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Thukydides hat sein unvollendetes Werk über den Peloponnesischen Krieg als ,Besitztum für immer' für die Nachwelt konzipiert. Es wird hier in einer neuen Übersetzung vorgelegt, die einerseits die Eigenwilligkeit des Originals g...

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Ein Gespenst geht um in Europa: der Neoliberalismus. Der "Neoliberalismus" ist zu einem meist negativ konnotierten Schlagwort verkommen. Dieses Buch möchte einen Beitrag zur Versachlichung der Debatte leisten und die geistes- und ze...

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Schon unmittelbar nach Kriegsende haben die Alliierten versucht, die Höhe der deutschen Verluste im Zweiten Weltkrieg zu erforschen. Es war jedoch bis heute nicht möglich, zu annähernd zuverlässigen Ergebnissen zu kommen. Der Zusammenbruch der Weh...

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Typisch Frau, typisch Mann - was heißt das eigentlich? Weiblichkeit und Männlichkeit werden nicht allein durch das anatomische Geschlecht ("Sex") definiert, sondern auch durch spezifische Rollenangebote, die z. B. durch Kleidercodes oder...

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Ambitiously tackling the nature of economic life and how to study it comparatively, Stone Age Economics includes six studies that reflect the author's ideas on revising traditional views of hunter-gatherer and so-called primitive societies, reveal...

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While those who study human origins now agree that the evolution of the modern human form extends back much further that the evolution of modern human behaviour, they disagree as to how to interpret the substantive data. Two fundamentally incommen...

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Disturbing the Nest assesses the future of the family as an institution through an historical and comparative analysis of the nature, causes, and social implications of family change in advanced western societies such as the United States, New Zea...

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<p> The relation between attitudes and behavior has been of enduring concern to social scientists over the past half century. The present volume is a sequel to a landmark theoretical and methodological critique of the literature on that rela...

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With the impact of social interactionist and ethnographic methodology twenty-five years ago, the research agenda in social problems began to shift its focus, giving rise to the Social Constructionism movement. The present volume and the related sh...

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<p> This study, based on quantitative and qualitative data gathered over a twelve-year period, takes its title from the two predominant styles of gang violence: "drive-bys," which have replaced "rumbles" as the primary fo...

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<p>Brief therapy is a postmodern treatment mode that treats problems as social constructions, encouraging those seeking treatment to replace personal troubles (negative stories) with new problem-solving skills (positive stories). The signifi...

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In addressing a timely set of questions about the politics and dynamics of inter-group violence manifest as discrimination, this volume explores such issues as why injuries against some groups of people (Jews, people of color, gays and lesbians, a...

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A concise theoretical formulation and a practical guide to managing the crises that corporate and other enterprises inevitably face. It provides an analysis of the field and a step-by-step approach to preventing full-scale, uncontainable disasters...

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<p> This book offers for the first time a clear conception of what social support networks are, why they are important, how they are identified and sustained, where they fit in an overall framework of human services, and their limits and pot...

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<p> One of the fundamental issues confronting those who create, analyze, or work within the framework of modern American social welfare policy is the relationship of the family and the state in the delivery of social care through social serv...

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What is it like to be old, have many health problems, and live alone? This book enters the lives of frail elders who live alone and vividly conveys their continuing struggle to maintain their independence. Many look to their homes as the important...

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<p> "Person-Environment Practice" addresses a core but long- neglected dimension in social work and human services practice; accurate environmental assessment and strategic environmental intervention. Despite the centrality of &quo...

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This work provides the specific guidance that students and new practitioners need in order to make sense quickly of the complex tasks of assessment and case planning in child welfare. The approach taken here targets the specific situations in the ...

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Solution-based casework is an approach to assessment, case planning, and case management that combines what we know from clinical social work with what we value about sound social work practice. It is grounded in family-centered social work and dr...

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This volume provides a translation of the complete poetry and fu of Ruan Ji (210-263) in a new context that does not read his poetry as a loyalist of the Wei dynasty, but rather as someone who wanted stay alive in dangerous times. The volume also ...

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