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  • Access to Education

    New Possibilities

    by A. Sauvy ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    It is difficult for us today to imagine that equal educational opportunity, with which we are so deeply preoccupied, was at one time considered to be if not an evil at least a futile objective, and that those who held such an opinion were completely insincere and even disinterested. For a vertically stratified society equality of education had to be opposed be cause it would disturb an equilibrium ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

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  • Bird on Fire

    Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City

    by Andrew Ross ...
    Phoenix, Arizona is one of America's fastest growing metropolitan regions. It is also its least sustainable one, sprawling over a thousand square miles, with a population of four and a half million, minimal rainfall, scorching heat, and an insatiable appetite for unrestrained growth and unrestricted property rights. In Bird on Fire, eminent social and cultural analyst Andrew Ross focuses on the ... Read more

    $21.59 CAD

  • Anticipations

    by Wells H. G. (Herbert George) ...
    Mr. Well's essays on the future are a little like his novels on the future; they present an interesting picture of mechanical devices, but leave out of account the human equation almost as completely as the most profound political economist would leave it out. ... Read more

    $2.08 CAD

  • The Happiness Effect

    How Social Media is Driving a Generation to Appear Perfect at Any Cost

    by Donna Freitas ...
    Sexting. Cyberbullying. Narcissism. Social media has become the dominant force in young people's lives, and each day seems to bring another shocking tale of private pictures getting into the wrong hands, or a lament that young people feel compelled to share their each and every thought with the entire world. Have smartphones and social media created a generation of self-obsessed egomaniacs? ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Low Fertility, Institutions, and their Policies

    Variations Across Industrialized Countries

    Edited by Ronald R. Rindfuss, Minja Kim Choe ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume examines ten economically advanced countries in Europe and Asia that have experienced different levels of fertility decline. It offers readers a cross-country perspective on the causes and consequences of low birth rates and the different policy responses to this worrying trend.The countries examined are not only diverse geographically, historically, and culturally, but also have ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • A Comparative Analysis of European Time Transfers between Generations and Genders

    by Emilio Zagheni, Marina Zannella, Gabriel Movsesyan, Brittney Wagner ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This comparative study of European time transfers reveals the full extent of transfers in the form of unpaid work and highlights the existence of important gender differences in household time production. A large quantity of goods and services are produced by household members for their own consumption, without involving market transactions. Despite the economic and social importance of unpaid ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Israel's Destiny

    Fertility and Mortality in a Divided Society

    by Jon Anson ...
    Series series Schnitzer Studies in Israel Society Series
    For over a hundred years, demography has been at the heart of the Zionist project, reflected in the goal of creating and maintaining a Jewish majority in Israel and in ensuring the physical continuation of the Jewish people. Demography continues to be an essential issue in the current struggle between Israel and Palestine. Yet in academic discourse, demography is treated as a minor, largely ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Microtrends Squared

    The New Small Forces Driving Today's Big Disruptions

    by Mark Penn ...
    Ten years after his New York Times bestselling book Microtrends, Mark Penn identifies the next wave of trends reshaping the future of business, politics, and culture.Mark Penn has boldly argued that the future is not shaped by society’s broad forces, but by quiet changes within narrow slices of the population. Ten years ago, he showed how the behavior of one small group can exert an outsized ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Uprooted

    Improving Humanitarian Responses to Forced Migration

    by Susan F. Martin, Patricia Weiss Fagen, Kari M. Jorgensen, Andrew Schoenholtz, Lydia Mann-Bondat ...
    Series series Program in Migration and Refugee Studies
    By conservative estimates about 50 million migrants are currently living outside of their home communities, forced to flee to obtain some measure of safety and security. In addition to persecution, human rights violations, repression, conflict, and natural and human-made disasters, current causes of forced migration include environmental and development-induced factors. Today's migrants include ... Read more

    $61.19 CAD

  • American Jewish Year Book 2014

    The Annual Record of the North American Jewish Communities

    Edited by Arnold Dashefsky, Ira Sheskin ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book, in its 114th year, provides insight into major trends in the North American Jewish communities, examining the recently completed Pew Report (A Portrait of Jewish American), gender in American Jewish life, national and Jewish communal affairs and the US and world Jewish population. It also acts as an important resource with lists of Jewish Institutions, Jewish periodicals and academic ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • The Psychology of Global Mobility

    Edited by Stuart C. Carr ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    Human mobility has been a defining feature of human social evolution. In a global community, the term "mobility" captures the full gamut of types, directions, and patterns of human movement. The psychology of mobility is important because movement is inherently behavioral. Much of the behavioral study of mobility has focused on the negative – examining the trauma of forced migration, or the health ... Read more

    $166.49 CAD

  • Work–Family Interface in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Challenges and Responses

    Edited by Zitha Mokomane ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Problems associated with work-family conflict do not belong to individual families alone, but have a major social and economic impact on the greater community. This scenario also holds true across sub-Saharan Africa, as nations enter the global economy and rising numbers of women enter the workforce.One of the first resources to focus on this region, Work-Family Interface in Sub-Saharan Africa ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD