Demography and Health Issues, Christos H. Skiadas; Charilaos Skiadas
Автор: Don Mitchell Название: Mean Streets: Homelessness, Public Space, and the Limits of Capital ISBN: 0820356891 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820356891 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 89630.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The problem of homelessness in America underpins the definition of an American city: what it is, who it is for, what it does, and why it matters. And the problem of the American city is epitomized in public space. Mean Streets offers, in a single, sustained argument, a theory of the social and economic logic behind the historical development, evolution, and especially the persistence of homelessness in the contemporary American city. By updating and revisiting thirty years of research and thinking on this subject, Don Mitchell explores the conditions that produce and sustain homelessness and how its persistence relates to the way capital works in the urban built environment. He also addresses the historical and social origins that created the boundary between public and private. Consequently, he unpacks the structure, meaning, and governance of urban public space and its uses. Mitchell traces his argument through two sections: a broadly historical overview of how homelessness has been managed in public spaces, followed by an exploration of recent Supreme Court jurisprudence that expands our national discussion. Beyond the mere regulation of the homeless and the poor, homelessness has metastasized more recently, Mitchell argues, to become a general issue that affects all urbanites.
Автор: Saw Swee Hock Название: Population Policies and Programmes in Singapore, 2nd Edition ISBN: 9814762199 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789814762199 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 24990.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The second edition of Population Policies and Programmes in Singapore presents an up-to-date and comprehensive account of the government’s initiatives to influence the course of fertility, and hence the rate of population growth in the island-state of Singapore since the 1960s. The varied population issues and consequences associated with the prolonged below-replacement fertility are discussed in detail. The strength of the book lies in the author’s intimate familiarity with the subject acquired through some personal involvement in the formulation of population policies for the country.
Название: World Mortality Report 2015 ISBN: 9211515432 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789211515435 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 70230.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: World Mortality Report 2015 is a publication that provides an overview of the estimated and projected trends in mortality at the world level, for development groups and major areas; the analysis also focuses on country and regional data for selected mortality indicators.
Автор: Michael S. Barr Название: No Slack: The Financial Lives of Low-Income Americans ISBN: 0815733682 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780815733683 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 32340.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
The financial crisis exposed the potentially unsavory results of the interaction between low- and moderate income households and alternative and mainstream financial institutions. Many households were overleveraged or paid high costs for financial services, while others lacked access to useful financial products that can cushion against economic instability. The financial services system is not well designed to serve low- and moderate-income households, leaving them without financial slack: they did not have adequate breathing room for making the financial adjustments that would permit them to better meet their own needs. No Slack shows us why these families were the least prepared to handle the shock of the deep recession.
This pivotal analysis focuses on the Detroit metropolitan area's low- and moderate-income neighborhoods, which are similar to those of other Rust Belt communities. The Detroit Area Household Financial Services study--conducted at the height of the subprime lending boom--examines these households' decisionmaking processes, behaviors, and attitudes toward a full range of financial transactions.
No Slack reveals widespread problems in home mortgage lending, the common threads among people who file for bankruptcy, the reasons so many households are unbanked, and how behaviorally informed financial regulation can make the market work better. Drawing on his deep policy experience, Michael Barr advocates helping families seek financial stability in three primary ways: enhancing individuals' financial capability, using technology to promote access to financial products and services that meet their needs, and establishing strong protections for consumers.
Автор: United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) Название: World Population Ageing 2015 Highlights ISBN: 9211515386 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789211515381 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 15710.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Accurate, consistent and timely data on global trends in population age structure are critical for assessing current and future needs with respect to population ageing and for setting policy priorities to promote the well-being of the growing number and share of older persons in the population. This publication presents the highlights of the World Population Ageing 2015 report, which summarizes the trends in population ageing drawn from the latest United Nations estimates and projections of population by age and sex of 233 countries or areas, as published in World Population Prospects: the 2015 Revision. The present Highlights focuses in particular on the period from 2015 to 2030, the implementation period identified for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and discusses some implications of trends in the number and share of older people for development planning.
Автор: Jean-Pierre Williot Название: Du feu originel aux nouvelles cuissons: Pratiques, techniques, roles sociaux ISBN: 2875742280 ISBN-13(EAN): 9782875742285 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 55310.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Les techniques de cuisson ont suscite de nombreuses etudes scientifiques relevant de la nutrition comme de la chimie alimentaire. Les cuissons et les roles sociaux qui y sont associes constituent un sujet d’etude privilegie des anthropologues, des ethnologues et des sociologues. L’archeologie trouve dans la fouille des foyers de combustion une ressource majeure pour mieux comprendre les dispositifs d’habitat et de vie. La litterature fournit de multiples evocations du feu, de sa chaleur et de la preparation des repas. Les ustensiles et les methodes employees pour faire cuire les aliments n’ont pas echappe aux peintres. En depit de toutes ces manifestations d’interet, le sujet immense que constituent les operations de cuisson des nourritures au fil des siecles et dans toutes les aires culturelles avait assez peu retenu l’attention des historiens. Cet ouvrage introduit une reflexion qui appelle a se saisir pleinement d’un theme fondamental de l’histoire et des cultures de l’alimentation. Les communications rassemblees ici empruntent a plusieurs disciplines (histoire, archeologie, anthropologie), couvrent des aires geographiques diverses (Proche Orient, Russie, Mediterranee occidentale et orientale, Inde, Maghreb, Anatolie, Mongolie, Sud Est de l’Asie, Australie, Europe) et la tres longue duree, des dispositifs neolithiques aux innovations culinaires contemporaines. Les questions abordees interessent les aspects economiques et techniques, les choix energetiques et la transmission des apprentissages culinaires, comme les enjeux culturels et genres qui s’organisent autour d’un feu, d’un appareil, d’un recipient et en fin de compte des repas.
Автор: Besina, Daniel Название: Variability in perspectives on current issues in social sciences ISBN: 363180282X ISBN-13(EAN): 9783631802823 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 36210.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Social and human sciences are currently in a special position. On the one hand, they are subject to frequent doubts and mistrust while on the other hand, there is a view that the 21st century will be a century of social and human sciences, addressing their importance in solving key cultural and social issues of humanity.
In general, however, we can observe a decreasing interest in human and social sciences. The authors of the book believe that the rejection of the importance of human sciences is based on a fundamental misconception of facts. Society's education and culture is a prerequisite for the economic level of each country. Innovation is not only a matter of technical importance; it is equally important to understand human cultural behaviour in the broadest possible context.
This book presents studies in selected topics from social, human and historical sciences that demonstrate the relevance of the research in the area under consideration. The contributors to this book are researchers in the departments of Archaeology, Ethnology and Folklore, History, Culture and Tourism Management of Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra.
Название: World Mortality Report 2015 Highlights ISBN: 9211515483 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789211515480 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 30490.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: World Mortality Report 2015 Highlights is a publication that provides an overview of the estimated and projected trends in mortality at the world level, for development groups and major areas; the analysis also focuses on country and regional data for selected mortality indicators. In addition to examining the summary indicator of life expectancy at birth, the report analyzes levels and trends in mortality for key age groups in childhood and provides a snapshot of adult and “old age” mortality levels. It also examines the socio-economic determinants of child hood mortality at the aggregate level across countries, and on disparities within countries in 50 low-and middle-income (LMIC) countries based on Demographic and Health Surveys data. The primary audience of this report are Member states. The publication is also useful for population scientists.
Автор: Sara Smith Название: Intimate Geopolitics: Love, Territory, and the Future on India`s Northern Threshold ISBN: 0813598575 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813598574 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 125400.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Winner of the 2021 Julian Minghi Distinguished Book Award from the American Association of Geographers?2021 Foreword Indies Finalist - Politics and Social SciencesIntimate Geopolitics begins with a love story set in the Himalayan region of Ladakh, in India’s Jammu and Kashmir State, but this is also a story about territory, and the ways that love, marriage, and young people are caught up in contemporary global processes. In Ladakh, children grow up to adopt a religious identity in part to be counted in the census, and to vote in elections. Religion, population, and voting blocs are implicitly tied to territorial sovereignty and marriage across religious boundaries becomes a geopolitical problem in an area that seeks to define insiders and outsiders in relation to borders and national identity. This book populates territory, a conventionally abstract rendering of space, with the stories of those who live through territorial struggle at marriage and birth ceremonies, in the kitchen and in the bazaar, in heartbreak and in joy. Intimate Geopolitics argues for the incorporation of the role of time–temporality–into our understanding of territory.
Автор: Nora Fisher-Onar, Susan C. Pearce, E. Fuat Keyman Название: Istanbul: Living with Difference in a Global City ISBN: 081358910X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813589107 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 125400.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Istanbul explores how to live with difference through the prism of an age-old, cutting-edge city whose people have long confronted the challenge of sharing space with the Other. Located at the intersection of trade networks connecting Europe, Asia, and Africa, Istanbul is western and eastern, northern and southern, religious and secular. Heir of ancient empires, Istanbul is the premier city of a proud nation-state even as it has become a global city of multinational corporations, NGOs, and capital flows. Rather than exploring Istanbul as one place at one time, the contributors to this volume focus on the city’s experience of migration and globalization over the last two centuries. Asking what Istanbul teaches us about living with people whose hopes jostle with one’s own, contributors explore the rise, collapse, and fragile rebirth of cosmopolitan conviviality in a once and future world city. The result is a cogent, interdisciplinary exchange about an urban space that is microcosmic of dilemmas of diversity across time and space.
Автор: Scott Terry Anne Название: Seattle Sports ISBN: 1682261352 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781682261354 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 28650.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: From national championships to intra-communal play and the elimination of racial, ethnic, and gender barriers, the essays in Seattle Sports explore the vast and varied history of sports in this city where diversity and social progress are reflected in, and reinforced by, play.
Автор: Kemplen Tilda Название: From Roots to Roses ISBN: 0820339938 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820339931 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 20330.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: <p>Hailed in her native Campbell County, Tennessee, as “the Mother Teresa of the coal country,” Tilda Kemplen was a teacher, activist, and founder and executive director of Mountain Communities Child Care and Development Centers (MCCCDC). In recognition of her work on behalf of impoverished children and families in central Appalachia, Kemplen was presented in 1980 with the American Institute for Public Service’s Jefferson Award for Outstanding Public Service Benefi ting Local Communities.</p><p>Kemplen movingly describes her struggles to educate herself, her years as a teacher in rural schools and mining camps, and the establishment of MCCCDC. The book is more, however, than a catalog of Kemplen’s accomplishments; it is a testament to the personal qualities that fueled them. Kemplen’s straightforward observations on her life and work offer unique insight into a range of issues related to Appalachian and Native American life and culture.</p>
Казахстан, 010000 г. Астана, проспект Туран 43/5, НП2 (офис 2) ТОО "Логобук" Тел:+7 707 857-29-98 ,+7(7172) 65-23-70 www.logobook.kz
