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The Competitive Strength Of European Japanese And U.s. Suppliers On Asean Markets

The Competitive Strength Of European Japanese And U.s. Suppliers On Asean Markets

Originally published in 1987. This study evaluates micro- and macroeconomic determinants for the export performance of European suppliers to the markets of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). By comparing marketing strategies and the respective economic environment of suppliers from ElHope Japan and the U S - the major exporter | The Competitive Strength Of European Japanese And U. s. Suppliers On Asean Markets

GBP 125.00
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Children and Families in the Social Environment Modern Applications of Social Work

Children and Families in the Social Environment Modern Applications of Social Work

The first edition of this volume successfully applied Bronfenbrenner's micro-systems taxonomy to childrearing and family life. Emphasizing how forces in the environment influence children's behavior Garbarino has staked out an intermediate position between the psychoanalytic and the systems approach to human development. Taking cognizance of new research and of changes in American society Garbarino has once again carefully analyzed the importance of children's social relationships. For this wholly revised second edition he has incorporated a greater emphasis on ethnic cultural and racial issues. | Children and Families in the Social Environment Modern Applications of Social Work

GBP 145.00
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The Firm and Territory An Organizational Perspective

The Firm and Territory An Organizational Perspective

This book investigates the relationship between the firm and the territory emphasizing the micro-organizational dimension and the interactions between actors at territorial levels. First the book examines the particular features of the firm considering three key factors - structural design power configuration and organizational culture – and the characteristics of the surrounding territory as a specific spatial ecosystem with its own institutions agents history and objectives. Second it analyses organizational tenets at the micro- and meso levels with a view to explaining various relational models and their implications at the level of the firm and the territory. Although previous studies have focused on the territory as a geographical space in which firms procure resources and promote development this book presents an innovative approach and makes a key contribution to the literature by dealing with the firm and the territory from an organizational perspective. The relationship is analysed as bidirectional: a key question concerns how the territory can impact the organizational dimension of the firm and how the firm can characterize the territory. This will be considered in connection with various effects. The positive effects of the relationship with the territory are investigated in terms of territorial identity territorial resilience and territorial sustainability. The negative effects include the role of criminal networks rooted in the territory with firms acting as key agents. | The Firm and Territory An Organizational Perspective

GBP 120.00
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Principles of Economics in Context

Principles of Economics in Context

The study of economics should not be highly abstract but closely related to real-world events. Principles of Economics in Context addresses this challenge laying out the principles of micro-and macroeconomics in a manner that is thorough up to date and relevant to students keeping theoretical exposition close to experience. Emphasizing writing that is compelling clear and attractive to students it addresses such critical concerns as ecological sustainability distributional equity the quality of employment and the adequacy of living standards. Key features include: Clear explanation of basic concepts and analytical tools with Discussion Questions at the end of each section encouraging immediate review of what has been read and relating the material to the students’ own experience; Full complement of instructor and student support materials online including test banks and grading through Canvas; Key terms highlighted in boldface throughout the text and important ideas and definitions set off from the main text; A glossary at the end of the book containing all key terms their definitions and the number of the chapter(s) in which each was first used and defined. Updates for the second edition include: Expanded coverage of topics including inequality financialization and debt issues the changing nature of jobs and sustainable development; New material on wage discrimination by race and gender; an expanded section on labor markets and immigration; Updated discussion of fiscal policy to include more recent developments such as the Trump tax cuts; New material on behavioral economics public goods and climate change policy; a new section on “The Economics of Renewable Energy. ” This new affordable edition combines the just-released new editions of Microeconomics in Context and Macroeconomics in Context to provide an integrated full-year text covering all aspects of both micro-and macro-analysis and application with many up-to-date examples and extensive supporting Web resources for instructors and students. The companion website can be found at: http://www. bu. edu/eci/education-materials/textbooks/principles-of-economics-in-context/

GBP 110.00
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Comprehensive Land Consolidation in China

Comprehensive Land Consolidation in China

This book systematically investigates the strategy and practice of comprehensive land consolidation in China by assessing the objective of the program and its implementation. In the first part of the book the authors first review the development and historical policy of land consolidation and land rehabilitation with a focus on initiatives inaugurated in China since the 1980s. The following three chapters analyze different modes approaches and measures of land consolidation. The second part focuses on planning patterns designed and implemented in different territorial and geographical regions in China including urban and rural areas ecological function zones mining areas and coastal regions and islands. It also looks into the institutional basis supportive measures and mechanisms for the coordinated regional implementation of land consolidation at the macro medium and micro levels. Based on their findings the authors advance ten actionable policy suggestions on the promotion of China’s land consolidation. The title will appeal to scholars students and policy makers interested in economic management land planning and natural resources management.

GBP 130.00
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Telecommunications in Developing Countries The Challenge from Brazil

Telecommunications in Developing Countries The Challenge from Brazil

Telecommunications in Developing Countries (1990) stresses the importance of modern micro electronics-based telecommunications for developing economies in providing a basic communications infrastructure for economic and industrial development and the springboard for new information technology activities. Although progress in telecommunications has so far been concentrated in the most advanced regions of the world some developing countries can bypass older less efficient forms of telecommunications and go straight to microelectronic technology. This book is the first to examine the challenges and difficulties facing developing countries in this field. extending existing theories of technology transfer and diffusion Michael Hobday offers an explanation of the forces for change in the telecommunications industry. He then examines Brazil's experience in telecommunications from developing the technology and building up a modern infrastructure to controlling multinational suppliers of equipment. Dr Hobday explains why Brazil's efforts in this area have succeeded and offers lessons for other developing countries. | Telecommunications in Developing Countries The Challenge from Brazil

GBP 90.00
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Polish Immigrant Organizations in Germany The Transnational Opportunity Structure

Polish Immigrant Organizations in Germany The Transnational Opportunity Structure

Polish Immigrant Organizations in Germany examines the situation of Polish immigrant organizations in Germany. Based on in-depth mixed-method research consisting of surveys case studies and interviews with immigrants representatives of institutions involved in the implementation of integration strategy and those responsible for Polish diaspora policy it develops the notion of the transnational opportunity structure which analyses the major factors shaping the situation of immigrant organizations. With attention to the characteristics of the migration process and the immigrant community the country of residence the country of origin and bilateral relations between the two countries—which are in turn moderated by both global factors and micro factors—this book offers a multi-faceted analysis of diverse processes of developing diaspora groups and their organizations. It will therefore appeal to scholars of sociology political science security studies and public policy with interests in migration and Diaspora studies as well as intra-European mobility. | Polish Immigrant Organizations in Germany The Transnational Opportunity Structure

GBP 130.00
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Demand and Supply

Demand and Supply

First published in 1971 Demand and Supply is an introduction to the economics of resource allocation often known as micro-economics. Ralph Turvey examines how the economy really works and does not just give the economists’ textbook version which oversimplifies technology and exaggerates the importance of prices in adjusting supply and demand. Instead of offering theoretical diagrams and imaginary examples he refrains from expounding those ideas that cannot be simply demonstrated or applied. But he includes sections on retail margins urban land values and the value of time – topics rarely dealt with in beginner’s books. Some examples of the examples are: university teachers’ pay; cotton spinning costs; pricing of tin cans; demand for farm tractors; newspaper economics; competition in the bus industry. This is the kind of economics used in practice and rests on down to earth fact finding. This book will be useful for both general readers and A- level and first year university students.

GBP 89.99
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Automotive Technician Training: Practical Worksheets Level 2

Automotive Technician Training: Practical Worksheets Level 2

Automotive practical worksheets and assessments for students at Level 2 This Level 2 Student Worksheets book contains tasks that help you develop practical skills and prepare you for assessment. The tasks also reinforce the automotive theory that you will learn online and in the classroom. Each worksheet covers individual topics in a step-by-step manner detailing how to carry out all of the most important tasks contained within the syllabus. Alongside each of these worksheets is a job card that can be filled in and used as evidence towards your qualification. Endorsed by the Institute of the Motor Industry for all of their Level 2 automotive courses. Step-by-step guides to the practical tasks required at all Level 2 qualifications. Job sheets for students to complete and feedback sheets for assessors to complete. | Automotive Technician Training: Practical Worksheets Level 2

GBP 175.00
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Professional Manga Digital Storytelling with Manga Studio EX

Professional Manga Digital Storytelling with Manga Studio EX

Combine high-end manga storytelling theory and advice with the tools for digital creation in Manga Studio guided by expert professional manga-ka. You'll discover manga storytelling techniques from speed lines to technology from toning to big sound effects. Steve Horton and Jeong Mo Yang then show you how best to accomplish these techniques using the leading manga art creation program Manga Studio EX. Every ounce of theory is backed up with step-by-step manga illustrations and Manga Studio screenshots that show how these illustrations were created. See the techniques in action in The Other Side of the Tracks a new manga short story in the book centerfold which demonstrates at least one example from every technique described. You can also follow the continuing story as a webmanga available at comicspace. com. And there's more! The downloadable resources include trial version of Manga Studio EX along with high-resolution image files from the book. Smith Micro has also included a coupon for $100 off the full version of Manga Studio EX. | Professional Manga Digital Storytelling with Manga Studio EX

GBP 175.00
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Green Consumption in China Policy and Practice

Green Consumption in China Policy and Practice

Based on theories discussion policy analysis and case studies this title examines green consumption in China from both the macro level of policy evolution and the micro level of community participation and implementation. Drawing on the theories of sustainable development ecological philosophy environmental economics consumer psychology and behavior and community participation this book approaches the issues of green consumption in China from the legislative and administrative aspects and economic and information means. In looking into the cases of Shenzhen and Beijing the book unravels the implementation and development of green consumption at the community level in terms of community participation and people’s awareness of the issue. Combining global experiences and local empirical studies it discusses the concepts evolution and influencing factors of green consumption. It focuses on China's policy and practice as well as the institutional hindrance and policy suggestions for further progress. This book will appeal to researchers professionals and policymakers interested in sustainable development green economy environmental economics and sustainable consumption policy in China. | Green Consumption in China Policy and Practice

GBP 130.00
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Spirited Histories Technologies Media and Trauma in Paranormal Chile

Spirited Histories Technologies Media and Trauma in Paranormal Chile

Spirited Histories combines ethnography with critical theory to provide a sophisticated exploration of the intersection of haunting and the paranormal with technology media and history. Retrieving the past in places of trauma and death can take on many facets. One of these is an attention to hauntings ghosts and absences that go with the collective experience of loss and disappearance. People memorialize the dead and their stories in myriad ways. But what about the untold stories or the forgotten unnamed? This book explores the ways groups of Chilean paranormal investigators and ghost tour operators produce alternate histories using paranormal machinery rather than simply theatricalizing pain. It offers a look at technologies machines and apparatuses – themselves imbued with a long history of supernatural and scientific expectations – and a social analysis of how certain groups of people marshal the voices of the dead to generate particular micro-histories. This fascinating volume will be of interest to a range of disciplines including anthropology sociology history religious studies and scholars of technology and new media. | Spirited Histories Technologies Media and Trauma in Paranormal Chile

GBP 130.00
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Non-profit Organizations and Co-production The Logics Shaping Professional and Citizen Collaboration

Non-profit Organizations and Co-production The Logics Shaping Professional and Citizen Collaboration

Non-profit Organizations and Co-production:The Logics Shaping Professional and Citizen Collaboration develops a novel framework for analyzing the practices of co-production between citizens and professionals in the non-profit sector. Analysing organizations in three contexts (Sheffield England; Lyon France; and Montreal Quebec Canada) the book examines the international differences between non-profits evidenced by the way that they variously blend or assimilate the logics of the market state and community and how this shapes the motivations for and approaches to co-production at the micro level in each context. This book presents a major step forward in comparative non-profit studies and the co-production of public services. This book will be of interest to researchers policymakers practitioners and graduate/ postgraduate students in public administration and management particularly within Public & Nonprofit Management and Organization Studies. The book speaks directly to key contemporary debates in these fields including the nature of organizational hybridity public service innovation and approaches to service user involvement. | Non-profit Organizations and Co-production The Logics Shaping Professional and Citizen Collaboration

GBP 120.00
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Occupational Mobility in Contemporary India Beyond One Generation Into the Future

Occupational Mobility in Contemporary India Beyond One Generation Into the Future

This book analyses the magnitude of the relationship between family background and adult occupational and educational outcomes and provides a comprehensive view of intergenerational mobility in the context of religious and caste dynamics in India. Based on nationally representative data sets the book tracks educational and occupational mobility experiences of different socio-religious groups in contemporary India. Examining primary and secondary data to comprehend the macro picture and the micro details the book offers insights into intra-generational occupational mobility and the perceptions and expectations of Muslim households. The book presents a classification of jobs and mobility analysis that is built on solid foundations of stratification theories. Moreover it identifies data and presents evidence on the neighborhood effects in India. Offering an analysis of intergenerational advancement this book is aimed at researchers in the field of economics sociology labor studies development studies minority and subaltern studies as well as those interested in the socio-economic issues of disadvantaged socio-religious groups in India. | Occupational Mobility in Contemporary India Beyond One Generation Into the Future

GBP 130.00
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Affect Emotions and Power in Development Studies Theory and Practice

Affect Emotions and Power in Development Studies Theory and Practice

This book advances new research directions that explore the emotional and affective dimensions of development. Going beyond merely placing emotion and/or affect as the objects of study it examines ‘development’ in fresh ways through analysis of its affective dimensions. Affect and emotions are complicit in the structural conditions that sustain material and social inequalities and deprivations and critical to the potential for disruption and transformation. The chapters in this volume demonstrate how affect and emotions enrich understandings of or rethink power configurations in development while being attentive to forces of destabilization and creativity. They unravel the subtleties of power in development from micro to macro scales enhance the understanding of development as an inherently political process and highlight the possibilities for resistance and transformation. The book introduces new lines of enquiry to understand power in development theory and practice grounded in rich empirical research from across Asia and Australia and will be a valuable resource for students and researchers of anthropology third world studies development studies and development theory. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly. | Affect Emotions and Power in Development Studies Theory and Practice

GBP 130.00
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New Media Users in China II A Mediatization Perspective

New Media Users in China II A Mediatization Perspective

As the second volume of a two-volume set on new media users in China this book approaches the subject from a micro level. examining the mediatized existence and life of new media users in the digital age and the approaching age of artificial intelligence. To further explore the interaction between people and new media this volume focuses on the idea of the mediatized survival of new media users. By analyzing user behaviour and practice in mediatized time and space including selfies photo retouching memes online videos social media posts video conferences and WeChat red packets the author elucidates the mediatized self-expression embodied in these key phenomena and shows how reality and virtual life converge and interact. The final two chapters discuss drivers of new forms of mediatization surrounding data and cyborgs exploring the impact of algorithms on people and the outlook for human-machine relationships. This title will be a must-read for scholars students and media professionals interested in the topics of internet communication new media usage and media and society as a whole. | New Media Users in China II A Mediatization Perspective

GBP 130.00
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The History of the Jews in Early Modern Italy From the Renaissance to the Restoration

The History of the Jews in Early Modern Italy From the Renaissance to the Restoration

Challenging traditional historiographical approaches this book offers a new history of Italian Jews in the early modern age. The fortunes of the Jewish communities of Italy in their various aspects – demographic social economic cultural and religious – can only be understood if these communities are integrated into the picture of a broader European or better still global system of Jewish communities and populations; and that this history should be analyzed from within the dense web of relationships with the non-Jewish surroundings that enveloped the Italian communities. The book presents new approaches on such essential issues as ghettoization antisemitism the Inquisition the history of conversion and Jewish-Christian relations. It sheds light on the autonomous culture of the Jews in Italy focusing on case studies of intellectual and cultural life using a micro-historical perspective. This book was first published in Italy in 2014 by one of the leading scholars on Italian Jewish history. This book will appeal to students and scholars alike studying and researching Jewish history early modern Italy early modern Jewish and Italian culture and early modern society. | The History of the Jews in Early Modern Italy From the Renaissance to the Restoration

GBP 130.00
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Tax and Benefit Policies in the Enlarged Europe Assessing the Impact with Microsimulation Models

Tax and Benefit Policies in the Enlarged Europe Assessing the Impact with Microsimulation Models

This book offers the first systematic assessment of income redistribution in Eastern Europe within a comparative European perspective and it demonstrates the future research potential of microsimulation techniques in this region. The book's chapters are based on a unique instrument - EUROMOD: the European tax-benefit microsimulation model which has been enlarged to include Estonia Hungary Poland Slovenia and other countries. Tax-benefit models such as EUROMOD are computer programmes based on household micro-data which calculate each household's disposable income. Microsimulation can be used to evaluate the impact of current taxes and benefit policies on individuals' incomes and work incentives. In addition the model is designed to answer 'what if' questions about different policy reforms allowing the potential effects of proposed changes to be studied before their actual implementation. EUROMOD goes one step further in the process of helping policy design in allowing international comparisons between EU countries. This book offers an important demonstration of the effectiveness of tax-benefit models in presenting complex information in a concise and comprehensible way. It discusses what the barriers to their adoption to date have been and it looks at the possibilities EUROMOD offers to future policy-making in Europe. | Tax and Benefit Policies in the Enlarged Europe Assessing the Impact with Microsimulation Models

GBP 115.00
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Disaggregating Diasporas as a Force in Role Contestation Mobilising the Marginalised in Foreign Affairs

Disaggregating Diasporas as a Force in Role Contestation Mobilising the Marginalised in Foreign Affairs

Using a Role Theory lens this book investigates Tamil diaspora mass movements and interest groups as marginalised forces of domestic foreign policy influence. Until now Role Theory has not considered diaspora mass movements as collective action actors nor looked at how marginalised diasporas influence elite foreign policy decision-making. Matthew K. Godwin employs a comparative micro-level decision-making narrative that looks incisively at decisions faced by the British and Canadian governments in 2009 and 2013 towards the Sri Lankan civil war and its aftermath. Through qualitative elite-level interviews and content analysis of other primary source data Godwin convincingly argues that when diaspora interest group elites are leveraging the power of mass movements in concert with credible partisan advocates they can influence role contestation. However international institutional constraints on role behaviour may stymie their preferred role performance especially if states are indispensable to the institutions their behaviour may unravel. Ultimately Godwin concludes that some states can't behave badly even when they want to. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of lnternational Relations Foreign Policy Analysis Comparative Politics Migration Studies and to non-government organisations who seek to influence governments. | Disaggregating Diasporas as a Force in Role Contestation Mobilising the Marginalised in Foreign Affairs

GBP 130.00
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Islamic Microeconomics An Introduction

Islamic Microeconomics An Introduction

This book bridges the gap between Islamic and conventional (micro)economics by demonstrating how modern tools and theories of microeconomics can be applied to Islamic assumptions regarding economics and finance. In contrast to the tendency for Islamic economics and finance proponents to use qualitative and normative approaches based on idealistic assumptions this book demonstrates how one can instead construct analytical models of Islamic economics and finance and simply compare the implications with those predominant in today’s world. This book also offers extensive literature reviews demonstrating that for a long time the gap between Islamic and conventional economics and finance is not as wide as previously thought allowing those with an interest in both fields to participate more effectively and meaningfully in the ongoing discourse between the two fields. The authors conceptualize a general approach and apply it to basic consumer theory. More advanced microeconomic ideas are then discussed culminating in demonstrations of how contract theory can facilitate a deeper analysis and appreciation of Islamic financial securities. A wide spectrum of academic literature on both Islamic and conventional economics and finance is drawn upon to facilitate a better appreciation for both fields and to inspire future works comparing the two in a more objective manner. | Islamic Microeconomics An Introduction

GBP 130.00
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Translation and Big Details Part-Whole Thinking as Practice and Theory

Translation and Big Details Part-Whole Thinking as Practice and Theory

In the age of big data evidence keeps suggesting that small elusive and infrequent details make all the difference in our appreciation of humanistic texts—film fiction and philosophy. This book argues from a cross-disciplinary perspective that expertise in humanistic translation is precisely the capacity to capture those details that are bigger than they seem. In humanistic translation the expert handling of big details usually serves audiences and the original but mala fide translation also works the details for subtle manipulation and audience deception. A focus on textual detail is therefore characteristic of humanistic translators but also compatible with central claims of the cultural turn in translation studies. This book written by a scholar and teacher of literary essayistic and audiovisual translation endeavors to articulate a seemingly dual interest—on textual detail and cultural analysis—as a single one. It theorizes connections between micro and macro analysis between translation as detail and translation as culture thus hoping to build bridges between humanistic translators and translation scholars. It acknowledges tensions between practice and theory and proposes a way forward: practitioners and scholars share ways of thinking—varieties of part-whole thinking—that machines can never acquire. | Translation and Big Details Part-Whole Thinking as Practice and Theory

GBP 130.00
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Shaping Teaching Practice in Malaysia A System's View

Shaping Teaching Practice in Malaysia A System's View

What teachers do in the classroom is one of the most significant school-based factors in shaping student learning. Yet the classroom is often referred to as a black box because there's so little we know about what actually happens there. This book provides insights into the black box by describing and then comparing classroom practices in Malaysia’s national public school system and that of a unique subsystem situated within it. Through analysis of hundreds of hours of classroom video data as well as interviews this book goes on to identify and discuss the forces that shape teachers' classroom practices from across the ecological system. What emerged were nuanced insights into how tightly and loosely coupled forces within the centralized Malaysian national system shaped these teachers’ classroom practices which are illustrated in multiple case studies. Additionally this volume uncovers micro disruptions to some tightly coupled forces within the system that could begin to change teachers’ thinking about their classroom practice. These insights will be of interest to international and comparative education researchers education policymakers and education professionals as well as anyone who has ever asked the question Why do teachers do what they do in their classrooms? | Shaping Teaching Practice in Malaysia A System's View

GBP 130.00
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Ageing Austerity and Neoliberalism Lived Experiences of Older People in a De-Industrialised Town

Ageing Austerity and Neoliberalism Lived Experiences of Older People in a De-Industrialised Town

This book explores how neoliberalism and austerity have affected older people living within a deindustrialised town utilising a Foucauldian approach and an ethnographic methodology. It seeks to bridge the gap between high sociological theory and a research focus upon older people. The link between the micro (real people within a real place) and macro (abstract processes) is examined and a mid-range theory of change is innovatively developed to highlight how older people are having to negotiate national transformations at the everyday level. Key themes within this book include the recreation of human subjectivity antiwelfarism the stigmatisation and exclusion of the poor the fragmentation of the working class and nostalgia. Innovative terms such as ‘stigma-adaptation’ and ‘abnormal abnormality’ are included to help deepen our knowledge and understanding of the social sciences to highlight the injustices caused by current global processes and to ultimately inform change. This book will be of interest to scholars and students across the social sciences particularly those studying inequalities in the modern world neoliberalism and the economy social theory ageing and older people and community studies and postgraduates who are seeking to undertake applied research. It would also be valuable for policymakers and service providers. | Ageing Austerity and Neoliberalism Lived Experiences of Older People in a De-Industrialised Town

GBP 130.00
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