Social Science - General

Aus dem Buch: "Das Papier befand sich also im Munde, zwischen den Z hnen des Cherval, denn nur die eine H lfte ward gerettet, die andere war schon verzehrt. Stieber und sein Helfershelfer, Polizeikommiss r oder wer sonst, konnten die andere H lfte nur...

Deng Yunte was a respected academic and artist. He was also a propagandist and political commentator, before becoming one of the earliest victims of the Cultural Revolution. He committed suicide in 1966. This is the first English translation of his classic study of famine...

Cyberethics: Morality and Law in Cyberspace, Seventh Edition provides a comprehensive and up-to-date investigation of the internet's influence on our society and our lives. As internet use expands and new informational technologies are developed worldwide, unprecedented social and moral issues continue to emerge. This...

The Acquisitive Society was written by R. H. Tawney and published in 1920. Tawney herein criticizes the selfish individualism of modern industrial societies. He argues that capitalism corrupts via the promotion of economic self-interest, leading to aimless production in response to greed and insatiable...

This book offers a lively, accessible, and informative introduction to surveillance through the lens of globalization, and globalization through the lens of surveillance. Str traces the increasing levels of control wielded by the state, science and capital, and critically examines the social meaning and...

This book offers a lively, accessible, and informative introduction to surveillance through the lens of globalization, and globalization through the lens of surveillance. Str traces the increasing levels of control wielded by the state, science and capital, and critically examines the social meaning and...

First published in 1976. This title presents a study of Yucatec Maya segmental phonology by children. The aim of the study is to describe the phonological systems revealed in the speech of group of children in order to determine the kinds of structural differences...

First published in 1995. Notions of 'inclusive schools' and 'schooling for diversity' are rapidly gaining currency across the developed world as alternatives to traditional approaches to special needs education. This book explores the advances in our understanding of how schools can change and develop...

First published in 1992. With an ever-increasing number of deaf students entering higher education throughout the world, major strides need to be made in provision and support for them. This book recognises that the integration of deaf students into mainstream higher education raises complex...

First published in 1975. Remedial education aims to help the pupil who is failing. It is richly rewarding to the committed teacher but makes great demands on him. Olive Sampson, whose conviction of the importance of this form of schooling is based on extensive...

First published in 1995. This book concerns aspects of decision-making by, or on behalf of, children who have special educational needs. This is an area of concern, given that little attention had previously been given to the views of children on matters relating to...

First published in 1994. The goal of this study is to find the correlations between the internal constituency of the syllable and the sonority of segments. Its major claim is that valid correlations can be established only under the moraic theory of syllable-internal structure....

First published in 1925. Robert Owen was, in the author's words, 'that rarest of phenomena, an utterly disinterested critic of a system by which he had himself risen to greatness', and in studying his life this work reveals with a remarkable clarity the first...

This work, first published in 1995, is primarily addressed to phonologists interested in speech and to speech engineers interested in phonology, two groups of people with very different expectations about what constitutes a convincing, rigorous study. The subject matter, the application of autosegmental theory...

First published in 1988. The goal of this study is to explore the workings of a syllable theory which is an integral part of Prosodic Phonology. It will be shown that theory-internal considerations and a variety of empirical arguments converge on a conception of...

First published in 1990. This study introduces Prosodic Lexical Phonology, a theory of morphology-phonology interaction. This theory unifies the theoretical treatments of lexical and postlexical phonological rule application. It also provides an explanatory account of systematic discrepancies that have been observed between the parsing...

First published in 1994. This study aims to provide evidence for the natural class of sounds comprised of front vowels, front glides and coronal consonants. The author also shows that a revised definition of the articulator feature coronal] properly characterises this natural class of...

First published in 1999, this volume examines the impact of political, social and cultural developments on the nation's most popular musical form, samba, in the context of the period 1930-45, one of huge social change in Brazil, with the introduction of industrialization under the...

How state welfare politics--not just concerns with "race improvement"--led to eugenic sterilization practices.Honorable Mention, 2018 Outstanding Book Award, The Disability History AssociationShortlist, 2019 Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, Canadian Historical AssociationBetween 1907 and 1937, thirty-two states legalized the sterilization of more than 63,000 Americans. In...

Maybe no one knows it yet-and maybe you're not sure yourself-but you're a nudist.You feel good when you're not wearing anything.It's not a sexual thing. It's a physical thing: you're more comfortable without clothes on. And maybe it's an emotional or spiritual thing too:...

Are you looking for a mentor? Do you want to become a mentor? Are you confused about exactly what mentoring is?Walter Wright is a firm believer in relational leadership. In this book, he shares his experiences both as a mentor and a mentoree. He...

Wisconsin County Asylums for the Chronic Insane - a paper read at the National Conference of Charities and Corrections is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1896. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and...

The Power of an Endless Life is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1894. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a...

For years Abdullah ﾖcalan has unraveled the sources of hierarchical relations, power, and the formation of nation-states that has led to capitalism's emergence and global domination. Capitalism: The Age of Unmasked Gods and Naked Kings is the second volume of his definitive five-volume work...

From Different Standpoints is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1878. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus...

NATO has been facing significant challenges. Among them are NATO's South, the Atlantic, Intelligence, Strategic Communication, Strategy-making and the use of smart power. This book provides deep analysis of these challenges. All authors have endeavored to offer not only conclusions of their analyses but...

In this volume the authors discuss the fascinating and eventful biographies as well as the significant scientific work of Waldemar Jochelson, Waldemar Bogoras and Lev Shternberg. They investigate the question of how these men became involved in ethnography towards the end of the 19th...

This book contains the latest contributions from the Tamera peace research center in Portugal. At a time when the media are full of reports on war and catastrophes, a mental-spiritual gateway to another option for develop- ment is opening up: Our planet, with its...

This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the cultural...

This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the cultural...

This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy...

This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy...

This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of making all public domain books available in printed format again - worldwide. At tredition we believe that a...

This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of making all public domain books available in printed format again - worldwide. At tredition we believe that a...

Most seminars are useless - it's an open secret in HR circles. Less than 20 percent of what trainees supposedly learn is actually put into practice. Small wonder that training programs regularly fall victim to budget cuts. Summing up 100 years of transfer research,...

The hatred and anger of the Nazis against that Greek people show up from the first to to the last days of the occupation. From the outrageous phrase HERE STAND KANDANOS, written by the Germans themselves and her inner attitude expresses the fullness of...

Nature Songs for Children is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1917. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we...

Plutarch's Romane questions - With Dissertations on Italian Cults, Myths, Taboos, Man-worship, Aryan... is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1892. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and...

The Art of Acting in Connection With the Study of Character - the Spirit of Comedy and Stage Illusion is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1892. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and...

The Indians of Cape Flattery - At the Entrance to the Strait of Fuca, Washington Territory is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1870. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and...

Commentaries on the Laws of England - In Four Books. Seventh Edition is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1775. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition,...

Drawing Course is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1860. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on...

Force and matter is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1870. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus...

The Bashful Earthquake and other Fables and Verses is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1898. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres.As...

Prehistoric Races of the United States of America is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1873. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres.As...

Fians Fairies and Picts is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1893. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres.As a publisher we focus...

Rio Grande Do Sul and its German Colonies is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1873. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres.As...

Catalogue Of The Collection Of Ancient Greek And Roman Coins is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1896. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and...

Due to the Three Gorges Dam, China's Yangtze becomes a 600 kilometers long reservoir that submerges everything below. Therefore, more than 1.3 million people lose their houses, their arable land, as well as their personal belongings. The book in hand examines the socio-economic impact...

The present volume is the main achievement of the Research Networking Programme 'Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies', funded by the European Science Foundation in the years 2009-2014. It is the first attempt to introduce a wide audience to the entirety of the manuscript cultures of...