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    Toward Safer and More Productive Migration for South Asia (2022)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank | Washington, D.C. : The World Bank Group
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (152 pages)
    Series Statement: International Development in Focus
    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    DDC: 304.854
    Keywords: GCC Countries ; Guest Workers ; Intermediary Fees ; Macroeconomic Stability ; Migrant Workers ; Migration ; Migration Costs ; Remittances ; Return Migration ; Temporary Migration
    Abstract: International migration for temporary employment is key to South Asia's development path, in terms of both jobs and remittance flows. Overseas markets are a critical source of employment for South Asian economies that may not be able to absorb workers sufficiently or quickly enough into the domestic labor market. Migrant workers typically experience wage gains of at least three times their earnings back home, in addition to acquiring new skills and accumulating savings that can be used to start up entrepreneurial activities upon returning home. Remittances sent by migrants while abroad also boost household consumption and support macroeconomic stability in countries of origin. However, multiple challenges exist that prevent migration from achieving its full development potential. These challenges include high monetary costs, information gaps on employment opportunities in destination countries, a lack of protection while abroad, and high concentrations of migrants in few sectors and destinations. These often prevent the poorest from migrating overseas and may place those who actually migrate in situations of considerable vulnerability. Building on rigorous analytics, this book highlights policy actions that can be taken at all stages of the migration life cycle, including after return, to minimize the risks and maximize the benefits of migration for migrants themselves, their families, and the home economy. The book provides policy options to address information gaps on employment opportunities overseas at the departure stage, to prepare migrants adequately for their experience overseas, to diversify destinations and occupations abroad, and to maximize the benefits of return migration
    URL: http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/978-1-4648-1841-7
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    Jobs Undone : Reshaping the Role of Governments toward Markets and Workers in the Middle East and North Africa (2022)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank | Washington, D.C. : The World Bank Group
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (156 pages)
    DDC: 305.5620956
    Keywords: Capital ; Competition ; Connectiveness ; Contestability ; Jobs ; Labor Markets ; Labor Regulation ; Product Market ; Productivity ; Social Contract ; Structural Change ; Workers
    Abstract: A decade since the spark of the Arab Spring, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region continues to suffer from limited creation of more and better jobs. Youth face idleness and unemployment. For those who find jobs, informality awaits. Few women attempt to enter the world of work at all. Meanwhile, the available jobs are not those of the future. These labor market outcomes are being worsened by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. 'Jobs Undone: Reshaping the Role of Governments toward Markets and Workers in the Middle East and North Africa' explores ways to break these impasses, drawing on original research, survey data, wide-ranging literature, and young entrepreneurial voices from the region. The report finds that a prominent reason behind MENA's unmet jobs challenge is a lack of market contestability in the formal private sector. Few firms in the region enter the market, few grow, and those that exit are not necessarily less productive. Moreover, firms in the region invest little in physical capital, human capital, or research and development, and they tend to be politically connected. At the macro level, economic growth has been mediocre, labor productivity is not being driven by structural change, and the growth of the stock of capital per capita has declined. New evidence generated for this report shows that the lack of dynamism is due to the prevalence of state-owned enterprises (SOEs). They operate in sectors where there is little economic rationale for public activity and they enjoy favorable treatment--flouting the principles of competitive neutrality. Meanwhile, labor regulations add to market rigidity, while gendered laws restrict women's potential. To change this reality, the state must reshape its relationship toward markets, toward workers, (...)
    URL: http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/978-1-4648-1735-9
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    Climate Afflictions (2021)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank | Washington, D.C. : The World Bank Group
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (146 pages)
    Series Statement: International Development in Focus
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    DDC: 304.25
    Keywords: Climate and Health ; Climate Change ; Climate Variability ; Dengue ; Household Data ; Infectious Diseases ; Mental Health ; Seasonal Illness ; Seasonality ; Urban Challenges ; Urban Rural Migration
    Abstract: Bangladesh's vulnerability to the effects of climate change is well documented; the evidence on the direct relationship between climate change and health focusing on Bangladesh is less so. Global evidence suggests intensification of climate change will increase incidences and variations of infectious diseases. Climate Afflictions contributes to filling this important knowledge gap. It includes a systematic review of existing literature on the relationship between climate change and health, distinguishing between climate change and variability. It establishes the relationship between climate variability and infectious diseases and mental health using household-level data. It also documents changes in climate patterns in Bangladesh over the past 44 years using monthly meteorological data. Overall, the report finds a strong relationship between infectious diseases, mental health, and climate variability. Based on analyses of primary data, it concludes that the prevalence of vector-borne diseases is higher during the monsoon than dry seasons, while the opposite is true for waterborne illnesses. Meanwhile, rising humidity and mean temperature are positively associated with respiratory illnesses. In terms of mental health conditions, while temperature is negatively correlated to depression, anxiety among individuals is likely to increase with temperature and humidity. Irrespective of the season, morbidity and mental health issues are highest in densely populated urban hubs such as Dhaka and Chattogram compared to other areas. The mean temperature in Bangladesh has increased by 0.5 degree C between 1976 and 2019. Overall, summers are becoming hotter and longer, the monsoon season is extending, and winters are becoming warmer. Consequently, Bangladesh is on the path to (...)
    DOI: 10.1596/978-1-4648-1764-9
    URL: http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/978-1-4648-1764-9
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    US Youth Films and Popular Music : Identity, Genre, and Musical Agency (2017)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis
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    ISBN: 9781317367390
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (199 pages)
    Series Statement: Routledge Advances in Film Studies
    Parallel Title: Print version McNelis, Tim US Youth Films and Popular Music : Identity, Genre, and Musical Agency
    DDC: 302.234
    Abstract: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Youth Films, Identity, and Musical Agency -- PART I: She's a Rebel? Girls, Guitars, and Agency -- 1 The Girl Can't Have It: Restricted Musical Agency in 10 Things I Hate About You and Love Don't Cost a Thing -- 2 Queer Agency and the Reappropriation of the "Technophallus" in All Over Me -- 3 Silent Punk and Audible Folk: Musical Sleight-of-Hand in Juno -- PART II: Listening to the Other: Cultural Borrowing and Critical Reflection -- 4 Consumption, Authenticity, and Identity Experimentation in Ghost World -- 5 "I didn't move to Bosnia": Critical Cultural Immersion in Save the Last Dance -- 6 Cheerleaders, Bullies, and Nerds: Intersections of White Stereotypes and Black Music in Bring It On, Mean Creek, and Napoleon Dynamite -- PART III: Unheard Ethnicities: Musical Construction of Ethnic Identity and Agency -- 7 'Old World' Ethnicity, Hybrid Identity, and 'New World' Agency in Real Women Have Curves -- 8 "Neighbourhood is sure changing, isn't it?": Evolving Traditions and Complex Identities in Quinceañera -- 9 Reimagining the All-American Teenager: Inaudible Ethnicity and Agency from the Margins in Better Luck Tomorrow -- Conclusion: The Continuing Relevance of Film Music to Identity and Agency -- Index
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    East Asia and Pacific Cities (2017)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    ISBN: 9781464811036
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Urban Development
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    DDC: 305.569095
    Abstract: Urbanization in East Asia and the Pacific has created enormous opportunity for many. Yet the rapid growth of cities can also create challenges as national and local governments try to keep up with the needs of their growing populations. Among these challenges is a lack of affordable housing, resulting in increasing slums, deficits in basic service provision, and widening inequality for urban dwellers. This study aims to better understand urban poverty and inequality in East Asian cities, recognizing that many countries of the region, particularly those of middle-income status, are at a critical juncture in their urbanization and growth process where potential social divisions in cities could harm prospects for future poverty reduction. The study uses a multidimensional approach to understand urban poverty and inclusion and draws on examples of programs and policies that have been successfully implemented in the East Asia region to develop a set of guiding principles for policy makers
    DOI: 10.1596/978-1-4648-1093-0
    URL: http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/978-1-4648-1093-0
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    Rhythms of Revolt (2017)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781315467849
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (426 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 398.20940000000002
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    Race Matters, Animal Matters : Fugitive Humanism in African America, 1838-1934 (2017)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781317356448
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (203 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture
    DDC: 305.896073
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    Routledge Revivals (2017)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781351984782
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (878 pages)
    Series Statement: Routledge Revivals
    DDC: 306.766
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    Dark Territory in the Information Age : Learning from the West German Census Controversies of the 1980s (2017)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781317154785
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (276 pages)
    DDC: 304.6072/3
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    MR 5600
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    MS 4250
    Keywords: Deutschland ; Deutschland ; Geschichte 1983-1987 ; Volkszählung ; Datenschutz ; Deutschland
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    Social Change and the Coming of Post-consumer Society : Theoretical Advances and Policy Implications (2017)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781317246206
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (247 pages)
    Series Statement: Routledge-SCORAI Studies in Sustainable Consumption
    DDC: 306.3
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    MS 5560
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    Masks and Masking in Medieval and Early Tudor England (2017)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781351919319
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (429 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
    DDC: 391.4340942
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    LC 12190
    Keywords: Geschichte 1100-1600 ; Maske ; England
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    Early Childhood Development in Tonga (2016)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    ISBN: 9781464810008
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: World Bank Studies
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    DDC: 305.231099612
    Abstract: Early Childhood Development in Tonga offers a comprehensive assessment of early child development across Tonga using the Tongan Early Human Capability Index instrument. The data has information on more than 6,600 children, ages three to five, living across 36 inhabited islands, and reported for 129 communities. On the basis of population figures from the Tongan census data collection provided by the Tonga Department of Statistics, 81 percent of three- to five-year-olds participated in the Tongan Early Human Capability Index. The report details the development of the instrument used to collect the child development data to ensure cultural validity and local relevance, while still capturing the fundamental aspects of child development that are consistent across countries and cultures. As well as the development of the instrument, other countries will also be interested in learning about h the method of data collection across a country with remote and isolated islands using an innovative partnership between health and education. Using existing systems and community governance structures, the data was not only collected but also disseminated back to communities to raise awareness and prompt community and government mobilization to support early child development. The process of developing and implementing the Tongan Early Human Capability Index across Tonga helped build national and district capacity, and is encouraging the establishment of community-based supports for children. Researchers, policy makers, and practitioners as well as advocates for the development and enhancement of systems to monitor early child development worldwide will find this publication highly significant
    DOI: 10.1596/978-1-4648-0999-6
    URL: http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/978-1-4648-0999-6
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    Being Fair, Faring Better (2016)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    ISBN: 9781464806193
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Directions in Development - Human Development
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    DDC: 305.891497094
    Abstract: In Central and Eastern European countries, inequalities for Roma families living in marginalized communities start early and are striking. Some of these inequalities reflect hard-wired family circumstances such as being born in poverty. Others reflect lack of opportunities such as limited access to those basic goods and services that are necessary not only for realizing one's potential in life, but also for living with dignity. Gaps between Roma and non-Roma widen over the lifecycle in a way that reinforces and perpetuates disadvantage and translates into significantly unequal outcomes, despite the fact that Roma report having similar aspirations to those of their non-Roma neighbors. Promoting equal opportunities for disadvantaged Roma is not only an imperative for societies that want to call themselves fair, but it is also a smart economic choice, especially in those countries where populations are aging rapidly. Investing early, with a particular emphasis on supporting healthy and cognitive development for disadvantaged Roma children, is likely to go a long way in promoting fair chances. However, leveling the playing field in childhood is likely not enough: disadvantaged Roma continue being exposed to unequal opportunities at key nodes in their lives, such as when pursuing education or when looking for a job. Therefore, it is as important that a broader set of policies address some of the circumstances in which a large share of Roma children grow up, including access to employment and decent living conditions for their families. Implementing interventions that help overcome these interrelated barriers will require strong ownership at the national level, coordinated policies across different ministries and government levels, and an integrated delivery system that (...)
    DOI: 10.1596/978-1-4648-0598-1
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    Making Politics Work for Development (2016)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    ISBN: 9781464807749
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Policy Research Reports
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    DDC: 306.2
    Abstract: Governments fail to provide the public goods needed for development when its leaders knowingly and deliberately ignore sound technical advice or are unable to follow it, despite the best of intentions, because of political constraints. This report focuses on two forces-citizen engagement and transparency-that hold the key to solving government failures by shaping how political markets function. Citizens are not only queueing at voting booths, but are also taking to the streets and using diverse media to pressure, sanction and select the leaders who wield power within government, including by entering as contenders for leadership. This political engagement can function in highly nuanced ways within the same formal institutional context and across the political spectrum, from autocracies to democracies. Unhealthy political engagement, when leaders are selected and sanctioned on the basis of their provision of private benefits rather than public goods, gives rise to government failures. The solutions to these failures lie in fostering healthy political engagement within any institutional context, and not in circumventing or suppressing it. Transparency, which is citizen access to publicly available information about the actions of those in government, and the consequences of these actions, can play a crucial role by nourishing political engagement
    DOI: 10.1596/978-1-4648-0771-8
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    Becoming a Knowledge-Sharing Organization (2016)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    ISBN: 9781464809446
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    DDC: 305.4
    Abstract: This volume offers a simple, systematic guide to creating a knowledge sharing practice in your organization. It shows how to build the enabling environment and develop the skills needed to capture and share knowledge gained from operational experiences to improve performance and scale-up successes. Its recommendations are grounded on the insights gained from the past seven years of collaboration between the World Bank and its clients around the world-ministries and national agencies operating in various sectors-who are working to strengthen their operations through robust knowledge sharing. While informed by the academic literature on knowledge management and organizational learning, this handbook's operational background and many real-world examples and tips provide a missing, practical foundation for public sector officials in developing countries and for development practitioners. However, though written with a public sector audience in mind, the overall concepts and approaches will also hold true for most organizations in the private sector and the developed world
    DOI: 10.1596/978-1-4648-0943-9
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    Fifty-One Key Feminist Thinkers (2016)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781317192756
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (265 pages)
    Series Statement: Routledge Key Guides
    DDC: 305.420922
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    The Demography of South Africa (2016)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781315497648
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (335 pages)
    DDC: 304.60968
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    MS 4000
    Keywords: Demographie ; Südafrika ; Electronic books
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    Stanlinism (2016)
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    ISBN: 9781315487847
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (310 pages)
    DDC: 306/.0947
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    Breaking Bread : Insurgent Black Intellectual Life (2016)
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    ISBN: 9781315437071
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (177 pages)
    DDC: 305.896073
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    EC 1874
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    Outstanding Women in Public Administration : Leaders, Mentors, and Pioneers (2016)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781317463313
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (197 pages)
    DDC: 305.42092273
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    European Media Policy for the Twenty-First Century : Assessing the Past, Setting Agendas for the Future (2016)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781317516460
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (291 pages)
    Series Statement: Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies
    DDC: 302.23094
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    Rethinking International Skilled Migration (2016)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ipswich : EBSCO
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    ISBN: 9781317420774
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (335 pages)
    Series Statement: Regions and Cities
    DDC: 378.1/982691
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    Keywords: Arbeitnehmer ; Migration ; Fachkraft
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    A Glossary of Literary and Cultural Theory (2016)
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    ISBN: 9781317354772
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (345 pages)
    Edition: 3rd edition
    DDC: 306.014
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    EC 1820
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    From potential to reality (2015)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    ISBN: 9781464804908 , 9781464804892
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    DDC: 304.6/20967
    Abstract: Overview --The state of demographics in Sub-Saharan Africa --Speeding the demographic transition --Selected social and economic effects of the demographic dividend --Afterword.
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    DOI: 10.1596/978-1-4648-0489-2
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    Responding to the challenge of fragility and security in West Africa (2015)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    ISBN: 9781464804649 , 9781464804656
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    DDC: 303.6/90966
    Abstract: Trends in conflict and violence --An overview of conflict and violence in West Africa --Emerging threats : trafficking, maritime piracy, and religious extremism --The complex challenges of youth and migration --The struggle for greater fairness and equity : the challenge of regional imbalances and improved benefit from extractives --The fragility of political institutions : managing the competition for power --Security : responding to new threats --Land institutions : a neverending conundrum --Lessons in resilience : the end of the Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Côte d'Ivoire conflicts --Improving the way donors and development agencies support the reduction of fragility --Annex : political leadership in West Africa.
    Note: "January 2015 , Includes bibliographical references , "This report has been prepared by the Fragility, Conflict and Violence Group at the World Bank
    DOI: 10.1596/978-1-4648-0464-9
    URL: http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/978-1-4648-0464-9
    URL: Inhaltsbeschreibung der Sammlung und Zugangshinweise
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    Racial formation in the United States (2015)
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    ISBN: 9781135127510
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 329 Seiten)
    Edition: Third edition
    DDC: 305.800973
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1960-2013 ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; USA
    Abstract: Twenty years since the publication of the Second Edition and more than thirty years since the publication of the original book, Racial Formation in the United States now arrives with each chapter radically revised and rewritten by authors Michael Omi and Howard Winant, but the overall purpose and vision of this classic remains the same: Omi and Winant provide an account of how concepts of race are created and transformed, how they become the focus of political conflict, and how they come to shape and permeate both identities and institutions. The steady journey of the U.S. toward a majority nonwhite population, the ongoing evisceration of the political legacy of the early post-World War II civil rights movement, the initiation of the 'war on terror' with its attendant Islamophobia, the rise of a mass immigrants rights movement, the formulation of race/class/gender 'intersectionality' theories, and the election and reelection of a black President of the United States are some of the many new racial conditions Racial Formation now covers.
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    From Lexington to Desert Storm : War and Politics in the American Experience (2015)
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    ISBN: 9781315704173
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (390 pages)
    DDC: 306.2/7/0973
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Krieg ; Politik ; Militärsoziologie ; Militärwissenschaft ; USA
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    Encyclopedia of Women in American History (2015)
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    ISBN: 9781315704692
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (780 pages)
    DDC: 305.4/0973/03
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    Ethnic Groups and Population Changes in Twentieth Century Eastern Europe : History, Data and Analysis (2015)
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    ISBN: 9781315704470
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (592 pages)
    DDC: 305.800947
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    Encyclopedia of American Social Movements (2015)
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    ISBN: 9781315704784
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1625 pages)
    DDC: 303.48/4/097303
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    In and Out of Each Other's Bodies : Theory of Mind, Evolution, Truth, and the Nature of the Social (2015)
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    ISBN: 9781315634005
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (172 pages)
    DDC: 301.03
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    Caught in the Crossfire : Kids, Politics, and America's Future (2015)
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    ISBN: 9781315635675
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (406 pages)
    Series Statement: Cultural Politics and the Promise of Democracy
    DDC: 305.235097309045
    Keywords: Kind ; Jugend ; Soziale Situation ; Politik ; USA
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    Families : Joys, Conflicts, and Changes (2015)
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    ISBN: 9781315634661
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (332 pages)
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    Femininity, Self-harm and Eating Disorders in Japan : Navigating contradiction in narrative and visual culture (2015)
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    ISBN: 9781317444381
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (255 pages)
    Series Statement: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
    DDC: 305.40952
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    Brazilian Folk Narrative Scholarship (RLE Folklore) : A Critical Survey and Selective Annotated Bibliography (2015)
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    ISBN: 9781138842434 , 9781317552093 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 263 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9781317552093
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    Series Statement: Routledge Library Editions: Folklore
    DDC: 016.3982/0981
    Abstract: Although Brazilian scholars have collected and studied folklore since the second half of the nineteenth century, their work has gone largely unnoticed by folklorists working in other parts of the world. With the exception of anthropologists who occasionally study the folk literature of indigenous peoples in Brazil, few foreigners are familiar with, or even aware of, the kinds of folklore studies that have been undertaken in that country. This work, first published in 1994, aims to characterize the nature of Brazilian narrative studies and trends; to discuss and assess the roots of the apparent...
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    Keeping Good Time : Reflections on Knowledge, Power and People (2015)
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    ISBN: 9781315633787
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (264 pages)
    Series Statement: Great Barrington Bks.
    DDC: 306.42
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    Mass Migration in the World-system : Past, Present, and Future (2015)
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    ISBN: 9781315633510
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (255 pages)
    Series Statement: Political Economy of the World-System Annuals
    DDC: 304.8
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    Power, Employment and Accumulation : Social Structures in Economic Theory and Policy (2015)
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    ISBN: 9780765606303
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (300 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Power, Employment and Accumulation : Social Structures in Economic Theory and Policy
    DDC: 306.3
    Keywords: Economics -- Sociological aspects.. ; Institutional economics.. ; Power (Social sciences) -- Economic aspects.. ; Macroeconomics.. ; Labor market.. ; International economic relations ; Economics ; Sociological aspects ; Institutional economics ; Power (Social sciences) ; Economic aspects ; Macroeconomics ; Labor market ; International economic relations ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Power, Employment, and Accumulation -- Part I: Power, Work, and Distribution -- 2 Skill Mismatch, Bureaucratic Burden, and Rising Earnings Inequality in the U.S.: What Do Hours and Earnings Trends by Occupation Show? -- 3 Voluntary Downshifting in the 1990s -- 4 The Future of Egalitarian Politics -- Part II: Power and the Macroeconomy -- 5 Conflict, Distribution, and Finance in Alternative Macroeconomic Traditions -- 6 Macroeconomic Performance and Labor Market Discrimination -- Part III: Power and the Global Economy -- 7 Social Structures and Economic Mobility: What's Really at Stake? -- 8 Institutions and the Persistence of Global Inequalities -- 9 Engendering the Economics of Globalization: Sites and Processes -- 10 Capital Market Crises: Liberalization, Fixed Exchange Rates, and Market-Driven Destabilization -- About the Editors and Contributors -- Index.
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Cover""; ""Half Title""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Table of Contents""; ""List of Tables and Figures""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1 Introduction: Power, Employment, and Accumulation""; ""Part I: Power, Work, and Distribution""; ""2 Skill Mismatch, Bureaucratic Burden, and Rising Earnings Inequality in the U.S.: What Do Hours and Earnings Trends by Occupation Show?""; ""3 Voluntary Downshifting in the 1990s""; ""4 The Future of Egalitarian Politics""; ""Part II: Power and the Macroeconomy""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""5 Conflict, Distribution, and Finance in Alternative Macroeconomic Traditions""""6 Macroeconomic Performance and Labor Market Discrimination""; ""Part III: Power and the Global Economy""; ""7 Social Structures and Economic Mobility: What's Really at Stake?""; ""8 Institutions and the Persistence of Global Inequalities""; ""9 Engendering the Economics of Globalization: Sites and Processes""; ""10 Capital Market Crises: Liberalization, Fixed Exchange Rates, and Market-Driven Destabilization""; ""About the Editors and Contributors""; ""Index""
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    Ewe Comic Heroes (RLE Folklore) : Trickster Tales in Togo (2015)
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    ISBN: 9781317551737
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (315 pages)
    Series Statement: Routledge Library Editions: Folklore
    DDC: 398.2089963374
    Abstract: The trickster character is prominent in the cultural, particularly narrative, traditions of many different peoples throughout the world. Comic and serious, stupid and clever, benevolent and evil, winner and loser, the trickster is a study in contradictions. The trickster cannot be pigeonholed, for he does not fit into any neat categories or definitions. This study, first published in 1994, aims to give the reader the opportunity to experience in some small measure the dynamic and exciting dramatic oral narrative performances of the Ewe people of West Africa.
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    Studies in Folk Life (RLE Folklore) : Essays in Honour of Iorwerth C. Peate (2015)
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    ISBN: 9781317549901
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (391 pages)
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    DDC: 398
    Abstract: This collection, first published in 1969, presents essays written by twenty of the most eminent scholars from the British Isles and Europe on aspects of folk life studies. The essays are written in honour of Dr Iorwerth C. Peate, Curator of the Welsh Folk Museum and doyen of folk life studies in Britain, to mark his retirement as the first President of the Society for Folk Life Studies. In the present book all the various aspects of folk life, from linguistics to sociology, from architecture to agrarian history, are covered, reflecting the wide interests of Dr Peate and his valuable contribution to the development of the study of traditional life in Britain.
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    Gentlemen's Prescriptions for Women's Lives : A Thousand Years of Biographies of Chinese Women (2015)
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    ISBN: 9781315704135
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (376 pages)
    DDC: 305.42/0951
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    Media and Conflict : Escalating Evil (2015)
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    ISBN: 9781315633497
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (193 pages)
    Series Statement: Media and Power
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    Thinking Queerly : Race, Sex, Gender, and the Ethics of Identity (2015)
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    ISBN: 9781315631585
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (116 pages)
    Series Statement: Cultural Politics and the Promise of Democracy
    DDC: 306.766
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    People Count! : Networked Individuals in Global Politics (2015)
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    ISBN: 9781315632889
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (200 pages)
    Series Statement: International Studies Intensives
    DDC: 302
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    Keywords: Politische Beteiligung ; Vernetzung ; Individuum ; Globalisierung
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    Korean Attitudes Toward the United States : Changing Dynamics (2015)
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    ISBN: 9781315703046
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (401 pages)
    DDC: 303.4825195073
    Keywords: Außenpolitik ; Öffentliche Meinung ; Antiamerikanismus ; Südkorea ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung
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    People and Their Opinions (2015)
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    ISBN: 9781315663357
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (385 pages)
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    Social Capital in America : Counting Buried Treasure (2015)
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    ISBN: 9781315632094
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (140 pages)
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    Media Spectacle and the Crisis of Democracy : Terrorism, War, and Election Battles (2015)
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    ISBN: 9781315633480
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (288 pages)
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    Keywords: Massenmedien ; Politik ; USA
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    The Philosophy of Labour (2015)
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    ISBN: 9781317306993
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (71 pages)
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    Challenging the Mandate of Heaven : Social Protest and State Power in China (2015)
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    ISBN: 9781315705866
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (377 pages)
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    Inside Japanese Business : A Narrative History 1960-2000 (2015)
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    ISBN: 9781315703404
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (488 pages)
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    Incorporating Diversity : Rethinking Assimilation in a Multicultural Age (2015)
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    ISBN: 9781315633978
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (359 pages)
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    The Natural and the Social : Uncertainty, Risk, Change (2015)
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    ISBN: 9781136891526
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (174 pages)
    Edition: 2nd ed.
    Series Statement: Understanding Social Change
    DDC: 303.483
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    Keywords: Umwelt ; Soziologie ; Risiko
    Abstract: The age in which people in the West have treated society and nature as essentially separate matters is at an end. Environmental change and degradation impinge on all our lives, and even our genes are increasingly seen by employers and insurers as commodities. The Natural and the Social draws on insights from across the social sciences to examine the changing character of these interrelations between society and nature. Individual chapters look in depth at genes, environments and human development, medical practices and health, and the management of environmental risk. Throughout students are encouraged to draw on their own experiences to understand the theoretical and practical problems of living in this new natural-and-social world. This exciting and original text will be essential reading for anyone who wants to understand more clearly the role and limitations of technological and scientific progress in contemporary society.
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    The Development of Soviet Folkloristics (RLE Folklore) (2015)
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    ISBN: 9781317551829
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (487 pages)
    Series Statement: Routledge Library Editions: Folklore
    DDC: 398.09470904
    Abstract: Crucial to the world history of folkloristics is this key study, first published in 1992, of the development of folklore study in the Soviet Union. Nowhere else has political ideology been so heavily involved with folklore scholarship. Professor Howell has examined in depth the institutional development of folkloristics in the Soviet Union in the first half of the twentieth century, concentrating especially upon the transition from pre-revolutionary Russian to Soviet Marxist folkloristics. The study of folklore moved from narrator studies to the description of the relationship of lore to larger contexts of social groups and social classes. Showing an exceptional knowledge of Russian, political theory and folkloristics, Dana Howell provides a valuable window into the rise of folkloristics in a country undergoing almost unprecedented changes in social and political conditions.
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    Women, Family, and Class : The Lillian Rubin Reader (2015)
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    ISBN: 9781315631035
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (234 pages)
    Series Statement: Classics in Gender Studies
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    Of Divine Warning : Disaster in a Modern Age (2015)
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    ISBN: 9781315633190
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (177 pages)
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    Triumph and Trauma (2015)
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    ISBN: 9781315631455
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (207 pages)
    Series Statement: Yale Cultural Sociology
    DDC: 306.2
    Keywords: Verbrechensopfer ; Kollektives Gedächtnis ; Heroismus ; Politische Soziologie ; Täter
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    W. E. B. Du Bois : Black Radical Democrat (2015)
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    ISBN: 9781315631264
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (333 pages)
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    After the Crossing : Immigrants and Minorities in Caribbean Creole Society (2015)
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    ISBN: 9781315862583
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (156 pages)
    DDC: 305.80091821
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1800-1988 ; Nationale Minderheit ; Einwanderung ; Karibik
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    The Work and Family Handbook : Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives and Approaches (2015)
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (817 pages)
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    Hegemony of English (2015)
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    ISBN: 9781315634159
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (177 pages)
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    Keywords: Englisch ; Sprache ; Sprachverbreitung ; Hegemonie
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    Going Down for Air : A Memoir in Search of a Subject (2015)
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (214 p)
    Series Statement: Great Barrington Bks
    Parallel Title: Print version Going Down for Air : A Memoir in Search of a Subject
    DDC: 306.4/2
    Keywords: Memory ; Social aspects ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Photographs -- Prelude: Walter Benjamin's Cabinet -- Notes -- A Memoir -- Notes -- Oh, I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside -- In Search of a Subject -- The floating world -- Drawing from memory -- Freudian slip -- Daydream believer -- What's in a madeleine? -- Footfalls in the memory -- Notes -- Index -- Permissions -- About the Author.
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Photographs; Prelude: Walter Benjamin's Cabinet; Notes; A Memoir; Notes; Oh, I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside; In Search of a Subject; The floating world; Drawing from memory; Freudian slip; Daydream believer; What's in a madeleine?; Footfalls in the memory; Notes; Index; Permissions; About the Author
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    Language and Learning in a Post-Colonial Context : A Critical Ethnographic Study in Schools in Haiti (2015)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis
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    ISBN: 9781134629886
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (214 pages)
    Series Statement: Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism
    Parallel Title: Print version Jean-Pierre, Marky Language and Learning in a Post-Colonial Context : A Critical Ethnographic Study in Schools in Haiti
    DDC: 306.4497294
    Keywords: Language planning--Haiti--History
    Abstract: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Chronology -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- Part I Haiti: Colonial Hierarchies and Language Ideological Legacies in the Building of a Nation -- 2 Ayiti, Hispaniola, Saint-Domingue, and Then Haiti: A Brief Account of the Colonial History of Haiti -- 3 From Ideologies About 'Corrupted Language' to Linguistic Research: Unpacking Past and Present Representations of Creoles and Reconceptualizing Haitian -- 4 The Trajectory of Language and Education Policies in Haiti From the Era of Columbus to the Present -- Part II Researching and Theorizing Language-in-Education in a Post-Colonial Context -- 5 Language-in-Education in Haiti: Orienting Theories -- 6 Language in Use in Haitian Classrooms: Research Methodology -- Part III Doing Lessons in French and in Haitian in Two Schools: Texts, Talk, and Ways of Knowing -- 7 Teacher-Dominated Talk in a Third Grade History Lesson at KayPro School -- 8 "You don't know the lesson": Teacher Talk in a Fourth Grade Geography Lesson at Mango Fil School -- 9 Discussing the Environment in Haitian in a Third Grade Natural Science Lesson at KayPro School: Students' Voices and Positive Teacher Evaluations -- 10 Considering the Significance of Local Plants in Haitian: A Sixth Grade Lesson at Mangofil School -- 11 Dialogic Interactions in Haitian and in French at KayPro School -- 12 Reciting and Writing From the Textbook: A French-Medium Math Lesson in a Third Grade Classroom at KayPro School -- 13 Orienting to the Textbook as the Location of Knowledge: A Haitian language Arts Lesson at Mangofil School -- Part IV Moving Beyond the Workings of Coloniality: Redefining Language and Education Futures -- 14 Educating or Merely Schooling Haitian Students? -- 15 Concluding Reflections: Redefining Language and Education Futures in Haiti -- References.
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    Nonviolence and Education : Cross-Cultural Pathways (2014)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781135049232
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (227 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies in Curriculum Theory Series
    DDC: 375.001
    Abstract: In current global politics, which positions China as a competitor to American leadership, in-depth understandings of transnational mutual engagement are much needed for cultivating nonviolent relations. Exploring American and Chinese professors' experiences at the intersection of the individual, society, and history, and weaving the autobiographical and the global, this book furthers understanding of their cross-cultural personal awareness and educational work at universities in both countries. While focusing on life histories, it also draws on both American and Chinese intellectual traditions such as American nonviolence activism, Taoism, and Buddhism to formulate a vision of nonviolence in curriculum studies. Centering cross-cultural education and pedagogy about, for, and through nonviolence, this volume contributes to internationalizing curriculum studies and introduces curriculum theorizing at the level of higher education. Hongyu Wang brings together stories, dialogues, and juxtapositions of cross-cultural pathways and pedagogies in a powerful case for theorizing and performing nonviolence education as visionary work in the internationalization of curriculum studies.
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    Social Identity (2014)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781134586691
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (264 pages)
    Edition: 4th ed.
    Series Statement: Key Ideas
    DDC: 305
    Abstract: Social Identity explains how identification, seen as a social process, works: individually, interactionally and institutionally. Building on the international success of previous editions, this fourth edition offers a concise, comprehensive and readable critical introduction to social science theories of identity for advanced undergraduates and postgraduates. All the chapters have been updated, and extra new material has been added where relevant, integrating the most recent critical publications in the field.As with the earlier editions, the emphasis is on sociology, anthropology and social psychology; on the interplay between relationships of similarity and difference; on interaction; on the categorisation of others as well as self-identification; and on power, institutions and organisations.Written in clear, accessible language, and informed by relevant topical examples throughout, this fully updated new edition will be useful for students interested in social identity throughout the social sciences and humanities.
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    Negotiating Territoriality : Spatial Dialogues Between State and Tradition (2014)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781317800545
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (270 pages)
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Anthropology v.17
    DDC: 304.23
    Abstract: This edited collection disrupts dominant narratives about space, states, and borders, bringing comparative ethnographic and geographic scholarship in conversation with one another to illuminate the varied ways in which space becomes socialized via political, economic, and cognitive appropriation. Societies must, first and foremost, do more than wrangle over ownership and land rights - they must dwell in space. Yet, historically the interactions between the state's territorial imperative with previous forms of landscape management have unfolded in a variety of ways, including top-down imposition, resistance, and negotiation between local and external actors. These interactions have resulted in hybrid forms of territoriality, and are often fraught with fundamentally different perceptions of landscape. This book foregrounds these experiences and draws attention to situations in which different social constructions of space and territory coincide, collide, or overlap. Each ethnographic case in this volume presents forms of territoriality that are contingent upon contested histories, politics, landscape, the presence or absence of local heterogeneity and the involvement of multiple external actors with differing motivations - ultimately all resulting in the potential for conflict or collaboration and divergent implications for conceptions of community, autochthony and identity.
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    Women of the Grassfields : A Study of the Economic Position of Women in Barmenda, British Cameroons (2014)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203987537
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (315 pages)
    Edition: 2nd ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Classic Ethnographies
    DDC: 305.42
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    LB 44529
    Keywords: Frau ; Kamerun ; Bamenda
    Abstract: This classic ethnography examines the social and economic position of women in Bamena, British Cameroons, in 1944. The field study was prompted by the conditions in Bamenda, when despite considerable natural resources, there was underpopulation, a very high infant mortality, and the status of women was very low. This rich and engaging study looks at all aspects of life in Bamena, and includes a number of original photographs.
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    Caregiving Daughters : Accepting the Role of Caregiver for Elderly Parents (2014)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis
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    ISBN: 9780815330271 , 9781317776840 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 190 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9781317776840
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    Series Statement: Garland Studies on the Elderly in America
    DDC: 306
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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    Japanese Bosses, Chinese Workers : Power and Control in a Hongkong Megastore (2014)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis
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    ISBN: 9780700710751 , 9781136814099 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 241 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9781136814099
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    Series Statement: Anthropology of Asia
    DDC: 306.36095125
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Examines the ways in of organising work, rank, compensation, and promotion inside a large Japanese company in Hong Kong, and its spiritual training, to reveal the socio-economic base of managerial control. A must for anthropologists and Japanologists.
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    Artful Itineraries : European Art and American Careers in High Culture, 1865-1920 (2014)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis
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    ISBN: 9780815336549 , 9781135706586 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 305 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9781135706586
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    Series Statement: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
    DDC: 306.4709034
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    HT 1560
    Keywords: Geschichte 1865 - 1920 ; Literatur ; Kunst ; Kulturkontakt ; Europa ; USA ; Electronic books
    Abstract: First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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    Learning and Coordination : Inductive Deliberation, Equilibrium and Convention (2014)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis
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    ISBN: 9780815340393 , 9781135725907 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 244 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9781135725907
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    Series Statement: Studies in Ethics
    DDC: 302
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Vanderschraaf develops a new theory of game theory equilibrium selection in this book. The new theory defends general correlated equilibrium concepts and suggests a new analysis of convention.
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    Pioneering Paths in the Study of Families : The Lives and Careers of Family Scholars (2014)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis
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    ISBN: 9780789020888 , 9781136411762 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 925 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9781136411762
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    DDC: 306.85/07/2
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Meet the men and women whose groundbreaking work elevated the field of family studies! In Pioneering Paths in the Study of Families: The Lives and Careers of Family Scholars, you'll find 40 autobiographies written by leading scholars in sociology, family studies, psychology, and child development. Their fascinating stories demonstrate how their family experiences, educational opportunities, and occupational endeavors not only shaped the disciplines they chose but also shaped the theoretical perspectives they utilized and the topics they researched. From the editors: These autobiographies do...
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    Telling Our Stories : The Lives of Latina Women (2014)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis
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    ISBN: 9780415931151 , 9781317726081 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 132 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9781317726081
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    Series Statement: Latino Communities: Emerging Voices - Political, Social, Cultural and Legal Issues
    DDC: 304.6320896872073
    Keywords: Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Stereotypes of Mexican American women and the lack of their representation in research literature contribute to misrepresentations of Mexican American culture and their invisibility. In this qualitative study, Mexican American women were interviewed and their life histories were examined using an ethnographic and hermeneutical phenomenological approach.
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    Sexuality and Gender in Postcommunist Eastern Europe and Russia (2014)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis
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    ISBN: 9780789022936 , 9781317955597 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 743 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9781317955597
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    DDC: 306.7/0947
    RVK:
    MS 2850
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    MG 80285
    Keywords: Sexualität ; Geschlechterforschung ; Osteuropa ; Russische SFSR ; Konferenzschrift 2001 ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Important new findings on sex and gender in the former Soviet Bloc! Sexuality and Gender in Postcommunist Eastern Europe and Russia is a groundbreaking look at the new sexual reality in Central, Eastern, and Southeast Europe after the fall of communism. The book presents the kind of candid discussion of sexual identities, sexual politics, and gender arrangements that was often censored and rarely discussed openly before the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1987. Authors from a variety of disciplines examine how the changes caused by rapid economic and social transformation have affected human se...
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    Lives of Lesbian Elders : Looking Back, Looking Forward (2014)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis
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    ISBN: 9780789023339 , 9781317718314 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 222 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9781317718314
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    DDC: 306.76/63/0922
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: The untold history of lesbian life from those who have lived it! Lives of Lesbian Elders: Looking Back, Looking Forward illuminates the hopes, fears, issues, and concerns of gay women as they grow older. Based on interviews with 62 lesbians ranging in age from 55 to 95, this very special book provides a historical account of the shared experiences of the lesbian community that is so often invisible or ignored in contemporary society. The book gives voice to their thoughts and feelings on a wide range of issues, including coming out, identity and the meaning of life, the role of family and pers...
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    Adolescence, Sexuality, and the Criminal Law : Multidisciplinary Perspectives (2014)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis
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    ISBN: 9780789027801 , 9781317954996 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 194 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9781317954996
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    DDC: 305.235
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Gain an understanding of the threat to freedom that is posed by state regulation of adolescent sexual behaviorSexual autonomy encompasses both the right to engage in wanted sexual activity and the right to be free and protected from unwanted sexual aggression. Only when both aspects of adolescents' rights are recognized can human sexual dignity be fully respected. In Adolescence, Sexuality, and the Criminal Law, experts from several disciplines use case studies, legal analysis, empirical examinations, and tables and figures to provide you with an insightful contribution to the debate surroundi...
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    The Naqab Bedouin and Colonialism : New Perspectives (2014)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781317660521
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (233 pages)
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies on the Arab-Israeli Conflict
    DDC: 305.8927
    RVK:
    LB 48345
    Keywords: Geschichte 18950-2014 ; Beduine ; Kolonialismus ; Negev ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: The Naqab Bedouin and Colonialism brings together new scholarship to challenge perceived paradigms, often dominated by orientalist, modernist or developmentalist assumptions on the Naqab Bedouin. The past decade has witnessed a change in both the wider knowledge production on, and political profile of, the Naqab Bedouin. This book addresses this change by firstly, endeavouring to overcome the historic isolation of Naqab Bedouin studies from the rest of Palestine studies by situating, studying and analyzing their predicaments firmly within the contemporary context of Israeli settler-colonial policies. Secondly, it strives to de-colonise research and advocacy on the Naqab Bedouin, by, for example, reclaiming 'indigenous' knowledge and terminology. Offering not only a nuanced description and analysis of Naqab Bedouin agency and activism, but also trying to draw broader conclusion as to the functioning of settler-colonial power structures as well as to the politics of research in such a context, this book is essential reading for students and researchers with an interest in Postcolonial Studies, Development Studies, Israel/Palestine Studies and the contemporary Middle East more broadly.
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    Encyclopedia of American Folk Art (2014)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203644485
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (724 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 745.097303
    RVK:
    LB 12610
    RVK:
    LC 90610
    RVK:
    LB 12610
    RVK:
    LC 90610
    Keywords: Volkskunst ; USA ; Wörterbuch
    Abstract: For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Encyclopedia of American Folk Art web site. This is the first comprehensive, scholarly study of a most fascinating aspect of American history and culture. Generously illustrated with both black and white and full-color photos, this A-Z encyclopedia covers every aspect of American folk art, encompassing not only painting, but also sculpture, basketry, ceramics, quilts, furniture, toys, beadwork, and more, including both famous and lesser-known genres. Containing more than 600 articles, this unique reference considers individual artists, schools, artistic, ethnic, and religious traditions, and heroes who have inspired folk art. An incomparable resource for general readers, students, and specialists, it will become essential for anyone researching American art, culture, and social history.
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    Gender and Entrepreneurship : An Ethnographic Approach (2014)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780203698891
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (240 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society
    DDC: 306.3/42
    Keywords: Unternehmen ; Unternehmensgründung ; Geschlechterrolle
    Abstract: Entrepreneurship can be read as a cultural and economic phenomenon. In recent times, gender has become an increasing influence on entrepreneurship. This groundbreaking new study considers both gender and entrepreneurship as symbolic forms, looking at their diverse patterns and social representation. Presenting an ethnographic study of the gender structuring of entrepreneurship, this work employs three strategies: A critical survey of gender studies which argues that entrepreneurship is a cultural model of masculinity that obstructs the expression of other models; 'Reflexive' ethnographic observation conducted in five small firms which describes how business cultures are 'gendered' and how gender is the product of a social practice; An analysis of how discursive and narrative practices in business cultures constitute gender and entrepreneurship.
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    Philosophy of Science and Race (2014)
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    ISBN: 9780415941631 , 9781134727957 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 160 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9781134727957
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    DDC: 305.8
    Abstract: First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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    Uses of Reminiscence : New Ways of Working With Older Adults (2014)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis
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    ISBN: 9780866562720 , 9781317824060 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 382 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9781317824060
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    DDC: 305.2/6/0922
    Abstract: The meaning and value of reminiscence in the lives of elders is beautifully explored.
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    Against My Better Judgment : An Intimate Memoir of an Eminent Gay Psychologist (2014)
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    ISBN: 9780789000873 , 9781317823193 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 264 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9781317823193
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    DDC: 306.76/62/092
    Abstract: Against My Better Judgment: An Intimate Memoir of an Eminent Gay Psychologist is an extraordinary and moving account of the life of a gay man in his late 60s after he loses his companion of 40 years to cancer. A leading professor of psychology at Harvard University, Roger Brown bravely comes forth with his compelling story of grief, loneliness, and a relentless search for intimacy, healing, and self-acceptance. Readers gain insight into a stage of life experienced by gay men of which little is written or spoken due to the ageism that characterizes homosexual culture. Against My Better Judgment...
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    The New Immigrant in American Society : Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the New Immigration (2014)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781136750625
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (385 pages)
    DDC: 304.87
    Abstract: First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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    A Civilised Savagery : Britain and the New Slaveries in Africa, 1884-1926 (2014)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781135408640
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (236 pages)
    DDC: 306.362096709034
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    NW 8295
    Keywords: Geschichte 1884-1926 ; Kolonie ; Sklaverei ; Abolitionismus ; Großbritannien ; Subsaharisches Afrika
    Abstract: In the two decades before World War One, Great Britain witnessed the largest revival of anti-slavery protest since the legendary age of emancipation in the mid-nineteenth century. Rather than campaigning against the trans-Atlantic slave trade, these latter-day abolitionists focused on the so-called 'new slaveries' of European imperialism in Africa, condemning coercive systems of labor taxation and indentured servitude, as well as evidence of atrocities. A Civilized Savagery illuminates the multifaceted nature of British humanitarianism by juxtaposing campaigns against different forms of imperial labor exploitation in three separate areas: the Congo Free State, South Africa, and Portuguese West Africa. In doing so, Kevin Grant points out how this new type of humanitarianism influenced the transition from Empire to international government and the advent of universal human rights in subsequent decades.
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    Video Gamers (2014)
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    ISBN: 9780203863374
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (201 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 306.487
    Abstract: Video gaming is economically, educationally, culturally, socially and theoretically important, and has, in a relatively short period of time, firmly cemented its place within contemporary life. It is fair to say, however, that the majority of research to date has focused most specifically on either the video games themselves, or the direct engagement of gamers with a specific piece of game technology. In contrast, Video Gamers is the first book to explicitly and comprehensively address how digital games are engaged with and experienced in the everyday lives, social networks and consumer patterns of those who play them. In doing so, the book provides a key introduction to the study of gamers and the games they play, whilst also reflecting on the current debates and literatures surrounding gaming practices.
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    Knowledge & Discourse : Towards an Ecology of Language (2014)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781317881278
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (366 pages)
    Series Statement: Language In Social Life
    DDC: 401.41
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    ET 760
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    ET 760
    Keywords: Soziolinguistik ; Ethnolinguistik ; Diskursanalyse ; Kulturvergleich ; Kulturkontakt ; Geschlechtsunterschied ; Massenmedien ; Interaktion ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Knowledge and Discourse presents an ecological approach to the study of discourse in social, academic and professional practices. It brings together distinguished scholars from diverse cultures - India, China, Australia, Canada among others - and disciplines - linguistics, anthropology, sociology, philosophy. The chapters collectively illustrate the ecological approach by exploring how language makes connections between subjective experiences as people construct meaning and action. This book offers the reader a holistic, interdisciplinary approach to the study of language as discourse, questioning traditional views of disciplinary knowledge and the role of discourse in the pursuit, construction and compartmentalisation of such knowledge. Through the variety of disciplines, experiences and approaches, the contributors show how the world and word are contingent on each other. The notions of connectivity, contingency and change are themes that run through the book, and in the interweaving of these themes readers will find persuasive illustrations of an ecological approach to applied linguistics.
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    Misunderstanding in Social Life : Discourse Approaches to Problematic Talk (2014)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781317877554
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (273 pages)
    Series Statement: Language In Social Life
    DDC: 401.41
    RVK:
    ER 990
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    ER 990
    Keywords: Konversationsanalyse ; Missverständnis ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Misunderstanding is a pervasive phenomenon in social life, sometimes with serious consequences for people's life chances. Misunderstandings are especially hazardous in high-stakes events such as job interviews or in the legal system. In unequal power encounters, unsuccessful communication is regularly attributed to the less powerful participant, especially when those participants are members of an ethnic minority group. But even when communicative events are not prestructured by participants' differential positions in social hierarchies, misunderstandings occur at different levels of interactional and social engagement. Misunderstanding in Social Life examines such problematic talk in ordinary conversation and different institutional settings, including socializing events and story tellings, education and assessment activities, and interviews in TV news broadcasts, employment agencies, legal settings, and language testing. The analyzed interactions are located in a variety of sociocultural environments and conducted in a range of languages, including English, French, German, Hebrew, Japanese, such language varieties as Aboriginal Australian English and Maori New Zealand English, and nonnative varieties. The original studies included in this volume adopt a variety of theoretical perspectives, including discourse-pragmatic approaches, conversation analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, social constructionism, tropological and narrative analysis. They represent multiple views of misunderstanding as a multilayered discourse event.
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    Lewis Mumford and Patrick Geddes : The Correspondence (2014)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781134813797
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (402 pages)
    DDC: 306.0922
    Abstract: First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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    Spaces and Places in Central and Eastern Europe : Historical Trends and Perspectives (2014)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781317917540
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (273 pages)
    Series Statement: Regions and Cities
    DDC: 303.440947
    RVK:
    RC 10909
    RVK:
    MG 80990
    RVK:
    RC 15909
    RVK:
    RL 60909
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    RP 80909
    Keywords: Strukturpolitik ; Regionalentwicklung ; Postkommunismus ; Mitteleuropa ; Osteuropa
    Abstract: Across Europe there is a rapidly changing context for undertaking regional development. In the 20th century, development of the former planned economies (Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia), was defined by these countries differences, rather than their common ideological roots. These disparities altered over time and were marked by changing social structures. However, the ranking of regions has remained the same as core areas have strengthened their positions while the structural obstacles to the modernisation of peripheral areas have remained due to a lack of coherent regional policy. This book examines the specific regional development paths of Central and Eastern European countries and evaluates the effects of the determining factors of this process. Through analysis of the system of objectives, instruments and institutions used in different eras, and case studies of Hungary, East Germany and Germany, development models are established and compared with Western European patterns. The book summarises the experiences of Central and Eastern European regional cooperation and examines the basic nature of the cohesion problems of the Carpathian Basin trans-national macro region. It confirms by comparative historical analyses that the transformation was indeed unique. This book will make a welcome addition to the literature for students and academics interested in the broader picture of Central and Eastern European politics, future integration within the European Union and the history of regional development processes.
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    Building Imaginary Worlds : The Theory and History of Subcreation (2014)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781136220814
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (409 pages)
    DDC: 302.23
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    EC 3950
    Keywords: Fantasiewelt ; Imaginärer Schauplatz ; Literatur ; Medien
    Abstract: Mark J.P. Wolf's study of imaginary worlds theorizes world-building within and across media, including literature, comics, film, radio, television, board games, video games, the Internet, and more. Building Imaginary Worlds departs from prior approaches to imaginary worlds that focused mainly on narrative, medium, or genre, and instead considers imaginary worlds as dynamic entities in and of themselves. Wolf argues that imaginary worlds-which are often transnarrative, transmedial, and transauthorial in nature-are compelling objects of inquiry for Media Studies. Chapters touch on: a theoretical analysis of how world-building extends beyond storytelling, the engagement of the audience, and the way worlds are conceptualized and experienced a history of imaginary worlds that follows their development over three millennia from the fictional islands of Homer's Odyssey to the present internarrative theory examining how narratives set in the same world can interact and relate to one another an examination of transmedial growth and adaptation, and what happens when worlds make the jump between media an analysis of the transauthorial nature of imaginary worlds, the resulting concentric circles of authorship, and related topics of canonicity, participatory worlds, and subcreation's relationship with divine Creation Building Imaginary Worlds also provides the scholar of imaginary worlds with a glossary of terms and a detailed timeline that spans three millennia and more than 1,400 imaginary worlds, listing their names, creators, and the works in which they first appeared.
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    Representing African Music : Postcolonial Notes, Queries, Positions (2014)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis
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    ISBN: 9780415943895 , 9781317794066 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 519 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9781317794066
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    DDC: 780.67
    RVK:
    LS 46000
    Keywords: Musik ; Postkolonialismus ; Musikwissenschaft ; Afrika
    Abstract: The aim of this book is to stimulate debate by offering a critique of discourse about African music. Who writes about African music, how, and why? What assumptions and prejudices influence the presentation of ethnographic data? Even the term ""African music"" suggests there is an agreed-upon meaning, but African music signifies differently to different people. This book also poses the question then, ""What is African music?"" Agawu offers a new and provocative look at the history of African music scholarship that will resonate with students of ethnomusicology and post-colonial studies. He offe...
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    Stories of Gay and Lesbian Immigration : Together Forever? (2014)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis
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    ISBN: 9780789007063 , 9781317712794 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 192 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9781317712794
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    DDC: 305.9/0664
    Abstract: Share the personal stories of gay and lesbian couples who immigrated to Australia!This fascinating book examines the Australian government's innovative immigration program for same-sex couples. Covering the time from the early 1980s to 2000, Stories of Gay and Lesbian Immigration: Together Forever? offers a powerful glimpse into the gains and costs of immigration. Its twenty-year span offers insight into both immediate and long-term implications of this policy.Stories of Gay and Lesbian Immigration intertwines the personal stories of gay and lesbian immigrants, including the author, with thoug...
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    Chicana Feminist Thought : The Basic Historical Writings (2014)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781134719747
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (760 pages)
    DDC: 306.46
    RVK:
    HU 1727
    RVK:
    HU 1729
    Keywords: Geschichte ; Frau ; Chicanos ; Feminismus ; Literatur ; USA
    Abstract: Chicana Feminist Thought brings together the voices of Chicana poets, writers, and activists who reflect upon the Chicana Feminist Movement that began in the late 1960s. With energy and passion, this anthology of writings documents the personal and collective political struggles of Chicana feminists.
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    Motherhood Lost : A Feminist Account of Pregnancy Loss in America (2014)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781135222161
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (369 pages)
    DDC: 306.87430973
    Abstract: First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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    Baakisimba : Gender in the Music and Dance of the Baganda People of Uganda (2014)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781135456528
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (315 pages)
    Series Statement: Current Research in Ethnomusicology: Outstanding Dissertations
    DDC: 780.89963957
    RVK:
    LS 46700
    Keywords: Musik ; Tanz ; Ganda ; Geschlechterrolle ; Uganda
    Abstract: First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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    European Cinemas, European Societies : 1939-1990 (2014)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis
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    ISBN: 9780415056717 , 9780203397367 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 256 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9780203397367
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    Series Statement: Studies in Film, Television and the Media
    DDC: 302.2343094
    RVK:
    AP 44906
    RVK:
    MF 9300
    Abstract: First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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    Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender People with Developmental Disabilities and Mental Retardatio : Stories of the Rainbow Support Group (2014)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis
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    ISBN: 9781560233954 , 9781317766124 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 170 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9781317766124
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    DDC: 306.7/087/4
    Abstract: Experience the birth of the first support group for sexual minorities with developmental disabilities! Reflecting an unprecedented development in the disabled and sexual minority communities, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender People with Developmental Disabilities and Mental Retardation: Stories of the Rainbow Support Group describes the founding, achievements, and history of a unique group providing support for people with developmental disabilities or mental retardation (DD/MR) who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender. In this pathbreaking book, group founder John D. Allen desc...
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    Social Cohesion and Immigration in Europe and North America : Mechanisms, Conditions, and Causality (2014)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781317689089
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (255 pages)
    Series Statement: Routledge Advances in Sociology
    DDC: 304.82
    Abstract: Concerns about immigration and the rising visibility of minorities have triggered a lively scholarly debate on the consequences of ethnic diversity for trust, cooperation, and other aspects of social cohesion. In this accessibly written volume, leading scholars explore where, when, and why ethnic diversity affects social cohesion by way of analyses covering the major European immigration countries, as well as the United States and Canada. They explore the merits of competing theoretical accounts and give rare insights into the underlying mechanisms through which diversity affects social cohesion. The volume offers a nuanced picture of the topic by explicitly exploring the conditions under which ethnic diversity affects the 'glue' that holds societies together. With its interdisciplinary perspective and contributions by sociologists, political scientists, social psychologists, as well as economists, the book offers the most comprehensive analysis of the link between ethnic diversity and social cohesion that is currently available.
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    Democratic Accountability and International Human Development : Regimes, institutions and resources (2014)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781317661337
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (279 pages)
    Series Statement: Routledge Explorations in Development Studies
    DDC: 303.44
    Abstract: Scholars and policymakers have long known that there is a strong link between human development and spending on key areas such as education and health. However, many states still neglect these considerations in favour of competing priorities, such as expanding their armies. This book examines how states arrive at these decisions, analysing how democratic accountability influences public spending and impacts on human development.The book shows how the broader paradigm of democratic accountability - extending beyond political democracy to also include bureaucratic and judicial institutions as well as taxation and other modes of resource mobilisation - can best explain how states allocate public resources for human development. Combining cross-country regression analysis with exemplary case studies from Pakistan, India, Botswana and Argentina, the book demonstrates that enhancing human capabilities requires not only effective party competition and fair elections, but also a particular nesting of public organisational structures that are tied to taxpaying citizens in an undisturbed chain of accountability. It draws out vital lessons for institutional design and our approach to the question of human development, particularly in the less developed states.This book will be of great interest to postgraduate students and researchers in the fields of political economy, public policy, governance, and development. It also provides valuable insights for those working in the international relations field, including inside major aid and investment organisations.
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    Nomads in Postrevolutionary Iran : The Qashqa'i in an Era of Change (2014)
    Florence : Taylor and Francis | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9781317743873
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (431 pages)
    Series Statement: Iranian Studies
    DDC: 305.89
    RVK:
    LB 48365
    RVK:
    MH 68968
    RVK:
    RR 27570
    Abstract: Examining the rapid transition in Iran from a modernizing, westernizing, secularizing monarchy (1941-79) to a hard-line, conservative, clergy-run Islamic republic (1979-), this book focuses on the ways this process has impacted the Qashqa'i-a rural, nomadic, tribally organized, Turkish-speaking, ethnic minority of a million and a half people who are dispersed across the southern Zagros Mountains.Analysing the relationship between the tribal polity and each of the two regimes, the book goes on to explain the resilience of the people's tribal organizations, kinship networks, and politicized ethnolinguistic identities to demonstrate how these structures and ideologies offered the Qashqa'i a way to confront the pressures emanating from the two central governments. Existing scholarly works on politics in Iran rarely consider Iranian society outside the capital of Tehran and beyond the reach of the details of national politics. Local-level studies on Iran-accounts of the ways people actually lived-are now rare, especially after the revolution. Based on long-term anthropological research, Nomads in Postrevolutionary Iran provides a unique insight into how national-level issues relate to the local level and will be of interest to scholars and researchers in Anthropolgy, Iranian Studies and Middle Eastern Studies.
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