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mHealth Innovation in Asia Grassroots Challenges and Practical Interventions /
Published 2018Table of Contents: “….- Chapter 1: Barriers to informal mHealth adoption by community health workers in regional Indonesia -- Chapter 2: Take care of your health, this is what the Qur’an said - The use of mobile phone among poor rural women with Type-2 Diabetes in Central Java, Indonesia -- Chapter 3: One size does not fit all - The importance of contextually sensitive mHealth strategies for frontline female health workers -- Chapter 4: Chinese Consumers’ Perceptions and Interpretations of Fitness Mobile Apps: Qualitative Insights -- Section 2: Strategies -- Chapter 5: The Path to Scale: Navigating design, policy and infrastructure -- Chapter 6: mHealth, health and mobility - A culture-centered interrogation.- Afterword.…”
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California Mennonites
Published 2014Table of Contents: “…Going to California: the Mennonite migration -- Alone in the garden: boosters, migrants, and refugees -- Urban dystopia and divine nature: the early Mennonite colonies -- Outsiders from within: defining California Mennonite identity -- New neighbors: confronting racial and religious pluralism -- From sewing circles to missionary societies: the public roles of women in the church -- Peaceful patriots: California Mennonites during World War II -- Socially active Mennonitism and mental health: the origins of Kings View Homes -- Feeding the hungry: a story of piety and professionalization -- Protect and assimilate: evangelical education in California -- Labor tensions: Mennonite growers, the UFW, and the farm labor problem -- From digging gold to saving souls: the transformation of California Mennonite identity -- Epilogue. a new breed of Mennonites.…”
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Community as the material basis of citizenship : the unfinished story of American democracy /
Published 2018Table of Contents: “…: on comitatus, community, and citizenship / Louis Mendoza -- Setting the stage : a top-down perspective on factors that divide democratic citizenship / Carol Yoder and Christina Verzjil -- Dishonored citizenry : black women, civic virtue, and electoral powers / Joy James -- Transborder political subjectivity and enacted citizenship : toward the end of the neoliberal "state of exception"? …”
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Beyond Stereotypes : American Jews and Sports in the Twentieth Century /
Published 2015Table of Contents: “…A stack of Jewish baseball cards : some thoughts on Jews and the roles they have played in the major leagues / Joseph Dorinson -- Racial attitudes toward Jews in the "Negro Leagues" : the case of Effa Manley / Rebecca Alpert -- American Jewish women on the court : seeking an identity in tennis in the early decades of the twentieth century / Linda J. …”
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Networks, Labour and Migration among Indian Muslim Artisans /
Published 2020Table of Contents: “…The Indian craft supply chain: money, commodities and intimacy -- 4. Muslim women and craft production in India: gender, labour and space -- 5. …”
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Deep river : a memoir of a Missouri farm /
Published 2001Table of Contents: “…Mother, Father, Farm 120 -- The Miami Mastodon -- Ice -- Chicago Women -- The Bridge -- Mother and Her Boats -- Chartreuse Sails -- River Horse -- Father -- Farm -- Deep River, a Conclusion 161 -- Acknowledgments 163 -- Bibliographical Appendix 165.…”
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Beyond Stereotypes : American Jews and Sports in the Twentieth Century /
Published 2015Table of Contents: “…A stack of Jewish baseball cards : some thoughts on Jews and the roles they have played in the major leagues / Joseph Dorinson -- Racial attitudes toward Jews in the "Negro Leagues" : the case of Effa Manley / Rebecca Alpert -- American Jewish women on the court : seeking an identity in tennis in the early decades of the twentieth century / Linda J. …”
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Networks, Labour and Migration among Indian Muslim Artisans /
Published 2020Table of Contents: “…The Indian craft supply chain: money, commodities and intimacy -- 4. Muslim women and craft production in India: gender, labour and space -- 5. …”
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Towards a People-Driven African Union : Current Obstacles and New Opportunities /
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…THE AFRICAN UNION COMMISSION: OUTREACH TO CIVIL SOCIETY; The African Citizens' Directorate; The African Union-Civil Society Organisation Forum; The Women, Gender and Development Directorate and the Women's Forum; 7. …”
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Towards a People-Driven African Union : Current Obstacles and New Opportunities /
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…THE AFRICAN UNION COMMISSION: OUTREACH TO CIVIL SOCIETY; The African Citizens' Directorate; The African Union-Civil Society Organisation Forum; The Women, Gender and Development Directorate and the Women's Forum; 7. …”
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The bases of empire the global struggle against U.S. military posts /
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…McCaffrey -- Okinawa: women's struggle for demilitarization / Kozue Akibayashi and Suzuyo Takazato -- Opposition to the U.S. military presence in Turkey in the context of the Iraq war / Ayse Gul Altinay and Amy Holmes -- Resisting militarization in Hawai'i / Kyle Kajihiro.…”
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India in Africa, Africa in India Indian Ocean cosmopolitanisms /
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…Hawley -- Slave trades and the Indian Ocean world / by Gwyn Campbell -- India in Africa -- The indentured experience : Indian women in Colonial Natal / by Devarakshanam Govinden -- Shops and stations : rethinking power and privilege in British/Indian East Africa / by Savita Nair -- Bhangra remixes / by Anjali Gera Roy -- "Hindu" dance groups and Indophilie in Senegal : the imagination of the exotic other / by Gwenda Vander Steene -- The idea of "India" in West African vodun art and thought / by Dana Rush -- Politics and poetics of the namesake : Barlen Pyamootoo's Bénarès, Mauritius / by Thangam Ravindranathan -- Africa in India -- Siddi as mercenary or as African success story on the West Coast of India / by Rahul C. …”
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Private guns, public health
Published 2006Table of Contents: “…-- Guns in the home -- Guns in schools -- Guns in public -- Young children -- Adolescents and young adults -- Women -- African Americans -- Manufacturers -- Licensed dealers -- The unregulated market -- The second amendment -- Public opinion -- Evaluating regulation -- The wrong arguments -- Lessons from other products -- Lessons from other countries -- International effects of our permissive policies -- A brief history of firearms law -- Reasonable policies -- Public health surveillance.…”
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Livelihoods at the margins surviving the city /
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…Introduction : livelihoods at the margins / James Staples -- No money, no life : surviving on the streets of Kampala / Stan Frankland -- Embodying oppression : revolta amongst young people living on the streets of Rio De Janeiro / Udi Butler -- Children on the streets of Dhaka and their coping strategies / Alessandro Conticini -- Hindu nationalism and failing development goals : micro-finance, women and illegal livelihoods in the Bombay slums / Atreyee Sen -- Keeping it clean : discipline, control and everyday politics in a Bangkok shopping mall / Alyson Brody -- Fast money in the margins : migrants in the sex industry / Laura María Agustín -- -- Begging questions : leprosy and alms collection in Mumbai / James Staples -- Vulnerable in the city : Adivasi seasonal labour migrants in western India / David Mosse, with Sanjeev Gupta and Vidya Shah -- "Moving up and down looking for money" : making a living in a Ugandan refugee camp / Tania Kaiser -- "In-betweenness" on the margins : collective organisation, ethnicity and political agency among Bolivian street traders / Sian Lazar.…”
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Youth prolonged old age postponed /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…-- Ageing factors: More about appearance: tell-tale signs - sun, smiles and smoking -- Guessing by experts -- More about the skin, posture and bones -- Biomarkers; or, The countdown to the end - men and women, life-expectancy -- The eyes have it -- Thought for food -- Why do we age? …”
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An introduction to international human rights law
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…The historical development of international human rights / Michelo Hausungule -- Civil and political rights / Joshua Castellino -- An introduction to economic, social and cultural rights : overcoming the constraints of categorization through implementation / Vinodh Jaichand -- Women's rights in international law / Mmatsie Mooki, Rita Ozoemana, Michelo Hansungule -- Globalization and human rights / Heli Askola -- Role of the UN in the promotion and protection of human rights / Elvira Domínguez-Redondo -- Attributes of successful human rights non-governmental organizations (NGOs) : sixty years after the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights / George E. …”
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How to get a Phd a handbook for students and their supervisors /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Equal opportunities for non-traditional research students (i.e. women-- with some comments for men-- international, mature and part-time students) -- 11. …”
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Crimes of punishment America's culture of violence /
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…-- Notes on relationships between religion, nonviolence, and punishment -- Why incarcerate women? -- Emotional abuse -- Social systems of domination and punishment -- The sociopathology of the prison system --…”
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The boldness of a halakhist an analysis of the writings of Rabbi Yechiel Mechel Halevi Epstein The Arukh Hashulhan : a collection of social-anthropological essays /
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…Epstein's adjudicative process as expressed in the Arukh Hashulhan -- In any case there are no sinful thoughts : the role and status of women in Jewish law as expressed in the Arukh Hashulhan -- The audacity of a religious adjudicator : Rabbi Yechiel Mechel Epstein and modernity -- Mercy is vouchsafed from heaven : halakhah's response to violence as expressed in the Arukh Hashulhan Oreh Hayyim, sections 560 and 576:8 -- Secular studies are the supplement of Torah studies : Kol Ben Levi : the homilies of Rabbi Yechiel Mechel Halevi Epstein : the first sermon -- Recurrent themes in the homilies of Rabbi Yechiel Mechel Halevi Epstein -- Social reality or the written word : minhag as expressed in the Arukh Hashulhan.…”
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What dreams were made of movie stars of the 1940s /
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Introduction : stardom in the 1940s / Sean Griffin -- Abbott and Costello: Wwo's on first / David Sedman -- Gene Autry and Roy Rogers: the light of western stars / Ed Buscombe -- Ingrid Bergman: the face of authenticity in the land of illusion / Robin Blaetz -- Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall: tough guy and cool dame / Rick Worland -- Claudette Colbert, Ginger Rogers, and Barbara Stanwyck: American homefront women / David M. Lugowski -- Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney: babes and beyond / Sean Griffin -- Greer Garson: gallant ladies and British wartime femininity / Hannah Hamad -- Betty Grable and Rita Hayworth: pinned up / Adrienne L. …”
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