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Housing Women
ISBN: 9780415094627 / Angielski / Twarda / 279 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edited collection presents a comprehensive examination of women's relationship to housing as consumers and managers of housing services. It begins with a discussion of women's experience of housing as buyers of property and users of housing services. Income differentials, the dominance of the needs of the nuclear family in housing forms and the ways in which housing allocations policies often discriminate against women are examined in detail. Subsequent discussion looks at women as producers of housing and assesses the structures within which they have to work.
This edited collection presents a comprehensive examination of women's relationship to housing as consumers and managers of housing services. It begin...
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193,29 |
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Dignity and Daily Bread: New Forms of Economic Organization Among Poor Women in the Third World and the First
ISBN: 9780415095853 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dignity and Daily Bread compares the lives of women in the First and Third worlds and examines how women have organized forms of production themselves. Covering a wide range of issues and areas, from cotton production in Bombay, conditions in Mexico and in some of the Far East economies, the contributors begin to break down some of the ideological barriers that colonialism and racism build among women. The immediacy of the accounts highlights women's conditions in very different patriarchal societies.
Dignity and Daily Bread compares the lives of women in the First and Third worlds and examines how women have organized forms of production themselves...
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Dignity and Daily Bread: New Forms of Economic Organization Among Poor Women in the Third World and the First
ISBN: 9780415095860 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dignity and Daily Bread compares the lives of women in the first and Third worlds and examines how women have organized forms of production themselves. Covering a wide range of issues and areas, from cotton production in Bombay, conditions in Mexico and in some of the Far East economies, the contributors begin to break down some of the ideological barriers that colonialism and racism build among women. The immediacy of the accounts highlights women's conditions in very different patriarchal societies.
Dignity and Daily Bread compares the lives of women in the first and Third worlds and examines how women have organized forms of production themselves...
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123,89 |
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Leadership and Information Processing: Linking Perceptions and Performance
ISBN: 9780415099011 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Executive leadership is critically important to understanding the workings and performance of organizations, yet it is a topic that is usually ignored by mainstream leadership research. Leadership and Information Processing provides a much-needed analysis of this crucial element of organizational behaviour.
Robert G. Lord and Karen J. Maher examine how executives make decisions and how decision acceptance is constrained by the leadership perceptions of others. Focussing in particular on leadership and social perceptions, perceptions of female leaders, organizational culture, and... Executive leadership is critically important to understanding the workings and performance of organizations, yet it is a topic that is usually ignored...
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232,95 |
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Communication and Citizenship : Journalism and the Public Sphere
ISBN: 9780415100670 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Communication and Citizenship addresses a question which is increasingly at the centre of academic and journalistic debate: to what extent are the media in modern societies able to help citizens learn about the world, debate their responses to it and reach informed decisions about what courses of action to adopt? Can the media play a role in the formation of a public sphere at a time when public service broadcasting is under attack, and the popular press plays to the market with an output of celebrity gossip and sensationalized reporting?
Communication and Citizenship addresses a question which is increasingly at the centre of academic and journalistic debate: to what extent are the med...
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203,21 |
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Children's Understanding of Disability
ISBN: 9780415101325 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Children's Understanding of Disability is a valuable addition to the debate surrounding the integration of children with special needs into ordinary schools. Taking the viewpoint of the children themselves, it explores how pupils with severe learning difficulties and their non-disabled classmates interact.
Ann Lewis examines what happens when non-disabled children and pupils with severe learning difficulties work together regularly over the course of a year. She also includes the views of children working in segregated special education. From her findings, she draws implications... Children's Understanding of Disability is a valuable addition to the debate surrounding the integration of children with special needs into o...
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366,81 |
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Terrorism in an Unstable World
ISBN: 9780415103404 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Political changes since 1989 have led to a far more unstable and dangerous world. The ways in which the international community deals with international crime and particularly terrorism and drug trafficking need rethinking.
Political changes since 1989 have led to a far more unstable and dangerous world. The ways in which the international community deals with internation...
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193,29 |
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Deciphering Culture : Ordinary Curiosities and Subjective Narratives
ISBN: 9780415108379 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Representation, subjectivity and sexuality continue to be central to scholarly inquiry in the humanities and social sciences. Deciphering Culture explores their relationship, each author taking a distinct approach to the concept of 'curiosity' as a way of deciphering the working of particular cultural formations. In the process they address a variety of topics including: * the historical formation of subjectivities, identities and differences Representation, subjectivity and sexuality continue to be central to scholarly inquiry in the humanities and social sciences. Deciphering Cultu... |
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644,49 |
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Democratic Spain: Reshaping External Relations in a Changing World
ISBN: 9780415113250 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the death of General Franco in 1975, Spain has emerged from relative isolation to play an active role in international affairs. Membership of the European Union and Nato have been keys to Spain's new prominence, although the country has also tried to build on its traditional "special relationships" with Latin America and the Arab world. This is the first thorough study of democratic Spain's re-emergence on the international scene.
By focusing on the relationship between external relations and domestic policy the book makes an important contribution to the literature on... Since the death of General Franco in 1975, Spain has emerged from relative isolation to play an active role in international affairs. Membership of th...
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768,42 |
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Democratic Spain: Reshaping External Relations in a Changing World
ISBN: 9780415113267 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the death of General Franco in 1975, Spain has emerged from relative isolation to play an active role in international affairs. Membership of the European Union and Nato have been keys to Spain's new prominence, although the country has also tried to build on its traditional "special relationships" with Latin America and the Arab world. This is the first thorough study of democratic Spain's re-emergence on the international scene.
By focusing on the relationship between external relations and domestic policy the book makes an important contribution to the literature on... Since the death of General Franco in 1975, Spain has emerged from relative isolation to play an active role in international affairs. Membership of th...
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262,70 |
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Terrorism and International Law
ISBN: 9780415116060 / Angielski / Twarda / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The proliferation in terrorist activity has provoked an increase in the body of law, both at national and international level, which has sought to counter and prevent it. The bodies involved in this process range from the UN Security Council to government legislatures. This book is the first to address, in one volume, the wide variety of responses to terrorism as they exist in both international and domestic contexts. It also represents the first ever comprehensive collection of documents referring to terrorism which are to be found in the laws of the UK and France as well as in international...
The proliferation in terrorist activity has provoked an increase in the body of law, both at national and international level, which has sought to cou...
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793,21 |
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Social Capitalism: A Study of Christian Democracy and the Welfare State
ISBN: 9780415116701 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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818,00 |
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Using It Effectively in Teaching and Learning: Studies in Pre-Service and In-Service Teacher Education
ISBN: 9780415121316 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Computers are not often associated with passion or culture, yet the use of information technology still has a surprisingly emotional effect on many people, including teachers and learners. This emotion may be anything from excitement and enthusiasm to anger or a sense of threat. Often, this strongly emotional response can prevent us from learning how to use IT effectively as a tool for learning.
This book explores how IT can make a real difference to the quality of learning. Its approach takes account of some of the cultural, sociological and psychological factors, which influence how IT... Computers are not often associated with passion or culture, yet the use of information technology still has a surprisingly emotional effect on many pe...
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1090,67 |
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No More Heroines?: Russia, Women and the Market
ISBN: 9780415124607 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With the collapse of Soviet rule and the emergence of independent Russia, the image of Russian women in the Western imagination has changed dramatically. The robust tractor drivers and athletes have been replaced by glamorous but vulnerable beauty queens or the dishevelled and downcast women trading goods on the streets.
The authors of this work take a closer look at what lies behind the above images and how Russian women are coping with a very different sort of life. The main focus is on the effect of unemployment on Russian women and how they are coping with it. Based on case studies... With the collapse of Soviet rule and the emergence of independent Russia, the image of Russian women in the Western imagination has changed dramatical...
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123,89 |
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The Cognitive Psychology of Proper Names
ISBN: 9780415135467 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It's on the tip of my tongue, but I can't remember her name." Lots of people have difficulty remembering people's names, even though they can easily recall other information about the person. As memory and retrieval processes are central to cognitive psychology and neuropsychology the study of proper names makes a fascinating and practical focus of study. Using an information processing approach, Valentine, Brennen and Bredart consider evidence from speech production, face recognition and word recognition to develop a new functional model of the production and recognition of people's...
It's on the tip of my tongue, but I can't remember her name." Lots of people have difficulty remembering people's names, even though they can easily r...
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Voluntary Associations in the Graeco-Roman World
ISBN: 9780415135931 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based upon a series of detailed case studies of associations such as early synagogues and churches, philosophical schools and pagan mystery cults, this collection addresses the question of what can legitimately be termed a voluntary association. Employing modern sociological concepts, the essays show how the various associations were constituted, the extent of their membership, why people joined them and what they contributed to the social fabric of urban life. For many, such groups were the most significant feature of social life beyond family and work. All of them provided an outlet of...
Based upon a series of detailed case studies of associations such as early synagogues and churches, philosophical schools and pagan mystery cults, thi...
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768,42 |
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The Political Thought of Andre Gorz
ISBN: 9780415138666 / Angielski / Twarda / 213 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Andre Gorz is one of the most important contemporary socialist thinkers. He has acquired a reputation as an iconoclastic theorist who poses radical questions about the future of the Left. This assessment of his work critically evaluates all of his writings from the 1950s to the 1990s. It highlights the eclectic nature of Gorz's intellectual heritage, beginning with his existentialist-Marxist roots in post-war France, and moves to his involvement with the burgeoning ecology movement. This text creates a new perspective, arguing that Gorz is primarily a theorist of individual freedom and...
Andre Gorz is one of the most important contemporary socialist thinkers. He has acquired a reputation as an iconoclastic theorist who poses radical qu...
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470,93 |
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The Political Economy of Diet, Health and Food Policy
ISBN: 9780415163668 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Political Economy of Diet and Health continues the exploration of food systems theory begun in the author's previous publications. It presents a critical exposition of food systems theory and analyses the existing approaches to food consumption. Subjects include:
* resolving the diet paradox * the impact of the EU * the lack of policy in the UK * an exploration of the 'diseases of affluence'. The Political Economy of Diet and Health continues the exploration of food systems theory begun in the author's previous publications. It pre...
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768,42 |
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Family Studies : An Introduction
ISBN: 9780415164696 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this introduction to family studies, Bernardes argues that variation and diversity are increasingly the hallmarks of family structure, particularly in Europe and the United States. The book provides a comprehensive account of how families work both internally and in relation to society through the labour market and also through social institutions like education and the law. The chapters are designed to work as individual units of study in a course on the family. Each chapter highlights key issues; summarizes the most relevant research in the area; suggests activities as a basis for...
In this introduction to family studies, Bernardes argues that variation and diversity are increasingly the hallmarks of family structure, particularly...
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262,70 |
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Edwin Chadwick: Nineteenth-Century Social Reform
ISBN: 9780415168717 / Angielski / Twarda / 2473 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Edwin Chadwick (1800-1890) is most famous for his contributions to the public health movement of the nineteenth century where his 1842 Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population highlighted the unsanitary conditions that prevailed in the industrial towns and cities of Victorian Britain. While particular cities are mentioned in his work, such as London, Manchester, Leeds and Liverpool, his work had an effect on Britain as a whole as it changed government policy on a national level. Other facets of social welfare in which he was actively involved included the Poor...
Edwin Chadwick (1800-1890) is most famous for his contributions to the public health movement of the nineteenth century where his 1842 Report on t...
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