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A brilliant examination of how Betty Friedan’s revolutionary book The Feminine Mystique liberated women in the 1960s—and what it means to women today. “An illuminating analysis of the book that helped launch the movement that freed women to participate...
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Basic Books
Parution :
2011-01-04
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It is essential for social work students to know about social policy, to know why studying social policy is important in the social work degree, and to understand how social policy, when implemented, has a real impact on the everyday life of vulnerable people. This book...
Editeur :
Learning Matters
Parution :
2011-01-04
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For more than 40 years, SAGE has been one of the leading international publishers of works on quantitative research methods in the social sciences. This new collection provides readers with a representative sample of the best articles in quantitative methods that have...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2011-01-01
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The Enlightenment of the late 17th and 18th century is characterized by an emphasis on reason and empiricism . As a major shaping philosophy of Western culture, it had a historical impact on the religious, cultural, academic, and social institutions of 18th century...
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Springer
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2010-12-25
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In Limbo, award-winning journalist Alfred Lubrano identifies and describes an overlooked cultural phenomenon: the internal conflict within individuals raised in blue-collar homes, now living white-collar lives. These people often find that the values of the working...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2010-12-22
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Women at the Border analyzes border policing practices currently informed by paradigms of securitization against unauthorized mobility and explores the potential for a paradigm shift to a more ethical regulation of borders. By focusing on the ways women have sought to...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2010-12-21
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Macht ist der entscheidende Faktor in der Politik. Der politische Handlungsspielraum wird durch die Macht, eine Handlung auszuführen oder sie zu unterlassen, erst eröffnet. Sie ist demnach auch einer der zentralen Untersuchungsgegenstände der Politikwissenschaft. Wie...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2010-12-21
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Die Twentes zogen vermutlich zu Beginn des 13. Jahrhunderts, eventuell aus dem niederländischen Twente nach Osnabrück.Die ersten sicheren urkundlichen Erwähnungen weisen sie als Träger bedeutender Ämter aus, zunächst als Richter und Schöffen, dann als Bürgermeister. Sie...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2010-12-21
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Working with lesbians and gay men is a largely neglected area of social work practice. This book provides social workers and other professionals with an overview of a number of key challenges and concerns that play a significant part in the lives of lesbians and gay...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2010-12-20
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How do we reduce and prevent crime? This is a question with which governments, academics and criminal justice professionals have been grappling for decades. Crime Prevention explores the legislative developments, policy changes and practical strategies that have been...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2010-12-20
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The Handbook of the Sociology of Health, Illness & Healing advances the understanding of medical sociology by identifying the most important contemporary challenges to the field and suggesting directions for future inquiry.The editors provide a blueprint for guiding...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2010-12-17
Collection :
Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research
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First published in the 1950s, this is a classic account of the discovery in 1911 of the lost city of Machu Picchu.In 1911 Hiram Bingham, a pre-historian with a love of exotic destinations, set out to Peru in search of the legendary city of Vilcabamba, capital city of...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2010-12-16
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When we leave and travel abroad, for pleasure or for business, we make a choice: to have a superficial “airport experience” at our destination, or to appreciate the hidden culture beneath the surface. A Beginner’s Guide to the Deep Culture Experience proposes a deep...
Editeur :
John Murray Business
Parution :
2010-12-15
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China is in the midst of unprecedented economic and cultural growth. In the last decade alone,China joined the World Trade Organization, hosted the 2008 Olympics and experienced a remarkable, record-high increase in its foreign currency reserves. As these changes...
Editeur :
Quercus
Parution :
2010-12-15
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The French are famously enigmatic: fiercely independent yet deeply romantic,conservative yet avant-garde, rational yet emotional. What is it, exactly, that makes the French so . . . French? Written for anyone interacting with the French-tourists, businesspeople,...
Editeur :
Quercus
Parution :
2010-12-15
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The eyes of the world are on Iran, from nuclear issues to women's rights to Iran's perspective on Palestine. Yet a strictly political view does not allow for an accurate or complete outlook on this important and facinating country. In Among the Iranians, Greek-born...
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Quercus
Parution :
2010-12-15
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When we leave and travel abroad, for pleasure or for business, we make a choice: to have a superficial "airport experience" at our destination, or to appreciate the hidden culture beneath the surface. A Beginner's Guide to the Deep Culture Experience proposes a deep...
Editeur :
Quercus
Parution :
2010-12-15
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The relationship between social thought and earth processes is an oddly neglected part of the social sciences. This exciting book offers to make good the deficit by exploring how human activity and planetary processes impact upon each other. The book: • Provides...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2010-12-10
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"This is a thoughtful and sometimes challenging elaboration of some of the key concepts in contemporary family studies... Students and researchers will want to have this book close to hand, not simply as a reference work but as a stimulus to critical social analysis." ...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2010-12-10
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Sociology has long lacked the sense of propulsive direction that it possesses in the 1960s and early 70s. The subject has fragmented in a series of interlocking fields and sub-disciplines. Is there a way of revitalizing the subject? Where can we look for guides to build...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2010-12-10
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