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Book SynopsisSocial Problems and the Quality of Life explores some of the most crucial social issues of our time and how they impact quality of life, providing a firm foundation in how to identify a social problem and the sociological theories and methods for understanding these key concerns. Exploring social problems on a global level, this book is a comprehensive guide to critically analyzing current issues that the nation and the world face today.Table of ContentsPART 1: FOUNDATIONSCHAPTER 1: UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL PROBLEMSPART 2: PROBLEMS OF BEHAVIORAL DEVIANCECHAPTER 2: ALCOHOL AND OTHER DRUGSCHAPTER 3: CRIME AND DELINQUENCYCHAPTER 4: VIOLENCECHAPTER 5: SEXUAL DEVIANCEPART 3: PROBLEMS OF INEQUALITYCHAPTER 6: POVERTYCHAPTER 7: GENDER AND SEXUAL ORIENTATIONCHAPTER 8: RACE, ETHNIC GROUPS, AND RACISMPART 4: PROBLEMS OF SOCIAL INSTITUTIONSCHAPTER 9: GOVERNMENT AND POLITICSCHAPTER 10: WORK AND THE ECONOMYCHAPTER 11: EDUCATIONCHAPTER 12: FAMILY PROBLEMSCHAPTER 13: HEALTH CARE AND ILLNESS: PHYSICAL AND MENTALPART 5: GLOBAL SOCIAL PROBLEMSCHAPTER 14: WAR AND TERRORISMCHAPTER 15: THE ENVIRONMENT

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Book SynopsisSociology: A Brief Introduction connects essential sociological theories, research, and concepts to students' daily experiences. The program highlights the distinctive ways in which sociologists explore human social behaviorand how their research findings can be used to help students think critically about the broader principles that guide their lives. In doing so, it helps students begin to think sociologically, using what they have learned to evaluate human interactions and institutions independently. With up-to-date scholarship, examples, and photos, Dr. Schaefer's market-leading, student-friendly program features thorough integration of the latest research on race, ethnicity, and globalization.

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Book SynopsisPublic and Private Families: An Introduction devotes equal attention to the public aspects of family life, such as law, social policy and, social inequality, and the private aspects, such as intimate relations, cohabitation, marriage, and the division of labor in the home. The text discusses the meaning of family, how it has evolved and how it continues to evolve, from both private and public perspectives. Andrew Cherlin guides students through an exploration of the history of families around the world, prompting critical and sociological thinking. Public and Private Families: An Introduction defines the private family as a personal space, where we live most of our personal lives, while the public family is where we deal with broader societal issues and challenges. Public and private families are studied through the lenses of gender, race, ethnicity, and social class. Students explore the impact that society, the workplace, and public policy hav

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Book SynopsisLearn to document the technology that makes the world go Technical Writing For Dummies is a master class on how to build a career writing user manuals, e-learning, streaming, simulations, and more. It even zooms into the metaverse. Whether you're new to the field, a seasoned professional, or a technical person who needs to write, this guide arms you with the skills you need to cash in on this flourishing world of technical writing. This isn't your average how-to. It's a compendium of innovative industry knowledge that will help you set yourself apart with the latest trends and best practices in technical writing. As a tech writer, you'll need a robust skillset that allows you to offer clear and concise documentation for just about anything. This new edition of Technical Writing For Dummiesupdated for all of today's tech writing advancescan get you there. Uncover the basics of technical writing and master common documentation types Get insighTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Part 1: What It Takes to Write Technical Docs 5 Chapter 1: Working as a Technical Writer 7 Chapter 2: Putting Together a Team and a Plan 25 Part 2: The Write Stuff 37 Chapter 3: Completing a Technical Writing Brief 39 Chapter 4: Crafting a Draft 51 Chapter 5: Designing Documents to Enhance the User Experience 57 Chapter 6: Honing the Tone 85 Chapter 7: Fine-Tuning toward the Ideal 97 Part 3: Frequently Written Docs 107 Chapter 8: Writing User Manuals and More 109 Chapter 9: Preparing Abstracts 127 Chapter 10: Creating Spec Sheets 133 Chapter 11: Generating Questionnaires 141 Chapter 12: Preparing for Technical Presentations 149 Chapter 13: Abridging for Executive Summaries 159 Part 4: Tech Tools 167 Chapter 14: Collaborating with Others 169 Chapter 15: Videoconferencing 183 Chapter 16: Offering eLearning 195 Chapter 17: Surfing the Net 211 Chapter 18: Protecting Intellectual Property 221 Part 5: The Part of Tens 233 Chapter 19: Ten Tips for Writing a Whitepaper 235 Chapter 20: Ten Tips for Publishing in a Technical Journal 241 Chapter 21: Ten Frustrations of Technical Writers 247 Appendix A: Punctuation Made Easy 253 Appendix B: Grammar’s Not Grueling 265 Appendix C: Abbreviations and Metric Equivalents 275 Appendix D: Tech Talk: Glossary of Terms 285 Appendix E: Technical Writing Brief 289 Index 293

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Book SynopsisSocial life is in a constant process of change, and sociology can never stand still. As a result, contemporary sociology is a theoretically diverse enterprise, covering a huge range of subjects and drawing on a broad array of research methods. Central to this endeavour is the use of core concepts and ideas which allow sociologists to make sense of societies, though our understanding of these concepts necessarily evolves and changes. This clear and jargon-free book introduces a careful selection of essential concepts that have helped to shape sociology and continue to do so. Going beyond brief, dictionary-style definitions, Anthony Giddens and Philip W. Sutton provide an extended discussion of each concept which sets it in historical and theoretical context, explores its main meanings in use, introduces relevant criticisms, and points readers to its ongoing development in contemporary research and theorizing. Organized in ten thematic sections, the book offers a portrait of sociology through its essential concepts, ranging from capitalism, identity and deviance to the digital revolution, environment, postcolonialism and intersectionality. It will be essential reading for all those new to sociology as well as anyone seeking a reliable route map for a rapidly changing world.Table of ContentsIntroduction THEME 1: THINKING SOCIOLOGICALLY Digital Revolution Globalization Modernity Postcolonialism Postmodernity Rationalization THEME 2: DOING SOCIOLOGY Ideal Type Qualitative / Quantitative Methods Realism Reflexivity Science Social Constructionism Structure / Agency THEME 3: ENVIRONMENT AND URBANISM Alienation Environment Industrialization Migration Risk Sustainable Development Urbanism THEME 4: STRUCTURES OF SOCIETY Bureaucracy Capitalism Consumerism Division of Labour Education Organization Religion THEME 5: UNEQUAL LIFE CHANCES Class Gender Intersectionality Patriarchy Poverty ‘Race’ and Ethnicity Social Mobility Status THEME 6: RELATIONSHIPS AND THE LIFE COURSE Community Family Life Course Network Sexuality Socialization THEME 7: INTERACTION AND COMMUNICATION Culture Discourse Identity Ideology Interaction Media Public Sphere THEME 8: HEALTH, ILLNESS AND THE BODY Biomedicine Medicalization Sick Role Social Model of Disability Social Self THEME 9: CRIME AND SOCIAL CONTROL Anomie Deviance Labelling Moral Panic Social Control Stigma THEME 10: POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY Authority Citizenship Civil Society Conflict Democracy Nation State Power Social Movement

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Book SynopsisModern Tragedy, first published in 1966, is a study of the ideas and ideologies which have influenced the production and analysis of tragedy. Williams sees tragedy both in terms of literary tradition and in relation to the tragedies of modern society, of revolution and disorder, and of individual experience.Modern Tragedy is available only in this Broadview Encore Edition, now edited and with a critical introduction by Pamela McCallum.Trade Review“A serious, unorthodox book on a much vexed subject. … Is tragedy an event in our lives, or a literary form, or a body of dogma? Williams’ analysis here is especially fine.” — New Society“An impassioned, powerful book…splendid.” — The GuardianTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Reading Modern Tragedy in the Twenty-First CenturyA Note on the TextModern TragedyAcknowledgementsForeword PART ONE: TRAGIC IDEAS Tragedy and Experience Tragedy and the Tradition Tragedy and Contemporary Ideas Tragedy and Revolution Continuity PART TWO: MODERN TRAGIC LITERATURE From Hero to Victim: The Making of Liberal Tragedy, to Ibsen and Miller Private Tragedy: Strindberg, O’Neill, Tennessee Williams Social and Personal Tragedy: Tolstoy and Lawrence Tragic Deadlock and Stalemate: Chekhov, Pirandello, Ionesco, Beckett Tragic Resignation and Sacrifice: Eliot and Pasternak Tragic Despair and Revolt: Camus and Sartre A Rejection of Tragedy: Brecht Works Cited and Further ReadingIndex

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Book SynopsisWhat took place Tiananmen Square was a dramatic conflict. And it was, to a great extent, a media-aided conflict. Without the active involvement of both the Chinese national news media and the international news media, the conflict could never have reached such a magnitude and cast such an extensive impact on the Chinese people and on people around the world. This book adopts a theoretical framework that combines the following lines: the general social environment in which the conflict occurred and the news media operated; the societal, ideological, organisational and professional factors that influenced the news media''s operations; and the interaction between the news media and the conflict. This book concentrates on the following areas to examine the effects of the news media on the movement: 1) the goals, strategies and discourse of the movement; 2) legitimisation or de-legitimisation of the movement; 3) information provision; 4) messages as signals for actions; and 5) people''s attitudes.

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Book SynopsisWhat other document means so much to so many and yet is known to so few? Lamm guides the reader from the origins of the consitution to its present-day status. The reader is treated to readable explanations, history and interpretation as well as to the texture of this important document.

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Book SynopsisManagement and leadership have become increasingly important issues in academic context and in educational organisations. This is reflected in the growing branch of literature dealing with the topic. Many books, papers and studies on academic leadership treat academic institutions as rather homogenous entities. Although it is commonly accepted that there is no one best way to lead -- good leadership depends on context and on culture -- little attention has been paid to academic leadership in the contexts of different disciplinary or departmental cultures. The book focuses on four distinct disciplines (history, sociology, biology and physics). The material is based on 56 in-depth, semi-structured interviews with scholars in eight departments representing these disciplines. Leadership histories and cultures of the academic departments form the basis of the case studies analysed in this study. The case studies demonstrate how diverse value-orientations and perspectives inherent in the cultures of the disciplines and specialisms, and local cultural processes in the departments, together direct and affect academic leadership. Academic leaders may affect these processes, but a strong local culture may considerably frame the expectations connected to leadership. The book highlights how leadership practices and preferences concerning leadership can vary considerably in different disciplinary, departmental and historical contexts. Leaders and managers in universities and other educational organisations will benefit from the resulting insight and understanding of cultural and social dynamics in the units and departments they are leading.

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Book SynopsisThis collection of articles and artwork examines inclusive community development education, which engages members of diverse, often marginalised groups in research and education for social change. Community development education is the democratic and scholarly practice of involving everyday people, from all backgrounds, in the research-based process of designing, starting, and evaluating programs that meet people''s needs. The book''s varied contributions serve as personalised invitations to: work with others as equals, join democratic social projects, talk to people "you wouldn''t have talked to before", value self-education, recognise contributions made by unpaid workers, invent ways to be non-violent, challenge passivity, and use democracy as a way to improve communities and the world. Addressing culture to science, chapters contain work carried out by younger and older scholarly activists in: Women''s Studies, anti-racist and anti-colonial studies, history, the social sciences, global studies, community studies, media studies, horticulture, philosophy, education, co-operatives and community service, social-movement organising, project development, political art, and popular music. Each chapter contains diverse themes, comes from multidisciplinary research, and speaks to the subject of education for social change in individual ways. Contributions focus on popular education, self-education, self-defined group education, group-defined university projects, and scholarly activism in local to global movements.

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Book SynopsisIn the present volume Cathal O''Connel looks at the retreat of the public in the area of housing. The changing ownership structures actually affect largely the entire modes of living together societally and socially -- accommodation and settlement structures are reconstructed under a certain aegis of privatised options -- of which an enforced opting-out is one of the forms of the de-civilising role of the ''regulated de-regulation'', by which the state is backing out public responsibility, creating space for a new ''invisible hand'', though this is highly visible in form of multinational capital. The same shift of the ''individualisation of the social'' is pertinent in third level education which Deirdre Ryan and Peter Herrmann are investigating. In the EU, the current debate on what is called ''Services of General Interests'' the focus is on access and quality. Ryan/Herrmann clarify in a distinguished way that in this educational context economy matters not only in regard of accessibility, but as well in quality not least in the meaning of ''trimming substance''. What in these cases is more linked to individual policy areas, radiating and affecting indirectly the entire societal and social fabric, is mirrored and coined by the wider mechanisms of policy making and actually politics. Catherine Forde points on respective mechanisms in local government, making clear that formal restructuration actually does not open ''closed systems''; instead they create a kind of black whole -- claims of opening spaces for participation degenerate into unlevelled playgrounds. Problems of balancing such ''open spaces'' between the formal openness and the actually available ''real living space'' are topical in Rosie Meade''s contribution. It is getting obvious that responsibility is both a question of rights and personal commitment. Joe Finnerty in his contribution points on the most important fact, that the role of scientific research and the measurement of social and societal processes is as well not least a matter of commitment -- it has to be guaranteed and clarified and ''objective reason'' is not concerned with expelling subjective factors and artificially reducing complexity by constructing arithmetical constraints; instead, the development of indicator-oriented methods has to sublate and supersede complexity.

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Book SynopsisChen and colleagues (2004: 157) contend, online technologies provide "researchers with an array of alternative arenas for data collection". As we shall see in this volume, there are numerous ways for social researchers to undertake their research. In many ways, online research provides researchers with numerous attractive environments that offline research may not be able to do. But we shall see too that online researchers have come to realise that many issues that we have adopted for offline research can be problematic when we attempt to do the same for online research and this includes the methods of data collection and ethics. Online research can also be problematic and there are important issues which researchers need to think through and deal with. I have attempted to cover these issues in the chapters in this volume. Essentially, contributors discuss more or less along the methodological, practical and personal issues in doing their online research. Some chapters may lean towards a more formal type of writing and are more theoretical while others may be more subjective and practical. But this is the intention of this book, as reflected in its title.

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Book Synopsis"Advances in Sociology Research" presents original research results on the leading edge of sociology. Each chapter has been carefully selected in an attempt to present substantial advances across a broad spectrum. This volume focuses on ageing, abortion and leadership.

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Book SynopsisThis book demonstrates how the human life is influenced by systems, paradigms and social conventions. As a consequence of that, human beings can be considered trapped in a spider net from cradle to grave. Rational structured organisations, namely, are prerequisites for the society''s deliveries of products and services of good quality to reasonable prices from organisations of different kinds, public as well as others. Not least scientific organisations as universities and related institutions. It can be added that human individuals who are employed in different organisations are depending on the organisational structure and that a good or a bad structure of an organisation can influence their life as employees and even influence their private life. However, the organisational systems are only parts of superior systems that dominate the society. These systems are intertwined with paradigms and social conventions. It is these systems which are the objects for a study in part two. Thus, it is possible to say that the systems in question directly influences human life both social, cultural as well as scientific research.

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Book Synopsis"Advances in Sociology Research" presents original research results on the leading edge of sociology. Each chapter has been carefully selected in an attempt to present substantial advances across a broad spectrum. This volume focuses on poverty, life expectancy and migration.

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Book SynopsisArgentina, officially the Argentine Republic is a South American country, constituted as a federation of twenty-three provinces and an autonomous city. It is second in size on the continent to Brazil and eighth in the world. Argentina occupies a continental surface area of 2,766,890 km (1,068,302 sq mi) between the Andes mountain range in the west and the southern Atlantic Ocean in the east and south. It is bordered by Paraguay and Bolivia in the north, Brazil and Uruguay in the north-east, and Chile in the west and south. The country claims the British controlled territories of the Falkland Islands (Spanish: Islas Malvinas) and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. Argentina also claims 969,464 km (374,312 sq mi) of Antarctica, known as Argentine Antarctica, overlapping other claims made by Chile and the United Kingdom. Argentina has the highest Human Development Index level and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita in purchasing power parity in Latin America. The country is currently classified as an Upper-Middle Income Country by the World Bank, or as a secondary emerging market. Argentina''s nominal GDP is the 31st largest economy in the world. This book concentrates on the latest economic, political and social issues of Argentina.

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Book SynopsisIndia is the world''s twelfth largest economy at market exchange rates and the third largest in purchasing power. Economic reforms have transformed it into the second fastest growing large economy; however, it still suffers from high levels of poverty, illiteracy, malnutrition and environmental degradation. A pluralistic, multilingual, and multiethnic society, India is also home to a diversity of wildlife in a variety of protected habitats. This book presents recent important issues dealing with India.

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses the question: How can democracy and governance be made more accountable to diverse groups of people within nested regions? How can we address risks across spatial and conceptual boundaries? Emotions are central to policy making. Making connections is the basis for consciousness and mindfulness. The more connections we can make, the better our thinking, our policy processes and our governance outcomes will be. We need to think about our emotions and not to deny them. Emotions, values, and perceptions are central to our humanity. They underpin the so called ''enemies within'', namely ''religion, morality, aesthetics and politics''. Enabling more decision making at the local level has both advantages and disadvantages. The research challenge is to find a democracy and governance process to maximise the advantages and minimise the disadvantages. This requires building organisational capacity to address accountability and the management of risk to enable people to work with diverse perceptions, interests, and issues.

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Book SynopsisSocial networking is not a new concept. Various traditional facets of our existence might be reinterpreted as social networking, from early Christians to the World Wide Web. It refers to the act of relating nodes for example; individuals, organisations, other social entities through social links for example; friendship, professional relationship, information exchange. Before the 20th century, social networking could only take place at short distance, or with considerable time delay when travelling or exchanging letters. Since the 1950''s, telephones, tele- and videoconferencing have allowed real-time communications even over long distances. These two-way communication channels are generally good links for pairs of people or small groups, but they tend to be inefficient for large-scale, mass interactions. Moreover they enable simultaneous communications. This book provides leading edge research on this field from around the globe.

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Book SynopsisMexico''s economic, political and societal issues have become major points of interest to countries all over the globe. Mexico is the second leading market for U.S. exports after Canada, and is the third most important source of U.S. imports after Canada and China. The United States is Mexico''s most important customer by far, receiving about 80% of Mexico''s exports, including petroleum, automobiles, auto parts, and winter vegetables, and providing about 50% of Mexico''s imports. The United States is the source of over 60% of foreign investment in Mexico, and the primary source of important tourism earnings. Mexico is also the leading country in Latin America in terms of U.S. investment, with the total stock of U.S. investment being about $85 billion in 2006. This book presents in-depth analyses of such issues such as foreign policy, political reform, and overall economic developments.

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Book SynopsisSocial interaction is a dynamic, changing sequence of social actions between individuals (or groups) who modify their actions and reactions according to those of their interaction partner(s). In other words, they are events in which people attach meaning to a situation, interpret what others are meaning, and respond accordingly. Social interactions can be differentiated into: Accidental (also known as social contact) - not planned and likely not repeated. For example, asking a stranger for directions or shopkeeper for product availability. Repeated - not planned, bound to happen from time to time. For example, accidentally meeting a neighbour when walking on your street; Regular - not planned, but very common, likely to raise questions when missed. Meeting a doorman or a security guard every workday in your workplace, dining every day in the same restaurant, etc. Regulated - planned and regulated by customs or law, will definitely raise questions when missed. Interaction in a workplace (coming to work, staff meetings, playing a game, etc.), family, etc. In sociological hierarchy, social interaction is more advanced than behaviour, action, social behaviour, social action and social contact, and is in turn followed by more advanced concept of social relation. In other words, social interactions, which consist of social actions, form the basis for social relations. This handbook presents the latest international research in the field.

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Book SynopsisThere is an ongoing debate on the question if professional activities in the field of the social do actually have a genuinely ''own'' scientific basis or if their academic standing depends entirely on other disciplines as sociology, economics, administration or law. The present book offers an answer - by actually twisting the question into another direction: the question for the common denominator should not be employed by looking for the original disciplinary basis. Instead, it is more important to look at a common point of reference towards which activities - and research - can be geared. The editors propose human rights as such reference and make in their own introductory contribution clear that any contemplation on such rights cannot be limited on abstract moral and normative questions nor can it be left to the arbitrariness of cultural relativism. It is proposed to develop a systematic approach, not starting from a translation of abstract principles into their application in concrete situations. On the contrary, the concrete human practice and its analysis has to be taken as focal point. Some of the contributions directly take this topic up as matter by way of engaging in a general methodological discussion whereas other contributions deal with specific aspects of a field of social professions, showing the necessary variety of the pieces of a jigsaw on its own. The volume motivates students, scholars and professionals researching and working in the social array to think outside their ancestral box, focussing on sound and reasoned values rather than allowing abstract professional standards to take over.

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Book SynopsisWhy is labour migration an issue of such public, social and political concern? How did it acquire such an importance? This book deals with exploitation on a massive scale. It is estimated that there are roughly 20 to 30 million unauthorised migrants world-wide, comprising 10%-15% of the world''s immigrant stock. The book focuses on migrant workers, accompanied by as many dependants, who are driven by circumstances beyond their control to work in a country other than their own, in a foreign society that cannot function without them. Most countries admit only a limited number of labour immigrants to meet their labour market needs and priorities. The papers presented in this book cover a wide range of areas from various aspects. The points of view on and from different countries try to look at the very complex subject of migrant labourers from three main aspects -- social, legal and criminological. Theses papers cover a wide range of areas such as - prejudices and racial intolerance, official policies, living and health conditions, psychological and psychiatry aspects, criminality and victimisation and human trafficking. Some of the papers advance the Conflict theory, which seeks to catalogue the ways in which those in power seek to stay in power. Others reflect on basic facts advanced by other sociological and criminological theories.

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Book SynopsisThis continuing series presents original leading edge research results in the field of sociology. Topics discussed include secular trends in growth and maturity in Europe; mate selection and the optimisation of the marriage market; income range and its relation to well-being in Chinese society; population growth and policy options in Sub-Saharan Africa; social workers and racial disparities in cancer patients and perceptions of social mobility in the United States.

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Book SynopsisThis book utilises the first-difference panel regression analysis to assess the direct effect of urban slum prevalence or the proportion of the total population living in urban slum conditions on national level measures of infant mortality rates over the period 1990 to 2005. Utilising data on 81 less developed countries, the results illustrate increasing urban slum prevalence over the period is a robust predictor of increasing infant mortality rates. This effect obtains net the statistically significant influence of gross domestic product per capita, fertility rate, and female secondary school enrolment. The results confirm urban slum prevalence growth is an important contextual dynamic whereby the social production of infant mortality is enacted in the less developed countries.

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Book SynopsisTypically, when we reference grief work in relation to anti-Blackness, people think about the grief experienced by those oppressed by white supremacy. But Breeshia Wade encourages those who are not Black to consider how their own unexplored grief amplifies the suffering of Black people.Most of us understand grief as sorrow experienced after a loss—the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, or a change in life circumstance. Breeshia Wade approaches grief as something that is bigger than what''s already happened to us—as something that is connected to what we fear, what we love, and what we aspire toward. Drawing on stories from her own life as a Black woman and from the people she has midwifed through the end of life, she connects sorrow not only to specific incidents but also to the ongoing trauma that is part and parcel of systemic oppression.Wade reimagines our relationship to power, accountability, and boundaries and points to the long-term work we must all do in order to address systemic trauma perpetuated within our interpersonal relationships. Each of us has a moral obligation to attend to our own grief so that we can responsibly engage with others. Wade elucidates grief in every aspect of our lives, providing a map back to ourselves and allowing the reader to heal their innate wholeness.

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Book SynopsisA spiritual, political, and interdisciplinary anthology of wisdom stories from Black liberation leaders and teachers.Afrikan Wisdom represents an intersectional, cross-pollinated exploration of Black life--past, present, and future. Award-winning author and editor Valerie Mason-John (Vimalasara)''s collection of 34 essays--written by an eclectic and inspirational group of Black thought leaders and teachers--reflects on the unique and multilayered experience of being Black in the world today. This anthology instills in readers the knowledge, awareness, validation, and spiritual tools necessary to nurture both individual and collective liberation. It is both an inspiration and a motivation for Black readers, as well as anyone else interested in reading about emerging spiritual voices. Topics include:    • African and Afro-Diasporan cultures, histories, spiritualities, art, music, and literature   • Black radical traditions of liberation and consciousness   • Anticolonialism and antislavery   • Buddhist philosophy   • Social and environmental justice   • The prison industrial complex and mass incarceration   • (Kemetic) yoga, healing, and mindfulness   • Intersections with Indigenous cultures   • Addiction and recovery   • Transgenerational trauma  

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Book SynopsisAn academic book examines Nepal's peasant society under global capitalism, emphasizing academia and civil society collaboration. Eight scholars explore peasant rights and economy, with Dr. Suresh Dhakal focusing on peasants as anthropological categories and ethnographic subjects.

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Book SynopsisA brilliant, sinuous exploration of family and childhood memory by one of the most original British philosophers of the twentieth century.Germs is about first things, the seeds from which a life grows, as well as about the illnesses it incurs, the damage it sustains. Written at the end of his life by Richard Wollheim, one of the major philosophers of the late twentieth century, the book is not the usual story of growing up and getting on but a brilliant recovery and evocation of childhood consciousness and unconsciousness, an eerily precise rendering of that primitive, formative world we all come from in which we do not know either the world or ourselves for sure, and things—houses, clothes, meals, parents—loom large around us, as indispensable as they are out of our control. Richard Wollheim’s remarkably original memoir is a disturbing, enthralling, dispassionate but also deeply personal depiction of a child standing, fascinated and fearful, on the threshold of individual life.

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Book SynopsisStemming from research of international experts in demography, epidemiology, gerontology, psychiatry, this book presents: a study of necessary conditions to compare several life expectancy computations in health, because current computation methods are different from one country to another; discussions of methods of interpretation of chronological life expectancy series; a survey of potential uses of life expectancy in health in order to allow sociosanitary planning; how to harmonise information collection and life computations.

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Book SynopsisThe concept of "postmigration" has recently gained importance in the context of European societies' obsession with migration and integration along with emerging new forms of exclusion and nationalisms. This book introduces ongoing debates on the developing concept of "postmigration" and how it can be applied to arts and culture. While the concept has mainly gained traction in the cultural scene in Berlin, Germany, the contributions expand the field of study by attending to cultural expressions in literature, theatre, film, and art across various European societies, such as the United Kingdom, France, Finland, Denmark, and Germany. By doing so, the contributions highlight this concept's potential and show how it can offer new perspectives on transformations caused by migration.

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