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This book studies healthy aging in China based on analyses of the datasets of eight waves of longitudinal survey in 1998-2018 with worldwide largest sample of oldest-old. It consists of four parts. The first part reports the 6th, 7th, and 8th surveys of “Chinese...
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Springer
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2022-11-08
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Controlling reproduction – who has children, how many, and when – is important to states, communities, families, and individuals across the globe. However, the stakes are even higher than might at first be appreciated: control over reproduction is an incredibly powerful...
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Polity
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2022-11-08
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Jana Türk untersucht in ihrer qualitativen Studie, wie Akteure in zwei ländlichen Alpengemeinden nachhaltige Entwicklung aushandeln. Dabei nimmt sie unterschiedliche lokale Entwicklungsprozesse in den Blick und rekonstruiert anhand von leitfadengestützten Interviews,...
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Springer VS
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2022-11-07
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?This edited book explores stories of linguistic and spiritual identity in the urban and rural Australian landscape. It is an innovative mix of thirty six personal narratives and eleven research studies, which together offer accounts of the intersection of languages,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-07
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
The legitimacy of global governance...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-11-07
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This book offers a critique of the present status of the concept of causality in the social sciences. “The Causality Syndrome” consists of a belief in causal studies as more important than other studies, a narrow definition of causality, and rules of thumb regarding how...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-07
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Women in Print is a collection of essays in two related volumes which considers the diversity of roles occupied by women in the design, authorship, production, distribution and consumption of printed material from the fifteenth century onwards.
Women in Print I: Design...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-11-07
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This book is grounded in an extended analogy between the 19th century story of the Underground Railroad in North America, transporting fugitive slaves to safety in the North, and the 21st century routes and trails of migrant passages to and within Europe. It begins as a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-07
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«Beyond the narrow application to the pop-cultural zombie, Simon Bacon’s editorial definition of the concept of being «undead» generates discussions in each chapter that creatively engage with the full agenda of critical debates in studies of horror and the gothic. With...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-11-07
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This book, grounded in a human rights framework, takes a close look at social work approaches and practices in Southeast Europe. Human rights are central in today's understanding of social work as an academic discipline and as a professional practice. Looking at social...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-11-05
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This book explores the interconnection of care, gender and migration regimes and their impact on ‘migrant domestic work’ in Europe, in a comparative perspective. The research presented in this book aims to understand the reasons not only of the increased concentration...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-04
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The book addresses the problem of institutionalised order in modern capitalist societies with highly developed division of labour. Via thorough critique and reconstruction of neo institutionalist theory, classical social theories, and critical ideology theory, The...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-04
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This volume focuses on the wider wellbeing costs within European countries as a result of the outbreak of the pandemic and the control measures implemented thereafter. In particular, it considers to what extent Covid-19 and measures taken to cope with the crisis have...
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Springer
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2022-11-04
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An in-depth analysis that demonstrates how and why there has been a resurgence of nativist logic.
It was once thought that liberalism and globalization would consign nativist logics to the fringes of societies and eventually to history. But if it ever left, nativism...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-11-04
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Alain Locke is most known for his involvement in the Harlem Renaissance. However, he received his PhD in philosophy from Harvard University in 1918, and produced a very large corpus of philosophical work. His work shows him to have been a sophisticated philosopher who...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-04
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To Be Real: Truth and Racial Authenticity in African American Standup Comedy examines Black standup comedy over the past decade as a stage for understanding why notions of racial authenticity--in essence, appeals to "realness" and "real Blackness"--emerge as a cultural...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-11-04
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This book offers a unique blend of writing from a broad range of international perspectives, showing interdisciplinary research approaches to decolonising curriculum knowledge. With a focus on the intellectual, emotional, economic, and political reversal of colonial...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-03
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This book confronts issues relating to climate change and sustainable development innovations in Asia, with attention to key issues and applications in terms of advocacy, governance, citizen science, tradition, faith, leadership, and education. With contributions by 31...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-11-03
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This book explores how speculative thinking is shaping how we relate to our entangled social, mental, and environmental ecologies. It examines how speculative philosophies and concepts are changing geographical research methods and techniques, whilst also developing how...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-03
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If you have ever felt at a disadvantage when joining in a conversation on a subject that you aren't confident about, this new series is for you. Each book features definitions of two hundred words frequently used to describe and discuss a smart subject. Gender and...
Editeur :
Laurence King Publishing
Parution :
2022-11-03
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