Chernobyl and the Mortality Crisis in Eastern Europe and the Former USSR

Chernobyl and the Mortality Crisis in Eastern Europe and the Former USSRDe Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences provides a platform for disseminating topical analyses of current events, showcasing new theoretical, empirical or applied research across the social sciences and related fields. Through engaging storytelling and in depth analysis, it presents new work that appeals to a wide audience, and engages with issues of major public interest, highlighting the implications for both policy and professional practice.

and Chinese America

There are detailed descriptions of the extremes of good and bad penal administration that may exist even within the same city

Just as couples in the US might be discovering new tensions from their disparate reactions to whatever’s happening next in the White House

and partners' jointly coordinated actions all need to come together for couples to experience gender equality in work and family

Applying her years of experience as pastor and spiritual director combined with her study of the spiritual wisdom of the past

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and many other aspects of family life

The first Christians to encounter Islam were not Latin-speakers from the western Mediterranean or Greek-speakers from Constantinople but Mesopotamian Christians who spoke the Aramaic dialect of Syriac

the money we spend on training providers to become culturally competent

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and gender inequalities in the food service industry

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