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From the perspective of development specialists and feminist activists, this book considers the challenges facing gender and development practitioners and policy-makers in the 21st century. Despite some successes women in many countries remain in abject poverty, lacking food, clean water, education and medical care. Women throughout the world are still economically, politically and socially marginalised at a time when the globalisation of busi...

This book links gender issues to the life-courses of women and men. Writers here call for development policy and practice to recognise this vast contribution, and enforce the rights of women of all ages to an equal share of development outcomes.

Forests throughout India and the local communities whose livelihoods depend on them, are under threat from large commercial enterprises. This Casebook follows the development of a community-based forest-protection movement in the state of Orissa, as it grew from spontaneous local protests in the mid-1970s into a network of forest-management organisations with respected expertise and widespread influence. 'Community Forest Management' analyses ...

Challenging the dismissive view of Frye's work as closed and outdated, Cotrupi explores the implications of his proposition that the history of criticism may be seen as having two main approaches?literature as "product" and literature as "process.

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This volume provides an analysis of the development of colonial North American thought and culture from 1680 to the eve of the American Revolution. Not an anachronistic search for the origins of later American cultural forms, it situates the subject firmly within a transatlantic context. The author emphasizes the extent to which improving communications and expanding connections helped to incorporate colonial settlers into a larger British wor...

A highly regarded expert in institutional research and planning provides a new framework for analyzing what faculty really do, how well they do it, and at what cost.

This source book reflects a growing interest in practical experiences in confronting and embedding gender considerations in organizations. The introduction provides a context and considers some of the reasons for failed attempts to make gender sensitive policies a reality, chapters put the challenges of organizational change in an international perspective and review strategies used in Kenya, Mali and elsewhere. Annotated bibliographies help t...

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Process Philosophy" surveys the basic issues and controversies surrounding the philosophical approach known as "process philosophy." Process philosophy views temporality, activity, and change as the cardinal factors for our understanding of the real--process has priority over product, both ontologically and epistemically. Rescher examines the movement's historical origins, reflecting a major line of thought in the work of such philosophers as ...

The first full-length study of the reception of Wordsworth's poetry and theory.

Appraises the challenges facing infrastructure and service delivery in South Africa. This book assesses, evaluates, and analyses perceptions of infrastructure and service delivery, since 1994. It is useful to students of development studies, geography, sociology, politics, public policy, and economics.

This work explores the "turn to heritage" in recent urban, economic development and discusses the conditions which influence the adoption of heritage projects in local areas, with particular reference to Wales.

A completely revised and significantly expanded edition of the world's most comprehensive study of global accounting systems. Since the publication of the first edition of this indispensable reference, fundamental developments in financial reporting have taken place at great pace. The transformation of international accounting systems over recent years underlines the need for an up-to-date reference to reflect the many changes that have taken ...

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Invisible Lives is the first scholarly study of transgendered people-cross-dressers, drag queens, and transsexuals-and their everyday lives. Through combined theoretical and empirical study, Viviane K. Namaste argues that transgendered people are not so much "produced by medicine or psychiatry as they are erased, or made invisible, in a variety of institutional and cultural settings. Namaste begins her work by analyzing two theoretical perspec...

Exposing the limitations of conventional approaches to the engineering and regulation of technology, Vanderburg suggests that the solution lies in a preventive strategy that situates technological growth in its human, societal, and biospheric contexts.

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