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Why America is not a new Rome
An investigation of the America-Rome analogy that goes deeper than the facile comparisons made on talk shows and in glossy magazine articles.America's post-Cold War strategic dominance and its pre-recession affluence inspired pundits to make celebratory comparisons to ancient Rome at its most powerful. Now, with America no longer perceived as invulnerable, engaged in protracted fighting in Iraq…
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- 9780262283885
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- 1 online resource (xii, 226 pages) :illustrations, maps
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Between philosophy and social science :selected early writings
These essays reveal another side of Horkheimer, focusing on his remarkable contributions to critical theory in the 1930s. Max Horkheimer is well known as the director of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research and as a sometime collaborator with Theodor Adorno, especially on their classic Dialectic of Enlightenment. These essays reveal another side of Horkheimer, focusing on his remarkable …
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- 0262275694
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- 1 online resource (440 pages).
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Re-presenting the good society
A proposal for negotiating the tension between an anti-authoritarian impulse and a guiding idea of context-transcending validity in critical social theory. Contemporary critical social theories face the question of how to justify the ideas of the good society that guide their critical analyses. Traditionally, these more or less determinate ideas of the good society were held to be independent o…
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- 9780262270779
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- 1 online resource (x, 264 pages).
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Jahrbuch Migration und Gesellschaft / Yearbook Migration and Society 2020/20…
Migration is not a state of emergency, but a basic existential experience of humanity. It shapes contemporary societies by challenging established orders, creating transnational spaces beyond national hegemonies, creating new economies, influencing urban and communal ways of life, making inequality and precariousness visible locally and globally. Migration research as a social science does not …
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- 9783839455913
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- 351.81 JAH j
Meta-Analysis with R
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to performing meta-analysis using the statistical software R. It is intended for quantitative researchers and students in the medical and social sciences who wish to learn how to perform meta-analysis with R. As such, the book introduces the key concepts and models used in meta-analysis. It also includes chapters on the following advanced topics: …
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- 978-3-319-21415-3
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- XII, 252
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- Use R!
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Embodiment and everyday cyborgs Technologies that alter subjectivity
Using a range of social science methods and drawing on the sociology of the body, biomedicine and technology, Haddow invites readers of ‘Embodiment and everyday cyborgs’ to consider whether they might prefer organs from other humans or non-human animals (known as xenotransplantation), or implantable ‘cybernetic’ technologies to replace their own? In discovering that individuals have a v…
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- 9781526114198
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Go home? the politics of immigration controversies
In July 2013, the UK government arranged for a van to drive through parts of London carrying the message ‘In the UK illegally? GO HOME or face arrest.’ The vans were short-lived, but they were part of an ongoing trend in government-sponsored communication designed to demonstrate control and toughness around immigration. This book explores the effects of such performances of toughness: on po…
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Emerging Techniques in Applied Demography
By bringing together top-notch demographers, sociologists, economists, statisticians and public health specialists from Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America to examine a wide variety of public and private issues in applied demography, this book spans a wide range of topics. It evaluates population estimates and projections against actual census counts and suggests further improvement of esti…
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- 978-94-017-8990-5
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- 36 b/w illustrations, 54 illustrations in colour
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Empirical Research in Statistics Education
This ICME-13 Topical Survey provides a review of recent research into statistics education, with a focus on empirical research published in established educational journals and on the proceedings of important conferences on statistics education. It identifies and addresses six key research topics, namely: teachers’ knowledge; teachers’ role in statistics education; teacher preparation; stud…
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- 978-3-319-38968-4
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- VII, 37
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Internal Rating Systems and the Bank-Firm Relationship: Valuing Company Networks
Summary: “In response to the complexity of the corporate environment and competition, companies are seeking a new organizational set to maintain their competitive advantage. Various empirical studies have been conducted which demonstrate firms’ abilities to increase value through network creation. From a lender’s point of view, a member of a network deserves more attention and a bette…
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- 978-1-137-49724-6
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- VII, 119
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- Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions
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