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    Hoboken : Taylor and Francis
    ISBN: 9780415129206
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (336 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Because I Tell a Joke or Two : Comedy, Politics and Social Difference
    DDC: 306.481
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    Abstract: 〈I〉Because I Tell a Joke or Two〈/I〉 explores the complex relationship between comedy and the social differences of class, region, age, gender, sexuality, ethnicity and nationhood
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of Contributors; INTRODUCTION; 'AT EASE, CORPORAL' Social class and the situation comedy in British television, from the 1950s to the 1990s; THE LANCASHIRE SHAMAN Frank Randle and Mancunian Films; BUTTERFLIES AND CAUSTIC ASIDES Housewives, comedy and the feminist movement; TARTS, TAMPONS AND TYRANTS Women and representation in British comedy; CERTAIN LIBERTIES HAVE BEEN TAKEN WITH CLEOPATRA Female performance in the Carry On films; PUNCHING YOUR WEIGHT Conversations with Jo Brand; THE STRAIGHT MEN OF COMEDY
    Description / Table of Contents: SUITS AND SEQUINS Lesbian comedians in Britain and the US in the 1990s'YEAH, AND I USED TO BE A HUNCHBACK' Immigrants, humour and the Marx Brothers; 'WHERE EVERYBODY KNOWS YOUR NAME' Open convictions and closed contexts in the American situation comedy; CRINGE AND STRUT Comedy and national identity in post-war Australia; 'SERIOUS T'ING' The black comedy circuit in England; 'THEY ALREADY GOT A COMEDIAN FOR GOVERNOR' Comedians and politics in the United States and Great Britain; VIZ Gender, class and taboo
    Description / Table of Contents: HEARD THE ONE ABOUT THE WHITE MIDDLE-CLASS HETEROSEXUAL FATHER-IN-LAW? Gender, ethnicity and political correctness in comedyIndex
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  • 2
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    ISBN: 9780415971560
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (189 p)
    Series Statement: Current Research in Ethnomusicology: Outstanding Dissertations
    Parallel Title: Print version The Horse-head Fiddle and the Cosmopolitan Reimagination of Tradition in Mongolia
    DDC: 306.095173
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Few other nations have undergone as profound a change in their social, political, and cultural life as Mongolia did in the twentieth century. Beginning the century as a largely rural, nomadic, and tradition-oriented society, the nation was transformed by the end of this century into a largely urban, post-industrial, and cosmopolitan one. This study seeks to understand the effects that Western-inspired modernity has had on the nature of cultural tradition in the country, focusing in particular on development of the morin khuur or ""horse-head fiddle,"" a two-stringed bowed folk lute that featur
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Preface; Introduction; 1 Two-Stringed Fiddle Traditions in Pre-Revolutionary Mongolian Society; 2 Building a National Music Culture; 3 Soviet Modernism and Cosmopolitan Nationalism; 4 N. Jantsannorow and the Reshaping of Mongolian Musical Nationalism; 5 The Folk "Revival" and the Reimagination of the Horse-head Fiddle; 6 The Persistence of Alternative Music Histories; List of Interviews; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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  • 3
    ISBN: 9780415334815
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (288 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
    Parallel Title: Print version The Risks of Medical Innovation : Risk Perception and Assessment in Historical Context
    DDC: 306.461
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Presenting a new way of thinking about the risks of medical innovation, this volume considers the issues from a social historical perspective, and studies specific cases in their respective contexts
    Description / Table of Contents: The Risks of Medical Innovation Risk perception and assessment in historical context; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Preface; 1 Risk and medical innovation: a historical perspective; 2 To assess and to improve: practitioners' approaches to doubts linked with medical innovations 1720-1920; 3 Anaesthesia and the evaluation of surgical risk in mid-nineteenth-century Britain; 4 Redemption, danger and risk: the history of anti-bacterial chemotherapy and the transformation of tuberculin
    Description / Table of Contents: 5 "As safe as milk or sugar water": perceptions of the risks and benefits of the BCG vaccine in the 1920s and 1930s in France and Germany6 From danger to risk: the perception and regulation of X-rays in Switzerland, 1896-1970; 7 The population as patient: Alice Stewart and the controversy over low-level radiation in the 1950s; 8 To treat or not to treat: drug research and the changing nature of essential hypertension; 9 Hormones at risk: cancer and the medical uses of industrially-produced sex steroids in Germany, 1930-1960
    Description / Table of Contents: 10 Risk assessment and medical authority in operative fracture care in the 1960s and 1970s11 Assessing the risk and safety of the pill: maternal mortality and the pill; 12 Addressing uncertainties: the conceptualization of brain death in Switzerland 1960-2000; 13 Risk on trial: the interaction of innovation and risk in cancer clinical trials ; 14 BioRisk: interleukin-2 from laboratory to market in the United States and Germany; 15 The redemption of Thalidomide: standardizing the risk of birth defects; Name Index; Subject Index
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  • 4
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    ISBN: 9780415265997
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (353 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Native on the Net : Indigenous and Diasporic Peoples in the Virtual Age
    DDC: 004.67
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Exploring the influence of the Internet on the lives of indigenous and diasporic peoples, Kyra Landzelius leads a team of expert anthropologists and ethnographers who go on-site and on-line to explore how a diverse range of indigenous and transnational diasporic communities actually use the Internet. From the Taino Indians of the Caribbean, the U'wa of the Amazon rainforest, and the Tunomans and Assyrians of Iraq, to the Tingas and Zapatistas, Native on the Net is a lively and intriguing exploration of how new technologies have enabled these previously isolated peoples to reach new levels of c
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Native on the net; 2 Remote indigenous communities in Australia: Questions of access, information, and self-determination; 3 Canadian aboriginal peoples tackle e-health: Seeking ownership versus integration; 4 A screen of snow and recognition reigned supreme? Journeys into the homeland of a Greenlandic webpage; 5 On line, off line and in line: The Zapatista rebellion and the uses of technology by Indian women
    Description / Table of Contents: 6 The meta-native and the militant activist: Virtually saving the rainforest7 AmerindianCaribbean: Internet indigeneity in the electronic generation of Carib and Taino identities; 8 Debating language and identity online: Tongans on the net; 9 Deterritorialized people in hyberspace: Creating and debating Harari identity over the internet; 10 Negotiating nationhood on the net: The case of the Turcomans and Assyrians of Iraq; 11 Discussion lists and public policy on iGhana: Chimps and feral activists
    Description / Table of Contents: 12 The transformation of discourse online: Toward a holistic diagnosis of the nature of social inequality in Burundi13 Ch(c0de): Virtual occupations, encrypted identities, and the Al-Aqsa intifada; 14 Internet counter counter-insurgency: TamilNet.com and ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka; 15 Cyberethnography: Reading South Asian digital diasporas; 16 Postscript: Vox populi from the margins?; Index
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  • 5
    ISBN: 9789057024504
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (367 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Unstructuring Chinese Society : The Fictions of Colonial Practice and the Changing Realities of ""Land"" in the New Territories of Hong Kong
    DDC: 301.095125
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Unstructuring Chinese Society is a culmination of long term field work and archival research that challenges existing theories of social organisation and cultural change. The book makes new sense of historical contradictions, political conflicts and deep seated social transformations that have underlined the experience of colonial rule and the practices of local institutions in Hong Kong over the past century. By focusing on the ongoing interactions of discourse, practices and global-local relations in cultural terms, Unstructuring Chinese Society puts forth a fresh perspective in the field
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Tables; Preface; Map of Hong Kong; Map of China; Map of Hong Kong and the New Territories; Introduction: The Field of History in the Field; Chapter 1 Earthbound Anthropologies in the 'Structure' of Rural Chinese Society; Chapter 2 The Changing Meaning of Colonial Policy on Land in the New Territories of Hong Kong; Chapter 3 The Changing Meaning of Land in Colonial Hong Kong; Chapter 4 The Meaning of Tradition in a Progressive Society; Chapter 5 Culture's Colonialism: The Future of Method; Bibliography; Appendix; Index
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  • 6
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    ISBN: 9780203007143
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (346 p.))
    Edition: 1 (Online-Ausg.)
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Barnard, T. C. The wearing of the green. A history of St Patrick's Day. By Mike Cronin and Daryl Adair. Pp. xxix+328+14 plates. London–New York: Routledge, 2002. £25. 0 415 18004 X 2003
    Series Statement: EBL-Schweitzer
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Cronin, Mike The wearing of the green
    DDC: 394.262
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    Keywords: History ; Saint Patrick ; Saint Patricks Day ; Saint Patrick's Day ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Saint Patrick's Day ; Geschichte
    Abstract: The full history of St. Patrick's day is captured here for the first time in The Wearing of the Green.Illustrated with photos, the book spans the medieval origins, steeped in folklore and myth, through its turbulent and troubled times when it acted as fuel for fierce political argument, and tells the fascinating story of how the celebration of 17th March was transformed from a stuffy dinner for Ireland's elite to one of the world's most public festivals.Looking at more general Irish traditions and Irish communities throughout the world, Mike Cronin and Daryl Adair follow the history of this widely celebrated event, examining how the day has been exploited both politically and commercially, and they explore the shared heritage of the Irish through the development of this unique patriotic holiday.Highly informative for students of history, cultural studies and sociology, and an absolute delight for anyone interested in the fascinating and unique culture of Ireland
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  • 7
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    ISBN: 9780710206794
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (246 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Technology and Women's Voices : Keeping in Touch
    DDC: 303.4/83/088042
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Avoiding jargon and using well-chosen illustrations, 〈I〉Technology and Women's Voices〈/I〉 assesses technological changes in terms of their impact on women's social lives
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Contents; PREFACE; Gotta go Myrtle, technology's at the door; Women's voices/men's voices: technology as language; Women clerical workers and the typewriter: the writing machine; Computational reticence: why women fear the intimate machine; 'Who needs a personality to talk to a machine?': communication in the automated office; Chatting on a feminist computer network; Gender and typographic culture: beginning to unravel the 500-year mystery; Women on the move: how public is public transport?; Putting wheels on women's sphere; Talk of sewing circles and sweatshops
    Description / Table of Contents: 'Washing, seems it's all we do': washing technology and women's communicationOral traditions and the advent of electric power; Speaking up: voice amplification and women's struggle for public expression; Women and the telephone: the gendering of a communications technology; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX
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  • 8
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    ISBN: 9780415260237
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (225 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge / ESA Studies in European Societies v.5
    Parallel Title: Print version Inclusions and Exclusions in European Societies
    DDC: 305.094
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: European social development over the last century has been characterized by an increasing inclusiveness of people into the ever-larger collectives of the nation state, the European Union and categories of welfare entitlement. Yet recent empirical data suggests that income gaps are growing and that within the physical borders of Europe there is a greater cultural and ethnic heterogeneity than ever before. Effectively, many of the processes of inclusion are accompanied by exclusion and the creation of new borders, identities and rights.Inclusions and Exclusions in European Societies features emi
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Preface and acknowledgments; European societies: inclusions/exclusions?; Framing inclusions and identities in Europe: theoretical perspectives on citizenship and belonging; At the turn of the centuries: Georg Simmel then and now; Recombinant citizenship; The narration of difference: 'cultural stuff', ethnic projects and identities; Becoming a person: new frontiers for identity and citizenship in a planetary society; Exclusions and inclusions in work and welfare
    Description / Table of Contents: The paradox of global social change and national path dependencies: life course patterns in advanced societiesReconsidering the socialist welfare state model; If class is dead, why won't it lie down?; Tackling inequality and exclusion: towards a dimension of active citizenship participation; Inclusions and exclusions beyond the nation state: Europe and the world; Conceptualizing the process of globalization; European processes and the state of the European Union; Index
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  • 9
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    ISBN: 9780415100564
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (465 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Terms of Survival : The Jewish World Since 1945
    DDC: 305.892/4
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    Abstract: The emergence of the state of Israel has fundamentally changed the conditions of Jewish existence. The issues now facing Jews everywhere are totally different to those that confronted them only fifty years ago. This book provides the only thoroughly worldwide modern history of the Jews of the Diaspora. Robert Wistrich has drawn together an outstanding collection of authors from the United States, Europe and Israel in order to analyse the immense changes that have taken place since 1945 in a comprehensive, yet original, manner.Cultural, religious, domestic, political, economic and occupational
    Description / Table of Contents: BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; FIGURES AND TABLES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION; 1 CHANGING CORES AND PERIPHERIES; 2 THE DEMOGRAPHIC IMPACT OF THE HOLOCAUST; 3 EMIGRATION AND ALIYAH; 4 THE NEW JEWISH POLITICS IN AMERICA; 5 THE SKILLS AND ECONOMIC STATUS OF AMERICAN JEWRY; 6 MODERNIZATION, ETHNICITY AND THE POST-WAR JEWISH WORLD; 7 THE POLITICAL PROFILE OF AMERICAN JEWRY; 8 AMERICAN JEWS AND UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY (1945-90); 9 SOVIET JEWRY-A COMMUNITY IN TURMOIL; 10 ETHNICITY AND THE JEWISH VOTE
    Description / Table of Contents: 11 JEWISH POLITICAL ATTITUDES AND VOTING PATTERNS IN ENGLAND 1945-198712 ANTI-SEMITISM IN EUROPE AFTER 1945; 13 RELIGIOUS TRENDS AMONG AMERICAN AND ISRAELI JEWS; 14 CHANGE AND CONTINUITY IN AMERICAN JUDAISM; 15 PROTESTANT ATTITUDES TO JEWS AND JUDAISM DURING THE LAST FIFTY YEARS; 16 CATHOLIC PERCEPTIONS OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE SINCE THE SECOND WORLD WAR; 17 THE SPANISH-SPEAKING WORLD AND THE JEWS; 18 BREAKING THE MOULD; 19 THE JEWISH WRITER AND THE PROBLEM OF EVIL; 20 STATE AND REAL ESTATE; INDEX
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  • 10
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    Hoboken : Taylor and Francis
    ISBN: 9780728600430
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (182 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Collected papers in Oriental and African studies
    Parallel Title: Print version Natural Symbols in South East Asia
    DDC: 306.4
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    Abstract: This book is based on the second of two series of open lectures given in the Centre ofSouth East Asian Studies in the School of Oriental and African Studies, University ofLondon during the session 1975-76. The first of these, Nature and Man in South EastAsia, ran from October to December 1975. The second, Natural Symbols in South EastAsia, ran from January to March 1976.The hope that both series would be coherent and independent, and that each wouldcomplement the other, was in the main realised and the editors are thus able to present thepublished versions as companion volumes.The Department o
    Description / Table of Contents: BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; PLATES; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; THE PATH OF THE SOUL: THE LEGITIMACY OF NATURE IN BALINESE CONCEPTIONS OF SPACE; IMAGES OF ECSTASY: A VIETNAMESE RESPONSE TO NATURE; PADI, PUNS AND THE ATTRIBUTION OF RESPONSIBILITY; BURMESE ATTITUDES TO PLANTS AND ANIMALS; A FEW REMARKS ABOUT THAI POLITICAL SYSTEMS; ARCHITECTURAL AND POLITICAL SPACE IN THAILAND; NATURAL SYMBOLS IN JAVA; THE PLANETS, THE DAYS OF THE WEEK AND THE POINTS OF THE COMPASS: ORIENTATION SYMBOLISM IN 'BURMA'; SUBJECT INDEX
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  • 11
    ISBN: 9781138003552
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (443 p)
    Series Statement: Advances in Family Research Series
    Parallel Title: Print version Continuity and Change in Family Relations : Theory, Methods and Empirical Findings
    DDC: 306.85
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    Abstract: The chapters in this volume were developed as a follow-up to the Summer Institute entitled ""Continuity and Change: Family Structure and Process"" conducted by the second Family Research Consortium. The goal of this book is to provide readers with a greater understanding of both the conceptual issues involved in the study of continuity and change in families, and also some of the methodological approaches that have been developed for investigating families over time.〈br〉
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; I: Studying Continuity and Change in Family Relationships; 1 Changing Families in Changing Times; 2 Modeling Continuity and Change in Family Relationships With Panel Data; II: The Course of Marriage and Romantic Relationships; 3 Trajectories of Change During the Early Years of Marriage; 4 Chronic and Changing Marital Instability and Physical Illness: Trajectories of Czech Couples; 5 Change and Continuity in Marital Relationships During the Middle Years
    Description / Table of Contents: 6 How and Why Marriages Change Over Time: Shifting Patterns of Companionship and Partnership7 Reality Testing in Premarital Intervention: A "Progressive" Approach to Effecting Change in Marriage; III: Understanding Change in Parent-Child Relationships; 8 The Transition to Parenting: Continuity and Change in Early Parenting Behavior and Attitudes; 9 Continuity Versus Discontinuity in Parent and Adolescent Negative Affect; 10 Putting Problem Solving to the Test: Replicating Experimental Interventions for Preventing Youngsters' Problem Behaviors; IV: Examining Sibling Relationships Over Time
    Description / Table of Contents: 11 Sibling Relationships During Childhood: Multiple Perceptions from Multiple Perspectives12 The Changing Nature of Adolescent Sibling Relationships: A Theoretical Framework for Evaluating the Role of Relationship Quality; 13 Experimental Interventions in Sibling Relationships; V: Reviewing the Evidence; 14 Studying Change in Family Relationships: The Findings and Their Implications; Author Index; Subject Index
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    ISBN: 9780415075640
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (348 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Economics as Social Theory
    Parallel Title: Print version Who Pays for the Kids? : Gender and the Structures of Constraint
    DDC: 305.4/2
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: A fresh look at how women largely carry the costs of caring for themselves, the children and other dependents, with an analysis of individual choices within interlocking structures of constraint based on gender, sex, age, nation, race and class
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; FEMINIST THEORY AND POLITICAL ECONOMY; COLLECTIVE ACTION AND STRUCTURES OF CONSTRAINT; THE PERSISTENCE OF PATRIARCHAL POWER; INTRODUCTION TO PART II; NORTHWESTERN EUROPE; THE UNITED STATES; LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN; CONCLUSION: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF FAMILY POLICY; Notes; References; Index
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    ISBN: 9780415259507
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (251 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Routledge Advances in Sociology
    Parallel Title: Print version Language, Identity and Conflict : A Comparative Study of Language in Ethnic Conflict in Europe and Eurasia
    DDC: 306.44/089
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    Abstract: This book comprises a comparative study of relationships between language and ethnic identity in key regions of historical and contemporary ethnic conflict in Europe and Eurasia
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Language, Identity and Conflict; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Part 1 Initial theoretical interrogations; 2 Language and society; 3 Ethnic identity; 4 Language in ethnicity; Part 2 Borders and frontiers; 5 Histories and geographies of the nation-state; 6 Language and ethnic frontiers; Part 3 Landscapes and institutions; 7 Map, mythology and environment; 8 Virtuality and propinquity; Part 4 Conflicts; 9 Language movements, ethnic mobilisation and the state; 10 Language conflict and language in conflict
    Description / Table of Contents: Part 5 Resolutions11 Beyond conflict; 12 Globalities: comparative issues in extra-European théâtres; 13 Conclusions; Bibliography; Index
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    ISBN: 9781841693019
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (618 p)
    Series Statement: Essays in Developmental Psychology
    Parallel Title: Print version Children's Knowledge, Beliefs and Feelings about N
    DDC: 155.4
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    Abstract: This book provides a state-of-the-art account of how people's subjective sense of national identity, and attitudes towards countries and national groups, develop through the course of childhood and adolescence. It offers a comprehensive review of the research which has been conducted into:. children's understanding of nations as geographical territories and as political, historical and cultural communities. children's knowledge, beliefs and feelings about the people who belong to different national groups. children's attitudes towards, and emotional attachment to, their
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of tables; List of figures; About the author; Preface; 1. On children, nations and national groups; Some initial conceptual distinctions; Theoretical perspectives on the nature of nations; The concept of national enculturation; The structure and organization of this book; Summary; 2. Children's knowledge, beliefs and feelings about countries construed as geographical territories; The Piagetian perspective on children's understanding of, and feelings about, countries; Children's knowledge, beliefs and feelings about their own country
    Description / Table of Contents: Children's knowledge, beliefs and feelings about foreign countriesSummary; 3. Children's knowledge, beliefs and feelings about the state construed as a political entity; Children's understanding of the state; Variability in children's understanding of, and attitudes to, government; The role of the school in fostering children's understanding of the state; Summary; 4. Children's knowledge, beliefs and feelings about nations and states construed as historical and cultural communities; Children's pride in their own country; The role of the school in the national enculturation of children
    Description / Table of Contents: Children's knowledge and utilization of national and state emblemsSummary; 5. Children's knowledge, beliefs and feelings about the people who belong to different national and state groups; Early studies into children's representations of, and attitudes to, the people who live in different countries; More recent studies into children's representations of, and attitudes to, the people who live in different countries; The CHOONGE and NERID projects; The sources of children's knowledge and beliefs about the people who live in other countries
    Description / Table of Contents: Children's beliefs about the factors that determine people's national and state group membershipsSummary; 6. The development of children's subjective identifications with their own nation and state; Previous studies into children's national and state self-categorizations; The findings from the CHOONGE and NERID projects; The Strength of Identification Scale (SoIS); Summary; 7. Theoretical accounts of how children's knowledge, beliefs and feelings about nations and states develop; The key findings requiring explanation; Existing theoretical accounts of children's development
    Description / Table of Contents: Towards a new explanatory framework: Societal-social-cognitive-motivational theory (SSCMT)Coda; Summary; References; Author index; Subject index
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    ISBN: 9780750701099
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (336 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Children Talking Television : The Making Of Television Literacy
    DDC: 302.23083
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Is television harmful to children? Does it destroy imagination, provode delinquency and violence, undermine family life and have other detrimental effects on children?; The author, himself a parent, teacher and researcher investigates the complex ways in which children actively make meaning and take pleasure from television. Chapters cover the popular debates about children and television from a general and academic perspective. The characteristics of children's talk about television are explored, as children interact with other children and other family members in ""family viewing"" sessions
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Transcription Conventions; List of Tables; Introduction; Part One; 1 Children and Television: The Context of Research and Debate; 2 Rethinking Television Literacy; Part Two; Introduction Making Sense of Television Talk; 3 What are Words Worth?: Interpreting Children's Talk about Television; 4 Talking about Television: Relations, Subjects and Contents; 5 Family Viewing: Text and Context; Part Three; Introduction Elements of Television Literacy; 6 Sorting Out TV: Categorization and Genre
    Description / Table of Contents: 7 (Re)telling Stories: Versions of Narrative8 The Self and Others: Reading Television People; 9 Beyond the Magic Window: Children's Judgments of the Reality of Television; 10 Hidden Persuaders?: Advertising, Resistance and Pleasure; Part Four; 11 Television, the Audience and the Academy: The Politics and Practice of Audience Research; 12 Television, Language and Learning: Implications for Media Education; References; Index
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    ISBN: 9780415031998
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (251 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Rediscovering Masculinity : Reason, Language and Sexuality
    DDC: 305.3/2
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    Abstract: Men have responded to feminism with feelings of anxiety, guilt and unease. It has taken time for men to consider ways of changing themselves rather than hiding behind feminist rhetoric
    Description / Table of Contents: BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; Preface and acknowledgements; 1 INTRODUCTION: MASCULINITY, LANGUAGE AND SEXUALITY; 2 REASON; 3 SEXUALITY; 4 CONTROL; 5 CHANGE; 6 IDENTITY; 7 LANGUAGE; 8 STRENGTH; 9 INTIMACY; 10 CONCLUSION: MASCULINITY, MORALITY AND POLITICS; Notes; Bibliography; Name index; Subject index
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    ISBN: 9780815323440
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (383 p)
    Series Statement: MSU Series on Children, Youth and Families
    Parallel Title: Print version Making Invisible Latino Adolescents Visible : A Critical Approach to Latino Diversity
    DDC: 305.235
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Latino Youth and America: Time for a Change; Latino Youth: Converting Challenges to Opportunities; The Impact of Growing Up Poor or Welfare-Dependent on the Economic Status of Young Adults; Sexual Behaviors of Latina Adolescents; An Ecological, Risk-Factor Examination of Latino Adolescents' Engagement in Sexual Activity; The Contrast between the Pathological Attributes and the Status/Aspirations of Mexican American Youth; The Multicultural Literacies of Precollege Latino Students
    Description / Table of Contents: Demystifying the Images of Latinos: Boston-Based Case StudiesThe Development of Coping Strategies among Urban Latino Youth: A Focus on Help-Seeking Orientation and Network-Related Behavior; Family Values of Latino Adolescents; Authority Plus Affection: Latino Parenting during Adolescence; Migrant Adolescents: Barriers and Opportunities for Creating a Promising Future; Child Welfare and Latino Adolescents; Pensamientos; Contributors; Index
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (234 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Globalisation and the Third World
    DDC: 303.482091724
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    Abstract: First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Introduction: globalisation, (post-)modernity and the Third World; The crisis of global development; Transnational companies, global capital and the Third World; Migration and the refugee experience; Global aspects of health and health policy in Third World countries; The Biodiversity Convention and global sustainable development; Globalisation, ethnic identity and popular culture in Latin America; Globalisation and cultural imperialism: a case study of the music industry; Globalisation and religious activism; Index
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (284 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Practice Issues in Sexuality and Learning Disabilities
    DDC: 306.7/087/4
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    Abstract: Provides practical ideas and suggestions which will be of immense value to students and to those working with people with learning difficulties
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Personal relationships and sexuality: the staff role; Working with parents; Understanding and responding to difficult sexual behaviour; Sex education in the multiracial society; Sexual abuse of individuals with intellectual disability; Competency and consent: the importance of decision-making; Between ourselves: experiences of a women's group on sexuality and sexual abuse; Working with sexually abused individuals who have a learning disability
    Description / Table of Contents: A model clinic approach for the reproductive health care of persons with developmental disabilitiesHIV/AIDS and safer sex work with people with learning disabilities; Rationale, approaches, results and resource implications of programmes to enhance parenting skills of people with learning disabilities; Interventions with a pregnant woman with severe learning disabilities: a case example; Almost equal opportunitiesdeveloping personal relationships guidelines for social services department staff working with people with learning disabilities
    Description / Table of Contents: Appendix: Hertfordshire County Council Policy DocumentName index; Subject index
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (328 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Mayan Visions : The Quest for Autonomy in an Age of Globalization
    DDC: 306.089974152
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    Abstract: First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Indigenous Counterplots to Globalization Processes; Indigenous Communities: Uneasy Alliances with Empire and Nation; Exodus from Communities: Genesis of Indigenous Culture in Regional and National Spaces; Radical Democratic Mobilization, 1994 1996; Civil Society in Crisis: The Contest for Peace and Justice, 1995 2000; Pluricultural Survival in the Global Ecumene; Glossary; Notes; References Cited; Index
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    ISBN: 9780117023796
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (269 p)
    Series Statement: Regions and Cities
    Parallel Title: Print version Regional Innovation Strategies : The Challenge for Less-Favoured Regions
    DDC: 307
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    Abstract: This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the new wave of innovation-oriented regional policies. It draws conclusions from the European Regional Technology Plans and Regional Innovation Strategies
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; REGIONAL INNOVATION STRATEGIES; Regional Development and Public Policy Series; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of tables; List of figures; Contributors; Introduction; 1 A Regional Perspective on Innovation: From Theory to Strategy; 2 Developing Regional Innovation Strategies: The European Commission as Animateur; 3 Towards a Knowledge-Intensive Regional Economy: The RTP Process in Limburg; 4 Creating a Regional Innovation Policy in Lorraine; 5 Learning Through Strategy-Making The RTP in Wales
    Description / Table of Contents: 6 The Innovative-Region Strategy: Lessons from the Central Macedonia Regional Technology Plan7 Regional Innovation Strategies: The Key Challenge for Castilla y León as one of Europe's Less-Favoured Regions; 8 From Planned Economy to Global Markets: The RITTS Project in South Brandenburg; 9 Prospects for Building Technology Policy in Central and Eastern Europe; 10 Regional Technology and Innovative Strategies in the United States: Small Steps, High Expectations; 11 Regional Innovation Strategies in Quebec: The Bas-Saint-Laurent Region
    Description / Table of Contents: 12 The New Wave of Innovation-Oriented Regional Policies: Retrospect and ProspectsReferences; Index
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    Parallel Title: Print version Working For Women? : Gendered Work And Welfare Policies In Twentieth Century Britain
    DDC: 305.43
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    Abstract: This text examines ways in which women's patterns of paid and unpaid work have been mediated by the policies of governments throughout the 20th century. It looks at the state in defining what is women's work and men's work, and at equal pay and
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 Introduction ; Chapter 2 Women's 'Right to Work' and the State, 1905-1914 ; Chapter 3 Women as 'Substitutes for Men' in Recruitment Policy, 1914-1918 ; Chapter 4 Women and Unemployment Policy Between the Wars ; Chapter 5 Women, Recruitment and Demobilization Policy during the Second World War ; Chapter 6 Women's 'Dual Role' and the Postwar Boom 1945-1970 ; Chapter 7 Equal Employment Opportunities, or Women as a Flexible Reserve Labour Force?
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 8 Twentieth-Century Work and Welfare Policies: Have they Worked for Women? Chapter 9 Can State Policies Work for Women? A Theoretical Discussion ; Chapter 10 What Could Work for Women? Policies and Strategies ; References; Index
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    ISBN: 9780415090353
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (263 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction
    Parallel Title: Print version International Media Research : A Critical Survey
    DDC: 302.23072
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    Abstract: Considers the relationship between media research and media policy in different national and international contexts and explores the relationship between media studies and cultural studies, gender and sexuality
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; EDITORS' INTRODUCTION; THE WORK OF ELIHU KATZ: CONCEPTUALIZING MEDIA EFFECTS IN CONTEXT; CULTURAL STUDIES AS A RESEARCH PERSPECTIVE: THEMES AND TENSIONS; GENDER AND MEDIA STUDIES: NO WOMAN, NO CRY; POST-COMMUNIST MEDIA IN TRANSITION; ISSUES AND ASSUMPTIONS IN COMMUNICATIONS POLICY AND RESEARCH IN WESTERN EUROPE: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS; MEDIA POLICY IN NORTH AMERICA; MEDIA AND CULTURE IN LATIN AMERICA; THE MEDIA AND WAR; Index
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    ISBN: 9780415321655
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (325 p)
    Edition: 4th ed
    Parallel Title: Print version Sociology, Work and Industry : Fifth edition
    DDC: 306.3
    Keywords: Industrial sociology ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: 〈P〉In the fourth edition of this successful and popular text Tony Watson explains how the discipline of sociology contributes to our wider understanding of the variety of work practices and institutions, which exist in modern society. 〈/P〉
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures and tables; Introduction; Studying work and society; The sociological analysis of work and industry; Work, society and change; Work organisations; The changing organisation and management of work; Occupations and society; Work experiences, opportunities and meanings; Conflict, challenge and resistance in work; Concept guide and glossary; Bibliography; Author index; Subject index
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    ISBN: 9780415250436
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (208 p)
    Series Statement: Future of Childhood
    Parallel Title: Print version Children, Home and School : Regulation, Autonomy or Connection?
    DDC: 306.430941
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    Abstract: This book explores the key institutional settings of home and school, and other educationally linked organised spaces, in children's lives, and the relationships between these
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of tables and figures; List of contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: conceptualising relationships between home and school in children's lives; Students' rights in British schools: trust, autonomy, connection and regulation; Educational reform in New Zealand: where were the children?; School's Out? Out of school clubs at the boundary of home and school; Portrait of Callum: the disabling of a childhood?; Adults as resources and adults as burdens: the strategies of children in the age of school-home collaboration
    Description / Table of Contents: Home and school constraints in children's experience of socialisation in GenevaMinding the gap: children and young people negotiating relations between home and school; Priming events, autonomy and agency in low-income African-American children's transition from home to school; Negotiating boundaries: tensions within home and school life for refugee children; Young people between home and school; Afterword: similarities and differences; Index
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    ISBN: 9780415174640
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (288 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Page to Screen : Taking Literacy into the Electronic Era
    DDC: 302.2244
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Hypertext, e-mail, word processing: electronic technologies have revolutionized textual practices. How does language on screen work differently from language on the page? What new literacy skills are needed and how do we teach them?Page to Screen collects some of the best contemporary thinkers in the field of technology and literacy. They analyze the potential of the new forms of text, the increased emphasis on visual communication, new forms of rhetoric, learning in the age of global communication networks and new approaches to storytelling.Page to Screen is compelling reading for anyone inte
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Cover; Page to Screen; Copyright Page; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; Page to Screen; Section 1: The spaces of electronic literacies; 1. Reflections on computers and composition studies at the century's end: Gail E. Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe; 2. The wired world of second-language education: Michele Knobel, Colin Lankshear, Eileen Honan and Jane Crawford; Section 2: Emerging literacies; 3. Visual and verbal modes of representation in electronically mediated communication: the potentials of new forms of text: Gunther Kress
    Description / Table of Contents: 4. The rhetorics and languages of electronic mail: Charles Moran and Gail E. Hawisher5. Rhetorics of the Web: hyperreading and critical literacy: Nicholas C. Burbules; Section 3: The problems and possibilities of hypertext; 6. Beyond the hype: reassessing hypertext: Ilana Snyder; 7. Will the most reflexive relativist please stand up: hypertext, argument and relativism: Jane Yellowlees Douglas; 8. New stories for new readers: contour, coherence and constructive hypertext: Michael Joyce; Section 4: Changing the cultures of teaching and learning
    Description / Table of Contents: 9. Living on the surface: learning in the age of global communication networks: Johndan Johnson-Eilola10. Children, computers and life online: education in a cyber-world: Richard Smith and Pamela Curtin; 11. Computer games, culture and curriculum: Catherine Beavis; Index;
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    ISBN: 9780415026598
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (347 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Measure for Measure: Manifesto
    DDC: 300.18
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    Abstract: This book should be of interest to students of social theory, applied soci ology, sociology of knowledge
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Content; Acknowledgements; 1 Substantiating sociology; 2 Against variable analysis: thirty years on; 3 Against scaling: meaning and measurement; 4 Theory and observation: squaring the circularity problem; 5 On being empirical' without being empiricist'; 6 From variables to mechanisms (and back again); 7 Closure: actualism versus realism; 8 Explanatory networks: the conceptual domain of class; 9 Choosing class concepts: from indicator selection to theory adjudication; 10 Constructing class data: imposition and control in the interview
    Description / Table of Contents: 11 The new rules of sociological measurementBibliography; Index
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    ISBN: 9780415089180
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (275 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version The Authority of the Consumer
    DDC: 306.3
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    Abstract: 〈I〉The Authority of the Consumer〈/I〉 explores the implications of `consumer society' - charting its meanings in particular circumstances and analysing this way of understanding the relationships between `providers' and 'recipients'
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Preface; Introduction; Scepticism, authority and the market; Authority and consumer society; Consumers, identity and belonging: reflections on some theses of Zygmunt Bauman; The organized consumer and consumer information co-operatives; Advertising: moving beyond the stereotypes; The limits of consumption and the post-modern 'religion' of the New Age; High art and the high street: the 'commerce-and-culture' debate; Planning a culture for the people?
    Description / Table of Contents: The culture of consumption: design museums as educators or tastemakers?Framing the audience for theatre; Citizens, charters and contracts; Consuming health and welfare; Consuming education; Retailing the police: corporate identity and the Met.; Conversationalization of public discourse and the authority of the consumer; Name index; Subject index
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    ISBN: 9782884491303
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (382 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Culture and Sexual Risk
    DDC: 306.7
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    Abstract: Brummelhuis and Herdt provide an intense examination of sexual risk and its cultural configurations heretofore missing from the AIDS literature. The chapters on Western gay men speak to the pressing methodological, conceptual and theoretical needs in HIV/AIDS research while providing an understanding and documentation of gay men's lives within the emerging corpus of lesbian and gay studies. Chapters on the Philippines, Brazil, Haiti and Africa explore the cultural, political and economic contexts surrounding the transmission and prevention of HIV/AIDS in these cultures
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS; Part I Culture, and Beyond:The Wider Contextof Sexual Risk; Part II Contextualizing Sexual Risk; Part III Sexual Risk Among Western Gay Men; Part IV The Study of Cultureand Sexual Risk
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    ISBN: 9780415284806
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (175 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Cultures of Masculinity
    DDC: 305.31
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    Abstract: Presenting a survey of the social, cultural and theoretical issues surrounding our understanding of masculinity, this book is one of the most progressive studies available and will be essential reading for students of gender, culture and sociology
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 'Crisis, what crisis?'; 2 Femenism; 3 Violence and violation; 4 In black and white; 5 Identity and desire; 6 What are you looking at?; 7 The spectacle of the male; 8 Auto-mechanics; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
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    ISBN: 9780415243094
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (389 p)
    Edition: 2nd ed
    Series Statement: Routledge Companions
    Parallel Title: Print version The Routledge Companion to Feminism and Postfeminism
    DDC: 305.42
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: The dictionary entries cover the major individuals and issues essential to an understanding both of feminism's roots and of the trends that are shaping its future
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Half-Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Editors Introduction; Contributors; 1 Early Feminism; 2 First Wave Feminism; 3 Second Wave Feminism; 4 Postfeminism; 5 Feminism and Gender; 6 Feminism and the Developing World; 7 Women and New Technologies; 8 Feminism and Film; 9 Feminism and Popular Culture; 10 Feminism and the Body; 11 Feminism and Literature; 12 Feminism and Language; 13 Feminism and Philosophy; 14 Feminism and Religion; 15 Feminism and Psychoanalysis; Select Bibliography; A-Z Entries; Index
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    ISBN: 9780714649276
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (216 p)
    Series Statement: History and Society in the Islamic World
    Parallel Title: Print version Technology, Tradition and Survival : Aspects of Material Culture in the Middle East and Central Asia
    DDC: 303.48/3/0917671
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    Abstract: This work addresses the history, originality, variety and sophistication of traditional science, technology and material culture in the Middle East and Central Asia, their influence on the history of the West, and the threat posed by modern Western technologies
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Plates; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Maps; Introduction; Chapter 1 Arab and Islamic Contributions to European Civilization; Chapter 2 TB and its Treatment in Medieval Islam (Dedicated to the memory of H.D.Isaacs MD); Chapter 3 Al-Tibb al-Nabawi: The Prophet's Medicine; Chapter 4 Early Arabic Cuisine: The Evidence from Medieval Arabic Medical Texts; Chapter 5 Science and Technology in Islamic Building Construction*; Chapter 6 Wind and Watermills in Iran and Afghanistan
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 7 Pigeon Towers and Ice-Houses on the Iranian PlateauChapter 8 Sustainable Buildings: Middle Eastern Traditional Systems for the Future; Chapter 9 From the Rashîdîya to the Ordos: In Search of Early Mongol Tents; Chapter 10 Material Culture of Pastoral Nomads: Reflections based on Arab and Afghan Materials; Chapter 11 Looms, Carpets and Talims; Chapter 12 The Survival of the Bazaar Economy in Iran and the Contemporary Middle East; Chapter 13 The Political Significance of the Bazaar in Iran; Chapter 14 The Impact of Oil Wealth on Traditional Technologies in Rural Oman; Index
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    ISBN: 9780415257770
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (230 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Youth, Education and Risk : Facing the Future
    DDC: 305.235
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    Abstract: This book is a provocative and valuable insight into how the dramatic social and economic changes of the last 20 years have affected the lives of Western youth
    Description / Table of Contents: Title; Contents; 1 Balancing options; 2 Outside the mainstream; 3 The policy gap; 4 Coping with change; 5 Student hopes and outcomes; 6 The gender factor; 7 At risk; 8 Life patterns and careers; Epilogue; Index
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    ISBN: 9780415207294
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (255 p)
    Series Statement: Critical Geographies
    Parallel Title: Print version Children's Geographies : Playing, Living, Learning
    DDC: 305.23
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: This book is an overview of a rapidly expanding area of cutting edge research. Drawing on original research and extensive case studies from around the world, it analyses children's experiences of playing, living and learning
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Half-Title; Series Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; PLATES; MAPS; TABLES; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 1 CHILDREN'S GEOGRAPHIES AND THE NEW SOCIAL STUDIES OF CHILDHOOD; 2 MELTING GEOGRAPHY; 3 CHILDREN'S STRATEGIES FOR CREATING PLAYSPACES; 4 THE 'STREET AS THIRDSPACE'; 5 'NOTHING TO DO, NOWHERE TO GO?'; 6 TIME FOR A PARTY!; 7 PLAY, RIGHTS AND BORDERS; 8 HOME AND MOVEMENT; 9 TRANSFORMING CYBERSPACE; 10 YOUNG CARERS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA; 11 HOME SWEET HOME?; 12 PLAYING THE PART; 13 WALK ON THE LEFT!; 14 'OUT OF SCHOOL', IN SCHOOL
    Description / Table of Contents: 15 NATURE'S DANGERS, NATURE'S PLEASURESINDEX
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    ISBN: 9780415016988
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (334 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Politics, Feminism and the Reformation of Gender
    DDC: 305.42
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    Abstract: Comparative study of recruitment to political elites in several countries, revealing the gender basis of imbalances and addressing feminist strategies for change
    Description / Table of Contents: BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; FIGURES AND TABLES; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 GENDER AND RECRUITMENT THE NATURE OF THE PROBLEM; 2 MAJOR PARTIES AND RECRUITMENT: THE USA, SCOTLAND AND THE USSR; 3 CHANGING THE SELECTORS NON-PARTISAN RECRUITMENT; 4 MINOR PARTIES AND THE GENDER PATTERN; 5 THE RISE OF FEMINISM AND THE PARAMETERS OF CHANGE; 6 EQUAL RIGHTS AND SOCIALIST FEMINISM; 7 FEMINISM IN PRACTICE: NATIONALIST FINLAND AND REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA; 8 GENDER THEORY AND FEMINIST STRATEGY; 9 WEST GERMAN GREENS, NORWEGIAN FEMINISTS AND THE ICELANDIC KWENNALISTINN
    Description / Table of Contents: 10 CONCLUSIONNOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
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    ISBN: 9781850009429
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (162 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Body Matters : Essays On The Sociology Of The Body
    DDC: 306.4
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    Abstract: Focuses on the sociological embodiment of various ""social actors"" and subsequent links with the constraints of daily life. It presents findings on aspects of the body, variants from what is conventionally seen as ""natural"" and considers self-image versus society's expectations
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Bodies in a Social Landscape; 'With My Body I Thee Worship':The Social Construction of Marital Sex Problems; Dance and the Culture of the Body; Pumping Irony:The Muscular and the Feminine; You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine:Reflections on the Male Body and Masculinities; Selling the Body, Keeping the Soul:Sexuality, Power, the Theories and Realities of Prostitution; The Inverted Gaze; Purity and Pollution: Body Management and the Social Place of Infancy; Afterward: Constructing a Research Agenda; Notes on Contributors; Index
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    ISBN: 9780415296687
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (257 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge International Studies of Women and Place
    Parallel Title: Print version Female Sex Trafficking in Asia : The Resilience of Patriarchy in a Changing World
    DDC: 306.742095
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    Abstract: The book argues that strategies for prevention of female sex trafficking should not be universalized but should be contextualized on the basis of country-specific ground situations
    Description / Table of Contents: Female Sex Trafficking in Asia The Resilience of Patriarchy in a Changing World; Copyright; Contents; Maps; Graphs; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Evolving Discourse and Expanding Global Reach of Female Sex Trafficking; 2 Definitions and Analytical Approaches; 3 Feminization of Global Human Exchange; 4 Nepal: Young, Female and Vulnerable; 5 Cambodia: Conflict, Poverty and Cultural Values on Female Sex Trafficking; 6 The Philippines: Looking for Greener Pastures; 7 Faceless and Anonymous: An Overview of Demand; 8 Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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    Parallel Title: Print version Sex In Question : French Feminism
    DDC: 305.4201
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    Abstract: Since the publication of Simone de Beauvoir's ""The Second Sex"", French feminist thought has informed and shaped the on-going debates in the English-speaking world. This book introduces English speakers to the work of a major group of French feminists - those de Beauvoir herself supported
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; Reconstructing French Feminism: Commodification, Materialism and Sex; The Category of Sex; Rethinking Sex and Gender; Sexual, Sexed and Sex-Class Identities: Three Ways of Conceptualising the Relationship Between Sex and Gender; The Practice of Power and Belief in Nature; Natural Fertility, Forced Reproduction; Our Costs and Their Benefits; References; Notes on Contributors; Index
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    Parallel Title: Print version Race And British Electoral Politics
    DDC: 305.8/00941
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    Abstract: Providing both an historical and theoretical analysis of race and ethnicity in politics, the contributors examine the participation and influence of ethnic communities in electoral politics at both ends of the political spectrum
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of tables; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; Introductory remarks; Analyzing race and elections in British politics: some conceptual and theoretical concerns; Ethnic minorities and the British party system in the 1990s and beyond; Ethnic minority participation and representation in the British electoral system; Ethnic politics and the Conservatives in the post-Thatcher era; New Labour debates and dilemmas; Inequality, political opportunity and ethnic minority parliamentary candidacy
    Description / Table of Contents: Integration within the British political parties: perceptions of ethnic minority councillorsThe role of black and Asian MPs at Westminster; Community politics and the problems of partnership: ethnic minority participation in urban regeneration networks; The public policy agenda: campaigning and politics for a multi-ethnic good society; Piecing together the puzzle: ethnic and racial politics and the British electoral map; Index
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    ISBN: 9780415314541
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (241 p)
    Edition: 3rd ed
    Series Statement: Routledge Classics
    Parallel Title: Print version Natural Symbols : Explorations in Cosmology
    DDC: 302.2/22
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    Abstract: First published in 1970, this classic text represents a work of anthropology in its widest sense, exploring themes such as the social meaning of natural symbols and the image of the body in society
    Description / Table of Contents: Mary Douglas Natural Symbols Explorations in cosmology; Copyright; Contents; List of Diagrams; Acknowledgements; Introduction to 1996 Edition; Introduction; 1 Away from ritual; 2 To inner experience; 3 The Bog Irish; 4 Grid and group; 5 The two bodies; 6 Test cases; 7 The problem of evil; 8 Impersonal rules; 9 Control of symbols; 10 Out of the cave; Bibliography; Index
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    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society
    Parallel Title: Print version The Social Construction of Management
    DDC: 306.3
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    Abstract: A critical and empirical study that explores the constitution of managerial identities in the age of mass education in management and challenges the way we think about organizations and their management
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: management and the manager as social constructions; Construction; Management as text; Deconstruction; Management as science; Management as legal authority; Management as art; Management as modernity; Reconstruction; The managerial self; Conclusion: the social construction of management; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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    Series Statement: One World Archaeology
    Parallel Title: Print version The Prehistory of Food : Appetites for Change
    DDC: 306.4
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    Abstract: This book tackles the issues of subsistence in its social context by focusing on food as a cultural artefact
    Description / Table of Contents: Book cover; Half title; Series title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Preface; Introduction; Part I Food and Culture; Part II Introductions; Part III Food and the Landscape; Part IV Plants and People; Index
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    ISBN: 9780415087476
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    Parallel Title: Print version The Anthropology of Organizations
    DDC: 302.3/5
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    Abstract: This book presents and analyses the latest anthropological work on the development and management of organizations, examining practical problems which anthropology can help to solve
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface and acknowledgements; 1 'Culture' in anthropology and organizational studies; 2 Indigenous management and the management of indigenous knowledge; 3 'Owning' without owners, managing with few managers; 4 Institution building; 5 Play of power; 6 Office affairs; 7 The gendered terrains of paternalism; 8 Culture, gender and organizational change in British welfare benefits services; 9 Community care as de-institutionalization?; 10 Disempowerment and marginalization of clients in divorce court cases
    Description / Table of Contents: 11 Idioms of bureaucracy and informality in a local Housing Aid OfficeName index; Subject index
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (253 p)
    Series Statement: European Association of Social Anthropologists
    Parallel Title: Print version Civil Society : Challenging Western Models
    DDC: 301
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    Abstract: 〈I〉Civil Society〈/I〉 argues that civil society should not be studied as a separate, private realm in opposition to the state. To gain a better understanding, everyday social practices, power relations and shared moralities are examined
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: political society and civil anthropology; Money, morality and modes of civil society among American Mormons; How Ernest Gellner got mugged on the streets of London, or: civil society, the media and the quality of life; Anti-semitism and fear of the public sphere in a post-totalitarian society: East Germany; The shifting meanings of civil and civic society in Poland; Bringing civil society to an uncivilised place: citizenship regimes in Russia's Arctic frontier
    Description / Table of Contents: The social life of projects: importing civil society to AlbaniaCivic culture and Islam in urban Turkey; Gender, state and civil society in Jordan and Syria; The deployment of civil energy in Indonesia: assessment of an authentic solution; Community values and state cooptation: civil society in the Sichuan countryside; Making citizens in postwar Japan: national and local perspectives; Index
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    ISBN: 9780415314404
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (329 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Global Media Studies : An Ethnographic Perspective
    DDC: 302.23
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    Abstract: Emphasising the connection of globalisation to local culture, this collection considers the diversity of modes of reception, reception contexts, uses of media content, and the performative and creative relationships that audiences develop
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Global Media Studies: Ethnographic Perspectives; Copyright; Contents; List of Contributors; Part I: Introducton; 1. Towards an Ethnographic Approach to Global Media Studies; Part II: Situating Ethnography in Global Media Studies; 2. The Problem of Textuality in Ethnographic Audience Research: Lessons Learned in Southeast Turkey; 3. Passing Ethnographies: Rethinking the Sites of Agency and Reflexivity in a Mediated World; 4. Where Is Audience Ethnography's Field Work?; 5. Audience Letters and Letter-Writers: Constituting the Audience for Radio in Transnational Contexts
    Description / Table of Contents: 6. Rituals in the Modern World: Applying the Concept of Ritual in Media EthnographyPart III: Researching the Local; 7. Negotiation and Position: On the Need and Difficulty of Developing ""Thicker Descriptions""; 8. ""Now That You're Going Home, Are You Going to Write About the Natives You Studied?"": Telenovela Reception, Adultery and the Dilemmas of Ethnographic Practice; 9. Methodology as Lived Experience: Rhizomatic Ethnography in Hawai'i; 10. On the Border: Reflections on Ethnography and Gender; 11. Radio's Early Arrival in Rural Appalachia: A Harbinger of the Global Society?
    Description / Table of Contents: Part IV: Articulating Globalization Through Ethnography12. ""Ask the West, Will Dinosaurs Come Back?"": Indian Audiences/Global Audience Studies; 13. Where the Global Meets the Local: South African Youth and Their Experience of Global Media; 14. Chasing Echoes: Cultural Reconversion, Self-Representation and Mediascapes in Mexico; 15. Globalization Avant La Lettre? Cultural Hybridity and Media Power in Lebanon; Part V: Afterword; 16. Media Ethnography: Local, Global, or Translocal?; Index
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    ISBN: 9780415325073
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (283 p)
    Edition: 2nd ed
    Series Statement: Routledge Classics
    Parallel Title: Print version Power : A New Social Analysis
    DDC: 303.3
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    Abstract: In this remarkable book, regarded by Russell as one of the most important of his career, he argues that power is man's ultimate goal and is, in its many guises, the single most important element in the development of any society
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Power; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; PREFACE TO THE ROUTLEDGE CLASSICS EDITION; INTRODUCTION; 1 The Impulse to Power; 2 Leaders and Followers; 3 The Forms of Power; 4 Priestly Power; 5 Kingly Power; 6 Naked Power; 7 Revolutionary Power; 8 Economic Power; 9 Power over Opinion; 10 Creeds as Sources of Power; 11 The Biology of Organisations; 12 Powers and Forms of Governments; 13 Organisations and the Individual; 14 Competition; 15 Power and Moral Codes; 16 Power Philosophies; 17 The Ethics of Power; 18 The Taming of Power; INDEX
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    ISBN: 9780415948609
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (189 p)
    Series Statement: Studies in American Popular History and Culture
    Parallel Title: Print version Daughters of Eve : Pregnant Brides and Unwed Mothers in Seventeenth Century Essex County, Massachusetts
    DDC: 306.874/32/09744509032
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    Abstract: First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
    Description / Table of Contents: Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface "The World Fill'd with a Generation of Bastards": The Puritans and Extramarital Sex; Chapter One "I Threatened I Would Mark Him": Religion, Sexuality, And Gender Ideology; Chapter Two "I Know Thy Condition, Alas, Poor Wench": A Quantitative Analysis of Illegitimate Fornication Prosecutions in the Essex County Quarterly Court, 1640-1665; Chapter Three "Priscilla Was Fined, the Child Died": A Quantitative Analysis of Illegitimate Fornication Prosecutions in the Essex County Quarterly Court, 1666-1685
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter Four "I Am a Poor Destitute Creature": Sociological Aspects of Illegitimacy in Essex County, 1640-1685Chapter Five Listening to Women's Voices: Summaries of Selected Fornication Cases, Essex County, 1640-1685; Chapter Six "She Being Presented for Fornication": Pregnant Brides in Seventeenth-Century Essex County; Chapter Seven "Cover Our Faces with Shame": Sociological Aspects of Premarital Pregnancy; Chapter Eight "Playing the Rogue": Rape and Issues of Consent in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts; Chapter Nine Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (252 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge / ECPR Studies in European Political Science
    Parallel Title: Print version Mass Media and Political Communication in New Democracies
    DDC: 302.23
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    Abstract: This book examines how political communication and the mass media have played a central role in the consolidation of emerging democracies around the world. Covering a broad range of political and cultural contexts it investigates the problems and conflicts arising in the process of establishing an independent media and competitive politics in post-autocratic societies
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Half-Title; Series-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Series editor's preface; Preface; 1 The mass media and the dynamics of political communication in processes of democratization; Part I The mass media and journalistic practice; 2 The role of the press in times of transition; 3 'In the name of democracy'; 4 Conflicts of interest?; 5 In journalism we trust?; 6 Old and new media, old and new politics?; Part II Political parties, governments and elections; 7 Electoral campaigning in Latin America's new democracies
    Description / Table of Contents: 8 Democratization and election campaigning in Taiwan9 Where's the party?; 10 The Internet in politics; Part III Audience responses to political messages; 11 Does 'trust' mean attention, comprehension and acceptance?; 12 Politics and the media in postcommunist Russia; 13 New democracies without citizens?; 14 Conclusion; Index
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    ISBN: 9780415079099
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (325 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version EMPIRE STRIKES BACK : Race and Racism In 70's Britain
    DDC: 305.800941
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    Abstract: First Published in 1982. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
    Description / Table of Contents: The Empire Strikes Back Race and racism in 70s Britain Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 The organic crisis of British capitalism and race: the experience of the seventies; 2 Just plain common sense: the 'roots' of racism; 3 In the abundance of water the fool is thirsty: sociology and black 'pathology'; 4 Police and thieves; 5 Schooling in Babylon; 6 White woman listen! Black feminism and the boundaries of sisterhood; 7 Gender, race and class: Asian women in resistance; 8 Steppin' out of Babylon-race, class and autonomy; Bibliography; Index
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    ISBN: 9780714649887
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (345 p)
    Edition: 2nd ed
    Series Statement: Routledge Series in Federal Studies
    Parallel Title: Print version The Territorial Management of Ethnic Conflict
    DDC: 305.8
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    Abstract: The object of this book is to look at the manner in which states attempt to cope with ethnic conflict through territorial approaches
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; List of Maps; Notes on Contributors; Preface to Second Edition; Introduction The Challenge; Canada The Case for Ethnolinguistic Federalism in a Multilingual Society; Northern Ireland Religion, Ethnic Conflict and Territoriality; Belgium From Regionalism to Federalism; South Africa The Failure of Ethnoterritorial Politics; Israel Ethnic Conflict and Political Exchange; Pakistan Ethnic Diversity and Colonial Legacy; Sri Lanka Ethnic Strife and the Politics of Space; The Dissolution of the Soviet Union Federation, Commonwealth, Secession
    Description / Table of Contents: The Dissolution of Czechoslovakia A Case of Failed State Building?The Dissolution of Yugoslavia Secession by the Centre?; Conclusion Towards a Solution?
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (220 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Messages Men Hear : Constructing Masculinities
    DDC: 155.3/32
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    Abstract: This text is based on over 10 years research with 500 men from different classes, backgrounds, races and ethnic groups. It constructs a theory of masculinity by exploring masculine expectancies, how men form their gender identities and how those identities influence their behaviour
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Cultural Messages; Message Sources; Becoming a Man; Standard Bearers; Workers; Lovers; Bosses; Rugged Individuals; Different Lenses; Message Therapy; Appendix: Methodology; References; Index
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (307 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version All About the Girl : Culture, Power, and Identity
    DDC: 305.23082
    Keywords: Feminist theory ; Teenage girls ; Women ; Identity ; Young women ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; Notes on Postfeminism and Popular Culture: Bridget Jones and the New Gender Regime; Women, Girls, and the Unfinished Work of Connection: A Critical Review of American Girls' Studies; Good Girls, Bad Girls: Anglocentrism and Diversity in the Constitution of Contemporary Girlhood; From Badness to Meanness: Popular Constructions of Contemporary Girlhood; Feminism and Femininity: Or How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Thong; Girl Power Politics: Pop-Culture Barriers and Organizational Resistance
    Description / Table of Contents: Mythic Figures and Lived Identities: Locating the ""Girl"" in Feminist Discourse""I Don't See Feminists as You See Feminists"": Young Women Negotiating Feminism in Contemporary Britain; Pretty in Pink: Young Women Presenting Mature Sexual Identities; Talking Sexuality Through an Insider's Lens: The Samoan Experience; Shifting Desires: Discourses of Accountability in Abstinence-only Education in the United States; Where My Girls At? Black Girls and the Construction of the Sexual; Spicy Strategies: Pop Feminist and Other Empowerments in Girl Culture
    Description / Table of Contents: Jamming Girl Culture: Young Women and Consumer CitizenshipGirls' Web Sites: A Virtual ""Room of One's Own""?; Pleasures Within Reason: Teaching Feminism and Education; Girls, Schooling, and the Discourse of Self-Change: Negotiating Meanings of the High School Prom; Gender and Sexuality: Continuities and Change for Girls in School; Colluding in ""Compulsory Heterosexuality""? Doing Research with Young Women at School; Speaking Back: Voices of Young Urban Womyn of Color Using Participatory Action Research to Challenge and Complicate Representations of Young Women
    Description / Table of Contents: Beneath the Surface of Voice and Silence: Researching the Home FrontPossible Selves and Pasteles: How a Group of Mothers and Daughters Took a London Conference by Storm; Contributor Biographies; Index
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (327 p)
    Series Statement: Sport in the Global Society
    Parallel Title: Print version Militarism, Sport, Europe : War Without Weapons
    DDC: 306.483
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    Abstract: A collection of essays exploring the relationship between sport and war, bringing together established authors that include Peter Beck, Hans Bonde, J.A. Mangan and Gertrud Pfister, and emerging authors such as Penelope Kissoudi, Orestis Kustrin, Callum McKenzie and Roberta Vescovi
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Prologue: Combative Sports and Combative Societies; From the Battlefield to the Arena: Gladiators, Militarism and the Roman Republic; Lasting Legacy? Spartan Life as a Germanic Educational Ideal: Karl Otfried Mller and Die Dorier; Ball Games, from the Roman Gentleman to the Renaissance Warrior; Military Drill--Rather more than 'Brief and Basic': English Elementary Schools and English Militarism; 'Pig Sticking is the Greatest Fun': Martial Conditioning on the Hunting Fields of Empire
    Description / Table of Contents: Wartime Opportunities: Ladies' Football and the First World War FactoriesAntidote to War: The Balkan Games; Children into Soldiers: Sport and Fascist Italy; Confronting George Orwell: Philip Noel-Baker on International Sport, Particularly the Olympic Movement, as Peacemaker; Compromise and Confrontation: Danish Sport under the Swastika; Cold War Diplomats in Tracksuits: The Fruleinwunder of East German Sport; Fitness 'Wars': Purpose and Politics in Communist State-Building; Epilogue: Many Mansions and Many Architectural Styles; Notes on Contributors; Abstracts; Select Bibliography; Index
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    ISBN: 9780415645669
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (279 p)
    Series Statement: RoutledgeFalmer Studies in Higher Education
    Parallel Title: Print version Acting Otherwise : The Institutionalization of Women's / Gender Studies in Taiwan's Universities
    DDC: 305.4/07/051249
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    Abstract: 〈EM〉Acting Otherwise〈/EM〉 concerns the strategies of action that have been used by feminist scholars to attain the institutionalization of women's/gender studies in universities
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Half-Title; Series Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Chapter One Introduction: Women's Studies Worldwide; Chapter Two Literature Review and a Micro-Foundational Approach; Chapter Three The Patriarchal State, Women's Movements, and Women's Studies in Taiwan; Chapter Four Multiple Paths of Becoming; Chapter Five Women's Studies at "Yushan University" ; Chapter Six Women's Studies at "Formosa University"; Chapter Seven Identity, Action, and Future of Women's Studies ; Chapter Eight Conclusion ; Appendix A ; Appendix B ; Appendix C ; Notes
    Description / Table of Contents: Bibliography Index
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    ISBN: 9780415308045
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (389 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Linguistic Convergence and Areal Diffusion : Case Studies from Iranian, Semitic and Turkic
    DDC: 306.44
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    Abstract: The volume in the field of Iranian, Semitic and Turkic contact linguistics, is the first of its kind, providing a summary of the present results of this dynamic field of research
    Description / Table of Contents: Linguistic Convergence and Areal DiffusionCase Studies form Iranian, Semitic and Turkic ; Copyright; Table of Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; Introduction; Converging Codes in Iranian, Semitic and Turkic; Part 1: Iranian Languages; Iranian as Buffer Zone Between the Universal ; Semitic in Iranian: Written, Read and Spoken ; The Glottal Plosive: A Phoneme in Spoken Modern Persian or Not?; Lexical Areas and Semantic Fields of Arabic Loanwords in Persian and Beyond; Central Asian Arabic: The Irano-Arabic Dynamics of a New Perfect; Part 2: Semitic Languages
    Description / Table of Contents: Linguistic Contacts in Central AsiaUzbekistan Arabic: A Language Created by Semitic-Iranian-Turkic Linguistic Convergence; Bukhara Arabic: A Metatypized Dialect of Arabic in Central Asia; On the Arabic of Arabkhane in Eastern Iran; Persian and Turkish Loans in the Arabic Dialects of North Eastern Arabia; New Linguistic Data from the Sason Area in Anatolia; The Turkish Contribution to the Arabic Lexicon; Part 3: Turkic Languages; Bilateral Code Copying in Eastern Persian and South-Eastern Turkic; Some Notes on ""Mixed"" Written Western Oghuz Turkic
    Description / Table of Contents: Traces of Türki-yi Acemi in Pietro della Valle's Turkish Grammar (1620)Iranian Influences in Sonqor Turkic; On Copying in Kashkay; Modal Constructions in Turkic of Iran; The Strange Case of Ottoman; Adverbial Clauses in an Old Ottoman Turkish Interlinear Version of the Koran; Right-Branching vs. Left-Branching Subordinate Clauses in 16th Century Ottoman Historical Texts: Haphazard Use or Stylistic Device?; Some Remarks on the Phonological Status of Greek Loanwords in Anatolian Turkish Dialects; Part 4: Other Perspectives; Convergence of Languages on the East African Coast
    Description / Table of Contents: Vowel Harmony - Areal or Genetic?
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (253 p)
    Series Statement: Studies in Film, Television and the Media
    Parallel Title: Print version European Cinemas, European Societies
    DDC: 302.23/43/094
    Keywords: Europe ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
    Description / Table of Contents: BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION: IMAGES IN SOCIETIES; 1 THE COMING WAR; WAR AS AN END; WAR AS A STARTING-POINT; BEYOND THE FRONT LINE; ON THE FRONT LINE; IMAGES IN AN UNSETTLED EUROPE; 2 RESISTANCE; HOW THE 'VISUAL' CHANGES; AN ENGLISH MODEL?; RESISTANCE, FILMS, POLITICS; 3 A GOLDEN AGE; VISITING THE PICTURE-HOUSES; HOLLYWOOD, BUSINESS AND MYTHOLOGY; EUROPE, TRADITIONS AND DIVISIONS; 4 THE BLURRED IMAGE OF CITIES; A POLARIZED IMAGE; NEOREALISM OR THE COMPLEXITY OF URBAN RELATIONSHIPS; SHANTY TOWNS: A THIRD WORLD?; THE END OF CITIES
    Description / Table of Contents: 5 CHALLENGING HOLLYWOODTHE WATERSHED OF THE 1960s; THE LONELINESS OF THE CINEMA-GOER; TWO OR THREE THINGS WE KNOW ABOUT THEM; 6 A TIME FOR REVISIONS; TELEVISION, CINEMA, HISTORY; THE RETURN OF THE REPRESSED; FROM FIGURAL NETWORKS…; …TO SOCIAL ISSUES; A WOMAN IS A WOMAN; CONCLUSION: MOVING PICTURES: CONCEPTION/CONSUMPTION; NOTES; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; GUIDES AND CATALOGUES; GENERAL; EUROPEAN CINEMA; Britain; France; Germany; Italy; INDEX
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    ISBN: 9780415182553
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (259 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Research in Gender and Society
    Parallel Title: Print version Body, Femininity and Nationalism : Girls in the German Youth Movement 1900–1934
    DDC: 305.2350820943
    Keywords: Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This volume is an insightful social and cultural history of girls in the German youth movements in the pre-Nazi era
    Description / Table of Contents: Body, Femininity and Nationalism Girls in the German Youth Movement 1900-1934; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Translations; Introduction: Wanderlust, Femininity, and Germanness; 1 Mobility, Emancipation, and Ideology; 2 Gender and Sexuality: Engendering the German Nation; 3 Gender and the Body: Embodying the German Nation; 4 Girls in the Alt Wandervogel (AVW), the EV Leagues and the Deutsche Freischar; 5 The Deutscher Mädchen Wanderbund (DMWB); Photo Insert; 6 The Jung Wandervogel (JWV) and the Female Settlements Schwarzerden and Loheland
    Description / Table of Contents: 7 Girls in the Jungnationaler Bund (Junabu)8 Conclusion: Wanderlust, Feminity, and Germanness; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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    ISBN: 9780415181907
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (248 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Answering Back : Girls, Boys and Feminism in Schools
    DDC: 306.43
    Keywords: Feminism and education ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: 〈I〉Answering Back〈/I〉 exposes the volatility of gender reform in many different schools and classrooms, drawing on feminist theories, policies and practices, and challenging many sacred ideas of gender reform in schools
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; That mysterious gap 'between hope and happening'; Success; Knowledge; Power; Emotion; Responsibility; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index
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    ISBN: 9780805849196
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xxiv, 125 p.)
    Series Statement: Routledge Communication Series
    Parallel Title: Print version Race, Gender, and Leadership : Re-envisioning Organizational Leadership From the Perspectives of African American Women Executives
    DDC: 303.3/4/082
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Preface; Introduction: Re-Envisioning Leadership in the Postindustrial Era; Part I: The Need for Race- and Gender-Inclusive Visions of Leadership in the Postindustrial Era; Part II: African American Women: An Untapped Source of Leadership Knowledge; Part III: African American Women Executives and 21st-Century Organizational Leadership: Deconstructing ""Masculine"" and ""Feminine"" Leadership, Embracing Duality in Leadership Practice; Appendix A: Interview Protocols; References; Author Index; Subject Index
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    ISBN: 9780415026208
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (302 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Studies in film, television, and the media
    Parallel Title: Print version Film and Politics in America : A Social Tradition
    DDC: 302.23/43/0973
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: A study of the relationship between American film and American politics and society, by examining directors such as Orson Welles, Elia Kazan and Jules Dassin
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Cover; Film and Politics in America; Copyright Page; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; 1. Out of the thirties; 2. Populism, romanticism and Frank Capra; 3. Liberals, radicals and the wartime agenda; 4. Post-war Holly wood; 5. Post-war: new directors and structures; 6. Film noir and society; 7. Into the fifties; 8. The sixties; Notes; Select bibliography; Index of films; General index
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    ISBN: 9780415349123
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (151 p)
    Edition: 2nd ed
    Parallel Title: Print version Readings from Emile Durkheim
    DDC: 201
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    Abstract: Emile Durkheim is regarded as a ""founding father"" of sociology, and is studied in all basic sociology courses. This handy textbook is a key collection of translations from Durkheim's major works
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Preface to the Revised Edition; Preface to the First Edition; Introduction; Part One Sociology-its nature and programme; Reading 1 SOCIOLOGY AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES; Reading 2 REVIEW OF ANTONIO LABRIOLA, ESSAYS YS ON THE MATERIALIST TERIALIST CONCEPTION OF HISTORY; Part Two Division of Labour, Crime and Punishment; Reading 3 THE DIVISION OF LABOUR IN SOCIETY; Reading 4 TWO LAWS OF PENAL EVOLUTION; Part Three Sociological Method; Reading 5 THE RULES OF SOCIOLOGICAL METHOD; Part Four Suicide
    Description / Table of Contents: Reading 6 SUICIDEPart Five Religion and Knowledge; Reading 7 THE ELEMENTARY Y FORMS OF THE RELIGIOUS LIFE; Reading 8 PRIMITIVE CLASSIFICATION; Part Six Politics; Reading 9 PROFESSIONAL ETHICS AND CIVIC MORALS; Reading 10 SOCIALISM; Part Seven Education; Reading 11 THE EVOLUTION OF EDUCATIONAL THOUGHT; Reading 12 MORAL EDUCATION; Bibliography of Durkheim's Major Works
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    ISBN: 9780415275378
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (256 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Loving Big Brother : Surveillance Culture and Performance Space
    DDC: 306.4
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: This iconoclastic book develops a notion of surveillance space - somewhere beyond the public and the private, somewhere we will all soon live. It's a place we're just beginning to understand
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Cover; Loving Big Brother; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: thinking surveillance; 1. An ideology of crime; 2. Perverting privacy; 3. Accidental death; 4. Dimensions, doubles and data: producing surveillance space; 5. Staging the spectator; 6. Encountering surveillance; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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    ISBN: 9780714653044
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (353 p)
    Series Statement: Cummings Center Series
    Parallel Title: Print version Language and Revolution : Making Modern Political Identities
    DDC: 306.44094
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: This work examines the role of language in forging the modern subject
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Half-Title; Series-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Liberty and Unanimity: The Paradoxes of Subjectivity and Citizenship in the French Revolution; 2 The Desacralization of the Monarchy: Rumors and 'Political Pornography' during World War I; 3 Making Cossacks Counter-Revolutionary: The Don Host and the 1918 Anti-Soviet Insurgency; 4 Modernity and the Poetics of Proletarian Discontent; 5 Working, Struggling, Becoming: Stalin-Era Autobiographical Texts; 6 On Being the Subjects of History: Nazis as Twentieth-Century Revolutionaries
    Description / Table of Contents: 7 Intimacy in an Ideological Key: The Communist Case of the 1920s and 1930s8 Grigorii Aleksandrov's Volga-Volga; 9 The Symphony as Mode of Production; Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony and the End of the Romantic Narrative; 10 Regarding the Modern Body: Science, the Social and the Construction of Italian Identities; 11 Bodies of Knowledge: Physical Culture and the New Soviet Man; 12 Discourse Made Flesh: Healing and Terror in the Construction of Soviet Subjectivity; 13 Death in Auschwitz as 'Ugly Death'
    Description / Table of Contents: 14 A French Great Man's Last Rites: The National Funeral of Léon Gambetta and the Transfer of His Heart to the Panthéon15 Enshrined Oblivion: The POW Memorial Church in Bochum, Germany; 16 Varieties of Interpretation: The Holocaust in Historical Memory; Notes on Contributors; Index
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    ISBN: 9780415089296
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (272 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Meat : A Natural Symbol
    DDC: 394.1
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: This is a broad-ranging and provocative study of the human passion for meat. It will intrigue anyone who has ever wondered why meat is important to us; why we eat some animals but not others; and how meat is associated with environmental decay
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; Preface; Introduction; FOOD=MEAT; A BRIEF HISTORY OF MEAT EATING; A MATTER OF TASTE; MORE THAN A MEAL; EVOLUTION AND ELEVATION; THE POWER OF MEAT; THE BARBARITY OF MEAT; THE RELUCTANT CANNIBAL; PETS AND OTHER GREY ANIMALS; THE JOY OF SEX; ECONOMICS; HEALTH; ETHICS; ECOLOGY; CONCLUSIONS; Bibliography; Name index; Subject index
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    ISBN: 9780415137805
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (297 p)
    Series Statement: Herbert Marcuse: Collected Papers
    Parallel Title: Print version Technology, War and Fascism : Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse, Volume 1
    DDC: 191
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Penetrating critiques of technology and analyses of the ways that modern technology produces novel forms of society and culture with new modes of social control
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Foreword; Preface The Unknown Marcuse: New Archival Discoveries; Acknowledgments; Introduction Technology, War and Fascism: Marcuse in the 1940s; Some Social Implications of Modern Technology; State and Individual Under National Socialism; A History of the Doctrine of Social Change; Theories of Social Change; The New German Mentality; Description of Three Major Projects; Some Remarks on Aragon: Art and Politics in the Totalitarian Era; 33 Theses; Letters to Horkheimer; Heidegger and Marcuse: A Dialogue in Letters; Index
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    ISBN: 9780415271219
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (225 p)
    Series Statement: Women in Science
    Parallel Title: Print version Adele Marion Fielde : Feminist, Social Activist, Scientist
    DDC: 305.42/092 B
    Keywords: Women scientists ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This book provides an in-depth biographical study of the life of this remarkable woman, exploring her impact on contemporary society, and her abiding influence on scientific and academic communities to the present day
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations and abbreviations; Preface; Chronology; Beginnings; Out of the nest; Bangkok; Passage through America; Swatow, China; Philadelphia, 1883 1885; Last years in the Far East; The voyage home; New York; Religion, science, and the occult; Ants; Seattle; A model death; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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    ISBN: 9780415258517
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (167 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Critical Realism (Routledge Critical Realism)
    Parallel Title: Print version Beyond Relativism : Raymond Boudon, Cognitive Rationality and Critical Realism
    DDC: 302
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Cynthia Lins Hamlin persuasively argues that critical realism represents a better safeguard against the relativism which springs from the conflation of social reality and our ideas about it
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The action paradigm: bringing the agent back in; Linking structure and agency in Boudon's substantive analyses; Beyond Homo sociologicus and Homo economicus: a complex theory of rationality; Understanding, explanation and objectivity; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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    ISBN: 9781136538018 , 9780415330206
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (667 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 572.9935
    Keywords: Consanguinity ; Families ; Primitive societies ; Tikopia (Solomon Islands people) ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Recognized as a major work when first published, this title has, over the years, become a classic. Forming the basis of modern social anthropology, We the Tikiopia stands in the forefront of its literature. The book is an excellent example of fieldwork analysis of a primitive society; a complete account of the working of a primitive kinship system; and an exhaustive and sophisticated study of Polynesian social institutions. First published in 1936.
    Abstract: Cover -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- PREFACE by BRONISLAW MALINOWSKI -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION -- I. IN PRIMITIVE POLYNESIA -- II. ADJUSTMENT TO CIVILIZATION -- III. VILLAGE LIFE -- IV. HOUSEHOLD AND FAMILY -- V. PERSONAL RELATIONS IN THE FAMILY CIRCLE -- VI. THE KIN OF FATHER AND MOTHER -- VII. THE LANGUAGE OF KINSHIP -- VIII. DIRGES FOR DEAD KIN -- IX. CO-OPERATION AND CONSTRAINT IN MARRIAGE RELATIONSHIPS -- X. "HOUSE" AND CLAN -- XI. PRINCIPLES OF LAND TENURE -- XII. A MODERN POPULAl'ION PROBLEM -- XIII. FIRING l'HE OVENS OF YOUl'H -- XIV. SOCIOLOGY OF SEX -- XV. MARRIAGE BY CAPl'URE -- XVI. KINSHIP AND SOCIAL STABILITY -- APPENDIX -- lNDEX.
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Halftitle Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; PREFACE by BRONISLAW MALINOWSKI; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION; I. IN PRIMITIVE POLYNESIA; II. ADJUSTMENT TO CIVILIZATION; III. VILLAGE LIFE; IV. HOUSEHOLD AND FAMILY; V. PERSONAL RELATIONS IN THE FAMILY CIRCLE; VI. THE KIN OF FATHER AND MOTHER; VII. THE LANGUAGE OF KINSHIP; VIII. DIRGES FOR DEAD KIN; IX. CO-OPERATION AND CONSTRAINT IN MARRIAGE RELATIONSHIPS; X. ""HOUSE"" AND CLAN; XI. PRINCIPLES OF LAND TENURE; XII. A MODERN POPULAl'ION PROBLEM; XIII. FIRING l'HE OVENS OF YOUl'H; XIV. SOCIOLOGY OF SEX
    Description / Table of Contents: XV. MARRIAGE BY CAPl'UREXVI. KINSHIP AND SOCIAL STABILITY; APPENDIX; lNDEX
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    ISBN: 9781317953616 , 9781560232766
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (823 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.76/6/01
    Keywords: Communication and sex ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Get a queer perspective on communication theory! Queer Theory and Communication: From Disciplining Queers to Queering the Discipline(s) is a conversation starter, sparking smart talk about sexuality in the communication discipline and beyond. Edited by members of The San Francisco Radical Trio, the book integrates current queer theory, research, and interventions to create a critical lens with which to view the damaging effects of heteronormativity on personal, social, and cultural levels, and to see the possibilities for change through social and cultural transformation. Queer Theory and Communication represents a commitment to positive social change by imagining different social realities and sharing ideas, passions, and lived experiences. As the communication discipline begins to recognize queer theory as a vital and viable intellectual movement equal to that of Gay and Lesbian studies, the opportunity is here to take current queer scholarship beyond conference papers and presentations. Queer Theory and Communication has five objectives: 1) to integrate and disseminate current queer scholarship to a larger audience-academic and nonacademic; 2) to examine the potential implications of queer theory in human communication theory and research in a variety of contexts; 3) to stimulate dialogue among queer scholars; 4) to set a preliminary research agenda; and 5) to explore the implications of the scholarship in cultural politics and personal empowerment and transformation. Queer Theory and Communication boasts an esteemed panel of academics, artists, activists, editors, and essayists. Contributors include: John Nguyet Erni, editor of Asian Media Studies and Research & Analysis Program Board member for GLAAD Joshua Gamson, author of Freaks Talk Back: Tabloid Talk Shows and Sexual Nonconformity Sally Miller Gerahart, author, activist, and actress
    Abstract: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword: My Trip to Queer -- I. Research and Interventions -- Introduction: Queering Communication: Starting the Conversation -- Queering Communication -- Goals and Objectives -- Contributions of the Articles -- Starting the Conversation -- The Violence of Heteronormativity in Communication Studies: Notes on Injury, Healing, and Queer World-Making -- The Study of Sexuality in Communication Studies -- Injury: The Violence of Heteronormativity -- Healing: Unpacking Heteronormativity, Critiquing Heteropatriarchy -- Queer World-Making: The Promises and Challenges of Queer Theory -- Concluding Remarks -- Queering Relationships: Toward a Paradigmatic Shift -- Institutional Contexts and Relationship Construction -- Markings of the Hegemonic Relational Form -- Reifying and Reproducing the Status Quo of Heteronormativity -- Some Notes from a Sex and Relationships Class -- Qualities of Queer Relationships -- Queer Relationships: Advantages and Potential Disadvantages -- Theoretical Interventions and Potential Future Directions -- Conclusion -- Speaking to Silence: Toward Queering Nonverbal Communication -- Entering Nonverbal Communication Territory -- The History of the Study of Nonverbal Communication -- The Straight and Narrow: Gender and Sexuality in Nonverbal Communication Textbooks -- Queering Nonverbal Communication -- Conclusion -- Racisms, Heterosexisms, and Identities: A Semiotic Phenomenology of Self-Understanding -- The Cool Edge of Theoretical Precision -- The Burning Edge of Fleshy Experience -- Explicating Ethnocentrism and Exclusion -- A Semiotic Phenomenology of Self Understanding: Bringing the Cool and Burning Edges Together -- Queer Criticism and Sexual Normativity: The Case of Pee-wee Herman -- Queer Approaches to Criticism.
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword: My Trip to Queer; I. Research and Interventions; Introduction: Queering Communication: Starting the Conversation; Queering Communication; Goals and Objectives; Contributions of the Articles; Starting the Conversation; The Violence of Heteronormativity in Communication Studies: Notes on Injury, Healing, and Queer World-Making; The Study of Sexuality in Communication Studies; Injury: The Violence of Heteronormativity; Healing: Unpacking Heteronormativity, Critiquing Heteropatriarchy
    Description / Table of Contents: Queer World-Making: The Promises and Challenges of Queer TheoryConcluding Remarks; Queering Relationships: Toward a Paradigmatic Shift; Institutional Contexts and Relationship Construction; Markings of the Hegemonic Relational Form; Reifying and Reproducing the Status Quo of Heteronormativity; Some Notes from a Sex and Relationships Class; Qualities of Queer Relationships; Queer Relationships: Advantages and Potential Disadvantages; Theoretical Interventions and Potential Future Directions; Conclusion; Speaking to Silence: Toward Queering Nonverbal Communication
    Description / Table of Contents: Entering Nonverbal Communication TerritoryThe History of the Study of Nonverbal Communication; The Straight and Narrow: Gender and Sexuality in Nonverbal Communication Textbooks; Queering Nonverbal Communication; Conclusion; Racisms, Heterosexisms, and Identities: A Semiotic Phenomenology of Self-Understanding; The Cool Edge of Theoretical Precision; The Burning Edge of Fleshy Experience; Explicating Ethnocentrism and Exclusion; A Semiotic Phenomenology of Self Understanding: Bringing the Cool and Burning Edges Together; Queer Criticism and Sexual Normativity: The Case of Pee-wee Herman
    Description / Table of Contents: Queer Approaches to CriticismThe Practice of Queer Criticism: Pee-Wee's Queer Adventure; Conclusion; Kuaering Queer Theory: My Autocritography and a Race-Conscious, Womanist, Transnational Turn; …My Nameless Everywhere…; Nu Nu Connections and Nu Nu Words; First a Wakening: Jin Lan Hui and Marriage Resistance; Second a Wakening: Ai Bao and 1990s Nu Nu Words; Third a Wakening: Kuaer, a New Name for "Transnational Womanist Quare"; Postscript; Immigrant Closets: Tactical-Micro-Practices-in-the-Hyphen; A Hybrid Site; Using the Closet; Tactics and Micro-Practices; Belonging to an Imagined Community
    Description / Table of Contents: Flexible LocationsNegotiating Multiple Identities in a Queer Vietnamese Support Group; Identity Work as Everyday (Counter)Hegemonic Processes; Background on Group and Entrée; Deconstructing and Constructing Hierarchies; Conclusion; The Specter of the Black Fag: Parody, Blackness, and Hetero/Homosexual B(r)others; Murphy's Law: Eddie Murphy and the Fag Within; "Hated it": Faggotry in Living Color; Conclusion; The Queering of Swan Lake: A New Male Gaze for the Performance of Sexual Desire; The Traditional Swan Lake Narrative; Bourne's Retelling of Swan Lake; Is this a Gay Swan Lake?
    Description / Table of Contents: Mulvey and The New Male Gaze
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    ISBN: 1904339204 , 9781904339205
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (366 p.))
    Edition: Online-Ausg. World Bank E-Library Archive
    Abstract: This compact but comprehensive exposé of the best international practical experience in catastrophe risk management at the country level outlines the key challenges involved in building national catastrophe insurance schemes. Clearly illustrates how countries exposed to natural disasters can manage their catastrophe risk exposures to reduce the cost of risk for national economies by following the classical corporate risk management model. Contains valuable practical insights for risk and insurance professionals, and government policy makers on the key challenges involved in designing a successful national catastrophe risk management programme. Offers innovative insights of the foremost academics in the area alongside practical expertise from leading international reinsurance and risk professionals, based on their experience of running some of the largest catastrophe risk programmes worldwide. Demonstrates the importance of public-private partnerships in catastrophe risk financing by suggesting the roles of government and private risk markets. In addition to risk financing, this title uniquely covers the role of risk reduction and prevention in disaster prone countries. Examines the best international practices at each stage of catastrophe risk management including: country risk assessments and risk modelling, risk transfer products as well as optimal institutional arrangements for national catastrophe risk management, including national reinsurance and insurance pools
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    ISBN: 0821357409 , 9780821357408
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (248 p.))
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    Series Statement: Global Development Finance
    Abstract: The external financing environment facing developing countries has brightened. In 2003, as global growth gained momentum, private capital flows to developing countries increased to
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    ISBN: 0821356828 , 9780821356821
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (288 p.))
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    Series Statement: World Development Report
    Abstract: Firms and entrepreneurs of all types-from microenterprises to multinationals-play a central role in growth and poverty reduction. Their investment decisions drive job creation, the availability and affordability of goods and services for consumers, and the tax revenues governments can draw on to fund health, education, and other services. Their contribution depends largely on the way governments shape the investment climate in each location-through the protection of property rights, regulation and taxation, strategies for providing infrastructure, interventions in finance and labor markets, and broader governance features such as corruption. The World Development Report 2005 argues that improving the investment climates of their societies should be a top priority for governments. Drawing on surveys of nearly 30,000 firms in 53 developing countries, country case studies, and other new research, the Report explores questions such as: What are the key features of a good investment climate, and how do they influence growth and poverty? What can governments do to improve their investment climates, and how can they go about tackling such a broad agenda? What has been learned about good practice in each of the main areas of the investment climate? What role might selective interventions and international arrangements play in improving the investment climate? What can the international community do to help developing countries improve the investment climates of their societies? In addition to detailed chapters exploring these and related issues, the Report contains selected data from the World Bank's new program of Investment Climate Surveys, the Bank's Doing Business Project, and World Development Indicators 2004-an appendix of economic and social data for over 200 countries. This Report offers practical insights for policymakers, executives, scholars, and all those with an interest in economic development
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    Parallel Title: Kee, Hiau Market Access for Sale
    Keywords: Debt Markets ; Export Growth ; Exporters ; Exports ; Finance and Financial Sector Development ; Free Trade ; International Economics & Trade ; International Trade ; International Trade and Trade Rules ; Localization ; Market Access ; Multilateral Tariff Negotiations ; Preferential Access ; Preferential Scheme ; Public Sector Development ; Tariff ; Tariff ; Trade Policy ; Debt Markets ; Export Growth ; Exporters ; Exports ; Finance and Financial Sector Development ; Free Trade ; International Economics & Trade ; International Trade ; International Trade and Trade Rules ; Localization ; Market Access ; Multilateral Tariff Negotiations ; Preferential Access ; Preferential Scheme ; Public Sector Development ; Tariff ; Tariff ; Trade Policy ; Debt Markets ; Export Growth ; Exporters ; Exports ; Finance and Financial Sector Development ; Free Trade ; International Economics & Trade ; International Trade ; International Trade and Trade Rules ; Localization ; Market Access ; Multilateral Tariff Negotiations ; Preferential Access ; Preferential Scheme ; Public Sector Development ; Tariff ; Tariff ; Trade Policy
    Abstract: Kee, Olarreaga, and Silva assess the foreign lobbying forces behind the tariff preferences that the United States grants to Latin American and Caribbean countries. The authors extend the basic framework developed by Grossman and Helpman (1994) to explain the relationship between foreign lobbying and tariff preferences. Their results suggest that returns to Latin American and Caribbean exporters lobbying for tariff preferences in the United States are around 50 percent. The reason for these large returns is the relatively low estimated weight given to social welfare in the U.S. government's objective function when deciding whether or not to grant tariff preferences to Latin American and Caribbean exporters. This paper—a product of Trade, Development Research Group—is part of a larger effort in the group to study the issues related to trade and growth
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    Parallel Title: Sakellariou, Chris N Incidence Analysis of Public Support to the Private Education Sector in Côte d'Ivoire
    Keywords: Access and Equity in Basic Education ; Dropout Rates ; Education ; Education Expenditure ; Education for All ; Education of Children ; Effective Schools and Teachers ; Enrollment Ratios ; Fees ; Finance and Financial Sector Development ; Financial Literacy ; Gender ; Gender and Education ; Gross Enrollment ; High Dropout ; Higher Education ; Levels of Education ; Number of Students ; Primary Education ; Secondary Education ; Social Protections and Labor ; Tertiary Education ; Access and Equity in Basic Education ; Dropout Rates ; Education ; Education Expenditure ; Education for All ; Education of Children ; Effective Schools and Teachers ; Enrollment Ratios ; Fees ; Finance and Financial Sector Development ; Financial Literacy ; Gender ; Gender and Education ; Gross Enrollment ; High Dropout ; Higher Education ; Levels of Education ; Number of Students ; Primary Education ; Secondary Education ; Social Protections and Labor ; Tertiary Education ; Access and Equity in Basic Education ; Dropout Rates ; Education ; Education Expenditure ; Education for All ; Education of Children ; Effective Schools and Teachers ; Enrollment Ratios ; Fees ; Finance and Financial Sector Development ; Financial Literacy ; Gender ; Gender and Education ; Gross Enrollment ; High Dropout ; Higher Education ; Levels of Education ; Number of Students ; Primary Education ; Secondary Education ; Social Protections and Labor ; Tertiary Education
    Abstract: Sakellariou and Patrinos analyze the equity effects of public subsidization of private schools in Côte d'Ivoire, update previous analyses, and attempt to assess how efficiently public spending is targeted. The subsidy per student in private (and public) schools increases at higher quintiles. Students from families in the highest quintile receive more than twice the subsidy received by students from families in the lowest quintile, compared with four times more in the case of students attending public schools. However, the subsidy system is progressive as there is a clear tendency for the share of family education expenditure covered by subsidies to decline at higher quintiles. This element of progressivity is stronger in the case of private school attendance. This paper—a product of the Education Sector Unit, Latin America and the Caribbean Region—is part of a larger effort in the region to evaluate education policies
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    Parallel Title: Perotti, Enrico State Ownership
    Keywords: Accountability ; Constituencies ; Corporate Governance ; Degree of Autonomy ; Disclosure ; Emerging Markets ; Financial Crises ; Governance ; Governance Indicators ; Governments ; Institutional Capacity ; Macroeconomics and Economic Growth ; National Governance ; Nationalization ; Political Economy ; Political Power ; Private Sector Development ; Privatization ; Public Sector Corruption and Anticorruption Measures ; Accountability ; Constituencies ; Corporate Governance ; Degree of Autonomy ; Disclosure ; Emerging Markets ; Financial Crises ; Governance ; Governance Indicators ; Governments ; Institutional Capacity ; Macroeconomics and Economic Growth ; National Governance ; Nationalization ; Political Economy ; Political Power ; Private Sector Development ; Privatization ; Public Sector Corruption and Anticorruption Measures ; Accountability ; Constituencies ; Corporate Governance ; Degree of Autonomy ; Disclosure ; Emerging Markets ; Financial Crises ; Governance ; Governance Indicators ; Governments ; Institutional Capacity ; Macroeconomics and Economic Growth ; National Governance ; Nationalization ; Political Economy ; Political Power ; Private Sector Development ; Privatization ; Public Sector Corruption and Anticorruption Measures
    Abstract: Perotti reviews the state of thinking on the governance role of state ownership. He argues that a gradual transfer of operational control and financial claims over state assets remains the most desirable goal, but it needs to be paced to avoid regulatory capture, and the capture of the privatization process itself. In addition, the speed of transfer should be timed on the progress in developing a strong regulatory governance system, to which certain residual rights of intervention must be vested. In many countries institutional weakness limits regulatory capacity and reliability, yet the author's conclusion is that in such environments, maintaining state control undermines the very emergence of institutional capacity, and so the balance should tip toward progressively less direct state control. After all, what are "institutions" if not governance mechanisms with some degree of autonomy from both political and private interests? The gradual creation of institutions partially autonomous from political power must become central to the development of an optimal mode of regulatory governance. The author offers some suggestions about creating maximum accountability in regulatory governance, in particular creating an internal control system based on a rotating board representative of users, producers, and civic organizations, to be elected by a process involving frequent reporting and disclosure. This paper—a product of the Global Corporate Governance Forum, Investment Climate Unit—is part of a larger effort in the department to improve the understanding of corporate governance reform in developing countries
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    Parallel Title: Chen, Shaohua China's (Uneven) Progress Against Poverty
    Keywords: Economic Policies ; Extreme Poverty ; Farmers ; Health, Nutrition and Population ; High Inequality ; Household Survey ; Impact On Poverty ; Income Growth ; Inequality ; Measures ; National Poverty ; Poor ; Poor People ; Population Policies ; Poverty Reduction ; Pro-Poor Growth ; Rural Development ; Rural Poverty Reduction ; Economic Policies ; Extreme Poverty ; Farmers ; Health, Nutrition and Population ; High Inequality ; Household Survey ; Impact On Poverty ; Income Growth ; Inequality ; Measures ; National Poverty ; Poor ; Poor People ; Population Policies ; Poverty Reduction ; Pro-Poor Growth ; Rural Development ; Rural Poverty Reduction ; Economic Policies ; Extreme Poverty ; Farmers ; Health, Nutrition and Population ; High Inequality ; Household Survey ; Impact On Poverty ; Income Growth ; Inequality ; Measures ; National Poverty ; Poor ; Poor People ; Population Policies ; Poverty Reduction ; Pro-Poor Growth ; Rural Development ; Rural Poverty Reduction
    Abstract: While the incidence of extreme poverty in China fell dramatically over 1980–2001, progress was uneven over time and across provinces. Rural areas accounted for the bulk of the gains to the poor, though migration to urban areas helped. The pattern of growth mattered. Rural economic growth was far more important to national poverty reduction than urban economic growth. Agriculture played a far more important role than the secondary or tertiary sources of GDP. Rising inequality within the rural sector greatly slowed poverty reduction. Provinces starting with relatively high inequality saw slower progress against poverty, due both to lower growth and a lower growth elasticity of poverty reduction. Taxation of farmers and inflation hurt the poor. External trade had little short-term impact. This paper—a product of the Poverty Team, Development Research Group—is part of a larger effort in the group to understand the causes of country success in poverty reduction
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    ISBN: 0821357336 , 9780821357330
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (240 p.))
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    Series Statement: World Development Indicators
    Abstract: Now in its 6th edition, The Little Data Book 2004 is a pocket-sized ready reference on key development data for 206 countries. Profiles of each country include 54 key development indicators like: Population and population growth; GNI, GDP, GDP growth, Exports and Imports, and Gross Capital Formation; Deforestation, Water Use, Energy Use and Electricity Use per Capita; Life Expectancy, Fertility Rate, Child Malnutrition, Prevalence of HIV, Girls in Primary School; Paved Roads, Aircraft Departures, Personal Computers; High-technology exports, Foreign Direct Investment, Present Value of Debt, and Aid per Capita. Drawing on data from the World Bank's World Development Indicators 2004, The Little Data Book provides quick reference to the latest available data for World Bank member countries as well as other economies with populations of over 30,000. Separate tables summarize data for the World, by Region (East Asia and Pacific, Middle East and Africa, etc.), and Income Group. A helpful Glossary of Terms defines each indicator
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    ISBN: 0821357298 , 9780821357293
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    Series Statement: World Development Indicators
    Abstract: World Development Indicators, the World Bank's respected statistical publication presents the most current and accurate information on global development on both a national level and aggregated globally. This information allows readers to monitor the progress made toward meeting the goals endorsed by the United Nations and its member countries, the World Bank, and a host of partner organizations in September 2001 in their Millennium Development Goals. The 400-page print edition of World Development Indicators 2004 allows you to consult over 80 tables and over 800 indicators for 152 economies and 14 country groups, as well as basic indicators for a further 55 economies. There are key indicators for the latest year available, important regional data, and income group analysis. The report contains six thematic presentations of analytical commentary covering: World View, People, Environment, Economy, States and Markets, and Global Links. The CD-ROM editions contain 40 years of time series data for more than 200 countries from 1960-2002, single-year observations, and spreadsheets on many topics. It contains more than 1,000 country tables and the text from the World Development Indicators 2004 print edition and the World Bank Atlas 2003. The Windows® based format permits users to search for and retrieve data in spreadsheet form, create maps and charts, and fully download them into other popular software programs for study or presentation purposes
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    ISBN: 0821357417 , 9780821357415
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (650 p.))
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    Series Statement: Global Development Finance
    Abstract: The external financing environment facing developing countries has brightened. In 2003, as global growth gained momentum, private capital flows to developing countries increased to
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    ISBN: 0821358286 , 9780821358283
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (60 p.))
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    Abstract: The purpose of these Guidelines is to define the Bank's policies and procedures for selecting, contracting, and monitoring consultants required for projects that are financed in whole or in part by loans from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), credits or grants from the International Development Association (IDA), or grants from the Bank or trust funds administered by the Bank and executed by the beneficiary
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  • 81
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    ISBN: 0821357476 , 9780821357477
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (172 p.))
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    Series Statement: Global Economic Prospects
    Abstract: The proliferation of regional trade agreements is fundamentally altering the world trade landscape. The number of agreements in force surpasses 200 and has risen eight-fold in two decades. Today as much as 40 percent of global trade takes place among countries that have some form of reciprocal regional trade agreement. Global Economic Prospects 2005: Trade, Regionalism, and Development addresses two questions: What are the characteristics of agreements that most promote-or hinder-development for member countries? Does the proliferation of agreements pose risks to the multilateral trading system, and if so, how can these risks be managed? The report argues that agreements leading to open regionalism-that is, deeper integration of trade as a result of low external tariffs, increased services competition, and efforts to reduce cross-border and customs delays costs-are effective as part of a larger trade strategy to promote growth. Such regional agreements can complement a strategy that, on the one hand, includes autonomous liberalization to promote productivity gains and, on the other hand, leverages domestic reforms to enhance market access. Although regional agreements can prove beneficial to member countries, they can have adverse effects on excluded countries. Lowering of border barriers around the world is crucial to minimizing these effects. The completion of the Doha Development Agenda by all countries in the World Trade Organization will reduce the risk of trade diversion associated with regional agreements and will decrease trade losses of countries excluded from agreements
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    ISBN: 0821357719 , 9780821357712
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (124 p.))
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    Series Statement: World Bank Annual Report
    Abstract: Contents of Volume 1: Message from the Chairman, The Board of Executive Directors, The World Bank Group, The Development Agenda, Regional Perspectives, Thematic Perspectives, Improving Development Effectiveness, Summary of Fiscal 2004 Activities, and About the World Bank
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    ISBN: 0821359444 , 9780821359440
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (220 p.))
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    Series Statement: International Finance Corporation Annual Report
    Abstract: IFC shares the primary objective of all World Bank Group institutions: to reduce poverty and improve the lives of people in its developing member countries. Since 1956, IFC has committed more than
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  • 84
    ISBN: 1552501140 , 9781552501146
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (384 p.))
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    Abstract: Fish species that migrate within the great rivers of South America support important local fisheries but are little known outside their native range. This book, written specially for the World Bank and the International Development Research Centre, represents the first collection of the work of local scientific experts on these remarkable fish. The authors cover the Upper Paraná, Paraguay-Paraná, Uruguay and São Francisco basins in Brazil, as well as the Brazilian and Colombian Amazon. They discuss not only the principal migratory species and their fascinating relationship with the water cycle in the rivers and wetlands, but also the fisheries they support, and their often precarious conservation status
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  • 85
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    ISBN: 0821357557
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xvi, 80 p) , ill , 26 cm.
    Additional Material: 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
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    DDC: 333.75
    Keywords: World Bank ; World Bank ; Forest policy ; Forests and forestry Economic aspects ; Sustainable development ; Forest policy ; Forests and forestry Economic aspects ; Sustainable development ; World Bank ; Forest policy ; Forests and forestry ; Sustainable development ; Economic aspects
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 68-73)
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  • 86
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    ISBN: 0821360051 , 9780821360057
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (32 p.))
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    Abstract: Firms and entrepreneurs of all types-from microenterprises to multinationals-play a central role in growth and poverty reduction. Their investment decisions drive job creation, the availability and affordability of goods and services for consumers, and the tax revenues governments can draw on to fund health, education, and other services. Their contribution depends largely on the way governments shape the investment climate in each location-through the protection of property rights, regulation and taxation, strategies for providing infrastructure, interventions in finance and labor markets, and broader governance features such as corruption. The World Development Report 2005 argues that improving the investment climates of their societies should be a top priority for governments. Drawing on surveys of nearly 30,000 firms in 53 developing countries, country case studies, and other new research, the Report explores questions such as: What are the key features of a good investment climate, and how do they influence growth and poverty? What can governments do to improve their investment climates, and how can they go about tackling such a broad agenda? What has been learned about good practice in each of the main areas of the investment climate? What role might selective interventions and international arrangements play in improving the investment climate? What can the international community do to help developing countries improve the investment climates of their societies? In addition to detailed chapters exploring these and related issues, the Report contains selected data from the World Bank's new program of Investment Climate Surveys, the Bank's Doing Business Project, and World Development Indicators 2004-an appendix of economic and social data for over 200 countries. This Report offers practical insights for policymakers, executives, scholars, and all those with an interest in economic development
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    ISBN: 0821358294 , 9780821358290
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (56 p.))
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    Abstract: The purpose of these Guidelines is to inform those carrying out a project that is financed in whole or in part by loans from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) or a credit or grant from the International Development Association (IDA), of the policies that govern the procurement of goods, works, and services (other than consultant services) reqired for the project
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    ISBN: 0821359711 , 9780821359716
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (128 p.))
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    Series Statement: World Bank Annual Report
    Abstract: Contents of Volume 2: Letter of Transmittal, Management's Discussion and Analysis, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development Financial Statements and Internal Control Reports, and Special Purpose Financial Statements and Internal Control Reports of the International Development Association
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    ISBN: 0821357204 , 9780821357200
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (436 p.))
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    Series Statement: Africa Development Indicators
    Abstract: African Development Indicators 2004 provides the most detailed collection of data on Africa available in one volume. It contains more than 500 macroeconomic, sectoral, and social indicators, covering 53 African countries with data from 1970-2002. The book is grouped into 15 chapters: background data; national accounts; prices and exchange rates; money and banking; external sector; external debt and related flows; government finance; agriculture; power, communications, and transportation; public enterprises; labor force and employment; aid flows; social indicators; environmental indicators; and HIPC debt initiative. Each chapter begins with a brief introduction on the nature of the data and their limitations, followed by a set of statistical tables, charts, and technical notes that define the indicators and identify their specific source. Included this year are new tables on HIV/AIDS, Communications and Transportation, and the HIPC Debt Initiative. Designed to provide all those interested in Africa with a focused and convenient set of data to monitor development programs and aid flows in the region, this is an invaluable reference tools for analysts and policymakers who want a better understanding of the economic and social developments occurring in Africa
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  • 90
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    ISBN: 0821358766 , 9780821358764
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (112 p.))
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    Series Statement: Country Studies
    Abstract: The Health Sector in Eritrea is part of the World Bank Country Study series. These reports are published with the approval of the subject government to communicate the results of the Bank's work on the economic and related conditions of member countries to governments and to the development community. In March 2001, the Ministry of Health of the Government of Eritrea launched a process to prepare a long-term health sector policy and strategic plan (HSPSP), with a focus on assuring equitable, quality, and sustainable health care. The Ministry outlined an open, participatory, three-step process for developing the HSPSP, with active participation from all partners in the health sector. Step One is the preparation of a health sector review carried out by the World Bank (this study), based on existing documentation provided by the Government and other sources. Step Two consists of conducting an in-depth health sector analysis among five sub-sector working groups-PHC, hospital reform, pharmaceuticals, human resource development, health financing-leading to Step Three, the preparation of a rationale for investments in the future development of the health sector. This study serves as the preliminary basis for further rounds of discussions and analyses among stakeholders to arrive at a strategic vision for the Eritrea health sector. It incorporates comments received from the Ministry of Health's central agencies, Zoba (regional) health teams, external partners working in Eritrea, and the World Bank Eritrea Country Team
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  • 91
    ISBN: 0821358006 , 9780821358009
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (287 p.))
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    Series Statement: Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics
    Abstract: The Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE) is one of the world's best known series of conferences for the presentation and discussion of new knowledge about development. First held at World Bank headquarters in Washington D.C. in 1988, the ABCDE has become broader in scope as the world's economies have become more interconnected and challenges have become more complex. Presenting the proceedings of the May 2003 World Bank Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE), the volume imparts new research findings and discussions on key policy issues related to poverty reduction by eminent scholars and practitioners from around the world. Topics include Fostering Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Growth; Challenges of Development in Lagging Regions; Participation, Inclusion and Results and Scaling Up and Evaluation. Contributors to the volume include, Nicholas Stern, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank; Azim Hasham Premji, Chairman of Bangalore's Wipro Corporation; Francois Bourguignon of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Possiy, France; Partha Dasgupta of Cambridge University; Justin Lin of Hong Kong University; Rakesh Mohan, Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India; Jean Philippe Platteau of the University of Namur, Belgium; Karen Polenske of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; T. N. Srinivasan, of Yale University; and Anthony Venables of the London School of Economics. The Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2004 is a critical reference guide for development research and will be of interest to practitioners and those studying international development and poverty reduction
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (35 p.))
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    Parallel Title: Do, Quy-Toan Institutional Trap
    Keywords: Agents ; Bargaining ; Consensus ; Corruption ; Entry ; GDP ; Index ; Institutional Change ; Licensing ; Nature ; Production ; Roads and Highways ; Supply ; Transport ; Agents ; Bargaining ; Consensus ; Corruption ; Entry ; GDP ; Index ; Institutional Change ; Licensing ; Nature ; Production ; Roads and Highways ; Supply ; Transport ; Agents ; Bargaining ; Consensus ; Corruption ; Entry ; GDP ; Index ; Institutional Change ; Licensing ; Nature ; Production ; Roads and Highways ; Supply ; Transport
    Abstract: The author studies the persistence of inequality and inefficient governance in a physical capital accumulation model with perfect information, missing credit markets, and endogenous barriers to entry. When access to investment opportunities is regulated, rent-seeking entrepreneurs form coalitions of potentially varying size to bribe a regulator to restrict entry. Small coalitions run short of resources, while large coalitions suffer more severe free-rider problems. The distribution of wealth thus determines the equilibrium coalition structure of the economy and consequently the level of regulatory capture. A dynamic analysis supports the persistence of inefficiencies in the long run. Initial conditions determine whether the economy converges to a steady state characterized by efficient governance and low levels of inequality, or a path toward an institutional trap where regulatory capture and wealth inequality reinforce each other. This paper—a product of the Poverty Team, Development Research Group—is part of a larger effort in the group to understand the determinants of institutions
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (42 p.))
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    Parallel Title: Chen, Shaohua How Have the World's Poorest Fared Since the Early 1980s?
    Keywords: Extreme Poverty ; Food Consumption ; Global Poverty ; Health, Nutrition and Population ; Household Size ; Household Survey ; Household Surveys ; Income ; Inequality ; International Poverty Line ; Per Capita Consumption ; Population Policies ; Poverty Reduction ; Rural Development ; Rural Poverty Reduction ; Extreme Poverty ; Food Consumption ; Global Poverty ; Health, Nutrition and Population ; Household Size ; Household Survey ; Household Surveys ; Income ; Inequality ; International Poverty Line ; Per Capita Consumption ; Population Policies ; Poverty Reduction ; Rural Development ; Rural Poverty Reduction ; Extreme Poverty ; Food Consumption ; Global Poverty ; Health, Nutrition and Population ; Household Size ; Household Survey ; Household Surveys ; Income ; Inequality ; International Poverty Line ; Per Capita Consumption ; Population Policies ; Poverty Reduction ; Rural Development ; Rural Poverty Reduction
    Abstract: Chen and Ravallion present new estimates of the extent of the developing world's progress against poverty. By the frugal
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (27 p.))
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    Parallel Title: Luo, Xubei The Role of Infrastructure Investment Location in China's Western Development
    Keywords: Accessibility ; High Transport ; Infrastructure ; Infrastructure Development ; Infrastructure Investment ; Infrastructures ; Investments ; Policies ; Profit Margin ; Route ; Transport ; Transport ; Transport Economics, Policy and Planning ; Accessibility ; High Transport ; Infrastructure ; Infrastructure Development ; Infrastructure Investment ; Infrastructures ; Investments ; Policies ; Profit Margin ; Route ; Transport ; Transport ; Transport Economics, Policy and Planning ; Accessibility ; High Transport ; Infrastructure ; Infrastructure Development ; Infrastructure Investment ; Infrastructures ; Investments ; Policies ; Profit Margin ; Route ; Transport ; Transport ; Transport Economics, Policy and Planning
    Abstract: Development of the western region is vital to the balanced growth of China. Luo studies the impacts of infrastructure investment that may most efficiently alleviate the burden of geographical remoteness of the West. Having constructed the "adjusted distance" to approximate the transport cost, which takes into account the effects of real distance and infrastructure development, the author defines the "peripheral degree" to measure the effective remoteness of a province to an economic center. Using panel data for 1979–99 from the Chinese provinces, she shows that geographic attractiveness plays a significant role in a Solow-type growth determination model. Given the invariability of pure geographic position, progress in transportation facilities is essential to reduce the geographic handicap and to encourage the catching-up of the western region. The author's simulation results show that the central transportation hubs (Hubei, Henan, and Hunan) merit most infrastructure investments, for they favor the development of many provinces, if regional balanced growth is considered as the prime objective. In particular, improvement in the transportation facilities in central hubs will have greater effects on western development than that in the western region by itself. Improvements in the transportation facilities of the central hubs substantially improves the geographic attractiveness of the western region by reducing the transport cost from the West to the Coast and by promoting the emergence of new economic centers in such hubs, which tends to modify the national economic geographic structure. This paper is a product of the Office of the Vice President and Chief Economist, Development Economics
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (30 p.))
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    Parallel Title: Do, Quy-Toan Trade and Financial Development
    Keywords: Comparative Advantage ; Cred Development ; Debt Markets ; Economic Theory and Research ; Economy ; Emerging Markets ; Equilibrium ; Finance and Financial Sector Development ; Financial Sector ; GDP ; Goods ; Income ; Increasing Returns ; Increasing Returns To Scale ; International Trade ; Macroeconomics and Economic Growth ; Private Sector Development ; Comparative Advantage ; Cred Development ; Debt Markets ; Economic Theory and Research ; Economy ; Emerging Markets ; Equilibrium ; Finance and Financial Sector Development ; Financial Sector ; GDP ; Goods ; Income ; Increasing Returns ; Increasing Returns To Scale ; International Trade ; Macroeconomics and Economic Growth ; Private Sector Development ; Comparative Advantage ; Cred Development ; Debt Markets ; Economic Theory and Research ; Economy ; Emerging Markets ; Equilibrium ; Finance and Financial Sector Development ; Financial Sector ; GDP ; Goods ; Income ; Increasing Returns ; Increasing Returns To Scale ; International Trade ; Macroeconomics and Economic Growth ; Private Sector Development
    Abstract: The differences in financial systems between industrial and developing countries are pronounced. It has been observed, both theoretically and empirically, that the differences in countries' financial systems are a source of comparative advantage in trade. Do and Levchenko point out that to the extent a country's financial development is endogenous, it will in turn be influenced by trade. They build a model in which a country's financial development is an equilibrium outcome of the economy's productive structure: in countries with large financially intensive sectors, financial systems are more developed. When a wealthy and a poor country open to trade, the financially dependent sectors grow in the wealthy country, and so does the financial system. By contrast, as the financially intensive sectors shrink in the poor country, demand for external finance decreases and the domestic financial system deteriorates. The authors test their model using data on financial development for a sample of 77 countries. They find that the main predictions of the model are borne out in the data: trade openness is associated with faster financial development in wealthier countries, and with slower financial development in poorer ones. This paper—a product of the Development Research Group—is part of a larger effort in the group to investigate the relation between finance and trade
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  • 96
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (41 p.))
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    Parallel Title: Zhai, Fan Labor Market Distortions, Rural-Urban Inequality, and the Opening of China's Economy
    Keywords: Debt Markets ; Economic Theory and Research ; Factor Markets ; Finance and Financial Sector Development ; Financial Literacy ; Household Survey ; Income Distribution ; Income Inequality ; International Economics & Trade ; Labor ; Labor Force ; Labor Market ; Labor Markets ; Labor Markets ; Labor Mobility ; Labor Policies ; Macroeconomics and Economic Growth ; Markets and Market Access ; Poverty Reduction ; Product Market ; Product Market Reform ; Rural Development ; Rural Poverty Reduction ; Social Protections and Labor ; Urban Development Policy ; Urban Housing and Land ; Debt Markets ; Economic Theory and Research ; Factor Markets ; Finance and Financial Sector Development ; Financial Literacy ; Household Survey ; Income Distribution ; Income Inequality ; International Economics & Trade ; Labor ; Labor Force ; Labor Market ; Labor Markets ; Labor Markets ; Labor Mobility ; Labor Policies ; Macroeconomics and Economic Growth ; Markets and Market Access ; Poverty Reduction ; Product Market ; Product Market Reform ; Rural Development ; Rural Poverty Reduction ; Social Protections and Labor ; Urban Development Policy ; Urban Housing and Land ; Debt Markets ; Economic Theory and Research ; Factor Markets ; Finance and Financial Sector Development ; Financial Literacy ; Household Survey ; Income Distribution ; Income Inequality ; International Economics & Trade ; Labor ; Labor Force ; Labor Market ; Labor Markets ; Labor Markets ; Labor Mobility ; Labor Policies ; Macroeconomics and Economic Growth ; Markets and Market Access ; Poverty Reduction ; Product Market ; Product Market Reform ; Rural Development ; Rural Poverty Reduction ; Social Protections and Labor ; Urban Development Policy ; Urban Housing and Land
    Abstract: Hertel and Zhai evaluate the impact of two key factor market distortions in China on rural-urban inequality and income distribution. They find that creation of a fully functioning land market has a significant impact on rural-urban inequality. This reform permits agricultural households to focus solely on the differential between farm and nonfarm returns to labor in determining whether to work on or off-farm. This gives rise to an additional 10 million people moving out of agriculture by 2007 and lends a significant boost to the incomes of those remaining in agriculture. This off-farm migration also contributes to a significant rise in rural-urban migration, thereby lowering urban wages, particularly for unskilled workers. As a consequence, rural-urban inequality declines significantly. The authors find that reform of the Hukou system has the most significant impact on aggregate economic activity, as well as income distribution. Whereas the land market reform primarily benefits the agricultural households, this reform's primary beneficiaries are the rural households currently sending temporary migrants to the city. By reducing the implicit tax on temporary migrants, Hukou reform boosts their welfare and contributes to increased rural-urban migration. The combined effect of both factor market reforms is to reduce the urban-rural income ratio dramatically, from 2.59 in 2007 under the authors' baseline scenario to 2.27. When viewed as a combined policy package, along with WTO accession, rather than increasing inequality in China, the combined impact of product and factor market reforms significantly reduces rural-urban income inequality. This is an important outcome in an economy currently experiencing historic levels of rural-urban inequality. This paper—a product of the Trade Team, Development Research Group—is part of a larger effort in the group to evaluate the poverty impacts of trade policy reforms
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  • 97
    Language: French
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (p)
    Series Statement: Independent Evaluation Group Studies
    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Abstract: Cette evaluation s'appuie sur un travail anterieur du departement de l'evaluation des operations (OED) qui evalue dans quelle mesure la strategie de reduction de la pauvrete a permis jusqu'a present de concretiser les principes de la Carte de developpement integree (CDF) en actions, en quoi la strategie repond a la demande des pays en termes de reduction durable de la pauvrete, et l'efficacite de la Banque dans l'appui et l'alignement de ses propres programmes sur l'approche de la strategie de reduction de la pauvrete. L'OED a mene cette evaluation parallelement a une evaluation, par le Bureau d'evaluation independant du Fonds monetaire international (FMI), des documents de la strategie de reduction de la pauvrete et de la Facilite pour la reduction de la pauvrete et pour la croissance
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (288 pages)
    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    Series Statement: World Development Report
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Abstract: Firms and entrepreneurs of all types - from microenterprises to multinationals - play a central role in growth and poverty reduction. Their investment decisions drive job creation, the availability and affordability of goods and services for consumers, and the tax revenues governments can draw on to fund health, education, and other services.The World Development Report 2005 argues that improving the investment climates of their societies should be a top priority for governments. Drawing on surveys of nearly 30,000 firms in 53 developing countries, country case studies, and other new research, the Report explores questions such as: - What are the key features of a good investment climate, and how do they influence growth and poverty? - What can governments do to improve their investment climates, and how can they go about tackling such a broad agenda? - What has been learned about good practice in each of the main areas of the investment climate? - What role might selective interventions and international arrangements play in improving the investment climate? - What can the international community do to help developing countries improve the investment climates of their societies? In addition to detailed chapters exploring these and related issues, the Report contains selected data from the World Bank's new program of Investment Climate Surveys, the Bank's Doing Business Project, and World Development Indicators 2004. This Report offers practical insights for policymakers, executives, scholars, and all those with an interest in economic development
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    Hoboken : Taylor and Francis
    ISBN: 9781844070848
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (293 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: People and Plants International Conservation
    Parallel Title: Print version Ethnobotany : A Methods Manual
    DDC: 581.6
    Keywords: Ethnobotany ; Ethnobotany -- Handbooks, manuals, etc ; Ethnobotany -- Methodology ; Human-plant relationships ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Ethnobotany, the study of the classification, use and management of plants by people, draws on a range of disciplines, including natural and social sciences, to show how conservation of plants and of local knowledge about them can be achieved. Ethnobotany is critical to the growing importance of developing new crops and products such as drugs from traditional plants.This book is the basic introduction to the field, showing how botany, anthropology, ecology, economics and linguistics are all employed in the techniques and methods involved. It explains data collection and hypothesis testing and
    Description / Table of Contents: People and Plants partners; Contents; The 'People and Plants' Initiative; International panel of advisors; Internal panel of advisors; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1 Data collection and hypothesis testing; Chapter 2 Botany; Chapter 3 Ethnopharmacology and related fields; Chapter 4 Anthropology; Chapter 5 Ecology; Chapter 6 Economics; Chapter 7 Linguistics; Chapter 8 Ethnobotany, conservation and community development; Bibliography; Index;
    Description / Table of Contents: Ethnobotany A Methods Manual; Copyright; Contents; The 'People and Plants' Initiative; International panel of advisers; Internal panel of advisers; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; 1 Data collection and hypothesis testing; 1.1 Choosing an approach; 1.2 Six disciplines which controbute to an ethnobotanical study; 1.3 Rapid ethnobotanical appraisal; 1.4 Planning a long-term project; 1.5 Describing the field site; 1.6 Ethnobotanical data; 1.7 Visual aids; 1.8 The law of diminishing returns; 1.9 Hypothesis testing and theory; 2 Botany; 2.1 Collecting and identifying plants
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.2 Preparing an ethnobotanical reference collection2.3 Herbaria and the curation of plant specimens; 2.4 Judging the completeness of a plant survey; 3 Ethnopharmacology and related fields; 3.1 Proceeding with a phytochemical analysis; 3.2 Screening; 3.3 Collecting plants for phytochemical analysis; 3.4 The ethics of searching for new plant products; 3.5 Bringing phytochemistry back home; 4 Anthropology; 4.1 Talking with local people; 4.2 Searching for ethnobotanical information in folklore; 4.3 Surveys and analytical tools; 5 Ecology
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.1 Describing microenvironments and quantifying their plant resources5.2 Qualitative approaches; 5.3 Bridging the gap between qualitative and quantitative approaches; 5.4 Quantitative approaches; 6 Economics; 6.1 Economics and ethnobotany; 6.2 The value of the environment; 6.3 The value of forest products; 6.4 Surveys of community and household economy; 6.5 Local markets; 7 Linguistics; 7.1 Learning a local language; 7.2 Colaborating with linguists; 7.3 Where there is no linguist; 7.4 Transcribing the local language; 7.5 Linguistic analysis in ethnobotany; 7.6 Free listing
    Description / Table of Contents: 7.7 Systematic surveys of local plant knowledge7.8 Categories of ethnobiological classification; 7.9 The correspondence between folk and scientific classification; 8 Ethnobotany, conservation and community development; 8.1 Applying traditional ecological knowledge; 8.2 Ethnobotanical research and community development; 8.3 Forests; 8.4 Conservation of wild crop relatives and endangered useful plants; 8.5 Education; 8.6 Use of protected areas; 8.7 The local perspective on ethnobotanical research; 8.8 The path ahead; References; Further reading; Index
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    Hoboken : Taylor and Francis
    ISBN: 9780415652063
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (279 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
    Series Statement: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought Ser.
    Parallel Title: Print version The Structure of Social Theory
    DDC: 301.01
    Keywords: Sociology - Philosophy ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Over the last three decades, social theory has become an increasingly important subdiscipline within sociology. Social theory has attempted to elucidate the philosophical basis of sociology by defining the nature of social reality. According to social theory, society consists of objective institutions, structure, on the one hand, and individuals, agency on the other, it promotes human social relations, insisting that in every instance social reality consists of these relations
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