African Migrants, European Borders, and the Problem with Humanitarianism
ISBN: 9781666953848 / Angielski / 15-06-2024 Książka dostępna od: 15-06-2024 |
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569,51 zł |
The Ostrich Factor: Our Population Myopia
ISBN: 9780195122749 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Garrett Hardin, one of our leading thinkers on problems of human overpopulation, here assails the recklessness and basic ecological ignorance of economists and others who champion the idea of unbounded growth.
Hardin delivers an uncompromising critique of mainstream economic thinking. Science has long understood the limits of our environment, he notes, and yet economists consistently turn a blind eye to one feature we share with all of our planer's inhabitants -- the potential for irreversible environmental damage through overcrowding. And as humankind draws ever closer to its goat of... Garrett Hardin, one of our leading thinkers on problems of human overpopulation, here assails the recklessness and basic ecological ignorance of econo...
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269,82 zł |
Urbanization in Large Developing Countries: China, Indonesia, Brazil, and India
ISBN: 9780198289746 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the interactions between economic change and urbanization, in the form of structural shifts in employment, regional development policy, and national industrial policy. It also discusses the human welfare problems associated with rapid urbanization and a lack of government finance. Its conclusions move beyond the scope of the four country case-studies to identify urban planning issues that are relevant to all developing countries.
This book examines the interactions between economic change and urbanization, in the form of structural shifts in employment, regional development pol...
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904,64 zł |
Family Change and Family Policies in Great Britain, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States
ISBN: 9780198290254 / Angielski / Twarda / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first volume in a series intended to report on the evolution of family policies in Western welfare states (and to compare current provisions). The developments are presented in the context of a report on family change for each of the countries, and with a view of the economic, political, and institutional climates in which they occurred. Topics covered in this book include family formation and current structural patterns, families and the division of labor, the income of families (earnings, taxation, transfer programs), and also the political and institutional contexts for family...
This is the first volume in a series intended to report on the evolution of family policies in Western welfare states (and to compare current provisio...
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1168,16 zł |
Women, Poverty, and Demographic Change
ISBN: 9780198294863 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book analyzes the specific demographic implications and conditioning factors of women's experience of poverty. By investigating the different experiences that women in developing countries face in attempting to escape from poverty, the contributors illustrate the importance of incorporating the gender perspective into population studies.
This book analyzes the specific demographic implications and conditioning factors of women's experience of poverty. By investigating the different exp...
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820,80 zł |
Women's Empowerment and Demographic Processes ' Moving Beyond Cairo '
ISBN: 9780198297314 / Angielski / Twarda / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book brings together leading researchers and policy advocates to explore whether the concept of women's empowerment is useful for an understanding of key demographic processes. Its contributors identify new directions for demographic research from the analysis of available data that measure women's empowerment, and point to the implications for population-related policies.
This book brings together leading researchers and policy advocates to explore whether the concept of women's empowerment is useful for an understandin...
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904,64 zł |
The Mortality Crisis in Transitional Economies
ISBN: 9780198297413 / Angielski / Twarda / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is the first comprehensive assessment of the mortality crisis in transitional economies. Contributions by demographers, economists, sociologists, epidemiologists, and health experts provide a rigorous analysis of the upsurge in mortality rates, with the aim of contributing to the launch of vigorous policies to tackle the crisis.
This book is the first comprehensive assessment of the mortality crisis in transitional economies. Contributions by demographers, economists, sociolog...
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916,62 zł |
Families in Ageing Societies: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach
ISBN: 9780199251162 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume brings together academics from the UK, Europe, and the US, and from a broad spectrum of disciplinary backgrounds, to consider the implications of the demographic ageing of Western societies for intergenerational relationships and the family.
This volume brings together academics from the UK, Europe, and the US, and from a broad spectrum of disciplinary backgrounds, to consider the implicat...
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701,02 zł |
The Long Sexual Revolution: English Women, Sex, and Contraception 1800-1975
ISBN: 9780199252183 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Between 1800 and 1975, sexuality in the West was transformed. Hera Cook shows how the growing effectiveness of contraception gradually eroded the connection between sexuality and reproduction. The increasing control over fertility was crucial to the remaking of heterosexual physical sexual behaviour and had a massive impact on women's lives. Dr Cook charts how, why, and when attitudes towards sex changed from the repression of the nineteenth century to the sexual revolution of the 1960s.
Between 1800 and 1975, sexuality in the West was transformed. Hera Cook shows how the growing effectiveness of contraception gradually eroded the conn...
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351,27 zł |
The Long Sexual Revolution: English Women, Sex, and Contraception 1800-1975
ISBN: 9780199252398 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Between 1800 and 1975, sexuality in the West was transformed. Hera Cook shows how the growing effectiveness of contraception gradually eroded the connection between sexuality and reproduction. The increasing control over fertility was crucial to the remaking of heterosexual physical sexual behaviour and had a massive impact on women's lives. Dr Cook charts how, why, and when attitudes towards sex changed from the repression of the nineteenth century to the sexual revolution of the 1960s.
Between 1800 and 1975, sexuality in the West was transformed. Hera Cook shows how the growing effectiveness of contraception gradually eroded the conn...
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593,22 zł |
Population Matters: Demographic Change, Economic Growth, and Poverty in the Developing World
ISBN: 9780199261864 / Angielski / Miękka / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Does rapid population growth diminish countries' economic development prospects? Do policies aimed at reducing high fertility help families escape poverty? These questions have been at the heart of policy debates since the time of Malthus, and have been particularly heated during the last half-century of explosive Third World population growth. In this carefully constructed collection of recent studies and analyses, the authors offer a nuanced, yet clear and positive answer to these questions---a refreshing step forward from the ambiguous conclusions of much of the literature of the 1970s and...
Does rapid population growth diminish countries' economic development prospects? Do policies aimed at reducing high fertility help families escape pov...
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233,84 zł |
Fertility Policy in Israel: The Politics of Religion, Gender, and Nation
ISBN: 9780275960988 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An examination, with feminist perspective, of Israel's fertility practices and policies surrounding abortion, family planning, "in vitro" fertilization and the welfare state. This book exposes the complex web of issues, actors, and power relations that shape the Israeli political agenda. At the same time, it contributes to ongoing feminist debates concerning the politics of reproduction and the role of the state in contributing to the oppression of women. Israel's commmitment to Zionist ideals and policies, its ambiguous relationship with Jewish Orthodoxy, and the intersection of the... An examination, with feminist perspective, of Israel's fertility practices and policies surrounding abortion, family planning, "in vitro" fertiliza... |
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567,69 zł |
The Sociocultural and Political Aspects of Abortion: Global Perspectives
ISBN: 9780275977283 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Seeking to define the ways various cultures view pregnancy, miscarriage, and abortion, this multidisciplinary collection of essays seeks to illustrate how these views influence policy decisions and practices regarding abortion around the world. Putting questions of pro-life and pro-choice aside, the contributors provide demographic coverage of the issues involved and contextualize some of the personal realities that underlie the approximately 50 million abortions that are believed to take place yearly worldwide. While the political and social climates in which women seek abortions vary... Seeking to define the ways various cultures view pregnancy, miscarriage, and abortion, this multidisciplinary collection of essays seeks to illustr... |
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390,41 zł |
The New Americans: Economic, Demographic, and Fiscal Effects of Immigration
ISBN: 9780309063562 / Angielski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book sheds light on one of the most controversial issues of the decade. It identifies the economic gains and losses from immigration--for the nation, states, and local areas--and provides a foundation for public discussion and policymaking. Three key questions are explored:
This book sheds light on one of the most controversial issues of the decade. It identifies the economic gains and losses from immigration--for the ... |
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298,12 zł |
Cities Transformed: Demographic Change and Its Implications in the Developing World
ISBN: 9780309088626 / Angielski / Twarda / 550 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Virtually all of the growth in the worlda (TM)s population for the foreseeable future will take place in the cities and towns of the developing world. Over the next twenty years, most developing countries will for the first time become more urban than rural. The benefits from urbanization cannot be overlooked, but the speed and sheer scale of this transformation present many challenges. A new cast of policy makers is emerging to take up the many responsibilities of urban governancea "as many national governments decentralize and devolve their functions, programs in poverty, health,... Virtually all of the growth in the worlda (TM)s population for the foreseeable future will take place in the cities and towns of the developing wor... |
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362,00 zł |
The Changing Transitions to Adulthood in Developing Countries: Selected Studies
ISBN: 9780309096805 / Angielski / Miękka / 493 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Serving as a companion to Growing Up Global, this book from the National Research Council explores how the transition to adulthood is changing in developing countries in light of globalization and what the implications of these changes might be for those responsible for designing youth policies and programs. Presenting a detailed series of studies, this volume both complements its precursor and makes for a useful contribution in its own right. It should be of significant interest to scholars, leaders of civil society, and those charged with designing youth policies and... Serving as a companion to Growing Up Global, this book from the National Research Council explores how the transition to adulthood is changi... |
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324,73 zł |
Property Relations, Incentives and Welfare: Proceedings of a Conference Held in Barcelona, Spain, by the International Economic Association
ISBN: 9780312159269 / Angielski / Twarda / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The dramatic implosions of the centrally administered, non-democratic political systems in central and eastern Europe in the late 1980s have generated a body of research concerning the transition from public ownership, and the role of the market and other institutions in engendering good incentives for economic actors. The essays collected in this volume study property relations, their associated incentives and the consequent effects on welfare: the ubiquitous theme is that efficiency cannot be divorced from the distribution of productive assets.
The dramatic implosions of the centrally administered, non-democratic political systems in central and eastern Europe in the late 1980s have generated...
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388,20 zł |
Success or Failure: Family Planning Programs in the Third World
ISBN: 9780313244018 / Angielski / Twarda / 161 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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449,51 zł |
Irish America: Coming Into Clover
ISBN: 9780385495967 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Old-time politics, piety, and St. Patrick's Day parades loom large when the Irish come to the American mind. None truly represents the complex legacy or contributions of the nation's oldest ethnic group, who rank among the most highly educated and affluent Americans today.
In Irish America, Maureen Dezell takes a new and invigorating look at Americans of Irish Catholic ancestry--who they are, and how they got that way. A welcome antidote to so many standard-issue, sentimental representations of the Irish in the United States, Irish America focuses on popular... Old-time politics, piety, and St. Patrick's Day parades loom large when the Irish come to the American mind. None truly represents the complex legacy ...
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Baby Boomers
ISBN: 9780393306392 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The generation of those born between 1946 and 1964 already makes up an overwhelming 60 percent of the electorate. Faced with a shrinking future, this diverse group confronts daunting challenges. Here is an in-depth look at this generation's situation and some of its options.
The generation of those born between 1946 and 1964 already makes up an overwhelming 60 percent of the electorate. Faced with a shrinking future, this ...
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101,09 zł |