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A Multidisciplinary Approach to Capability in Age and Ageing

This book provides insight on how to interpret capability in ageing – one’s individual ability to perform actions in ...

Advancing the Science of Cancer in Latinos

This book gives an overview of the sessions, panel discussions, and outcomes of the Advancing the Science of Cancer in Latinos ...

Ages, Generations and the Social Contract

Our societies are ageing. The Family is changing. Labour force behaviour is evolving. How is the organisation of family and ...

Aging Well

Outlines the challenges of supporting the health and wellbeing of older adults around the world and offers examples of solutions ...

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 ...

Aquaculture Perspective of Multi-Use Sites in the Open Ocean

This volume addresses the potential for combining large-scale marine aquaculture of macroalgae, molluscs, crustaceans, and ...

Arctic Alpine Ecosystems and People in a Changing Environment

This book addresses the significant environmental changes experienced by high latitude and high altitude ecosystems at the ...

As Pastoralists Settle

Formerly nomadic livestock-keeping pastoralists have settled in many regions of the world in the past century. Some groups, ...

Childlessness in Europe: Contexts, Causes, and Consequences

This open access book provides an overview of childlessness throughout Europe. It offers a collection of papers written ...

Circular Migration and the Rights of Migrant Workers in Central and Eastern Europe The EU Promise of a Triple Win Solution

This book adopts a rights-based approach to shed light on the different legal and policy instruments that have been developed ...

Cities between Competitiveness and Cohesion : Discourses, Realities and Implementation

The book shows that spatial and urban policy continues to be a key site of policy intervention and experimentation. Different ...

Comet, Asteroid Impacts and Human Society : An Interdisciplinary Approach

Leading specialists in various disciplines were first invited to a multidisciplinary workshop funded by ICSU on the topic ...

Coming to Terms with Superdiversity

This book discusses Rotterdam as clear example of a superdiverse city that is only reluctantly coming to terms with this ...

Computational Genetics and Genomics

The authors introduce a new computational approach that makes it possible to identify the genetic basis for differences in ...

Conservation in the 21st Century: Gorillas as a Case Study

this book is essential reading for primatologists, biologists, and conservationists searching for both a current assessment ...

Constructing Roma Migrants : European Narratives and Local Governance

This book presents a cross-disciplinary insight and policy analysis into the effects of European legal and political frameworks ...

Consumer Health Informatics

This comprehensive volume the inclusion of several case studies serves to examine pertinent topics, namely computer-based ...

Contemporary Perspectives on Ageism

This open access book provides a comprehensive European perspective on the concept of ageism, its origins, the manifestation ...

Cross-Cultural Assessment of Psychological Trauma and PTSD

Recent advances in trauma treatment, coupled with ongoing traumatic world events, point to a critical need for global standards ...

Culture History and Convergent Evolution

This volume brings together diverse contributions from leading archaeologists and paleoanthropologists, covering various ...

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