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This book examines the global circulation of Marxism seen from one of its most highly charged sites: Calcutta in India.

This book questions why so many mothers leave their families in twenty-first-century Swedish literature, analyzing literary representations of maternal abandonment in relation to sociopolitical discourses.

This book consists of ten essays that examine the ways in which language has been used to evoke what Lawrence L.

This contribution to the global history of ideas uses biographical profiles of 18th-century contemporaries to find what Salafist and Sufi Islam, Evangelical Protestant and Jansenist Catholic Christianity, and Hasidic Judaism have in common.

This book addresses the fate of intellectuals in modern culture and politics.

This book provides a feminist psychological analysis of contemporary resistance to sexual harassment in and around #MeToo.

This book assesses key works of twentieth-century dystopian fiction, including Katharine Burdekin's Swastika Night, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, to demonstrate that the major authors of this genre locate empathy and morality in eroticism.

This book reveals the sense in which our postmodern societies are characterized by the obscene absence of the intellectual.

In this book, the author draws on over a decade of first-hand experience as an academic-activist and on interviews with women in Malaysia's women's rights movement.

This book examines how Jewish intellectuals during and after the Second World War reinterpreted Homer's epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, in light of their own wartime experiences, drawing a parallel between the ancient Greek genocide of the Trojans and the Nazi genocide of the Jews.

This book explores the relationship between Queen Caroline, one of the most enigmatic characters in Regency England, and Sir William Gell, the leading classical scholar of his day.

Global history locates national histories in the context of broader processes, in which the West is not necessarily synonymous with progress.

Conventionally managerial jobs have defined as largely a matter of instrumentality, autonomy and result-orientation, which fit the stereotypes of men rather than those of women.

The Title Indian Women: Work and Development , Vol.

Power has been the focus of such debate within the social sciences.

Trafficking in persons the illegal and highly profitable recruitment trans port.

This book provides a chronological record of the development of Chinese thoughts on public finance over its 4,000 years of history, ranging from the Xia Dynasty to the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949.

Feminist theory emerged from these feminist movements and includes general theories and theories about the origins of inequality, and, in some cases, about the social construction of sex and gender, in a variety of disciplines.

It provides a comprehensive synthesis of major problems and issues related to women and development, paradigm shifts, new genre of empowerment and approaches in the historical settings.

This publication provides a gender analysis of socioeconomic areas and issues in Georgia and relevant operations of the Asian Development Bank.

In India, as well as in many other countries, men and women have their own role to play for the benefit of the society.

This book studies three female Chinese intellectuals in the first half of the 20th century, namely Feng Yuanjun, Lu Yin, and Cheng Junying, the first graduates of Beijing Female Higher Normal College, which was the first-ever national higher educational institution for women in modern China.

Trafficking in persons the illegal and highly profitable recruitment trans port.

'Women' consisting half of the human population have been treated as weaker sex in all societies of the world.

In India, a woman is traditionally regarded as an honorable and dignified personality.

The present work is English Translation of an award winning Hindi book-Bharatiya Samaja Mein Nari Adarshon ka vikasa, written by late Pt.

Seema Shama, an economist by training and educationist and sociologist by choice, has studied Indian women in historical context very thoroughly.

In India, a woman is traditionally regarded as an honorable and dignified personality.

This desk review explores the links between infrastructure development and women's time poverty in Asia and the Pacific by drawing on time-use data and reviewing existing research and evidence from impact evaluations.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and The Asia Foundation prepared this report as a guide to support women's entrepreneurship in Asia and the Pacific.

The book deals with the magnitude of crimes against women in the developed and the developing World context.

Crime is as old as Man Mythology relates First Disobedience i.

'Women' consisting half of the human population have been treated as weaker sex in all societies of the world.

This publication entitled ';Encyclopaedia of Juvenile Rights, Child Rights and Women Rights' is a kind of introductory legal textbook on the subject.

Books about Legal History analyze how the law has evolved over time, and the legal concepts, societal shifts, and circumstances that underpinned the changes that have occurred.

This collection brings together different philosophical points of view discussing two important aspects of human life, namely love and friendship, within the broad context of comparative philosophy.

The story of Duncan Leung--childhood friend of Bruce Lee, disciple of legendary master Yip Man, and New York kung fu teacher--is valuable not only for its insights into martial arts but also for its portrayal of the lost Hong Kong of the 1950s and 1960s.

This book assesses river health in the Lancang River Basin with regard to the impacts of hydropower projects.

'A brilliant read.

Our Lives to Live: Putting a Woman's Face to Change in Singapore explores and documents how women's roles, choices, and voices in Singapore have changed in the last 50 years; how women, from all sectors of society, have helped to shape the Singapore we know today.

Eve Tignol investigates the impact of collective grief on Muslim community formation in north India from 1857 to the 1940s.

'Entertaining, quirky and an enjoyable read' Phil Liggett MBE'A genuine one-off with a ready wit and a killer anecdote to hand at all times' Rouleur'Entertaining.

'Entertaining, quirky and an enjoyable read' Phil Liggett MBE'A genuine one-off with a ready wit and a killer anecdote to hand at all times' Rouleur'Entertaining.

Know what you believe and live it boldly!

• Analiza el fenómeno del Hombre Oscuro a través del folclor y la mitología de siglos pasados, así como de relatos contemporáneos y el testimonio de los juicios británicos de los brujos

• Cuestiona la visión simplista del Hombre Oscuro como una entidad "maligna", mostrándonos que los encuentros con esta figura pueden ayudarnos a revelar nuestro propósito vital, y haciéndonos comprender su papel como iniciador en la brujería

• Incluye entrevistas con testigos directos de la presencia del Hombre Oscuro, quienes nos ofrecen una perspectiva sobre cómo estas experiencias pueden conducirnos hacia una vida más positiva

Desde los fantasmas forteanos que aterrorizaron a la Inglaterra victoriana hasta las encrucijadas embrujadas de las tierras altas irlandesas, el Hombre Oscuro (diablo, Padre de los Brujos, Señor de las Encrucijadas, etc.

This book offers a new interpretation of Hegel''s Logic, the foundational work of his philosophical system.

'Emotional, insightful, beautifully written.