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Toward a Biopsychosocial Welfare State?

How Medicine and Psychology Transform Social Policy

Edited by Nadine Reibling, Mareike Ariaans ...

Series series Social Sciences (R0)
This open access book analyses the idea that medicine and psychology have a substantial (and underestimated) impact on Western welfare states. Based on mixed-methods analyses conducted in Germany, it analyses this influence on debates and policies related to unemployment, poverty, and childhood. The book demonstrates how the turn to neoliberalism and social investment thinking has created this ... Read more

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This open access book analyses the idea that medicine and psychology have a substantial (and underestimated) impact on Western welfare states. Based on mixed-methods analyses conducted in Germany, it analyses this influence on debates and policies related to unemployment, poverty, and childhood. The book demonstrates how the turn to neoliberalism and social investment thinking has created this
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After Servitude

Elusive Property and the Ethics of Kinship in Bolivia

by Dr. Mareike Winchell ...

How are injurious pasts redeployed by the dispossessed? After Servitude explores how agrarian engineers, Indigenous farmers, Mestizo mining bosses, and rural workers navigate racial hierarchies rooted in histories of forced agrarian labor. In the rural Bolivian province of Ayopaya, where the liberatory promises of property remain elusive, Quechua people address such hierarchies by demanding aid ... Read more

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How are injurious pasts redeployed by the dispossessed? After Servitude explores how agrarian engineers, Indigenous farmers, Mestizo mining bosses, and rural workers navigate racial hierarchies rooted in histories of forced agrarian labor. In the rural Bolivian province of Ayopaya, where the liberatory promises of property remain elusive, Quechua people address such hierarchies by demanding aid
... Read more
Hidden Hand,

Exposing How the Chinese Communist Party is Reshaping the World

by Clive Hamilton, Mareike Ohlberg, Charles Burton ...

4.8 Stars out of 5A must-read by anyone interested in national security in Canada or the world....."National PostHidden Hand is heavily sourced, crisply written, and deeply alarming. - The TimesRevelatory ... A partisan, detailed and necessary examination. - Sunday TimesHidden Hand should be required reading for our diplomats, intelligence analysts, military officers and businesspeople. - The ... Read more

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4.8 Stars out of 5A must-read by anyone interested in national security in Canada or the world....."National PostHidden Hand is heavily sourced, crisply written, and deeply alarming. - The TimesRevelatory ... A partisan, detailed and necessary examination. - Sunday TimesHidden Hand should be required reading for our diplomats, intelligence analysts, military officers and businesspeople. - The
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Netflix and the Re-invention of Television

by Mareike Jenner ...

Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
This book deals with the various ways Netflix reconceptualises television as part of the process of TV IV. As television continues to undergo a myriad of significant changes, Netflix has proven itself to be the dominant force in this development, simultaneously driving a number of these changes and challenging television’s existing institutional structures. This comprehensive study explores the ... Read more

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This book deals with the various ways Netflix reconceptualises television as part of the process of TV IV. As television continues to undergo a myriad of significant changes, Netflix has proven itself to be the dominant force in this development, simultaneously driving a number of these changes and challenging television’s existing institutional structures. This comprehensive study explores the
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Gender-Competent Legal Education

Edited by Dragica Vujadinović, Mareike Fröhlich, Thomas Giegerich ...

Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
Male-dominated law and legal knowledge essentially characterized the whole of pre-modern history in that the patriarchy represented the axis of social relations in both the private and public spheres. Indeed, modern and even contemporary law still have embedded elements of patriarchal heritage, even in the secular modern legal systems of Western developed countries, either within the content of ... Read more

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Male-dominated law and legal knowledge essentially characterized the whole of pre-modern history in that the patriarchy represented the axis of social relations in both the private and public spheres. Indeed, modern and even contemporary law still have embedded elements of patriarchal heritage, even in the secular modern legal systems of Western developed countries, either within the content of
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Understanding and Sensitively Raising Highly Sensitive Children How to Accompany and Support Your Emotional Child on Their Journey and Raise Them Happily Without Scolding Them

by Mareike Waldecker, Mareike Waldecker ...

Narrated by Casey Wayman ...

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There are many things to watch out for when raising children. The course is set for life. This responsibility in particular means that raising a child is not always an easy task. Parents know that the defiant phase is exhausting, but also important. When a child is going through a developmental spurt, it can be nerve-wracking. But here, too, you know it's important and it will pass. But what if ... Read more

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There are many things to watch out for when raising children. The course is set for life. This responsibility in particular means that raising a child is not always an easy task. Parents know that the defiant phase is exhausting, but also important. When a child is going through a developmental spurt, it can be nerve-wracking. But here, too, you know it's important and it will pass. But what if
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Landmarks in Intercultural Studies

Biographies. Concepts. Positions

Edited by Christoph Barmeyer, Dominic Busch ...

Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Globalization sets a scene where societies perceive an increase of intercultural contact on all levels, although, as this book may show, intercultural communication research today looks back to an impressive tradition. Research and practice in intercultural communication have become increasingly important and dynamic worldwide in recent decades, startingin the United States.This anthology offers ... Read more

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Globalization sets a scene where societies perceive an increase of intercultural contact on all levels, although, as this book may show, intercultural communication research today looks back to an impressive tradition. Research and practice in intercultural communication have become increasingly important and dynamic worldwide in recent decades, startingin the United States.This anthology offers
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Days on the Road

Crossing The Plains In 1865, The Diary Of Sarah Raymond Herndon

by Sarah Raymond Herndon ...

Sarah Raymond was an unmarried woman of twenty-four who in May 1865--barely a month after the end of the Civil War--mounted her beloved pony and headed west alongside the wagon carrying her mother and two younger brothers. They traveled by wagon train over the Great Plains toward the Rocky Mountains, with no certain idea of where they would settle themselves but a strong desire to leave war-torn ... Read more

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Sarah Raymond was an unmarried woman of twenty-four who in May 1865--barely a month after the end of the Civil War--mounted her beloved pony and headed west alongside the wagon carrying her mother and two younger brothers. They traveled by wagon train over the Great Plains toward the Rocky Mountains, with no certain idea of where they would settle themselves but a strong desire to leave war-torn
... Read more
Hidden Hand

Exposing How the Chinese Communist Party is Reshaping the World

by Clive Hamilton, Mareike Ohlberg ...

‘Heavily sourced, crisply written and deeply alarming.’ The Times‘This is a remarkable book with a chilling message.’ GuardianThe Chinese Communist Party is determined to reshape the world in its image.Its decades-long infiltration of the West threatens democracy, human rights, privacy, security and free speech. Throughout North America and Europe, political and business elites, Wall Street, ... Read more

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‘Heavily sourced, crisply written and deeply alarming.’ The Times‘This is a remarkable book with a chilling message.’ GuardianThe Chinese Communist Party is determined to reshape the world in its image.Its decades-long infiltration of the West threatens democracy, human rights, privacy, security and free speech. Throughout North America and Europe, political and business elites, Wall Street,
... Read more
Cell Fusion

New Insights into the Mechanism of Cell Fusion and Its Biological Consequences

Edited by Julian Weiler, Mareike Sieler, Thomas Dittmar ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
This book sheds new light on the complex phenomenon of cell fusion, a vital process in various physiological and pathophysiological contexts, including fertilization, placentation, myogenesis, and cancer. While the merging of cells may seem straightforward, it involves a sophisticated interplay of biological mechanisms that are not yet fully understood.In this new edition, readers will discover ... Read more

$224.99 USD

This book sheds new light on the complex phenomenon of cell fusion, a vital process in various physiological and pathophysiological contexts, including fertilization, placentation, myogenesis, and cancer. While the merging of cells may seem straightforward, it involves a sophisticated interplay of biological mechanisms that are not yet fully understood.In this new edition, readers will discover
... Read more
Hidden Hand

by Clive Hamilton, Mareike Ohlberg ...

In this landmark follow-up to the bestselling Silent Invasion, Hidden Hand exposes the Chinese Communist Party’s global program of influence and subversion, and the threat it poses to democracy.With its enormous economic power, China is now a global political and military force engaged in an ideological struggle with the West. Combining a mass of evidence with unique insights, Clive Hamilton and ... Read more

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In this landmark follow-up to the bestselling Silent Invasion, Hidden Hand exposes the Chinese Communist Party’s global program of influence and subversion, and the threat it poses to democracy.With its enormous economic power, China is now a global political and military force engaged in an ideological struggle with the West. Combining a mass of evidence with unique insights, Clive Hamilton and
... Read more
International Public Administrations in Environmental Governance

The Role of Autonomy, Agency, and the Quest for Attention

Edited by Helge Jörgens, Nina Kolleck, Mareike Well ...

Combining theoretical and empirical approaches, this book examines the role that international public administrations play in global environmental politics in the Anthropocene. With chapters written by leading experts in the field, this text offers fresh insight into how international bureaucracies shape global policies in the complex areas of climate change, biodiversity, and development policy. ... Read more

$64.99 USD

Combining theoretical and empirical approaches, this book examines the role that international public administrations play in global environmental politics in the Anthropocene. With chapters written by leading experts in the field, this text offers fresh insight into how international bureaucracies shape global policies in the complex areas of climate change, biodiversity, and development policy.
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