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Population Ageing and International Development
The Policy Press 2010; US$ 39.95This original book analyses the links between development, population ageing and the experiences of older people, especially in developing countries where more than 80% of the increase in people aged over 60 will take place over the coming decades. more...
Ageing in Urban Neighbourhoods
The Policy Press 2009; US$ 41.95This unique book addresses the shortfall in knowledge regarding older people's attachment to deprived neighbourhoods and offers a re-conceptualisation of environmental gerontology. The author examines new cross-national research and challenges the common view that ageing 'in place' is optimal, particularly within areas that present multiple... more...
The City's Outback
University of NSW Press 2009; US$ 31.95This honest and compelling book follows the fraught, exciting and painful process of getting to know others, in this case Australian Aborigines in the suburbs who are already known through shocking images and worrying statistics. Gillian Cowlishaw has written a book about the intimacy of the encounter, the practical and ethical... more...
New Frontiers in Resilient Aging
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 32.00Looks at human aging from a positive perspective, examining how older adults can exploit psychological strengths to enhance life satisfaction. more...
Contemporary Issues in Childhood
Northumbria University Press 2004; US$ 8.95Written by experts in their field with a proven track record for quality in their teaching and learning this volume takes a contemporary and in-depth look at the teaching of humanities where children and their world?s are central to the curriculum. Aimed at students and teachers of childhood and early childhood courses?and also beneficial to those... more...
Key Concepts in Childhood Studies
SAGE Publications 2008; US$ 39.00A systematic, clear introduction to the expanding field of Childhood Studies. Valuable entries including Agency, Play and Welfare introduce key ideas and explore interwoven multi-disciplinary themes. Definitions, summaries and key words are developed and cross-referenced by the book's intelligent organisation and flow to explain in-depth issues... more...
Living in Spanglish
St. Martin's Press 2007; US$ 18.99Chicano. Cubano. Pachuco. Nuyorican. Puerto Rican. Boricua. Quisqueya. Tejano. To be Latino in the United States in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries has meant to fierce identification with roots, with forbears, with the language, art and food your people came here with. America is a patchwork of Hispanic sensibilities-from Puerto Rican... more...
The Quality of Life in Latin American Cities
World Bank Publications 2010; US$ 19.99This book explores a new method of monitoring the quality of urban life, combining objective and subjective information to assess quality of life by using the market price of housing and individuals life satisfaction in six Latin American cities: Bogota, Buenos Aires, Lima, Medellin, Montevideo and San Jose. Housing prices show how the market... more...
Gogo Mama
Pan Macmillan Australia 2007; US$ 23.73Gogo Mama intimately profiles the lives of twelve very different African women. They include a genocide survivor from Rwanda; a pygmy who lives in a grass hut at the base of a volcano in the Congo; Zanzibar's most famous living diva; a former child soldier from Liberia; a grandmother fighting AIDS in South Africa; a freed slave from Ghana, who... more...
One Native Life
D & M Publishers 2009; US$ 14.95One Native Life is a look back down the road Richard Wagamese has traveled ? from childhood abuse to adult alcoholism ? in reclaiming his identity. It?s about what he has learned as a human being, a man, and an Ojibway in his 52 years on Earth. Whether he?s writing about playing baseball, running away with the circus, making bannock , or attending... more...









