Walter de Gruyter - Böcker

Die Schutzstaffel der NSDAP war die gewalttätigste Terrororganisation des NS-Regimes. Sie sollte nach dem Willen Hitlers und Himmlers die "rassische" Elite des Nationalsozialismus sein, die als Vorbild der menschenzüchterischen...

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Die Holocaustforschung ist in den vergangenen Jahren um Ansätze ergänzt worden, die als komparativ-postkolonial beschrieben werden können. Sie beschreiben die Geschichten von Kolonialismus und Nationalsozialismus als historisch und ideologisch eng...

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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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This volume presents state-of-the-art empirical studies working in a paradigm that has become known as human behavioral ecology. The emergence of this approach in anthropology was marked by publication by Aldine in 1979 of an earlier collection of...

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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 work presents a study of the use of the Sumerian language in Kassite Babylonia. Consulting new materials from the Vorderasiatisches Museum of Berlin, it analyzes key linguistic features of Sumerian as well as the contexts and ideological sign...

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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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This work presents a study of the use of the Sumerian language in Kassite Babylonia. Consulting new materials from the Vorderasiatisches Museum of Berlin, it analyzes key linguistic features of Sumerian as well as the contexts and ideological sign...

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die Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe ist die historisch-kritische Edition sämtlicher Veröffentlichungen, nachgelassenen Manuskripte und Entwürfe sowie der Korrespondenz von Karl Marx und Friedrich Engels. ZU den bereits bekannten Schriften, Artikeln und ...

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"You'll certainly fancy, my dear child, that I am very fond of books, because I trouble you with them at so unseasonable a time", schreibt Marx 1868 seiner auf Hochzeitsreise befindlichen Tochter Laura, um dann mit dem Unterton bitterer ...

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Hegels "Wissenschaft der Logik" will nicht weniger sein als die wissenschaftliche Darstellung des Systems der reinen Vernunft. In ihren drei Teilen - "Das Sein" (1812/1832), "Die Lehre vom Wesen" (1813) und "Die ...

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Neben umfangreichen Studien, die ihn als Theoretiker ausweisen, publizierte Nikolaj Bucharin, seit der Gründung der Kommunistischen Internationale Mitglied des Exekutivkomitees, Chefredakteur der "Prawda", der Regierungszeitung "Isw...

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Die Korrespondenz dieses Zeitraums ist von den großen Themen der europäischen Politik bestimmt. Einer Einladung von Königin Sophie Charlotte nach Berlin kann Leibniz erst folgen, nachdem eine englische Gesandtschaft in Hannover in feierlicher Zere...

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Der zweite Band der philosophischen Korrespondenz zeigt Leibniz während seiner Tätigkeit in Hannover und Wolfenbüttel, unterbrochen durch die mehrjährige Reise nach Süddeutschland und Italien (1687-1690). Eine besondere St...

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Der vorliegende Band umfasst die fast ausnahmslos undatierten Studien, Entwrfe, Aufzeichnungen vom Mrz bis Ende 1673 zur Infinitesimalrechnung, also zur unmittelbaren Vorgeschichte der Erfindung des Calculus. Ein groer Teil der von Dietrich Mahnke...

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Series IV of the Academy Edition of Leibniz's Complete Writings and Letters includes his political writings. The series is edited by the Leibniz Editorial Center Potsdam of the Brandenburg Academy of Sciences.

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Max Webers posthum publiziertes Hauptwerk Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft gilt als eine Grundlegungsschrift moderner Soziologie. Neben der Kategorienlehre einer verstehenden Soziologie¿ umfasst sie auch spezifischere Grundrisse einer Wirtschafts-, Rel...

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