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  • Renegotiating Local Values

    Working Women and Foreign Industry in Malaysia

    by Merete Lie, Ragnhild Lund ...
    Explores the role of women as social actors who contribute to both continuity and change in their society. It examines the inter-linkages between women, industrial work and relations both within the family and in the local community. ... Read more

    $398.52 CAD

  • The Social Meaning of Children and Fertility Change in Europe

    Edited by Anne Lise Ellingsaeter, An-Magritt Jensen, Merete Lie ...
    Series series Studies in European Sociology
    Low fertility in Europe has given rise to the notion of a ‘fertility crisis’. This book shifts the attention from fertility decline to why people do have children, asking what children mean to them. It investigates what role children play in how young adults plan their lives, and why and how young adults make the choices they do.The book aims to expand our comprehension of the complex structures ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Assisted Reproduction Across Borders

    Feminist Perspectives on Normalizations, Disruptions and Transmissions

    Edited by Merete Lie, Nina Lykke ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality
    Today, it often seems as though Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs) have reached a stage of normalization, at least in some countries and among certain social groups. Apparently some practices – for example in vitro fertilization (IVF) – have become standard worldwide. The contributors to Assisted Reproduction Across Borders argue against normalization as an uncontested overall trend.This ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

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  • Hard Choices

    Challenging the Singapore Consensus

    Edited by Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh, Donald Low ...
    Singapore is changing. The consensus that the PAP government has constructed and maintained over five decades is fraying. The assumptions that underpin Singaporean exceptionalism are no longer accepted as easily and readily as before. Among these are the ideas that the country is uniquely vulnerable, that this vulnerability limits its policy and political options, that good governance demands a ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Capital without Borders

    Wealth Managers and the One Percent

    by Brooke Harrington ...
    “A timely account of how the 1% holds on to their wealth…Ought to keep wealth managers awake at night.”—Wall Street Journal“Harrington advises governments seeking to address inequality to focus not only on the rich but also on the professionals who help them game the system.”—Richard Cooper, Foreign Affairs“An insight unlike any other into how wealth management works.”—Felix Martin, New Statesman ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

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  • The Will to Improve

    Governmentality, Development, and the Practice of Politics

    by Tania Murray Li ...
    The Will to Improve is a remarkable account of development in action. Focusing on attempts to improve landscapes and livelihoods in Indonesia, Tania Murray Li carefully exposes the practices that enable experts to diagnose problems and devise interventions, and the agency of people whose conduct is targeted for reform. Deftly integrating theory, ethnography, and history, she illuminates the work ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Singapore

    Smart City, Smart State

    by Kent E. Calder ...
    How Singapore’s solutions to common problems can provide examples for other societies.Nearly everyone knows that Singapore has one of the most efficient governments and competitive, advanced economies in the world. But can this unique citystate of some 5.5 million residents also serve as a model for other advanced economies as well as for the emerging world? Respected East Asia expert Kent Calder ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Precarity

    Uncertain, insecure and unequal lives in Aotearoa New Zealand

    Edited by Bridgette Masters-Awatere, Clifford van Ommen, Natasha Matamua, Shiloh Groot ...
    Leading UK economist Guy Standing has referred to the precariat as a class-in-the-making. The Precariat are our fellow citizens — be they poor, elderly, disabled, homeless, estranged from their cultural communities, refugees, engaged in casual work — who lead lives of uncertainty, dependency, powerlessness, perilousness and insufficiency. They are the outcome of the gradual dismantling of the ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Weaving Two Worlds: Economic Reconciliation Between Indigenous Peoples and the Resource Sector

    by Christy Smith, Michael McPhie ...
    The resource sector must embrace Reconciliation with Indigenous PeoplesMuch of the land, the waters, and all that lived upon or in them is, or was once, under the stewardship of Indigenous Peoples. But when it comes to resource extraction, Indigenous communities have often paid the highest price, and received the least in the way of benefit. That's changing, and quickly. Today and in the future, ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Competition and Cooperation in Social and Political Sciences

    Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, Depok, Indonesia, November 7-9, 2016: Topics in Social and Political Sciences

    Edited by Isbandi Rukminto Adi, Rochman Achwan ...
    The book contains essays on current issues in Social and Political Sciences, such as the issues of governance and social order; social development and community development; global challenges and inequality; civil society and social movement; IT-based community and social transformation; poverty alleviation and corporate social responsibility; and gender issues. Asia and the Pacifi c are the ... Read more

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  • Tourism and Sustainability

    Development, globalisation and new tourism in the Third World

    by Martin Mowforth, Ian Munt ...
    By January 2015 the world’s richest 80 people had as much wealth as the poorest 50 per cent of the world’s population. It is a global unevenness through which the barriers to in-migration of Third World migrants to wealthy First World nations go ever higher, while the barriers to travel in the reverse direction are all but extinct.So how exactly does tourism contribute to narrowing this glaring ... Read more

    $131.99 CAD

  • Ocean In A Drop, The - Singapore: The Next Fifty Years

    by Kwon Ping Ho ...
    The IPS-Nathan Lectures series was launched by the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) in 2014. It is part of the S R Nathan Fellowship for the Study of Singapore. The Fellowship was set up to fund further research into public policy, with the S R Nathan Fellow, who is appointed annually, delivering between four and six lectures each year. These lectures aim to advance public understanding and ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD