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  • Green European Revisited

    Environmental Behaviour and Attitudes in Europe in the Face of the Polycrisis

    Edited by Audronė Telešienė, Matthias Gross, Markus Hadler ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines how environmental attitudes and behaviours are evolving across Europe in an age shaped by climate crisis, covid pandemic, wartime, economic stress, energy and other crises – an emerging polycrisis. Drawing on decades of International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) Environment data, it traces shifts in worldviews and lifestyles.The chapters explore how Europeans think about ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Point-Based Graphics

    Edited by Markus Gross, Hanspeter Pfister ...
    Series series The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics
    The polygon-mesh approach to 3D modeling was a huge advance, but today its limitations are clear. Longer render times for increasingly complex images effectively cap image complexity, or else stretch budgets and schedules to the breaking point. Comprised of contributions from leaders in the development and application of this technology, Point-Based Graphics examines it from all angles, beginning ... Read more

    $84.59 USD

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  • The Palgrave Handbook of Family Policy

    Edited by Rense Nieuwenhuis, Wim Van Lancker ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access handbook provides a multilevel view on family policies, combining insights on family policy outcomes at different levels of policymaking: supra-national organizations, national states, sub-national or regional levels, and finally smaller organizations and employers. At each of these levels, a multidisciplinary group of expert scholars assess policies and their implementation, such ... Read more

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  • Inherited Inequality

    Why Opportunity Gaps Persist between Black and White Youth Raised in Two-Parent Families

    by Christina J. Cross ...
    A Foreword INDIES Award WinnerA groundbreaking study challenges basic tenets of US social welfare policy with proof that raising Black children in two-parent families does not close racial gaps in life outcomes.Ever since Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s controversial 1965 report on “The Negro Family,” the disadvantages of the single-parent household have been at the center of debates about racial ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Social Exclusion of Youth in Europe

    The Multifaceted Consequences of Labour Market Insecurity

    Edited by Marge Unt, Michael Gebel, Sonia Bertolini, Vassiliki Deliyanni-Kouimtzi, Dirk Hofäcker ...
    EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Policymakers throughout Europe are enacting policies to support youth labour market integration. However, many young people continue to face unemployment, job insecurity, and the subsequent consequences.Adopting a mixed-method and multilevel perspective, this book provides a comprehensive investigation into the multifaceted consequences ... Read more

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  • How to QuantCrit

    Applying Critical Race Theory to Quantitative Data in Education

    by Wendy Castillo, Kamden K. Strunk ...
    How to QuantCrit equips researchers and users of quantitative data with practices to alter how they collect and analyze quantitative data. Using Quantitative Critical Race Theory (QuantCrit) as a framework, this book develops the foundation for an iterative praxis to explore a range of questions that prompt practitioners and stakeholders to be engaged critics in working towards a more just and ... Read more

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  • The Changing Faces of Families

    Diverse Family Forms in Various Policy Contexts

    Edited by Marina A. Adler, Karl Lenz ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Family Sociology
    With a focus on nine different national contexts, this book explores contemporary family diversity. With attention to the different welfare states and cultures of care in each setting, it problematizes the pre-eminence of research and policy centered on heteronormative families, showing the extent to which family diversity exists cross-nationally in relation to different gendered and "family ... Read more

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  • The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Families

    Edited by Judith Treas, Jacqueline Scott, Martin Richards ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to Sociology
    Written by an international team of experts, this comprehensive volume investigates modern-day family relationships, partnering, and parenting set against a backdrop of rapid social, economic, cultural, and technological change.Covers a broad range of topics, including social inequality, parenting practices, children’s work, changing patterns of citizenship, multi-cultural families, and changes in ... Read more

    $46.00 USD

  • Social Exclusion in Later Life

    Interdisciplinary and Policy Perspectives

    Edited by Kieran Walsh, Thomas Scharf, Sofie Van Regenmortel, Anna Wanka ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Drawing on interdisciplinary, cross-national perspectives, this open access book contributes to the development of a coherent scientific discourse on social exclusion of older people. The book considers five domains of exclusion (services; economic; social relations; civic and socio-cultural; and community and spatial domains), with three chapters dedicated to analysing different dimensions of ... Read more

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  • Unequal Security

    Welfare, Crime and Social Inequality

    Edited by Peter Starke, Laust Lund Elbek, Georg Wenzelburger ...
    We live in an age of insecurity. The Global Financial Crisis, the Covid-19 pandemic, the wars in Ukraine and Gaza and the climate crisis are just the most evident examples of shocks that have increased the level of insecurity among elites and citizens in recent years. And yet there is ample evidence that insecurity is not equally distributed across populations.Bringing together disciplines such as ... Read more

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  • Welfare Reform and Social Investment Policy in Europe and East Asia

    International Lessons and Policy Implications

    by Jooha Lee, Hyejin Choi, Jaehyoung Park, Mi Young An, Jieun Lee, Ijin Hong, Niccolo Durazzi, Young Jun Choi, Kim Yun-Young, Sonia Exley0, Sung-Hee Lee1, Sam Mohun-Himmelweit2 ...
    Series series Research in Comparative and Global Social Policy
    Social investment policies have enjoyed prominence during recent welfare reforms across the OECD world, and yet there is insufficient long-term strategy for their success.Reviewing labour market, family and education policies, this edited collection analyses the emergence of social investment policies in both Europe and East Asia. Adopting a life course perspective and examining both public and ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Culture, Growth and Economic Policy

    by Panagiotis E. Petrakis ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    It is a wide-spread belief that the cultural background inhered in a society affects the requirements of economic development. This relationship requires theoretical and empirical justification. The present book provides this together with an analysis of the development of cultural background itself. Cultural background is embodied in political institutions, in transactions, knowledge, incentives, ... Read more

    $89.09 USD