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    Urban Ethnography in a Brooklyn Pentecostal Tongue-Speaking Church

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    This book carries an ethnographic signature in approach and style, and is an examination of a small Brooklyn, New York, African-American, Pentecostal church congregation and is based on ethnographic notes taken over the course of four years. The Pentecostal Church is known to outsiders almost exclusively for its members’ “bizarre” habit of speaking in tongues. This ethnography, however, puts those ... Read more

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  • All Animals are Equal / Alle Tiere sind gleich. Englisch/Deutsch

    [Great Papers Philosophie] – Singer, Peter – zweisprachige Ausgabe – philosophische Bücher

    Series series Reclams Universal-Bibliothek
    Mit einigem Recht kann man Peter Singer als einen der umstrittensten Philosophen der Gegenwart bezeichnen – doch mit ebensolcher Berechtigung auch als einen der einflussreichsten und originellsten Denker. Sein früher Aufsatz von 1974 stellt unangenehme Fragen: Mit welchem Recht maßen wir uns an, Tiere als uns grundsätzlich unterlegen zu verstehen, sie als Verfügungsmasse zu behandeln? Unser ... Read more

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    Series series Routledge Series on Practical and Evidence-Based Policing
    Relying on intense ethnographic research and extensive experiences teaching human rights policing to police officers, this book teaches law enforcement professionals how to apply human rights to their everyday interactions with community members. The data collected throughout this research process offers the reader first-hand accounts of police officers addressing the most important human rights ... Read more

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  • Chasing Religion in the Caribbean

    Ethnographic Journeys from Antigua to Trinidad

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Focusing on ten islands through the Caribbean, this ethnography examines how charismatic religious leaders develop creative transnational religious networking strategies that help spread the movement and increase its potential to become a greater force in shaping the future in the English-speaking Caribbean. The large and explosive global Charismatic movement spread in powerful ways in the small ... Read more

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  • Down and Out in New Orleans

    Transgressive Living in the Informal Economy

    Series series Studies in Transgression
    In the years since Hurricane Katrina, the modern-day bohemians of New Orleans have found themselves forced to the edges of poverty by the new tourist economy. Modeling his work after George Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London, the sociologist and ethnographer Peter J. Marina explores this unfamiliar side of the gentrifying “new” New Orleans. In 1920s Paris, Orwell witnessed an influx of ... Read more

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    Series series Studies in Transgression
    In the years since Hurricane Katrina, the modern-day bohemians of New Orleans have found themselves forced to the edges of poverty by the new tourist economy. Modeling his work after George Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London, the sociologist and ethnographer Peter J. Marina explores this unfamiliar side of the gentrifying “new” New Orleans. In 1920s Paris, Orwell witnessed an influx of ... Read more

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  • A Steamy Steampunk Cruise

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    Under the hot Brasilian sun, waiting as the last in the queue for boarding the cruise ship to New York, Monica Jackson, is not at all delighted. Assigned as an auditor to this Steampunk-themed cruise, the journey is going to be more work than fun. But then another passenger is queuing up behind her. And when a deep, velveting voice from behind wishes her a "Bom dia" she turns around. Seeing the ... Read more

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    This two-volume set constitutes the proceedings of the Third Conference on Creativity in Intellectual Technologies and Data Science, CIT&DS 2019, held in Volgograd, Russia, in September 2019.The 67 full papers, 1 short paper and 3 keynote papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 231 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections in the two volumes. Part I: cyber ... Read more

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    The Abel Symposium 2014

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    This book features research contributions from The Abel Symposium on Statistical Analysis for High Dimensional Data, held in Nyvågar, Lofoten, Norway, in May 2014.The focus of the symposium was on statistical and machine learning methodologies specifically developed for inference in “big data” situations, with particular reference to genomic applications. The contributors, who are among the most ... Read more

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  • Tourism and Social Identities

    The making and consuming of tourism takes place within a complex social milieu, with competing actors drawing into the ‘product’ peoples’ history, culture and lifestyles. Culture and people thus become part of the tourism product. The implications are not fully understood, though the literature ranges the arguments along a continuum with culture being described on one hand as vulnerable and fixed, ... Read more

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  • Tourism and Politics

    Tourism and Politics aims to disseminate ideas on the critical discourse of tourism and tourists as they relate to politics, through a series of case studies from around the world written by specialists with an emphasis on linking theory to practice. That tourism is a profoundly important economic sector for most countries and regions of the world is widely accepted, even if some of the detail ... Read more

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  • Sustainability Appraisal: Quantitative Methods and Mathematical Techniques for Environmental Performance Evaluation

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    One of the most important issues in developing sustainable management strategies and incorporating ecodesigns in production, manufacturing and operations management is the assessment of the sustainability of business operations and organizations’ overall environmental performance. The book presents the results of recent studies on sustainability assessment. It provides a solid reference for ... Read more

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