Authors:Koen Vleminckx, Timothy M Smeeding,
Publisher: Policy Press
Keywords: child, nations, modern, policy, poverty
Number of Pages: 592
Published: 2001-02-23
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1861342535
ISBN-13: 9781861342539

The recent UNICEF report on child poverty found that some 47 million children in ’rich’ countries live in families so poor that their health and well-being are at risk. In Britain, 20% of young people live below the poverty line, compared with just 5% in Sweden, Norway and Finland. Child poverty and the well-being of children is an important policy issue throughout the industrialised world. This volume brings together economists, sociologists and social policy analysts from America, Australia, and Europe, who have been studying the extent of child poverty, its consequenc

Authors:Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Timothy M. Smeeding, Lee Ra
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation Publications
Keywords: family, future
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2006-01-30
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0871546280
ISBN-13: 9780871546289

High rates of divorce, single-parenthood, and nonmarital cohabitation are forcing Americans to reexamine their definition of family. This evolving social reality requires public policy to evolve as well. "The Future of the Family" brings together the top scholars of family policy—headlined by editors Lee Rainwater, Tim Smeeding, and, in his last published work, the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan—to take stock of the state of the family in the United States today and address the ways in which public policy affects the family and vice versa. The volume opens with an assessment of ne

Authors:Wiemer Salverda, Brian Nolan, Timothy M. Smeeding,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: oxford, handbooks, inequality, economic, handbook
Number of Pages: 848
Published: 2009-04-26
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 0199231370
ISBN-13: 9780199231379

The Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality presents a new and challenging analysis of economic inequality, focusing primarily on economic inequality in highly developed countries. Bringing together the world’s top scholars this comprehensive and authoritative volume contains an impressive array of original research on topics ranging from gender to happiness, from poverty to top incomes, and from employers to the welfare state. The authors give their view on the state-of-the-art of scientific research in their fields of expertise and add their own stimulating visions on future research. I

Authors:Timothy Coles, Dallen J. Timothy,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: tourism, leisure, mobility, geographies, contemporary, diasporas, space
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2004-07-15
List price: $210.00
ISBN-10: 0415311241
ISBN-13: 9780415311243

The book introduces the main features and constructs of diasporas, and explores their implications for the consumption, production, and practices of tourism.

Authors:Timothy E Josling, Timothy G Taylor,
Publisher: CABI
Keywords: dispute, trade, anatomy, wars, banana
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2003-03
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 085199637X
ISBN-13: 9780851996370

In 2001, the EU and US announced the end of a trade dispute over the sale of bananas into the EU market. The allocation of import liscences had been found to violate World Trade Organization rules and to discriminate against suppliers from Latin America.This book examines the issues surrounding the dispute, in particular: the dependence of small Carribean economies on European Banana Markets, the role of the private sector in influencing public policy, the relation between the banana trade and the political tensions of the EU Common Agricultural Policy, the domestic political influence of bana

Authors:Timothy Leonard, Timothy Leonard, Peter Willis,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: educational, practice, curriculum, mythopoetic, imagination, pedagogies
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2008-06-03
List price: $169.00
ISBN-10: 1402082819
ISBN-13: 9781402082818

This book is about the practice of Imaginal Knowing in education. Imaginal knowing is not fantasy, but is linked to the way humans imagine the real world. Imaginal knowing moves the heart, holds the imagination, finds the fit between self-stories, public myths, and the content of cultural knowledge. It is deeply personal, yet open to the universe. The curriculum, as conceptualized here, is the medium through which imaginal knowing is evoked in both teachers and students. Educators from United States, Australia, the United Kingdom and Canada offer a vision of educational practice seasoned in ye

Authors:Alan M. Weinberg and Timothy Webb, Timothy Webb, Ala
Publisher: Ashgate
Keywords: century, nineteenth, shelley, unfamiliar
Number of Pages: 426
Published: 2008-11-01
List price: $114.95
ISBN-10: 0754663906
ISBN-13: 9780754663904

Stimulated by new editions of Shelley’s writings and the evidence of notebooks, the editors have assembled an outstanding group of international Shelley scholars to work through the implications of recent advances in scholarship. With particular attention to texts that have been neglected or underestimated, the contributors consider many important aspects of Shelley’s prolific and remarkably diverse output, including the verse letter, plays, prose essays, satire, pamphlets, political verse, romance, prefaces, translations from the Greek, prose style, artistic representations, fragm