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Home to some of the most impressive monuments of the Islamic world, Cairo's City of the Dead is also home to hundreds of thousands of Egypt's urban poor. This book presents a comprehensive look at this unique informal community, and includes biographies of some of the residents of the cemeteries.

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Serves as an introductory text on complexity theory and computer modeling in the social sciences and as an overview of the state of the art in the field. The articles study a set of issues, including how to cope with errors in perception or implementation, how norms emerge, and how new political actors and regions of shared culture can develop.

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Using interviews, newspaper articles, online texts, official documents, and national surveys, Lei shows that the development of the public sphere in China has provided an unprecedented forum for citizens to organize, influence the public agenda, and demand accountability from the government.

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Here is the full report of the 1970 National Fertility Study, a national sample survey for which thousands of women were interviewed who had been married at some time and were of reproductive age when they were interviewed. The book assesses the growth in the use of the pill and the IUD, the increasing reliance on contraceptive sterilization, and b

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(Hardback)

Creativity, the leitmotif of new capitalism, has become a key neo-liberal idiom for reorganizing work and working life.

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We often hear that creativity is the key to economic regeneration in the west, yet those who pursue creative skills/ambitions typically experience low incomes and poor career prospects. Politicians, educators and business leaders often tell young people they will need to develop their creative skills to be ready for the new economy.

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The Crux of Refugee Resettlement reenvisions third-country resettlement. Each contributor uses ethnography to highlight refugee voices and experiences. This collection showcases the ways in which community-based solutions rebuild social networks and counteract the alienating conditions of resettlement.

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An insightful view of Cuban Americans' historical roots, customs, and contributions to contemporary American life.

(Paperback, 4th edition)

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This volume shows how masculinity is a socially constructed entity with a definition that has evolved over time. Masculine icons/heroes and methods of male socialization allow for contextual examination of specific time periods, which is necessary to understand the concept of Western masculinity.

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The 20th Century saw the mass production of corpses through war and the triumph of technology over the human body. The new millennium has opened with global terrorism and the suspension of all human rights in far-flung prison camps. This book analyses our exposure to death in modern culture.

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Western culture has always been obsessed with death, but now death has taken on a new, anonymous form. The 20th Century saw the mass production of corpses through war and the triumph of technology over the human body. The new millennium has opened with global terrorism and the suspension of all human rights in far-flung prison camps.

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Examines the cultural and socioeconomic factors that influence choices for health service utilization and health-seeking behaviours among Asian Americans.

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A riveting look at the scientific roots of male violence.

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James Hunter has a talent for writing important books...With The Death of Character he has done it again.--Wilfred M. McClay, University of Tennessee

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Switzerland today is faced with a profound dilemma--its village life is dying, a casualty of the collision between communal norms and the need for national survival in an industrial, urbanizing world. Benjamin Barber traces the origins and evolution of communal liberty in the group of alpine villages that make up modern Canton Graubunden, and recre

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A photographic essay which conveys the emotional power of the death rituals of a small Greek village - the funeral, the singing of laments, the distribution of food, the daily visits to the graves, and the rite of exhumation.

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Fertility in Belgium declined early and remained low compared with that in other European countries. For this reason, and because of the nation's heterogeneity, study of its demographic transition illuminates the relationship between fertility behavior and socioeconomic development. Professor Lesthaeghe first describes the Belgian experience in a w

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