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  • From Legacies to Futures

    The Lifeworlds of Older Adults in Europe

    by David Prendergast, A. Jamie Saris, Katja Seidel ...
    Series Book 11 - Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations
    Older adults want to exercise a sense of control over their relationships, structures and surroundings as they navigate the later life course. Through detailed ethnographic case studies, this book examines the dynamic lifeworlds of a hundred and seven community-dwelling older adults in Europe before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. It explores the importance of agency, the frictions between self ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Reinventing Europe

    The History of the European Union, 1945 to the Present

    Edited by Dr Brigitte Leucht, Dr Katja Seidel, Professor Laurent Warlouzet ...
    Reinventing Europe provides a thorough exploration of the history of the European Union, tracing its development from inception to recent times. It is the first book of its kind to contextualize the history of the EU within the wider frames of European and global history. The volume also breaks new ground by successfully highlighting the roles individuals, member states, transnational actors and ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

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  • The European Union: A Citizen's Guide

    by Chris Bickerton ...
    Series series Pelican Books
    The essential Pelican introduction to the European Union - its history, its politics, and its role todayFor most of us today, 'Europe' refers to the European Union. At the centre of a seemingly never-ending crisis, the EU remains a black box, closed to public understanding. Is it a state? An empire? Is Europe ruled by Germany or by European bureaucrats? Does a single European economy exist after ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • What about Me?

    the struggle for identity in a market-based society

    by Paul Verhaeghe ...
    Translated by Jane Hedley-Prole ...
    According to current thinking, anyone who fails to succeed must have something wrong with them. The pressure to achieve and be happy is taking a heavy toll, resulting in a warped view of the self, disorientation, and despair. People are lonelier than ever before. Today’s pay-for-performance mentality is turning institutions such as schools, universities, and hospitals into businesses — even ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • European Union Governance and Policy Making

    A Canadian Perspective

    Edited by Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly, Achim Hurrelmann, Amy Verdun ...
    European Union Governance and Policy Making introduces Canadian students to the politics of the EU. Divided into three parts, the collection examines its political system (history, theories, institutions), specific policies, and some of the challenges that the EU currently faces. Geared toward students who are learning about the EU in Canadian classrooms, the text integrates Canadian content and ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • Patriarchy Inc.

    What We Get Wrong About Gender Equality?and Why Men Still Win at Work

    by Cordelia Fine ...
    A razor-sharp and quick-witted analysis of why we need a new approach to fixing the gender inequality embedded in work.Work remains much as it always has: men occupy the vast majority of leadership roles and are overrepresented in positions from engineer to plumber. We see many jobs as “male” or “female,” with women dominating in healthcare and childcare professions. Pretending that this is the ... Read more

    $20.59 USD

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  • What Makes a Good School?

    by Chris Bonner, Jane Caro ...
    School choice has become one of the most agonizing issues of parenthood; while schools boast of unsurpassed facilities, genius teachers, and stellar academic achievement, parents wonder whether the marketing hype is actually true. Drawing on the authors' experiences and knowledge—one as a school principal and both as parents and advocates—this account compares public, Catholic, private, selective, ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How to write a thesis

    by Frealyn M. Navarro MA.,ED ...
    How to write a thesisWhat is a thesis statement?Every paper you write should have a main point, a main idea, or central message. The argument(s) you make in your paper should reflect this main idea. The sentence that captures your position on this main idea is what we call a thesis statement.How long does it need to be?A thesis statement focuses your ideas into one or two sentences. It should ... Read more

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  • Enabling the City

    Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Encounters in Research and Practice

    Edited by Josefine Fokdal, Olivia Bina, Prue Chiles, Liis Ojamäe, Katrin Paadam ...
    Enabling the City is a collaborative book that focuses on how interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary processes of knowledge production may contribute to urban transformation at a local level in the 21st century, striking a balance between enthusiastic support for such transformational potential and a cautious note regarding the persistent challenges to the ethos as well as the practice of inter ... Read more

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  • European Integration

    A Political History

    by Mark Gilbert ...
    Now in a fully revised and updated edition, this book remains the standard for concise histories of the European Union. Mark Gilbert offers a clear and balanced narrative of European integration since its inception to the present, set in the wider history of the post-war period. Gilbert concludes by considering the Union’s future in light of the mood of crisis that has taken hold in the EU in the ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • The quiet revolution

    aggrandising people power by family group conferences

    Edited by Rene Clarijs, Thijs Malmberg ...
    The all-encompassing welfare state that often suffocates citizens is having its final drink in the last-chance saloon. The introduction of the open market as a possible alternative has not been successful either. People are suppressed by the expanding 'system world', damaging their 'life world'. For that reason the welfare state does not need to be reformed, but replaced. The 'participation state' ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Framing

    The social art of influence

    by Mikael Klintman ...
    A smart, incisive toolkit for understanding how the framing of information influences the way we see the world.In today’s chaotic media landscape, working out who and what to believe is a daunting task. Lies and misinformation are only part of the problem – often the way a story is presented has just as much effect on us as what the story is.In Framing, sociologist Mikael Klintman ... ... Read more

    $21.59 USD