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Grassroots Advocacy and Health Care Reform places a detailed account of how the Health Care for America Now campaign in Pennsylvania carried out contemporary issue advocacy in the context of an understanding of American politics.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-06-18
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An interdisciplinary synthesis that offers a new understanding of childhood in the Middle Ages as a form of master-servant relation embedded in an ancient sense of time as a correspondence between earthly change and eternal order.
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Palgrave Pivot
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2013-06-13
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Das Buch beschäftigt sich mit der Rolle der Freizeitorganisation «Kraft durch Freude» (KdF) als Propaganda- und Herrschaftsinstrument für das NS-Regime zwischen 1933 und 1939. Die Organisation KdF war ein halbstaatlicher, der «Deutschen Arbeitsfront» (DAF)...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-06-10
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This edited collection brings together internationally renowned scholars to explore green criminology through the interdisciplinary lenses of power, harm and justice. The chapters provide innovative case study analyses from around the world that seek to advance...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-06-06
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Critical Criminological Perspectives
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Metropolitan growth has been dramatic in the past several decades, and today metropolitan regions are recognized as the main driving forces in national growth and development as well as in national and global innovation processes. The purpose of this book is to...
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Springer
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2013-06-05
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Advances in Spatial Science
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By 2010, 260 million citizens were living outside of their permanent hukou location, a major challenge to the constrictive Mao-era system of migration and settlement planning. Jason Young shows how these new forces have been received by the state and documents the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-06-03
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This book studies the historical, religious and political concerns of the Iraqi Shi‘i community as interpreted by the members of that community who now live in the United Kingdom and Ireland, following the 2003-2010 war and occupation in Iraq. It opens up a creative...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-06-03
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Few discussions in modern social science have occupied as much attention as the changing nature of welfare states in western societies. Gosta Esping-Andersen, one of the most distinguished contributors to current debates on this issue, here provides a new analysis of...
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Polity
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2013-05-29
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The end of the Cold War has seen an international proliferation of parliamentary bodies of all types and at all levels. How can this process of parliamentarization be assessed and under what conditions do these institutions operate? This book explores how regional...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-05-20
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This book aims to tackle the issues that are central to understanding and addressing one of the most important employment policy problems facing governments in the UK and beyond: the high number of people of working age claiming 'disability' or 'incapacity' benefits.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-05-20
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Work and Welfare in Europe
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The phenomenon of transnational health care has grown rapidly over recent years and this book provides a comprehensive landscape of diverse research communities' attempts to capture its implications for existing bodies of knowledge in selected aspects of medicine,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-05-18
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In this gripping book, Dr. Samli makes the case that the US economy is shifting for the worse, tilting towards a finance-driven economy, and argues that investing in innovation will bring us out of the recession and back to a successful, market-driven economy.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-05-14
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Climate change poses one of the greatest challenges for human society in the twenty-first century, yet there is a major disconnect between our actions to deal with it and the gravity of the threat it implies. In a world where the fate of countries is increasingly...
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Polity
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2013-05-09
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This book presents an in-depth analysis of social policy reactions to international economic shocks in four different welfare states, over a 40-year period. It reveals how expansion and retrenchment are shaped by domestic politics and existing welfare state...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-05-07
Collection :
Transformations of the State
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Charles R. Morris's The Trillion Dollar Meltdown (2008) was the first book to warn of the impending financial crash in all its horrific scale and speed. Now, with Comeback, Morris reveals that the United States is on the brink of a strong recovery that could last for...
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PublicAffairs
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2013-05-07
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Bonhoeffer’s stance on political issues has been the focus of considerable research. Insufficient attention has been given, however, to the theoretical foundations ofBonhoeffer’s political theology, that is, to the fundamental elements and concepts that shape his...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-05-02
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Dieses Handbuch entstand aus einem Projekt der Innsbrucker Forschungsstelle «Demokratische Bewegungen in Mitteleuropa 1770-1850» an der Universität Innsbruck. Es wurde im Rahmen des Privatinstituts für Ideengeschichte fortgeführt und abgeschlossen. Als Nachschlagewerk...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-05-02
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Castles of our Conscience presents a new and distinctive analysis of the role of the modern state in the shaping of policies of social control. Staples provides a theoretical framework for understanding the mechanisms of state policy-making and capacity. This framework...
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Polity
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2013-05-02
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With the growing challenges of economic globalization and national welfare state retrenchment, the development and future of EU social policy has become increasingly important. This exciting new textbook provides a comprehensive, detailed and up-to-date overview of this...
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Polity
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2013-05-02
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THE GLOBAL MONEY SYSTEM NO LONGER WORKS IN OUR BEST INTERESTS; WE NEED A SERIOUS OVERHAUL OF MONEY - AND OF OUR ATTITUDE TOWARDS IT.Based on the four mega-trends of monetary instability, global greying (an ageing global population), the information revolution, and...
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Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2013-04-30
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