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Why have legislative initiatives occurred on such controversial issues as contraception and abortion at times when activist movements had demobilized and the public seemed indifferent? Why have abortion and contraception sometimes been framed as matters of medical practice, and at other times as matters of moral significance? Based on archival and sociological research, and speaking to issues in the study of culture, social movements, and lega...

Provincial Lives tells the story of the development of a regional middle class in the antebellum Middle West.

Using meticulous archival research, Alan Baker challenges the orthodox portrayal of nineteenth-century French peasants as individualists and examines the extent to which they both continued with traditional forms of community action and developed new forms of collective action. More specifically, he examines the development and spread of voluntary associations in Loir-et-Cher, on the southwestern margin of the Paris Basin. He focuses on associ...

An introduction to integrability and conformal field theory in two dimensions using quantum groups.

This book presents Edwardian entertainment and the Edwardian entertainment industry as parts of a vital but troubled era whose preoccupations and paranoias mirror those of our own age. This book is the first to explore the complex relationship between theatre, fashion, and social in the late Victorian and early modern era.

The most up to date and comprehensive critical approaches to Ireland's greatest living playwright.

This title contains step-by-step photographs showing how to apply make-up for different occasions, including proms and parties. It aims to re-educate teenagers and young adults on how to choose, use and enjoy make-up.

The compelling story of the world's oldest and best-loved dye. At any given time nearly half the world's population is wearing denim - this book tells the story of the iconic blue behind the fabric.

Grammaticalization refers to the change whereby lexical terms and constructions serve grammatical functions in certain linguistic contexts and, once grammaticalized, continue to develop new grammatical functions. Paul Hopper and Elizabeth Traugott synthesize research from several areas of linguistics in this revised introduction to the subject. The book includes substantial updates on theoretical and methodological issues that have arisen in t...

Cette publication est la huitième édition de la version abrégée du Modèle de Convention fiscale concernant le revenu et la fortune de l'OCDE. Cette version abrégée contient le texte intégral du Modèle de Convention fiscale tel qu'il se lisait le 22 juillet 2010, excluant toutefois les notes historiques, la liste détaillée des conventions conclues entre les pays membres de l'OCDE et les rapports antérieurs qui sont inclus dans la version intégr...

This book specifically addresses video shot boundary detection, which provides base for all video abstraction and high-level video segmentation approaches. Moreover, the other research areas which can benefit considerably from successful automation of shot boundary detection processes are distance learning, telemedicine, interactive television, digital libraries, multimedia news, video restoration and geographical information system. Despite a...

Food sovereignty goes beyond addressing the need to secure a daily food source. Food sovereignty means having the right to determine where your food comes from and how it is produced. In 2008, alarmed by the impact agro-business was having on Canadian food quality and security, Kristeva Dowling decided to take control of her own food source. In an attempt to achieve 100 percent self-sufficiency on her small holding in BC's Bella Coola Valley, ...

A fascinating mixture of walking journal, family memoir and transatlantic history. Updated new edition.

This book emphasizes how much the analysis of terrorism has changed in the past two decades.

Semi-Finalist in the Amazon/Penguin Breakthrough Novel Award 2009Niamh Caton, and Tom Caton. Two people with a common ancestry, separated by an ocean. Each of them in a city named Manchester. Neither aware that the other exists, until a sequence of sudden and inexplicable deaths throws them together in a desperate race to catch a killer.Part of the DCI Tom Caton Crime Fiction Series. A thriller incorporating an ancestry search that traces hist...

This 1994 volume was the first to look in depth at the way the brain responds to trauma.

Wie wurde und wird das Thema "Ukraine" in der deutschen Politik diskutiert? Der vorliegende Quellenband enthält die Protokolle der im Deutschen Bundestag zur Thematik gehaltenen ungekürzten Reden ab 1998 (14. Legislaturperiode). Diese parteiübergreifende Dokumentation ermöglicht dem Leser einen direkten Blick auf die parlamentarische Debatte zum Thema "Ukraine" und die Diskussionen der Abgeordneten im politischen Tagesgeschäft.

Este ejemplar se basa en una recopilación documental de las principales discusiones políticas en España del Siglo XXI en torno a la catástrofe del bueque petrolero "Prestige". A partir de las fuentes del Congreso de Diputados, los discursos no abreviados, entre otras, la postura de Mariano Rajoy Brey, tratamos de introducir al lector en la temática para que pueda tomar una postura crítica respecto a los debates parlamentarios y las discusiones...

Wie wurde und wird das Thema "Stipendienprogramm" in der deutschen Politik diskutiert? Der vorliegende Quellenband enthält die Protokolle der im Deutschen Bundestag zur Thematik gehaltenen ungekürzten Reden ab 2008 (16. Legislaturperiode). Diese parteiübergreifende Dokumentation ermöglicht dem Leser einen direkten Blick auf die parlamentarische Debatte zum Thema "Stipendienprogramm" und die Diskussionen der Abgeordneten im politischen Tagesges...

Este ejemplar se basa en una recopilación documental de las principales discusiones políticas en España del Siglo XXI en torno a la catástrofe del bueque petrolero "Prestige". A partir de las fuentes del Congreso de Diputados, los discursos no abreviados, entre otras, la postura de Ana María Pastor Julián, tratamos de introducir al lector en la temática para que pueda tomar una postura crítica respecto a los debates parlamentarios y las discus...