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Labour Law in Context second edition offers comprehensive coverage
of the key aspects of South African labour law. It is the ideal
companion to support both students of law and non-law students
throughout their studies. It is also suitable for anyone doing a
short course in aspects of labour law, or for those who want to
keep up-to-date with key labour law issues and rulings. The second
edition is fully updated.
First published in 1999, this volume represents an empirical model
of reproductive rights in developing countries. The model
encompasses three explanations of reproductive rights. The first
proposes that reproductive rights levels are negatively related to
population growth. The second explanation argues that gender
equality has a positive effect on reproductive rights. Finally, the
authors propose that women's education has a positive effect on
reproductive rights. The empirical model takes into account the
effects of modernization, secularization, and family planning
program effort on population growth, women's education, and gender
equality.
First published in 1999, this volume represents an empirical model
of reproductive rights in developing countries. The model
encompasses three explanations of reproductive rights. The first
proposes that reproductive rights levels are negatively related to
population growth. The second explanation argues that gender
equality has a positive effect on reproductive rights. Finally, the
authors propose that women's education has a positive effect on
reproductive rights. The empirical model takes into account the
effects of modernization, secularization, and family planning
program effort on population growth, women's education, and gender
equality.
Paul P.W. Achola and Vijayan K. Pillai address factors associated
with wastage in primary school education and the solutions to
ameliorate low participation in primary education. The book
provides an examination of the factors associated with wastage,
exploring the interconnectedness of non-enrollment, repetition and
dropout. The authors demonstrate that reducing poverty through
empowerment programs and citizen participation in school decisions
are critical to improving primary school participation.
In the fully updated Sixth Edition of Understanding Global
Cultures: Metaphorical Journeys Through 34 Nations, Clusters of
Nations, Continents, and Diversity, authors Martin J. Gannon and
Rajnandini Pillai present the cultural metaphor as a method for
understanding the cultural mindsets of individual nations, clusters
of nations, continents, and diversity in each nation. A cultural
metaphor is any activity, phenomenon, or institution that members
of a given culture consider important and with which they identify
emotionally and/or cognitively, such as the Japanese garden and
American football. This cultural metaphoric approach identifies
three to eight unique or distinctive features of each cultural
metaphor and then discusses 34 national cultures in terms of these
features. The book demonstrates how metaphors are guidelines to
help outsiders quickly understand what members of a culture
consider important.
This comprehensive, introductory text takes an applied,
interdisciplinary approach. Because one author is a sociologist and
the other a demographer, the text introduces perspectives from many
different disciplines. The most applied book on the market,
Demography: The Science of Population teaches students how to use
the multitude of demographic resources available to them as
consumers of data. Using case studies throughout to illustrate key
concepts in a realistic and concrete manner, the authors also draw
examples from recent U.S. Census data, United Nations and World
Bank reports, tables from the National Center for Health
Statistics, and other U.S. state- and county-level sources. New to
the Second Edition This second edition is divided into four main
parts; each part begins with a short introduction, and all chapters
include end-of-chapter summaries. All tables, related narrative,
and graphics have been updated to include data from the 2000 and
2010 census counts, more recent estimates for the United
States-especially the American Community Survey-and comparable new
data from international sources (e.g. World Bank, Population
Research Bureau World Data Sheet). Several new figures have been
added throughout the text. Part I: An Overview of Population
Science, introduces the field of demography and provides a summary
of its subject matter. The chapters in this part have been
reorganized to reflect changes in the discipline. *Chapter 1 now
includes a new "the study of populations" section, a shorter
Chapter 2 covers population size, and its former discussion of
structure has been moved to Chapter 3. This de-emphasizes the
history of population science to some extent and increases emphasis
on population size as the key demographic variable. * Chapter 4
presents the main principles and analytical techniques associated
with the three "static" characteristics of populations: size,
structure, and geographic distribution. Part II: Population
Dynamics: Vital Events and Growth, reflects the wealth of data and
analytical techniques now available from The U.S. Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and its "Wonder" utility. The
first three chapters focus on the vital events of birth, death, and
migration. The final chapter in this part brings this material
together in a discussion of population growth: its measurement, its
history, and current related policy concerns. Part III: Population
Models, introduces the principles of life table analysis,
population estimation, and projection. This material has been
simplified and updated. Chapter 9, The Life Table: An Introduction,
has been revised to accord with the new federal alignment for vital
statistics between the CDC and National Institute for Health
Statistics. Life tables from non-U.S. sources are increased in
number and in detailed functions. Part IV: Demography in
Application, provides overviews of population policy, the
environment, and demographic resources, along with a brief
postscript on population in the larger scheme of things. What
appeared as two appendices in the first edition, one on the history
of population policy and one on tourism as a type of international
migration, have been combined to create a new Chapter 14. The
end-of-chapter material has been shortened and now contains a
summary, key terms, and notes. A full-color enhanced eText is also
available, and the second edition is accompanied by a teaching and
learning package, including instructor's manual, test bank, lecture
slides, and a companion website that offers students additional
resources, flashcards, and self-study quizzes.
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