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Design and Use of Political Economy Indicators(2015)This edited volume seeks to provide a critical and technical look at international political economic indices (PEIs). It examines measurement issues, relates PEIs to economic theory, and suggests better measures than those currently used.Vezava: Mehka68,89 € -
Human Rights and Free Trade in Mexico(2008) ESTEVEZ, ARIADNAThis book demonstrates how human rights instruments and values have brought different movements together in the struggle against free trade. Estévez employs a specifically Latin American definition of human rights, thus challenging Eurocentric and WesternVezava: Mehka68,89 €
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Children’s Rights and International Development(2011)A timely examination of the plight of children and youths in developing nations. The chapters strike a balance between diagnostic analysis of the conditions of risk, with prescriptive ideas for approaching and intervening with marginalized children.Vezava: Mehka68,89 €
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State Economic Handbook 2009(2008) ANDERSON, P.,WATKINS, S.The State Economic Handbook is a new annual reference book profiling the economy, demography, political environment, and business climates for each of the 50 states. This information, gathered from a variety of sources and clearly presented in one volume,Vezava: Mehka68,89 €
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Ethnographies of Moral Reasoning(2009)Rather than measure the actions of their subjects by reference to either universal rationality or cultural relativism, contributors in this volume describe ordinary people as they value human relationships and reason through the commonplace contradictionsVezava: Mehka68,89 €
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Private Selves in Public Organizations(2015) DIAMOND, M.,ALLCORN, S.This book explores organizations as not simply rational, technological structures and networks for organizing people around tasks and services; it defines organizations as relational, experiential, and perceptual systems.Vezava: Mehka68,89 €
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Child Labor and Education in Latin America(2009) ORAZEM, P.,TZANNATOS, Z.This book examines the facts concerning child labour in Latin America, how it varies over time; across countries; and in comparison to other areas of the world. It aims to improve the understanding of root causes and consequences of persistent child labouVezava: Mehka68,89 €
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Contemporary Criminology and Criminal Justice Theory(2009) SKOLL, G.This book casts a critical eye on scholarship in the field of criminal justice, and offers some new orientations to help develop explanations for twenty-first century criminology and criminal justice studies.Vezava: Mehka68,89 €
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Islamic Court in Context(2009) STILES, E.Stiles utilizes in-depth ethnographic study of judicial reasoning and litigant activity in Islamic family court in Zanzibar, Tanzania to draw new and important conclusions on how people understand and use Islamic legal ideas in marital disputes.Vezava: Mehka114,83 €
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Economic Freedom and the American Dream(2010) SHAANAN, J.Shaanan challenges the conventional view that unrestricted economic freedom enhances our economic and political well being. He demonstrates that unrestricted economic freedom provides benefits but also inflicts a heavy toll on democracy, free markets and,Vezava: Mehka68,89 €
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Cape Verdean Women and Globalization(2009) CARTER, K.,AULETTE, J.This book employs critical ethnography and critical discourse analysis to explore what Cape Verdeans have to say about women's lives in the era of twenty-first century globalization. The authors investigate the economic and personal difficulties they faceVezava: Mehka68,89 €
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Arguing about Asylum(2002) STEINER, N.In addressing the asylum controversy in Europe today, much of the literature assumes that asylum policies result from the struggle between national interest arguing to tighten asylum and humanitarianism arguing to loosen it.Vezava: Mehka127,67 €
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Coming of Age in Times of Crisis(2015) HURTIG, J.Coming of Age in Times of Crisis is an anthropological study of the intersecting roles of gender and schooling in the lives of rural Venezuelan youth as they make the transition to adulthood during times of national political and economic crisis.Vezava: Mehka68,89 €
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International Citizens' Tribunals(2002) KLINGHOFFER, A.This groundbreaking study narrates the history of such 'citizens tribunals' from this first astonishing success to the mixed record of subsequent efforts-including tribunals on the Moscow show trials, the American war in Vietnam, Japanese sexual slavery,Vezava: Mehka68,89 €
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Beyond Organizational Change(2000) MORGAN, G.,STURDY, ANDREWIn this distinctive and valuable contribution to understanding organisational change, different levels and types of analysis are drawn on and connected. This is achieved through an exploration of the conditions, processes and outcomes of change in the fieVezava: Mehka127,67 €
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‘Green Revolution’ and Economic Development(1991) ALAUDDIN, M.,TISDELL, C.'Green-Revolution' technologies have transformed the countryside of many less developed countries. It provides an integrated view of the effects of 'Green Revolution' technologies on economic growth and returns, distribution of income and resources, stabiVezava: Mehka184,41 €
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Corporate Capitslism in Japan(2000) OKUMURA, H.Following his study of the conversion of prewar zaibatsu to postwar groups of enterprises, he worked on the roll of comprehensive trading companies in these groups, the main banking system and the permanent employment system.Vezava: Mehka127,67 €
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Convergence, Cohesion and Integration in the European Union(1995) LEONARDI, R.Convergence, Cohesion and Integration in the European Union tackles the fundamental theoretical and empirical issues underlying the process of European integration.Vezava: Mehka184,41 €
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Economic History of Twentieth-Century Latin America(2000)In the 1990s, 'protection', 'import substitution' and 'intervention' have become dirty words, part of the 'leyenda negra' of Latin America development in the postwar period.Vezava: Mehka127,67 €
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Sin, Organized Charity and the Poor Law in Victorian England(1995) HUMPHREYS, R.Politicians, social administrators, economists, biographers and historians have shared the belief that the Charity Organisation Society effectively rationalised relief to the Victorian poor and illustrated the advantages of caring voluntarism over impersoVezava: Mehka184,41 €
