This eBook edition of «The Women's Victory and After: 1911-1918» has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1847 –1929) was a British feminist, intellectual, political and union leader, and writer. She is primarily known for her work as a campaigner for women to have the vote. As a suffragist (as opposed to a suffragette), she took a moderate line, but was a tireless campaigner. She concentrated much of...
Widely acclaimed insight on the human condition, updated to view modern issues through a sociological lens Now in its third edition, Thinking Sociologically continues to offer a stimulating exploration of the underlying assumptions and tacit expectations which structure our view of the world. This best-seller has been translated into 12 languages to bring key sociological concepts to students and general readers around the globe. The authors review recent developments in society and examine the...
La primera parte del tratado de derechos reales estuvo referida a la teoría general, luego tratamos la posesión y la propiedad, para posteriormente analizar las desmembraciones del derecho de propiedad, los denominados derechos reales sobre la cosa ajena o derechos reales de goce. En esta oportunidad, presentamos los derechos reales de garantía, dando especial énfasis a la teoría general, como sustento de fondo, y a la hipoteca, como la garantía real especial más usada y eficiente. Se lleva a...
Understanding Mental Health and Counselling provides a critical introduction to key debates about how problems of mental health are understood, and to the core approaches taken to working with counselling and psychotherapy clients. In drawing out the differences and intersections between professional and social understandings of mental health and counselling theory and practice, the book fosters critical thinking about effective and ethical work with mental health service users and therapy...
Today, as cities undergo rapid and dynamic transformations, riddled with uncertainties about the future, the roles of urban planning and urban planners lie in one of these new crossroad moments. Climate change, urban migration, social inclusion, health emergencies and financial and economic crises have elevated urbanization to newer heights of complexity that can only be tackled by integrating a multitude of scenarios, strategies and discourses, in order to create an urban future that is...
Книга представляет собой сборник избранных статей А. Г. Вишневского, публиковавшихся, в основном, на протяжении последних 10–15 лет и посвященных ключевым вопросам демографии XXI в. Главное внимание в отобранных для издания статьях сосредоточено на теоретическом осмыслении происходящих в мире фундаментальных демографических перемен и вызываемых ими последствий. Эти последствия имеют универсальный характер и пронизывают все уровни социальной реальности – от семейного до глобального. Важное место...
Death is silent; all the ‘tales’ we hear about it – be they of a religious, philosophical, scientific or artistic nature – are told by other humans. but specific deaths are often utilised to reconfirm or challenge existing societal structures, values and belief systems. the eight ‘tales’ collated here – based on the work of the Research Strand Death, Burial and the Afterlife at University College Dublin’s College of arts and humanities – present numerous interdisciplinary examples of how this...
The foundation for all modern economic thought and political economy, «The Wealth of Nations» is the magnum opus of Scottish economist Adam Smith, who introduces the world to the very idea of economics and capitalism in the modern sense of the words. Smith details his argument in the following five books: Introduction and plan of the work Part 1 Of the Causes of Improvement in the productive Powers of Labour, and of the Order according to which its Produce is naturally distributed among...
This eBook edition of «Women & Economics» has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Women and Economics – A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution is a book written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and published in 1898. It is considered by many to be her single greatest work, and as with much of Gilman's writing, the book touched a few dominant themes: the transformation of marriage, the...