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This book examines the notion of children having full citizenship. It does so historically, through intellectual discourse, beliefs, and moral and ideological positions on children. It looks at the status and extent of knowledge of the position of children covering...
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Springer
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2013-04-15
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Did you know that where you were born may affect when you die?
The Population of the UK explains how geography - in the widest sense - makes a difference to life outcomes. It explains the geographical differences in key socio-economic variables - like education, health,...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2012-11-12
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A New York Times bestseller America's unique prosperity is based on its creation of a middle class. In the twentieth century, that middle class provided the workforce, the educated skills, and the demand that gave life to the world's greatest consumer economy. It was...
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PublicAffairs
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2012-07-31
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Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz explains why we are experiencing such destructively high levels of inequality - and why this is not inevitable The top 1 percent have the best houses, the best educations, the best doctors, and the best lifestyles, but there is one thing...
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Penguin
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2012-06-28
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A host of books and films in recent years have documented the dangers of our current food system, from chemical runoff to soaring rates of diet-related illness to inhumane treatment of workers and animals. But advice on what to do about it largely begins and ends with...
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PublicAffairs
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2012-06-05
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After Joe Gould's Secret - 'a miniature masterpiece of a shaggy dog story' (Observer) - here is another collection of stories by Joseph Mitchell, each connected in one way or another with the waterfront of New York City. As William Fiennes wrote in the London Review of...
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Vintage Digital
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2011-01-25
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From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Rivals, now a major series on Disney+CLASS IS DEAD!Or so everyone claims. Who better to refute this than Jilly Cooper?Describing herself as 'upper middle class', Jilly claims that snobbery is very much alive and thriving! Meet...
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Transworld Digital
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2010-12-23
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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...
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Wiley
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2010-12-22
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Aristocracies or nobilities dominated the social, economic, and institutional history of all European counties until only a few generations ago. The relics of their power, in traditions and behaviour, in architecture and the arts, are still all around us.
This short...
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OUP Oxford
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2010-11-25
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Aristocracies or nobilities dominated the social, economic, and institutional history of all European counties until only a few generations ago. The relics of their power, in traditions and behaviour, in architecture and the arts, are still all around us.
This short...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-11-25
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This book gathers together several essays by historians of economics who express varying reactions to the Peart-Levy thesis. Contains several essays by historians of economics who express varying reactions to the thesis expressed in Professors Sandra J. Peart’s and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-02-23
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AJES - Studies in Economic Reform and Social Justice
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The United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child resulted in even greater global awareness of the significance of children's rights and perspectives.The contributors to this book explore the extent to which children's interests are finding expression in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-01-23
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Loathing, anger, shame – and deep affection: Virginia Woolf’s relationship with her servants was central to her life. Like thousands of her fellow Britons she relied on live-in domestics for the most intimate of daily tasks. Her cook and parlour maid relieved her of...
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Penguin
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2007-08-02
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Integrating insights from foreign policy analysis, integration theory, and social theory and providing an in-depth analysis of both refugee and security policy, the book develops an innovative framework for analysis that is capable of accounting for an incremental...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-05-26
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Lawyer, doctor, scientist--these are the jobs Americans commonly cite when asked to list the most prestigious occupations. The word "professional" today implies expertise, authority, and excellence. To do a job professionally is to do it well. Yet in a society in which...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1990-06-21
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In a series of interviews with Louise Toupin, groundbreaking feminist thinkers Silvia Federici and Mariarosa Dalla Costa return to the movement they co-founded in 1972—the International Feminist Collective. The feminist collective originated the radical and...
Editeur :
Between the Lines
Parution :
2025-01-21
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In this trailblazing manifesto, political economist Ricardo Tranjan places tenants and landlords on either side of the class divide that splits North American society. What if there is no housing crisis, but instead a housing market working exactly as intended? What if...
Editeur :
Between the Lines
Parution :
2023-05-02
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Following the completion of his major novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Russian writer Leo Tolstoy experienced a spiritual crisis that led him to denounce the privileges of his social class and its attendant material wealth and embrace the simple rural life of the...
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University of Ottawa Press
Parution :
2019-11-19
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