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  • Not Quite Adults

    Why 20-Somethings Are Choosing a Slower Path to Adulthood, and Why It's Good forEveryone

    de Richard Settersten, Barbara E. Ray ...
    Why are 20-somethings delaying adulthood? The media have flooded us with negative headlines about this generation, from their sense of entitlement to their immaturity. Drawing on almost a decade of cutting-edge research and nearly five hundred interviews with young people, Richard Settersten, Ph.D., and Barbara E. Ray shatter these stereotypes, revealing an unexpected truth: A slower path to ... Leer más

    Antes $5.99 USD Ahora $4.99 USD

  • Aging, Society, and the Life Course

    de Suzanne R. Kunkel, PhD, Richard Settersten Jr, PhD ...
    Newly revised and updated, this classic text examines the impact of social forces on the aging process. It considers aging from personal, family, community, societal, and global perspectives. The sixth edition reflects significant changes in the field of social gerontology. It delves deeply into the life course paradigm to demonstrate how aging experiences are shaped by individuals’; pasts and by ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Invitation to the Life Course

    Towards new understandings of later life

    de Richard Settersten ...
    Series series Society and Aging Series
    Invitation to the Life Course: Toward New Understandings of Later Life discusses in depth the challenges of age, time, and social contexts for the study of aging and later life. Understanding aging (as a process) and later life (as a period) must be accompanied by serious attention to the life course. This brings significant challenges related to time, as gerontologists must describe and explain ... Leer más

    $69.99 USD

  • Handbook of Theories of Aging

    Edición de Richard Settersten Jr, PhD, Vern L. Bengtson ...
    This state-of-the-art handbook will keep researchers and practitioners in gerontology abreast of the newest theories and models of aging. With virtually all new contributors and content, this edition contains 35 chapters by the most highly respected luminaries in the field. It addresses theories and concepts built on cumulative knowledge in four disciplinary areas- biology, psychology, social ... Leer más

    $101.99 USD

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  • Aging, Society, and the Life Course

    de Leslie A. Morgan, PhD, Suzanne R. Kunkel, PhD ...
    Doody's Score: 91, 4 Stars"[This] book's unfading preoccupation with social context, social processes, and social structures distinguishes itself and greatly contributes to the discourse in gerontology."--The GerontologistThis is a comprehensive textbook for both undergraduate and graduate level courses, detailing the impact of societal forces on the aging process. The book focuses on the ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Aging in Canada

    de Neena L. Chappell, Marcus J. Hollander ...
    Canada, like other countries, is aging. The media has reported on a "grey tsunami," a demographic change reflecting longer life expectancy and the retirement of the so-called baby boomer generation. The numbers and percentages of older adults within our population continue to increase. In 2010, 15.3 percent of Canada's population was over 65; in 2030, it will be 24.1 percent. Many commentators ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Educational Goods

    Values, Evidence, and Decision-Making

    de Harry Brighouse, Helen F. Ladd, Susanna Loeb, Adam Swift ...
    "An ambitious effort that succeeds in providing a fundamentally new way to talk about and . . . think about policy choices in education." —Jeffrey R. Henig, Teachers College, Columbia UniversityWe spend a lot of time arguing about how schools might be improved. But we rarely take a step back to ask what we as a society should be looking for from education—what exactly should those who make ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Prevention Is Primary

    Strategies for Community Well Being

    de Larry Cohen, Vivian Chavez, Sana Chehimi ...
    The new edition of Prevention Is Primary provides models, methods, and approaches for building health and equity in communities. This comprehensive book includes the theory, concepts, and models needed to harness social justice and practice primary prevention of unnecessary illness and injury. Ideal for students as well as practitioners, this thoroughly revised and updated second edition combines ... Leer más

    $81.00 USD

  • Basic Income for Canadians

    From the COVID-19 Emergency to Financial Security for All

    de Evelyn L. Forget ...
    Before the COVID‐19 pandemic, the idea of providing a basic income to everyone in Canada who needs it was already gaining broad support. Then, in response to a crisis that threatened to put millions out of work, the federal government implemented new measures which constituted Canada's largest ever experiment with a basic income for almost everyone.In this new and revised edition, Evelyn L. Forget ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Canadian Medicare

    We Need It and We Can Keep It

    de Stephen Duckett, Adrian Peetoom ...
    Medicare has been a crucial part of Canadian identity for nearly fifty years, and it stands in marked contrast to the US health system. But these facts alone do not protect it from dismissive swipes and criticisms, claims that the system is unsustainable, and even proposals to change medicare's fundamentals. In Canadian Medicare, Stephen Duckett and Adrian Peetoom show that the shared values ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Nudge and the Law

    A European Perspective

    Edición de Professor Alberto Alemanno, Professor Anne-Lise Sibony ...
    Series series Modern Studies in European Law
    Behavioural sciences help refine our understanding of human decision-making. Their insights are immensely relevant for policy-making since public intervention works much better when it targets real people rather than imaginary beings assumed to be perfectly rational. Increasingly, governments around the world are keen to rely on those insights for reshaping public interventions in a wide range of ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • Behavioral Economics and Its Applications

    Edición de Peter Diamond, Hannu Vartiainen ...
    In the last decade, behavioral economics, borrowing from psychology and sociology to explain decisions inconsistent with traditional economics, has revolutionized the way economists view the world. But despite this general success, behavioral thinking has fundamentally transformed only one field of applied economics-finance. Peter Diamond and Hannu Vartiainen's Behavioral Economics and Its ... Leer más

    $86.39 USD