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    2.000,95 kr.

    This volume is relevant to quality-of-life researchers working in the areas of social medicine, sustainable development, social indicators research and health psychology/behavioral medicine.

  • - Causes, Rwanda Arena, and Conflict Model
    af Gunther Baechler
    1.684,95 kr.

    Since all-out interstate wars for the time being seem to belong to the past, con flict studies focus more and more on domestic conflicts. This approach, which for once does not focus on a specific level of the conflict system, on one area in the conflict geography, or on a specific category of actors, analyzes causation dynamics.

  • - Disparities, Perceptions, Concomitants
     
    1.101,95 kr.

    This book is concerned with the question of inequality - which points to a major structural problem in intra-national and inter-national respect.

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    1.683,95 kr.

    South Africa's peaceful transition to democracy has gained it world recognition. Sixteen social scientists, experts in fields as wide-ranging as economics, politics, and development planning, have compiled a social report on South Africa two years into democracy.

  • - An Ethical Marketing Perspective
    af M. Joseph Sirgy
    2.408,95 kr.

    This handbook provides students of quality-of-life (QOL) research with an understanding of how QOL research can be conducted from an ethical marketing perspective - a perspective based on positive social change.

  • - Theory, Methods, and Empirical Research
     
    1.695,95 kr.

    The study of quality of urban life involves both an objective approach to analysis using spatially aggregated secondary data and a subjective approach using unit record survey data whereby people provide subjective evaluations of QOL domains.

  • - Best Cases
     
    1.666,95 kr.

  • - An Asian Perspective
     
    1.210,95 kr.

    Within the context of an ageing Asia, the growing numbers of grandparents and the important roles they play within the family propel the need for a book devoted to their experiences.

  • - An International Perspective
     
    1.394,95 kr.

    This publication addresses the gender dimensions of people's lived experience and emphasizes how gender relationships differentially impact on women's and girls' as well as men's and boys' subjective well-being across the lifespan.

  • - Hedonic Well-Being, Life Satisfaction, and Eudaimonia
    af M. Joseph Sirgy
    2.222,95 kr.

    The new updated edition of this popular text uses a proposed theory to posit that much of the research on subjective well-being can be construed in terms of psychological strategies people use to optimize their happiness and life satisfaction.

  • - Research and Reflections
     
    1.333,95 kr.

    The outcome of the first Italian National Conference on Quality of Life, this volume is full of cogent analysis of topics and issues related to well being and quality of life, including focused papers on specific population groupings and discrete themes.

  • - Understanding Their Role, Usage and Policy Influence
     
    1.222,95 kr.

    Grant Foundation During the past 10 years or so, a number of researchers, policymakers, and prac- tioners have made important progress on the identi?cation and use of indicators of children's well-being. Grant Foundation, who was not a primary funder of such activities, was nevertheless one of the many institutions bene?ting from the work.

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    1.780,95 kr.

    Security can be analyzed from different perspectives i.e., personal security, economic security, health security, political security, cyber security etc. In this volume, all facets of research pertaining to security and subjective well-being (SWB) are discussed, including among others: Objective and subjective measures of security;

  • - A Multi-disciplinary and Multi-national Perspective
     
    1.126,95 kr.

  • - European Perspectives
     
    1.353,95 kr.

    In the international literature there is a broad scope for comparative research on the welfare regime, family change and gender relations, but we have no book that comprehensively collects the main research that has been conducted from the perspective of family well-being.

  •  
    1.347,95 kr.

    A third independent line of research pertains to what has been called Positive Psychology (Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi, 2000), that is, an emphasis on human strengths, such as optimism, hope, wisdom, positive emotions, resilience, etc., which contribute to positive functioning in life.

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    826,95 kr.

    A New Research Agenda for Improvements in Quality of Life

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    819,95 kr.

    This book focuses on how EU welfare policies are implemented at the local level in 11 European cities and how local policy making addresses women's care responsibilities.

  • - Africa's Development Beyond 2015
     
    1.449,95 kr.

    This volume examines the impact of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on Africa's development post-2015. Chapters on poverty, south-south partnership, aid, gender, empowerment, health as well as governance and development explore what feasible alternative lie ahead for Africa beyond the expiry date of the MDGs.

  • - Festschrift in Honor of Alex C. Michalos
     
    921,95 kr.

    Taken together, the contributions from scholars around the world reflect Michalos' stance that even though there may be differences in individual scientific positions, the language in the field of quality of life has no limits and boundaries.

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    1.113,95 kr.

    This volume sheds new light on the use of quantitative, qualitative and synthetic indicators for the measurement of quality of life in different countries of Latin America.

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    759,95 kr.

    This book focuses on how EU welfare policies are implemented at the local level in 11 European cities and how local policy making addresses women's care responsibilities.

  • - An International Perspective
     
    1.326,95 kr.

    This publication addresses the gender dimensions of people's lived experience and emphasizes how gender relationships differentially impact on women's and girls' as well as men's and boys' subjective well-being across the lifespan.

  • - A Concept to Enhance Happiness
    af Bernhard Schmitz
    739,95 - 806,95 kr.

    This volume examines the questions of what constitutes a good life and how one can achieve happiness and well-being, and analyses different ways in which people can strive for a good life.

  • - The Challenge of Negative Quality of Life
     
    2.178,95 kr.

    Both international studies and global development have become specialized and fragmented, whereas this work assembles all of these development fragments together in order to determine whether common ground exists to make headway in reducing global suffering.

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    990,95 kr.

    This volume discusses the many recent significant developments, and identifies important problems, in the field of social indicators. In particular, starting from the classical theory of composite indicators many interesting approaches have been developed to overcome the weaknesses of composites.

  • - Issues, Diagnoses and Prognoses
     
    1.318,95 kr.

    This volume analyses many of the real development challenges confronting the African continent, presenting fresh and current objective examinations, narratives, interpretations and pathways to the continent's development.

  • - Festschrift in Honor of Alex C. Michalos
     
    944,95 kr.

    Taken together, the contributions from scholars around the world reflect Michalos' stance that even though there may be differences in individual scientific positions, the language in the field of quality of life has no limits and boundaries.

  • - Results of the Hope-Barometer International Research Program
     
    1.144,95 kr.

    Further part three focuses on comparisons of elements and levels of hope across cultures discussing methods and techniques to improve hope and thus increase overall well-being.

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