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The meaning of the term utopia is rarely questioned, although it is used in widely differing ways. This classic text, first published in 1990, analyses the contested concept of utopia and examines how it has been used by commentators and social theorists. It is the only...
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Feminist theory is no longer guiding the development of policy interventions in Australia because it is seen to be irrelevant to modern women. Many leading feminists are locked into a politics that is based on liberal or socialist principles and do not want, or know,...
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This book collects the efforts of a team of scholars working at the University of Torino under the auspices of the Project WWS (World-Wide Style). Focusing on diverse areas of inquiry into the transformations of the American city, the essays in this volume provide...
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This book reconsiders the body in literature and makes a case for visual representation as a physical and gesticulative domain for rethinking the constructions of gender, nationalism and sexuality. Examining literary production from the eleventh century until the...
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The 1968 events were profoundly international in character, transcending any one national context and interacting with other movements across the world. Yet the way these events are remembered is often delimited by the national cultural or political experience and is...
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It is essential for social work students to know about social policy, to know why studying social policy is important in the social work degree, and to understand how social policy, when implemented, has a real impact on the everyday life of vulnerable people. This book...
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For more than 40 years, SAGE has been one of the leading international publishers of works on quantitative research methods in the social sciences. This new collection provides readers with a representative sample of the best articles in quantitative methods that have...
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Macht ist der entscheidende Faktor in der Politik. Der politische Handlungsspielraum wird durch die Macht, eine Handlung auszuführen oder sie zu unterlassen, erst eröffnet. Sie ist demnach auch einer der zentralen Untersuchungsgegenstände der Politikwissenschaft. Wie...
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Die Twentes zogen vermutlich zu Beginn des 13. Jahrhunderts, eventuell aus dem niederländischen Twente nach Osnabrück.Die ersten sicheren urkundlichen Erwähnungen weisen sie als Träger bedeutender Ämter aus, zunächst als Richter und Schöffen, dann als Bürgermeister. Sie...
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Working with lesbians and gay men is a largely neglected area of social work practice. This book provides social workers and other professionals with an overview of a number of key challenges and concerns that play a significant part in the lives of lesbians and gay...
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How do we reduce and prevent crime? This is a question with which governments, academics and criminal justice professionals have been grappling for decades. Crime Prevention explores the legislative developments, policy changes and practical strategies that have been...
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The relationship between social thought and earth processes is an oddly neglected part of the social sciences. This exciting book offers to make good the deficit by exploring how human activity and planetary processes impact upon each other. The book: • Provides...
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"This is a thoughtful and sometimes challenging elaboration of some of the key concepts in contemporary family studies... Students and researchers will want to have this book close to hand, not simply as a reference work but as a stimulus to critical social analysis." ...
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Sociology has long lacked the sense of propulsive direction that it possesses in the 1960s and early 70s. The subject has fragmented in a series of interlocking fields and sub-disciplines. Is there a way of revitalizing the subject? Where can we look for guides to build...
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This book tells the story of the principal European intellectual professions from the demise of the ancien régime to the rise of the European Union. A historical study which applies sociological concepts it creates a European-scale picture of the professions spanning...
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Wer kann uns von der Shoah an ihrem dichtesten Punkt, den Gaskammern von Auschwitz-Birkenau, berichten und ein Bild darüber vermitteln, wie Millionen Menschen starben? Die Häftlinge des «Sonderkommandos» arbeiteten in den Gaskammern und Krematorien von...
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AIDS, Sexuality, and the Black Church: Making the Wounded Whole is a revealing account of AIDS activism within Black churches in New York City. AIDS has taken a devastating toll on the Black community. Blacks make up approximately 13% of the total United States...
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Mit Angela Merkel wird 2005 zum ersten Mal eine Frau Bundeskanzlerin in Deutschland. Nach einem nur wenige Monate dauernden Blitzwahlkampf setzte sie sich gegen Amtsinhaber Gerhard Schröder durch. Ein Sieg der Union über Rot-Grün oder der Sieg einer Frau über einen...
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Die Mystik kann als zentrale Form christlicher Frömmigkeit gelten. Doch welche spezifischen Kennzeichnungen besitzt sie in und seit der Neuzeit?Die Publikation erörtert diese Frage mit Blick auf die Konzeptionen von Mystikerinnen wie Simone Weil, Edith Stein oder...
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Literary Nationalism in German and Japanese Germanistik traces the convergence of German and Japanese metaphors for national literary spirit through the academic study of the German language and literature in Germanistik. Early notions of a spiritual link to the...
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