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Generous Betrayal(2001) WIKAN, UNNIMany immigrants in Europe find marginalization, discrimination, and increasing segregation. In this book, the author shows how an excessive respect for "their culture" has been part of the problem. Culture has become a concept of race, sustaining ethnic iVezava: Trda129,71 € -
Cop Knowledge(2000) WILSON, CHRISTOPHER P.In this text, Christopher Wilson examines narratives of police power in crime news, popular fiction and film, showing how they reflect and influence the real strategies of law enforcement on the beat, in the squad room and in urban politics.Vezava: Trda129,71 €
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Themes in the Economics of Aging(2001)In the past few years, the economic ramifications of ageing have garnered close attention from a group of NBER researchers led by the author. In this volume, Wise and his collaborators continue to analyze a nexus of age-related issues.Vezava: Trda154,03 €
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Analyses in the Economics of Aging(2005)Carefully compiled and containing some of the most cutting-edge research and analysis available, this volume should be of interest to any specialist or policymaker concerned with ongoing changes in savings and retirement behaviors.Vezava: Trda168,62 €
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Studies in the Economics of Aging(1994)This volume examines relations between elderly population growth and government spending. Chapters cover: life expectancy and health; saving for retirement and the role of 401(k) plans; demographic transition and housing values; and ageing in Germany andVezava: Trda157,27 €
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Explorations in the Economics of Aging(2011)Yields findings on how economic decisions by households and policy choices by governments will influence the effects of demographic shift. This title explores topics such as the implications of differential mortality rates by income on Social Security, thVezava: Trda178,35 €
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Inquiries in the Economics of Aging(1998)A collection of papers addressing issues that affect the well-being of individuals as they age and a society that is composed increasingly of older people. Questions fundamental to public policy are considered, as well as theories that lay new groundworkVezava: Trda108,50 €
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Romanticism and the Question of the Stranger(2013) SIMPSON, DAVIDIn our post-9/11 world, the figure of the stranger - the foreigner, the enemy, the unknown visitor - carries a particular urgency, and the force of language used to describe those who are different has become strong. This title reveals the history of encoVezava: Trda68,43 €
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Community Service and Social Responsibility in Youth(1997) YOUNISS, JAMES,YATES, MIRANDAAn analysis of the beneficial effects of community service on the political and moral identity of adolescents. It uses a case study from a predominantly black, urban high school in Washington, D.C., building on the work of Erik Erikson on the social and hVezava: Trda129,71 €
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Winckelmann and the Vatican's First Profane Museum(2011) RUPRECHT, L.Offers the first-ever historical descriptions of the foundation of the "Museo Profano" inside the Vatican in 1761. Using the palace records from the Vatican's Secret Archives, Ruprecht demonstrates that the Vatican museum was the brainchild of J.J. WinckeVezava: Trda131,32 €
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Cities in Contemporary Africa(2011)This book explains how and why cities on the African continent have grown at such a rapid pace, how municipal authorities have tried to cope with this massive influx of people, and how long-time urban residents and newcomers interact, negotiate, and strugVezava: Mehka140,82 €
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Problem of Moral Demandingness(2009)How much can morality demand of well-off Westerners as a response to the plight of the poor and starving in the rest of the world? What does the answer tell us about the nature of morality? The cutting edge of this contemporary ethical debate is representVezava: Trda160,50 €
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Narrative Identity in English Language Teaching(2010) KIERNAN, P.Addressing both language teachers and identity researchers, this book underlines the importance of identity in ELT through an analysis of teacher stories told in interviews with the author. It illustrates a new multi-dimensional approach to exploring narrVezava: Trda131,32 €
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Communicating Europe(2019) FICKERS, ANDREAS,GRISET, PASCALSince the early years of telegraphy, modernity at large generated and has depended upon technologies of electrical/electronic communication and information circulation: from telephone, radio, and television to the internet.Vezava: Trda131,32 €
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Drugs and Empires(2007)Drugs and Empires introduces new research that re-evaluates the relationship between intoxicants and empires in the modern world. It re-examines controversies about such issues as the Asian opium trade or the sale of alcohol in Africa and addresses new arVezava: Trda140,82 €
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Social Work Malpractice and Liability(2003) REAMER, FREDERIC G.After introducing the concepts of negligence, malpractice and liability, this text turns to the subject of risk management. It describes a wide variety of problems from privacy to fraud and deception, and concludes with practical suggestions for social woVezava: Trda161,24 €
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Nietzsche(2026) BADIOU, ALAINThis book presents Badiou’s seminar on Nietzsche’s late works, which for the first time addresses what would become one of his central concepts: anti-philosophy and its adversarial yet intimate relationship with philosophy.Vezava: Trda48,47 €
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Death Without End(2026) HUGHES, THEODORE (ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF KOREAN LITERATURE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY)Theodore Hughes crosses borders to demonstrate how stories of dying and death—what he calls the thanatographic imagination—in North Korea, the US, and South Korea energize ideas about history, the present, and the future.Vezava: Mehka45,24 €
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Eyes of the Sky(2026) RAPONGAN, SYAMANSyaman Rapongan is a chronicler of his people, the Tao, an Indigenous community who live on Orchid Island near the island of Taiwan. In Eyes of the Sky, he invites readers to learn the ways of this oceanic world—and to learn to see their own worlds anew tVezava: Mehka35,55 €
