Social Policy category: 9249 books
by Dr. Deane Waldman, MD MBA
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Our Allies Have Become Our Enemies: You Need This Book to Protect Yourself … From Healthcare!
The system that is supposed to nurture, protect and restore you is actually a leach, not a life-saver. Your trusted ally is in fact your fierce enemy. How did this happen? What must you do...
Wirtschafts- und Sozialkunde (IHK)
Prüfungstraining für kaufmännische und kaufmannsnahe Berufe
Language: German
Release Date: January 9, 2015
Dieses Buch richtet sich an Auszubildende in kaufmännischen und kaufmannsnahen Berufen, die kurz vor der IHK-Prüfung stehen. Um Sie erfolgreich durch die Prüfung zu bringen und nicht mit unnötigem Ballast abzulenken, konzentrieren sich die Aufgaben auf das Wissen, das Sie zum erfolgreichen Bestehen...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2016
This volume extends and deepens our knowledge about cross-border mobility and its role in an enlarged EU. More specifically, its main purpose is to enlighten the growing and yet rather uninformed debate about the role of post-enlargement migration for economic adjustment in the crisis-stricken labor...
Why We Need the Humanities
Life Science, Law and the Common Good
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
An entrepreneur and educator highlights the surprising influence of humanities scholarship on biomedical research and civil liberties. This spirited defence urges society to support the humanities to obtain continued guidance for public policy decisions, and challenges scholars to consider how best to fulfil their role in serving the common good.
by Yunbo Zhou, Yan Qin
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
The subject of this book is discussing the income inequality of Chinese residents, its change and the factors that impact it. In this book all kinds of quantitative methods, including decomposing Gini Coefficients method, Fei-Ranis method, two-sectors model and other econometric models. Some special...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
This book engages with politics and political discourse that relate to and qualify immigration in Europe. It brings together empirical analysis of immigration both topically and contextually, and interprets such empirical evidence with the use of policy and discursive analyses as methodological tools....
The Impact of European Employment Strategy in Greece and Portugal
Europeanization in a World of Neglect
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
Through the new use of new empirical evidence derived from analysing employment services, gender equality policies and flexicurity in Greece and Portugal, this book provides compelling new insights into how European Employment Strategy (EES) can influence the domestic employment policy of European Union member states.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2013
The phenomenon of transnational health care has grown rapidly over recent years and this book provides a comprehensive landscape of diverse research communities' attempts to capture its implications for existing bodies of knowledge in selected aspects of medicine, medical ethics, health policy and management, and tourism studies.
Enlarging the Scope of Peace Psychology
African and World-Regional Contributions
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
With the major goal of building an inclusive international community that promotes peace-related research and action, this volume reflects on local, national and global peace engagement and works towards transdisciplinary understandings of the role of psychology in peace, conflict, and violence....
Demographic aspects of the changing status of women in Europe
Proceedings of the Second European Population Seminar The Hague/Brussels, December 13–17, 1976
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Proceedings of the Second European Population Seminars, The Hague/Brussels
Special Issue
Problematizing Prostitution: Critical Research and Scholarship
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
The scholars who contribute to this issue utilize diverse research methods to examine the lived experiences of people engaged in prostitution and the people and institutions that process them. They look at the production of knowledge about prostitution and trafficking by institutional stakeholders,...
American Exceptionalism and American Innocence
A People's History of Fake News—From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
Did the U.S. really “save the world” in World War II? Should black athletes stop protesting and show more gratitude for what America has done for them? Are wars fought to spread freedom and democracy? Or is this all fake news?
American Exceptionalism and American Innocence examines the...
by Robert O. Schneider
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
The United States is waging a political war against science, and the stakes are increasing. When it comes to areas in which science and politics must interact, such as genetics, climate, and energy, there are always political interests pushing to spin the relevant science, but this becomes problematic...
Civil Disobedience in Islam
A Contemporary Debate
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
This book addresses contemporary debates on civil disobedience in Islam within the rich Sunni tradition, especially during the height of the non‐violent people revolution in various Arab countries, popularly known as the Arab Spring. It illustrates the Islamic theological and jurisprudential arguments...