Product Description: Introduction: Migration and its consequences in 21st century Europe; Invited Contribution:The global economic crisis and international migration - An uncertain outlook; Refereed Articles: The global economic crisis and international migration: An uncertain outlook; Reproductive behaviour of migrant women in Germany: Data, patterns and determinants; Short term reproductive behaviour of foreign women who became mothers between 2002-2006 in Italy; Demographic and economic factors of labour supply: Long-term projections and policy options for France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom; Can the rising pension burden in Europe be mitigated by immigration? Modelling the effects of selected demographic and socio-economic factors on ageing in the European Union, 2008-2050; The impact of a massive migration flow on the regional population structure: The case of Italy; Effects of immigration on population growth and structures in Greece - A spatial approach; The net reproduction rate and the type-reproduction number in multiregional demography; Data & Trends (non-refereed contributions): Migration continent Europe...read more

Product Description: Ex-librarian Anne Cheron returns to her native Texas town to find her missing brother Eddie, who has vanished beneath the deceptively calm waters of Ancient Lake. But Anne will never see Eddie again, at least not as the warm, loving sibling of a shared, pain-filled childhood...read more

Product Description: Drama and the Sacraments in Sixteenth-Century England is the first book-length study of the relationship between early modern drama and sacramental ritual and theology. The book examines a range of dramatic forms, including morality plays, Tudor interludes and the Elizabethan professional stage...read more

Product Description: America did not rise to the top of the heap with these attitudes, and we will not stay at the top very much longer with them. We have become conditioned to speaking in riddles because to talk plainly will inevitably offend someone...read more

Product Description: The UN is often questioned about its ongoing relevance and overall effectiveness in the 21st century, particularly in its involvement with educational policy and co-operation around the globe. This ground-breaking book examines the four key agencies within the UN system that share the vital role of addressing educational futures: UNESCO, the World Bank, UNICEF and UNDP...read more

Product Description: Creating Christian Granada provides a richly detailed examination of a critical and transitional episode in Spain’s march to global empire. The city of Granada—Islam’s final bastion on the Iberian peninsula—surrendered to the control of Spain’s "Catholic Monarchs" Isabella and Ferdinand on January 2, 1492...read more

Product Description: Globalisation has created a host of benefits, not least the freer movement of goods and services needed to bring greater economic prosperity to the world. But along with the freer movement of goods and services comes a greater demand for other types of freedom, including a desire to share in the benefits of economic prosperity by migrating to countries where jobs and other benefits are more plentiful...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: As with other West European countries, immigration has for many years been one of the hottest and most enduring issues of the political debate in Denmark - and now once again revived because of the many refugees coming out of Kosovo...read more

Product Description: This book helps MIS professionals make critical groupware decisions, and offers essential, up-to-date guidance on intranets.This book presents the most up-to-date, thorough review of the groupware marketplace available, with special focus on the dramatic growth of intranets...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is the first book to take an in-depth look at how business managers today are implementing groupware applications. The reader finds out what works, what doesn't and why. Each chapter is packed with business case studies from major organizations.

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Product Description: A theme common to the newly written articles presented in this volume is that demographic theory has lost touch with the reality of its data. The purpose of the book is therefore to marry mathematical rigour with sociological and social awareness to improve both the theory and its application...read more