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The Mobile City of Accra

Urban Families, Housing and Residential Practices

By: Elizabeth Ardayfio-Schandorf,W.K. Yankson

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The Mobile City of Accra

Urban Families, Housing and Residential Practices

By: Elizabeth Ardayfio-Schandorf,W.K. Yankson

This book is a product of collaborative research between the Institut de recherche pour le dveloppement (IRD, France), the University of Ghana, Legon and CODESRIA. It examines various economic, social and environmental challenges of urbanization that critically affect the capital of Ghana, which has experienced high demographic growth and territorial expansion. The study analyses the Greater Accra city dwellers residential practices, and focuses on two main factors influencing land and rental markets. On the one hand, it interrogates the constraints and dynamics of urban families, their needs and gender characteristics in terms of accommodation. On the other hand, it explores the opportunities and interests in investment on the part of land owners and real estate developers. At these two levels of describing the social and spatial discriminations, the book attempts to explain the difficult choices that this fragmented city faces. It emphasizes the role of mobility in structuring the metropolitan area, and the negative impact of lack of mobility which results in some households and communities suffering more than others. Light is thrown on diagnostics and prospects in the matter of urban planning.

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African Books Collective

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2869785488

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A Women’s History of the Christian Church

Two Thousand Years of Female Leadership

By: Elizabeth Gillan Muir

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A Women’s History of the Christian Church

Two Thousand Years of Female Leadership

By: Elizabeth Gillan Muir

Tracing two thousand years of female leadership, influence, and participation, Elizabeth Gillan Muir examines the various positions women have filled in the church. From the earliest female apostle, and the little known stories of the two Marys – the Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalene – to the enlightened duties espoused by the nun, the abbess, and the anchorite, and the persecutions of female "witches," Muir uncovers the rich and often tumultuous relationship between women and Christianity. Offering broad coverage of both the Catholic and Protestant traditions and extending geographically well beyond North America, A Women’s History of the Christian Church presents a chronological account of how women developed new sects and new churches, such as the Quakers and Christian Science. The book includes a timeline of women in Christian history, over 25 black-and-white illustrations, a glossary, and a list of primary and secondary sources to complement the content in each chapter.

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University of Toronto Press

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1487593864

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International Human Resource Management

By: Christopher Brewster,Elizabeth Houldsworth,Paul Sparrow,Guy Vernon

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International Human Resource Management

By: Christopher Brewster,Elizabeth Houldsworth,Paul Sparrow,Guy Vernon

Mapped to the CIPD Level 7 module of the same name, International Human Resource Management is a critical textbook for all HR students. Structured around the three core areas of cross-cultural HRM, comparative HRM and international HRM itself, this book provides students with a thorough grounding in the key approaches to international HRM. Packed with global examples and case studies to support learning, this book explores all aspects of international human resource management from global talent strategy, recruitment and knowledge management to the difference in reward systems across cultures and managing expatriate assignments making it essential reading for students on both CIPD and non-CIPD accredited courses. Supported by 'theory and practice' boxes in every chapter and with reflective activities and learning questions throughout, International Human Resource Management ensures that students without real-world business experience fully understand the main concepts and how they apply in the world of work. This edition now includes new coverage of the impact of the gig economy on international HRM, how technology is impacting HRM across countries and new material on workforce diversity. Online resources include lecture slides and additional case studies.

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Kogan Page Publishers

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1398603546

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Alexander Hamilton and the Development of American Law

By: Kate Elizabeth Brown

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Alexander Hamilton and the Development of American Law

By: Kate Elizabeth Brown

Alexander Hamilton is commonly seen as the standard-bearer of an ideology-turned-political party, the Federalists, engaged in a struggle for the soul of the young United States against the Anti-Federalists, and later, the Jeffersonian Republicans. Alexander Hamilton and the Development of American Law counters such conventional wisdom with a new, more nuanced view of Hamilton as a true federalist, rather than a one-dimensional nationalist, whose most important influence on the American founding is his legal legacy. In this analytical biography, Kate Elizabeth Brown recasts our understanding of Hamilton's political career, his policy achievements, and his significant role in the American founding by considering him first and foremost as a preeminent lawyer who applied law and legal arguments to accomplish his statecraft. In particular, Brown shows how Hamilton used inherited English legal principles to accomplish his policy goals, and how state and federal jurists adapted these Hamiltonian principles into a distinct, republican jurisprudence throughout the nineteenth century. When writing his authoritative commentary on the nature of federal constitutional power in The Federalist, Hamilton juxtaposed the British constitution with the new American one he helped to create; when proposing commercial, monetary, banking, administrative, or foreign policy in Washington's cabinet, he used legal arguments to justify his desired course of action. In short, lawyering, legal innovation, and common law permeated Alexander Hamilton's professional career. Re-examining Hamilton's post-war accomplishments through the lens of law, Brown demonstrates that Hamilton's much-studied political career, as well as his contributions to republican political science, cannot be fully understood without recognizing and investigating how Hamilton used Anglo-American legal principles to achieve these ends. A critical re-evaluation of Hamilton's legacy, as well as his place in the founding era, Brown’s work also enhances and refines our understanding of the nature and history of American jurisprudence.

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University Press of Kansas

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0700624805

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9780700624805

Uncertain Refuge

Sanctuary in the Literature of Medieval England

By: Elizabeth Allen

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Uncertain Refuge

Sanctuary in the Literature of Medieval England

By: Elizabeth Allen

An examination of sanctuary seeking in the literature of medieval England between the twelfth and the seventeenth centuries"--

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812253442

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I Believe... Something!

By: Elizabeth Moreau

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I Believe... Something!

By: Elizabeth Moreau

Have you ever wondered how God sees us? Many questions exist today that did not exist in Jesus' time. How are we to know what God's opinion is about discipleship in our world? The ancient creed of Christianity serves as an intellectual guide to deep and lasting faith. The Early Church recognized that Christians would face challenges of every sort, and the most enduring challenge would be in the arena of ideas. The ancient creed reveals to us the ideas of God, how God understands Himself, creation, human beings, purpose and destiny. Yet, most of us are unfamiliar with this great treasure left to us by our forebears. We have a rich intellectual heritage as broad and deep as the mind of God Himself. The creed of the Early Church serves as a map or guide to authentic Christian faith. Within these boundaries of true belief, we can find God if we search with a humble and sincere heart. The worship of God with the mind forever changes our perception of the entire human experience. Read with the expectation that the mysteries of God will begin to be revealed to you, and allow the Holy Spirit to unleash your mind for Jesus Christ. Elizabeth Moreau is an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church. Educated at Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University, Rev. Moreau left local church ministry when her health declined. Since that time, Rev. Moreau has taken the opportunity to develop a discipleship curriculum for Christians. The From Called to Sent curriculum is a six course, three-year study designed to bring Christians into an ever deepening and more fruitful life in Christ. Rev. Moreau is available to speak as her health permits. Servants' Feast Christian Ministry www.servantsfeast.org PO Box 1626 Friendswood, Texas 77549

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Xulon Press

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1607913623

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Up Yon Wide and Lonely Glen

Travellers' Songs, Stories and Tunes of the Fetterangus Stewarts

By: Elizabeth Stewart

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Up Yon Wide and Lonely Glen

Travellers' Songs, Stories and Tunes of the Fetterangus Stewarts

By: Elizabeth Stewart

Elizabeth Stewart is a highly acclaimed singer, pianist, and accordionist whose reputation has spread widely not only as an outstanding musician but as the principal inheritor and advocate of her family and their music. First discovered by folklorists in the 1950s, the Stewarts of Fetterangus, including Elizabeth's mother Jean, her uncle Ned, and her aunt Lucy, have had immense musical influence. Lucy in particular became a celebrated ballad singer and in 1961 Smithsonian Folkways released a collection of her classic ballad recordings that brought the family's music and name to an international audience. Up Yon Wide and Lonely Glen is a significant memoir of Scottish Traveller life, containing stories, music, and songs from this prominent Traveller family. The book is the result of a close partnership between Elizabeth Stewart and Scottish folk singer and writer Alison McMorland. It details the ancestral history of Elizabeth Stewart's family, the story of her mother, the story of her aunt, and her own life story, framing and contextualizing the music and song examples and showing how totally integrated these art forms are with daily life. It is a remarkable portrait of a Traveller family from the perspective of its matrilineal line. The narrative, spanning five generations and written in Scots, captures the rhythms and idioms of Elizabeth Stewart's speaking voice and is extraordinary from a musical, cultural, sociological, and historical point of view. The book features 145 songs, eight original piano compositions, folktale versions, rhymes and riddles, and eighty fascinating illustrations, from the family of Elizabeth, her mother Jean (1912–1962) and her aunt Lucy (1901–1982). In addition, there are notes on the songs and a series of appendices. Up Yon Wide and Lonely Glen will appeal to those interested in traditional music, folklore, and folk song—and in particular, Scottish tradition.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1496801830

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The History of Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut: From the Settlement of the Town in 1639 to 1818: Volume 1

By: Elizabeth Hubbell Schenck

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The History of Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut: From the Settlement of the Town in 1639 to 1818: Volume 1

By: Elizabeth Hubbell Schenck

In accepting the task of compiling the history of a town, rich with historic lore, the author was fully sensible of the labor connected with it; but she resolved to go bravely on and accomplish all that health, perseverance, research and industry, would eventually achieve. Fairfield is her native town, and in Southport, which is a part of it, she was born. For over two hundred years her ancestors have lived and died within the limits of the township. On the hill which summoned the inhabitants of Green's Farms, by the beating of a drum, to the meeting-house on the Lord's day, her honored father, the late Jonathan Godfrey, was born. Her great grandfather, Lieutenant Nathan Godfrey, of Colonel Whiting's company, fought the battles of Ticonderoga and Crown Point. On her mother's side, she is a direct descendant of Richard Hubbell and of Joshua Jennings, and on both sides of the house of the Couch family. The blood which nerved some of the bravest men and women of Fairfield to deeds of courage, endurance, and military and political achievements, runs in her veins. It therefore, has proved no reluctant task for her to write the history of the men and women who took part in the settlement of New England, and more particularly of Fairfield. It is at all times interesting to study the history of our New England ancestry, which, like the seed of Abraham, has become throughout the vast domain of the United States, in numbers like unto the sands upon the sea-shore: and for their intelligence, sound religious principles, thrift, ingenuity, indomitable perseverance and industry, they are honored by all the nations of the earth. Therefore, to write of their political and military prowess, their religious views, their manners and customs, will prove interesting to all who love old Fairfield. This is book one of two of this series and presents the years 1639 through 1700.

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Jazzybee Verlag

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3849661148

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Raban, Rabone, Raybourn, Rayburn, Raburn, Family in America

By: Dorothy Elizabeth Moore Bernay

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Raban, Rabone, Raybourn, Rayburn, Raburn, Family in America

By: Dorothy Elizabeth Moore Bernay

This book traces the Raburn family from John Raban to Audrey Docia Raburn in the states of Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, and Texas. It contains a short biography of each direct Raburn ancestor including maps, Family Group Sheets, Timelines and Notes. The Notes Section contains transcriptions of all found documents and published information with sources.

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Lulu.com

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1329399846

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Criminal Justice in the United States, 1789–1939

By: Elizabeth Dale

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Criminal Justice in the United States, 1789–1939

By: Elizabeth Dale

This book chronicles the development of criminal law in America, from the beginning of the constitutional era (1789) through the rise of the New Deal order (1939). Elizabeth Dale discusses the changes in criminal law during that period, tracing shifts in policing, law, the courts and punishment. She also analyzes the role that popular justice - lynch mobs, vigilance committees, law-and-order societies and community shunning - played in the development of America's criminal justice system. This book explores the relation between changes in America's criminal justice system and its constitutional order.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139503154

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9781139503150

Lawtalk

The Unknown Stories Behind Familiar Legal Expressions

By: James E. Clapp,Elizabeth G. Thornburg,Marc Galanter,Fred R. Shapiro

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Lawtalk

The Unknown Stories Behind Familiar Legal Expressions

By: James E. Clapp,Elizabeth G. Thornburg,Marc Galanter,Fred R. Shapiro

Law-related words and phrases abound in our everyday language, often without our being aware of their origins or their particular legal significance: boilerplate, jailbait, pound of flesh, rainmaker, the third degree. This insightful and entertaining book reveals the unknown stories behind familiar legal expressions that come from sources as diverse as Shakespeare, vaudeville, and Dr. Seuss. Separate entries for each expression follow no prescribed formula but instead focus on the most interesting, enlightening, and surprising aspects of the words and their evolution. Popular myths and misunderstandings are explored and exploded, and the entries are augmented with historical images and humorous sidebars. Lively and unexpected, Lawtalk will draw a diverse array of readers with its abundance of linguistic, legal, historical, and cultural information. Those readers should be forewarned: upon finishing one entry, there is an irresistible temptation to turn to another, and yet another.

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Yale University Press

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030017246X

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9780300172461

Damned Women

Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England

By: Elizabeth Reis

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Damned Women

Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England

By: Elizabeth Reis

In her analysis of the cultural construction of gender in early America, Elizabeth Reis explores the intersection of Puritan theology, Puritan evaluations of womanhood, and the Salem witchcraft episodes. She finds in those intersections the basis for understanding why women were accused of witchcraft more often than men, why they confessed more often, and why they frequently accused other women of being witches. In negotiating their beliefs about the devil's powers, both women and men embedded womanhood in the discourse of depravity.Puritan ministers insisted that women and men were equal in the sight of God, with both sexes equally capable of cleaving to Christ or to the devil. Nevertheless, Reis explains, womanhood and evil were inextricably linked in the minds and hearts of seventeenth-century New England Puritans. Women and men feared hell equally but Puritan culture encouraged women to believe it was their vile natures that would take them there rather than the particular sins they might have committed.Following the Salem witchcraft trials, Reis argues, Puritans' understanding of sin and the devil changed. Ministers and laity conceived of a Satan who tempted sinners and presided physically over hell, rather than one who possessed souls in the living world. Women and men became increasingly confident of their redemption, although women more than men continued to imagine themselves as essentially corrupt, even after the Great Awakening.

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Cornell University Press

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1501713337

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9781501713330

The Life of Thomas Wentworth

Vol. I

By: Elizabeth Cooper

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The Life of Thomas Wentworth

Vol. I

By: Elizabeth Cooper

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3368841394

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The Diary of Elizabeth Drinker

The Life Cycle of an Eighteenth-Century Woman

By: Elizabeth Sandwith Drinker

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The Diary of Elizabeth Drinker

The Life Cycle of an Eighteenth-Century Woman

By: Elizabeth Sandwith Drinker

Focusing on different stages of Drinker's personal development within the domestic context, this abridged edition highlights four critical phases of her life cycle: youth and courtship, wife and mother, middle age in years of crisis, and grandmother and family elder.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812220773

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Wykked Wyves and the Woes of Marriage

Misogamous Literature from Juvenal to Chaucer

By: Katharina M. Wilson,Elizabeth M. Makowski

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Wykked Wyves and the Woes of Marriage

Misogamous Literature from Juvenal to Chaucer

By: Katharina M. Wilson,Elizabeth M. Makowski

The distrust and hatred of matrimony is a recurring theme in Western literature. In this volume, Wilson and Makowski show that in their repeated imagery, continuous themes, and rhetorical devices, misogamous texts closely parallel and reflect economic and demographic shifts, and theological and legal innovation. Analysis of the literature demonstrates a link between the growing secularism and careerism of the late middle ages and the reduction of womens social status and public options.

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SUNY Press

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0791400638

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9780791400630

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The Mobile City of Accra

The Mobile City of Accra

A Women’s History of the Christian Church

A Women’s History of the Christian Church

International Human Resource Management

International Human Resource Management

Alexander Hamilton and the Development of American Law

Alexander Hamilton and the Development of American Law

Uncertain Refuge

Uncertain Refuge

I Believe... Something!

I Believe... Something!

Up Yon Wide and Lonely Glen

Up Yon Wide and Lonely Glen

The History of Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut: From the Settlement of the Town in 1639 to 1818: Volume 1

The History of Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut: From the Settlement of the Town in 1639 to 1818: Volume 1

Raban, Rabone, Raybourn, Rayburn, Raburn, Family in America

Raban, Rabone, Raybourn, Rayburn, Raburn, Family in America

Criminal Justice in the United States, 1789–1939

Criminal Justice in the United States, 1789–1939

Lawtalk

Lawtalk

Damned Women

Damned Women

The Life of Thomas Wentworth

The Life of Thomas Wentworth

The Diary of Elizabeth Drinker

The Diary of Elizabeth Drinker

Wykked Wyves and the Woes of Marriage

Wykked Wyves and the Woes of Marriage

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