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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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In defense of my people : Alonso S. Perales and the development of Mexican-American public intellectuals / by Olivas, Michael A.

Table of Contents: “…Letter from United States ambassador to Argentina / Vilma S. Martinez -- Alonso S. …”
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In defense of my people : Alonso S. Perales and the development of Mexican-American public intellectuals / by Olivas, Michael A.

Table of Contents: “…Letter from United States ambassador to Argentina / Vilma S. Martinez -- Alonso S. …”
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Sisters and brothers of the common life : the Devotio Moderna and the world of the later Middle Ages / by Van Engen, John H.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The Devotio Moderna and modern history -- Converts in the Middle ages -- Conversion as a medieval form of life -- Converts in the Low Countries -- Circles of converts at Strassburg and Brussels -- Converts under suspicion : legislating against Beguines and free spirits -- Modern-day converts in the Low Countries -- The Low Countries -- Households of devout women -- Societies of devout men -- Modern-day conversion -- Suspicion and inquisition -- Suspicion of devout practices -- Charge and counter-charge in the mid-1390s -- Sisters under inquisition, 1396-1397 : Friar Eylard Schoneveld intervenes -- Resisting the inquisitor : legal tactics -- Awaiting the Bishop's decision, 1398-1401 -- From converts to communities : tertiaries, sisters, brothers, schoolboys, canons -- Tertiaries "living the common life" -- Sisters of the common life -- Brothers of the common life -- Schoolboys -- Windesheim canons and canonesses -- An option for enclosure : male canons and female tertiaries -- Inventing a communal household : goods, customs, labor, and "republican" harmony -- Living together without personal property -- House customs and personal exercises -- Obedience and humility in a voluntary community -- Labor : living from the work of their own hands -- Communal gatherings and a "republican" impulse -- Defending the modern-day Devout : expansion under scrutiny -- Women's houses and converting schoolboys : Burgher critics at Zwolle -- Friar Matthew Grabow and the Council of Constance -- The sisters and the aldermen in conflict at Deventer : the women's narrative -- Institutionalizing under scrutiny -- Proposing a theological rationale : the freedom of the "Christian religion" -- Place in society : taking on the "estate of the perfect" -- John Pupper of Goch (d. 1475) -- Gospel law and the freedom of the Christian religion -- Taking the spiritual offensive : caring for the self, examining the soul, progressing in virtue -- Reading, writing, and the lay tongue -- Exhortation in public and correction in private -- Spiritual guidance and mutual reproof -- Modern-day devotion : examining the self, making progress, experiencing peace -- Private gatherings and self-made societies in the fifteenth century -- The question of an afterlife.…”
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Sisters and brothers of the common life : the Devotio Moderna and the world of the later Middle Ages / by Van Engen, John H.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The Devotio Moderna and modern history -- Converts in the Middle ages -- Conversion as a medieval form of life -- Converts in the Low Countries -- Circles of converts at Strassburg and Brussels -- Converts under suspicion : legislating against Beguines and free spirits -- Modern-day converts in the Low Countries -- The Low Countries -- Households of devout women -- Societies of devout men -- Modern-day conversion -- Suspicion and inquisition -- Suspicion of devout practices -- Charge and counter-charge in the mid-1390s -- Sisters under inquisition, 1396-1397 : Friar Eylard Schoneveld intervenes -- Resisting the inquisitor : legal tactics -- Awaiting the Bishop's decision, 1398-1401 -- From converts to communities : tertiaries, sisters, brothers, schoolboys, canons -- Tertiaries "living the common life" -- Sisters of the common life -- Brothers of the common life -- Schoolboys -- Windesheim canons and canonesses -- An option for enclosure : male canons and female tertiaries -- Inventing a communal household : goods, customs, labor, and "republican" harmony -- Living together without personal property -- House customs and personal exercises -- Obedience and humility in a voluntary community -- Labor : living from the work of their own hands -- Communal gatherings and a "republican" impulse -- Defending the modern-day Devout : expansion under scrutiny -- Women's houses and converting schoolboys : Burgher critics at Zwolle -- Friar Matthew Grabow and the Council of Constance -- The sisters and the aldermen in conflict at Deventer : the women's narrative -- Institutionalizing under scrutiny -- Proposing a theological rationale : the freedom of the "Christian religion" -- Place in society : taking on the "estate of the perfect" -- John Pupper of Goch (d. 1475) -- Gospel law and the freedom of the Christian religion -- Taking the spiritual offensive : caring for the self, examining the soul, progressing in virtue -- Reading, writing, and the lay tongue -- Exhortation in public and correction in private -- Spiritual guidance and mutual reproof -- Modern-day devotion : examining the self, making progress, experiencing peace -- Private gatherings and self-made societies in the fifteenth century -- The question of an afterlife.…”
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Perspectives on Percival Everett

Table of Contents: “…: from stereotype to cosmopolitan to grotesque in Percival Everett's Suder / Anthony Stewart -- Charting the body: Percival Everett's corporeal landscapes in re: f (gesture) / Sarah Wyman -- When the text becomes the stage: Percival Everett's performance turn in For Her dark skin / Robin G. …”
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Perspectives on Percival Everett

Table of Contents: “…: from stereotype to cosmopolitan to grotesque in Percival Everett's Suder / Anthony Stewart -- Charting the body: Percival Everett's corporeal landscapes in re: f (gesture) / Sarah Wyman -- When the text becomes the stage: Percival Everett's performance turn in For Her dark skin / Robin G. …”
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Changing trends in mental health care and research in Ghana /

Table of Contents: “…The Ghanaian non-medical conceptualization of mood disorders ; Religion and psychotherapy ; The state of autism in Ghana: a focus on cultural understanding and challenges in the Ghanaian setting ; Substance use disorders in Ghana ; Schizophrenia in primary care -- Section C: Mental health practice in a teaching hospital setting. …”
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Changing trends in mental health care and research in Ghana /

Table of Contents: “…The Ghanaian non-medical conceptualization of mood disorders ; Religion and psychotherapy ; The state of autism in Ghana: a focus on cultural understanding and challenges in the Ghanaian setting ; Substance use disorders in Ghana ; Schizophrenia in primary care -- Section C: Mental health practice in a teaching hospital setting. …”
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Christianity and the Holocaust of Hungarian Jewry / by Herczl, Moshe Y., 1924-1990

Table of Contents: “…Anti-Jewish legislation -- Introduction -- The first anti-Jewish act -- The Eucharistic convention -- In the wake of the act's adoption -- The second anti-Jewish act -- The debate in the upper House: the stand of church leaders -- Extra-parliamentary activity during and after the debate on the second anti-Jewish act -- The demand for additional anti-Jewish legislation -- The third anti-Jewish act -- The Labor Battalions Act -- The Jewish Religion Status-Lowering Act -- The Jewish Estates Expropriation Act -- The Kallay Proposal for the expulsion of the Jews from Hungary -- Conclusion -- 3. 1944 -- Introduction -- The expulsion -- Who carried out the expulsion? …”
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Christianity and the Holocaust of Hungarian Jewry / by Herczl, Moshe Y., 1924-1990

Table of Contents: “…Anti-Jewish legislation -- Introduction -- The first anti-Jewish act -- The Eucharistic convention -- In the wake of the act's adoption -- The second anti-Jewish act -- The debate in the upper House: the stand of church leaders -- Extra-parliamentary activity during and after the debate on the second anti-Jewish act -- The demand for additional anti-Jewish legislation -- The third anti-Jewish act -- The Labor Battalions Act -- The Jewish Religion Status-Lowering Act -- The Jewish Estates Expropriation Act -- The Kallay Proposal for the expulsion of the Jews from Hungary -- Conclusion -- 3. 1944 -- Introduction -- The expulsion -- Who carried out the expulsion? …”
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The hidden form of capital spiritual influences in societal progress /

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The hidden form of capital spiritual influences in societal progress /

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Access Denied : The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering /

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Access Denied : The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering /

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Breaking the mould literary representations of Irish Catholicism /

Table of Contents: “…Exploring the Irish Catholic Mother in Kate O'Brien's Pray for the Wanderer / SHARON TIGHE-MOONEY -- A Catholic Agnostic : Kate O'Brien / AINTZANE LEGARRETA MENTXAKA -- Edwin O'Connor's Language of Grace / JAMES SILAS ROGERS -- Issues of Faith in Selected Fiction by Brian Moore (1921-1999) / EAMON MAHER -- "Earth's Crammed with Heaven, and every Common Bush Afire with God": Religion in the Fiction of John McGahern / PETER GUY -- The Poets and the Playwrights. …”
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Breaking the mould literary representations of Irish Catholicism /

Table of Contents: “…Exploring the Irish Catholic Mother in Kate O'Brien's Pray for the Wanderer / SHARON TIGHE-MOONEY -- A Catholic Agnostic : Kate O'Brien / AINTZANE LEGARRETA MENTXAKA -- Edwin O'Connor's Language of Grace / JAMES SILAS ROGERS -- Issues of Faith in Selected Fiction by Brian Moore (1921-1999) / EAMON MAHER -- "Earth's Crammed with Heaven, and every Common Bush Afire with God": Religion in the Fiction of John McGahern / PETER GUY -- The Poets and the Playwrights. …”
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India China : Rethinking Borders and Security / by Ling, L. H. M.

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

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Dreaming of money in Ho Chi Minh City / by Truitt, Allison

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