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Good entry level text that new students will really appreciate. Clearly written in a style that aids understanding and will develop their knowledge and ability to apply research techniques. - Shane Thurlow, Bishop Burton College "Essential elements associated with...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2007-05-16
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In Hijas Americanas, author Rosie Molinary sheds new light on what it means to grow up Latina. Drawing upon her own experiences, as well as interviews and surveys collected from more than 500 Latina women, Molinary provides a powerful understanding of the inner...
Editeur :
Seal Press
Parution :
2007-05-10
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"In his interdisciplinary review of material culture, Ian Woodward goes beyond synthesis to offer a theoretically innovative reconstruction of the field. It is filled with gems of conceptual insight and empirical discovery. A wonderful book."
- Jeffrey C. Alexander,...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2007-05-09
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We are on the verge of what many are calling the "second information revolution," based on ubiquitous access to both computing and information. Handheld communication devices will become portable and even wearable remote control devices for both the social and physical...
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Springer
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2007-05-08
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GeoJournal Library
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Dynamic Population Models is the first book to comprehensively discuss and synthesize the emerging field of dynamic modeling, i.e. the analysis and application of population models that have changing vital rates. Incorporating the latest research, it includes thorough...
Editeur :
Springer
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2007-05-05
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The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis
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Working through Barriers deals with the role host countries’ institutional characteristics play in the labour market integration of immigrants in the European Union. Drawing on existing research it develops a comprehensive conceptual framework of factors (and underlying...
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Springer
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2007-05-03
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This book aims to show how the multilevel approach successfully overcomes the divisions that emerged during the rise of the social sciences— specifically, here, demography and statistics—from the seventeenth century to the present. We begin by examining how the approach...
Editeur :
Springer
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2007-05-03
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The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis
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"A thorough and wide-ranging synthetic account of social scientific research on consumption which will set the standard for the second generation of textbooks on cultures of consumption."
- Alan Warde, University of Manchester
"The multi-disciplinary nature of the book...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2007-04-30
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Research in Interactive Design Vol. 2 provides an overview of a wide range of original research and engineering activities related to high-realistic multi-sensorial virtual prototyping dedicated to the improvement of industrial innovation. It is time for usual design...
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Springer
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2007-04-27
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Published in the early 1950s, C. S. Lewis's seven Chronicles of Narnia were proclaimed instant children's classics and have been hailed in The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature as "the most sustained achievement in fantasy for children by a 20th-century author."...
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Jossey-Bass
Parution :
2007-04-27
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This book identifies processes and mechanisms related to police integrity and its enhancement. The authors surveyed over 3,000 police officers from 30 U.S. police departments on how they would respond to typical scenarios where integrity is challenged. The authors...
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Springer
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2007-04-27
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Ce guide largement illustré répertorie les espèces végétales comestibles cultivées ou sauvages du Vanuatu. Plantes cultivées pour leurs tubercules ou leurs racines, espèces ligneuses et lianes fournissant fruits ou...
Editeur :
Cirad
Parution :
2007-04-26
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Praise for the First Edition: `All readers will be drawn to the style of the book as well as its content. The structure will make sure that it is not just a "one-off", being read as part of a course of study, but a book which is used frequently as a source of...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2007-04-18
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In the face of an increasing public interest and demand for information, archaeologists are starting to collaborate with historians, educators, interpreters, museum curators, exhibit designers, landscape architects, and other cultural resource specialists to devise the...
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Springer
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2007-04-17
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Those charged with protection of resources falling within the public domain, including submerged sites, continuously strive to find the best management solutions. Given the advent of recreational diving in the last half century and advances in underwater survey and...
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Springer
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2007-04-15
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'As a guide to living and studying at university, this book goes beyond describing basic study skills and instead invites the reader to use ideas from sociology to make sense of the role of being a student, the university as an institution and the professional...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2007-04-12
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There are many compelling reasons for policymakers to pay more attention to forested regions and invest more resources there. Forests provide valuable products and en- ronmental services and several hundred million extremely poor people live near them. Perhaps the most...
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Springer
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2007-04-08
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Expressive Order introduces affect control theory to lay readers of sociology, and additionally guides sociology specialists into the theory's deep structure.
Briefly, affect control theory proposes that individuals shape their social interactions so that emerging...
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Springer
Parution :
2007-04-03
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Winner of the 2006 The Descartes Prize "for excellence in collaborative scientific research"
With the expansion of the European Union and the development of supra-national governance worldwide, the volume of cross-national data and the importance of rigorous...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2007-04-02
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