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Urban life in post-Soviet Asia. (2007)
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Alexander, C., Buchli, V., & Humphrey, C. (Eds.). (2007). Urban life in post-Soviet Asia. UCL Press (Routledge)

Children and young people as knowledge producers (2014)
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Porter, G., Townsend, J., & Hampshire, K. (Eds.). (2014). Children and young people as knowledge producers. Routledge

Despite the widespread promotion of children’s voices by activists and policy makers over the last decade, the potential for young people’s knowledge to impact on adult agendas and policy arenas is by no means a certainty. This book presents critique... Read More about Children and young people as knowledge producers.

The Body and the Arts. (2009)
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Saunders, C., Maude, U., & Macnaughton, J. (Eds.). (2009). The Body and the Arts. Palgrave Macmillan

United in Discontent: Local Responses to Cosmopolitanism, Multiculturalism and Globalization (2009)
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Theodossopoulos, D., & Kirtsoglou, E. (Eds.). (2009). United in Discontent: Local Responses to Cosmopolitanism, Multiculturalism and Globalization. Berghahn Journals

Cosmopolitanism is often discussed in a critical and disapproving manner: as a concept complicit with the interests of the powerful, or as a notion related to Western political supremacy, the ills of globalization, inequality, and capitalist economic... Read More about United in Discontent: Local Responses to Cosmopolitanism, Multiculturalism and Globalization.

Health, Risk, and Adversity (2008)
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Panter-Brick, C., & Fuentes, A. (Eds.). (2008). Health, Risk, and Adversity. Berghahn Journals

Research on health involves evaluating the disparities that are systematically associated with the experience of risk, including genetic and physiological variation, environmental exposure to poor nutrition and disease, and social marginalization. Th... Read More about Health, Risk, and Adversity.

Evolution of Sleep: Phylogenetic and Functional Perspectives. (2009)
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McNamara, P., Barton, R., & Nunn, C. (Eds.). (2009). Evolution of Sleep: Phylogenetic and Functional Perspectives. Cambridge University Press

Research during the past two decades has produced major advances in understanding sleep within particular species. Simultaneously, molecular advances have made it possible to generate phylogenetic trees, while new analytical methods provide the tools... Read More about Evolution of Sleep: Phylogenetic and Functional Perspectives..