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Migration, Health and Survival
Edited by Frank Trovato
Publications in this field have, in general, been based predominantly on the experiences of individual national settings. Migration, Health and Survival offers a comparative approach, bringing together leading international scholars to p...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Transforming Gender and Family Relations
Åsa Lundqvist
This book is about how the activation of women into paid work was accomplished. It looks at the ideational grounds and the concrete measures that created the conditions for increasing the employment ratio of women, and thus also a farewe...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Heat, Greed and Human Need
Ian Gough
This book builds an essential bridge between climate change and social policy. Combining ethics and human need theory with political economy and climate science, it offers a long-term, interdisciplinary analysis of the prospects for sust...eBook:Find out more$29.56
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Power, Policy and Profit
Edited by Christina Garsten, Adrienne Sörbom
Power, Policy and Profit investigates the manifold ways in which corporate actors attempt to broadly influence political activities. With intensified globalization of markets, the restructuring of provisions of welfare services and accum...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Harmonisation of National Legal Systems
Antonios E. Platsas
This book offers a novel perspective on the leading concept of harmonisation, advocating the mutual benefits and practical utility of harmonised law. Theoretical models and factors for harmonisation are explored in detail. Antonios E. Pl...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Negotiating Cultural Rights
Edited by Lucky Belder, Helle Porsdam
The various reports on cultural rights by UN Special Rapporteur Faridah Shaheed provide a new universal standard on cultural rights with topics ranging from cultural diversity, cultural heritage, and the right to artistic freedom to the ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The World Bank and the Globalisation of Housing Finance
Liam Clegg
The World Bank remains one of the most prominent actors in the field of global development, and one of the foremost international organisations in contemporary global politics. Over its history, its lending for housing has mortgaged deve...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Global Climate Justice
Olivier Godard
In this thoughtful and original book, social scientist Olivier Godard considers the ways in which arguments of justice cling to international efforts to address global climate change. Proposals made by governments, experts and NGOs as we...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Liquid Nationalism and State Partitions in Europe
Stefano Bianchini
This timely book offers an in-depth exploration of state partitions and the history of nationalism in Europe from the Enlightenment onwards. Stefano Bianchini compares traditional national democratic development to the growing transnatio...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Neoliberal Capitalism and Precarious Work
Edited by Rob Lambert, Andrew Herod
Since the renaissance of market politics on a global scale, precarious work has become pervasive. Divided into two parts, the first section of this cross-disciplinary book analyses the different forms of precarious work that have arisen ...eBook:Find out more$48.76
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Law''s Regulatory Relevance?
Mark Findlay
Law’s Regulatory Relevance? theorises how the law should reposition itself in order to help rather than hinder new pathways of market power, by confronting the dominant neo-liberal economic model that values property through scarcity. Wi...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Digital Democracy in a Globalized World
Edited by Corien Prins, Colette Cuijpers, Peter L. Lindseth, Mônica Rosina
Whether within or beyond the confines of the state, digitalization continues to transform politics, society and democracy. Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have already considerably affected political systems and structu...eBook:Find out more$40.00