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  • Cantonese on the Daily: Beginner's Practical Guide to Everyday Cantonese Chinese Language

    On the Daily, #1

    by Leng Chan ...
    Series Book 1 - On the Daily
    Cantonese language and culture for everyday useCantonese is a vibrant, fascinating language spoken in Hong Kong, Macau, southern China, Southeast Asia, and Chinese communities worldwide. If you hear a language being spoken in your city's Chinatown, it's most likely Cantonese.This book is a lively basic introduction to Cantonese language and culture, for travelers, language students, Chinese ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Intellectual Property Rights and Emerging Technology

    3D Printing in China

    Edited by Hing Kai Chan, Hui Leng Choo, Onyeka Osuji, James Griffin ...
    3D printing poses many challenges to the traditional law of intellectual property (IP). This book develops a technical method to help overcome some of these legal challenges and difficulties. This is a collection of materials from empirical interviews, workshops and publications that have been carried out in one of the world's leading research projects into the legal impact of 3D printing. The ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Ageing in Singapore

    Service needs and the state

    by Peggy Teo, Kalyani Mehta, Leng Leng Thang, Angelique Chan ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
    Older persons are often portrayed as social and financial burdens because pensions, health and social care have to withstand increasing old age dependency ratios. Due to a lack of access to representation or a lack of social and economic power, older people have found few opportunities to have their voices heard, making age an immensely political issue.Written by an impressive team of authors, ... Read more

    $105.80 CAD

  • Education-at-large: Student Life And Activities In Singapore 1945-1965

    by Siao See Teng, Cheow Thia Chan, Huay Leng Lee ...
    The first part of the book contains documentation of a groundbreaking exhibition held in 2007 on student activities and societal engagements during post-war Singapore 1945-1965 and transcripts of forums held in conjunction with it. The second half centres on oral history accounts of mostly former Chinese school students who shared about their social, cultural and political activities in complex ... Read more

    $39.59 CAD

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    Navigating Maori Futures

    by Mason Durie ...
    Nga Tini Whetu - Navigating Maori Futures brings together twenty-five papers Mason Durie has presented at national and international conferences between 2004 and 2010. It discusses Maori moving towards a future involving new technologies, alliances, economies and levels of achievement and being equipped to respond to the changes in a way that enables Maori to prosper and live in a changing world ... Read more

    $6.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Social policy

    by Spicker, Paul ...
    Social Policy: Themes and approaches is a fully revised, updated and extended edition of a bestselling social policy textbook, extensively reworked and adapted to meet the needs of its international readership. The book lays out the architecture of social policy as a field of study, providing a sense of the scope, range and purpose of the subject while developing critical awareness of problems, ... Read more

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  • AQA Sociology for A-level Book 1

    by David Bown, Laura Pountney, Tomislav Maric ...
    Exam Board: AQALevel: AS/A-levelSubject: SociologyFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Build students' understanding with this concept-driven approach to the 2015 AQA A-level Sociology specification, written by a team of leading subject authors and approved by AQA.- Develop the knowledge required to master Year 1 topics with clear a... ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Ageing

    by Christopher Phillipson ...
    Series series Key Concepts
    Ageing populations represent a key global challenge for the twenty-first century. Few areas of life will remain untouched by the accompanying changes to cultural, economic and social life. This book interrogates various understandings of ageing, and provides a critical assessment of attitudes and responses to the development of ageing societies, placing these in the context of a variety of ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Politics of Disability

    A Need for a Just Society Inclusive of People with Disabilities

    by Peter Gibilisco ...
    We are confronted by neoliberalism and the inhumane consequences of its economic policies. The claim that "there is no alternative" to profit-making simply denies basic features of everyday reality. The Politics of Disability asks: Just where does all of this leave people with disabilities? What are their alternatives? They are among the most downtrodden people, frequently treated as losers for ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

  • Families in Today's World

    A Comparative Approach

    by David Cheal ...
    An international textbook designed as a quick introduction for students from around the world studying sociology of family, this text provides comprehensive coverage of the major topics in the sociology of family life.Written in an easy access style it opens with a chapter on defining family and family structures. It then moves on to discuss over a dozen major topics; from interaction and meaning ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Social Work and Poverty

    A Critical Approach

    by Lester Parrott ...
    Social work and poverty: A critical approach provides a timely review of the key issues facing social workers and service users in working together to combat poverty.First, it situates social work and poverty within a historical context, then analyses definitions and theories of poverty along with their importance in enabling anti-oppressive practice with service users. It goes on to evaluate the ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Disaster and Development

    by Andrew E. Collins ...
    Series series Routledge Perspectives on Development
    Development to a large extent determines the way in which hazards impact on people. Meanwhile the occurrence of disasters alters the scope of development. Whilst a notion of the association of disaster and development is as old as development studies itself, recent decades have produced an intensifying demand for a fuller understanding. Evidence of disaster and development progressing together has ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD