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Japanese-Russian Relations, 1907-2007
ISBN: 9780415453141 / Angielski / Twarda / 16 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a comprehensive survey of Japanese-Russian relations from the end of the Russo-Japanese War until the present. Based on extensive original research in both Japanese and Russian sources, it traces the development of relations from the tumultuous pre-war period, through the Second World War, Cold War and post-Cold War periods. Considering the wider international situation, domestic influences and ideological factors throughout, it shows how the hopeful period of the late 1990s - when Japanese-Russian relations briefly ceased to be acrimonious, and it seemed that normal... This book provides a comprehensive survey of Japanese-Russian relations from the end of the Russo-Japanese War until the present. Based on extensiv... |
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730,17 |
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Europe Enlarged: A Handbook of Education, Labour and Welfare Regimes in Central and Eastern Europe
ISBN: 9781847420640 / Angielski / Twarda / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The expansion of the European Union (EU) has put an end to the East-West division of Europe. At the same time it has increased the cultural heterogeneity, social disparities and economic imbalances within the EU, exemplified in the lower living standards and higher unemployment rates in some of the new member states. This important new reference work describes the education systems, labour markets and welfare production regimes in the 10 new Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) countries. In three comparative chapters, discussing each of these domains in turn, the editors provide a set of...
The expansion of the European Union (EU) has put an end to the East-West division of Europe. At the same time it has increased the cultural heterogene...
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486,78 |
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Some of the Beauties of Freemasonry
ISBN: 9780548000304 / Angielski / Inna / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia...
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196,70 |
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The Europeanisation of Social Protection
ISBN: 9781847420206 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book addresses the most hotly debated issue in Europe today: will the European Union, through European integration and enlargement, undermine or secure social policy and welfare states? This is a unique, cutting edge study of how member states view policy developments at the EU level. Each chapter follows the same outline and focuses on 11 individual countries within the EU, but represents the whole of the New Europe with regard to size, years of membership, and enlargement.
This book addresses the most hotly debated issue in Europe today: will the European Union, through European integration and enlargement, undermine or ...
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441,84 |
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Understanding Social Welfare Movements
ISBN: 9781847420961 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contemporary social policy has never been more vigorously contested. Issues range from single-issue campaigns over housing, social care, and hospital closures, on through more organized movements around disability, environment, health, and education. Howe
Contemporary social policy has never been more vigorously contested. Issues range from single-issue campaigns over housing, social care, and hospital ...
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128,05 |
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Understanding Social Welfare Movements
ISBN: 9781847420978 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contemporary social policy has never been more vigorously contested. Issues range from single-issue campaigns over housing, social care, hospital closures through to organised movements around disability, environment, health and education. However, the historical and contemporary role played by social movements in shaping social welfare has too often been neglected in standard social policy texts. "Understanding social welfare movements" is the first text to bring together social policy and social movement studies. Using actual case studies and written in an accessible and engaging style, it...
Contemporary social policy has never been more vigorously contested. Issues range from single-issue campaigns over housing, social care, hospital clos...
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435,54 |
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Social Insurance in Europe
ISBN: 9781861340542 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By illustrating the similarities and differences within and across countries, this book reflects on the current role of social insurance, recent policy changes and pressures for reform in 10 European countries: UK, France, Germany, Switzerland, Greece, Portugal, Czech Republic, Hungary, Sweden and Denmark.The book summaries the main arguments and highlights the lessons to be learnt, reflecting on European experiences regarding social insurance and social security as a whole.Central questions addressed in the book are: What are the institutional and political forces which have shaped national...
By illustrating the similarities and differences within and across countries, this book reflects on the current role of social insurance, recent polic...
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148,54 |
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Senior Citizenship?: Retirement, Migration and Welfare in the European Union
ISBN: 9781861342645 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book charts the development of mobility and welfare rights for those citizens exercising their right to move or return home on retirement under the Free Movement of Persons provisions and explores their experiences of international mobility. It is set within the context of 'Citizenship of the Union'. Senior citizenship? draws on substantial primary research material to: combine detailed analysis of the framework of EU rights shaping social with in-depth qualitative interviews involving retired migrants across six member states (Greece, Portugal, Italy, the United Kingdom, Sweden and...
This book charts the development of mobility and welfare rights for those citizens exercising their right to move or return home on retirement under t...
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154,84 |
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The gender dimension of social change: The contribution of dynamic research to the study of women's life courses
ISBN: 9781861343321 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The transformations that are now taking place in women's lives are of great interest to social scientists and policy makers, yet we know very little about the impact of this social change over time. This new study uses longitudinal data - information gathered over a considerable period of time - to provide new insights into the changing dynamics of lives of women today. In particular, it explores the potential of longitudinal or life course analysis as a powerful tool for appreciating the gender dimension of social life.The contributors view the data from a policy perspective and use...
The transformations that are now taking place in women's lives are of great interest to social scientists and policy makers, yet we know very little a...
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435,54 |
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Social Policy Review 14: Developments and Debates: 2001-2002
ISBN: 9781861343789 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Social Policy Review 14 continues the tradition of providing a different style and approach to policy issues from that found in most academic journals and books. Chapters have been purposely chosen to review a varied and interesting selection of social policy developments in Britain and internationally, and to set current policy developments in a broader context of key trends and debates.
Social Policy Review 14 continues the tradition of providing a different style and approach to policy issues from that found in most academic journals...
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441,84 |
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Human Dignity and Welfare Systems
ISBN: 9781861344311 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pro-'workfare' governments justify their policies by claiming 'workfare' helps enhance self-esteem and promote the dignity of unemployed recipients. On the other hand, welfare activists argue that 'workfare' suppresses the dignity of unemployed persons. This book examines the concept of human dignity in this context and attempts to clarify its meaning. For the first time, it formulates a framework for evaluating the dignity of welfare recipients; uses this framework to explore the dignity of unemployed persons in four different welfare systems: UK, Sweden, China and Hong Kong and compares the...
Pro-'workfare' governments justify their policies by claiming 'workfare' helps enhance self-esteem and promote the dignity of unemployed recipients. O...
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409,92 |
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Developing User Involvement: Working Towards User-Centred Practice in Voluntary Organisations
ISBN: 9781861345370 / Angielski / Miękka / 34 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This report is based on an action research project which involved service users, managers, staff and trustees. It identifies enablers of and barriers to increased user involvement. It also describes emerging approaches and important themes. It will help practitioners, managers and trustees plot their own journeys towards increased user involvement.The report: proposes 'user-centred user involvement', distinguishing it from 'management-centred user involvement', as a tool for analysing whose interests are served; vbTab]highlights critical factors that enable change, such as: leadership style,...
This report is based on an action research project which involved service users, managers, staff and trustees. It identifies enablers of and barriers ...
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108,73 |
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The Changing Face of Welfare: Consequences and Outcomes from a Citizenship Perspective
ISBN: 9781861345929 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There have been major shifts in the framework of social policy and welfare across Europe. Adopting a multi-level, comparative and interdisciplinary approach, this book develops a critical analysis of policy change and welfare reform in Europe. The book applies a dynamic and change-oriented perspective to shed light on policy changes that are often poorly understood in the welfare literature, and contributes to a further development of the theoretical and conceptual frameworks for understanding social change. Several dimensions of change are analyzed simultaneously: changes in the discipline...
There have been major shifts in the framework of social policy and welfare across Europe. Adopting a multi-level, comparative and interdisciplinary ap...
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416,22 |
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Administering Welfare Reform: International Transformations in Welfare Governance
ISBN: 9781861346520 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While reforms of welfare policies have been widely analysed, the reform of welfare administration has received far less attention. Using empirical case studies, this book provides significant new insights into the way welfare administration is being internationally transformed. Particular attention is given to the effect on welfare clients, staff and agencies."Administering welfare reform" presents a critical analysis of governance practices in welfare administration and examines shifts in the participants, practices and processes of welfare administration. It presents original empirical case...
While reforms of welfare policies have been widely analysed, the reform of welfare administration has received far less attention. Using empirical cas...
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409,92 |
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Social Justice and Public Policy: Seeking Fairness in Diverse Societies
ISBN: 9781861349347 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Social justice is a contested term, incorporated into the language of widely differing political positions. Those on the left argue that it requires intervention from the state to ensure equality, at least of opportunity; those on the right believe that it can be underpinned by the economics of the market place with little or no state intervention. To date, political philosophers have made relatively few serious attempts to explain how a theory of social justice translates into public policy.This important book, drawing on international experience and a distinguished panel of political...
Social justice is a contested term, incorporated into the language of widely differing political positions. Those on the left argue that it requires i...
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435,54 |
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Social Welfare and Religion in the Middle East: A Lebanese Perspective
ISBN: 9781861349538 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As religion continues to regain its centrality in both academic and policy circles around the world, this book presents a new framework which examines the complex social and political dynamics shaping social welfare in the Middle East. Based on an in-depth study of the major Muslim and Christian religious welfare organisations in Lebanon (including Hezbollah), and drawing upon supplementary research conducted in Iran, Egypt and Turkey, the book argues that religion is providing sophisticated solutions to the major social and economic problems of the Middle East. It will be of use to students...
As religion continues to regain its centrality in both academic and policy circles around the world, this book presents a new framework which examines...
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435,54 |
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Adequacy of Retirement Income After Pension Reforms in Central, Eastern and Southern Europe: Eight Country Studies
ISBN: 9780821377819 / Angielski / Miękka / 307 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. All countries in the former transition economies of Central, Eastern, and Southern Europe have undertaken public pension reforms of varying depth and orientation, often with the support of the World Bank. Although the reformed public pension schemes provide broad benefit adequacy, in most cases additional measures are needed to achieve fiscal sustainability in an aging society. 'Adequacy of Retirement Income after Pension Reforms in Central, Eastern, and Southern Europe: Eight Country Studies' assesses the benefit adequacy of the reformed pension systems for eight countries--Bulgaria, the...
All countries in the former transition economies of Central, Eastern, and Southern Europe have undertaken public pension reforms of varying depth and ...
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165,50 |
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Working Longer: The Solution to the Retirement Income Challenge
ISBN: 9780815703112 / Angielski / Miękka / 207 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Working Longer investigates the prospects for moving the average retirement age from 63, the current figure, to 66.
Working Longer investigates the prospects for moving the average retirement age from 63, the current figure, to 66.
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102,43 |
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Who Turned Out the Lights?: Your Guided Tour to the Energy Crisis
ISBN: 9780061715648 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Who Turned Out the Lights? is an entertaining and nonpartisan guide to the current U.S. energy crisis from Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson, coauthors of the breakout bestseller Where Does the Money Go? At once light-hearted and fun--like Jon Stewart's America: The Book and Stephen Colbert's I am America (and So Can You )--and deadly serious, Who Turned Out the Lights? helps readers understand what's really at stake in the energy debate, an intelligent answer to the partisan Capital Hill squabbling between the "Drill, Baby, Drill" and "Every...
Who Turned Out the Lights? is an entertaining and nonpartisan guide to the current U.S. energy crisis from Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson, coaut...
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64,93 |
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The Peter Townsend reader
ISBN: 9781847424051 / Angielski / Twarda / 696 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 2008, sociologist Peter Townsend celebrated his 80th birthday. It has been 60 years since his first published work. The range of his work is exceptional, including research on the UK's inner city deprivation; older people contemplating retirement; exclusion on the basis of class, race, gender, age, and disability; individual versus state responsibility for health; the social purposes and viability of residential institutions and hospitals; child and extended family development; and persistent poverty. This reader is a collection of his most distinctive work. The Peter Townsend Reader looks...
In 2008, sociologist Peter Townsend celebrated his 80th birthday. It has been 60 years since his first published work. The range of his work is except...
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