Social Stratification in an Aging Society with Low Fertility: The Case of Japan
ISBN: 9789811936463 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edited book empirically discusses stratification in contemporary Japanese society. It is unique for its examination of social inequality in relation to declining fertility and an aging population. Japan is the most aged society in the world: according to the Statistics Bureau of Japan, people who are aged 65 and above comprised 29.1% of the country’s total population in 2021. Meanwhile, the fertility rate has continuously declined since the mid-1970s. Japan experienced a dramatic change in its demographic structure in a short period of time. Such fast change could... This edited book empirically discusses stratification in contemporary Japanese society. It is unique for its examination of social inequa... |
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389,98 zł |
Employment Expansion and Population Growth: The California Experience, 1900-1950
ISBN: 9780520374782 / Angielski / Twarda / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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577,47 zł |
From Indians in Trinidad to Indo-Trinidadians: The Making of a Girmitiya Diaspora
ISBN: 9789811933660 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the dynamics of the socio-cultural baggage that Indian indentured migrants took with them to the Caribbean island of Trinidad and how they have since become a vibrant diaspora community, namely the Indo-Trinidadians. It combines social history with first-hand fieldwork data to portray human ingenuity in terms of social reconstitution and community building in a hostile socio-cultural environment. Furthermore, it addresses key social institutions—religion, caste, and family—and cultural elements—language, foodways, and ethnicity. Its analytical framework is guided by...
This book explores the dynamics of the socio-cultural baggage that Indian indentured migrants took with them to the Caribbean island of Trinidad and h...
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389,98 zł |
Politics, Violence, Memory: The New Social Science of the Holocaust
ISBN: 9781501766749 / Angielski / Twarda / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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590,12 zł |
Politics, Violence, Memory: The New Social Science of the Holocaust
ISBN: 9781501766756 / Angielski / Miękka / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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157,71 zł |
Cosmopolitanism from the Global South: Caribbean Spiritual Repatriation to Ethiopia
ISBN: 9783030822743 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a book about the power of the imagination to move persons from the Global South as they reinvent themselves. This ethnography focuses on Caribbean Rastafari who have undertaken a spiritual repatriation to Ethiopia over several decades particularly, though not exclusively, from Jamaica. Shelene Gomes traces the formation of a Rastafari community located in the multicultural Jamaica Safar or Jamaica neighbourhood in the Ethiopian city of Shashamane following a twentieth century grant of land from the former Ethiopian Emperor, Haile Selassie I. In presenting narratives of... This is a book about the power of the imagination to move persons from the Global South as they reinvent themselves. This ethnography focuses on Ca... |
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506,99 zł |
Demografie, Wohnen, Immobilien
ISBN: 9783658380113 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 165 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Die alternde Gesellschaft und die sich verschiebende Altersstruktur haben mannigfaltige Auswirkungen auf die Entwicklung von Wohnformen und die Nachfrage nach Wohnraum. Die sich daraus ergebenden demografischen Risiken sind auch für Immobilieninvestoren relevant. In 10 Buchbeiträgen wird der Einfluss der Demografie auf das Wohnen und den Immobilienmarkt in verschiedenen Regionen der Welt aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven beleuchtet und diskutiert. Durch eine steigende Lebenserwartung, eine stagnierende Zuwanderung und eine geringere Fertilität hat sich die Altersstruktur weltweit...
Die alternde Gesellschaft und die sich verschiebende Altersstruktur haben mannigfaltige Auswirkungen auf die Entwicklung von Wohnformen und die Nachfr...
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145,75 zł |
The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End
ISBN: 9781982173739 / Angielski / Twarda / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The visionary behind the bestselling phenomenon The Fourth Turning looks once again to America’s past to predict our future in this startling and hopeful prophecy for how our present era of civil unrest will resolve over the next ten years—and what our lives will look like once it has. Twenty-five years ago, Neil Howe and the late William Strauss dazzled the world with a provocative new theory of American history. Looking back at the last 500 years, they’d uncovered a distinct pattern: modern history moves in cycles, each one lasting roughly eighty to one hundred years, the length of...
The visionary behind the bestselling phenomenon The Fourth Turning looks once again to America’s past to predict our future in this startling and ho...
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103,25 zł |
Aging in America: Volume 8
ISBN: 9780520301283 / Angielski / Twarda / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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577,47 zł |
Aging in America: Volume 8
ISBN: 9780520301290 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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133,88 zł |
Challenging Mobilities in and to the Eu During Times of Crises: The Case of Greece
ISBN: 9783031115769 / Angielski / Miękka / 319 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This open access book offers a cross-disciplinary view of challenging mobility issues for migrants and refugees in Europe and particularly Greece during the last decade when the economic and refugee crises coincided. It offers new analyses and data on a diverse range of topics concerning new emigrants as well as refugees and mobilities in Greece. The book covers themes which are not only related to refugee and immigrant integration and governance challenges, but also describes host attitudes, solidarity, political and protest claims in the public sphere, as well as the changing emigration...
This open access book offers a cross-disciplinary view of challenging mobility issues for migrants and refugees in Europe and particularly Greece duri...
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155,97 zł |
Challenging Mobilities in and to the Eu During Times of Crises: The Case of Greece
ISBN: 9783031115738 / Angielski / Twarda / 319 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This open access book offers a cross-disciplinary view of challenging mobility issues for migrants and refugees in Europe and particularly Greece during the last decade when the economic and refugee crises coincided. It offers new analyses and data on a diverse range of topics concerning new emigrants as well as refugees and mobilities in Greece. The book covers themes which are not only related to refugee and immigrant integration and governance challenges, but also describes host attitudes, solidarity, political and protest claims in the public sphere, as well as the changing emigration...
This open access book offers a cross-disciplinary view of challenging mobility issues for migrants and refugees in Europe and particularly Greece duri...
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194,97 zł |
Afrocentroamericanos en Nueva York; Relatos Garifunas de Movimientos Transnacionales en Espacios Racializados
ISBN: 9781433153181 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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348,71 zł |
Seniorenwirtschaft: Management und Perspektiven
ISBN: 9783658398422 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Der Band skizziert Seniorenwirtschaft als einen vielfältigen Bereich des Wirtschaftens, der sich im Kern mit dem Management von Dienst- und Versorgungsleistungen befasst, die für interessierte und bedürftige ältere Menschen und Hochbetagte am Markt angeboten und von ihnen in Anspruch genommen werden. Er fokussiert dabei die Bereiche soziale Dienstleistungen, Wohnen, Betreuung und insbesondere Pflege. Der Sammelband thematisiert die wachsenden Herausforderungen für das Management und gibt einen Einblick in relevante Grundlagen, Konzepte und Methoden des Managements der genannten Bereiche...
Der Band skizziert Seniorenwirtschaft als einen vielfältigen Bereich des Wirtschaftens, der sich im Kern mit dem Management von Dienst- und Versorgun...
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309,79 zł |
Institutions and Organizations as Learning Environments for Participation and Democracy: Opportunities, Challenges, Obstacles
ISBN: 9783031179488 / Angielski / Twarda / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book discusses opportunities and limitations to democratic participation in institutions and organizations across the life course. It demonstrates that democratic participation is not something that is learned once and for all and applied in formal political settings, but something that is lived every day throughout life in various contexts. Institutions and organizations frame human lives and strongly determine the ability to participate and co-determine their communities. They are places for learning, deliberation and the development of the common good. The book conceptually...
This book discusses opportunities and limitations to democratic participation in institutions and organizations across the life course. It demonstra...
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545,99 zł |
Whereafter: The Surprisingly Complex Problem of Disposing of the Bodies of a Billion Boomers
ISBN: 9781990823039 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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85,68 zł |
Generation Z: A Guide To Understand And Educate Gen Z Students (The Complete Manual To Understand Lead The Next Generation)
ISBN: 9781774855973 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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85,68 zł |
Genocide: The Power and Problems of a Concept
ISBN: 9780228011712 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Exploring the tensions between the rigid legal definition of genocide and the manifold realities researchers have discovered, this comprehensive text offers innovative solutions to address the limitations of the genocide concept, while preserving its usefulness as an analytical framework.
Exploring the tensions between the rigid legal definition of genocide and the manifold realities researchers have discovered, this comprehensive text ...
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182,02 zł |
An Essay on China’s Development After the Demographic Golden Age
ISBN: 9789811990632 / Angielski / Twarda / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book mainly addresses China’s current demographic situation and social people-related policies. It aims to solve the issues of demographic transition, population aging, population flow, urbanization, population quality, etc. China is the first large population country, with the vast territory and the huge economic system. It has many issues such as productivity and production relations, superstructure and economic base, and domestic and international relations in various fields and at all levels. Hence, China needs to come up with a set of overall strategies. The author sorts out all...
This book mainly addresses China’s current demographic situation and social people-related policies. It aims to solve the issues of demographic tran...
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467,99 zł |
Transnational Migration, Diaspora, and Identity: A Study of Kurdish Diaspora in London
ISBN: 9783031181689 / Angielski / Twarda / 163 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores a common but almost forgotten historical argument that positions the Kurds as powerless victims of the First World War (WW1). To this end, the book looks critically at the unfavourable political situations of the Kurds in the post-WW1 era, which began with the emergence of three new modern nation-states in the Middle East—Turkey, Iraq, and Syria—as well as related modernising events in Iran. It demonstrates the dire consequences of oppressive international and regional state policies against the Kurds, which led to mass displacement and forced migration of the Kurds...
This book explores a common but almost forgotten historical argument that positions the Kurds as powerless victims of the First World War (WW1). To th...
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175,48 zł |