An Historical Geography of Europe Book

EBook Description: The central theme of this book is the changing spatial pattern of human activities during the last 2,500 years of Europe's history. Professor Pounds argues that three factors have determined the locations of human activities: the environment, the attitudes and forms of social organization of the many different peoples of Europe and lastly, the levels of technology. Within the broad framework of the interrelationships of environment, society and technology, several important themes pursued from the fifth century BC to the early twentieth century: settlement and agriculture, the growth of cities, the development of manufacturing and the role of trade. Underlying each of these themes are the discussions of political organization and population. Although the book is based in part of Professor Pound's magisterial three volumes An Historical Geography of Europe (1977, 1980, 1985), it was written especially for students and readers interested in a general survey of the subject.

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Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics Book

Japan�s welfare state is puzzling. On most measures, Japan�s welfare state is small. Its social spending levels are low; its tax revenue is small; and its benefit levels are meager (Figure 0.1).1 Japan�s social spending programs are among the least redistributive in the advanced industrial world (Table 0.1). At first glance, Japan�s small welfare spending appears to confirm the conventional scholarly wisdom that attributes the development of a generous and redistributive welfare state to a strong social democratic party � supported by well-organized and centralized labor unions. Yet despite its meager social spending, Japan has nonetheless managed to achieve a fairly egalitarian income distribution.

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Gambling in America: An Encyclopedia of History, Issues, and Society Book

Whether you believe that gambling is good for the economy or that the Mob runs Las Vegas, you cannot escape the fact that gambling is the fastest-growing entertainment enterprise in America.
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Designing Social Interfaces: Principles, Patterns, and Practices for Improving the User Experience Book

From the creators of Yahoo!'s Design Pattern Library, Designing Social Interfaces provides you with more than 100 patterns, principles, and best practices, along with salient advice for many of the common challenges you'll face when starting a social website. Designing sites that foster user interaction and community-building is a valuable skill for web developers and designers today, but it's not that easy to understand the nuances of the social web. Now you have help.
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Essays in Sociological Theory Book

Talcott Parsons needs little introduction to anyone acquainted with the literature of sociology. Few men have dominated their fields so much as Dr. Parsons does his.

Improving Health and Social Cohesion through Education Book

This report addresses challenges in assessing the social outcomes of learning by providing a synthesis of the existing evidence, original data analyses and policy discussions. The report finds that education has the potential to promote health as well as civic and social engagement.

Lords and Communities in Early Medieval East Anglia Book

East Anglian warriors, monks and peasants toiled, fought and prayed during the tenth and eleventh centuries in order to establish the medieval landscape of East Anglia constructed around great abbeys, castles and manor houses. This book discusses the contexts which led to the creation of the medieval built environment from a regional and comparative perspective, following through the lives and initiatives of English, Scandinavian, Norman and Breton lords and their families. It analyses themes such as alliance and unification strategies, social mobility, ethnicity, the formation of lineages, and draws upon the disciplines of anthropology, economics and prosopography in order to further historical knowledge. Perhaps somewhat unusually it highlights the differences and similarities between the experiences of these lords and communities with aristocracies and social groupings in regions of Europe shaped by the feudal transformation.

Individualization: Instituitionalized Individualism and Its Social and Political Consequences Book

Individualization argues that we are in the midst of a fundamental change in the nature of society and politics. This change hinges around two processes: globalization and individualization. The book demonstrates that individualization is a structural characteristic of highly differentiated societies, and does not imperil social cohesion, but actually makes it possible. Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim argue that it is vital to distinguish between the neo-liberal idea of the free-market individual and the concept of individualization.

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