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Opening doors gender equality and development in the Middle East and North Africa /

Table of Contents: “…-- Women in the workforce -- Women in business -- Women in politics -- What explains the mena puzzle? -- Religion is too simplistic an explanation -- Oil endowments alone cannot explain the paradox either -- Social norms and the legal framework limit women's agency -- Social and cultural norms constrain women's roles outside the home -- Evolving norms and the invisible hand of marriage -- Equality under the law and its enforcement is critical for women's agency -- Legal systems differ widely and derive from multiple sources -- Legal constraints to women's agency in MENA -- Economic incentives dampen participation in the workforce -- A social contract underpinned by a generous but costly welfare state -- Extensive public sector employment with generous compensation -- Generous subsidies encourage women to stay at home -- State regulation and intervention in the market -- Heavy investment in education, but not the kind that businesses want -- Unequal access to entrepreneurship opportunities -- The time for reform is now -- Aspirations are changing -- As education levels increase, female labor force participation will likely increase -- A demographic gift? …”
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The Greek polis and the invention of democracy a politico-cultural transformation and its interpretations /

Table of Contents: “…Changing a Way of Life : Democracy's Impact on polis-Society -- The Impact of Democracy on Communal Life / Sara Forsdyke -- The Participation of the demos in Decision-Making : Principles and Reality / Claude Mossé -- Democracy and Religion in Classical Greece / Robin Osborne -- Democracy and War / Lawrence A. …”
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Letter to Beaumont, letters written from the mountain, and related writings by Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778

Table of Contents: “…. -- Second Letter 153 -- On the Religion of Geneva. Principles of the Reformation. -- TheAuthor opens the discussion of mirales. -- Third Letter 169 -- Continuation of the same Subject. …”
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Among the Garifuna : family tales and ethnography from the Caribbean coast / by Wells, Marilyn McKillop

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Understanding jihad / by Cook, David, 1966-

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Gandhi : a spiritual biography / by Sharma, Arvind

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Au contraire! : figuring out the French / by Asselin, Gilles

Table of Contents: “…. -- With the self -- A cultural approach to the self and individualism -- Important American "self"-related notions and their French equivalents -- Privacy and protection of the self -- With the family -- The family circle -- Child rearing -- Personality development -- With the school -- The French passion for school -- French culture and French schooling -- Les grandes écoles -- With friends -- The language of friendship and love -- Making and being friends -- That's what friends are for -- Friendly suggestions -- With romance -- Lover or friend; The art of seduction -- The dating game and the couple -- You say tomatoes, I say les tomates -- With work -- I work, therefore I am -- My resume, your curriculum vitae -- Dignity and conformity in the workplace -- With politics -- Politics and everyday life -- The political spectrum -- Attitudes toward politicians -- Women in politics -- With religion -- Church and state -- Catholicism a la Francaise -- Other faiths -- French regions -- La Bretagne -- L'Alsace -- Iparralde -- Midi-Pyrénées -- With society -- French and American realities -- To be or not to be...perfect? …”

À chacun sa quête : Essais sur les nouveaux visages de la transcendance /

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Realizing the Witch : Science, Cinema, and the Mastery of the Invisible / by Baxstrom, Richard

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Rewolucja : Russian Poland, 1904–1907 / by Blobaum, Robert

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India China : Rethinking Borders and Security / by Ling, L. H. M.

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Can Language be Planned? : Sociolinguistic Theory for Developing Nations /

Table of Contents: “…Fishman -- Language as an aid and barrier to involvement in the national system / Herbert C. Kelman -- Religion, language, and political mobilization / Jyotirindra Das Gupta -- Case studies of language planning : successes and failures in the movement for the restoration of Irish / John Macnamara -- Spelling reform -Israel 1968 / Chaim Rabin -- Language-planning processes and the language-policy survey in the Philippines / Bonifacio P. …”
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Ritual Irony : Poetry and Sacrifice in Euripides / by Foley, Helene P., 1942-

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Baby Ninth Amendments : How Americans Embraced Unenumerated Rights and Why It Matters / by Sanders, Anthony B.

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Tanna Times : Islanders in the World / by Lindstrom, Lamont, 1953-

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Intoxication : An Ethnography of Effervescent Revelry / by Tutenges, Sebastien

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Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds / by Flueckiger, Joyce Burkhalter

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton, feminist as thinker a reader in documents and essays /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Ellen Carol DuBois and Richard Cándida Smith -- The Essays -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the long view / Vivian Gornick -- Missed connections: abolitionist feminism in the nineteenth century / Christine Stansell -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, John Stuart Mill and the nature of feminist thought / Barbara Caine -- Stanton on self and community / Richard Cándida Smith -- "The pivot of the marriage relation": Stanton's analysis of women's subordination in marriage / Ellen Carol DuBois -- "Free woman is a divine being, the savior of mankind": Stanton's exploration of religion and gender / Kathi Kern -- Stanton and the right to vote: on account of race or sex / Ann D. …”
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The chronicles of Panchita Villa and other guerrilleras essays on Chicana/Latina literature and criticism / by Rebolledo, Tey Diana, 1937-

Table of Contents: “…: Chicana feminism through literature (1997) -- Jugando a la vida con poemas : contemporary Chicana poetry in Spanish (1998) -- Mi vida loca : symbolic spaces in the construction of identity in Chicana literature (1998) -- The chicana bandera : Sandra Cisneros in the public press : constructing a cultural icon (1996-1999) -- The tools in the toolbox : representing work in Chicana literature (1999) -- La nueva onda = The new wave : contemporary Chicana writing (2001) -- Size 48D bras and men who wear skirts : the dialectics of humor in Denise Chávez's narratives (2001) -- The archbishop sees the body of the virgin : art, religion, ideology, and popular culture (2001) -- Game theory : a typology of feminist players in Latina/Chicana writing (1985) -- Art and spiritual politics : Sor Juana Beatriz de la Fuente, a feminist literary perspective (1995) -- Inheriting the alphabet : homeland and exile in Marjorie Agosín (1997) -- Questioning Nepantla : the land in between, geopolitical tyrannies and other border complexities (2002).…”
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