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Book Lost in Transition

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  • Author : Kristen Ghodsee
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2011-09-14
  • ISBN : 0822351021
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book Lost in Transition written by Kristen Ghodsee and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-14 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through ethnographic essays and short stories based on her experiences in Eastern Europe between 1989 and 2009, Kristen Ghodsee explains why many Eastern Europeans are nostalgic for the communist past.

Book Lost in Transition

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  • Author : Yaowei Zhu
  • Publisher : SUNY Press
  • Release : 2013-06-01
  • ISBN : 1438446454
  • Pages : 230 pages

Download or read book Lost in Transition written by Yaowei Zhu and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the fate of Hong Kong’s unique culture since its reversion to China.

Book Lost in Transition

Download or read book Lost in Transition written by Christian Smith and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Lost in Transition, Christian Smith and his collaborators draw on 230 in-depth interviews with a broad cross-section of emerging adults (ages 18-23) to investigate the difficulties young people face today, the underlying causes of those difficulties, and the consequences both for individuals and for American society as a whole. --From publisher description.

Book Peter Bialobrzeski

Download or read book Peter Bialobrzeski written by Peter Bialobrzeski and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text by Michael Glasmeier.

Book Lost in Transition

Download or read book Lost in Transition written by Tommy McGregor and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lost in Transition is for high school seniors and college freshmen who want to continue to grow in their relationships with Jesus once they go off to college. Tommy challenges students to have realistic expectations of college and to learn how to take ownership of their faith. --from publisher description.

Book Russia  lost in Transition

Download or read book Russia lost in Transition written by Lilii︠a︡ Shevt︠s︡ova and published by Carnegie Endowment. This book was released on 2007 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russian history is first and foremost a history of personalized power. As Russia startles the international community with its assertiveness and faces both parliamentary and presidential elections, Lilia Shevtsova searches the histories of the Yeltsin and Putin regimes. She explores within them conventional truths and myths about Russia, paradoxes of Russian political development, and Russia's role in the world. Russia--Lost in Transition discovers a logic of government in Russia--a political regime and the type of capitalism that were formulated during the Yeltsin and Putin presidencies and will continue to dominate Russia's trajectory in the near term. Looking forward as well as back, Shevtsova speculates about the upcoming elections as well as the self-perpetuating system in place--the legacies of Yeltsin and Putin--and how it will dictate the immediate political future. She also explores several scenarios for Russia's future over the next decade.

Book Young Adult Offenders

Download or read book Young Adult Offenders written by Friedrich Lösel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This latest volume in the Cambridge Criminal Justice Series focuses upon young adults and their treatment in the criminal justice system. The subject is very topical because there is increasing evidence that a rigid distinction between ‘youth’ and ‘adulthood’ is not appropriate in modern societies. For example, important developmental tasks such as finishing one’s education, finding regular work and the foundation of one’s own family are now completed later than in former times; neuropsychological brain functions are still developing beyond age 18; and desistance from criminal offending occurs most rapidly in early adulthood. Despite such evidence, the United Kingdom and other countries have largely neglected policies for young adult offenders in comparison with young people under 18. Although there seems to be no general transnational solution for this problem, there is a clear need for differentiation. This book brings together leading authorities in the field to analyse theoretical, empirical and policy issues relating to this neglected group of people, exploring different approaches to both crime prevention and offender treatment. It will be of interest to researchers, practitioners and policy makers in the fields of criminology, criminal justice, prisons, probation, forensic psychology and psychiatry, sociology, education and social work.

Book Lost in Transition

Download or read book Lost in Transition written by Kul Chandra Gautam and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lost in Transition

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  • Author : Aaron D. Purcell
  • Publisher : Univ Tennessee Press
  • Release : 2021-10-22
  • ISBN : 9781621905899
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Lost in Transition written by Aaron D. Purcell and published by Univ Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2021-10-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lost in Transition

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  • Author : Mary C. Brinton
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2010-11-01
  • ISBN : 1139492527
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Lost in Transition written by Mary C. Brinton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lost in Transition tells the story of the 'lost generation' that came of age in Japan's deep economic recession in the 1990s. The book argues that Japan is in the midst of profound changes that have had an especially strong impact on the young generation. The country's renowned 'permanent employment system' has unraveled for young workers, only to be replaced by temporary and insecure forms of employment. The much-admired system of moving young people smoothly from school to work has frayed. The book argues that these changes in the very fabric of Japanese postwar institutions have loosened young people's attachment to school as the launching pad into the world of work and loosened their attachment to the workplace as a source of identity and security. The implications for the future of Japanese society - and the fault lines within it - loom large.

Book Souls in Transition

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  • Author : Christian Smith
  • Publisher : OUP USA
  • Release : 2009-09-14
  • ISBN : 0195371798
  • Pages : 364 pages

Download or read book Souls in Transition written by Christian Smith and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2009-09-14 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on candid interviews with thousands of young people tracked over a five-year period, this book reveals how the religious practices of the teenagers portrayed in Soul Searching have been strengthened, challenged, and often changed as they have moved into adulthood.

Book Lost in Transition

Download or read book Lost in Transition written by Richard Elsner and published by Cyan Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stimulating reference enables companies and managers adjusting to new positions to cope with the difficulties associated with change and transition. Identifying the potential pitfalls that arise when moving into a new position and outlining ways to overcome them, this essay provides guidance to prevent failure and disruption for the new manager or executive. To make the complexities of transition more manageable, the process is split into three phases--Arriving, Surviving, and Thriving--and the different features of the leader's responsibilities at each stage are strategically analyzed.

Book Lost in Transition  Constructing Memory in Contemporary Spain

Download or read book Lost in Transition Constructing Memory in Contemporary Spain written by H. Rosi Song and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines contemporary recollection of Spain’s transition to democracy in the late 1970s and its connection to the country's current political, financial and cultural crises through fiction, film, and television.

Book South Africa s Post Apartheid Military

Download or read book South Africa s Post Apartheid Military written by Lindy Heinecken and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely book examines how the South African National Defence Force has adapted to the country’s new security, political and social environment since 1994. In South Africa’s changed political state, how has civilian control of the military been implemented and what does this mean for ‘defence in a democracy’? This book presents an overview of the security environment, how the mission focus of the military has changed and the implications for force procurement, force preparation, force employment and force sustainability. The author addresses other issues, such as: · the effect of integrating former revolutionary soldiers into a professional armed force · the effect of affirmative action on meritocracy, recruitment and retention · military veterans, looking at the difficulties they face in reintegrating back into society and finding gainful employment · gender equality and mainstreaming · the rise of military unions and why a confrontational, instead of a more corporatist approach to labour relations has emerged · HIV/AIDS and the consequences this holds for the military in terms of its operational effectiveness. In closing, the author highlights key events that have caused the SANDF to become ‘lost in transition and transformation’, spelling out some lessons learned. The conclusions she draws are pertinent for the future of defence, security and civil-military relations of countries around the world.

Book Lost Voices

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  • Author : Yvonne Corcoran-Nantes
  • Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
  • Release : 2013-07-04
  • ISBN : 184813729X
  • Pages : 203 pages

Download or read book Lost Voices written by Yvonne Corcoran-Nantes and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1991 the collapse of the Communist Party and the dissolution of the Soviet Union launched the republics of Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan into an unexpected self-declared independence and a precarious, uncertain future. Emerging from almost seventy-five years of Soviet tutelage all three republics embarked on a process of radical change. Central Asian women's lives have been profoundly affected during the huge upheavals of sovietization in the 1920s and democratisation in the 1990s, but their experiences have gone unresearched and undocumented. If Central Asia was generally considered to be the forgotten world of the Soviet Union, Central Asian women constitute the 'lost voices' of Central Asia. Yvonne Corcoran-Nantes offers a timely analysis into the lives of Muslim women during the Soviet era, and considers the impact of the shift from Soviet communism to Western capitalist ideals and its impact on gender relations in the region. The uneasy synthesis between socialism and Islam under the Soviet regime offered many women considerable status and personal freedom in public life but these gains have been rapidly eroded in the process of 'democratization'. Opportunities for women have entered into serious decline in terms of employment, education and socio-political status. Unlike many commentators, she offers a convincing argument that the main threat to the socio-political status of women in Central Asia is not Islamic fundamentalism, but the imposition of free market principles and Western 'liberal democratic' ideals. Woven into the text is a also subtle and nuanced analysis of the ways in which Central Asian women negotiate feminism, whether ushered in by Soviet women during sovietization, or by western NGOs in the region today. As a special consultant to UNESCAP, the author was one of the first researchers to undertake substantial research in the republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan in the post-independence period and this book is based on her interviews with women from the region from all sections of Central Asian society.

Book Found in Transition

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  • Author : Yiu-Wai Chu
  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Release : 2018-10-16
  • ISBN : 143847170X
  • Pages : 310 pages

Download or read book Found in Transition written by Yiu-Wai Chu and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an updated account of Hong Kong and its culture two decades after its reversion to China. In Found in Transition, Yiu-Wai Chu examines the fate of Hong Kong’s unique cultural identity in the contexts of both global capitalism and the increasing influence of China. Drawing on recent developments, especially with respect to language, movies, and popular songs as modes of resistance to “Mainlandization” and different forms of censorship, Chu explores the challenges facing Hong Kong twenty years after its reversion to China as a Special Administrative Region. Highlighting locality and hybridity along postcolonial lines of interpretation, he also attempts to imagine the future of Hong Kong by utilizing Hong Kong studies as a method. Chu argues that the study of Hong Kong—the place where the impact of the rise of China is most intensely felt—can shed light on emergent crises in different areas of the world. As such, this book represents a consequential follow-up to the author’s Lost in Transition and a valuable contribution to international, area, and cultural studies. Yiu-Wai Chu is Professor and Director of the Hong Kong Studies Program at the University of Hong Kong. His books include Lost in Transition: Hong Kong Culture in the Age of China, also published by SUNY Press.

Book Lost in the Long Transition

Download or read book Lost in the Long Transition written by William L. Alexander and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Lost in the Long Transition, a group of scholars who conducted fieldwork research in post-dictatorship Chile during the transition to democracy critically examine the effects of the country's adherence to neoliberal economic development and social policies. Shifting government responsibility for social services and public resources to the private sector, reducing restrictions on foreign investment, and promoting free trade and export production, neoliberalism began during the Pinochet dictatorship and was adopted across Latin America in the 1980s. With the return of civilian government, the pursuit of justice and equity worked alongside a pact of compromise and an economic model that brought prosperity for some, entrenched poverty for others, and had social consequences for all. The authors, who come from the disciplines of cultural anthropology, history, political science, and geography, focus their research perspectives on issues including privatization of water rights in arid lands, tuberculosis and the public health crisis, labor strikes and the changing role of unions, the environmental and cultural impacts of export development initiatives on small-scale fishing communities, natural resource conservation in the private sector, the political ecology of copper, the fight for affordable housing, homelessness and citizenship rights under the judicial system, and the gender experiences of returned exiles. In the years leading up to the global financial meltdown of 2008, many Latin American governments, responding to inequities at home and attempting to pull themselves out of debt dependency, moved away from the Chilean model. This book examines the social costs of that model and the growing resistance to neoliberalism in Chile, providing ethnographic details of the struggles of those excluded from its benefits. This research offers a look at the lives of those whose stories may have otherwise been lost in the long transition. Book jacket.