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Family Dynamics over the Life Course: Foundations, Turning Points and Outcomes
This open access book examines how families and other social institutions interact to shape outcomes over the life course. It considers how to use research evidence to reduce social disadvantage through translation of evidence to support public policies and programs. The chapters focus on key life course stages such as early child development, adolescence, emerging adulthood, parenting, marriag…
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- 1
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- 978-3-031-12224-8
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- Life Course Research and Social Policies
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- VIII, 326
Older Workers and Labour Market Exclusion Processes: A Life Course perspective
This open access book addresses the important and neglected question of older workers who are excluded from the labour market. It challenges post-capitalist discourses of active ageing with a focus on restrictive end-of-career and retirement measures. The book demonstrates how a paradigm shift is generating real processes of exclusion for important sectors of the population. By providing strong…
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- 1
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- 978-3-031-11272-0
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- Life Course Research and Social Policies
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- IX, 214
Family Dynamics over the Life Course
This open access book examines how families and other social institutions interact to shape outcomes over the life course. It considers how to use research evidence to reduce social disadvantage through translation of evidence to support public policies and programs. The chapters focus on key life course stages such as early child development, adolescence, emerging adulthood, parenting, marriag…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-031-12224-8
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- -
- Series Title
- Life Course Research and Social Policies
- Call Number
- VIII, 326
The discourses of Epictetus : with the Encheiridion and fragments
Very little is known of tlie life of Epictetus. It is said that lie was a native of Hierapolis in Phrygia, a town between the Maeander and a branch of the Maeander named the Lycus. Hierapolis is mentioned in the epistle of Paul to the people of Colossae (Coloss. iv, 13); from which it has been concluded that there was a Christian church in Hierajiolis in the time of the apostle. The date of the…
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- 750375242
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- cdl; americana
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- srlf_ucla:LAGE-1280427
Storytelling and the Sciences of Mind
"With Storytelling and the Science of Mind, David Herman proposes a cross-fertilization between the study of narrative and research on intelligent behavior. This cross-fertilization goes beyond the simple importing of ideas from the sciences of mind into scholarship on narrative and instead aims for convergence between work in narrative studies and research in the cognitive sciences. The book a…
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- 0262315696
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- 1 online resource (xlv, 428 pages) :illustrations
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The power of words in international relations : Birth of an Anti-Whaling Disc…
The role of discursive power in shaping international relations analysed through the lens of whaling politics.
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- 1 online resource (xii, 333 pages) : illustrations
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The Theory and Practice of Discourse Parsing and Summarization
A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262316095
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 248 pages)
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Coherence in Natural Language: Data Structures and Applications
A discussion of coherence in natural language that develops criteria for descriptively adequate data structures and examines the influence of coherence on psycholinguistic processes and determining the relative importance of document segments.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262286398
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- 1 online resource (vi, 137 pages) :illustrations
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Indefinite objects :scrambling, choice functions, and differential marking
A novel view of the syntax-semantics interface that analyzes the behavior of indefinite objects. In Indefinite Objects, Luis Lopez presents a novel approach to the syntax-semantics interface using indefinite noun phrases as a database. Traditional approaches map structural configurations to semantic interpretations directly; Lopez links configuration to a mode of semantic composition, with the …
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- 0262305631
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- 1 online resource (xi, 172 pages) :illustrations.
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Mechanisms :new media and the forensic imagination
"In Mechanisms, Matthew Kirschenbaum examines new media and electronic writing against the textual and technological primitives that govern writing, inscription, and textual transmission in all media: erasure, variability, repeatability, and survivability. Mechanisms is the first book in its field to devote significant attention to storage--the hard drive in particular--arguing that understandi…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262302746
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 296 pages) :illustrations
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