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  • Housing and Young Families in East London

    by Anthea Holme ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Family
    Originally published in 1985, Anthea Holme focuses her study on Bethnal Green in East London and Wanstead and Woodford in outer East London, the areas covered by Michael Young and Peter Willmott in their celebrated books Family and Kinship in East London and Family and Class in a London Suburb. Her aim was to discover how things had changed in the twenty-five years or so since the publication of ... Read more

    $60.45 CAD

  • Life After Ninety

    by Michael Bury, Anthea Holme ...
    In Life After Ninety Micheal Bury and Anthea Holme have surveyed and interviewed 200 individuals, living at home and in institutions, to examine old age stereotypes and present a unique picture of the health, quality of life, and social circumstances of the very old. Longevity and the factors which promote it are also discussed, and throughout the book the concept of the 'life course' is employed, ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

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