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This book is about how the modern market world transformed the lives of remote agricultural farmers. Waters uses diverse examples to illustrate how the modern market economy captured persistent subsistence farmes in 18th century Scotland, 19th century United States, 20th century Tanzania, and indeed, the entire modern world.

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Explores how MCSOs have responded to the challenges of the Australian socio-political context, the perceived impact of these experiences, and how Islam is manifested within the contexts of these experiences. This book offers researchers, policy makers and those engaged in community development a rich understanding of Muslim community building, engagement and agency.

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Drawing on an international body of case studies from leading millennial networks, Millennials in the Modern Workforce shows how millennials can live deeper and more enriching lives by reflecting on the self, placing value on solitude and resisting the feeling that they must constantly connect and share.

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This book is an extension of Dr. Spooner's previous work on the interplay of insect processes and human culture as discussed in The Metaphysics of Insect Life (ISP, 1995). It continues the application of the literary, philosophical, and scientific methods employed there to the main currents in the evolution of modern Hispanic literature.

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The description for this book, The Poetics of Manhood: Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village, will be forthcoming.

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Through empirical analysis and theoretical reflection, this book shows that the aesthetics and politics of the Islamic Stateis futurist. ISIS overcomes postmodern pessimism and joins the modern, techno-oriented, and optimistic attitude propagated by Italian Futurism in the early twentieth century.

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This book examines the causes and consequences of gender gaps in policy preferences in the United States. While explaining the causes of gender gaps requires drawing from a wide array of fields, ranging from biology to economics, understanding their origins and consequences does much to further empirical research in public opinion and mass behavior.

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A radical new collection addressing violence against women in conflict zones across the global South.

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A radical new collection addressing violence against women in conflict zones across the global South.

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A ground-breaking exploration of the women who through their construction of female identities, contest, resist, subvert or embrace the controversial issue of female circumcision in Egypt.

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With the collapse of communism, a new world seemed to open for the peoples of East Central Europe. Yet the possibilities this world presented, and the costs it exacted, have been experienced differently by men and women. Susan Gal and Gail Kligman explore these differences.

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Richard M. Weaver was one of the leading rhetoricians of the 1950s, whose philosophical and pedagogical writings helped revitalize interest in rhetoric. This book examines the relationship between Weaver's rhetorical theory and his cultural views, focusing on the rhetorical insights.

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Since the landmark 1965 Supreme Court ruling Griswold versus Connecticut established a Constitutional right to privacy, the regulation of sexuality has become an extremely volatile area of American politics. This title addresses a broad array of topics at the intersection of sexuality and politics.

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Utilizing a historical context, this work underscores the continued struggle within these societies between the hardliners who wish to relegate females to the status of slaves and those who strive for gender equality within a conservative cultural milieu.

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In 2004, the French government instituted a ban on the wearing of 'conspicuous signs' of religious affiliation in public schools. Though the ban applies to everyone, it is aimed at Muslim girls wearing headscarves. This book argues that the law is symptomatic of France's failure to integrate its former colonial subjects as full citizens.

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Argues that abstinence-only education in schools injure women's physical and psychological health, violate the Constitution, and flout the will of the majority of Americans. This title details what abstinence programs teach students and exposes the political and religious agendas behind them.

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This work looks behind the media image of upper-class women and observes how these women use their societal power not only to benefit other, less-fortunate people but also to benefit themselves and their families. The author participated in meetings with elite women in several Texas cities.