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But less work has been done in assessing the potential impact of aging in developing countries, where the majority of people may be working poor, not middle classas in the case of China.

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Aging within Transnational Families focuses on the often overlooked role of older people as active agents within transnational families.

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Alcohol has long played an important role in societies throughout history, and understanding its consumption can reveal a great deal about a culture. This book discusses a range of issues, including domestic versus recreational use, the history of alcoholism, and the relationship between alcohol and violence, religion, sexuality, and medicine.

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Alcohol has long played an important role in societies throughout history, and understanding its consumption can reveal a great deal about a culture. This book discusses a range of issues, including domestic versus recreational use, the history of alcoholism, and the relationship between alcohol and violence, religion, sexuality, and medicine.

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Considers how ethical traditions, such as libertarianism, critical theory, feminism, liberal egalitarianism, natural law, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and Confucianism define civil society. This book considers the extent to which these traditions agree or disagree on how to define civil society's limits and how to evaluate its benefits and harms.

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When I was in South Africa, the children in the public schools were singing, Jesus loves me. When I told them that we in America could no longer do that, one of the high school girls asked me two questions: Is that true and Why did you let it happen That is what I am wondering as I write this book. How did this happen in America Why did we allow it to happen What are we going to do about it

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Puts the power of demography back in the people's hands, collecting and explaining population data in easy-to-read, informative tables and graphs. From the new immigration to the ageing of America, this guide reveals how the ebb and flow of population shapes every public and private decision made.

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This expertly prepared policy issues handbook surveys the changing workplace and the failures of America's public health and education systems to prepare the future work force to compete at home and abroad.

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This book explains how the short-lived sexual revolution 50 years ago has led to the current evolution of our sexual values and behaviors and social standards among youth culture, examining topics such as communication technologies and sex, teen pregnancy, and divorce rates in the Bible Belt.

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Recognizing the family unit as the institution most central to any society, the volume covers a broad range of theoretical approaches which concentrate on relationships within the family and between the family and the wider community.

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The 1940s were a pivotal decade in the history of the American labor movement. American labor historians and labor studies specialists will find this collection fills a major void in the research on American labor.

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The 1940s were a pivotal decade in the history of the American labor movement. American labor historians and labor studies specialists will find this collection fills a major void in the research on American labor.

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An exploration of midlife within the framework of trends in the larger society. This text begins with a discussion of how demographic and social changes affect midlife, followed by chapters on work and retirement planning, the not-so-empty nest and ageing parents.

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While many studies suggest that Indian Untouchables do not entirely share the hierarchical values characteristic of the caste system, Michael Moffatt argues that the most striking feature of the lowest castes is their pervasive cultural consensus with those higher in the system. Though rural Untouchables question their particular position in the sy

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A distinguished legal scholar and civil rights activist employs a series of dramatic fables and dialogues to probe the foundations of America's racial attitudes and raise disturbing questions about the nature of our society.

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Over a ten-year period, intrepid cultural traveler Alex Heard has been sojourning among America's most intensely religious and political believers. Now he offers a funny and frightening look at millennial, utopian, and futuristic subcultures.

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A unique and transdisciplinary look at the young generations who lived in the Arab world at the time of the Arab springs. Featuring cases from Yemen, Algeria, Syria, Tunisia, Lebanon, Palestine and more, this book gives a voice to young men and women who are inventing the future of societies in the midst of radical change.

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A unique and transdisciplinary look at the young generations who lived in the Arab world at the time of the Arab springs. Featuring cases from Yemen, Algeria, Syria, Tunisia, Lebanon, Palestine and more, this book gives a voice to young men and women who are inventing the future of societies in the midst of radical change.

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