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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...
Editeur :
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...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-07-29
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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...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
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 :
2013-06-25
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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.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
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.
Editeur :
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)...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
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...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-06-06
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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...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-06-05
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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...
Editeur :
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...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-05-29
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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.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-05-20
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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,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-05-18
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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...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-05-09
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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...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2013-05-07
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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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