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  • Ageing through Austerity

    Critical Perspectives from Ireland

    Edited by Kieran Walsh, Gemma M. Carney, Áine Ní Léime ...
    Demographic ageing is identified as a global challenge with significant social policy implications. This book explores these implications, with a particular focus on the pressures and prospects for ageing societies in the context of austerity.The book presents a carefully crafted study of ageing in Ireland, one of the countries hardest hit by the Eurozone financial crisis. Providing a close, ... Read more

    $50.39 CAD

  • Responding to Domestic Violence

    Emerging Challenges for Policy, Practice and Research in Europe

    by Philip McCormack, Ingunn Rangul Askeland, Gemma Carney, Matt Barnard, Elizabeth Martin, Hana Smitkova, Sibel Korkmaz, Zuzana Ocenasova, Claire Houghton, Davina James-Hanman, Marius Råkil, Gene Feder, Nusha Yonkova, Nicola McConnell, Lucy Potter, Dalila Cerejo, Per Moum Hellevik, Julie Taylor, Maria Pentaraki, Els Leye, Gloria Kirwan, Joanna Goodey, Declan Coogan ...
    This book offers a critical overview of established and emerging manifestations of domestic violence across Europe.It describes how countries within and outside the EU are responding to the problem in policy, practice and research. Eminent academics and professionals from a range of European countries share their findings from new groundbreaking victim surveys, and weigh up the legal, social and ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Critical Questions for Ageing Societies

    by Paul Nash, Gemma M. Carney ...
    This myth-busting and question-focused textbook tackles the fascinating and important social and policy issues posed by the challenges and opportunities of ageing.The unique pedagogical approach recognises the gap between the lives of students and older people, and equips students with the conceptual, analytical and critical tools to understand what it means to grow old and what it means to live ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD

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    A Manifesto Against Ageism

    by Ashton Applewhite ...
    Author, activist, and TED speaker Ashton Applewhite has written a rousing manifesto calling for an end to discrimination and prejudice on the basis of age.In our youth obsessed culture, we’re bombarded by media images and messages about the despairs and declines of our later years. Beauty and pharmaceutical companies work overtime to convince people to purchase products that will retain their ... Read more

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  • Trafficked

    The Terrifying True Story of a British Girl Forced into the Sex Trade

    by Sophie Hayes ...
    He’d been her friend for years. He said he loved her. Then she realised she didn’t know him at all…When everything seemed to be falling apart in Sophie’s life, she was thankful for her friend Kas, who was always at the end of a phone, ready to listen and to offer comfort and advice.Her father’s cold dislike of her and then her parents’ divorce had left her with a deep distrust of men. But, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Half the Sky

    by Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn ...
    **#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation—the oppression of women and girls in the developing world. From the bestselling authors of Tightrope,two of our most fiercely moral voicesWith Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia to meet the ... Read more

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  • Bought and Sold

    by Megan Stephens ...
    A heart-stopping story of lies, brutality and fear. British girl Megan Stephens tells the true story of how an idyllic Mediterranean holiday turned into an unimaginable nightmare when she was tricked into becoming a victim of human trafficking and held captive for six years by deception, threats and violence.While on holiday with her mother at a popular Mediterranean coastal resort, Megan fell in ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Aging Our Way

    Lessons for Living from 85 and Beyond

    by Meika Loe ...
    In 1998, Hallmark unveiled their new "One-Hundredth-Birthday" cards, and by 2007 annual sales were at 85,000. America is rapidly graying: between now and 2030, the number of people in the U.S. over the age of 80 is expected to almost triple. But how long people live raises the question of how well they live. Aging Our Way follows the everyday lives of 30 elders (ages 85-102) living at home and ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Parents Who Kill - Shocking True Stories of The World's Most Evil Parents

    by Carol Anne Davis ...
    The bond between parent and child is the strongest natural connection imaginable. But in rare and shocking cases, that bond can be brutally broken. The Philpott family, 'baby P' and jasmine Beckford are just three cases that have made a nation's blood run cold. But what could possibly drive a parent to commit the cruellest crime of all - the killing of their own child.In Parents Who Kill, renowned ... Read more

    $7.29 CAD

  • Sophia's Story

    A story of the unspeakable horror of child abuse

    by Susan McKay ...
    In 1995, Sophia McColgan's father was sentenced to prison for the serial rape and abuse of his children over many years. He had first raped Sophia when she was only six. It had taken immense courage on the part of Sophia and her family to bring the murky, hidden world of family child abuse to the public gaze. Then, in 1998, Susan McKay published Sophia's Story, one of the most acclaimed Irish ... Read more

    $7.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Aging in Hong Kong

    A Comparative Perspective

    Edited by Jean Woo ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    With the longest life expectancy for men and the second longest for women, Hong Kong typifies our planet’s aging population. The daily lives of its older adults closely match the advantages and disadvantages experienced by urban elders in other developed countries. For these reasons, Hong Kong’s elderly serve as a salient guide to older people’s social, psychological, and healthcare needs—concerns ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Germany's New Security Demographics

    Military Recruitment in the Era of Population Aging

    by Wenke Apt ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Military recruitment will become more difficult in times of demographic aging. The question arises whether demographic change will constrain the capacity of aging states like Germany to conduct foreign policy and pursue their national security interests. Since contemporary military operations still display a strong human element, particular scrutiny is given to the empirical analysis of the ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD