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Table for one: A critical reading of singlehood, gender and time is the first book to consider the profound relationship between singlehood and time. -- .

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Table for one: A critical reading of singlehood, gender and time is the first book to consider the profound relationship between singlehood and time. -- .

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Some in the social sciences argue that the same logic applies to both qualitative and quantitative methods. This title discusses major differences between these two traditions that touch various aspects of social science research, including design, goals, causal effects and models, concepts and measurement, data analysis, and case selection.

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Some in the social sciences argue that the same logic applies to both qualitative and quantitative methods. This title discusses major differences between these two traditions that touch various aspects of social science research, including design, goals, causal effects and models, concepts and measurement, data analysis, and case selection.

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The 20th century saw a dramatic shift of the hub of science and social science systems to the USA. This dynamic began to unfold at precisely the same time as the power structure of Central Europe shifted towards dictatorship. This book explores the invention of empirical social research and the contribution of German emigres to its establishment.

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The authors analyze the rhetorical discourse characteristic of the Chicano protest movement of the sixties and seventies, focusing on four prominent activists, Cesar Chavez, Rodolfo Corky Gonzalez, Jose Angel Gutierrez, and Reies Lopez Tijerina.

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Action Research and Organizational Development describes a process of change that encourages research and consulting skills. This particular type of applied social research differs from other varieties in the immediacy of the researcher's involvement and collaboration in each stage of researching, focusing, and implementing.

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In this text the authors put forward the view that our short, medium, and long-term behaviour, interactions and relationships - whether planned or spontaneous, purposeful or playful - can be understood in terms of goal-directed systems, and present a theory of goal-directed action.

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The personal and emotional stories related in this work realistically illustrate both the positive and negative aspects of adoption. The varied characters and events of each story address many of the unique situations presented by adoption.

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This compilation of the best thinking about adoption by both historical and current authorities reveals a vital, ever-changing practice affecting the lives of millions of people around the globe.

The ancient practice of adoption has changed significantly through history.

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An advertising executive and sociologist who has studied alcoholism at length analyzes worldwide theoretical and empirical studies on the relationship between mass media and advertising and alcohol consumption and abuse.

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This cutting-edge edited collection provides a novel terrain for rethinking intimacies through the lens of affect theories.

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African football migration offers essential coverage of why and how African players have become actors in the global football industry. It reveals the meanings associated with migration in post-colonial Africa, and the implications of (im)mobility for the personal and professional life trajectories of youth and young men across the continent.

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African football migration offers essential coverage of why and how African players have become actors in the global football industry. It reveals the meanings associated with migration in post-colonial Africa, and the implications of (im)mobility for the personal and professional life trajectories of youth and young men across the continent.

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Most studies of human development in developing societies have focused on the childhood stage, and in a few cases exploration has extended up to adolescence, since this age group represents about half the population in developing societies.

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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.