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A Life Course Perspective on Health Trajectories and Transitions

This book examines health trajectories and health transitions at different stages of the life course, including childhood, ...

A Theory of Marketing

Marketing has become one of the most influential forces in contemporary market economies. Yet despite ubiquitous empirical ...

Advances in Civil Engineering Materials : Selected Articles from the 6th International Conference on Architecture and Civil Engineering (ICACE 2022), August 2022, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia / Elham Maghsoudi Nia, Lloyd Ling, Mokhtar Awang, Seyed Sattar Emamian

Presents selected articles from the 6th International Conference on Architecture and Civil Engineering 2022 (ICACE 2022), ...

Advancing Quality of Life in a Turbulent World

Environmentalissuescontinuedtoloomlargeinthelastdecadeofthetwentiethc- tury,especiallyenvironmentalproblemsrelatedtorisinglevelsofCO ...

AiREAS: Sustainocracy for a Healthy City : Phase 3: Civilian Participation – Including the Global Health Deal Proposition

This volume describes phase 3 of the AiREAS multidisciplinary cocreation effort to produce a Healthy City. Phase 1 referred ...

Americanization of the European Economy

One of the main features of the world economy since the late nineteenth century has been the growing dominance of the American ...

Animal Welfare : Competing Conceptions and Their Ethical Implications

The thesis of this book is that members of what I shall call the “animal welfare science community,”3 which includes ...

Applied Demography in the 21st Century : Selected Papers from the Biennial Conference on Applied Demography, San Antonio, Texas, January 7–9, 2007

The work contains chapters on several major topical areas that are central to applied demography including works on data ...

Asylum Determination in Europe

The book includes a legal overview of European asylum determination procedures, followed by sections on the diverse actors ...

Berufliche Passagen im Lebenslauf : Berufsbildungs- und Transitionsforschung in der Schweiz = Vocational passages in the CV: Vocational training and transition research in Switzerland

During the transition from school to work, important groundwork is laid that prepares the further course of a person's life. ...

Bioeconomy and Global Inequalities Socio-Ecological Perspectives on Biomass Sourcing and Production

This book explores bioeconomy and bioenergy policies across South America, Asia and Europe. It discusses how a transition ...

Building the Inclusive City Governance, Access, and the Urban Transformation of Dubai

This book is an anthropological urban study of the Emirate of Dubai, its institutions, and their evolution. It provides ...

Challenges and Solutions for Sustainable Smart City Development / R. Maheswar, M. Balasaraswathi, Ravi Rastogi, A. Sampathkumar, G. R. Kanagachidambaresan

Discusses advances in smart and sustainable development of smart environments. The authors discuss the challenges faced in ...

Charity Law & Social Policy : National and International Perspectives on the Functions of the Law Relating to Charities

Charity Law & Social Policy explores contemporary law, policy and practice in a range of modern common law nations. It does ...

Chasing the Chinese Dream Four Decades of Following China’s War on Poverty

This book explores the historical, cultural and philosophical contexts that have made anti-poverty the core of Chinese society ...

Chemical Youth Navigating Uncertainty in Search of the Good Life

This book explores how young people engage with chemical substances in their everyday lives. It builds upon and supplements ...

Clashes of Knowledge : Orthodoxies and Heterodoxies in Science and Religion

"Clashes of Knowledge" is the first volume of a series called "Knowledge and Space" dealing with spatial disparities ...

Climate Change - Environment and History of the Near East

When the ?rst edition of this book was published in 2004, the following year 2005 has happened to have been the warmest year ...

Co-Creativity and Engaged Scholarship : Transformative Methods in Social Sustainability Research

This book explores creative and collaborative research methods within the social sustainability sciences. The term co-creativity ...

Common Interests, Uncommon Goals : Histories of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies and its Members

This book presents histories of the WCCES and its member societies. It shows ways in which the field has changed over the ...

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