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Rina Singh's book compares seventeen Western European countries in the area of women's involvement in the public sphere (participation and policies affecting it) and private sphere (roles and policies affecting it). The interaction between the two spheres is analysed to determine where countries lie in the process towards gender autonomy - ultimately the ability of each sex to make free lifestyle choices to participate in both or either the pu...

FROM THE INTRODUCTION"Considerable effort has gone into the study of various aspects of flammability and of various plastic materials, so that these materials which are proving so useful to man will always be used in ways which will not compromise his safety. The task is a continuing one, because the family of plastics continues to grow, and, along with it, its variety of applications. Some of these future applications cannot even be conceived...

Henry Fielding: A Literary Life characterizes Fielding's complex personality, in some ways full of contradiction, and yet resolved both by a deep knowledge of human nature, including his own, and by his innate social constructiveness and his gift for friendship and love. The book also details ways in which Fielding's complex attitudes contribute to the subject-matter of his plays and novels and to the rhetorical strategies that control their s...

In this innovative study, six women and men from Eastern Indonesia narrate their own lives by talking about their possessions--domestic objects used to construct a coherent identity through a process of identification and "self-historicizing." Janet Hoskins explores how things are given biographical significance and entangled in sexual politics, expressed in dualistic metaphors where the familiar distinctions between person and object and fema...

John Maynard Keynes's seminal The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money remains central to economic debate over sixty years after its publication. This book shows how Keynes's masterpiece is best understood not as an attempt to tackle the immediate policy issues of this age but to extend the range of thought available to economists. Understood as such, it continues to provide the most effective framework to the central issues about ...

This collection of essays is the first to reassess a range of Shakespeare's plays in relation to carnivalesque theory. Contributors re-historicize the carnivalesque in different ways, offering both a developed application, or critique of, Bakhtin's thought.

Because of their therapeutic safety, hydroxyethylstarch, gelatin and dextrans are among the most frequently used drugs in the world. Recent studies have shown that bleeding disorders, anaphylactic reactions and storage in the body depend decisively on the nature of the administered plasma substitute. Through interdisciplinary cooperation the "First European Volume Replacement Conference" has established indications for the use of individual pl...

Der Wandel im Unternehmen: Voraussetzung für Qualitätssicherung und weitere Wettbewerbsfähigkeit und damit für das Überleben des Unternehmens am Markt, aber auch eine immense Herausforderung an Management und Personal. Praktischen Rat zur Vorbereitung, Umsetzung und zum Erhalt neuer Strukturen gibt Ihnen der Autor dieses Buches, der seine langjährige Erfahrung als Unternehmensberater mit den neuesten Forschungsergebnissen verbindet. Anschaulic...

AN ILLUMINATING ACCOUNT OF TWO INTERCONNECTED SOCIAL MOVEMENTS FROM THEIR GRASSROOTS ORIGINS THROUGH THE 1996 GREEN PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNBoth ecofeminism and Green politics have played an important role in the radical environmental movement. As a theory and a movement bringing together feminism, environmentalism, socialism, and peace activism, ecofeminism began taking shape in the U.S. by 1980. Four years later, many ecofeminists participated ...

A welcome introduction to the question of Jewish understandings of, and involvement with, visual culture."—Walter Cahn, author of Romanesque Manuscripts"Cohen's analysis of images of Jews advances swiftly beyond the history of stereotypes in favor of a complexity of mutual perception, and his depiction of images by Jews challenges the standard assumption of the anti-visuality of Jewish culture."—Michael P. Steinberg, Cornell University"Richard...

A collection of examples of the work of over 100 Caribbean artists with text explaining the history of Caribbean art, the 20th century art schools which helped to define an indigenous aesthetic, and art's relationship to the political and racial ideologies.

Dieses Buch soll dem Leser aktuelle Erkenntnisse und Informationen im Umgang und in der Behandlung von chronischen Wunden vermitteln. Gerade in den letzten Jahren haben sich aufgrund von neuen Forschungsergebnissen in der Therapie von chronischen Wunden deutliche Fortschritte und Veränderungen ergeben, die jetzt in die Praxis überführt werden müssen. Mit der gelungenen Darstellung von Prophylaxe und Behandlungsmöglichkeiten der verschiedenen W...

Inhaltsangabe:Gang der Untersuchung: Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit dem Prinzip der eindeutigen Fortsetzbarkeit für elliptische Differentialoperatoren L, d.h. mit folgender Eigenschaft für Lösungen u von Lu = 0 Im ersten Kapitel werden zunächst die unterschiedlichen Formulierungen der Prinzipien der eindeutigen Fortsetzbarkeit dargelegt. Im Anschluss behandelt dieses Kapitel die Entwicklung der Voraussetzungen an den Operator L,...

In this spellbinding novel of adventure and science, two eras are joined by a single trace of microscopic bacterium--the invisible seeds of a new Bubonic Plague. In the year 1348, a physician journeys to England on an impossible mission to save the royal family from the Black Death. In the year 2005, a scientist unearths a terror laying dormant in the soil for nearly 700 years. Their stories are linked by history and defined by circumstances. ...

Sylvia Plath began keeping a diary as a young child. By the time she was at Smith College, when this book begins, she had settled into a nearly daily routine with her journal, which was also a sourcebook for her writing. Plath once called her journal her "Sargasso, " her repository of imagination, "a litany of dreams, directives, and imperatives, " and in fact these pages contain the germs of most of her work. Plath's ambitions as a writer wer...

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Aldo Zilli is a rising celebrity chef and in this recipe book he shows how to make a variety of dishes for both formal and informal occasions when entertaining friends.

John Maynard Keynes's seminal The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money remains central to economic debate over sixty years after its publication. This book shows how Keynes's masterpiece is best understood not as an attempt to tackle the immediate policy issues of this age but to extend the range of thought available to economists. Understood as such, it continues to provide the most effective framework to the central issues about ...

This collection of essays is the first to reassess a range of Shakespeare's plays in relation to carnivalesque theory. Contributors re-historicize the carnivalesque in different ways, offering both a developed application, or critique of, Bakhtin's thought.

This is an introductory textbook, organized conceptually, aimed at both philosophy students and science students taking philosophy of science courses.