New Social Mobility

This open access book comparatively analyses intergenerational social mobility in immigrant families in Europe. It is based on qualitative in-depth research into several hundred biographies and professional trajectories of young people with an immigrant working-class background, who made it into high-prestige professions. The biographies were collected and analysed by a consortium of researcher…

The Global Lives of German Migrants: Consequences of International Migration …

Based on the German case, this open access book highlights the increasing flows of migration and the internationalisation of individual life courses. It analyses the experiences of migration across four central domains - employment and income, partners and families, health and wellbeing, as well as friends and social participation - which potentially have far-reaching consequences for social in…

The original portrayal of Mozart's Don Giovanni

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Political economy and instruments of environmental politics

Economists have long argued that market-based instruments such as, environmental taxes, and emission trading systems, are the superior way to offset the negative externalities of any kind of economic activities. Yet, whether the effects of using these instruments are sufficient, whether they are actually used efficiently, and especially which factors influence their effectiveness is subject to …

Reproduction in context; Social and Environmental Influences on Reproduction

Menunjukkan bagaimana apresiasi terhadap kompleksitas penuh konteks reproduksi sebenarnya menyederhanakan dan memperjelas pemahaman kita tentang perilaku reproduksi. Secara historis, ilmu reproduksi telah difokuskan pada perilaku reproduksi yang terpisah dari konteks tempat terjadinya. Dengan mengambil pandangan yang lebih terintegrasi, buku ini mengeksplorasi dasar neuroendokrin reproduksi dal…

Families and New Media

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Scientists Debate Gaia; The Next Century

Hipotesis Gaia menyatakan bahwa proses fisik dan biologis Bumi saling terkait untuk membentuk sistem pengaturan diri yang kompleks, dan bahwa kehidupan telah memengaruhi sistem ini dari waktu ke waktu. Judul ini mengkaji teori ini, serta proses-proses Gaia lainnya. ;;; Scientists Debate Gaia merupakan pemeriksaan ulang multidisipliner atas hipotesis Gaia, yang diperkenalkan oleh James Lovelock …

The Censor's Hand: The Misregulation of Human-Subject Research

Medical and social progress depend on research with human subjects. When that research is done in institutions getting federal money, it is regulated (often minutely) by federally required and supervised bureaucracies called “institutional review boards” (IRBs). Do—can—these IRBs do more harm than good? In The Censor's Hand, Schneider addresses this crucial but long-unasked question.

Psychosocial Stress and Cardiovascular Disease in Women

Buku ini mewakili upaya kolektif untuk merangkum temuan penelitian selama dua dekade mengenai aspek psikososial penyakit kardiovaskular perempuan. Basis pengetahuan kedokteran ilmiah, psikososial, dan perilaku saat ini meningkat secara eksponensial. Faktanya, literaturnya begitu banyak sehingga sulit untuk dipahami. Misalnya dalam bidang psikokardiologi, beberapa ribu makalah tentang stres dan …

The Language of Thought: A New Philosophical Direction

This title presents a philosophical refashioning of the language of thought approach to the nature of the mind, and the related computational theory of mind.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.