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  • Cohabitation in Europe

    A revenge of history?

    Edited by Dalia Leinarte, Jan Kok ...
    Originating from discussions about the reasons for, and regional variations behind, the remarkable rise in cohabitation that started in the 1970s – a rise that continues to this day – this book explores the main stimuli behind cohabitation. The variation in levels of cohabitation cannot be explained solely by regional differences, religious affiliation, nationality, levels of education, or by the ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Agency, Gender and Economic Development in the World Economy 1850–2000

    Testing the Sen Hypothesis

    Edited by Jan Luiten van Zanden, Auke Rijpma, Jan Kok ...
    Series series Gender and Well-Being
    How has ‘agency’ – or the ability to define and act upon one’s goals – contributed to global long-term economic development during the last 150 years? This book asserts that autonomous decision making, and female agency in particular, increases the potential of a society to generate economic growth and improve its institutions.Inspired by Amartya Sen’s capabilities approach and looking at this in ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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    A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care

    by T. R. Reid ...
    A New York Times Bestseller, with an updated explanation of the 2010 Health Reform BillBringing to bear his talent for explaining complex issues in a clear, engaging way, New York Times bestselling author T. R. Reid visits industrialized democracies around the world--France, Britain, Germany, Japan, and beyond--to provide a revelatory tour of successful, affordable universal health care systems. ... Read more

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  • The Forgetting

    Alzheimer's: Portrait of an Epidemic

    by David Shenk ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLERA powerfully engaging, scrupulously researched, and deeply empathetic narrative of the history of Alzheimer’s disease, how it affects us, and the search for a cure.**Afflicting nearly half of all people over the age of 85, Alzheimer’s disease kills nearly 100,000 Americans a year as it insidiously robs them of their memory and wreaks havoc on the lives of their loved ones. It ... Read more

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  • Poop Culture

    How America Is Shaped by Its Grossest National Product

    by Dave Praeger ...
    Is “The Origin of Feces” a Darwinian concern? Perhaps not, but it is the title to the preface of this tongue-in-cheek and unexpectedly revealing exploration of human behavior by the webmaster behind the popular PoopReport.com.This book is not a history of poop, but a study of today. Its goal is to understand how poop affects us, how we view it, and why; to appreciate its impact from the moment it ... Read more

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  • Piecing the Puzzle

    The Genesis of AIDS Research in Africa

    by Larry Krotz ...
    In 1979, Dr. Allan Ronald, a specialist in infectious diseases from Canada, and Dr. Herbert Nsanze, head of medical microbiology at University of Nairobi, met through the World Health Organization. Ronald had just completed a successful project that cured a chancroid (genital ulcer) epidemic in Winnipeg and Nsanze asked him to come to Kenya to help with Kenya’s “sexual diseases problem.” That ... Read more

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  • Young People Transitioning from Out-of-Home Care

    International Research, Policy and Practice

    Edited by Philip Mendes, Pamela Snow ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book challenges and revises existing ways of thinking about leaving care policy, practice and research at regional, national and international levels. Bringing together contributors from fifteen countries, it covers a range of topical policy and practice issues within national, international or comparative contexts. These include youth justice, disability, access to higher education, the role ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Gendering Addiction

    The Politics of Drug Treatment in a Neurochemical World

    by N. Campbell, E. Ettorre ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This study, by two leading scholars in the field, draws on feminist theory and science and technology studies to uncover a basic injustice for the human rights of drug-using women: most women who need drug treatment in the US and UK do not get it. Why not? ... Read more

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  • The Disabled Child's Participation Rights

    by Anne-Marie Callus, Ruth Farrugia ...
    Series series Interdisciplinary Disability Studies
    The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is the only UN treaty to date in which the people who are its target, that is disabled people, were actively involved in its drafting and the only one which requires the active participation of disabled people in its implementation. This does not, of course, automatically guarantee the direct participation of all disabled ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Disability and Postsocialism

    by Teodor Mladenov ...
    Series series Interdisciplinary Disability Studies
    In the decades following the collapse of state socialism at the end of 1980s, disabled people in Central and Eastern Europe endured economic marginalisation, cultural devaluation and political disempowerment. Some of the mechanisms producing these injustices were inherited from state socialism, while others emerged with postsocialist neoliberalisation.State socialism promised social security ... Read more

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  • Children as Caregivers

    The Global Fight against Tuberculosis and HIV in Zambia

    by Jean Hunleth ...
    Series series Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
    Winner of the 2018 Association for Africanist Anthropology Elliott P. Skinner Book AwardIn Zambia, due to the rise of tuberculosis and the closely connected HIV epidemic, a large number of children have experienced the illness or death of at least one parent. Children as Caregivers examines how well intentioned practitioners fail to realize that children take on active caregiving roles when their ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • Child Pain, Migraine, and Invisible Disability

    by Susan Honeyman ...
    Series series Interdisciplinary Disability Studies
    In the twenty-first century there is increasing global recognition of pain relief as a basic human right. However, as Susan Honeyman argues in this new take on child pain and invisible disability, such a belief has historically been driven by adult, ideological needs, whereas the needs of children in pain have traditionally been marginalised or overlooked in comparison.Examining migraines in ... Read more

    $62.99 USD