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By: Albert J. Ammerman

ISBN: 9780691612133
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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This book explores the shift from hunting and gathering to agriculture as a way of life and the implications of this neolithic transition for the genetic structure of European populations. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books fro


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By: Albert J. Ammerman

ISBN: 9780691640068
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Elizabth Mulroy

ISBN: 9780865690387
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 1995
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Mulroy examines how demographically diverse single mothers (in terms of race, class, marital status, urban or suburban location, educational level, and employment status) experience dual roles as sole family breadwinner and sole resident parent in the 1990s environment of scarce resources.


(Paperback)

By: Elizabth Mulroy

ISBN: 9780865690394
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 1995
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Mulroy examines how demographically diverse single mothers (in terms of race, class, marital status, urban or suburban location, educational level, and employment status) experience dual roles as sole family breadwinner and sole resident parent in the 1990s environment of scarce resources.


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By: James B. Wood

ISBN: 9780691616032
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Reconstructing the collective experience of an entire provincial nobility over a period of more than two centuries, James Wood finds current theories about the early modernFrench nobility inadequate. Concentrating on socio-economic structures and changes, he analyzes the composition and way of life of all the nobles--poor and prosperous, obscure an


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By: Juliet B. Schor

ISBN: 9780465054343
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 1993
Publisher: Basic Books
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This pathbreaking book documents for the first time the unanticipated decline in leisure both at work and in the home over the last twenty years and explains why Americans enjoy less leisure today than at any other time since the end of World War II.


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By: John L. Campbell

ISBN: 9780691163253
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: John L. Campbell

ISBN: 9780691163260
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Professor John Eekelaar

ISBN: 9781901362220
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 1997
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Study showing that parenthood, rather than marriage, is the mechanism through which moral principles are converted into legal and social obligations.


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By: Professor John Eekelaar

ISBN: 9781901362237
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 1997
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Study showing that parenthood, rather than marriage, is the mechanism through which moral principles are converted into legal and social obligations.


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By: Beverly Engel

ISBN: 9780385489805
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 1998
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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Taking a clear-eyed look at both the positives and the pitfalls of parenthood, this book helps readers feel confident about their decision to have or have not.


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By: Jennifer Knauss

ISBN: 9780275926922
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 1987
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This sociopolitical study shows why patriarchy has been the dominant pattern in Algeria, in spite of colonialism, revolutionary war, and the implementation of state socialism after independence.


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By: Dr. Robert C. Bishop

ISBN: 9780826489531
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Provides an introduction to major philosophical concepts, issues and debates raised by the social sciences. This book examines key conceptual and methodological questions and illustrates how they shape the practice of research, the interpretation of findings and theory formulation in such disciplines as economics, political science and psychology.


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By: Wolfgang Mieder

ISBN: 9780313334641
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Few folklore figures are as famous, enigmatic, and influential as the Pied Piper, the notorious catcher of rats and children. Written for students and general readers, this book surveys the origin and history of the Pied Piper legend and discusses its significance in literature, art, film, popular culture, and political criticism.


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By: Martin Sicker

ISBN: 9781567205664
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2002
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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When Congress enacted Social Secuirty in 1935, with the age of retirement set at age 65, average life expectancy was 62 years. Since the enactment of Medicare, life expectancy has risen to age 76 today and may be expected to increase further in the decades to come.


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By: Sheldon Anderson

ISBN: 9781498517959
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This study examines the role of modern sports in constructing national identities and the way leaders have exploited sports to achieve domestic and foreign policy goals. It focuses on the development of national sporting cultures in Great Britain and the United States, how the rest of Europe and the world adopted or rejected their games, and the impact of sports on politics.


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By: Sheldon Anderson

ISBN: 9781498517973
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This study examines the role of modern sports in constructing national identities and domestic and foreign policy. It focuses on the development of national sporting cultures in Great Britain and the United States, how the rest of Europe and the world adopted or rejected their games, and the impact of sports on politics.


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By: George Kent

ISBN: 9780275937232
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 1990
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Separate chapters address alternative designs of social systems, the idea of viewing children as a form of human capital, the problem of motivating the politically powerful to support child-survival work, rethinking the meaning of national development, and the challenge of planning for children's survival in concrete, site-specific situations.


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By: Lydia Bean

ISBN: 9780691173702
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Edith Martindale

ISBN: 9780837188966
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 1976
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Mechthild Hart

ISBN: 9780313317767
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2001
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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While society may applaud middle and upper class women who decide to stay home to raise their children, there exists a decided abhorrence for single mothers, welfare queens, who collect public funds but do not work.


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By: Luciano L'Abate

ISBN: 9780313359293
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This volume shows how we play at various ages and stages, and why play is so vital to our wellbeing.

Most American adults have little respect for play, for themselves or, increasingly, for their children.


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By: Mark Y. Herring

ISBN: 9780313317101
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2003
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Viviana A. Zelizer

ISBN: 9780691130637
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2007
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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In their personal lives, people consider it essential to separate economics and intimacy. Challenging this view, this book shows how we use economic activity to create, maintain, and renegotiate important ties, especially intimate ties, to others, thus opening a window on the inner workings of the economic processes that pervade our private lives.

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