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    Routledge Handbook of European Welfare Systems

    €53.75
    Published ten years after the first edition, this new handbook offers topical, and comprehensive information on the welfare systems of all twenty-eight EU member states and their recent reforms, giving the reader an invaluable introduction and basis for comparative welfare research.

    Sociological Theory

    €150.00
    Gives readers an overview of the major theorists and schools of sociological thought. In this title, key theories are integrated with biographical sketches of theorists, and are placed in their historical and intellectual context.

    What's Wrong with Fat?: The War on Obesity and its Collateral Damage

    €47.50
    What's Wrong with Fat? examines the social implications of understanding fatness as a medical health risk, disease, and epidemic. Examining the ways in which debates over fatness have developed, Abigail Saguy argues that the obesity crisis literally makes us fat, intensifies negative body image, and justifies weight-based discrimination.

    Ritual: A Very Short Introduction

    €11.25
    In this Very Short Introduction, Barry Stephenson approaches ritual from theoretical and historical perspectives, detailing the efforts to understand the nature and function of ritual, and developing a narrative of ritual's place in social and cultural life.

    Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray

    €17.50
    Fresh material brings this "delightful to read, fascinating" (The New York Times) classic to new readers.

    Do Funerals Matter?: The Purposes and Practices of Death Rituals in Global Perspective

    €43.75
    Do Funerals Matter? is a creative interweaving of historical, sociocultural, and research-based perspectives on death rituals, drawing from myriad sources to create a picture of what death rituals have been, and where, especially in the Western world, they are going.

    Meaning, Medicine and the 'Placebo Effect'

    €30.33
    Traditionally, the effectiveness of medical treatments is attributed to specific elements, such as drugs, but many things in medicine cannot be accounted for in this way. For example, inert drugs (placebos) often have dramatic effects on people. This 2002 book guides the reader expertly through a very complex body of literature.

    Statistical Power Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences

    €162.50
    This non-technical guide to power analysis in research planning in the behavioural sciences, provides users of applied statistics with the tools needed for more effective analysis. This edition includes a new chapter covering power analysis in set correlations and multivariate methods.

    Justice for Children and Families: A Developmental Perspective

    €38.50
    Using a child-development perspective to explore the values, ideas and structures that promote justice for children and families under the headings of fairness, protection and autonomy, this book seeks to stimulate interdisciplinary interest, debate and collaboration, from psychiatry to law to public health, in pursuit of important questions and attainable solutions.

    The Pharmaceutical Studies Reader

    €53.00
    The Pharmaceutical Studies Reader is an engaging survey of the field that brings together provocative, multi-disciplinary scholarship examining the interplay of medical science, clinical practice, consumerism, and the healthcare marketplace.

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