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Represents the work of a cross-section of specialists in labour economics, industrial relations specialists, and social scientists who are engaged in research on the transformation of work in Canada, the United States, and Great Britain.

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Advances in the social sciences have emerged through a variety of research methods: field-based research, laboratory and field experiments, and agent-based models. This title examines how different methods have promoted various theoretical developments related to collective action and the commons.

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Communities are facing increasing and contrasting problems, with high levels of unemployment or conflict arising from suburbanisation and the arrival of newcomers. This book provides a strategic framework for dealing with these issues, with a model for planning and practising rural community work.

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This volume brings together a group of renowned population specialists from the United Nations, the World Bank, the East-West Population Institute, and leading universities to explore the numerous interactions between levels of population growth and economic well-being in developing countries.

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Exhaustively updated, this second edition provides a current assessment of world population and the range of economic, social, and environmental issues it raises.

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This book covers a wide range of issues and controversies within the world of sports-including drug use, economics, ethics, ethnicity, gender, globalization, politics, race, sexuality, and technology-from both a U.S. and global perspective.

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This volume examines the influence of ethnicity, gender, and generation on our helath choices, focusing in particular on the choices of British Asian mothers: Asian women who are born and raised in Britain but are members of a globally dispersed ethnic group.

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Writing in the San/d details experiences and encounters with First People's ("Bushmen") living in the Kalahari Desert (Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa) (1995-2004), and a Khoi (1984) community in the eastern Cape, South Africa.

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This book provides a brief, to-the-point book that is grounded in ethnographic research, written expressly for use in medical anthropology coursesthat is, structured to highlight concepts and issues typically examined in such classes and to make overt the connections between ethnographic detail and big concepts.

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This book provides a brief, to-the-point book that is grounded in ethnographic research, written expressly for use in medical anthropology coursesthat is, structured to highlight concepts and issues typically examined in such classes and to make overt the connections between ethnographic detail and big concepts.

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This book is a one-man ethnography that seeks to understand life at the bottom of Japanese society through the personality of day laborer and street-philosopher Kimitsu Nishikawa. Through interviews with Kimitsu, Tom Gill analyzes life in the Yokohama slum district of Kotobukia district in which welfare has come to replace labor.

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This book is a one-man ethnography that seeks to understand life at the bottom of Japanese society through the personality of day laborer and street-philosopher Kimitsu Nishikawa. Through interviews with Kimitsu, Tom Gill analyzes life in the Yokohama slum district of Kotobukia district in which welfare has come to replace labor.

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Against a backdrop of dramatic social, economic and environmental change, this book tells the story of how a generation of young people have strived to remain connected to the people and places that matter to them. It transcends the assumption that rural places are one of deficit and disadvantage to focus on the ways in which powerful narratives of belonging are conceptualised.

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Explores Persian tribespeople's changing ethics, feelings and lifeways in tough times.

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This book examines emerging automated technologies and systems and the increasingly prominent roles that each plays in our lives and our imagined futures.