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Politische Kommunikation im städtischen Raum am Beispiel Graffiti
Springer Fachmedien 2009; US$ 39.99Fine Lines from the Box
Random House Struik 2011; US$ 10.00A journey of the mind. An eloquent and evocative tracing of the trajectory of thinking of one of South Africa?s foremost intellectuals. more...
Neighbourhood Effects Research
Springer 2011; US$ 109.99Over the last 25 years a vast body of literature has been published on neighbourhood effects: the idea that living in more deprived neighbourhoods has a negative effect on residents' life chances over and above the effect of their individual characteristics. The volume of work not only reflects academic and policy interest in this topic, but also... more...
Die Ordnung des Sozialen
Campus Verlag 2013; US$ 33.42Hauptbeschreibung Aus einem völlig neuen Blickwinkel präsentiert Jürgen Martschukat die Geschichte der USA. Er schildert zentrale Themen wie die Sklaverei, die Besiedelung des Westens, die Einwanderung aus Europa oder die Große Depression anhand einzelner Familien. Dabei stehen vor allem die Väter im Mittelpunkt. Jedes Kapitel zoomt nah an die Personen... more...
Racial Encounter
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 85.00The political and legislative changes which took place in South Africa during the 1990s, with the dissolution of apartheid, created a unique set of social conditions. As official policies of segregation were abolished, people of both black and white racial groups began to experience new forms of social contact and intimacy. By examining these... more...
Race
Wiley 2013; US$ 69.95In Race: A Philosophical Introduction, Second Edition , Paul C. Taylor provides an accessible guide to a well-travelled but still-mysterious area of the contemporary social landscape. As in the first edition, the book blends metaphysics and social philosophy, analytic philosophy and pragmatic philosophy of experience. In this thoroughly... more...
A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies
Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2008; US$ 215.95Bringing together a range of scholars from a variety of disciplines and theoretical perspectives, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies offers an overview of contemporary debates as well as an exploration of new directions in the dynamic field of race and ethnicity. more...
Global Spaces of Chinese Culture
CRC Press 2006; US$ 70.00This book explores how Chinese communities in the United States and Germany create and disseminate a sense of diasporic Chinese identity. The book not only compares the local conditions of Chinese communities in the two locations, but also moves to a global dimension to track the Chinese transnational imaginary. The book analyzes three strategies which... more...
Geo-spatial Technologies in Urban Environments
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 2007; US$ 99.99This book expands the current frame of reference of remote sensing and geographic information specialists to include an array of socio-economic and related planning issues. Using remotely sensed data, the project explores the efficacy and policy implications of new approaches toward analyzing data (i.e., homogeneity indices), integrates approaches... more...









