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Violence is a serious public health problem. The number of violent deaths tells only part of the story and many more survive violence and are left with permanent physical and emotional scars. Violence also erodes communities by reducing productivity, decreasing property values, and disrupting…
Hardback – 2018-12-15
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Routledge International Handbooks
Climate change and environmental degradation have intensified the pressures on crucial resources such as food and water security and air quality. In this collection, academic researchers and practitioners who have lived and worked in countries as geographically and culturally diverse as Brazil,…
Hardback – 2018-12-09
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Contemporary Issues in Social Science
Paperback – 2018-12-01
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Critical Approaches to Health
This book considers the transformations of both accumulation processes and labour in the transition from a Fordist to a cognitive capitalism paradigm, with specific regard to Western economies. It outlines the advent, after industrial capitalism, of a new phase of the capitalist system in which the…
Hardback – 2018-12-01
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Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
This title was first published in 2002: In recent years there has been a trend among young people across Europe towards remaining longer in their parental homes. Many reasons have been suggested for this change in demographic patterns, but Teresa Jurado Guerrero’s study of France and Spain…
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This title was first published in 2001. A comparative sociological examination of artisans, exploring historical examples and theoretical references to the stratum. The book also investigates empirical case studies and analyzes the variegated careers of contemporary artisans.…
Paperback – 2018-12-01
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Routledge Revivals
Hardback – 2018-12-01
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Routledge Focus on Environmental Health
Providing a forum for exploration and analysis of the positive aspects of human vulnerability, this book addresses the implications and challenges for law of treating vulnerability as a condition that makes possible not only harm and suffering, but also connection, creativity, intimacy, and…
Hardback – 2018-12-01
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Here is the most comprehensive compilation and analytic classification of book-length publications on the immense upwelling of peace activism that occurred in the United States during the 1980’s. It is an indispensable reference addition to the bookshelf of all researchers of peace movements in the…
Paperback – 2018-11-30
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Researchers, practitioners, journalists and politicians increasingly recognise that foster care throughout the world is in a state of crisis. There are more and more children needing care and, as residential alternatives dry up, more of these children are being assigned to foster families. This…
Paperback – 2018-11-30
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