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The International Handbook of the Demography of Race and Ethnicity
Examining key countries in every region of world, this handbook presents population profiles and analyses concerning racial/ethnic disparities and changing intergroup relations. Inside, prominent scholars from various parts of the world and disciplines address the links between stratification, demography, and conflict across the globe. Organized by region/continent, coverage for each profile…
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- 978-90-481-8891-8
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- XXVI, 629, 97 b/w illustrations
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- International Handbooks of Population
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The Impact of Religiosity on Fertility
The work investigates the impact of religiosity of women and men on their completed fertility in an international comparison considering a long time period. Sandra Hubert aims at uncovering all mechanisms through which religiosity and religious institutions can affect fertility. Hence, both the micro- and the macro-level of each country are explicitly integrated, and theoretically as well as…
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- 978-3-658-07008-3
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- XIV, 283, 13 b/w illustrations
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- The Impact of Religiosity on Fertility
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Annual Report on Urban Development of China 2013
This book focuses on China’s urban development. In China, the process of allowing more rural migrants to become registered city residents in urban areas remains stagnant despite its importance to the Chinese government and the existence of a national consensus about it. Cities can compulsorily purchase land from farmers at low or even no costs, and most farmers, whose families have relied on …
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-662-46324-6
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- XIII, 288
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- Current Chinese Economic Report Series
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- 330 ANN a
An Introductory Study on China's Cultural Transformation in Recent Times
This book examines in detail the basic trajectory of the cultural transformation and brings to light the extrinsic conditions and intrinsic mechanisms involved. It focuses on the period from after the Opium Wars to the New Culture Movement, as the New Culture Movement can be considered a pivotal phase in the cultural transformation of modern-day China. The New Culture Movement was a revolutiona…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-662-44590-7
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- X, 442
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- China Academic Library
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- 301 GEN i
Dress, Appearance, and Diversity in U.S. Society
This is a free textbook geared towards college-level courses about dress and identity. The purpose of the book is to help students learn about dress, identity, and how these topics intersect with marginalized communities. Everyone interacts with different people in their day-to-day lives. Having a greater understanding of others can lead to a more equitable, just society. This textbook was crea…
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- 391.472 RED d
Integrating Immigrants in Europe Research-Policy Dialogues
This open access book explores how research and policymaking in the field of migrant integration have developed historically and how this interrelationship plays out in the strongly politicised climate of opinions on migration in Europe. It features interdisciplinary theoretical contributions as well as original empirical studies on research-policy dialogues at both the EU and country level. …
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- 978-3-319-16256-0
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New Teachers in Urban Schools: Journeys Toward Social Equity Teaching
This volume informs the reader about new teachers in urban underserved schools and their development as teachers for social equity. The accounts of five novice teachers who grew up outside the communities in which they teach lead to chapters that contain advice for teacher educators, future and current teachers, and school leaders. These early career teachers learned much about bridging th…
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- 978-3-319-79981-0
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- IX, 180
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New Media and Learning in the 21st Century
This volume brings together conceptualizations and empirical studies that explore the socio-cultural dimension of new media and its implications on learning in the 21st century classroom. The authors articulate their vision of new-media-enhanced learning at a global level. The high-level concept is then re-examined for different degrees of contextualization and localization, for example how a s…
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- 978-981-287-325-5
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- XII, 216
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- Education Innovation Series
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Game-Day Gangsters Crime and Deviance in Canadian Football
In the complicated interaction between sport and law, much is revealed about the perception and understanding of consent and tolerable deviance. When a football player steps onto the field, what deviations from the rules of the game are considered acceptable? And what risks has the player already accepted by voluntarily participating in the sport? In the case of Canadian football, acts of on-fi…
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- 9781927356531.01
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- 176 pages
‘Out of School’ Ethnic Minority Young People in Hong Kong
This book offers a comprehensive overview of ‘out of school’ ethnic minority young people in Hong Kong. The focus is on the extent of the phenomena, reasons behind it and a description of ‘out of school’ life. Employing qualitative research methods and adopting a case study approach that involved fieldwork comprising 15 in-depth interviews and 2 observations with 11 ‘out of school’…
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- 978-981-10-0327-1
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