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“margaret c simms”

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  • Choice and Circumstance

    Racial Differences in Adolescent Sexuality and Fertility

    by Margaret C. Simms, Kristen A. Moore, Charles L. Betsy ...
    First published in 1986. Forty five percent of black women have at least one child by the time they are turn twenty compared to 19 percent of white women. Eight-six percent of the births to black teens occurred to unmarried mothers compared to 30 percent among whites. Research shows that teenage childbearing has negative medical, social, and economic consequences and that women who first gave ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Slipping Through the Cracks

    Status of Black Women

    by Margaret C. Simms ...
    The problems and special needs of black women are still given inadequate attention in social science analysis. Too often black women are subsumed under the category of ""blacks"" or ""women,"" with little consideration for their unique needs. This volume focuses on black women as a special group. It includes chapters on employment, educational attainment, and job training programs which originated ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Chinese Economy

    by Wolfgang Klenner, Margaret C. Simms ...
    This study deals with changes in the Chinese development strategy since the end of the Seventies. It examines the main characteristics of the previous development policy, the reasons for the change in orientation and the new aspects that have emerged, and analyzes China's new foreign trade policy. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Economics of Race and Crime

    Edited by Margaret C. Simms, Samuel L. Myers Jr. ...
    The relationship between crime and the economy has received too little attention from researchers. This volume remedies that deficit, resurrecting several classic writings on this elusive topic by and about blacks, and presenting new contributions by researchers at the frontier of work on the subject. Among the landmark articles included are W.E.B. Dubois' famous examination of crime in ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Supporting Vulnerable Children in the Early Years

    Practical Guidance and Strategies for Working with Children at Risk

    by Yinka Olusoga, Antony Luby, Nishi Bremner, Julia Lindley-Baker, Elizabeth Farrar, Rosey Shelbourne, Gina Taylor, Sarah Howe, Helen Thornalley, Beverley Keen, Dr Margaret C. Simms, Julie Percival, Anne Renwick, Emmy Sealey ...
    Exploring specific experiences, circumstances and events that can put children at risk, this book provides practical guidance for early years practitioners working with vulnerable children. It covers supporting children who are abused and neglected, those with special educational needs, children from ethnic minorities, those with emotional or health difficulties, children affected by poverty and ... Read more

    $22.09 USD

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    A Citizen's Guide to Policy and Politics

    by Katherine Fierlbeck ...
    Health Care in Canada examines the challenges faced by the Canadian health care system, a subject of much public debate. In this book Katherine Fierlbeck provides an in-depth discussion of how health care decisions are shaped by politics and why there is so much disagreement over how to fix the system.Many Canadians point to health care as a source of national pride; others are highly critical of ... Read more

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  • The Bell Curve

    Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life

    by Richard J. Herrnstein, Charles Murray ...
    The controversial book linking intelligence to class and race in modern society, and what public policy can do to mitigate socioeconomic differences in IQ, birth rate, crime, fertility, welfare, and poverty. ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • About Canada: Health Care, 2nd ed.

    by Pat Armstrong, Hugh Armstrong ...
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    Health care is Canada’s best-loved social program — and for good reason. For over forty years, Canadians have enjoyed high quality health services based on need rather than on ability to pay. Yet we hear almost daily accounts of problems with the system. We are bombarded with warnings that public health care is unsustainable, especially in light of the baby boomer generation reaching retirement ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Blaming the Victim

    by William Ryan ...
    The classic work that refutes the lies we tell ourselves about race, poverty and the poor.Here are three myths about poverty in America:– Minority children perform poorly in school because they are “culturally deprived.”– African-Americans are handicapped by a family structure that is typically unstable and matriarchal.– Poor people suffer from bad health because of ignorance and lack of interest ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The American Health Care Paradox

    Why Spending More is Getting Us Less

    by Elizabeth H. Bradley, Lauren A Taylor ...
    Foreword by Harvey V. Fineberg, President of the Institute of MedicineFor 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 extensive research, including a comparative study of health care data from thirty countries, and get to the root of this paradox: We've ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Why Government Fails So Often

    And How It Can Do Better

    by Peter H. Schuck ...
    How government can implement more successful policies, more oftenFrom healthcare to workplace and campus conduct, the federal government is taking on ever more responsibility for managing our lives. At the same time, Americans have never been more disaffected with Washington, seeing it as an intrusive, incompetent, wasteful giant. Ineffective policies are caused by deep structural factors ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • White Logic, White Methods

    Racism and Methodology

    Edited by Tukufu Zuberi, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva ...
    In this collection of essays, the authors examine how racial considerations have affected the way social science is conducted; how issues are framed, and data is analyzed. With an assemblage of leading scholars, White Logic, White Methods explores the possibilities and necessary dethroning of current social research practices, and demands a complete overhaul of current methods, towards ... Read more

    $60.79 USD