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List of Tables Foreword by Catharine R. Stimpson Acknowledgments Introduction 1: Defining the Problems of "Dependent Motherhood" 2: The Structure of Public Provision: Gender and Race in Chicago's Welfare System 3: Gender and Social Policy: The Origins of Mothers' Pension Policy in Illinois 4: The Politics of Welfare Reform 5: The Economies of Mothers' Pensions Conclusion Appendix: Legislative and Judicial Changes in the Illinois 'Aid to Mother...

Theall explores the role of science, mathematics, and technology in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. He argues that Joyce's paramodern poetic practice has important implications for a wide variety of subsequent cultural and theoretical movements.

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PrologueAcknowledgmentsPersonae1. Looking for SerciPart One: Organization of the Possession Troupe2. Zimas from Tillaberi3. Gusabu's Mediums4. Praise-Singers from the River5. Cries of the Violin, Rhythms of the DrumPart Two: Theaters of Songhay Experience6. Rain Dance: Rites of the Ancestors7. Horrific Comedy: The HaukaPart Three: Possession in a Changing World8. Sexual Comedy: The Sasale9. Two Mouths, Two HeartsEpilogue: Fusion of the WorldsN...

A history of the Toronto Industrial Exhibition (1879-1903) and an exploration of how the fair helped shape understandings of emerging urban culture in a society being altered profoundly by industrial production, technological developments, and new ideas.

Inhaltsangabe:Zusammenfassung: Die Diplomarbeit "Terminologie Tourismuswirtschaft im russisch-deutschen Vergleich. Eine Analyse unter Berücksichtigung der besonderen Entwicklungen im russischen Tourismus" ist im Rahmen des Übersetzerstudiengangs am Institut für Übersetzen und Dolmetschen der Universität Heidelberg entstanden. Der erste Teil der Arbeit gibt zunächst einen kurzen Überblick über die Geschichte des Tourismus im vorrevolutionären...

Inhaltsangabe:Zusammenfassung: Die Geschichte der Photographie wird von Anfang an von einem zweigliedrigen System begleitet: die ungestellt-dokumentarische Photographie auf der einen Seite und die gestellt-inszenierende Photographie auf der anderen Seite. Die Annahme der strikten Trennung von Subjektivität, Inszenierung und Manipulation von Wirklichkeit einerseits und Objektivität, Dokumentation, Authentizität und Abbildtreue gegenüber dem Au...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Qualitätsmanagement ist in aller Munde! In zunehmendem Maße erkennen Unternehmen die zentrale wettbewerbsrelevante Bedeutung von Qualitäts- und Kundenorientierung bei der Bereitstellung ihrer Leistungen. Insbesondere im Bankenbereich versprechen sich die Entscheidungsträger wertvolle Impulse durch die Implementierung einer Qualitätsstrategie, da das Verhältnis zum Kunden hier von einer ganz besonderen Sensibilität ge...

In this second volume of his highly acclaimed chronicle of faith in America, Martin E. Marty tells the riveting story of how America has survived religious disturbances and culturally prospered from them.

Martin E. Marty argues that religion in twentieth-century America was essentially shaped by its encounter with modernity. In this volume, he records and explores the diverse ways in which American religion embraced, rejected, or cautiously accepted the modern world.

A remarkable book, for its immense learning and interdisciplinary scope, for the originality of its approach, and for the new and subtle insights it repeatedly sheds on the texts it treats. Murrin is the first scholar-critic to examine systematically how epics represent warfare and how and to what extent these representations correspond to actual practices of combat in the contemporary world of their poets". -- David Quint, Yale University

Expanding the boundaries of both genre and gender, contemporary American women are writing long poems in a variety of forms that repossess history, reconceive female subjectivity, and revitalize poetry itself. In the first book devoted to long poems by women, Lynn Keller explores this rich and evolving body of work.

We live in an increasingly fragmented world, with islands of natural habitat cast adrift in a sea of cleared, burned, logged, polluted, and otherwise altered lands. Nowhere are fragmentation and its devastating effects more evident than in the tropical forests. By the year 2000, more than half of these forests will have been cut, causing increased soil erosion, watershed destabilization, climate degradation, and extinction of as many as 600, 0...

Examines the official institutions which regulated moral conduct in Canada, and analyses the ways in which different social groups had distinct relationships to legal modes of regulation.

Examines the official institutions which regulated moral conduct in Canada, and analyses the ways in which different social groups had distinct relationships to legal modes of regulation.

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