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By: Samuel Southard

ISBN: 9780313264658
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 1991
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A burgeoning body of literature on death and dying is organized into a comprehensive, carefully outlined, annotated list in this volume, which cites more than 2200 books, articles, chapters, monographs, and reports primarily concerned with the counseling and theological aspects of death and dying.


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By: Sabine Planka

ISBN: 9781793625885
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Death and Garden Narratives in Literature, Art and Film: Song of Death in Paradise analyzes the combination of two motifs, death and gardens, throughout various media and cultural contexts in order to show how the two subjects are intertwined and prevalent throughout the worlds cultures.


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By: Richard P. Taylor

ISBN: 9780874369397
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2000
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This cultural encyclopedia examines customs and beliefs relating to death and burial in clear, well written articles covering most major religious and cultural traditions from prehistoric to modern times.


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By: Yasmin Gunaratnam

ISBN: 9781474238267
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book considers the plight of the dying migrant as a situation that helps us to better understand some of the fundamental conditions of contemporary societies. The book aims to show how dislocated dying is very much a phenomena of our time, articulating foundational conundrums of community, belonging and citizenship.


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By: Ruth McManus

ISBN: 9780230224513
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Attitudes towards death are shaped by our social worlds. This book explores how beliefs, practices and representations of dying and death continue to evolve and adapt in response to changing global societies. Introducing students to debates around grief, religion and life expectancy, this is a clear guide to a complex field for all sociologists.


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By: Adele Stan

ISBN: 9780385313841
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 1995
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
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The debate continues over what constitutes sexual correctness. Should we learn to live with date rape, pornography and sexual harrassment as simple facts of life Or are these mere claims borne out of a victim mentality Either way, women are in danger of losing their sexual freedom.


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By: Joan Jensen

ISBN: 9780313226946
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 1983
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Waqas M Awan

ISBN: 9781839992148
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2024
Publisher: Anthem Press
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By: Waqas M Awan

ISBN: 9781839992131
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2024
Publisher: Anthem Press
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By: Earl Wysong

ISBN: 9781442266452
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Deep Inequality looks behind statistics to understand not only wealth inequality but also rising disparities in other elements of lifefrom education to the media. The authors argue that inequality has become so pervasive that it is the new normal. This book explains the changing landscape of inequality to help readers see society in a new way.


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By: Shawn E. Klein

ISBN: 9781498511575
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book examines influential conceptions of sport and then analyses the interplay of challenging borderline cases with the standard definitions of sport. It is meant to inspire more thought and debate on just what sport is, how it relates to other activities and human endeavors, and what we can learn about ourselves by studying sport.


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By: Shawn E. Klein

ISBN: 9781498511599
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book examines influential conceptions of sport and then analyses the interplay of challenging borderline cases with the standard definitions of sport. It is meant to inspire more thought and debate on just what sport is, how it relates to other activities and human endeavors, and what we can learn about ourselves by studying sport.


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By: Nancy L. Cohen

ISBN: 9781619020689
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2012
UK Publication Date: 11th September 2012
Publisher: Counterpoint
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By: Francis Green

ISBN: 9780691134413
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2007
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Using an interdisciplinary approach, this work shows how aspects of job quality are related, and how changes in the quality of work life stem from technological change and transformations in the politico-economic environment. This book concludes by discussing what individuals, firms, unions, and governments can do to counter declining job quality.


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By: J. Selwyn Hollingsworth

ISBN: 9780313287442
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 1996
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Included are chapters that give theoretical explanations of social change, discuss the social and ecological effects of high population density, and show the change in population composition, fertility and mortality rates, and migration patterns.


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By: Ann Rappaport

ISBN: 9780275942489
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 1993
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This contributed volume provides a broad-based and in-depth exploration of demographic and related issues facing American society as it anticipates the retirement of the so-called baby boomers.


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By: Louis Pol

ISBN: 9781567200140
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 1997
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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With sections on sources of health care data, the calculation of demographic rates, the demographic resources available and up-to-date statistics on current demographic trends, their book becomes not only a unique resource for professionals, but also a useful text and reference for their colleagues in the academic community.


(Hardback)

By: Jamshid Momeni

ISBN: 9780313239755
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 1984
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: William Brass

ISBN: 9780691622590
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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This treatise on the demography of sub-Saharan Africa contains materials on age and sex composition, fertility, and mortality. Sets of demographic data are emerging that provide the completeness and specificity required for critical evaluation and analysis. The main body of the work consists of case studies on the Republic of the Congo, French-spea


(Hardback)

By: William Brass

ISBN: 9780691649368
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Robert I. Lerman

ISBN: 9781440835896
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Leading experts demystify demographics and show how population changes affect everything from government policy to business opportunities to educational standards.

Demographics, as Peter Drucker famously pointed out, is one of the seven sources of entrepreneurial opportunity.


(Hardback)

By: Robert I. Lerman

ISBN: 9780313352195
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Leading experts demystify demographics and show how population changes affect everything from government policy to business opportunities to educational standards.

Demographics, as Peter Drucker famously pointed out, is one of the seven sources of entrepreneurial opportunity.


(Hardback)

By: Robert Obudho

ISBN: 9780313244209
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 1985
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)

By: Elza I. Edwards

ISBN: 9780837168487
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 1973
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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