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  • Family, Work and Wellbeing in Asia

    Edited by Ming-Chang Tsai, Wan-chi Chen ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book delivers timely research on the various interfaces of family and work, and their impacts on individual wellbeing in East and Southeast Asia. It highlights changing family structures and processes, with special attention to inter-generational relationships, gender roles, cultural norms and employment. The book presents both qualitative and quantitative research works, adopting a ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Enterprise Architecture at Work

    Modelling, Communication and Analysis

    by Marc Lankhorst ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    An enterprise architecture tries to describe and control an organisation’s structure, processes, applications, systems and techniques in an integrated way. The unambiguous specification and description of components and their relationships in such an architecture requires a coherent architecture modelling language.Lankhorst and his co‑authors present such an enterprise modelling language that ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Born at the Right Time

    A History of the Baby Boom Generation

    by Doug Owram ...
    Series series Heritage
    It is rare in history for people to link their identity with their generation, and even rarer when children and adolescents actually shape society and influence politics. Both phenomena aptly describe the generation born in the decade following the Second World War. These were the baby boomers, viewed by some as the spoiled, selfish generation that had it all, and by others as a shock wave that ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Washington State Census Board and Its Demographic Legacy

    by David A. Swanson ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book tells the story of how a group of far-sighted, academic researchers came to the aid of an overwhelmed local government. It details the history of the Washington State Census Board, which began in 1943 as part of an emergency measure during a massive wartime in-migration. The narrative also shows the demographic legacy of the Board and, ultimately, provides an unforgettable look into the ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Diverging Destinies

    The Japanese Case

    by James M. Raymo, Miho Iwasawa ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The overarching objective of this book is to summarize, extend, and update previous research on educational differences in family behavior in Japan. This is the first comprehensive treatment of the subject and the first to evaluate family differentials in Japan in the context of ideas articulated in research on “diverging destinies” and “patterns of disadvantage” as part of the second demographic ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Behind the Scenes

    The Life and Work of William Clifford Clark

    by Robert A. Wardhaugh ...
    William Clifford Clark, federal deputy minister of finance from 1932 to 1952, had a profound impact on Canadian history. An important intellectual figure during the first half of the twentieth century, he was leader of 'The Ottawa Men,' a group of federal civil servants who shaped a new liberal vision of the nation. Robert A. Wardhaugh chronicles Clark's contributions to Canada's modern state in ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Informal Order and the State in Afghanistan

    by Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili ...
    Despite vast efforts to build the state, profound political order in rural Afghanistan is maintained by self-governing, customary organizations. Informal Order and the State in Afghanistan explores the rules governing these organizations to explain why they can provide public goods. Instead of withering during decades of conflict, customary authority adapted to become more responsive and ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Securing Pension Provision

    The Challenge of Reforming the Age of Entitlement

    by C Blair ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    By comparing Germany, France, the UK and the USA this study explores how governments have tackled the increased pressure of financing state pensions. Specifically, it looks at the approach of each of these countries to raising the age of entitlement in order to understand the ways in which this policy was introduced in different countries. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Statistical Methods and Applications from a Historical Perspective

    Selected Issues

    Edited by Fabio Crescenzi, Stefania Mignani ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    The book showcases a selection of peer-reviewed papers, the preliminary versions of which were presented at a conference held 11-13 June 2011 in Bologna and organized jointly by the Italian Statistical Society (SIS), the Institute national Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) and the Bank of Italy. The theme of the conference was "Statistics in the 150 years of the Unification of Italy."The celebration ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Coping with Demographic Change: A Comparative View on Education and Local Government in Germany and Poland

    by Reinhold Sackmann, Walter Bartl, Bernadette Jonda, Katarzyna Kopycka, Christian Rademacher ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    With many OECD countries experiencing a decline in their populations, this bookoffers a theoretical model of coping with demographic change and examines different strategies that societies have used to come to terms with demographic change. In particular, it details the different ways that Germany and Poland have tried to cope with this challenge and reveals three conflicting strategies: expansion ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Race and Representative Bureaucracy in American Policing

    by Brandy A. Kennedy, Adam M. Butz, Nazita Lajevardi, Matthew J. Nanes ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book examines issues of race and policing through the lens of representative bureaucracy theory. According to representative bureaucracy theory, demographic correspondence between government employees and the local population can lead to more favorable outcomes for minority groups. It argues that police forces with higher minority composition will have more positive outcomes across measures ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Social capital, migration, ethnic diversity and economic performance

    Multidisciplinary evidence from South-East Europe

    by Adnan Efendic, Bojana Babic, Anna Rebmann ...
    Series Book 20 - Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
    This interdisciplinary book brings an empirical evidence that social capital is an important building block in the reintegration processes, migration challenges and economic dynamism of the SEE communities. Such a conclusion opposes the common belief that (re)establishing social relations in a post-ethnic conflict environment is difficult, or sometimes even impossible. These are indeed societies ... Read more

    $72.69 USD