1973 Ergebnisse - Zeige 1941 von 1960.

The Last Years of Long Lives is a unique account of that period of old age which precedes death. Based on 400 complete individual histories and covering a twenty-year period, it looks at the experiences of people over eighty years old in three three important areas: disability, family life and health care.

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Quirky LearnBots Verbito and Verbita, buzzy robo-bees and a mischievous canine called CyberDog, present the 101 most commonly used Catalan verbs, with each verbs's infinitive cleverly incorporated into each illustration for further reinforcement. Each verb also comes with its own unique colour coded verb table and kick-starter app!

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This book considers the significant geopolitical, economic and security links between the Middle East and the wider Asian world.

Though Nagarjuna advocates the Middle Way, his philosophy of emptiness nevertheless entails nihilism, and his critiques of the Nyaya theory of knowledge are shown to be unconvincing.

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This practical and comprehensive reference guide is the first to sort, present and review all the measures that can be used to evaluate the behavioral, cognitive and emotional aspects of children's health.

Drawing from both mainstream psychological and cross-cultural psychological ways of thought, this book explores how culture influences personality and behavior and compares and contrasts the societal norms of several different cultures.

Contemporary Esotericism provides a broad overview and assessment of the complex world of Western esoteric thought today. Combining historiographical analysis with theories and methodologies from the social sciences, the volume explores new problems and offers new possibilities for the study of esoterica.

In this volume, Marks offers a defense of amorality as both philosophically justified and practicably livable. In so doing, the book marks a radical departure from both the new atheism and the mainstream of modern ethical philosophy. While in synch with their underlying aim of grounding human existence in a naturalistic metaphysics, the book takes both to task for maintaining a complacent embrace of morality. Marks advocates wiping the slate c...

This book examines the trends and motivations of human capital flows from India into this region. Focusing in particular on Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and Thailand, the book provides an analysis of Indian labour in a variety of sectors, including information technology (IT) sector, academia, banking, oil and gas. Based on empirical data, the book provides an analysis of current trends in the flow of human capital from India to Southeast Asia.

Adopting an interdisciplinary approach and drawing on the works of strategic literature and international relations theory, this book examines the theoretical nature behind a threat of force in order to inform and explain why and how the normative structure operates in the way it does. The core of the book addresses whether Article 2(4) is adequately suited to the current international climate and, if not, whether an alternative means of rethi...

This book takes stock of developments in international investment law and analyzes potential solutions to some of the criticisms of investment law from the perspective of international public policy, in negotiations, substantive obligations and dispute resolution. The book is prepared by a group of scholars and practitioners from Canada and Europe and takes a multidisciplinary approach to the subject, with analysis from the legal, political an...

The Malay population makes up Singapore¿s three largest ethnic groups. This book presents holistic and extensive analysis of the `Malay Muslim story¿ in Singapore. Comprehensively and convincingly argued, the author examines their challenging circumstances in the fields of politics, education, social mobility, economy, leadership, and freedom of religious expression.

Since 2000, there has been a considerable effort in Turkish cinema to come to terms with the military¿s intervention in politics and subsequent national trauma. It has resulted in an outpouring of cinematic texts. This book focuses on women and Turkish cinema in the context of gender politics, cultural identity and representation.The central proposition of this book is that enforced depolticisation introduced after the coup is responsible for ...

From its inception, the "War on Terror" has been a heavily gendered endeavour. A careful examination of counter-terrorism campaigns outside the current "War on Terror, " reveals that such national security efforts also have a complex, but often unexplored, relationship to gender. This edited volume brings together scholars from various disciplines to consider, from a human rights perspective, the many ways in which gender interacts with counte...

This book provides a broad overview of the development of state socialism, focusing especially on Russia and the countries of Eastern Europe, and including comparative material on China and other socialist countries outside Europe. It discusses how state socialism was first created, examines attempts to reform it, and explains why it collapsed.