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Télécharger le livre :  Democracy versus Solidarity in the EU Discourse
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Democracy versus Solidarity in the EU Discourse


Jozef Niznik


It is hard to find another two concepts which would be more significant in the European integration discourse than «democracy» and «solidarity» and at the same time more ambiguous in the political practice of integration. Currently European integration discourse is...

Parution : 2012-12-17
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Télécharger le livre :  Promoting Non-Animal Protein Sources in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Promoting Non-Animal Protein Sources in Sub-Saharan Africa


Sunday Paul Bako , Frank Olwari


The research results point to the need of sustaining plant protein sources to large populations in sub-Saharan Africa that have no access to meat. Proteins are essential components of the human body and therefore indispensable for human life. Malnutrition and diseases...

Parution : 2012-09-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Global Education Under Attack
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Global Education Under Attack


Tristan Bunnell


The three main programmes of the Geneva-registered International Baccalaureate (IB) have grown enormously since the 1990s and have seemingly found their ‘home’ in the United States. However, the IB has provoked opposition, initially from concerned parents, and lately by...

Parution : 2012-09-10
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Télécharger le livre :  The Legacy of Wittgenstein: Pragmatism or Deconstruction
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The Legacy of Wittgenstein: Pragmatism or Deconstruction


Chantal Mouffe , Ludwig Nagl


What is striking in the current reception of Wittgenstein is just how wide-ranging his influence has become among those who are trying to elaborate an alternative to the rationalistic framework dominant today. Pragmatists and deconstructionists are at the forefront of...

Parution : 2012-08-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Hard-Boiled Fiction and Dark Romanticism
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Hard-Boiled Fiction and Dark Romanticism


Jopi Nyman


Since the 1920s the use of romantic features in the tough masculinist narratives of American hard-boiled fiction has often surprised its readers. Through an exploration of fiction written by four major hard-boiled writers (Ernest Hemingway, Dashiell Hammett, James M....

Parution : 2012-08-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Sexy Girls, Heroes and Funny Losers
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Sexy Girls, Heroes and Funny Losers


Maya Götz , Dafna Lemish


Sexy Girls, Heroes and Funny Losers: Gender Representations in Children’s TV around the World presents the most comprehensive study to date of gender images on children’s television. Conducted in 24 countries around the world, the study employed different methodologies...

Parution : 2012-08-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Monetary Policy Rules
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Monetary Policy Rules


Dirk Bleich


This work provides different studies of how econometric evaluation of monetary policy based on forward-looking Taylor rules is conducted. The first part discusses theoretical results regarding the Taylor principle and can be used as a guideline for the evaluation of the...

Parution : 2012-07-27
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Télécharger le livre :  M&A Activity, Divestitures and Initial Public Offerings in the Fashion Industry
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M&A Activity, Divestitures and Initial Public Offerings in the Fashion Industry


Steffen Meinshausen


This thesis analyzes four individual corporate finance-related research objectives on the fashion and leather accessories industry. The first two studies investigate the share price reactions of strategic bidder M&A transactions and their key drivers. The third study...

Parution : 2012-07-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Anti-Judaism on the Way from Judaism to Christianity
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Anti-Judaism on the Way from Judaism to Christianity


Peter Landesmann


The differing beliefs that emerged between Christianity and Judaism, especially in the first two centuries AD, were mainly caused by the introduction of heavenly beings in the Jewish religion. This resulted in the predominance of a messiah, who will be sent by God as...

Parution : 2012-07-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Towards a Critical Theory of Surveillance in Informational Capitalism
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Towards a Critical Theory of Surveillance in Informational Capitalism


Thomas Allmer


The aim of this book is to clarify how surveillance in informational capitalism can be theorised. This work constructs theoretically founded typologies in order to systemise the existing literature of surveillance studies and to analyse selected examples. It argues that...

Parution : 2012-07-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Spaces of Desire – Spaces of Transition
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Spaces of Desire – Spaces of Transition


Gertrud Lehnert , Stephanie Siewert


In the last decade, the so called «spatial turn» has produced a broad discussion of space and spatiality in the social sciences, in architecture and art, as well as in philosophy, and also in literary criticism. The book focuses on one aspect largely ignored by literary...

Parution : 2012-05-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Achieving ‘At-one-ment’
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Achieving ‘At-one-ment’


Claudia Schemberg


Ian McEwan’s novels are characterised by innovative forms of plot-oriented storytelling that combine a pronounced interest in contemporary (British) culture and (recent) history with a concern for social and ethical questions. Novels like The Child in Time, Black Dogs,...

Parution : 2012-05-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Bands as Virtual Organisations
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Bands as Virtual Organisations


Christine Bauer


Managing a band is a challenge, similar to managing a small or medium-sized enterprise. A type of band particularly difficult to manage is a telephone band that does not have a fixed line-up of musicians. Together, the musicians form a virtual organisation. Every...

Parution : 2012-03-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Preschool and Primary Education
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Preschool and Primary Education


Piret Luik , Jaan Mikk , Marika Veisson


The studies in this volume explore a number of issues in education today. One paper reveals what actually motivates teachers to develop their career, another, how to teach primary teachers to talk about visual art. Children’s artworks were explored in one article to see...

Parution : 2012-03-19
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Télécharger le livre :  From Habits to Social Structures
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From Habits to Social Structures


Antti Juhani Gronow


Pragmatism has experienced a renaissance in social theory in recent years. This is no wonder since the so-called classical pragmatists, especially John Dewey and George Herbert Mead, outlined a highly original theory of social life. This book builds on pragmatist ideas...

Parution : 2012-02-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Lived Space
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Lived Space


Jakob Egholm Feldt , Kristine Sinclair


This book presents original research on the practical creation or use of places, homes, senses of loyalty and feelings of togetherness among Muslim minorities in Europe. The individual chapters deal with examples of Muslim «homing» or «sense-making» strategies, or the...

Parution : 2011-08-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Roast Chicken and other Gypsy Stories
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Roast Chicken and other Gypsy Stories


Jelena Cvorovic


This book discusses narrative as an adaptive cultural mechanism among Gypsies in Serbia. As a key traditional trait of Serbian Gypsies, storytelling, conveyed along kin generations, influences the behavior of all who listen. Since their appearance in the Balkans...

Parution : 2011-08-16
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Télécharger le livre :  «And How Do You Like This Country?»
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«And How Do You Like This Country?»


Friedrich Voit


These stories by Otti Binswanger, the niece of the German aviator Otto Lilienthal, were written in the 1940s in New Zealand, where they were published originally in 1945. Otti Binswanger had come to New Zealand in 1939 as a refugee from Nazi Germany together with her...

Parution : 2011-06-15
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