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This volume explores the connection between two phenomena usually thought to be utterly incongruous, even antithetical: ‘utopia’ and ‘everyday life’. It presents a series of essays, written over the last twenty years, which rethink the nature and prospects of utopianism...
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This book aims to contribute to the debate on European cultural policy and cultural diplomacy as well as to fill in the gap that exists in this under-researched field. Europe is still struggling in formulating its common cultural policy that will present Europe as a...
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Die gewerbsmäßige Überlassung von Arbeitnehmern ist eine volkswirtschaftlich bedeutende Branche, die in den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten stetig gewachsen und sehr heterogen ist.Die Qualität dieser Dienstleistung zu messen und sicherzustellen, dass eine gewünschte Qualität...
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Sind Geben und Schenken immer reziproke Handlungen oder gibt es das «Ideal» der Gabe und worin liegt es? Die Arbeit zeigt anhand einer Literaturstudie den klassischen wie aktuellen Diskurs um das Geben und Schenken unter Einbezug der historischen, soziologischen,...
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The formation of new countries after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European block necessarily brings about an increased awareness of national identity and has given rise to more urgent attempts to define national literary and cultural facts. Among the...
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Im europäischen Spitzenfußball dominiert eine kleine Gruppe von Vereinen. Diese statistische Untersuchung analysiert für die vier wichtigsten europäischen Ligen – Bundesliga, Premier League, Primera División, Serie A – die Tendenz zur Dominanz weniger Vereine. Ein Blick...
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Den facettenreichen Begriff Ehre an der Schnittstelle sozialgeschichtlicher und literarischer Auseinandersetzungen in Russland stellt diese Studie in den Mittelpunkt. Dabei wird deutlich, dass die russische Ehrtradition Berührungspunkte und Differenzen zur...
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Die Beiträge dieses Bandes befassen sich mit dem sogenannten Slawenoserbischen, der Schriftsprache der Serben im späten 18. und in den ersten Jahrzehnten des 19. Jahrhunderts, sowie mit dem Werk, Leben und Zeitalter des Sprachreformers Sava Mrkalj, dessen...
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This volume explores and discusses how privacy is understood today. What is privacy? What strategies are used to achieve or to protect the individual’s privacy? How are our conceptions of privacy evolved throughout times and cultures? Given the multidimensional...
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In this fully updated and expanded second edition, Carol Grbich provides a guide through current issues in the analysis of qualitative data. Packed with detailed examples, a glossary, further reading lists and a section on writing up, this book is exactly what you need...
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It is vital that social work managers and leaders are able to deliver and manage effective supervision to their teams. Recent social work reports such as the Munro Review into Child Protection (2011) identified poor supervision as a barrier to good and effective social...
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Walter Benjamins (1892-1940) Faszination für das Spiel durchzieht nahezu sein ganzes Leben. Schon in seiner Habilitationsschrift Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels, die er 1916 während seiner Studienzeit entwarf und 1925 abschloss, fasst er das barocke Theater als ein...
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The contentious relationship between modernism and totalitarianism is a key element in the architectural history of the twentieth century. Post-war historiography refused to admit any overlap between the high modernism of the 1920s and the architecture of National...
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Ilija Trojanow, born in Bulgaria in 1965 and brought up in East Africa, established his name as an international writer with the novel Der Weltensammler or The Collector of Worlds (2006), about the cross-cultural Victorian adventurer Sir Richard Francis Burton. Since...
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This volume contains selected papers from an international conference of the same name held at Queen Mary, University of London, on 10-11 November 2010. The contributions from scholars working in the fields of modern political and cultural history, political science,...
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Did you know that where you were born may affect when you die?
The Population of the UK explains how geography - in the widest sense - makes a difference to life outcomes. It explains the geographical differences in key socio-economic variables - like education, health,...
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Immigration has become a contentious issue in Europe in recent decades, with immigrants being accused of resisting integration and threatening the secular fabric of nationhood. The most extreme form of this unease has invented and demonized an Islamic ‘other’ within...
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While a number of published works approach the shared concerns of Ireland and Scotland, no major volume has offered a sustained and up-to-date analysis of the cultural connections between the two, despite the fact that these border crossings continue to be politically...
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There has been a recent focus on how practitioners can engage with continuing professional learning and development. This book is written to support and help busy social workers in front line practice, as well as those in leadership and management roles, to achieve the...
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Sachsen liegt im Herzen Europas, direkt an der Grenze zu den Staaten in Mittel- und Osteuropa, die durch einen mehr als 20 Jahre anhaltenden gesellschaftlichen Umgestaltungsprozess gekennzeichnet sind. Die durch ihre deutschen Minderheiten und Erinnerungskulturen...
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