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France Between the Wars" challenges a prevailing assumption that women had little influence or power in France during the interwar period. Sian Reynolds shows how women in fact had both autonomy and authority within the political arena through their activities in social work, peace movements and strikes, and in other areas less directly linked with conventional politics. Reynolds brings together two kinds of history: the political history of F...

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In the framework of European Community Law, it is a matter of great importance that an adequate system of judicial review exists, thus enabling private parties to challenge illegal, invalid and unfair Community administrative actions. This book not only deals extensively with the action for annulment, where private parties may obtain the review of Community acts only after fulfilling severe locus standi conditions, it also examines the alterna...

There are many types of infinite-dimensional groups, most of which have been studied separately from each other since the 1950s. It is now possible to fit these apparently disparate groups into one coherent picture. With the first explicit construction of hidden structures (mantles and trains), Neretin is able to show how many infinite-dimensional groups are in fact only a small part of a much larger object, analogous to the way real numbers a...

In the 1910s a Chicago surgeon electrified the nation by allowing the deaths of infants he diagnosed as "defectives". He publicized the cases in print and film, winning support from many prominent Americans. The Black Stork uses this newly-rediscovered story to illuminate many broader questions: how efforts to improve human heredity (eugenics) became linked with mercy killing (euthanasia) and social prejudices, how medicine influenced modern c...

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Financial Innovation, Banking and Monetary Aggregates reviews the impact of financial innovation on the measurement of money and presents the first collection of country studies appraising the usefulness of Divisia indices in deriving monetary aggregates.

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Hybrids of Modernity considers the relationship between three Western modernist institutions: anthropology, the nation state and the universal exhibition, in particular examining the emergence of culture as a commodity.

Using suggestions from leaders in the field of educational measurement, the authors identified nine concepts of educational measurements under which they organised articles, papers and studies. This volume deals with basic concepts of theories of measurement and testing, validity and reliability.

Abigail May Alcott accepted the view that women best served society by supporting their husbands and nurturing their children. The circumstances of her marriage though, led to her advocacy of careers and the vote for women. This book considers her life in the context of her historical era.

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