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Society & social sciences
Hardcover. This book focuses on issues relevant to women, motherhood and living with HIV/AIDS. Each chapter offers information on real life situations - poor access to health services, internalized stigma, social ostracism and more - collected from around the world. Editor(s): Liamputtong, Pranee. Num Pages: 314 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JMH; MBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 158 x 23. Weight in Grams: 634.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Number of pages
- 275
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400758865
- ISBN
- 9789400758865
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 151.19
€ 151.19
Hardcover. This edited collection examines the current challenges faced by the Children's Court and identifies area for reform. It explores the welfare and justice approaches to resolving care and protection and youth offending cases. Editor(s): Borowski, Allan; Sheehan, Rosemary. Series: Children's Well-being: Indicators and Research. Num Pages: 216 pages, 24 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: JKSN; JKV; JMB; JNK; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400759275
- ISBN
- 9789400759275
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 181.14
€ 181.14
Hardcover. This book explores the main methods, models and approaches of food consumer science applied to six countries of the Western Balkans, illustrating each with case studies. Includes research conducted 2008 to 2011 for the Focus-BALKANS project. Editor(s): Barjolle, Dominique; Gorton, Matthew; Milosevic Dordevic, Jasna; Stojanovic, Zaklina. Num Pages: 160 pages, 26 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: JHBC; JMS; KJS; KJSM; MBN; RNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400759459
- ISBN
- 9789400759459
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.71
€ 118.71
Hardcover. This expansive book uses neuroscience to examine consciousness from the inside, as we experience it, and from the outside as we encounter it in science. Covers pain, visual, auditory and olfactory experience, higher-order theories of consciousness and more. Editor(s): Brown, Richard. Series: Studies in Brain and Mind. Num Pages: 464 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPM; JMT; MJN; PSAN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 244 x 23. Weight in Grams: 786.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Number of pages
- 330
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400760004
- ISBN
- 9789400760004
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.73
€ 122.73
Hardcover. This book reviews the tremendous progress of the past 15 years in the causal analysis of non-experimental data, also known as observational data, and shows how to use state-of-the-art methods for causal analysis in basic and applied empirical scholarship. Editor(s): Morgan, Stephen L. Series: Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research. Num Pages: 424 pages, 63 black & white illustrations, 100 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: JHBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 262 x 180 x 35. Weight in Grams: 962.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Number of pages
- 450
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400760936
- ISBN
- 9789400760936
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 184.06
€ 184.06
Hardcover. This volume details how interactive governance theory and the governability perspective contribute to the resolution of key fisheries problems, including overfishing, unemployment and poverty, food insecurity, and social injustice. Editor(s): Bavinck, Maarten; Chuenpagdee, Ratana; Jentoft, Svein; Kooiman, Jan. Series: MARE Publication Series. Num Pages: 398 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPA; KNAF; RBKF; RNKH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 704.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400761063
- ISBN
- 9789400761063
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 121.64
€ 121.64
Hardcover. Addressing questions at the core of education research, this book examines ways in which the institutional embeddedness and the social and ethnic composition of primary and secondary level students affect performance, skill formation, and behavioral outcomes. Editor(s): Windzio, Michael. Num Pages: 310 pages, 31 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: JMC; JNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 159 x 22. Weight in Grams: 616.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Number of pages
- 322
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400761186
- ISBN
- 9789400761186
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 120.20
€ 120.20
Hardcover. This book explores the generative mechanism behind today's rapid social change, and how this differs from late Modernity. Discusses whether an intensification of morphogenesis and a corresponding reduction in morphostasis best captures the process involved. Editor(s): Archer, Margaret S. Num Pages: 231 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 158 x 19. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400761278
- ISBN
- 9789400761278
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.36
€ 150.36
Hardcover. This book shows how applied demographic methods can help address public health issues, with examples from measuring the impact of aging on health care and health costs to cause-specific mortality and maternal health and more. Offers many resources and tools. Editor(s): Hoque, Nazrul; McGehee, Mary A.; Bradshaw, Benjamin S. Series: Applied Demography Series. Num Pages: 408 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBD; KCP; MBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 165 x 28. Weight in Grams: 752.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400761391
- ISBN
- 9789400761391
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 120.92
€ 120.92
Hardcover. When a natural hazard strikes a city, many people are vulnerable. This book explores what city-dwellers think and feel about the threats that they face. It brings to light the ways different cultures represent the natural hazards around them. Editor(s): Rossetto, Tiziana; UCL Library Services, Open Access Funding Team; Joffe, Helene; Adams, John. Series: Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research. Num Pages: 196 pages, biography. BIC Classification: J; RB; RNR; RP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 164 x 17. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400761834
- ISBN
- 9789400761834
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.54
€ 119.54
Hardcover. This book examines the use of sociological theory in medical or health sociology. It discusses major theoretical approaches and identifies new directions in theory that provide explanatory models of the social processes affecting health and disease today. Editor(s): Cockerham, William C. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; MBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 158 x 25. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Number of pages
- 275
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400761926
- ISBN
- 9789400761926
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 181.56
€ 181.56
Hardcover. This book explores transnational influences on local values and practices in Nordic educational systems, offering country cases that show how national discourses and regulation influence values, culture and practice, in competition with traditional values. Editor(s): Moos, Lejf. Series: Studies in Educational Leadership. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JNF; JNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 529.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400762251
- ISBN
- 9789400762251
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.61
€ 119.61
Hardcover. This book examines the complex relationship between engineering education and social justice. It presents a framework to make social justice more visible in engineering education and enhance scholarship in Engineering and Social Justice (ESJ). Editor(s): Lucena, Juan C. Series: Philosophy of Engineering and Technology. Num Pages: 296 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HP; JNA; TB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 160 x 22. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Number of pages
- 315
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400763494
- ISBN
- 9789400763494
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 120.00
€ 120.00
Hardcover. In this volume, an international panel of experts in the fields of medicine, law, ethics, anthropology, sociology, history, religion, and politics, thoroughly examine this violation of human rights and correct widely held medical misinformation. Editor(s): Milos, Marilyn Fayre; Denniston, George C. (University of Washington); Hodges, Frederick Mansfield. Num Pages: 337 pages, 19 black & white tables, 9 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: JFM; JHBT; JHMC; JPVH; MBDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400764064
- ISBN
- 9789400764064
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 183.09
€ 183.09
Hardcover. International Perspectives on Teacher Knowledge, Beliefs and Opportunities to Learn Editor(s): Blomeke, Sigrid; Hsieh, Feng-Jui; Kaiser, Gabriele; Schmidt, William H. Series: Advances in Mathematics Education. Num Pages: 601 pages, 132 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JNMT; JNU; YQM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 163 x 37. Weight in Grams: 1024.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Number of pages
- 604
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400764361
- ISBN
- 9789400764361
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.59
€ 122.59
Hardcover. This book examines organizational health intervention research. It provides insights into current approaches to intervention research in the field, and shows future directions and developments for health-oriented change in organizations. Editor(s): Jenny, Gregor J.; Bauer, Georg F. Num Pages: 357 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JMJ; MBNH9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 157 x 30. Weight in Grams: 668.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400764699
- ISBN
- 9789400764699
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 213.13
€ 213.13
Hardcover. Reflecting the increased use of English as lingua franca in today's university education, this volume maps the interplay and competition between English and other tongues in a learning community that in practice is not only bilingual but multilingual. Editor(s): Haberland, Hartmut; Preisler, Bent; Lonsmann, Dorte; Gehrke, Berit. Series: Multilingual Education. Num Pages: 265 pages, 7 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: CFDM; JNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 173 x 20. Weight in Grams: 548.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400764750
- ISBN
- 9789400764750
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.74
€ 119.74
Hardcover. This volume explores the burgeoning field of the meaning in life in the psychological sciences. Each chapter features leading scholars who describes current empirical findings, highlighting important issues and controversies. Editor(s): Hicks, Joshua; Routledge, Clay. Num Pages: 429 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JMAN; JMS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 163 x 29. Weight in Grams: 780.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Number of pages
- 370
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400765269
- ISBN
- 9789400765269
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 234.30
€ 234.30
Hardcover. This book gathers new theoretical and practical insights on play as a cultural activity. Covers settings such as preschool, school, home and leisure time, explores various social relationships and spans geographical and cultural environments. Editor(s): Schousboe, Ivy; Winther-Lindqvist, Ditte. Series: International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JMC; JNC; JNLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 161 x 20. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400765788
- ISBN
- 9789400765788
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 181.53
€ 181.53
Hardcover. The ubiquitous maximization principle opens up a systematic gateway to the pleasures and pains of contemporary life. Using happiness as a reference point, this book explores the philosophical and empirical limits of the maximization rule. Editor(s): Delhey, Jan; Brockmann, Hilke. Series: Happiness Studies Book Series. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JMAN; KCBM; PSVP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 164 x 18. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789400766082
- ISBN
- 9789400766082
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.38
€ 119.38