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This provocative work explores concepts of body and space to understand the daily struggles of women with chronic illness. Moss and Dyck show how such women--coping with notions of illness, health, and being female--restructure physical and social environments through strategies to accommodate disabling illnesses such as chronic fatigue syndrome, multiple sclerosis, or rheumatoid arthritis. Featuring original research and personal stories, Wom...

This book is a primer on media governance at a global level and the key influencing forces and organizations, such as ITU, WTO, UNESCO, WIPO, and ICANN. Anyone interested in the media and its progressively rising influence over so many dimensions of society can look here for an introduction to media regulation, governance structures, and trends. Published in cooperation with UNRISD.

This new book provides a first-hand, grassroots look at life in Cuba, including very vivid descriptions of its people and places. Real Life in Castro's Cuba illuminates the human face of Cuba, which over the years has largely been hidden in the shad

This book presents in summary the state of our knowledge of oxide reliability. The articles have been written by experts who are among the most knowledgeable in the field. The book will be an invaluable aid to reliability engineers and manufacturing engineers, helping them to produce and characterize reliable oxides. It can be used as an introduction for new engineers interested in oxide reliability, besides being a reference for engineers alr...

Revolutionizing Motherhood examines one of the most astonishing human rights movements of recent years. During the Argentine junta's Dirty War against subversives, as tens of thousands were abducted, tortured, and disappeared, a group of women forge

In this updated and significantly expanded edition of his The Rhetoric of Racism, Mark McPhail responds to subsequent critiques and advances in scholarship. Like the earlier text, Revisited looks at the rhetorical dynamics of racism--how, in addition to social and material structures and institutions, language can be a cause and facilitator of racism. Revised introductions and four new chapters add thorough discussions of essentialism and raci...

Sven Weißmann untersucht empirisch, inwieweit Praktiken des Qualitätsmanagements die Leistungsfähigkeit und damit die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit von Industriebetrieben beeinflussen.

Vor dem Hintergrund US-amerikanischer Best-Practice-Ansätze entwickelt Markus Höllmüller konkrete Stellhebel für die Akquisition und deckt Schwachstellen im Akquisitionsmanagement auf.

A cultural studies account of the changes produced in feminism as it became part of the academy and of the highly orchestrated attack on higher education by the right-wing.

Andreas Hinterhuber stellt ein konzeptionelles Rahmenmodell vor, das es ermöglicht, strategische Erfolgsfaktoren zu bestimmen und in die Ermittlung des Unternehmenswertes einfließen zu lassen.

How can libraries, museums, and archives update their policies to balance legal requirements with the needs of their users? This in-depth treatment provides concrete background and guidelines for every library, museum, or archive, no matter what the size or mission.

This book explores the intricate relationship between public opinion and energy issues. Energy, the Environment, and Public Opinion sheds light on how much the public understands about energy policy, what the public wants officials to do about our energy problems, and how governments at various levels are likely to come to grips with energy shortages in the future.

This open and engaging book will help you develop thematic tours and train your guides to lead those tours, while aiding you in managing your guide program effectively. The authors' unique approach includes clear step-by-step instructions supplemented with activities and readings.

The Banana Wars: United States Intervention in the Caribbean, 18981934 offers a sweeping panorama of America's tropical empire in the age spanned by the two Roosevelts and a detailed narrative of U.S. military intervention in the Caribbean and Mexi

Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach was one of the most original and inspired Jewish personalities of the twentieth century. In this incredible volume, Yitta Halberstam Mandelbaum, a devoted student of Reb Shlomo, gathers dozens of stories about this charismatic, loving Jewish leader. The episodes retold here by Reb Shlomo's followers and admirers underscore his unfailing generosity, his capacity to love unconditionally, and his desire to reconnect every J...

The dictionary covers the history of Russia from its founding in the mid-ninth century to the reign of Peter the Great. It contains entries on politics, society, economy, literature, religion, art.

This ambitious work offers the first comprehensive transcultural history of historiography. The contributors transcend a Eurocentric approach not only in terms of the individual historiographies they assess but also in the methodologies they use for comparative analysis. Moving beyond the traditional national focus of historiography, the volume offers a genuinely comparative consideration of the commonalities and differences of history writing...