation : work in comparative perspective / Gerd Spittler -- 'Sociological Marxism' in Central India : Polanyi, Gramsci and the case of the unions / Jonathan Parry -- Composites, fictions and risk : towards an ethnography of price / Jane I. Guyer -- Illusions of freedom : Polanyi and the third sector / Catherine Alexander -- Market and economy in environmental conservation in Jamaica / James G. Carrier -- Embedded socialism? Land, labour and money in eastern Xinjiang / Chris Hann -- Afterword : Learning from Polanyi 2 / Don Robotham.
    Abstract: Karl Polanyi's 1944 book, 'The Great Transformation', offered a radical critique of how the market system has affected society and humanity since the industrial revolution. This volume brings together contributions from scholars in economic anthropology, sociology and political economy to consider Polanyi's theories in light of circumstances today
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    Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781846157769
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 239 pages)
    DDC: 963.507/2
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Krieg ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Eritrea-Äthiopien-Krieg ; Feindbild ; Äthiopien
    Abstract: Images of war, narratives of suffering and notions of ethnicity are intrinsically linked to Western perceptions of Africa. Filtered through a mostly international media the information of African wars is confined to narrow categories of explanation emerging from and adapted to a Western history and political culture. This book aims at reversing this process; to look at war and suffering from the point of view of those who fight it and suffer through it. In doing so it reveals that the simplistic models explaining contemporary wars in Africa which are reproduced in a Western discourse are basically false. This book examines the understanding of war and the impact of warfare on the formation and conceptualisation of identities in Ethiopia. Building on historical trajectories of enemy images, the recent Eritean-Ethiopian war [1998-2000] is used as an empirical backdrop to explore war's formative impact, by analysing politics of identity and shifting perceptions of enemies and allies. KJETIL TRONVOLL is Professor in Human Rights, Peace and Conflict Studies at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo. His other publications include 'Brothers at War: Making Sense of the Eritrean-Ethiopian War' (co-author; James Currey/Ohio University Press, 2000) and 'The Ethiopian Red Terror Trials: Transitional Justice Challenged' (co-editor; James Currey 2009).
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511635370 , 0511634927 , 0511632630 , 9780511634925 , 9780511635373 , 9780511632631
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 287 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Technology and psychological well-being
    DDC: 303.48/3
    Keywords: Technological innovations Social aspects ; Technological innovations Psychological aspects ; Technology Social aspects ; Technology Psychological aspects ; SCIENCE ; Philosophy & Social Aspects ; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING ; Social Aspects ; Technological innovations ; Psychological aspects ; Technological innovations ; Social aspects ; Technology ; Psychological aspects ; Technology ; Social aspects ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Sozialethik ; Psychische Gesundheit ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Communication technology and psychological well-being: yin, yang, and the golden mean of media effects / George Rodman and Katherine G. Fry -- Internet and well-being / Yair Amichai-Hamburger and Azy Barak -- Information, innovation, and society / Steven L. Goldman -- Work-related technological change and psychological well-being / Michael P. O'Driscoll, Caroline Biron, and Cary L. Cooper -- From ergonomics to hedonomics: trends in human factors and technology / Tal Oron-Gilad and Peter A. Hancock -- Good teleworking: under what conditions does teleworking enhance employees' well being? / Ellen Ernst Kossek, Brenda A. Lautsch, and Susan C. Eaton -- Commuting and well-being / Raymond W. Novaco and Oscar I. Gonzalez -- Technology and medicine / Jeffrey W. Jutai, Sherry Coulson, and Elizabeth Russell-Minda -- Mothers of inventions? The myth-breaking history and planetary promise of women's key roles in subsistence technology / Rae Lesser Blumberg -- Technology and well-being: designing the future / Yair Amichai-Hamburger.
    Abstract: In the modern world we are surrounded by technology. Gadgets such as cell phones, portable computers, and electronic diaries accompany us throughout the day. But is this a good thing? Are we being served by these technological wonders, or have we become enslaved by them? Does constant availability via technology make us more efficient or more stressed? Is our ability to connect with others all over the world, day or night, making us more sociable or turning us into recluses in a virtual world? This book considers the impact of technology on the different spheres of our life - work, home, family and leisure - and assesses ways in which to build better communication between technology developers and society to ensure that technology enhances our lives and psychological well-being, rather than damaging them
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    Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781580467094
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 333 pages)
    DDC: 306.2096
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    Keywords: Massenkultur ; Kultur ; Politik ; Afrika ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift
    Abstract: This anthology provides insightful data on and discussions of a wide array of popular cultural manifestations and theoretical perspectives, covering such issues as kinship, religion, conflict resolution, music, cinema, drama, and literary texts. The issues cohere around the understanding that culture is situational and political. Going beyond merely challenging popular stereotypes and representations of Africans and African related practices in various outlets, the book reveals how popular cultural practices are instruments that have been manipulated for personal and collective survival. The book is distinctive in its codification and explication of aspects of popular practices that are based on data from countries in Africa, Europe, and the Americas that showcase cultural negotiations either with reference to how notions, values, norms, and images of Africans have been packaged and exploited over the years or how popular cultures are used as tools of resistance and agitation by the various focal groups that are discussed. The topics are presented and illustrated in ways easily accessible to readers of all backgrounds. Toyin Falola is the Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor in History at the University of Texas at Austin as well as a University Distinguished Teaching Professor. Augustine Agwuele is an assistant professor of linguistics in the Department of Anthropology, Texas State University, San Marcos. Contributors: Arinpe Adejumo, Augustine Agwuele, Antoinette Tidjani Alou, Maurice N. Amutabi, Tokunbo A. Ayoola, Nicholas M. Creary, Toyin Falola, Celeste A. Fisher, Denise Amy-Rose Forbes-Erickson, Hetty ter Haar, Debra L. Klein, Emmanuel M. Mbah, Sarah Steinbock-Pratt, and Asonzeh Ukah.
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    Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781580467315
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (210 pages)
    DDC: 305.896/1068
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    Keywords: San-Sprachen ; Linguistik ; Rassismus
    Abstract: 'Representing Bushmen' draws on the work of Jacques Derrida, Edward Said, and Martin Bernal to show how the study of language was integral to the formation of racial discrimination in South Africa. Author Shane Moran demonstrates the central role of literary history to the cultural racism and ideology that fed into apartheid by tracing the ethno-aesthetic figuration of the Bushmen in W. H. I. Bleek's theory of the origin of language. Moran examines the gestation of colonial ideology, and provocatively traces aspects of the post-apartheid rhetoric of commemoration and national unity to their colonialist roots. This detailed and compelling volume contributes significantly to current trends in post-apartheid scholarship. Moran emphasizes the need for a cautious interrogation of the colonial archive and scrutiny of critical discourses used by the would-be postcolonial intellectual, and poses a timely challenge to those committed to exorcising that legacy. Shane Moran teaches at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0521199514 , 0521136148 , 9780521199513 , 9780521136143
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (viii, 257 p) , ill , 24 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version The Theory of Cultural and Social Selection
    DDC: 303.4
    Keywords: Darwin, Charles ; Social evolution ; Sociology ; Natural selection ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "In The Theory of Cultural and Social Selection, W. G. Runciman presents an original and wide-ranging account of the fundamental process by which human cultures and societies come to be of the different kinds that they are. Drawing on and extending recent advances in neo-Darwinian evolutionary theory, Runciman argues that collective human behaviour should be analyzed as the acting-out of information transmitted at the three separate but interacting levels of heritable variation and competitive selection - the biological, the cultural, and the social. The implications which this carries for a reformulation of the traditional agenda of comparative and historical sociology are explored with the help of selected examples, and located within the context of current debates about sociological theory and practice. The Theory of Cultural and Social Selection is a succinct and highly imaginative contribution to one of the great intellectual debates of our times, from one of the world's leading social theorists"--Provided by publisher
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Prologue: The Darwinian legacy; Chapter 1 The neo-Darwinian paradigm; Chapter 2 Natural selection and evoked behaviour; Chapter 3 Cultural selection and acquired behaviour; Chapter 4 Social selection and imposed behaviour; Chapter 5 Selectionist theory as narrative history; Epilogue: Sociology in a post-Darwinian world; References; Index
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511635249 , 9780511635243
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vii, 310 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Hermann, Tamar Israeli peace movement
    DDC: 303.6/6095694
    Keywords: Peace movements History ; Arab-Israeli conflict History ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Peace ; Arab-Israeli conflict ; Peace movements ; History ; Israel
    Abstract: "This books deals with the predicament of the Israeli peace movement, which, paradoxically, following the launching of the Oslo peace process between Israel and the Palestinians in 1993, experienced a prolonged, fatal decline in membership, activity, political significance, and media visibility. After presenting the regional and national background to the launching of the peace process and a short history of Israeli peace activism, the book focuses on external and internal processes and interactions experienced by the peace movement, after some basic postulates of its agenda were actually, although never explicitly, embraced by the Rabin government. The analysis brings together insights from social movement theory and theories on public opinion and foreign and security policymaking. The book's conclusion is that, despite its organizational decline and the zero credit given to it by the policymakers, in retrospect it appears that the movement contributed significantly to the integration of new ideas for possible solutions to the Middle East conflict in the Israeli mainstream political discourse"--Provided by publisher
    Abstract: Exploring peace activism: a road map -- Mapping the Israeli socio-political terrain -- Paving the road to Oslo: Israeli peace activism through 1993 -- The path strewn with obstacles (1993-2008) -- Exploring new ways or getting lost? -- Appendix 1: List of Israeli peace groups -- Appendix 2: Israeli Jewish public opinion on the Oslo process, 1994-2008.
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511594887 , 0511650922 , 9780511594885 , 9780511650925
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xii, 242 p) , ill
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version Code-switching
    DDC: 306.44
    Keywords: Code switching (Linguistics) ; Electronic book
    Description / Table of Contents: Code-switching and language contactSocial factors in code-switching -- Code-switching in conversation -- Grammatical aspects of code-switching -- Psycholinguistic approaches -- Acquiring code-switching : code-switching in children (and L2 learners).
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511719574 , 0511516940 , 051162669X , 9780511516948 , 9780511626692 , 9780511719578
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 233 pages) , illustrations, maps
    Series Statement: Studies in the social and cultural foundations of language 25
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Wilce, James MacLynn, 1953- Language and emotion
    DDC: 152.4
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    Keywords: Language and emotions ; Laments ; Anthropological linguistics ; PSYCHOLOGY ; Emotions ; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES ; Linguistics ; Sociolinguistics ; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Death, Grief, Bereavement ; Anthropological linguistics ; Laments ; Language and emotions ; Sprache ; Gefühl ; Expressivität ; Kultur ; Emoties ; Taalgebruik ; Sociolinguïstiek
    Abstract: Analyses the signals people use to express emotion, looking at the social, cultural and political functions of emotional language
    Abstract: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Transcripts; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Feelingful language; Why this book Why now; Writing about emotion who does it and how; Overview of the argument and chapters; Part I Theory; Part II Language power and honor; Part III Identification and identity; Part IV Histories of language and emotion; Part I Theory; 1 Defining the domain; What is language?; Anthropological lenses on emotion; What is emotion? How is it related to affect?; Emotion, affect, social life; Ghosts of Descartes; Emotion: a single, coherent domain?
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511581120
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 272 pages)
    DDC: 325.4
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    Keywords: Europäische Union ; Mitgliedsstaaten ; Einwanderungspolitik ; Expertenkommission
    Abstract: Why do politicians and civil servants commission research and what use do they make of it in policymaking? The received wisdom is that research contributes to improving government policy. Christina Boswell challenges this view, arguing that policymakers are just as likely to value expert knowledge for two alternative reasons: as a way of lending authority to their preferences; or to signal their capacity to make sound decisions. Boswell develops a compelling new theory of the role of knowledge in policy, showing how policymakers use research to establish authority in contentious and risky areas of policy. She illustrates her argument with an analysis of European immigration policies, charting the ways in which expertise becomes a resource for lending credibility to controversial claims, underpinning high-risk decisions or bolstering the credibility of government agencies.
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    Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780748635948
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 254 pages)
    DDC: 306.483
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    Abstract: Praise for the first edition: 'An excellent book that tries to come to grips with the ever-increasing role of sport in the media as a particular phenomenon of 20th-century popular culture. 'European Journal of Communication (2000) 'Excellent, well written and informative… of interest and use to a wider constituency. 'Times Higher Education Supplement (May 2000) The fully revised and updated version of this classic text examines the link between three key obsessions of the 21st century: the media, sport and popular culture. Gathering new material from around the 2007 Rugby World Cup, the Beijing Olympics and the rise of new sports stars such as boxing's Amir Khan and cycling's Victoria Pendleton, the authors explore a wide range of sports, as well as issues including nationalism, gender, race, political economy and the changing patterns of media sport consumption. For those interested in media and sport the second edition combines new and original material with an overview of the developing field of media sport, and examines the way in which the media has increasingly come to dominate how sport is played, organized and thought about in society. It traces the historical evolution of the relationship between sport and the media and examines the complex business relationships that have grown up around television, sponsors and sport. Covers the following topics: the history of media in sport; television, sport and sponsorship; why sport matters to television; sports stars; sports journalism; fans and the audience; sport in the digital media economy.
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0521763525 , 9780521763523
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiv, 255 p) , ill., maps , 24 cm
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    Parallel Title: Print version Reputation and Civil War : Why Separatist Conflicts Are So Violent
    DDC: 303.6/4
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    Keywords: Civil war ; Insurgency ; Political violence ; Autonomy and independence movements ; Insurgency ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Attempts to resolve why self-determination disputes between governments and ethnic minorities so often result in civil war
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Tables; Maps; Acknowledgements; Part I Theory; 1 Introduction; 2 Reputation building and self-determination movements; Part II Empirical tests; 3 An experimental study of reputation building and deterrence; 4 Government responses to self-determination movements; 5 Ethnic groups and the decision to seek self-determination; Part III Case studies; Case selection; 6 Indonesia: many ethnic groups, few demands; 7 The Philippines: few ethnic groups, many demands; Part IV Conclusions
    Description / Table of Contents: 8 Reputation building and deterrence in civil warsAppendix 1: Instructional materials for subjects; Experiment instructions; Basic features of the experiment; Details of the experiment design; Appendix 2: Coding rules and sources for Chapter 4; Dependent variable; Independent variables; Appendix 3: Coding rules and sources for Chapter 5; Dependent variables; Independent Variables; References; Index
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511658257 , 0511656947 , 0511814356 , 9780511656941 , 9780511814358 , 9780511658259
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 344 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: Cambridge textbooks in linguistics
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Biber, Douglas Register, genre, and style
    DDC: 306.44
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    Keywords: Register (Linguistics) ; Sociolinguistics ; English language Social aspects ; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES ; Linguistics ; Sociolinguistics ; English language ; Social aspects ; Register (Linguistics) ; Sociolinguistics ; Register ; Textsorte ; Englisch ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: "This book describes the most important kinds of texts in English and introduces the methodological techniques used to analyze them. Three analytical approaches are introduced and compared, describing a wide range of texts from the perspectives of register, genre, and style. The primary focus of the book is on the analysis of registers. Part 1 introduces an analytical framework for studying registers, genre conventions, and styles. Part 2 provides detailed descriptions of particular text varieties in English, including spoken interpersonal varieties (conversation, university office hours, service encounters), written varieties (newspapers, academic prose, fiction), and emerging electronic varieties (e-mail, internet forums, text messages). Finally, Part 3 introduces advanced analytical approaches using corpora, and discusses theoretical concerns, such as the place of register studies in linguistics, and practical applications of register analysis. Each chapter ends with three types of activities: reflection and review activities, analysis activities, and larger project ideas"--Provided by publisher
    Abstract: 1. Registers, genres, and styles: fundamental varieties of language -- Part I. Analytical Framework -- 2. Describing the situational characteristics of registers and genres -- 3. Analysing linguistic features and their functions -- Part II. Detailed Descriptions of Register, Genre and Style -- 4. Interpersonal spoken registers -- 5. Written registers, genres and styles -- 6. Historical evolution of registers, genres and styles -- 7. Registers and genres in electronic communication -- Part III. Larger Theoretical Issues -- 8. Multidimensional patterns of register variation -- 9. Register studies in context.
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    Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780748632541
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (202 pages)
    DDC: 305.82/1
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Massenkultur ; England
    Abstract: An innovative and accessible study of English identities in the twentieth century. The book examines the conflicts dilemmas and contradictions that marked Englishness as the nation changed from an imperial power to a postcolonial state.
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    Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9789048510757
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (224 pages)
    Series Statement: American studies
    DDC: 305.8
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    Keywords: Multikulturelle Gesellschaft ; Elfter September ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This groundbreaking volume explores the multicultural debate that has evolved in the United States and Europe since the cataclysmic events of 9/11. Instead of suggesting closure by presenting a unified narrative about cultural diversity, national identity, and social stratification, the essays in this well-balanced collection present a variety of perspectives, each highlighting the undiminished relevance of key issues such as immigration, assimilation, and citizenship, while also pointing to unresolved conflicts over universalism, religion, and tolerance. Most importantly, this volume shows that the struggle over multiculturalism is not limited to the political domain, but also has profound cultural implications. American Multiculturalism after 9/11: Transatlantic Perspectives is an invaluable, thought-provoking addition to the debate about multiculturalism as central to the study of the United States in a global context.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511657450
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 250 pages)
    DDC: 394
    Abstract: We do it over and over again, day after day, and never seem to get enough of it. Albanians do it. Zulus do it. Movie stars and plumbers do it. All around the world, people say hi and bye in innumerable languages and countless ways: they wave and bow and curtsey and shake hands and rub noses and fist-bump and mwah-mwah and perform a vast array of greeting and farewell rituals, so common and natural that no-one stops to notice … Tales of Hi and Bye provides a delightful, witty, and intriguing insight into the sometimes strange and often wonderful customs associated with an ordinary, everyday event. For more information, book extracts and cartoons visit www.talesofhiandbye.com...
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511815249
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 423 pages)
    DDC: 306.7082/0955
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    Keywords: Geschlechterrolle ; Politik ; Sexualverhalten ; Iran
    Abstract: Janet Afary is a native of Iran and a leading historian. Her work focuses on gender and sexuality and draws on her experience of growing up in Iran and her involvement with Iranian women of different ages and social strata. These observations, and a wealth of historical documents, form the kernel of this book, which charts the history of the nation's sexual revolution from the nineteenth century to today. What comes across is the extraordinary resilience of the Iranian people, who have drawn on a rich social and cultural heritage to defy the repression and hardship of the Islamist state and its predecessors. It is this resilience, the author concludes, which forms the basis of a sexual revolution taking place in Iran today, one that is promoting reforms in marriage and family laws, and demanding more egalitarian gender and sexual relations.
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    Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780748637331
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 304 pages)
    DDC: 306.6091767
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    Keywords: Islam ; Gewalt ; Öffentliche Meinung
    Abstract: This volume explores the use of violence in the construction of Islamic public and private spheres. It contributes to the growing interest in the vital question of Muslim attitudes towards violence.Editors blurb:This volume offers the first hitherto available overview of the role of public violence in the history of Muslim societies. Islam is often perceived as a civilization breeding violence toward the outside. To counter such negative stereotypes, the approach of this volume is to stress the nature of violence as a means of political dominion. The volume demonstrates the diversity of attitudes toward violence within Muslim societies and thus helps to overcome essentialist assumptions about Islamic violence.
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    Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780748631230
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 236 pages)
    DDC: 305.6970941
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    Keywords: Muslim ; Großbritannien
    Abstract: Following the events of 11th September 2001 in the USA, and more especially, the bombings on the London underground on 7th July 2005 and the incident at Glasgow Airport on 30th June 2007, an increasing amount of public attention has been focused upon Muslims in Britain. Against the backdrop of this debate, this book sets out a series of innovative insights into the everyday lives of Muslims living in contemporary Britain, in an attempt to move beyond prevalent stereotypes concerning what it means to be 'Muslim'. Combining original empirical research with theoretical interventions, this collection offers a range of reflections on how Muslims in Britain negotiate their everyday lives, manage experiences of racism and exclusion, and develop local networks and global connections. The authors explore a broad range of themes including gender relations; educational and economic issues; migration and mobility; religion and politics; racism and Islamophobia; and the construction and contestation of Muslim identities. Threaded through the treatment of these themes is a unifying concern with the ways in which geography matters to how Muslims negotiate their daily experiences as well as their racialised, gendered and religious identities. Above all, attention is focused upon the role of the home and local community, the influence of the economy and the nation, and the power of transnational connections and mobilities in the everyday lives of Muslims in Britain.
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    Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9789812309099
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxiii, 253 pages)
    DDC: 303.4833095
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511804366
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 235 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in contentious politics
    DDC: 306.20941/09033
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1758-1834 ; Protestbewegung ; Sozialpsychologie ; Großbritannien
    Abstract: How can we get inside popular collective struggles and explain how they work? Contentious Performances presents a distinctive approach to analyzing such struggles, drawing especially on incomparably rich evidence from Great Britain between 1758 and 1834. The book accomplishes three main things. First, it presents a logic and method for describing contentious events, occasions on which people publicly make consequential claims on each other. Second, it shows how that logic yields superior explanations of the dynamics in such events, both individually and in the aggregate. Third, it illustrates its methods and arguments by means of detailed analyses of contentious events in Great Britain from 1758 to 1834.
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    Johannesburg : Wits University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781868147038
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 254 pages)
    Edition: Second edition.
    DDC: 398.2089961
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    Keywords: Khoisan-Sprachen
    Abstract: Structure, Meaning and Ritual in the Narratives of the Southern San analyses texts drawn from the Bleek and Lloyd Archive - arguably one of the most important collections for the understanding of South African cultural heritage and in particular the traditions of the /Xam, South Africa's 'first people'. Initially appearing in a now rare 1986 edition and here re-issued for the first time, the doctoral thesis on which the book is based became the catalyst for much scholarly research. The book offers an analysis of the entire corpus of /Xam narratives found in the Bleek and Lloyd collection, focusing particularly on the cycle of narratives concerning the trickster /Kaggen (Mantis). These are examined on three levels from the 'deep structures' with resonances in other areas of /Xam culture and supernatural belief, through the recurring patterns of narrative composition apparent across the cycle and finally touching on the observable differences in the performances by the various /Xam collaborators. Hewitt's text remains the only comprehensive and detailed study of /Xam narrative, and it has become itself the object of study by researchers and PhD candidates in South Africa, the United Kingdom, Canada and elsewhere. This new edition at last makes Hewitt's important work more widely available. It will be a welcome addition to the recently burgeoning literature on the place of the /Xam hunter-gatherers in the complex history of South African culture and society.
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    Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9789812308184
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xx, 353 pages)
    DDC: 303.482595
    Keywords: Globalisierung ; Selbstverwaltung ; Malaysia ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: "Half a century since Malayan independence in 1957, this collection of essays provides a welcome assessment of post-colonial, especially recent Malaysian policies on various fronts – development, 'looking East', 1997-98 crisis management, inter-ethnic redistribution, poverty reduction, trade, education, healthcare, globalization, Islam and national culture. This volume is a useful compendium for anyone seeking a broad overview of recent policy challenges and debates." – Jomo Kwame Sundaram, United Nations Assistant Secretary General for Economic Development...
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511810442
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxxix, 526 pages)
    Edition: Second edition.
    DDC: 305.5/62097311
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    Abstract: This book examines how it was possible and what it meant for ordinary factory workers to become effective unionists and national political participants by the mid-1930s. We follow Chicago workers as they make choices about whether to attend ethnic benefit society meetings or to go to the movies, whether to shop in local neighborhood stores or patronize the new A&P. As they made daily decisions like these, they declared their loyalty in ways that would ultimately have political significance. When the depression worsened in the 1930s, workers adopted new ideological perspectives and overcame longstanding divisions among themselves to mount new kinds of collective action. Chicago workers' experiences all converged to make them into New Deal Democrats and CIO unionists. First printed in 1990, Making a New Deal has become an established classic in American history. The second edition includes a new preface by Lizabeth Cohen.
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    Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9789812307941
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 247 pages)
    DDC: 305.26095
    Abstract: Southeast and East Asian countries are undergoing varying stages of population ageing. The social, economic and political implications of population ageing will be enormous, and because of the fast speed of ageing in the region, the countries cannot afford the luxury of time for the gradual evolution of social and structural support systems and networks for the older population. The essays in this volume critically examine national ageing policies and programmes, the sustainability of existing pension systems, housing and living arrangements, inter-generational transfer, and aspects of quality of life of the elderly population. While the findings show that most Southeast Asian countries have started to formulate and implement national ageing policies, they also indicate that the existing policies are by and large inadequate and underdeveloped in serving the needs of the older population and indeed much more must be done to prepare for the future.
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0521786533 , 0521781418 , 9781139133999 , 9781283329521 , 9780521786539 , 9780521781411
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xxiv, 608 p) , ill., maps , 24 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version Language in South Asia
    DDC: 306.4/40954
    Keywords: Multilingualism ; Indic philology ; Language planning ; Sociolinguistics ; South Asia Languages ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: An overview of the language of South Asia within a linguistic, historical and sociolinguistic context
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Maps; Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Note on Transcription; Introduction: languages, contexts, and constructs; Part 1 Language history, families, and typology; Part 2 Languages and their functions; Part 3 Sanskrit and traditions of language study; Part 4 Multilingualism, contact, and convergence; Part 5 Orality, literacy, and writing systems; Part 6 Language conflicts; Part 7 Language and modernization; Part 8 Language and discourse; Part 9 Language and identity; Part 10 Languages in diaspora; References
    Description / Table of Contents: Subject IndexLanguage Index; Author Index
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0521862876 , 9780511400964 , 9780521862875
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xvii, 614 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version The Capability Approach : Concepts, Measures and Applications
    DDC: 303.372
    Keywords: Sen, Amartya ; Social justice ; Poverty ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift 2001 ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift 2001
    Abstract: An analysis of Amartya Sen's capability approach in the context of poverty and justice
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Acronyms; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Using the capability approach: prospective and evaluative analyses; PART I Concepts; PART II Measures; PART III Applications; Index
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0521895375 , 9780521895378
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (x, 278 p) , ill , 24 cm
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    Parallel Title: Print version Social Networks in Byzantine Egypt
    DDC: 302.40932
    Keywords: Social networks History ; Aphrodito (Extinct city) History ; Egypt History 30 B.C.-640 A.D ; Bahnasā (Egypt) History ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift
    Abstract: First full-length study using network analysis to concentrate on the ancient world
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgements; References and abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1 The centralized elite of Oxyrhynchos; Chapter 2 The growth of the Apions; Chapter 3 Aphrodito and the strong ties of village society; Chapter 4 Quantifying Aphrodito's social network; Conclusion; Stemmata; Bibliography; Subject index; Index locorum
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    Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9789812304933
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 416 pages)
    DDC: 303.48259
    Abstract: This volume is a collection of essays from a diverse group of scholars. Collectively, they present a multidimensional perspective of globalization in Southeast Asia. They delve into the political, economic, security, social, and cultural dimensions of globalization and local responses, offering evidence of complex interfacing between the global and the local, thus championing the need for a multidisciplinary approach to globalization studies. This volume depicts globalization as an uneven and, sometimes, undesired process, and resists the temptation for easy conclusions to the challenges facing the region today.
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 051149713X , 0511457626 , 051145631X , 9780511457623 , 9780511456312 , 9780511497131
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 260 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Shulman, Elena, 1969- Stalinism on the frontier of empire
    DDC: 305.48/89171057709043 22
    Keywords: Women History ; Migration, Internal History ; Women and socialism History ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Women's Studies ; Migration, Internal ; Women ; Women and socialism ; History ; Electronic books ; Russia (Federation) ; Russian Far East ; Soviet Union
    Abstract: "This is a fascinating account of frontier Stalinism told through the previously unexplored history of a campaign to attract female settlers to the socialist frontiers of the Soviet Far East in the late 1930s. Elena Shulman reveals the instrumental part these migrants played in the extension of Soviet state power and cultural dominion in the region. Their remarkable stories, recovered from archival letters, party documents, memoirs, press coverage, and films, shed new light on Soviet women's roles in state formation, the role of frontier Stalinism in structuring gender ideals, and the nature of Soviet society and Stalinism in the 1930s. Through these narratives, Elena Shulman offers a nuanced and complex picture of the "subcultures" of Stalinism--generational, regional, and semi-criminal--as well as the complexities of women's lives under Stalin and the limits of Moscow's rule over the periphery and even the Gulag."--Publisher's description
    Abstract: Introduction -- Women and Soviet power -- "Where steel cracks like glass" -- "Our famous Valia": the rise of a Soviet notable -- "Envy for everything heroic": women volunteering for the frontier -- "Bol'shevichki were never ascetics!": female morale and Communist morality -- Snivelers and patriots -- Conclusion.
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0521862108 , 0521680476 , 9780521862103 , 9780521680479
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (viii, 242 p) , ill
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    Parallel Title: Print version Desire for Race
    DDC: 305.8001
    Keywords: Race relations Philosophy ; Racism ; Race Philosophy ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Examines the concept of race, suggesting ways in which it can free itself from outdated notions of biological essentialism
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction Situating race and the question of reality; 1 American sociology; 2 Marxism; 3 British social anthropology; 4 British cultural studies; 5 Intermediate reflections on essentialism; 6 Belief and social action; 7 Theorizing the racial ensemble; 8 The politics of memory and race; 9 Desire; Conclusion Reflections on theory and method; Bibliography; Index
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    ISBN: 052189509X , 9780521895095
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xi, 250 p) , ill , 24 cm
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    Parallel Title: Print version Weber, Passion and Profits : The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism' in Context
    DDC: 306.6
    Keywords: Weber, Max History and criticism ; Protestant work ethic ; Capitalism Religious aspects ; Protestant churches
    Abstract: A fresh vision of Max Weber's most renowned work, 'The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism'
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Note on citations; Introduction; 1 From the inaugural lecture to the Protestant Ethic: political education and German futures; 2 From the Protestant Ethic to the vocation lectures: Beruf, rationality and emotion; 3 Passions and profits: the emotional origins of capitalism in seventeenth-century England; 4 Protestant virtues and deferred gratification: Max Weber and Adam Smith on the spirit of capitalism
    Description / Table of Contents: 5 Ideal-type, institutional and evolutionary analyses of the origins of capitalism: Max Weber and Thorstein Veblen6 The Jewish question: religious doctrine and sociological method; Conclusion; References; Index
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511508158 , 0511506406 , 9780511508158 , 9780511506406
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 192 pages)
    Edition: [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library 2011 Electronic reproduction
    Series Statement: Cambridge cultural social studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Nicholson, Linda J Identity before identity politics
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    Keywords: Group identity History ; Identity politics History ; Women Identity ; History ; African Americans Race identity ; History ; Women's rights History ; Civil rights movements History ; African Americans ; Race identity ; Civil rights movements ; Group identity ; Identity politics ; Women ; Identity ; Women's rights ; Identität ; Rassische Identität ; Frauenbewegung ; Gruppenidentität ; Frau ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Women's Studies ; History ; United States ; USA ; Schwarze
    Abstract: "In the late 1960s identity politics emerged on the political landscape and challenged prevailing ideas about social justice. These politics brought forth a new attention to social identity, an attention that continues to divide people today. While previous studies have focused on the political movements of this period, they have neglected the conceptual prehistory of this political turn. Linda Nicholson's book situates this critical moment in its historical framework, analyzing the concepts and traditions of racial and gender identity that can be traced back to late eighteenth-century Europe and America. She examines how changing ideas about social identity over the last several centuries both helped and hindered successive social movements, and explores the consequences of this historical legacy for the women's and black movements of the 1960s. This study will be of particular interest to students and scholars of political history, identity politics and US history."--Jacket
    Abstract: The politics of identity : race and sex before the twentieth century -- Freud and the rise of the psychological self -- The culture concept and social identity -- Before black power : constructing an African American identity -- Women's identity/women's politics.
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    ISBN: 9788323382768
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (181 pages)
    Edition: First edition.
    DDC: 305.260943
    Abstract: This book entitled The Ageing Societies of Central and Eastern Europe: Some Problems - Some Solutions wants to contribute to a better understanding of how societies of Central and Eastern Europe are changing and how they are responding to the challenge of even more rapid ageing process than Western Europe. The aim of this book is to present the specific challenges ageing societies in selected Central and Eastern European countries face, with a particular focus on Polish society. Questions to be addressed in this volume include: How does demographic ageing influence societal change? How can we overcome age discrimination? Who will care for increasing numbers of older dependents at a time when the numbers of potential family carers is dwindling? How will family change impact on intergenerational solidarity? How can the specific skills of the young and the old be combined in the workplace? How are policy makers and politicians dealing with the ageing issues? How can the public pensions systems be made financially sustainable to prevent poverty and social exclusion of older people?...
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0521897998 , 0521725186 , 9780521897990 , 9780521725187
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xi, 267 p) , 24 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Cambridge Middle East studies 29
    Parallel Title: Print version Iran's Intellectual Revolution
    DDC: 305.5/520955
    Keywords: Islam and state History 21st century ; Islam and state History 20th century ; Iran History 1979-1997 ; Iran History 1997- ; Iran Intellectual life 20th century ; Iran Intellectual life 21st century
    Abstract: Explores the intellectual changes that have occurred in Iran since the 1979 revolution
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Tables; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Emerging Iranian discourses; 3 Theorizing about the world; 4 The conservative religious discourse; 5 The reformist religious discourse; 6 The secular-modernist discourse; 7 Iran's silent revolution; Bibliography; Index
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0521882656 , 9780511400643 , 9780521882651
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xi, 390 p) , ill
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    Series Statement: Federico Caffè lectures
    Parallel Title: Print version Reciprocity : An Economics of Social Relations
    DDC: 302/.1
    Keywords: Economics ; Altruism Economic aspects ; Electronic books
    Abstract: A unique analysis of the role that reciprocity plays in the economics of social relationships
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Foreword; Introduction: nature, scope, forms, motives, and effects of reciprocity ; Part I Facts and forms; 1 Presentation; 2 Evidence and scope; 3 Giving and exchanges; 4 Forms and structures of reciprocity; Part II Motives ; 5 The three worlds of reciprocity ; 6 Balance reciprocity; 7 Liking reciprocities; 8 Other reciprocities: continuation, relational, imitation, extended; 9 Reciprocity and social sentiments; 10 Reciprocity in the modes of economic realization ; Part III Values and reasons
    Description / Table of Contents: 11 The values of reciprocity 12 Reciprocal corrections of market failures; 13 Reciprocity in trust, and intrinsic values; 14 Normative uses of reciprocity; 15 The logic of good social relations; 16 How and why? Understanding and explaining reciprocity; Part IV The economics of reciprocity; 17 General methodology of reciprocity analysis; 18 The theory of comparative, matching, or balance reciprocity; 19 The theory of liking reciprocity; 20 Strategic interaction and process preferences: games of reciprocity; 21 General properties of processes; 22 Solutions of reciprocity games; comparisons
    Description / Table of Contents: 23 Reciprocity in the understanding of society and its economyBibliography; Index
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0521895588 , 9780521895583
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xvi, 301 p) , ill
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    Parallel Title: Print version Irredentism in European Politics : Argumentation, Compromise and Norms
    DDC: 305.80094
    Keywords: Irredentism Philosophy ; Irredentism Case studies ; Minorities History 19th century ; Minorities History 20th century ; Irredentism History 20th century ; Irredentism History 19th century ; Europe Politics and government 19th century ; Europe Politics and government 20th century ; Europe Ethnic relations 19th century ; History ; Europe Ethnic relations 20th century ; History ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Fallstudiensammlung
    Abstract: Considers how the emergence of the territorial status quo norm in post-1945 Europe has reversed the pattern of disputes
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Maps and tables; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Irredentism in Europe; 2 Argumentation and compromise; 3 Broadening a vision for Europe; 4 Towards a new beginning; 5 From exclusion to inclusion; 6 Constitutional change; Conclusion; Appendix I Coding procedures; Appendix II Irredentist cases in Europe and other world regions; Appendix III Analysed parliamentary debates and newspaper editions; Bibliography; Index
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511430035 , 0511429274 , 0511429657 , 9780511429279 , 9780511430039 , 9780511429651
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 436 pages) , illustrations, maps
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Order, conflict, and violence
    DDC: 303.6
    Keywords: Social conflict ; Violence ; Political violence ; Political stability ; Political violence ; Social conflict ; Violence ; Gewalt ; Sozialer Konflikt ; Politische Stabilität ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Violence in Society ; Political stability ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift 2004 ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift 2004
    Abstract: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Preface; 1 Introduction: integrating the study of order, conflict, and violence; Part 1: Creating, maintaining, and restoring order; Part 2: Challenging, transforming, and destroying order; Part 1 Creating, maintaining, and restoring order; 2 Probing the sources of political order; Introduction; Background; The logic of political order; The possibility of the state; Trends in late-century Africa; Estimation; Discussion; Conclusion; References; 3 Attaining social order in Iraq; Social order and forms of governance.
    Abstract: Demonstrates the myriad ways in which order and violence are inextricably intertwined
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511491993
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 229 pages)
    Series Statement: Themes in European governance
    DDC: 306.4/49094
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    Keywords: Europäische Union ; Sprache ; Vielfalt ; Europäische Integration ; Politische Willensbildung ; Kulturelle Identität ; Europa
    Abstract: The European Union's motto 'United in Diversity' contrasts with the cultural standardization entailed in the formation of nation-states and the forging of political identities in Europe. So what does being 'united in diversity' mean? Focusing on language politics and policies, this book offers a thorough assessment of the implications of cultural and linguistic diversity for the process of constructing a European polity. It sheds light on some of the most pressing problems associated with contemporary identity politics. It is often claimed that the recurrent celebration of diversity in Europe's programmatic declarations has an effective political impact. Kraus offers a critical analysis of how the EU has responded to the normative challenge of creating an institutional frame for integration which allows cultural differences to be transcended without ignoring them.
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511465270 , 0511811411 , 9780511465277 , 9780511811418
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 311 pages)
    Edition: [Place of publication not identified] HathiTrust Digital Library 2011 Electronic reproduction
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Mouzelis, Nicos P Modern and postmodern social theorizing
    DDC: 301.01
    Keywords: Postmodernism Social aspects ; Sociology Methodology ; Sociology Philosophy ; Social sciences Philosophy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Regional Studies ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; General ; Postmodernism ; Social aspects ; Social sciences ; Philosophy ; Sociology ; Methodology ; Sociology ; Philosophy ; Postmoderne ; Moderne ; Soziologie ; Soziologische Theorie ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Soziologie ; Postmoderne ; Moderne ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "There is a growing conflict between modern and postmodern social theorists. The latter reject modern approaches as economistic, essentialist and often leading to authoritarian policies. Modernists criticize postmodern approaches for their rejection of holistic conceptual frameworks which facilitate an overall picture of how social wholes (organizations, communities, nation-states, etc.) are constituted, reproduced and transformed. They believe the rejection of holistic methodologies leads to social myopia - a refusal to explore critically the type of broad problems that classical sociology deals with. This book attempts to bridge the divide between these two conflicting perspectives and proposes a novel holistic framework which is neither reductionist/economistic nor essentialist. Modern and Postmodern Social Theorizing will appeal to scholars and students of social theory and of social sciences in general."--Jacket
    Abstract: pt. I. The theoretical background : the development of the agency-structure problematic -- 1. From Parsons' to Giddens' synthesis -- pt. II. Parsonian and post-Parsonian developments -- 2. Parsons and the development of individual rights -- 3. Evolution and democracy : Parsons and the collapse of communism -- 4. Post-Parsonian theory I : neo-functionalism and beyond -- 5. Post-Parsonian theory II : beyond the normative and the utilitarian -- pt. III. Agency and structure : reworking some basic conceptual tools -- 6. Social and system integration : Lockwood, Habermas and Giddens -- 7. The subjectivist-objectivist divide : against transcendence -- 8. Habitus and reflexivity : restructuring Bourdieu's theory of practice -- pt. IV. Bridges between modern and late/postmodern theorizing -- 9. Modernity : a non-Eurocentric conceptualization -- 10. Ethical relativism : between scientism and cultural relativism -- 11. Cognitive relativism : between positivistic and relativistic thinking in the social sciences -- 12. Social causation : between social constructionism and critical realism -- pt. V. Towards a non-essentialist holism -- 13. Grand narratives : contextless and context-sensitive theories -- 14. The actor-structure dimension : anti-conflationist holism -- 15. The micro-macro dimension : anti-essentialist holism -- 16. The inter-institutional dimension : beyond economism and culturalism -- App. In defence of 'grand' historical sociology.
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511438338 , 0511437668 , 9780511438332 , 9780511437663
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 294 pages) , illustrations
    Edition: [Place of publication not identified] HathiTrust Digital Library 2011 Electronic reproduction
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Rudra, Nita Globalization and the race to the bottom in developing countries
    DDC: 303.48/2
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    Keywords: Globalization Economic aspects ; Globalization Social aspects ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Globalization ; Globalization ; Economic aspects ; Globalization ; Social aspects ; Social policy ; Internationalisatie ; Sociaal-economische aspecten ; Armoede ; Globalisierung ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Sozialpolitik ; Armut ; Sozialhilfe ; Developing countries Social policy ; Ontwikkelingslanden ; Developing countries ; Entwicklungsländer
    Abstract: The advance of economic globalization has led many academics, policy-makers, and activists to warn that it leads to a 'race to the bottom'. In a world increasingly free of restrictions on trade and capital flows, developing nations that cut public services are risking detrimental effects to the populace. Conventional wisdom suggests that it is the poorer members of these societies who stand to lose the most from these pressures on welfare protections, but this new study argues for a more complex conceptualization of the subject. Nita Rudra demonstrates how and why domestic institutions in developing nations have historically ignored the social needs of the poor; globalization neither takes away nor advances what never existed in the first place. It has been the lower- and upper-middle classes who have benefited the most from welfare systems and, consequently, it is they who are most vulnerable to globalization's race to the bottom
    Abstract: The race to the bottom in developing countries -- Who really gets hurt? -- LDC welfare states : convergence? What are the implications? -- Globalization and the protective welfare state : case study of India -- Globalization and the productive welfare state : case study of South Korea -- Globalization and the dual welfare state : case study of Brazil -- Introduction -- Appendix A: LDC social spending -- Appendix B: Assessing potential labor power -- Appendix C: Additional tests for the RTB hypothesis -- Appendix D: Variables in the inequality model -- Appendix E: Technical notes on Gini coefficients -- Appendix F: LDC Gini coefficient statistics -- Appendix G: Robustness check -- Appendix H: Conditional impact of trade on inequality -- Appendix I: Descriptions and sources of variables -- Appendix J: Cluster results minus outcome variables -- Appendix K: Dendogram for cluster analysis -- Appendix L: Poverty tables -- Appendix M: Social expenditures on social security, health, and education in India (percent of GDP) based on national data.
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0521670004 , 9780511399695 , 0521854024 , 9780511397820 , 9781283330923 , 9780521670005 , 9780521854023
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xii, 376 p) , ill
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    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Werntz, Myles Peace: A History of Movements and Ideas 2009
    Parallel Title: Print version Peace : A History of Movements and Ideas
    DDC: 303.6/6
    Keywords: Conflict management ; International relations ; Peace ; International relations ; Electronic books
    Abstract: A definitive history of peace advocacy and an analysis of its religious and intellectual roots
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1 What is peace?; Idealism and realism; New wars; Defining terms; What's in a word?; "Pacifist" Japan?; Latin American and African traditions; Pacifism and "just war"; An outline of peace history; An overview of peacemaking ideas; PART I Movements; 2 The first peace societies; 3 Toward internationalism; 4 Facing fascism; 5 Debating disarmament; 6 Confronting the cold war; 7 Banning the bomb; 8 Refusing war; PART II Themes; 9 Religion; 10 A force more powerful; 11 Democracy; 12 Social justice
    Description / Table of Contents: 13 Responsibility to protect14 A moral equivalent; 15 Realizing disarmament; 16 Realistic pacifism; Bibliography; BOOKS; CHAPTERS AND CONFERENCE PAPERS; JOURNAL ARTICLES; Index
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0521871816 , 9780521871815
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiii, 330 p) , ill., maps , 24 cm
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    Parallel Title: Print version Being Byzantine : Greek Identity Before the Ottomans, 1200-1420
    DDC: 305.88/900902
    Keywords: Greeks Ethnic identity To 1500 ; History ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift
    Abstract: New interpretation of the medieval history of Greece over the period 1200-1420, focusing on the ethnic identity of the Greeks
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; A note on the use and transliteration of Greek; Abbreviations; Reference works; Introduction The Frankish conquest of Greece; Chapter 1 Ethnic identity?; Chapter 2 Byzantine identities; Chapter 3 Niketas Choniates; Chapter 4 The thirteenth century: ambition, euphoria and the loss of illusion; Chapter 5 The nightmare of the fourteenth century; Chapter 6 Meanwhile, a long way from Constantinople . . .; Chapter 7 The long defeat; Chapter 8 Roman identity and the response to the Franks; Glossary
    Description / Table of Contents: Appendix 1 Key content itemsAppendix 2 The origins of the; Bibliography; Index
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0521885396 , 9780521885393
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (x, 242 p)
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    Additional Information: Rezensiert in McCarthy, Jeanne H. [Rezension von: Hunt, Alice, The Drama of Coronation: Medieval Ceremony in Early Modern England] 2010
    Parallel Title: Print version The Drama of Coronation : Medieval Ceremony in Early Modern England
    DDC: 394/.4
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    Keywords: Monarchy History 16th century ; Coronations History 16th century ; Great Britain Politics and government 1485-1603 ; Great Britain Kings and rulers ; Great Britain History Tudors, 1485-1603 ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Assesses the impact of the Reformation on the period's coronation ceremonies, and examines how they were described by contemporary observers
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Note on style and dates; Abbreviations; Introduction: The 'idol' ceremony of coronation; Chapter 1 Why crown a king? Henry VIII and the medieval coronation; Chapter 2 'Come my love thou shalbe crowned': the drama of Anne Boleyn's coronation; Chapter 3 'But a ceremony': Edward VI's reformed coronation and John Bale's King Johan; Chapter 4 'He hath sent Marye our soveraigne and Quene': England's first queen and Respublica; Chapter 5 'A stage wherin was shewed the wonderfull spectacle': representing Elizabeth I's coronation
    Description / Table of Contents: 'Presume not that I am the thing I was'Notes; Bibliography; Index
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    ISBN: 0511410182 , 0511819277 , 0511406428 , 0511408315 , 9780511410185 , 9780511819278 , 9780511406423 , 9780511408311
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 255 pages) , illustrations
    Edition: [Place of publication not identified] HathiTrust Digital Library 2010 Electronic reproduction
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Böhm, Peter The Psychology of Genocide: Perpetrators, Bystanders, and Rescuers, Steven K. Baum (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008), xl + 255 pp., cloth 81.00, pbk. 24.99, e-book 21.00 2009
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Baum, Steven K., 1953- Psychology of genocide
    DDC: 304.6/63
    Keywords: Genocide ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Demography ; Genocide ; Völkermord ; Psychologie ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "Genocide has tragically claimed the lives of over 262 million victims in the last century. Jews, Armenians, Cambodians, Darfurians, Kosovars, Rwandans, the list seems endless. Clinical psychologist Steven K. Baum sets out to examine the psychological patterns to these atrocities. Building on trait theory as well as social psychology, he reanalyzes key conformity studies (including the famous experiments of Ash, Milgram, and Zimbardo) to bring forth a new understanding of identity and emotional development during genocide. Baum presents a model that demonstrates how people's actions during genocide actually mirror their behavior in everyday life: there are those who destroy (perpetrators), those who help (rescuers), and those who remain uninvolved, positioning themselves between the two extremes (bystanders). Combining eyewitness accounts with Baum's own analysis, this book reveals the common mental and emotional traits among perpetrators, bystanders, and rescuers, and how a war between personal and social identity accounts for these divisions."--Provided by publisher
    Abstract: Charlotte's question -- A bell curve of hate? -- Perpetrators -- Bystanders -- Rescuers -- Towards an emotionally developed world.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511511516
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 351 pages)
    DDC: 303.48/3
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    Abstract: Future Imperfect describes and discusses a variety of technological revolutions that might happen over the next few decades, their implications and how to deal with them. Topics range from encryption and surveillance through biotechnology and nanotechnology to life extension, mind drugs, virtual reality and artificial intelligence. One theme of the book is that the future is radically uncertain. Technological changes already begun could lead to more or less privacy than we have ever known, freedom or slavery, effective immortality or the elimination of our species, and radical changes in life, marriage, law, medicine, work and play. We do not know which future will arrive, but it is unlikely to be much like the past. It is worth starting to think about it now.
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    Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781846155703
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 191 pages)
    DDC: 306.0946/0902
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    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Medieval Iberia was rich in sociolinguistic and cultural diversity. This volume explores the culture, history, literature and language of the Peninsula in an attempt to understand its cultural-political complexity and its legacy. Principal themes include the representation of minority groups in the community; the challenge of social contact that could bring mutual absorption of influence or conflict; the effects of linguistic interaction and development; and the dissemination of cultural and scientific knowledge within and beyond the borders of the Peninsula. Modern interpretations of Medieval Iberia are neither static nor definitive in this kaleidoscopic field of investigation. EDITORS: Ivy A. Corfis and Ray Harris-Northall are Professors of Spanish at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. OTHER CONTRIBUTORS: Pablo Ancos, William J. Courtney, Thomas D. Cravens, Frank Domínguez, Noel Fallows, Charles F. Fraker, E. Michael Gerli, Kristin Neumayer, Stanley G. Payne, Joel Rini, Joseph T. Snow, Michael Solomon.
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    ISBN: 9781139167390
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxviii, 193 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in public opinion and political psychology
    DDC: 306.20941
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    Keywords: Politische Einstellung ; Familie ; Politische Sozialisation ; Politische Beteiligung ; Politische Soziologie ; Deutschland ; Großbritannien
    Abstract: People decide about political parties by taking into account the preferences, values, expectations, and perceptions of their family, friends, colleagues, and neighbours. As most people live with others, members of their households influence each other's political decisions. How and what they think about politics and what they do are the outcomes of social processes. Applying varied statistical models to data from extensive German and British household surveys, this book shows that wives and husbands influence each other; young adults influence their parents, especially their mothers. Wives and mothers sit at the centre of households: their partisanship influences the partisanship of everyone else, and the others affect them. Politics in households interacts with competition among the political parties to sustain bounded partisanship. People ignore one of the major parties and vary their preference of its major rival over time. Election campaigns reinforce these choices.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511840067
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 276 pages)
    DDC: 305.420973/09047
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1970-1990 ; Frau ; Sexuelle Belästigung ; Feminismus ; USA
    Abstract: This book recounts the story of how a diverse social movement placed sexual harassment on the public agenda in the 1970s and 1980s. The collaboration of women from varying racial, economic, and geographic backgrounds strengthened the movement by representing the experiences and perspectives of a broad range of women, and incorporating their resources and strategies for social change. Black women; middle-class feminists; women breaking into construction, coal mining, and other non-traditional occupations; and women in pink-collar and working-class white-collar jobs all helped to convince governments to adopt public policies against sexual harassment in the United States. Based on interviews and original research, this book shows how the movement against sexual harassment fundamentally changed American life in ways that continue to advance women's opportunities today.
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    Johannesburg : Wits University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781776143726
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 245 pages)
    DDC: 304.20968
    Keywords: Natur ; Umweltschutz ; Südafrika
    Abstract: For many people 'nature' means wilderness and wild animals. It is experienced indirectly through magazines and television programmes or through visiting the highly managed environments of national parks. Nature, however, is not external, separate from the world of people - we live in nature and interact with it daily. In this book, Jacklyn Cock describes how these intricate and complex interconnections, seen and unseen, are often ignored. Each of the ten chapters examines an aspect of our relationship with nature: ignoring, understanding, enjoying, imitating, privatising, polluting, abusing, protecting as well as organising for nature. The concluding chapter deals with the growing inequality between the North and the South. The War Against Ourselves compels us to reexamine our relationship with nature, to change our practices and dissolve present binary divisions such as people vs. animals, economic growth vs. environmental protection, 'nature' vs. 'culture'. It demonstrates the need for an inclusive politics which brings together peace, social and environmental justice activists who believe that another world is both possible and necessary.
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    Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781580466936
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 192 pages)
    DDC: 305.896/3975
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1500-2000 ; Ndau ; Ethnische Identität ; Brauch
    Abstract: With this first comprehensive history of the Ndau of eastern Zimbabwe and central Mozambique, Elizabeth MacGonagle moves beyond national borders to show how cultural identities are woven from historical memories that predate the arrival of missionaries and colonial officials on the African continent. Drawing on archival records and oral histories from throughout the Ndau region, her study analyzes the complex relationships between social identity and political power from 1500 to 1900. Ndauness has been created and recreated within communities through marriages and social structures, cultural practices that mark the body, and rituals that help to sustain shared beliefs. A sense of being Ndau continues to exist into the present, despite different colonial histories, postcolonial trajectories, and official languages in Zimbabwe and Mozambique. MacGonagle's study of ethnic identities among the marginalized Ndau sheds light on the conflicts and divisions that haunt southeast Africa today. This compelling interpretation of the crafting of identity in one corner of Africa has relevance for readers interested in identity formation and ethnic conflict around the world. Elizabeth MacGonagle is assistant professor of African History at the University of Kansas.
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    Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781580466967
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 353 pages)
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    Abstract: 'Natural Resources and Conflict in Africa' is the first book to offer a detailed look at conflict over various natural resources in several African countries. Abiodun Alao undertakes this broad survey by categorizing natural resources into four groups: land (including agricultural practices and animal stock), solid minerals, oil, and water. Themes linking these resources to governance and conflict are then identified and examined with numerous examples drawn from specific African countries. Alao's approach offers considered conclusions based on comparative discussions and analysis, thus providing the first comprehensive account of the linkage between natural resources and political and social conflict in Africa. Abiodun Alao is a Senior Research Fellow at the Conflict, Security, and Development Group, School of Social Science and Public Policy, King's College, University of London.
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 052187937X , 0521704952 , 9780521879378 , 9780521704953
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (x, 330 p) , 24 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version Race, Equality, and the Burdens of History
    DDC: 305.896/0973
    Keywords: Poverty ; African Americans Reparations ; Affirmative action programs ; Equality ; Merit (Ethics) Social aspects ; African Americans Civil rights ; Race discrimination History ; Racism ; African Americans Economic conditions ; United States Race relations
    Abstract: Philosophically addresses the problems of racism and the legacy of past racial discrimination in the United States
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 Racism; 2 Race; 3 Slavery; 4 Racial Equality; 5 Poverty and Race; 6 Compensatory Justice: Restitution, Reparations, and Apologies; 7 Merit and Race; 8 Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity; Bibliography; Table of Cases; Index
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511486555
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 230 pages)
    DDC: 306.44
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    Keywords: Pragmatik ; Kommunikationsstörung
    Abstract: Pragmatics - the way we communicate using more than just language - is particularly problematic for people with speech disorders. Through an extensive analysis of how pragmatics can go wrong, this 2007 book not only provides a clinically useful account of pragmatic impairment, but it also throws light on how pragmatics functions in healthy individuals. Michael Perkins brings mainstream and clinical pragmatics together by showing that not only can our understanding of pragmatics be aided by the study of pragmatic impairment, but that clinical and theoretical pragmatics are better served by treating pragmatic ability and disability within a single framework. It is a comprehensive book aimed primarily at linguists and psycholinguists rather than clinicians, and includes illustrative material on conditions such as autism and aphasia and a wide range of other communication disorders in both children and adults.
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511355637 , 9780511355639
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 358 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Court and court society in ancient monarchies
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    Keywords: Courts and courtiers ; Kings and rulers, Ancient ; Monarchy ; REFERENCE ; Etiquette ; Courts and courtiers ; Kings and rulers, Ancient ; Monarchy ; Höfische Kultur ; Monarchie ; Hofcultuur ; Oudheid ; Kongress ; Newcastle-upon-Tyne (2004) ; Alte Welt ; Konferenzschrift 2004 ; Konferenzschrift 2004 ; Konferenzschrift 2004 ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift
    Abstract: Monarchy was widespread as a political system in the ancient world. This volume offers a substantial discussion of ancient monarchies from the viewpoint of the ruler's court. The monarchies treated are Achaemenid and Sassanian Persia, the empire of Alexander, Rome under both the early and later Caesars, the Han rulers of China and Egypt's Eighteenth Dynasty. A comparative approach is adopted to major aspects of ancient courts, including their organisation and physical setting, their role as a vehicle for display, and their place in monarchial structures of power and control. This approach is broadly inspired by work on courts in later periods of history, especially early-modern France. The case studies confirm that ancient monarchies created the conditions for the emergence of a court and court society. The culturally specific conditions in which these monarchies functioned meant variety in the character of the ruler's court from one society to another
    Abstract: New out of old? Court and court ceremonies in Achaemenid Persia / Maria Brosius -- King, court and royal representation in the Sasanian empire / Josef Wiesehöfer -- The court of Alexander the Great between Europe and Asia / Tony Spawforth -- Friends in high places : the creation of the court of the Roman emperor / Jeremy Paterson -- The imperial court of the late Roman empire, c. AD 300-c. AD 450 / Rowland Smith -- The imperial court in Han China / Hans van Ess -- Court and palace in ancient Egypt : the Armana period and later eighteenth dynasty / Kate Spence.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511791208
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 300 pages)
    DDC: 302.346
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    Abstract: Much of our daily lives are spent talking to one another, in both ordinary conversation and more specialized settings such as meetings, interviews, classrooms, and courtrooms. It is largely through conversation that the major institutions of our society - economy, religion, politics, family and law - are implemented. This book Emanuel Schegloff, the first in a series and first published in 2007, introduces the findings and theories of conversation analysis. Together, the volumes in the series constitute a complete and authoritative 'primer' in the subject. The topic of this first volume is 'sequence organization' - the ways in which turns-at-talk are ordered and combined to make actions take place in conversation, such as requests, offers, complaints, and announcements. Containing many examples from real-life conversations, it will be invaluable to anyone interested in human interaction and the workings of conversation.
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    Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9789812305725
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 150 pages)
    DDC: 305.409595
    Abstract: This unique volume draws together a compelling collection of studies on the diverse and transformatory experiences of women as they encounter the forces of modernization altering the face of contemporary Borneo. The authors, all locally based scholars specializing in gender issues, shed much-needed light upon this hidden academic area. It presents the human and gendered face of development and discusses the pressing issue of urbanization and rural-urban migration in its many facets as experienced by women in this multicultural and fascinating region in Southeast Asia.
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    Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9789812304834
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 229 pages)
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    Abstract: Language policies in Southeast Asia have been shaped by the process of nation-building on the one hand and by political and economic considerations on the other. The early years of nation-building in Southeast Asia generated intensive language conflicts precisely because state policies privileged the idea of a monolingual nation and thus endeavoured to co-opt or even do away with troublesome ethnic identities. In recent years, language policies are increasingly influenced by pragmatic considerations, especially globalization and the awareness of a linkage between language and economic development, such that Southeast Asian states in varying degrees have become less insistent on promoting monolingual nationalism.This book evaluates the successes and drawbacks of language policies in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam and Myanmar, especially the ways in which these policies have often been resisted or contested. It is an invaluable primer on this linguistically complex region and a resource for scholars, policy-makers, civil society activists and NGOs in various parts of the world facing equally challenging ethnic/language issues.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511619656
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 276 pages)
    Series Statement: New departures in anthropology
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    Keywords: Mündliche Überlieferung ; Schriftlichkeit ; Afrika
    Abstract: What can texts - both written and oral - tell us about the societies that produce them? How are texts constituted in different cultures, and how do they shape societies and individuals? How can we understand the people who compose them? Drawing on examples from Africa and other countries, this original study sets out to answer these questions, by exploring textuality from a variety of angles. Topics covered include the importance of genre, the ways in which oral genres transcend the here-and-now, and the complex relationship between texts and the material world. Barber considers the ways in which personhood is evoked, both in oral poetry and in written diaries and letters, discusses the audience's role in creating the meaning of texts, and shows textual creativity to be a universal human capacity expressed in myriad forms. Engaging and thought-provoking, this book will be welcomed by anyone interested in anthropology, literature and cultural studies.
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0521874416 , 0521697255 , 9780521874410 , 9780521697255
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (ix, 288 p) , 24 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version The Future of Gender
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    Keywords: Feminist theory ; Social justice ; Equality ; Sex role ; Gender identity ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Provides a major new assessment of the effectiveness of the concept of gender
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figure; Tables; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Structure of the book; Part I: Reorienting the feminist imagination; Part II: Variations on the theme of gender; Part III: Gender and political practice; Part I Reorienting the feminist imagination; 1 Mapping the feminist imagination From redistribution to recognition to representation; Historicizing second-wave feminism; Engendering social democracy: a critique of economism; From redistribution to recognition: the unhappy marriage of culturalism and neoliberalism
    Description / Table of Contents: Geographies of recognition: post-communism, post-colonialism and the Third WayUS gender politics, post-9/11; Evangelicalism: a neoliberal technology of the self; Reframing feminism: a trans-national politics of representation; References; 2 Perspectives on gender equality Challenging the terms of debate; Equality and inequality today; 'Common sense' and feminist critiques; Gender equality in context; Inequality in the private sphere; The partiality of male perspectives; Equality in an unequal society; A non-patriarchal approach to equality; References; 3 When will society be gender just?
    Description / Table of Contents: The question of gender justiceConceptualising gender; Gender justice and capabilities; Three principles of gender justice; Conclusions; References; Part II Variations on the theme of gender; 4 Does biology play any role in sex differences in the mind?; Systemizing and empathizing; The main brain types; Culture and biology; Autism: an extreme form of the male brain; Evidence for the extreme male brain theory; Conclusions; References; 5 Sex and the social construction of gender Can feminism and evolutionary psychology be reconciled?; Standard opposition between sex and gender
    Description / Table of Contents: Feminists on the social contract and the sexual contractEvolutionary psychology on the variety of mating patterns in nature: parental investment and sexual selection; Human sexuality, and the rarity and instability of social monogamy in nature; Cultural support of social monogamy; Evolutionary psychology on the sexual contract and the social contract; Conclusions; References; 6 'Trans' trouble Trans-sexuality and the end of gender; Identity; Reproduction; Sex; Sexuality/ies; Gender; Conclusions; References; 7 Gender and social change; Some problems of gender; Ontology
    Description / Table of Contents: Social positions and relationsInternal relations; Systems and collectivities; Social being as process; Theorising gender; Personal identities; Overview; The possibility of emancipatory practice; Social transformation and the good society; Conclusions; References; 8 Procreative mothers (sexual difference) and child-free sisters (gender); Feminism and femininity; Looking again at sisterhood; References; Part III Gender and political practice; 9 The politics of female diversity in the twenty-first century; New feminist myths; Preference theory; Three lifestyle preference groups
    Description / Table of Contents: Contextual factors
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511394608 , 0511393954 , 9780511394607 , 9780511393952
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 319 p)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Cooper, Kate, 1960- Fall of the Roman household
    DDC: 306.630937
    Keywords: Families Religious aspects ; Christianity ; Families ; Religion ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Sociology of Religion ; Families ; Religious aspects ; Christianity ; Civilization ; Christian influences ; History ; Families ; Rome Civilization ; Christian influences ; Rome Religion ; Rome History Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D ; Rome (Empire) ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Epigraph -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 'The battle of this life' -- Against luxury: Commodian -- The miles Christi as a devotional model for christian women -- Fathers and sons -- Miles Christi and miles saeculi -- Poverty, obligation, and inheritance: traditionalist senatorial Christianity during and after the barbarian invasions -- Ad Gregoriam in Palatio: the senatorial domina as miles Christi -- The domina at the gate -- Chapter 2 'The obscurity of eloquence' -- The 'jewelled style' and the Cento of Proba -- Prudentius -- The Aristocratic Laity and the 'Ostrogothic renaissance' -- Boethius, Cassiodorus, Benedict, Gregory -- Christian prose and the 'jewelled style' -- Chapter 3 Household and empire -- The structure of the late Roman estate -- Domus and familia -- The domina as female paterfamilias -- Obligation and reciprocity: the Bobbio domina -- Slaves and masters: Ad Gregoriam in Palatio -- Gregoria and Reginus: Spielregeln for a Christian Aristocracy? -- The coming Judgement -- Chapter 4 'Such trustful partnership': the marriage bond in Latin conduct literature -- Roman marriage in late antiquity -- From Diocletian to Justinian: the changing balance of power in the late Roman household -- The early Christian legacy -- Augustine, Pelagius, and the Latin readers of John Chrysostom -- Celanthia and Optatus: the permanence of the marriage bond -- Ad Gregoriam in Palatio and Augustinian mediocritas -- Chapter 5 The invisible enemy -- The paradox of invisible powers in early patristic tradition: Tertullian and Cyprian -- Origen and Ambrose -- Imitatio -- The late fourth-century sources -- Arnobius the Younger -- The raiment of mortal flesh -- Appendix. Ad Gregoriam in palatio -- Chapter 1. That the human race is to be allowed to be tested for a time, so that it may rejoice forever in the future -- Chapter 2. The nobility of the soul is to be defended -- Chapter 3. It is through endurance (patientiam) that all virtues are able to exist -- Chapter 4. What kind of thing in particular is endurance -- Chapter 5. That the kind of person who disdained the virtue of patience in time of peace is not likely to bear the persecutions of martyrdom successfully -- Chapter 6. Excepting by the will of God, the wife should not despise the will of the husband in any matter -- Chapter 7. With respect to what duties and by what judgements a true wife is to be judged -- Chapter 8. By compliance husbands can be won over by wives, and can be called out to the grace of the Holy Spirit from the traffic of the flesh -- Chapter 9. It is better to teach the things to be avoided rather than those to be set aright [after the wrong is done] -- Chapter 10. A viewing-tower is set up in contemplation, ascending which the soul turns its attention either to those winning or to those losing, in order to imitate them -- Chapter 11. The battle of truth against falsehood -- Chapter 12. The fight of liberality (benignitas) against avarice -- Chapter 13. The battle of faithlessness in support of avarice against the despiser of the world (contemptorem mundi) -- Chapter 14. The battle of abstinence against gluttony -- Chapter 15. Against desire of the flesh [concupiscentia] -- Chapter 16. Of endurance -- Chapter 17. That a woman placed in marriage should search the will of God through His law, and keep the commandments ... -- Chapter 18. A respectable Christian married woman must be so he.
    Abstract: Edward Gibbon laid the fall of the Roman Empire at Christianity's door, suggesting that 'pusillanimous youth preferred the penance of the monastic to the dangers of a military life ... whole legions were buried in these religious sanctuaries'. This surprising 2007 study suggests that, far from seeing Christianity as the cause of the fall of the Roman Empire, we should understand the Christianisation of the household as a central Roman survival strategy. By establishing new 'ground rules' for marriage and family life, the Roman Christians of the last century of the Western empire found a way to re-invent the Roman family as a social institution to weather the political, military, and social upheaval of two centuries of invasion and civil war. In doing so, these men and women - both clergy and lay - found themselves changing both what it meant to be Roman, and what it meant to be Christian
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    ISBN: 9789812307286
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 189 pages)
    DDC: 304.609595
    Abstract: This book, a project of Malaysia Study Programme of ISEAS, covers the whole of Malaysia since its formation in 1963, using statistics collected in the four pan-Malaysia Population Censuses held in 1970, 1980, 1991, and 2000, and data from other sources up to 2005 wherever possible. The book is by far the most up-to-date and comprehensive study of the multiracial population of the country, with painstaking effort and skill of the author in interpreting the vast array of information at his disposal. The strength of the book lies in the author's deep familiarity with the country where he was educated up to secondary level, and even taught for some years in the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, in the sixties.
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    Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9789812305688
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 211 pages)
    DDC: 305.420959868
    Keywords: Frau ; Indonesien
    Abstract: Maiden Voyages is a fascinating, unusual study of the centrality, impact and place of sea travel on the lives of women in Eastern Indonesia. It shows how women there travel constantly by sea, to move between islands, to urban centres and even overseas. In doing so, they negotiate and cross and re-make their social boundaries. In contrast to the dominant economic approach to migration, this book uses Eastern Indonesian women's own travel accounts to show how sea voyages recreate their identities. The book is based on research of contemporary rural and semi-rural women in the East Nusa Tenggara province of Indonesia. This book is an original and valuable contribution to the debates on gender, subjectivity, and the local specificity. It aims to contribute to an understanding of women's mobility and spatial relations in Eastern Indonesia. It will be of interest to scholars of geography, migration, gender and microeconomics as well as of appeal to general readers.
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    ISBN: 9780511585883
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Ideas in context 85
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    Keywords: Lévi-Strauss, Claude ; Ästhetik ; Ethnologie
    Abstract: In a wide-ranging 2007 study of Claude Lévi-Strauss's aesthetic thought, Boris Wiseman demonstrates not only its centrality within his oeuvre but also the importance of Levi-Strauss for contemporary aesthetic enquiry. Reconstructing the internal logic of Lévi-Strauss's thinking on aesthetics, and showing how anthropological and aesthetic ideas intertwine at the most elemental levels in the elaboration of his system of thought, Wiseman demonstrates that Lévi-Strauss's aesthetic theory forms an integral part of his approach to Amerindian masks, body decoration and mythology. He reveals the significance of Lévi-Strauss's anthropological analysis of an 'untamed' mode of thinking (pensée sauvage) at work in totemism, classification and myth-making for his conception of art and aesthetic experience. In this way, structural anthropology is shown to lead to ethnoaesthetics. Lévi-Strauss, Anthropology and Aesthetics adopts a broad-ranging approach that combines the different perspectives of anthropology, philosophy, aesthetic theory and literary criticism into an unusual and imaginative whole.
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    ISBN: 9780511816840
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 817 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge handbooks in psychology
    DDC: 303.601
    Keywords: Aggressivität ; Gewalttätigkeit ; Abweichendes Verhalten ; Dissoziale Persönlichkeitsstörung ; Wörterbuch ; Wörterbuch
    Abstract: From a team of leading experts comes a comprehensive, multidisciplinary examination of the most current research including the complex issue of violence and violent behavior. The handbook examines a range of theoretical, policy, and research issues and provides a comprehensive overview of aggressive and violent behavior. The breadth of coverage is impressive, ranging from research on biological factors related to violence and behavior-genetics to research on terrrorism and the impact of violence in different cultures. The authors examine violence from international cross-cultural perspectives, with chapters that examine both quantitative and qualitative research. They also look at violence at multiple levels: individual, family, neighborhood, cultural, and across multiple perspectives and systems, including treatment, justice, education, and public health.
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    ISBN: 0511270119 , 0511268432 , 0511269552 , 9780511268434 , 9780511270116 , 9780511269554
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 314 pages) , maps
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Caplan, Alison [Rezension von: Casey, James, Family and Community in Early Modern Spain: The Citizens of Granada, 1570-1739] 2010
    Series Statement: New studies in European history
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Casey, James, 1944- Family and community in early modern Spain
    DDC: 306.850946/8209032
    Keywords: Families History 17th century ; Elite (Social sciences) History ; Families History 16th century ; Social conditions ; Elite ; Familie ; Macht ; Soziales Netzwerk ; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Alternative Family ; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Reference ; Elite (Social sciences) ; Families ; History ; Spain Social conditions To 1800 ; Spain ; Spain ; Granada ; Granada (stad) ; Granada
    Abstract: James Casey offers an innovative study of prestige, power and the role of the family in a Mediterranean city during the early modern period. He focuses on the structure and values of the ruling class of Granada, where a new elite consolidated its authority. The study suggests that their power was linked to the pursuit of honour, which demanded participation in the politics of the commonwealth and depended greatly on the network of personal relations which they were able to build with kinsmen, clients and patrons. It explores the way in which this system contributed to the relative tranquillity of the community during a turbulent time of religious and political change, that of the rise of absolutism and of the Counter Reformation. The book sheds fresh light on the nature of the early modern family and will be essential reading for historians of early modern Spain and Europe
    Abstract: Knights and citizens -- Nobles of the doubloon -- Lords of Granada -- The web of inheritance -- The network of marriage -- Blood wedding -- Cradle of the citizen -- The shadow of the ancestors -- The spirit of the clan -- The law of honour -- Good commonwealth men -- Defenders of the fatherland.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-309) and index -- Genealogical tables: pages 295-304
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511335016 , 0511334435 , 9780511335013 , 9780511334436
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vii, 381 pages)
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Hessayon, Ariel [Rezension von: Burgess, Glenn, English Radicalism, 1550-1850] 2009
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als English radicalism, 1550-1850
    DDC: 303.48/4
    Keywords: Radicalism History ; Radicalism ; History ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General ; England ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: An exploration of the place of radical ideas and activity in English political and social history over three centuries. Its core concern is whether a long-term history of radicalism can be written. Are the things that historians label 'radical' linked into a single complex radical tradition, or are they separate phenomena linked only by the minds and language of historians? Does the historiography of radicalism uncover a repressed dimension of English history, or is it a construct that serves the needs of the present more than the understanding of the past? The book contains a variety of answers to these questions. As well as an introduction and eleven substantive chapters, it also includes two 'afterwords' which reflect on the implications of the book as a whole for the study of radicalism. The distinguished list of contributors is drawn from a variety of disciplines, including history, political science, and literary studies
    Abstract: Introduction / Glenn Burgess -- A politics of emergency in the reign of Elizabeth I / Stephen Alford -- Richard Overton and radicalism : the new intertext of the civic ethos in mid-seventeenth century England / Luc Borot -- Radicalism and the English Revolution / Glenn Burgess -- 'That kind of people' : late Stuart radicals and their manifestoes : a functional approach / Richard L. Greaves -- The divine creature and the female citizen : manners, religion, and the two rights strategies in Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindications / Gregory Claeys -- On not inventing the English Revolution : the radical failure of the 1790s as linguistic non-performance / Iain Hampsher-Monk -- Disconcerting ideas : explaining popular radicalism and popular loyalism in the 1790s / Mark Philp -- Henry Hunt's Peep into a prison : the radical discontinuities of imprisonment for debt / Margot C. Finn -- Jeremy Bentham's radicalism / F. Rosen -- Religion and the origins of radicalism in nineteenth-century Britain / J.C.D. Clark -- Joseph Hume and the reformation of India, 1819-1833 / Miles Taylor -- Radicalism revisited / Conal Condren -- Reassessing radicalism in a traditional society : two questions / J.C. Davis.
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    Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780748629091
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (234 pages)
    DDC: 306.1
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    Keywords: Gegenkultur ; USA
    Abstract: The American counterculture played a major role during a pivotal moment in American history. Post-War prosperity combined with the social and political repression characteristic of middle-class life to produce both widespread civil disobedience and artistic creativity in the Baby Boomer generation. This introduction explores the relationship between the counterculture and American popular culture. It looks at the ways in which Hollywood and corporate record labels commodified and adapted countercultural texts, and the extent to which countercultural artists and their texts were appropriated. It offers an interdisciplinary account of the economic and social reasons for the emergence of the counterculture, and an appraisal of the key literary, musical, political and visual texts which were seen to challenge dominant ideologies. Key Features: *examines the ways in which texts were seen to be countercultural *assesses the extent to which they represented real opposition to cultural orthodoxies *scrutinises the notion of the counterculture *examines the limits to and achievements of the counterculture *places key countercultural figures and texts in context of the shifting wider social and political climate of the United States *uses case studies to illuminate the text.
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    Amsterdam : Aksant | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9789048521012
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (175 pages)
    Series Statement: Life at the extremes v. 3
    DDC: 304.60951249
    Abstract: Historical processes are the result of the behavior of countless individual actors. In this book, therefore, the authors compare the demography of the Taiwanese town Lugang and the Dutch town Nijmegen using data on the lifes of thousands of their inhabitants. The period covered is approximately 1850 to 1945. First, the standard demographic rates on nuptiality, fertility and mortality are calculated to test the Malthusian predictions on a so called 'positive' and a 'preventive' demographic regime. Next, the authors try to disentangle the individual rationality behind aggregated measures in order to find out how the inhabitants of the two towns used the one life they had. Unaware of each others existence, the people living in Nijmegen and Lu-kang had more in common than one would expect given the huge cultural differences.
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    Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9789048501052
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (219 pages)
    Series Statement: ICAS publications series. Monographs 2
    DDC: 306.095125
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    Keywords: Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This volume argues that using social capital to eradicate poverty is unlikely to succeed because its mainstream approach mistakenly assumes that social capital necessarily benefits poor people. The inadequacy of that assumption, Sam Wong argues, calls for a reassessment of human motivations, institutional dynamics, and the complexity of structures in social capital building. Proposing a 'pro-poor' perspective, in which poverty-specific outcomes are highlighted, he suggests an exploration of 'unseen' social capital is in order-not only to challenge the mainstream understanding of 'seen' social capital, but to demonstrate the need for everyday cooperation, which is shaped by social norms, influenced by conscious and unconscious motivations, and subject to changes in priority based on livelihood. A useful volume for both policy makers and practitioners, Exploring 'Unseen' Social Capital in Community Participation offers a fresh perspective in thinking about civic and social agency.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511617201
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 171 pages)
    DDC: 306.2
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    Abstract: 'Religion and politics', as the old saying goes, 'should never be discussed in mixed company.'And yet fostering discussions that cross lines of political difference has long been a central concern of political theorists. More recently, it has also become a cause célèbre for pundits and civic-minded citizens wanting to improve the health of American democracy. But only recently have scholars begun empirical investigations of where and with what consequences people interact with those whose political views differ from their own. Hearing the Other Side examines this theme in the context of the contemporary United States. It is unique in its effort to link political theory with empirical research. Drawing on her empirical work, Mutz suggests that it is doubtful that an extremely activist political culture can also be a heavily deliberative one.
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    Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781580466622
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 370 pages)
    DDC: 305.896/333
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Yoruba ; Ethnische Identität ; Machtpolitik ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: 'Yorùbá Identity and Power Politics' covers the major issues on Yorùbá history and politics, thus offering a solid understanding of one of the most popular ethnic groups in Africa. With a careful blend of sources and methods, narratives on the past and present, the book manages to present a long history as the backdrop to complicated contemporary politics. Contributors: Tunde M. Akinwumi, Olufunke A. Adeboye, R. T. Akinyele, Aribidesi Usman, Tunde Oduwobi, Olufemi Vaughan, Abolade Adeniji, Jean-Luc Martineau, Ann O'Hear, Rasheed Olaniyi, Charles Temitope Adeyanju, Julius O. Adekunle, Funso Afolayan, Olayiwola Abegunrin.Toyin Falola is the Francis Nalle Higgenbothom Centennial Professor of History and Distinuished Teaching at the University of Texas at Austin. Ann Genova is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Texas at Austin.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511607165
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 235 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge manuals in archeology
    DDC: 304.6072
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    Abstract: Demography in Archaeology, first published in 2006, is a review of current theory and method in the reconstruction of populations from archaeological data. Starting with a summary of demographic concepts and methods, the book examines historical and ethnographic sources of demographic evidence before addressing the methods by which reliable demographic estimates can be made from skeletal remains, settlement evidence and modern and ancient biomolecules. Recent debates in palaeodemography are evaluated, new statistical methods for palaeodemographic reconstruction are explained, and the notion that past demographic structures and processes were substantially different from those pertaining today is critiqued. The book covers a wide span of evidence, from the evolutionary background of human demography to the influence of natural and human-induced catastrophes on population growth and survival. This is essential reading for any archaeologist or anthropologist with an interest in relating the results of field and laboratory studies to broader questions of population structure and dynamics.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511486104
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 241 pages)
    DDC: 820.9
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1730-1830 ; Gesellschaftskritik ; Frau ; Kulturkritik ; Nordamerika ; USA
    Abstract: Early American Women Critics demonstrates that performances of various kinds - religious, political and cultural - enabled women to enter the human rights debates that roiled the American colonies and young republic. Black and white women staked their claims on American citizenship through disparate performances of spirit possession, patriotism, poetic and theatrical production. They protected themselves within various shields which allowed them to speak openly while keeping the individual basis of their identities invisible. Cima shows that between the First and Second Great Religious Awakenings (1730s–1830s), women from West Africa, Europe, and various corners of the American colonies self-consciously adopted performance strategies that enabled them to critique American culture and establish their own diverse and contradictory claims on the body politic. This book restores the primacy of religious performances - Christian, Yoruban, Bantu and Muslim - to the study of early American cultural and political histories, revealing that religion and race are inseparable.
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 052185833X , 0521675030
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xii, 340 p) , ill
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version Territoriality and Conflict in an Era of Globalization
    DDC: 303.6
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    Keywords: Boundaries ; Human territoriality ; Globalization ; Territory, National ; Social conflict ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Globalization may have produced changes in territoriality and the functions of borders, but it has not eliminated them. The contributors to this volume examine this relationship, arguing that much of the change can be attributed to sources other than economic globalization
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Acknowledgments; 1 Territoriality and conflict in an era of globalization; Part I Territorial attachment and detachment; Part II Territorial stakes and violent conflict; Part III Territorial regimes in an era of globalization; Conclusion; References; Index
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-333) and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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    Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780748626274
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 262 pages)
    DDC: 305.8
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    Abstract: A reconsideration of the relationship between culture and society in light of contemporary debates on nationalism and ethnicity.
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511161573 , 0511160275 , 0511160844 , 051119157X , 0511616260 , 9780511161575 , 9780511160844 , 9780511191572 , 9780511616266 , 9780511160271
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 277 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Hull, Kathleen Same-sex marriage
    DDC: 306.84/80973
    Keywords: Same-sex marriage ; Same-sex marriage Law and legislation ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Sociology ; Marriage & Family ; Same-sex marriage ; Same-sex marriage ; Law and legislation ; Homosexuelles Paar ; Homohuwelijk ; Rechtspositie ; Eheschliessung ; Verenigde Staten ; Electronic books
    Abstract: 1. Marriage, love and law -- 2. Doing the rite thing: cultural practices of commitment -- 3. How do I love thee? Questioning the marriage model -- 4. Making it legal: marriage, law and legality -- 5. Sin or civil right? Debating marriage in the states -- 6. Conclusion: marriage and beyond.
    Abstract: Fierce and sometimes ugly battles are being waged, especially in America, over who is allowed to marry, and what marriage signifies. By examining these debates and the data from over seventy interviews, Kathleen Hull explores the cultural practices around same-sex marrige as well as the legal battles for recognition
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511648235 , 0511801629 , 9780511648236 , 9780511801624
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 284 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: Key topics in sociolinguistics
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Tagliamonte, Sali Analysing sociolinguistic variation
    DDC: 306.44072
    Keywords: Language and languages Variation ; Sociolinguistics Research ; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES ; Linguistics ; Sociolinguistics ; Language and languages ; Variation ; Sociolinguistics ; Research ; Soziolinguistik ; Sprachvariante ; Sprachanalyse ; Methode ; Sociolinguïstiek ; Wetenschappelijke technieken ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Cover -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Notes on codes and abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- What is variation analysis? -- Linguistics -- Sociolinguistics -- Variationist sociolinguistics -- Orderly heterogeneity -- Language change -- Social identity -- Key characteristics of variationist sociolinguistics -- The 'vernacular' -- The speech community -- Form/function asymmetry -- Linguistic variables -- The quantitative method -- The principle of accountability -- Circumscribing the variable context -- Testing hypotheses -- Organisation and logic of this book -- 2 Data collection -- The basics -- Data collection -- Sampling strategies -- Random sampling -- The ethnographic approach -- Social networks -- The 'friend of a friend' -- Problems with random sampling -- Stratified random sampling -- African Nova Scotian English project -- Summary -- Designing your sample -- The sociolinguistic issue -- Sample design -- Sample stratification -- Sample size -- Fieldwork ethics -- Fieldwork techniques and strategies -- Summary -- 3 The sociolinguistic interview -- The 'interview' -- Modules -- Adapting the sociolinguistic interview -- Questioning techniques -- Wording questions -- Select appropriate questions -- Good questions -- Organise -- Retain your authority -- Interview techniques -- Let the informant talk! -- Approximate the vernacular -- Ask short questions -- Take an insider's point of view -- Be the learner -- Wisdom of informants -- Summary -- 4 Data, data and more data -- The corpus -- Components of a corpus -- Labelling -- Protocol for identification -- Data transcription -- Transcription goals -- The transcription protocol -- Orthographic conventions -- Transcription conventions -- Orthographic conventions -- False starts -- Partial words -- Pauses/silence -- Tags -- Expressions -- People, places, songs, games -- Phonological processes -- Morphological processes -- Dialect words -- Non-standard verbal morphology -- Slang, local terminology and expressions -- Data processing -- Index -- Automated extraction -- Concordance -- Digital data and beyond -- Summary -- 5 The linguistic variable -- Defining the linguistic variable -- Re-examining the definition of the linguistic variable -- Recognising the linguistic variable -- Linguistic variables as language change -- Selecting a linguistic variable for analysis -- Identify potential variables -- Variable (ing) and variable (t, d) -- Frequency -- Robustness -- Implications for (socio)linguistic issues -- Circumscription of the variable context -- Categorical, near categorical and variable contexts -- Exceptional distributions -- Asymmetrical contexts -- Formulaic utterances -- Neutralisation -- Ambiguity -- Ensuring functional equivalence -- Repetitions -- Natural speech anomalies -- Imposing an analysis -- The type-token question -- Illustrating linguistic variables -- Third person singular -- Summary -- 6 Formulating hypotheses/operationalising claims -- Data extraction.
    Abstract: The first comprehensive 'how to' guide to the formal analysis of sociolinguistic variation (how language varies in social context). Practical and informal, it shows in a step-by-step fashion how the analysis is carried out, leading the reader through every stage of a sociolinguistic research project. Contains checklists, tips, and exercises
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    Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9789812307040
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vii, 96 pages)
    DDC: 305.55209598
    Abstract: This study examines the Indonesian Muslim intellectuals of the twentieth century and their approaches in dealing with the problems that faced Indonesian Muslims at that time. Like their intellectual ancestors in Islamic history, these recent Indonesian intellectuals carefully examined the society in which they lived. On one level they studied the original and historical teachings of Islam and attempted to fit that message to the Southeast Asian region. On another level they reacted to the great waves of culture that arrived from Europe, North America, and Asia throughout the twentieth century. They did all of this at a time when the Indonesian nation was forming itself, beginning with the nationalist movements of the early part of the century when the Dutch controlled the archipelago, and continuing into the last half of the century when Indonesia was an independent nation.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511616440
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 277 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge Middle East studies 22
    DDC: 956.67
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    Keywords: Kurden ; Nationalbewegung
    Abstract: David Romano's 2006 book focuses on the Kurdish case to try and make sense of ethnic nationalist resurgence generally. In a world rent by a growing number of such conflicts, the questions posed about why, how and when such challenges to the state are mounted are becoming increasingly urgent. Throughout the author analyses these questions through the lens of social movement theory, considering in particular politico-social structures, resource mobilization strategies and cultural identity. His conclusions offer some thought-provoking insights into Kurdish nationalism, as well as into the strengths and weaknesses of various social movement theories. While the book offers a rigorous conceptual approach, the empirical material - the result of the author's personal experiences - makes it a compelling read. It will find a readership amongst students of the Middle East, and also amongst those interested in ethnic relations, minority rights, terrorism, state repression, social movement theories and many other related issues.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511541360
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vii, 176 pages)
    Series Statement: Darwin College lectures 18
    DDC: 303.601
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    Keywords: Konflikt ; Interpersonaler Konflikt ; Konfliktforschung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Conflict, sadly, is part of our everyday life; experienced at home, in the workplace, on our TV screens. But is it an inevitable part of the fabric of our existence? In this volume, eight experts examine conflict at many levels, from the workings of genes to the evolution of galaxies. Evolutionary biologist David Haig examines why we disagree with ourselves, and psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen asks whether differences between the average male and female mind must necessarily lead to misunderstanding. Anthropologist Richard Wrangham explores why chimpanzees and humans have evolved to kill, while archaeologist Barry Cunliffe examines the roots of warfare. Political scientist Lisa Anderson analyses conflict in the Middle East, and broadcaster Kate Adie reflects on television reporting of war. The book concludes with industrial economist William Brown's discussion of conflict in labour relations, and an exploration of the creative and destructive effects of cosmic violence by physicist P. C. W. Davies.
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