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The increasing number of 'missing girls' in much of South and East Asia provides the disturbing focus of this key title. It is unique in its positive attention to daughter discrimination in these regions.

This volume is an introduction to the linguistic structure of the French language. It illustrates the different ways to approaching and explaining issues of interest in French linguistics and looks at how the language is structured and varies depending on gender, medium, register, age etc. The earlier sections describe the basic 'facts' about phonology, phonetics, morphosyntax, the lexicon and semantics. Discussion of problematic issues, with ...

Studies of the fear of crime are a fast-growing research area within criminology. This volume collects significant contributions to the field and includes an introductory essay by the editors. The articles offer an overview followed by reflection on the causes of vulnerability and other topics.

Starting with the female body of late medieval literature, this text moves on to consider the representation of gendered bodies in later writing. The essays in the book intend to show how late medieval and early modern narratives function to produce specialized and discrete languages of the body.

Music can and does change our perception of our "selves" and our world. This text concerns particular musics of particular people at particular times or events. It interfaces music and religious traditions, using multi- and interdisciplinary approaches.

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The term "wastage" is used to refer to a number of problems associated with high attrition or drop-out rates. This text attempts to describe the components of primary school wastage in Kenya, whilst addressing the dual drawbacks of non-enrolment and under-investigated repetition.

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The problems of divine foreknowledge and future contingents can be put rather simply: how can God know the future without this entailing that the future come about necessarily? Chris Schabel's study dwells and expands upon this conundrum.

The common view of the rise and relative fall of Britain in the 19th century is that Britain reigned supreme from 1851 until its gradual decline in 1870. These essays aim to challenge this stereotype of the golden age by concentrating on central aspects of social and industrial change.

A survey of research in the cultural history of urban public health, this study links the approaches of demographic and medical history with the methodologies of urban history and historical geography. It challenges older methodologies, offering insights into the significance of cultural history.

This book was first published in 1975 and was then reprinted in 2000 with a new preface.

In this spellbinding portrait of two forgotten women who helped shape a dynasty and a nation, Perry returns to a distant time and place with the same panache that made Alison Weir's "The Wives of Henry VIII" a phenomenon. 21 photos.

Between 1980 and 1996 the number of arrests has increased considerably for offenders ages 12 and under. This increase is a cost to society in two ways: the cost of the crime and the cost of multiple agencies involved with these children. Several questions have developed due to this increase: How does the juvenile justice system deal with child delinquents? Is child delinquency a predictor of serious, violent, and chronic offending? How early c...

Sociology in Action is a highly practical introduction to interpreting and analyzing situations sociologically, which uses case studies to promote active learning of key thinking skills.

`Intriguing ways of explaining the concepts of constructivist education. Excellent analogies and examples!' - Maryellen Towey Schultz, Assistant Professor of Education, Nebraska Wesleyan University The purpose of the Constructivist Learning Design is to offer teachers and students of teaching a way to think about organizing for learning by their students, and a way to address the teaching dilemmas of balancing the required learning of educati...

Die professionelle Dienstleistungsindustrie ist ein gigantischer Wachstumssektor. Er umfasst die Bereiche Finanzen, Banken, Versicherung, Marketing und Consulting. Für Peter Drucker stellen professionelle Dienstleistungsunternehmen eine Zukunftsindustrie dar. Die moderne Dienstleistungsbranche kann als Beispiel für andere Branchen dienen, denn sie hält wertvolle Informationen bereit in Sachen Personalmanagement und Management von immateriellen...

In "Reasoning After Revelation: Dialogues in Postmodern Jewish Philosophy, " three preeminent Jewish scholars debate the form and meaning of Postmodern Jewish Philosophy after the failures of the great secular ideologies of modern western civilization. Emulating the methods as well as the premises of Talmudic argumentation, the authors present their responses as dialogues joined by a common love of the rabbinic tradition of commentary and inte...

This unique and groundbreaking book examines the reasons why large numbers of women seem to be "missing" from the populations of countries across Asia. Bringing together demographic data and anthropological field studies to paint a vivid picture of the social costs of daughter discrimination across Asia today, "Endandered Daughters" reveals the multiple ways in which girls are disadvantaged, from excessive child mortality to the withholding of...