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The book illustrates how community-based actions, programs, andorganizations that allow women to determine their lives and participate in decisionmaking contribute to the creation of a civil society and thus enhance democracy. Thecase studies show how participation in grassroots movements promotes women'sinvolvement in their organizations, communities, and in societal institutions, as itinfluences state policy and empowers women in personal re...

An engaging introduction to the tortuous plight faced by exiledconversos in Amsterdam and their methods of response. Choicet, In this skillful andwell-argued book Miriam Bodian explores the communal history of the PortugueseJews... who settled in Amsterdam in the seventeenth century." -- SixteenthCentury JournaDrawing on family and communal records, diaries, memoirs, and literary works, among other sources, Miriam Bodian tells the movingstory ...

Written by a number of expert scholars from around the world, including China itself, with the aim of extending knowledge and taking the cross-cultural study of PE and sport beyond the descriptive level, this book provides unique and up to date material.Subjects covered include:*ancient and modern history*structure, administration and finance*PE in schools and colleges*elite sport*sport science and medicine*gender issues.Anyone wishing to gain...

Rave reviews for INTEGER AND COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION "This book provides an excellent introduction and survey of traditional fields of combinatorial optimization . . . It is indeed one of the best and most complete texts on combinatorial optimization . . . available. [And] with more than 700 entries, [it] has quite an exhaustive reference list."-Optima "A unifying approach to optimization problems is to formulate them like linear programm...

From the reviews of Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations in Science and Engineering: * "The book by Lapidus and Pinder is a very comprehensive, even exhaustive, survey of the subject . . . [It] is unique in that it covers equally finite difference and finite element methods."-Burrelle's. * "The authors have selected an elementary (but not simplistic) mode of presentation. Many different computational schemes are described in gr...

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Stephen Hunter is the author of eleven novels, including Hot Springs, Pale Horse Coming, Black Light, Time to Hunt and Dirty White Boys. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

Now in Paper! "Seeing Red"Federal CampaignsAgainst Black Militancy, 1919-1925Theodore Kornweibel, Jr. A gripping, painstakingly documented account of a neglectedchapter in the history of American politicalintelligence. "Kornweibel is an adept storyteller who admits he isdrawn to the role of the historian-as-detective....What emerges is a fascinatingtale of secret federal agents, many of them blacks, who were willing to takeadvantage of the col...

Foundations are socially and politically significant, but thissimple fact... has mostly been ignored by students of American history.... Thiscollection represents an important contribution to an emerging field." --Kenneth Prewitt, Social Science Research Council

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The most important modern reference work for Middle English studies

Most of the region's Communist leaders were executed during the Great Terror of 1936-38. In his conclusion, Harris measures the impact of their interests on the collapse of the Communist system and the fate of reform under Gorbachev and Yeltsin.

Social identity has been at the heart of European experimental social psychology for the past 25 years, and has been of growing interest in North America during the past decade where research in the field has expanded significantly. This text fills the need for an overview of recent developments in social identity theory, covering both theoretical and empirical work.

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Spiral of Inquiry follows the natural pattern of questioning in humans into the vortex of inquiry that spirals inward to the primordial Truth that makes all inquiry possible. Arnold C. Harms finds the ability to question to be the most crucial to humanity, so that humans can be properly identified as homo interrogans, or Inquiring Man. This leads him to an examination of the process of questioning, beginning with a phenomenological inquiry...

Choosing Models of Society and Social Norms offers an innovative approach to social norms and decision-making that encourages the identification of social norms, along with their causes and consequences. Adolfo Critto points out that social norms condition behavior, but are also conditioned by human decisions. He notes that social norms generally only provide partial and temporary solutions to human needs and problems, so must be critically an...

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Practising Identities is a collection of papers about how identities - gender, bodily, racial, ethnic and national - are practised in the contemporary world. Identities are actively constructed, chosen, created and performed by people in their daily lives, and this book focuses on a variety of identity practices, in a range of different settings, from the gym and the piercing studio, to the further education college and the National Health Ser...