Strong Families Around the World

Strengths-Based Research and Perspectives

Edited by John DeFrain, Sylvia Asay

The strengths of families from culture to culture, when compared to each other, are remarkably similar and give us common ground around the world upon...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-7890-3603-2 (Routledge)

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The Culture of Welfare Markets

The International Recasting of Pension and Care Systems

By Ingo Bode

This book examines the rise of welfare markets in Western societies and explores their functioning, regulation and embeddedness by addressing the particular field of old...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-95801-1 (Routledge)

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Science Images and Popular Images of the Sciences

Edited by Peter Weingart, Bernd Huppauf

What is a popular image of science and where does it come from? Little is known about the formation of science images and their transformation...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-38381-3 (Routledge)

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Youth Culture and Sport

Identity, Power, and Politics

Edited by Michael D. Giardina, Michele K. Donnelly

Youth Culture and Sport critically interrogates and challenges contemporary articulations of race, class, gender, and sexual relations circulating throughout popular iterations of youth sporting culture in...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-95581-2 (Routledge)

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The Outside Child, In and Out of the Book

By Christine Wilkie-Stibbs

The Outside Child, In and Out of the Book is situated at the intersection between children’s literature studies and childhood studies. In this provocative book,...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97800-2 (Routledge)

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The Netherlands

Globalization and National Identity

By Frank J. Lechner

The Netherlands is the first concise, authored introduction available on the topic. The Netherlands has been a key entrepot in the world capitalist system for centuries,...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-95750-2 (Routledge)

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Body, Femininity and Nationalism

Girls in the German Youth Movement 1900–1934

By Marion E.P. de Ras

This social and cultural history of girls in the German youth movements in the pre-Nazi era brings fascinating new light to bear on the history...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-18255-3 (Routledge)

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Fit for Consumption

Sociology and the Business of Fitness

By Jennifer Smith Maguire

This is the first text to offer a comprehensive socio-cultural and historical analysis of the current fitness culture.

Fitness today is not simply about health clubs and...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-42181-2 (Routledge)

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Youth Moves

Identities and Education in Global Perspective

Edited by Nadine Dolby, Fazal Rizvi

This fascinating collection of original essays focuses attention on the actual practices of twenty-first century youth in the brave new world of globalization—a world in...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-95563-8 (Routledge)

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Young Citizens and New Media

Learning for Democratic Participation

Edited by Peter Dahlgren

This book integrates four distinct topics: young people, citizenship, new media, and learning processes. When taken together, these four topics merge to define an arena...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-39599-1 (Routledge)

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