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"I Didn't Divorce My Kids!"
How Fathers Deal With Family Break-ups
Gerhard Amendt
Campus Verlag, 2008
Popular culture often portrays divorced fathers as deadbeats who have little interest in caring for the emotional, physical, and financial needs of their children. In the stereotype-shattering book, “I Didn’t Divorce My Kids!”, Gerhard Amendt presents the long-neglected plight of the divorced father who is plagued by grief and loneliness after being separated from his children. Based on surveys and in-depth interviews of thousands of such dads, Amendt reveals how fathers cope with trying to salvage their own lives while simultaneously maintaining relationships with their children after a painful divorce.
Amendt’s incisive look at divided families also explores the impact that a single-parent household has on children’s well-being, criticizing the American tendency to over-pathologize normal reactions to familial upheaval. Even the most civilized of divorces, Amendt argues, can cause rage, sadness, potential health problems, and behavioral disturbances in otherwise well-adjusted children. The broad spectrum of experiences recounted in “I Didn’t Divorce My Kids!” will be essential reading for anyone interested in, or personally shaped by, the changing face of the modern family.
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"If You Tolerate This . . . "
The Spanish Civil War in the Age of Total War
Edited by Martin Baumeister and Stefanie Schüler-Springorum
Campus Verlag, 2008
The Spanish Civil War has been called the quintessential expression of violent ideological confrontation in 1930s Europe. Despite this reputation, researchers have neglected to properly explore the Spanish experience in the context of the history of twentieth-century warfare. To fill this gap, “If You Tolerate This . . . ”  brings together an international group of scholars to address the Spanish Civil War’s role in the development of total war.
Examining such topics as military violence, the experience of war, and the culture of war, this anthology traces how the differentiation between civilian and military sectors crumbled with the onset of civil war. Individual memory and collective identity in Spain, the authors argue, became synonymous with mass killing and mass dying. Offering a unique perspective on one of European history’s most fraught events, this volume will be necessary reading for students and scholars of twentieth-century Spain and military history.
 
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Illiberal Politics and Religion in Europe and Beyond
Concepts, Actors, and Identity Narratives
Edited by Anja Hennig and Mirjam Weiberg-Salzmann
Campus Verlag, 2020
Despite the broadly assumed institutional separation of church and state in contemporary Western politics, there is a trend towards renewed alliances between illiberal interpretations of religion and right-wing populist politics that challenge liberal democracy. This book explores the theoretically and empirically complex ideological, structural, and historical linkage between religion and illiberal politics within a broad range of European states. It shows how political actors apply Christian identity narratives to push exclusionist anti-Muslim politics, while simultaneously showcasing the ways in which religious actors evolve as illiberal players searching for political allies. This timely volume offers a critical look at a key contemporary issue that challenges assumptions and the reputations of current relationships between church and state.
 
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In the Shadow of Violence
The Politics of Armed Groups
Klaus Schlichte
Campus Verlag, 2009

As civil wars and insurgencies rage around the globe, Klaus Schlichte’s In the Shadow of Violence addresses a crucial question: why do some groups succeed in violently seizing and holding power while others fail? What makes for a successful non-state armed force? Arguing that success rests on the ability of these groups to transform the power of violence into legitimate domination, both inside their ranks and in the larger society, Schlichte explores the techniques and strategies they employ—and the long shadow of violence they must overcome along the way.

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Integrated Intelligence
Combining Human and Artificial Intelligence for Competitive Advantage
Ulrich Lichtenthaler
Campus Verlag, 2020
Artificial intelligence (AI) is omnipresent in our daily lives, from our ever-present cell phones to transportation and banking. But are businesses using these tools to their full potential? So far, most firms use AI tools primarily for enhancing efficiency and automating jobs. However, as Ulrich Lichtenthaler shows, by making AI a core part of their innovation strategy, business can achieve an unbeatable competitive advantage.
 
This book will show executives, HR professionals, and consultants how to gradually develop the tools of AI for building a unique intelligence architecture. Including detailed guidelines for implementation and many examples from the world’s most innovative companies, Integrated Intelligence reveals how executives can achieve a sustainable competitive advantage through intelligence-based business models.
 
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Intervention as Indirect Rule
Civil War and Statebuilding in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Alex Veit
Campus Verlag, 2010

One of the largest peace-keeping missions currently being undertaken by the United Nations is in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the UN is attempting to deal with the civil wars and other conflicts that have plagued the country since 1996. In Intervention as Indirect Rule, Alex Veit uses a close study of the district of Ituri, a major battlefield and a laboratory for international intervention, to explore the micropolitics of warfare and statebuilding. Combining detailed firsthand empirical data with a historically informed analysis, Veit shows the effect that contemporary humanitarian interventions have on state-society relations. He also pays particular, and much needed, attention to the question of why the very organizations that should be helping with international statebuilding efforts—local authorities and civil society groups—so often instead turn out to be corrupt or hostile. Ultimately Veit argues that international intervention tends inadvertently to replicate—or even amplify—historical structures of political inequality, rather than establishing a liberal form of statehood.

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Inventing the Modern American Family
Family Values and Social Change in 20th Century United States
Editedy by Isabel Heinemann
Campus Verlag, 2012
Family is the foundation of society, and debates on family norms have always touched the very heart of America. This volume investigates the negotiations and transformations of family values and gender norms in the twentieth century as they relate to the overarching processes of social change of that period. By combining long-term approaches with innovative analysis, Inventing the “Modern American Family” transcends not only the classical dichotomies between women’s studies and masculinity studies, but also contribute substantially to the history of gender and culture in the United States.
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