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Towards a Chinese Conception of Social Support: Study of the Social Support Networks of Chinese Working Mothers in Beijing
1st Edition
By Angelina W.K. Yuen-Tsang
February 26, 2020
First published in 1997, this volume is an attempt to study the patterns of social support among Chinese working mothers in a Beijing neighbourhood with the aim of developing a beginning understanding of the Chinese conception of social support. The data indicates great variations in the support ...
Towards a Transparent Labour Market for Educational Decisions
1st Edition
Edited
By Han Heijke, Lex Borghans
February 26, 2020
First published in 1998, this collection of essays strongly advocates for increased flexibility in the Dutch labour market and questions current assumptions on the connections between education choices and ultimate employment outcomes. The volume responds to the glaring contradiction between the ...
Trading the Fruits of the Land: Horticultural Marketing of the Land
1st Edition
By Tjalling Dijkstra
February 26, 2020
First published in 1997, this volume contributes to the knowledge for the trade of vegetables, fruits and tubers (so-called horticultural commodities). As African policy makers try to keep pace with new developments in private food trade, they require knowledge of the structures of private trade ...
Transformation of Economy as a Real Process: An Insider's Perspective
1st Edition
By Daniel Daianu
February 26, 2020
First published in 1998, this volume is a contribution to the economic analysis of post-communist transformation in an evolutionary-institutionalist approach. The author shows convincingly the role of path dependency, of the ways history matters for the success of otherwise sound policies, and ...
Underachieving to Protect Self-worth: Advice for Teachers, Teacher-educators and Counsellors
1st Edition
By Ted Thompson
February 26, 2020
First published in 1999, this volume strives to present an integrated account of how failure avoidance may be reduced. Ted Thompson asks: why is failure so aversive and why do people to almost any lengths to avoid it? This is a book about implications for organising the context of classroom ...
Uneven Development in South East Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Chris Dixon, David Drakakis-Smith
February 26, 2020
First published in 1997, this volume responds to the rapid change in mid-1980s South East Asia, exploring the uneven distribution of development within the region and providing broad coverage of different aspects of this unevenness at both the regional and national levels. Specialists in economics,...
Urban Development and New Towns in the Third World: Lessons from the New Bombay Experience
1st Edition
By Alain R.A. Jacquemin
February 26, 2020
First published in 1999, this volume examines India and Bombay, countries which represent some of the world’s most dramatic examples of rapid urban growth. One of the strategies frequently adopted by the Indian authorities to cope with this urban growth is the development of new towns, such as New ...
Values in Social Work
1st Edition
By Michael Horne
February 26, 2020
First published in 1999, this second edition of Values in Social Work has been extensively revised from the first edition, incorporating new case study material and extended areas of analysis. Values in Social Work encourages the reader to critically examine social work values as they relate to the...
Voting for Democracy: Watershed Elections in Contemporary Anglophone Africa
1st Edition
By John Daniel, Roger Southall
February 26, 2020
First published in 1999, the essays in this book examine the context and conduct of a series of watershed elections held in Anglophone Africa in the first half of the 1990s. These elections crystallized a wider process of democratization, underway in much of sub-Saharan Africa during the last ...
Wealth and Freedom: Taiwan's New Political Economy
1st Edition
By Gerald A. McBeath
February 26, 2020
First published in 1998, this volume examines the ‘economic miracle’ of Taiwan’s remarkable transition from poverty to one of the world’s most affluent economies, ten years after its emergence from martial law. Gerald A. McBeath explores Taiwan from its time as a country barely recovered from ...
Welfare Bushed: Social Care in Rural Australia
1st Edition
By Brian Cheers
February 26, 2020
First published in 1998, this volume explores the Australian welfare system in the 1980s through the lens of being ‘bushed’: lost, tired, confused and don’t know which way to go. Numerous key factors have hindered the development of Australia’s welfare system along with the ability of rural ...
Western Civilization and Its Problems: A Dialogue Between Weber, Elias and Habermas
1st Edition
By Kit-Man Li
February 26, 2020
First published in 1999, this volume represents Kit-Man Li’s attempt to wrestle with the complicated issues and ideas drawn from Habermas’ theory of communicative action, Weber’s studies of western civilization and Elias’ insights on sociological theory. Li examines Weber, Habermas and Elias in ...