Télécharger le livre :  Quality of Life and Mortality in Seventeenth Century London and Dublin
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This book provides an examination of the quantitative and qualitative factors affecting mortality in two major cities of the British Isles: London and Dublin. It covers a scale from individuals mentioned by name to aggregates of mortality data in the Bills of Mortality....

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Parution : 2016-08-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Social Cohesion in the Western World
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Many people in the Western world are concerned that the social fabric of societies is fraying. This book constitutes the first-of-its-kind systematic account of social cohesion, from theory through methodology to empirical evidence. Readers are introduced to the...

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Parution : 2016-05-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Social Factors and Community Well-Being
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This book explores social factors that influence well-being, as well as the relationship between these factors. It examines individual areas of social policy from the perspective of children’s well-being, gender equity, and the impact of crime and social capital. The...

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Parution : 2016-04-05
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Télécharger le livre :  After Diagnosis: Family Caregiving with Hospice Patients
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This brief provides approaches to help family caregivers understand the role of caregiving, its challenges and consequences. Using real life case examples, it illustrates the essentials of family caregiving. The caregiving role can be a source of caregiver stress and...

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Parution : 2016-02-19
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Télécharger le livre :  The Autonomous Child
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The social sciences offer a variety of theories on how children develop, and various theories and disciplines apply their own vocabularies and conceptualise different aspects of the processes of socialization. This book looks at the theorizing of socialization in...

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Parution : 2015-10-14
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Télécharger le livre :  The PROSPER School Pathways for Student Wellbeing
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This brief defines student wellbeing and outlines seven evidence-informed pathways that schools can take to promote student wellbeing and  develop their school as an enabling institution. The acronym PROSPER is applied as an organizer for both the psychological elements...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2015-09-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Victims of Obtrusive Violence
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This volume describes how children’s experience with violence may affect and endanger their education, as well as their physical safety and their general well-being. It includes all forms of physical , psychological and sexual abuse, and neglect against children at...

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Parution : 2015-08-21
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Télécharger le livre :  The Nature and Function of Intuitive Thought and Decision Making
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This book focuses on the very nature and function of intuitive thought. It presents an up-to-date scientific model on how the non-conscious and intuitive thought processes work in human beings. The model is based on mainstream theorizing on intuition, as well as...

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Parution : 2015-05-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Ancient Views on the Quality of Life
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This monograph describes the contributions to our current understanding of quality of life made by the most important ancient philosophers in the Western Tradition. It does so from the point of view of a contemporary researcher in quality of life or human well-being....

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Parution : 2015-04-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Spiritual Well-Being of Chinese Older Adults
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There are several unique features of this book on the spiritual well-being of Chinese older adults. First, based on qualitative methodology, a conceptual model of spiritual well-being was proposed. Besides, through a Delphi study, different dimensions of spiritual...

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Parution : 2015-02-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Understanding Other-Oriented Hope
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This Brief integrates the literature and research on other-oriented hope. It discusses the position of other-oriented hope as one manifestation of the broader attribute of other-interest and argues the importance of other-interest in well-being. The Brief examines...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2015-01-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Learning and Community Approaches for Promoting Well-Being
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This Brief provides perspectives on bringing together elements of learning and community approaches for promoting overall wellbeing. Drawing on experiences of authors from across Asia, Europe, and North America, cases are presented to illustrate both policy and...

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Parution : 2015-01-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Community Well-Being and Community Development
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This briefs provides foundations of both community wellbeing and community development, and the relationships between the two areas, including both similarities and differences. Community well-being encompasses a large array of concepts and disciplines. Community...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2014-12-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Child Street Life
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This brief studies the phenomenon of street children in two cities in Peru. It looks at some of the conceptual issues and, after analysing why children are in the street and what behaviour and which aspirations they exhibit, deals with the policy issues and lessons to...

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Parution : 2014-10-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Data-Based Child Advocacy
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This book locates, organizes and summarizes information about the use of child indicators in an advocacy context. It provides a conceptual framework that allows readers to see a wide variety of work as part of a unified field. It provides a description of key concepts...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2014-07-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Flourishing Children
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This volume presents the results of the Flourishing Children Project. The study addressed gaps in the research on indicators of positive development of adolescents. Such indicators are essential for the balanced and scientifically sound study of adolescents. Yet...

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Parution : 2014-07-08
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Télécharger le livre :  The Transitory Nature of Parent, Sibling and Romantic Partner Relationships in Emerging Adulthood
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This volume provides a theoretical and empirical review of the societal and educational factors that contribute to ‘emerging adulthood’.This developmental stage occurs between adolescence and adulthood and can be regarded as a relatively new phase in research on...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2014-05-06
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Télécharger le livre :  The Pursuit of Happiness and the Traditions of Wisdom
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This book presents a discussion of happiness that takes the shape of a dialogue between contemplative knowledge and practice or the wisdom traditions and the social sciences. It examines the different definitions of happiness in relation to wisdom traditions and the...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2014-03-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Human Suffering and Quality of Life
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This briefs on human suffering adds to human understanding of suffering by contextualizing both stories and statistics on suffering, while showing that suffering adds a useful perspective to contemporary thought and research on quality of life, social well-being, and...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2013-10-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Well-Being, Resilience and Quality of Life from Children's Perspectives
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This book explores the broad view on child well-being and the quality of life research. It starts with a discussion of the origin of the social indicator movement and a review of literature on the concepts of quality of life, (subjective) well-being and resilience. It...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2013-10-04
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