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  • Fostering

    A Memoir of Courage and Hope

    by Carmen Maria Navarro ...
    What are you willing to sacrifice to save a child who’s not your own?The Navarro-Wozniaks became foster parents hoping they would save lives, but they didn’t know how broken the child welfare system is. They didn’t fully realize the unintended consequences and the impact it was going to have on their own children. They just wanted to help.Fostering: A Memoir of Courage and Hope centers on both a ... Read more

    $5.63 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dynamics and Issues of Local Autonomy

    A Comparative Study

    by Andreas Ladner, Nicolas Keuffer, Alexander Bastianen, Harald Baldersheim, Nikos Hlepas, Carmen Navarro, Kristof Steyvers, Paweł Swianiewicz ...
    This book explores local autonomy as measured by the updated and extended Local Autonomy Index, and considers the underlying issues related to this multidimensional concept. It analyses dynamics spanning over three decades concerning the dimensions of local autonomy and its variables and indicators.Adopting an international comparative perspective, authors examine common and differing features of ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Fostering

    A Memoir of Courage and Hope

    by Carmen Maria Navarro ...
    What are you willing to sacrifice to save a child who's not your own?The Navarro-Wozniaks became foster parents hoping they would save lives, but they didn't know how broken the child welfare system is. They didn't fully realize the unintended consequences and the impact it was going to have on their own children. They just wanted to help.***Fostering: A Memoir of Courage and Hope***centers on ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • New Critical Perspectives on Ageing Women in the Writings of Doris Lessing

    by Carmen García Navarro ...
    Series Book 71 - Anglo-amerikanische Studien / Anglo-American Studies
    This book uses some of Doris Lessing’s fictional texts as a springboard for making new contributions to the study of ageing, and more specifically, on the ageing of women. Lessing’s fiction invites a critical political, cultural and ethical reflection at the intersections between literature and culture in the final years of the twentieth century and the first few of the current one. Lessing’s ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Identity, Violence and Resilience in 21st Century Black British and American Women's Fiction

    Edited by Nuria Torres López, Carmen García Navarro ...
    Series Book 69 - Anglo-amerikanische Studien / Anglo-American Studies
    In this volume, scholars analyze contemporary Black British and American women’s fiction that tackles issues of violence and its representations. The book gives readers a wide perspective about recent research on the history of Black women who have been subjected to physical and psychological violence, which defines the identities of those women who suffer it. The psychosocial and emotional ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • Patterns of Local Autonomy in Europe

    by Andreas Ladner, Nicolas Keuffer, Harald Baldersheim, Nikos Hlepas, Pawel Swianiewicz, Kristof Steyvers, Carmen Navarro ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book considers local autonomy, measured as a multidimensional concept, from a cross-country comparative perspective, and examines how variations can be explained and what their consequences are. It fills a gap in the literature by providing a comprehensive study of the different components of local autonomy across a large number of countries, over time. It offers a theoretically saturated ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

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  • Causal Mechanisms in the Global Development of Social Policies

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    This open access edited volume introduces the concept of causal mechanisms to explore new ways of explaining the global dynamics of social policy, and shows that a mechanism-based approach provides several advantages over established approaches for studying social policy.The introductory chapter outlines the mechanism-based approach, which stands out by modularisation and a clear focus on actors. ... Read more

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  • International Influence Beyond Conditionality

    Postcommunist Europe after EU enlargement

    Edited by Rachel A. Epstein, Ulrich Sedelmeier ...
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