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This book highlights the diversity and richness of non-Mainland China and Taiwan-oriented gender issues from a unique Taiwanese perspective, in contrast to previous studies that have often placed Taiwanese gender issues under the huge umbrella of Mainland Chinese,...
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Springer
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2017-10-15
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Late in a career of more than sixty years, Thomas Burch, an internationally known social demographer, undertook a wide-ranging methodological critique of demography. This open access volume contains a selection of resulting papers, some previously unpublished, some...
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Springer
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2017-10-14
Collection :
Demographic Research Monographs
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This resource supports evidence-informed approaches to improving the cultural competence of health service delivery. By reviewing the evidence from Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the US, it provides readers with a clear and systematic overview of the interventions...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-10-13
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At the XXIst World Congress of the International Committee of Historical Sciences (ICHS/CISH) in 2010 in Amsterdam, the International Commission for Historical Demography (ICHD) decided to write an overview of its own history. Fifty years had gone by since the CISH XIst...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2017-10-13
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This book introduces and applies the stochastic modeling techniques and the first exit time theory in demography through describing the theory related to the health state of a population and the introduced health state function. The book provides the derivation and...
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Springer
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2017-10-10
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Das Buch befasst sich mit dem bislang noch weitgehend unbehandelten Gebiet der Konversion von Deutschen zum Islam und beruht auf langjährigen Feldstudien der Autorin in Deutschland. Es bietet neue Einsichten in die Zusammenhänge und Spannungen, die dieses stetig...
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Springer
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2017-10-10
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An NPR Best Book of 2017Celebrate the witchiest women writers with an inventive guidebook that pairs imaginative vignettes with whimsical, folkloric illustrations. Literary Witches reimagines visionary writers as witches: both are figures of formidable creativity,...
Editeur :
Seal Press
Parution :
2017-10-10
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Local regeneration, and action on local issues, is fundamental to the sustainability of local communities. This is especially the case in the UK, with the Government focus on such approaches asLocal Enterprise Partnerships and neighbourhood development plans, and...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2017-10-09
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Do you want to thrive in your doctoral research?Do you want to do more than just survive? If so this is the book for you. Focused on empowering the doctoral researcher, it is packed with advice on how to make the best of opportunities and enjoy your research...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2017-10-09
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This book examines water security as a prime example of how the economic, socio-cultural and political-normative systems that regulate access to water reflect the evolving and gendered power relations between different societal groups. Access to water is characterized...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-10-05
Collection :
Water Security in a New World
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This book focuses on the experiences of temporary movements between Asia and Europe from the perspective of migrants and mobile people. It raises important questions such as: Why do people migrate on a temporary basis and what does this actually mean? How are these...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-10-05
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One day in 2005, Rob Hopkins, an ordinary British citizen, started knocking on his neighbors’ doors in the small town of Totnes, where he had just settled. He was proposing that they come together to organize nothing less than a new, locally based economy. A new model,...
Editeur :
Éditions Actes Sud
Parution :
2017-10-04
Collection :
Domaine du possible
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The current crisis clearly demonstrates that our model of society has reached its limits.The time has come to recognize that our affluent societies have more than enough to meet their essential material needs—provided it is done fairly.The time has also come to question...
Editeur :
Éditions Actes Sud
Parution :
2017-10-04
Collection :
Domaine du possible
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This book is a series of interviews between Lionel Astruc and Vandana Shiva, worldwide icon of ecological revolution and winner of the “alternative Nobel prize”. Worthy successor to Gandhi, Vandana Shiva tells about her life and fight as a leader of the...
Editeur :
Éditions Actes Sud
Parution :
2017-10-04
Collection :
Domaine du possible
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As a practising mortician, Caitlin Doughty has long been fascinated by our pervasive terror of dead bodies. In From Here to Eternity she sets out in search of cultures unburdened by such fears. With curiosity and morbid humour, Doughty introduces us to inspiring...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2017-10-03
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Starting from a history of new media, this book presents the development of network technology and media applications in China, while also examining the relationship between new media and politics, economy, culture, lifestyle, traditional media, law, knowledge, etc. As...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-10-03
Collection :
Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path
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A leading investment professional explains the world of impact investing -- investing in businesses and projects with a social and financial return--and shows what it takes to make sustainable, transformative change. Impact investment -- the support of social and...
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Bold Type Books
Parution :
2017-10-03
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As scholars have by now long contended, global neoliberalism and the violence associated with state restructuring provide key frameworks for understanding flows of people across national boundaries and, eventually, into the treacherous terrains of the United States...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-10-03
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This timely treatise introduces an innovative prevention/preparedness model for cities to address and counter terrorist threats and events. It offers theoretical background, mixed-method research, and tools for creating a resilience-based response to terrorism, as...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-10-02
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‘Systematically exposes the neoliberal myths in unequal societies’ - Niels Rosendal Jensen
'A call to arms to challenge inequality and social exclusion.' - Lel Meleyal
‘An impassioned dissection of the highly coded lexicon of so-called welfare reform…get reading, get...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2017-10-02
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