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The study explores an aspect of Finland in World War II that has received little attention.The research examines how Lutheran priests contributed rhetorically to the war effort against the Soviet Union in the Continuation War 1941-1944.The war was emplotted using six...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-05
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Foreword by Harvey V. Fineberg, President of the Institute of Medicine For decades, experts have puzzled over why the US spends more on health care but suffers poorer outcomes than other industrialized nations. Now Elizabeth H. Bradley and Lauren A. Taylor marshal...
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PublicAffairs
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2013-11-05
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Die zwischen Sprach- und Politikwissenschaft angesiedelte Studie beschäftigt sich mit der Situation der Kleinsprachen in Europa und mit den soziolinguistischen, gesellschaftlichen und politischen Bedingungen ihres Überlebens. Sie nimmt durchgehend zweierlei in den...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-04
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Drawing upon extensive fieldwork and suggesting novel ways of approaching the phenomenon of European Islam and the continent's Muslim communities, Islam in Europe examines how European Muslims construct notions or identity, agency and belonging, how they negotiate and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-10-30
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Islam and Nationalism
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Assessing and managing risk is a daily challenge for social workers. Working with risk can be anxiety provoking and demanding, requiring great skill and high levels of confidence. In these complex situations, social workers have to work hard to get the balance right....
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Polity
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2013-10-30
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Skills for Contemporary Social Work
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Elinor Ostrom, co-recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics, argued that we should not be limited to the conceptions of order derived from the work of Adam Smith and Thomas Hobbes when studying social order. She maintained that we should not limit ourselves to the...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-10-30
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Social work is the profession that claims to intervene to enhance people's well-being. However, social workers have played a low-key role in environmental issues that increasingly impact on people's well-being, both locally and globally. This compelling new...
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Polity
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2013-10-29
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The Nordic welfare states have found themselves in the firing line of post-industrial developments, resulting in fundamental changes and new social needs to attend to. This book explores responses to changing social risks across areas such as structural unemployment,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-10-29
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This book is an original, accessible, and thought-provoking introduction to the severe and broad-ranging challenges that climate change presents and how societies can respond. It synthesizes and deploys cutting-edge scholarship on the range of social, economic,...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-10-25
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This book is an original, accessible, and thought-provoking introduction to the severe and broad-ranging challenges that climate change presents and how societies can respond. It synthesizes and deploys cutting-edge scholarship on the range of social, economic,...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-10-24
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What Water is Worth addresses both conventional and non-conventional values of water, discussing the value of water as it relates to conventional microeconomics, water's true utility and government regulation, and new and current practices in water management.
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Palgrave Pivot
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2013-10-22
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Ruth Goodman and Peter Ginn have become familiar faces on BBC2 after their hugely popular and immersive time-travelling experiments, Victorian, Edwardian and Wartime Farm. But for their fourth series, and our accompanying book, they have joined forces with Tom Pinfold...
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Bbc Digital
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2013-10-21
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Assessment of Population Health Risks of PoliciesGabriel Guliš, Odile Mekel, Balázs Ádám, and Liliana Cori, editors Public health continues to evolve as professionals work not only to prevent disease and promote well-being but also to reduce health disparities and...
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Springer
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2013-10-17
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This book explores the complex relationship between public health research and policy, employing tobacco control and health inequalities in the UK as contrasting case studies. It argues that focusing on research-informed ideas usefully draws attention to the centrality...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-10-07
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Science, Knowledge and Policy
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Postwar employment standards are being undermined and 'non-standard' employment is becoming more common. While scholars have pointed to negative consequences of this development, this volume also discusses the evidence for a new and socially inclusive European...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-10-03
Collection :
Work and Welfare in Europe
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This volume addresses the relationship between childbearing, paid work and work-life balance policies across Europe in the 21st century, illuminating the uncertainty and risk related to insecure labour force attachment, the incoherence of women's and men's access to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-09-25
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Work and Welfare in Europe
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Foreword by Randy E. Barnett In 2012, the United States Supreme Court became the center of the political world. In a dramatic and unexpected 5-4 decision, Chief Justice John Roberts voted on narrow grounds to save the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare....
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PublicAffairs
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2013-09-10
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This book explores the contributions that research, with refugees and with faith-based organizations for example, makes to strengthen community development and consequently promote active citizenship and social justice.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-09-10
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Selected as A Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review Fifty years after Michael Harrington published his groundbreaking book The Other America, in which he chronicled the lives of people excluded from the Age of Affluence, poverty in America is back...
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Bold Type Books
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2013-09-10
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This comprehensive edited collection draws together the latest international literature on offender compliance during penal supervision and after court orders expire. Outlining emerging developments in compliance research, theory, policy and practice, this book...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-09-03
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