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Education as a Lifelong Process: The German National Educational Panel Study (Neps) by Hans-Peter Blossfeld 9783658231613
RRP: $64.33Booksplease Price: $57.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783658231613Author Hans-Peter BlossfeldFormat PaperbackPage Count 383Im -
European Energy Security: Analysing the EU-Russia Energy Security Regime in Terms of Interdependence Theory by Nataliya Esakova 9783531192000
Booksplease Price: $90.25Nataliya Esakova performs an analysis of the interdependencies and the nature of cooperation between energy producing, consuming and transit countries focusing on the gas sector. For the analysis the... -
Narrative Skills of Dual Language Learners: Acquisition and Peer-Assisted Support in Early Childhood Education and Care by Ulla Licandro 9783658146726
Booksplease Price: $95.90The current work follows the premise that fictional oral narratives represent socio-emotionally and academically relevant communicative practices. Two studies are presented, aiming to (1) analyze the... -
Media and Accountability in Latin America: Framework - Conditions - Instruments by Mariella Bastian 9783658247867
Booksplease Price: $90.83This study approaches a pressing question for the public, the media, and in academia: how can the media be held accountable? By focusing on the relationship between media and accountability in the... -
Public Attitudes toward Family Policies in Europe: Linking Institutional Context and Public Opinion by Monika Mischke 9783658035761
Booksplease Price: $91.14Family-policy variation in Europe is still enormous and there is very limited knowledge about the publics' attitudes toward family-policy measures in a comparative perspective. This book addresses... -
Text Mining for Qualitative Data Analysis in the Social Sciences: A Study on Democratic Discourse in Germany by Gregor Wiedemann 9783658153083
RRP: $116.98Booksplease Price: $109.43Gregor Wiedemann evaluates text mining applications for social science studies with respect to conceptual integration of consciously selected methods, systematic optimization of algorithms and... -
Agency and Media Reception: Experiencing Video Games, Film, and Television by Susanne Eichner 9783658046729
Booksplease Price: $90.25What happens to our sense of agency, our general ability to perform actions in our life worlds, in the course of media reception and appropriation? Whilst considering media communication as a special... -
The Archive of Ammon Scholasticus of Panopolis: The Legacy of Harpocration by William H. Willis 9783531099439
Booksplease Price: $90.25On an extended visit to Achmim in 1968 to study the Coptic Church and its liturgy, our Duke University colleague Professor O.S. Wintermute became acquainted with a local merchant, who eventually... -
Narrative and Innovation: New Ideas for Business Administration, Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship by Andreas P. Muller 9783658013745
Booksplease Price: $90.25The editors bring two terms, narrative and innovation, together in an interdisciplinary and interactive way. Narratives are ubiquitous and hold the potential to indicate future changes in politics,... -
Shifts and reorientation within the social-crisis and catastrophe: towards the realization of pandemic epistemological processes by Rolf Dieter Hepp 9783658430405
RRP: $136.48Booksplease Price: $121.43In the pandemic, the state in Germany reacts in lockdown with restrictions within the private sphere of a shutdown of the leisure and cultural sphere, while the work contexts are only peripherally... -
Transnational Communication and Identity Construction in Diaspora: A Comparative Analysis of Four Diaspora Communities from the Horn of Africa by Merga Yonas Bula 9783658432744
Booksplease Price: $157.40The study was sparked by the absence of literature on transnational masspersonal communication (tmc) of ‘Eritrean’, ‘Ethiopian’, Oromo, and Somali diaspora communities. To bridge this theoretical... -
Social Capital in Eastern Europe: Poland an Exception? by Katarzyna Lasinska 9783658005221
Booksplease Price: $90.25Katarzyna Lasinska deals with the consequences of democratic transitions in Middle and Eastern Europe. By selecting specific sets of countries according to the main explanations such as Catholic... -
Religious Credibility under Fire: Determinants of Religious Legitimacy in Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina by Leif-Hagen Seibert 9783658210328
Booksplease Price: $90.83Leif-Hagen Seibert carries out a three-step praxeological analysis of empirical data from field studies in the research project "The ethos of religious peace builders" that allows for novel... -
Changing Female Literacy Practices in Algeria: Empirical Study on Cultural Construction of Gender and Empowerment by Anne Laaredj-Campbell 9783658116323
Booksplease Price: $90.25From an ethnological standpoint, this study contends that the construction and implementation of a gender-based literacy program that empowers adult education learners in rural or semi-rural (hybrid)... -
ReThinking Management: Perspectives and Impacts of Cultural Turns and Beyond by Dr. Wendelin Kupers 9783658169824
Booksplease Price: $115.09This book assembles multi-disciplinary contributions to delve deeper into ReThinking Management. The first part provides some foundational considerations and inspirations. Further chapters offer more... -
Management Ethics and Talmudic Dialectics: Navigating Corporate Dilemmas with the Indivisible Hand by Nathan Lee Kaplan 9783658052546
Booksplease Price: $90.25Nathan Lee Kaplan develops a talmudic perspective on management ethics. By analyzing the central ethical dilemmas of corporate managers in light of applicable traditions from the Oral Torah, this... -
New Spaces for Climate Change: The Societal Construction of Landscapes in Times of a Changing Climate by Vera Koepsel 9783658233129
Booksplease Price: $108.56Vera Koepsel investigates the relevance of local perceptions of landscape and nature for the current topic of adaptation to climate change. She highlights the influence that differing... -
Excitement Processes: Norbert Elias's unpublished works on sports, leisure, body, culture by Jan Haut 9783658149116
RRP: $136.48Booksplease Price: $128.62The book focuses on major aspects of Norbert Elias's social theory through research on supposed "minor" topics, such as manners, sports, leisure and cultural practices. While many of his publications... -
Religion and the Liberal State in Niebuhr's Christian Realism by Christoph Rohde 9783658344634
Booksplease Price: $147.81This book intends to analyze Reinhold Niebuhr's understanding of the state in his Christian Realism. Although his overall notion was thoroughly analyzed in different disciplines and respects, this... -
How Are Chinese Only Children Growing: A Bioecological Systems Perspective by Weiping Liu 9783658022259
Booksplease Price: $91.14Weiping Liu contends that the impacts of learning environments on Chinese only children must be studied from a bioecological systems perspective by considering the direct and joint effects of... -
Music and Political Youth Organizations in Russia: The National Identity Issue by Chiara Pierobon 9783658043124
Booksplease Price: $91.14Chiara Pierobon analyzes the relationship existing between political youth organizations, music and national identity in contemporary Russia. In particular she focuses the most important political... -
The Transformative Potential of Corporate Social Responsibility in the Global Cocoa-Chocolate Chain: Insights from Sustainability Certification Practices in Ghana by Franziska Ollendorf 9783658436674
Booksplease Price: $147.81This book engages with the implications of an expanding Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) of Transnational Corporations in their supply chains. Taking the case of a cocoa sustainability... -
Educational Processes, Decisions, and the Development of Competencies from Early Preschool Age to Adolescence: Findings from the BiKS Cohort Panel Studies by Sabine Weinert 9783658434137
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $79.46The contributions to the open access volume are comprehensive summaries of important research findings from the two comprehensive interdisciplinary longitudinal studies BiKS-3-18 and BiKS-8-18... -
Action, Detection and Shane Black: Antiessentialist Genre Theory and Its Application by Nils Bothmann 9783658240776
Booksplease Price: $90.25Nils Bothmann applies antiessentialist genre theory to study the fusion of the action and the detection genre in the hybrid genre of detAction, focusing on the work of screenwriter and director Shane... -
Trust and Rationality: An Integrative Framework for Trust Research by Stephan Alexander Rompf 9783658073268
Booksplease Price: $90.25Combining economic, social-psychological and sociological approaches to trust, this book provides a general theoretical framework to causally explain conditional and unconditional trust; it also... -
Materiality of Cooperation by Sebastian Gießmann 9783658394677
RRP: $175.48Booksplease Price: $157.40The volume investigates the socio-material dimension and media practices of cooperation – before, during and beyond situations. Cooperation is understood as reciprocal interplay operating with or... -
San Diego's Hybrid Urban Borderlands: An Urban Landscape- and Border-Theoretical Approach to the Inner-Ring Redevelopment of America’s Finest City by Albert Rossmeier 9783658426668
Booksplease Price: $157.40This study aims for a wider understanding of the redevelopment processes that emerged several decades ago in downtown San Diego and now gradually spread over the downtown edges into the inner ring... -
The Assessment of German Cultural Landscapes: Evidence from Three Regions Located in the Metropolitan Area of Hamburg by Jessica Matloch 9783658214159
Booksplease Price: $95.90Jessica Matloch examines the importance of regional cultural landscape for their residents using the approach of willingness to pay. She identifies that almost each resident of every region prefers... -
Policy Frames on Spousal Migration in Germany: Regulating Membership, Regulating the Family by Laura Block 9783658132958
Booksplease Price: $90.25Laura Block asks how liberal democracies manage to restrict migration in spite of liberal constraints. She analyses the political debates surrounding spousal migration policies from 2005-2010 in... -
University Governance in (Post-)Conflict Southern Sudan 2005-2011: The Nexus of Islamism, New Public Management and Neopatrimonialism by Akiiki Babyesiza 9783658081447
Booksplease Price: $91.14Few studies have looked into the governance of universities in societies affected by armed conflicts, because they are either meant for practitioners or focused on the role of universities for peace... -
Synthetic Biology: Metaphors, Worldviews, Ethics, and Law by Joachim Boldt 9783658109875
Booksplease Price: $90.25Assessing synthetic biology from a societal and ethical perspective is not only a matter of determining possible harms and benefits of synthetic biology applications. Synthetic biology also... -
Ma(r)king the Difference: Multiculturalism and the Politics of Translation by Tania Mancheno 9783658409234
Booksplease Price: $138.22This research delivers a conceptual reconstruction of the trajectory of concepts used to mark qualitative differences among identities from the 16th to the 21st century in central Europe and the... -
HabitusAnalysis 1: Epistemology and Language by Heinrich Wilhelm Schafer 9783531175119
Booksplease Price: $90.25This book is the first of three volumes of HabitusAnalysis that take the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu as a starting point to develop a methodical approach to the habitus of social actors. However,... -
Party Communication in Routine Times of Politics: Issue Dynamics, Party Competition, Agenda-Setting, and Representation in Germany by Simona Bevern 9783658092047
Booksplease Price: $91.14Simona Bevern addresses the questions what and why political parties communicate in the time between elections, focusing on the dynamic rise and fall of policy issues. Despite the central role of... -
Musical Extrapolations: Creative Processes Involved While Music is Being Listened to and Composed by Sebastian Schmidt 9783658111243
Booksplease Price: $91.14The present book proposes a systematic understanding about the conditions, mechanisms, influences, and processes evolving into a creative behavior in music, based on interdisciplinary perspectives of... -
Learning Cooperatively under Challenging Circumstances: Cooperation among Students in High-Risk Contexts in El Salvador by Christine Schmalenbach 9783658213329
Booksplease Price: $90.25Christine Schmalenbach examines the use and potential of cooperation among students at high-risk schools in El Salvador with the objective of facilitating a culture- and context-sensitive use of... -
Muslim Women in Austria and Germany Doing and Undoing Gender: Making Gender Differences and Hierarchies Relevant or Irrelevant by Constanze Volkmann 9783658239510
Booksplease Price: $128.62Constanze Volkmann develops an innovative new gender theory labeled doing and undoing gender. Based on empirical findings she examines the highly debated intersection of gender and Islam. The... -
Beings, Belongings and Places: A Qualitative Study on International Students‘ Networks by Alice Altissimo 9783658313630
Booksplease Price: $157.40Based on narrative interviews with international students including egocentric network maps, this book explores international students’ role in the contexts they live in and how transnational spaces... -
Understanding Women’s Career Experiences in Moroccan Businesses: A Multi-Level Analysis of Gender Relations Mouna Izelmaden 9783658448691
RRP: $175.48Booksplease Price: $157.40Existing literature on women career development focuses on western industrialized countries and gives little attention to regions where patriarchy is prevailing like in North African countries. The... -
Rationality in Social Science: Foundations, Norms, and Prosociality by Ivar Krumpal 9783658335359
Booksplease Price: $107.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783658335359Author Ivar KrumpalFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint <