
ilość książek w kategorii: 225895
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Resource Theory: Explorations and Applications
ISBN: 9780122613104 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 291 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This volume serves as an update on current developments in resource theory and presents a representative sample of contemporary research conducted within this theoretical perspective. "Resource Theory" presents empirical evidence supporting the cross-cultural validity of this framework. Attention is focused on a broad range of social-psychological phenomena that have been fruitfully explored using this theoretical approach. Key features include social exchange theory, cross-cultural theory and social relationships.
This volume serves as an update on current developments in resource theory and presents a representative sample of contemporary research conducted wit...
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678,65 |
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Handbook of Work-Family Integration
ISBN: 9780123725745 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In today's industrialized societies, the majority of parents work full time while caring for and raising their children and managing household upkeep, trying to keep a precarious balance of fulfilling multiple roles as parent, worker, friend, & child. Increasingly demands of the workplace such as early or late hours, travel, commute, relocation, etc. conflict with the needs of being a parent. At the same time, it is through work that people increasingly define their identity and self-worth, and which provides the opportunity for personal growth, interaction with friends and colleagues, and...
In today's industrialized societies, the majority of parents work full time while caring for and raising their children and managing household upkeep,...
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409,37 |
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Analysis with Local Census Data: Portraits of Change
ISBN: 9780125123082 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 369 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The 1990 United States Census was the most exhaustive in history. The vast majority of census users seek information about local areas, yet they lack examples or methodology texts prepared by experts in the field. This book is dedicated to the needs of these local census data users. It provides a comprehensive introduction to the data and teaches useful methods of analysis, focusing on four major themes: mastering access to the full range of census data, measuring changes over time, comparing places, and demonstrating how different aspects of change fit together. More than a reference book or...
The 1990 United States Census was the most exhaustive in history. The vast majority of census users seek information about local areas, yet they lack ...
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479,35 |
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Methods for Macrosociological Research
ISBN: 9780125133456 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 293 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Strategies of analysis for macrosociological data have long relied on questionable methodology which sacrifices information in exchange for summary measures. This practical book provides the means to handle distributions and compositional data without forfeiting the information from which they derive. Real-world data and illustrations are featured throughout the text, and for easy reference, each chapter contains a summary and bibliography. For further ease, this handy reference is divided into three sections. Part I discusses comparative analysis of distributions, compositions, sequences of...
Strategies of analysis for macrosociological data have long relied on questionable methodology which sacrifices information in exchange for summary me...
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1240,76 |
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Introduction to Multidimensional Scaling: Theory, Methods and Applications
ISBN: 9780126243505 / Angielski / Twarda / 1981 / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This introductory volume includes worked examples from a variety of data sets about the most frequently used models and computer programs for MDS, as well as techniques for collecting data and assessing MDS results. It covers the design, execution, and analysis of multidimensional scaling experiments and includes detailed descriptions and examples of six major MDS computer programs: MINISSA, POLYCON, KYST, INDSCAL/SINDSCAL, ALSCAL and MULTISCALE. These six approaches are sufficiently fundamental that continuing developments in the field will build on the principles presented in this volume.
This introductory volume includes worked examples from a variety of data sets about the most frequently used models and computer programs for MDS, as ...
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1549,61 |
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Applied Demography: Applications to Business, Government, Law and Public Policy
ISBN: 9780126418408 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 686 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In contrast to a typical general text in demography, which is concerned with demographic principles, trends, problems, and theories, Applied Demography explores the practical issues with which demographers working for government agencies, private nonprofit organizations, and businesses deal. It emphasizes the applications of applied demography in a variety of related disciplines, such as geography, economics, gerontology, public policy, law, sociology, public administration, and business management. The data of these disciplines are taken into account, as are the methods of statistics and...
In contrast to a typical general text in demography, which is concerned with demographic principles, trends, problems, and theories, Applied Demograph...
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533,21 |
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The Methods and Materials of Demography
ISBN: 9780126419559 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 819 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book is a thorough update of the original "Methods and Materials of Demography" (1976). Every chapter is new, written exclusively for this edition. Like the original, "Red Book," the second edition presents a systematic and comprehensive exposition of the methods used by technicians and research workers in dealing with demographic data. It is concerned with the ways data on population are gathered, classified, and treated to produce tabulations and various summarizing measures that reveal the significant aspects of the composition and dynamics of populations. It also sets forth the...
This book is a thorough update of the original "Methods and Materials of Demography" (1976). Every chapter is new, written exclusively for this editio...
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893,98 |
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Urbanization in the World Economy
ISBN: 9780126912906 / Angielski / Twarda / 1985 / 387 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. To date, most interpretations of urbanization have focused on the internal dynamics of regions or nations, or at best on narrow relations of international dependency. This text recognizes a complementary world-system process theory. The intent is not to argue that world-system processes totally determine urban change, but rather that patterns of urbanization within regions cannot be adequately understood without at least taking global political economic processes into account. The book begins with a discussion of how a world-system theory of urbanization differs from other approaches. This is...
To date, most interpretations of urbanization have focused on the internal dynamics of regions or nations, or at best on narrow relations of internati...
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1376,22 |
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Regression Analysis for Social Sciences
ISBN: 9780127249551 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Regression Analysis for Social Sciences presents methods of regression analysis in an accessible way, with each method having illustrations and examples. A broad spectrum of methods are included: multiple categorical predictors, methods for curvilinear regression, and methods for symmetric regression. This book can be used for courses in regression analysis at the advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate level in the social and behavioral sciences. Most of the techniques are explained step-by-step enabling students and researchers to analyze their own data. Examples include data...
Regression Analysis for Social Sciences presents methods of regression analysis in an accessible way, with each method having illustrations and...
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429,84 |
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Urban Culture: Exploring Cities and Cultures
ISBN: 9780130416940 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This innovative text uses the lens of culture to examine the various theoretical perspectives and paradigms of urban analysis. It explores the city's impact on how we make and consume all types of culture-art, music, literature, architecture, film, and more-not only illustrating the effects the urban environment has on the production of culture, but, at times, how culture has influenced the city. Theoretically diverse, Urban Culture employs the major theoretical perspectives in sociology and the major paradigms in Urban Sociology and Urban Studies: Urban Ecology, Marxism,... This innovative text uses the lens of culture to examine the various theoretical perspectives and paradigms of urban analysis. It explores the cit... |
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470,73 |
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Deciphering the City
ISBN: 9780131134959 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Well-written and extremely topical, Deciphering the City efficiently deals with the large and small issues facing cities today. A focus on globalization's impact on the role of cities, an explicit mission to drive home the applied nature of urban studies to students. This innovative text offers an exciting introduction to the history, issues, problems, potential solutions and challenges, facing cities in the developed and the developing world for the twenty-first century. Globalization has changed the roles of cities in the global economy and this text begins with an introduction to... Well-written and extremely topical, Deciphering the City efficiently deals with the large and small issues facing cities today. A focus on globaliz... |
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1023,44 |
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Intellectual Disabilities Across the Lifespan
ISBN: 9780131707344 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book provides an introduction to intellectual disabilities that is highly readable, comprehensive, and reflective of the broad array of human stories associated with this condition. This volume is strongly based in human development and follows the development of individuals with intellectual disabilities from conception through birth, infancy, and early childhood, and then through the elementary school, adolescent, and adult years. Intellectual disabilities is a field in which this complete cycle of human life is important for a full understanding of the challenges and issues...
This book provides an introduction to intellectual disabilities that is highly readable, comprehensive, and reflective of the broad array of human sto...
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1375,11 |
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Inequality and Stratification: Race, Class, and Gender
ISBN: 9780131849686 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. For undergraduate courses in Social Stratification, Race, Class, and Gender, and Introduction to Gender Studies. Using a concise and easy-to-understand style, this text provides an integrated approach to the implications of social class, race and ethnicity, and gender-explaining how each relates to economic, social, and political inequality. For undergraduate courses in Social Stratification, Race, Class, and Gender, and Introduction to Gender Studies. Using a concise and easy-to-unders... |
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506,55 |
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Religion in Society: A Sociology of Religion
ISBN: 9780131884076 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. For junior/senior-level courses in Religion and Society in departments of Sociology and Religious Studies. Using an unbiased, balanced approach, the 8th edition of this text puts religion in its social context by discussing the impact of society on religion and helps students understand the role and function of religion in society that occur regardless of anyone's claims about the truth or falsity of religious systems.
For junior/senior-level courses in Religion and Society in departments of Sociology and Religious Studies. Using an unbiased, balanced approach, the 8...
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905,69 |
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Later Life: The Realities of Aging
ISBN: 9780131951587 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. For courses in Sociology of Aging or Gerontology taught primarily in departments of sociology. Message: An interdisciplinary introduction to the aging process which uses symbolic interactionism as the main theoretical perspective.
For courses in Sociology of Aging or Gerontology taught primarily in departments of sociology. Message: An interdisciplinary introduction to the aging...
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614,06 |
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Organizations and Organizing: Rational, Natural and Open Systems Perspectives
ISBN: 9780131958937 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. For advanced undergraduate courses on organizations, sociology of organizations, organizations & management, and organization theory. Courses can be found in the departments of sociology, business and public administration departments.
For advanced undergraduate courses on organizations, sociology of organizations, organizations & management, and organization theory. Courses can b... |
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869,93 |
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To Change China: Western Advisers in China
ISBN: 9780140055283 / Angielski / Miękka / 1980 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. From "the best known and most talented historian of China writing in English today" (Los Angeles Times), an examination of a diverse collection of Western foreigners who attempted "to change China"
"To change China" was the goal of foreign missionaries, soldiers, doctors, teachers, engineers, and revolutionaries for more than three hundred years. But the Chinese, while eagerly accepting Western technical advice, clung steadfastly to their own religious and cultural traditions. As a new era of relations between China and the United States begins, the tales in this volume will... From "the best known and most talented historian of China writing in English today" (Los Angeles Times), an examination of a diverse collect...
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110,00 |
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The Puzzle Palace: Inside America's Most Secret Intelligence Organization
ISBN: 9780140067484 / Angielski / Miękka / 1983 / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this remarkable tour de force of investigative reporting, James Bamford exposes the inner workings of America's largest, most secretive, andarguably most intrusive intelligence agency. The NSA has long eluded public scrutiny, but The Puzzle Palace penetrates its vast network of power and unmasks the people who control it, often with shocking disregard for the law.Withdetailedinformation on the NSA's secret role in the Korean Airlines disaster, Iran-Contra, the first Gulf War, and other major world events of the 80s and 90s, this is a brilliant accountof the use and abuse of...
In this remarkable tour de force of investigative reporting, James Bamford exposes the inner workings of America's largest, most secretive, andarguabl...
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110,00 |
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Filters Against Folly
ISBN: 9780140077292 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "For 20 years Garrett Hardin has been our most hardnosed thinker about ecological problems...Filters Against Folly makes provocative reading." -- Michael Crichton
The ecological problems facing our world present a forum for experts to offer slogans and solutions on all sides of the issue, but leave most of us confused and unsure of the future. In this bracing book, Garrett Hardin offers a plan for clear thinking about these dangers. He shows how the filters of literacy, understanding what words really mean; numeracy, being able to quantify and interpret information;... "For 20 years Garrett Hardin has been our most hardnosed thinker about ecological problems...Filters Against Folly makes provocative reading." ...
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110,00 |
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Between Women: Love, Envy and Competition in Women's Friendships
ISBN: 9780140089806 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. When your best friend makes you angry, why can t you tell her?
As women pursue professional and personal goals, the support needed from female friends can be undermined by feelings of envy, competition, and anger. In this groundbreaking book, Luise Eichenbaum and Susie Orbach show: How mother-daughter relationships affect women s desire to forge close adult friendships How to stop hiding painful feelings and speak up to your friends How to enhance feelings of autonomy and self-development while remaining "connected" to others Why "daring to differ" with friends can... When your best friend makes you angry, why can t you tell her?
As women pursue professional and personal goals, the support needed from female fr... |
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110,00 |