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Women, Power, and Political Change analyzes the lives of fourteen American women who faciliated social and political changes since America's founding. Bonnie G. Mani describes the social and political context of each time period and uncovers how women can influence public policy without holding elected office and without personal wealth.

Today's wars leave a crippling legacy of deprivation and suffering, of physical and structural injustice, long after they submit to peaceful resolution. Survivors of war must find ways to live with the stultifying injustices littering their past and haunting their present - acts of discrimination and violence committed before, during and even after conflict.Confronting the vexed challenge of re-marrying peace with justice out of the morass of ...

Une anthologie de textes Manichéens, trouvés à Medinat Mahdi, à Tourfan, en Chine, en Perse etc. - Anthologie traduite de l'Allemand par M.P. Steiner. - Avec une petite introduction sur l'histoire et le message gnostique du Manichéisme, du III-e au XX-e siècle (sic!), et quelques notes. - Broch., 240 pp., 12 planches en couleur, pleine page, 1 carte géographique en tête et in fine, et de nombreuses vignettes dans le texte.

Inderjeet Mani is a visiting scholar in the Department of Computer Science at Brandeis University, and senior principal scientist at the MITRE Corporation in Bedford, Massachusetts. He has also been a visiting fellow of the Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, and an associate professor of linguistics at Georgetown University. He is the author or coeditor of several books, including The Language of Time and Automatic Summarization.

This book describes the outstanding features of the ecology and bio­ geography of the Indian region, comprising former British India, Nepal, Bhutan, Ceylon and Burma. It summarizes the results of nearly four decades' studies and field explorations and discussions with students on the distribution of plants and animals, practically throughout this vast area and on the underlying factors. A number of specialists in geology, meteorology, botany, ...

What would it mean to conceive of the sacred as a source of knowledge that is as vital as the secular? What insights does a contemplative approach yield in analysing neoliberal globalisation or Hindu fundamentalism? Is a dew drop sacred, or is it secular? Addressing these questions, this book argues that sacred and secular are indivisible.

White spot syndrome virus (WSSV) is the causative agent of white spot disease and is responsible for severe economic losses in shrimp culture industry worldwide. Outbreaks of this disease have wiped out entire populations of shrimp farm within 3-4 days. WSSV is at present the largest animal virus, which is a member of the genus Whispovirus within a new virus family called Nimaviridae. RNA interference has recently emerged as a powerful tool fo...

This study analyzes factors, both legal and illegal, that lead to inequities in the pay and status of men and women. Due to American culture, the wage gap may never close, but investments in human capital development may facilitate women's career advancement and narrow the gap. The author develops specific strategies for narrowing the wage gap, and explores avenues of implementation.

Ob Mittelmeerkreuzfahrt oder Thermenbesuch, zwei Freundinnen hören einander zu, wenn sie sich Episoden aus ihrer schmerzvollen Vergangenheit, die tiefe Spuren in ihnen hinterlassen hatten, erzählen. Ja, da war bei beiden sehr viel passiert. Augustine, die Ich-Erzählerin, hatte das Eingesperrtsein in ein starres Lebenskorsett zu einer extrem schmerzhaften, beinahe lebensbedrohenden Krankheit geführt. Nachdem sie allerdings erkannt hatte, dass ...

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In my book Introduction to High Altitude Entomology, published in 1962, I summa­ rized the results of eight years' studies, mainly on the Himalaya. I have since then had the opportunity of studying the collections of high altitude insects from the Alps, Carpathians, Caucasus, Urals, Alai-Pamirs, Tien Shan, Altai and other im­ portant mountains of the world in different museums and institutions in Europe. Through the courtesy and generosity of ...

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Berndeutsche Chansons Bd. 2 (Erstausgabe 1973)-- I: ir ysebahn / dr mönsch isch wi dä / wo mir als bueben emal / dynamit / ballade vom nationalrat hugo sanders / ds lied vom kritisiere / oberi und underi / betrachtige über nes sändwitsch-- II: är het uf sym chopf e chopf gha / arabisch / dr her zehnder II / dialog im strandbad / e löu, e blöde siech, e glünggi un e sürmu oder: schimpfwörter sy glückssach / missverständnis / dr wecker / mys näc...

Us emene lääre Gygechaschte" wurde 1969 mit dem Buchpreis der Stadt Bern ausgezeichnet. Mani Matter zählt zum Schweizer Kulturgut und das öffentliche Interesse an ihm und seinen Chansons ist nach wie vor ungebrochen. Seit zwei Generationen sind die 1969, 1973 und 1992 erschienen Mani-Matter-Notenbüchlein durch unzählige Hände gewandert. Die farbigen Hefte mit den Liedtexten, den handgeschriebenen Noten und Gitarrengriffen haben originalen Cha...

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