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  • Childlessness in Europe: Contexts, Causes, and Consequences

    Edited by Michaela Kreyenfeld, Dirk Konietzka ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This open access book provides an overview of childlessness throughout Europe. It offers a collection of papers written by leading demographers and sociologists that examine contexts, causes, and consequences of childlessness in countries throughout the region.The book features data from all over Europe. It specifically highlights ... Read more

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  • Parental Life Courses after Separation and Divorce in Europe

    Edited by Michaela Kreyenfeld, Heike Trappe ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book assembles landmark studies on divorce and separation in European countries, and how this affects the life of parents and children. It focuses on four major areas of post-separation lives, namely (1) economic conditions, (2) parent-child relationships, (3) parent and child well-being, and (4) health. Through studies from several European countries, the book showcases how legal ... Read more

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  • A Demographic Perspective on Gender, Family and Health in Europe

    Edited by Gabriele Doblhammer, Jordi Gumà ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book examines the triangle between family, gender, and health in Europe from a demographic perspective. It helps to understand patterns and trends in each of the three components separately, as well as their interdependencies. It overcomes the widely observable specialization in demographic research, which usually involves researchers studying either family or fertility processes ... Read more

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  • The Global Lives of German Migrants

    Consequences of International Migration Across the Life Course

    Edited by Marcel Erlinghagen, Andreas Ette, Norbert F. Schneider, Nils Witte ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Based on the German case, this open access book highlights the increasing flows of migration and the internationalisation of individual life courses. It analyses the experiences of migration across four central domains - employment and income, partners and families, health and wellbeing, as well as friends and social participation - which potentially have far-reaching consequences for social ... Read more

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  • Handbook of the Economics of Education

    Edited by Ludger Woessmann, Stephen J. Machin, Eric A. Hanushek ...
    Series Book 3 - Handbook of the Economics of Education
    How does education affect economic and social outcomes, and how can it inform public policy?Volume 3 of the Handbooks in the Economics of Education uses newly available high quality data from around the world to address these and other core questions. With the help of new methodological approaches, contributors cover econometric methods and international test score data. They examine the ... Read more

    $145.99 CAD

  • Wasting Away

    The Undermining of Canadian Health

    by Pat Armstrong, Hugh Armstrong ...
    Wasting Away is a provocative text that examines and assesses the Canadian health care system. This seven-chapter book explores the development of the Canadian health care system and breaks the analysis down into accessible units: who provides (the institutions and the people); who pays (funding sources); and who decides (public, private, and patients). The concluding chapter sums up the winners ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • An Introduction to the Sociology of Health and Illness

    by Kevin White ...
    "An accessible and highly readable introduction to the Sociology of Health and Illness through the inclusion of key theorists, concepts, and theories, with reference to contemporary health concerns and recent relevant research." - Kylie Baldwin, De Montfort University"Guides us through the many reasons for the centrality of health, showing clearly that health and illness are the products not just ... Read more

    $82.39 CAD

  • Economic Psychology

    Edited by Rob Ranyard ...
    Series series BPS Textbooks in Psychology
    A comprehensive overview of contemporary economic psychologyEconomic Psychology presents an accessible overview of contemporary economic psychology. The science of economic mental life and behavior is increasingly relevant as people are expected to take more responsibility for their household and personal economic decisions. The text will, in addition to reviewing current knowledge on each topic ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD

  • Evolution and Ethics of Eugenics

    by Nicolae Sfetcu ...
    As eugenics is defined, it is very difficult to make a clear distinction between science (medicine, genetic engineering) and eugenics as a included field. And to set a line over which genetic engineering should not go further, according to moral, legal and religious norms. If we accept the help of genetics in finding ways to fight cancer, diabetes, or HIV, we also accept positive eugenics as they ... Read more

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  • Why Knowing What To Do Is Not Enough

    A Realistic Perspective on Self-Reliance

    by Anne-Greet Keizer, Will Tiemeijer, Mark Bovens ...
    Series series Research for Policy
    This open access book sets out to explain the reasons for the gap between “knowing” and “doing” in view of self-reliance, which is more and more often expected of citizens. In today’s society, people are expected to take responsibility for their own lives and be self-reliant. This is no easy feat. They must be on constant high alert in areas of life such as health, work and personal finances and, ... Read more

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  • Ethics in Health Services and Policy

    A Global Approach

    by Dean M. Harris ...
    Series Book 43 - Jossey-Bass Public Health
    This comprehensive textbook analyzes the ethical issues of health and health care in global perspective. Ideal for students of public health, medicine, nursing and allied health professions, public policy, and ethics, the book helps students in all these areas to develop important competencies in their chosen fields. Applying a comparative, or multicultural, approach, the book compares different ... Read more

    $112.99 CAD

  • Judgement and Choice: Perspectives on the Work of Daniel Kahneman

    A Special Issue of Thinking and Reasoning

    Edited by David Lagnado, Daniel Read ...
    Series series Special Issues of Thinking and Reasoning
    The work of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky has transformed the study of judgment and decision-making, and penetrated related disciplines such as economics, finance, marketing, law and medicine. In recognition of these achievements, Kahneman was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2003. This special issue presents ongoing research inspired by both Kahneman and Tversky. It covers many of the ... Read more

    $126.41 CAD