Springer nature jun 2011 (88 résultats)

Buch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book challenges educators to be agents of change, to take history into their own hands, and to make social justice central to the educational endeavor. Paraskeva embraces a pedagogy of hope championed by Paulo Freire where people become c…

Buch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -What are the ties that bind the 'good youth citizen' and the youth activist in the twenty-first century Contemporary young people are encouraged - through education and other cultural sites - to 'save the world' via community projects that res…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This collection of essays looks at the impact of anticommunism on black political culture during the early years of the Cold War, with an eye toward local and individual stories that offer insight into larger national and international…

Buch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This innovative project unites leading scholars of English, History and French to examine the challenges of teaching early modern literature, history and culture within higher education. The volume sets out a variety of approaches to teaching…

Buch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book seeks to expand analytically on standard institutionalist accounts of taxation by bringing into the explanatory framework the importance of institutional strength (not just design) as well as informal institutions (in addition to for…

Buch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book presents the main results of an electoral panel study which is both unique and innovative not only in French political research but also among Western European electoral studies. The survey was conducted among a sample of 1,846 Frenc…

Buch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Spirits without Borders is an ethnographic study of the transnational and multicultural expansion of Vietnam's Mother Goddess Religion and its spirit possession ritual. The work explores how and why the ritual spread from Vietnam to the US and…

Buch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book looks at the space industry from a business perspective, with a focus on international competition. The space industry traces its origins to the middle of last century as a government/military domain and the author now looks at the o…

Buch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Drawing on his knowledge of the technical aspects of civil aviation, Alan P. Dobson's history of the international aviation system, from 1945 to the present day, stresses the hitherto unacknowledged role Franklin D. Roosevelt played in impleme…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Understanding language and its capacity to create literary effects is vital for any student of English. Stylistics, the linguistic study of literary texts, has a key role to play in literary criticism. This book covers the theory and pr…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -What is 'Wordsworthian' Romanticism and how did it evolve This book argues that only by reading Charlotte Smith's poetry in tandem with William Wordsworth's can this question be answered, demonstrating their mutual contribution to the c…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -With a companion website that includes short online film episodes, this book proposes expansive ways of deconstructing and re-constituting sexuality and gender and thus more embodied and ethical ways of 'doing' life, and offers an under…

Buch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book provides insights into the theoretical framework of 'tensions' related to care for children and the elderly. It analyzes if, and under what conditions, welfare state reforms have contributed to strengthening existing tensions, creati…

Buch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Transnational connections are a defining feature of contemporary Europe. They include cross-border economic and cultural exchange, migration, and political activism. This volume probes their political and social significance and makes a case f…

Buch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Examining the debate on quality of jobs in Europe, this book focuses on the work-life balance-a central element of the EU agenda. It addresses tensions between work and private life, examining job quality, job security, working conditions and…

Buch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In an original, and highly interdisciplinary, mixed method approach, Green and Janmaat identify four major traditions of social cohesion in developed societies, analyzing how these various mechanisms are withstanding the strains of the current…

Buch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Offering a comparative perspective, this book examines working poverty - those in work who are still classified as 'poor'. It argues that the growth in numbers of working poor in Europe is due to the transition from a Keynesian Welfare State t…

Buch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Exploring the experiences of children encountering war and armed conflict, this book draws upon history, ethnography, sociology, literature, media studies, psychology, public policy, and other disciplines to address children as soldiers, refug…

Buch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Barack Obama has faced many challenges in reversing U.S. policy on the Middle East. This book highlights points of resistance to Obama's efforts regarding U.S. foreign policy and what lessons may be learned from this experience for the remaind…

Buch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This bookexamines inclusive growth in a range of social and economic areas in India, including physical infrastructure, vulnerable sections of the population and underdeveloped states. It provides a comprehensive study of disparity and deepens…

Buch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book analyzes in what way activation policies impact on given patterns of social citizenship that predominate in national contexts. It argues that the liberal paradigm of activation introduced into labour market policies in all Western Eu…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Pediatric Bone Sarcomas: Epiphysiolysis before excision addresses malignant bone tumours by focusing upon physeal distraction (epiphysiolysis) before excision. This technique has long been used by the authors of this book in preserving…

Buch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -What is 'Wordsworthian' Romanticism and how did it evolve This book argues that only by reading Charlotte Smith's poetry in tandem with William Wordsworth's can this question be answered, demonstrating their mutual contribution to the creation…

Buch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Riddles of Harry Potter draws readers into the deeper meanings of these phenomenally successful books, arguing that they launch and pursue interpretive quests in an ongoing effort to understand patterns and their attendant meanings, implic…

Buch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -With a companion website that includes short online film episodes, this book proposes expansive ways of deconstructing and re-constituting sexuality and gender and thus more embodied and ethical ways of 'doing' life, and offers an understandin…

Buch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book is a social history of the ritual and custom of churching, a liturgical rite of purification after childbirth performed on a woman's first visit to church after giving birth. The book describes the development of the rite from its or…

Buch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Employing a cultural theory approach, this book explores the relationship between popular dance and value. It traces the shifting value systems that underpin popular dance scholarship and considers how different dancing communities articulate…

Buch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Examining how the press in Britain, Sweden and Finland responded to the Holocaust immediately after the Second World War, Holmila offers new insights into the challenge posed by the Holocaust for liberal democracies by looking at the reporting…