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Drawing on children's narratives about their everyday life this book explores how children come to understand the process of socialization at home, at school and in the neighbourhood as an embodied and biographical experience.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-08-30
Collection :
Studies in Childhood and Youth
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This collection addresses the ways that Nordic countries have approached the issue of bringing ethnic minorities into the societal mainstream. With multicultural incorporation as an option, the authors explore the potential impact of the politics of identity in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-08-30
Collection :
Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series
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Researchers and practitioners explore the effect of evolving global economic and political powers on energy security within the UK and puts forward practical options for moving towards a more energy secure system over both the short and long terms.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-08-29
Collection :
Energy, Climate and the Environment
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What is the relationship between the principles of social justice and global justice? How can we best reconcile the quest for greater social justice ‘at home' with greater social justice in the world? Are the social justice pressures our societies currently face the...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-08-26
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The politics of food is changing fast. In rich countries, obesity is now a more serious problem than hunger. Consumers once satisfied with cheap and convenient food now want food that is also safe, nutritious, fresh, and grown by local farmers using fewer chemicals....
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-08-26
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The politics of food is changing fast. In rich countries, obesity is now a more serious problem than hunger. Consumers once satisfied with cheap and convenient food now want food that is also safe, nutritious, fresh, and grown by local farmers using fewer chemicals....
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-08-26
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Social activism and dissent have become global phenomena for our times. Ordinary people across the world are fighting back. This newly potent political force has defeated governments in India and Spain, and has brought down the EU draft constitution. Disaffected by the...
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Polity
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2013-08-23
Collection :
Themes for the 21st Century
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While globalization undermines ideas of the nation-state in the Mediterranean, conversions reveal how religion can unsettle existing political and social relations. Through studies of conversions across the region this book examines the challenges that conversions...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-08-22
Collection :
Islam and Nationalism
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In the wake of the economic crisis, many public services are facing a challenging environment in which they receive less funding but are expected to deliver better services. Organisational Innovation in Public Services develops new theoretical models and analyses case...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-08-22
Collection :
Governance and Public Management
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Britain has become increasingly diverse over the last fifty years and she has been fortunate to attract relatively highly educated immigrants with democratic values and positive perceptions of the British political system. But Britain's ethnic minorities have suffered...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-08-15
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A unique approach to human behavior that integrates and interprets the latest research from cell to society Incorporating principles and findings from molecular biology, neuroscience, and psychological and sociocultural sciences, Human Behavior employs a decidedly...
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Wiley
Parution :
2013-08-12
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This award-winning book answers some of the big questions on the legitimacy of the European Union. Specifically, it looks at what it would mean for the EU to be considered a legitimate body and where our ideas on this question come from. The Struggle for EU...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-08-08
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics
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This collection explores how the dominant risk agenda is being embedded across welfare policy and practice contexts in order to redefine social problems and those who experience them. Identities of 'risky' or 'safe', 'responsible' or 'irresponsible' are being...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-08-01
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How do institutional arrangements established by law become operational in practice? It takes work for them to develop problem-solving capabilities and win recognition from others-what the authors call "practical authority."
Drawing from a decade-long, multi-site...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-08-01
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What similarities exist between the reasons for Labour losing office in 2010 and those behind why previous Labour governments were defeated? This edited volume provides a detailed historical appraisal which considers the importance of themes such as economic...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-07-30
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This collection examines the subject of identification and surveillance from 16th C English parish registers to 21st C DNA databases. The contributors, who range from historians to legal specialists, provide an insight into the historical development behind such issues...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-07-29
Collection :
St Antony's Series
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Governments have failed to stem global emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases causing climate change. Indeed, climate-changing pollution is increasing globally, and will do so for decades to come without far more aggressive action. What explains this...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-07-11
Collection :
What's Wrong?
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Sub-Saharan Africa is no longer a troubled ‘dark continent.’ Most of its constituent countries are now enjoying significant economic growth and political progress. The new Africa has begun to banish the miseries of the past, and appears ready to play an important role...
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Polity
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2013-07-10
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A thoughtful text integrating strengths, assets, and capacity-building themes with contemporary issues in rural social work practice Now in its second edition, Rural Social Work is a collection of contributed readings from social work scholars, students, and...
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Wiley
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2013-07-03
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This book is a timely and wide-ranging account of the relationship between the development of a 'free market society' in Europe and North America and the fears and anxieties provoked by crime. It offers an evaluation of the theoretical schools in social theory and in...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-28
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