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Corn Meets Maize - Food Movements and Markets in Mexico
von Lauren E. Baker
2012 Gebunden, 200 Seiten, 235mm x 157mm x 15mm, Sprache(n): eng This compelling book explores the intimate connections between people and plants, agriculture and cooking, and the practical work of building local food networks and transnational social movements. Lauren E. Baker uses corn and mai…
The Japanese Family in Transition - From the Professional Housewife Ideal to the Dilemmas of Choice
von Suzanne Hall Vogel
2013 Gebunden, 200 Seiten, 235mm x 157mm x 15mm, Sprache(n): eng In 1958, Suzanne and Ezra Vogel embedded themselves in a Tokyo suburban community, interviewing six middle-class families regularly for a year. Their research led to Japan's New Middle Class, a classic work on the sociology of Japa…
Japan's New Middle Class
von Ezra F. Vogel
2013 Gebunden, 374 Seiten, 235mm x 157mm x 27mm, Sprache(n): eng This classic study on the sociology of Japan remains the only in-depth treatment of the Japanese middle class. Now in a fiftieth-anniversary edition that includes a new foreword by William W. Kelly, this seminal work paints a rich…
The Japanese Family in Transition - From the Professional Housewife Ideal to the Dilemmas of Choice
von Suzanne Hall Vogel
2016 Kartoniert, 200 Seiten, 229mm x 152mm x 11mm, Sprache(n): eng In 1958, Suzanne and Ezra Vogel embedded themselves in a Tokyo suburban community, interviewing six middle-class families regularly for a year. Their research led to Japan's New Middle Class, a classic work on the sociology of Ja…
Raúl Castro and the New Cuba - A Close-Up View of Change
von Harlan Abrahams, Arturo Lopez-Levy
2011 Kartoniert, 250 Seiten, 229mm x 152mm x 15mm, Sprache(n): eng In 2006, Fidel Castro yielded power over Cuba to his younger brother Raul, making him the first new president of the island nation in nearly five decades. Raul has ushered in many changes and reforms, including allowing open crit…
Socioeconomic Impacts of High-Speed Rail Systems - Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop o…
2024 Kartoniert, 324 Seiten, 235mm x 155mm x 18mm, Sprache(n): eng This book offers new insights into the wider socioeconomic impacts of high-speed rail (HSR). Over the past few decades, significant investments have been made in these systems around the world. The use of public funds for the con…
Understanding Environmental Education - From Theory to Practices in India
von Chong Shimray
Vorbestellbar - erscheint am 28.06.2024 Gebunden, 366 Seiten, 234mm x 156mm The book establishes the importance of environmental education by tracing its history and the developments that have taken place subsequently to date. It provides basic understanding about environmental education as well as valuable suggestions for its effect…
Social Policy and EU Polity-building Through Crises and Beyond
von Anna Kyriazi, Joan Miro, Marcello Natili, Stefano Ronchi
Vorbestellbar - erscheint am 29.07.2024 Gebunden, 200 Seiten, 234mm x 156mm This volume sets out to explain the conditions that have favoured the expansion of the European social dimension during the turbulent decade of 2010-20, when Europe was confronting strong countervailing pressures, including the euro crisis, the refugee crisis…
Reexamining Economic and Political Reforms in Russia, 1985-2000 - Generations, Ideas, and Changes
von Vladimir Gel'Man, Dmitry Travin, Otar Marganiya
2014 Gebunden, 192 Seiten, 235mm x 157mm x 15mm, Sprache(n): eng Reexamining Economic and Political Reforms in Russia, 1985-2000: Generations, Ideas, and Changes analyzes the impact of generational changes and ideational changes on major political and economic reforms conducted in Russia during…
The Mythologies of Capitalism and the End of the Soviet Project
von Olga Baysha
2014 Gebunden, 184 Seiten, 235mm x 157mm x 15mm, Sprache(n): eng The purpose of The Mythologies of Capitalism and the End of the Soviet Project is to show that in order to understand popular disillusionment with democratization, liberalization, and other transformations associated with the attem…