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Youth Unemployment and Job Insecurity in Europe : Problems, Risk Factors and …
Providing original insights into the factors causing early job insecurity in European countries, this book examines its short- and long-term consequences. It assesses public policies seeking to diminish the risks to young people facing prolonged job insecurity and reduce the severity of these impacts. Based on the findings of a major study across nine European countries, this book examines the …
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- 9781788118897
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- 650
A Demographic Perspective on Gender, Family and Health in Europe
family; relationships; health, parenthood
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- 9783319723556
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- 330 DOB d
Cultural Heritage in a Changing World
Cultural Heritage; Cultural Economics; Cultural Studies; Archaeology; Information Storage and Retrieval; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)
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- 9783319295428
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- 301 BOR c
Contemporary Perspectives on Ageism
Older adults outnumbering children; Gerontology/geriatrics; Aging world population; The study of ageism; Ageism is the most prevalent form of discrimination
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- 9783319738192
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- 330 AYA c
Cohabitation and Marriage in The Americas: Geo-Historical Legacies and New Tr…
This open access book presents an innovative study of the rise of unmarried cohabitation in the Americas, from Canada to Argentina. Using an extensive sample of individual census data for nearly all countries on the continent, it offers a cross-national, comparative view of this recent demographic trend and its impact on the family. The book offers a tour of the historical legacies and regional…
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- 9783319314402
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The Unreal Estate Guide to Detroit
Intense attention has been paid to Detroit as a site of urban crisis. This crisis, however, has not only yielded the massive devaluation of real estate that has so often been noted; it has also yielded an explosive production of seemingly valueless urban property that has facilitated the imagination and practice of alternative urbanisms. The first sustained study of Detroit’s alternative urba…
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- 9780472900282
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- 720 HER u
A Study of Crisis
As the twentieth century draws to a close, it is time to look back on an epoch of widespread turmoil, including two world wars, the end of the colonial era in world history, and a large number of international crises and conflicts. This book is designed to shed light on the causes and consequences of military-security crises since the end of World War I, in every region, across diverse economic…
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- 9780472903122
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- 337 WIL s
Karawitan, Volume 3: Source Readings in Javanese Gamelan and Vocal Music
The twentieth century has spawned a great interest in Indonesian music, and now books, articles, and manuscripts can be found that expound exclusively about karawitan (the combined vocal and instrumental music of the gamelan). Scholar Judith Becker has culled several key sources on karawitan into three volumes and has translated them for the benefit of the Western student of the gamelan traditi…
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- 9780472901661
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- 781.6 KAR k
Karawitan, Volume 1: Source Readings in Javanese Gamelan and Vocal Music
The twentieth century has spawned a great interest in Indonesian music, and now books, articles, and manuscripts can be found that expound exclusively about karawitan (the combined vocal and instrumental music of the gamelan). Scholar Judith Becker has culled several key sources on karawitan into three volumes and has translated them for the benefit of the Western student of the gamelan traditi…
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- 9780472901647
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- 781.6 KAR k
Just Vibrations: The Purpose of Sounding Good
Modern academic criticism bursts with what Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick once termed paranoid readings—interpretative feats that aim to prove a point, persuade an audience, and subtly denigrate anyone who disagrees. Driven by strategies of negation and suspicion, such rhetoric tends to drown out softer-spoken reparative efforts, which forego forceful argument in favor of ruminations on pleasure, love…
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- 9780472900565
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- 362.4 MCC j
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