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This two-volume work presents social cohesion and demographic challenges that are associated with low birth rates and population ageing. It does so from the perspective of citizens and key policy actors. The work analyses peoples’ attitudes about demographic trends and expectations towards private networks and public policies. It places these in the societal context of national specificities in the fourteen countries and regards them as part of the dynamics of the European integration process. Volume 2 focuses on research findings related to general knowledge of people concerning demographic developments, gender issues, and ageing. In addition, it presents the results of a Delphi-Study on the views of key policy actors in the area of demographic developments. The volume concludes with policy implications of the findings, and a reflected overview of all results collected in the two volumes of this work. This book is the outcome of the DIALOG research project, funded by the European Commission under the 5th Framework Programme.

Family policy --- Europe --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Population policy. --- Population.

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The Constant and Changing Faces of the Goddess: Goddess Traditions of Asia contains essays written by established scholars in the field that trace the multiplicity of Asian goddesses: their continuities, discontinuities, and importance as symbols of wisdo

Goddesses, Asian --- Asian goddesses --- Asia --- Asian and Pacific Council countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Religious life and customs

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Records show that the Chinese invented gunpowder in the 800s. By the 1200s they had unleashed the first weapons of war upon their unsuspecting neighbours. This extraordinarily ambitious book traces the history of that invention and its impact on the surrounding Asian world - Korea, Japan, South East Asia and South Asia - from the ninth through the twentieth century. As the book makes clear, the spread of war and its technology had devastating consequences on the political and cultural fabric of those early societies although each reacted very differently. The book, which is packed with information about military strategy, interregional warfare and the development of armaments, also engages with the major debates and challenges traditional thinking on Europe's contribution to military technology in Asia. Articulate and comprehensive, this book will be a welcome addition to the undergraduate classroom and to all those interested in Asian studies and military history.

Military art and science --- History. --- Asia --- History, Military. --- Military history --- Naval history --- Asian and Pacific Council countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Arts and Humanities --- History

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The author is presenting a broadly structured study about the first fifty years of European integration, its geopolitical context and academic reflection. His study is based on the two-fold thesis that since a few years, the European Union is going through a process of its Second Founding while simultaneously changing its rationale.

International relations --- European Union --- History. --- Europe --- European Union countries --- Economic integration --- Political aspects --- History --- Economic integration. --- Politics and government. --- E.U. --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia

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Richly interdisciplinary and full of fresh insights, Thinking Impossibilities is a fitting tribute to an important twentieth-century scholar.

History --- Science --- Jews --- History, Modern --- Philosophy. --- History. --- Philosophy --- Funkenstein, Amos. --- Funḳenshṭain, ʻAmos --- פונקנשטיין, עמוס --- Europe --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Intellectual life --- Intellectual life.