Society and culture: general

An accessible overview of the power of women in the economy and the obstacles they face Women are joining the workforce in increasing numbers, making inroads as entrepreneurs and leaders, acquiring more education, marrying later, and having fewer children - all trends consistent with spending a far greater fraction of their adult lives in the labor force.

Emma Bell Miles (1879-1919) was a gifted writer, poet, naturalist, and artist with a keen perspective on Appalachian life and culture.

Thinking Outside the Girl Box is a true story about a remarkable youth development program in rural West Virginia.

Black Skin, White Coats is a history of psychiatry in Nigeria from the 1950s to the 1980s.

Nation of Outlaws, State of Violence is the first extensive history of Cameroonian nationalism to consider the global and local influences that shaped the movement within the French and British Cameroons and beyond.

The Civil War has long been described as a war pitting brother against brother.

An accessible overview of the power of women in the economy and the obstacles they face Women are joining the workforce in increasing numbers, making inroads as entrepreneurs and leaders, acquiring more education, marrying later, and having fewer children - all trends consistent with spending a far greater fraction of their adult lives in the labor force.

Africa has emerged as a prime arena of global health interventions that focus on particular diseases and health emergencies.

How can systems-thinking contribute to solving key challenges in Global Health?

Responsible Conduct of Research provides an overview of ethical, legal, and social issues in scientific research for science students, trainees, and professional scientists.

How can systems-thinking contribute to solving key challenges in Global Health?

States of Marriage shows how throughout the colonial period in French Sudan (present-day Mali) the institution of marriage played a central role in how the empire defined its colonial subjects as gendered persons with certain attendant rights and privileges.

From tabloid exposes of child prostitution to the grisly tales of Jack the Ripper, narratives of sexual danger pulsated through Victorian London.

This volume explores how digitalization--in different forms--affects the welfare state.

This volume explores how digitalization--in different forms--affects the welfare state.

Across the world, children are the most vulnerable population.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2025 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaft, Note: 1,3, Universität Augsburg (Philologisch-historische Fakultät: Lehrstuhl für Neuere Deutsche Literaturwissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Abschied vom Winter.

Adolescence, Identity, and the Politics of Recognition in the Social Media Era explores the political identity formation of adolescents online, with a focus on recognition theory, affect, and lived experiences of belonging and non-belonging.

Should the state recognise gender?

The histories of Europe and Africa are closely intertwined.

The histories of Europe and Africa are closely intertwined.

Should the state recognise gender?

**Named one of the best books of 2015 by The Economist** Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors.

In this book, readers journey through rural small towns to discover practical tools for driving meaningful change in housing.

'When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to speak out'Written when execution by guillotine was still legal in France, Albert Camus' devastating attack on the 'obscene exhibition' of capital punishment remains one of the most powerful, persuasive arguments ever made against the death penalty.

A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAROne of our most scintillating public intellectuals explores the political paradoxes of the pandemic and helps us think our way through it'We are able to imagine anything because we are being besieged by something that was considered unimaginable.

Drawing on over two decades of research in and on China and on extensive reviews of current scholarship, China: The Basics introduces readers to the key aspects of Chinese society, culture, and politics.

Music and sound studies have increasingly turned their attention to questions of empire and postcolonial thought in recent years, raising new questions about the forms and circulation of cultural, technological, political, and military power as manifest in and through sound.

Crime is a gendered phenomenon.

Reiland Rabaka provides an alternative history of funk since the mid-1960s, which uncovers the epoch that funk women influenced and were influenced by while wrestling with issues revolving around race, gender, sexuality, and class simultaneously in the American music industry and in American society.

This collection of original essays brings econometric theory to bear on the problem of estimating the labor force participation of women.

Hate Speech, Political Correctness, and Cancel Culture critically examines the challenges posed by modern discourse in democratic societies.

This book aims to reflect critically on a great deal of HCI research conducted with or concerned about older adults and aging with the goal of sparking future development of the field.

The world faces more than 60 million people displaced by armed conflict and disasters as of 2022.

Society, Culture, and the State in Germany, 1870-1930 draws together important new work on the Kaiserreich--the period between Bismarck's unification of Germany and the First World War.

Since the Founding, America's faith in a democratic republic has depended on citizens who could be trusted to be communicators.

As recent statistics show, more than 100 million people on the planet have used MDMA.

In Of Two Minds, noted hypertext novelist and writing teacher Michael Joyce explores the new technologies, mediums, and modalities for teaching and writing, ranging from interactive multimedia to virtual reality.

Practicing Feminisms, Reconstructing Psychology is a valuable survey of developments to date in feminist psychology and a provocative assessment of its future possibilities.

Tracing the emergence of what the media industries today call transmedia, story worlds, and narrative franchises, Legal Stories provides a dual history of copyright law and narrative-based media development between the Copyright Act of 1909 and the Copyright Act of 1976.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2023 im Fachbereich Gesundheit - Gerontologie, Note: 1,7, APOLLON Hochschule der Gesundheitswirtschaft in Bremen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Hausarbeit verfolgt das Ziel, die Bedeutung der elektronischen Patientenakte und die Versorgungsqualität im Bereich der Alterstraumatologie im Krankenhaus zu analysieren und deren Effektivität und Effizienz zu bewerten.

Learn to Write and Read the Korean Hangul Alphabet with K-Pop and K-Drama Words and Phrases!

In The Silence of Heaven, the world renowned Israeli novelist Amos Oz introduces us to an extraordinary masterpiece of Hebrew literature that is just now appearing in English, S.

Born into an educated free black family in Portland, Maine, Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (18591930) was a pioneering playwright, journalist, novelist, feminist, and public intellectual, best known for her 1900 novel Contending Forces: A Romance of Negro Life North and South.

Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2022 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Individuum, Gruppe, Gesellschaft, Note: 1,0, Universität Münster (Institut für Soziologie), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Arbeit behandelt folgende Forschungsfrage: Tragen Verschwörungstheorien in der Dark-Social-Kommunikation auf Plattformen wie Telegram zur Formierung von Gegenöffentlichkeit bei?

Esteemed presidential historian Stephen F.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2023 im Fachbereich Geschlechterstudien / Gender Studies, Note: 1,5, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Facharbeit wird sich mit dem Thema "Jugendliche in ihrer Gender-Identitätsfindung pädagogisch begleiten" befassen.

The largely untold stories of innumerable, rather humble, lives spent 'in service' are lying just below the surface of many great houses.

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2024 im Fachbereich Gesundheit - Gerontologie, Note: 1,7, Georg-Simon-Ohm-Hochschule Nurnberg (Sozialwissenschaften), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Angesichts des demografischen Wandels steht unsere Gesellschaft vor einer zunehmenden Anzahl alterer Menschen.

In early North America, carrying watercraftusually canoesand supplies across paths connecting one body of water to another was essential in the establishment of both Indigenous and European mobility in the continents interior.