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Cottons and Casuals: The Gendered Organisation of Labour in Time and Space

By: Miriam Glucksmann

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Cottons and Casuals: The Gendered Organisation of Labour in Time and Space

By: Miriam Glucksmann

Cottons and Casuals explores the connections between women's work in different spheres since the 1930s: paid employment, at home, and in the community. Women's own testimony and an array of other source materials are used to develop new ways of looking at their changing patterns of living and working. The book examines changes in the organisation and commodification of domestic production and consumption, the use of technology, housing, family structures, gender relations and inter-generational mother-daughter relations. Differing temporalities of work are highlighted, as are their far-reaching effects for the organisation of peoples' lives and life courses. The significance of varying locations and spatial organisations of work for communities, streets, families and gender relations provides another important focus. In the process, Glucksmann addresses the nature of the research process, reflecting on her sources and her own work in the production of knowledge

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1134280939

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9781134280933

Polygamy

A Cross-Cultural Analysis

By: Miriam Koktvedgaard Zeitzen

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Polygamy

A Cross-Cultural Analysis

By: Miriam Koktvedgaard Zeitzen

Forms of plural marriage, or polygamy, are practiced within most of the world's cultures and religions. The amazing variation, versatility and adaptability of polygamy underscore that it is not just an exotic non-Western practice, but also exists in modern Western societies. Polygamy: A Cross-cultural Analysis provides an examination and analysis of historical and contemporary polygamy. It outlines polygamy's place in anthropological theory and its rich sociocultural diversity in countries ranging from the USA and UK to Malaysia, India, regions of Africa and Tibet. Polygamy also addresses often difficult and controversial issues facing modern polygamists, such as prejudice, HIV/AIDS and women's emancipation. Polygamy: A Cross-cultural Analysis offers an anthropological overview of the fascinating yet often misunderstood institution of polygamy.

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Routledge

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1000183343

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9781000183344

Effects of the Subprime Crisis on the U.S. American Financial Reporting System

Focussed on Derecognition of Financial Assets, Special Purpose Entities, and Fair Value Accounting

By: Miriam Janzen

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Effects of the Subprime Crisis on the U.S. American Financial Reporting System

Focussed on Derecognition of Financial Assets, Special Purpose Entities, and Fair Value Accounting

By: Miriam Janzen

Inhaltsangabe:Introduction: The Subprime Crisis became noticeable first in the second half of 2006, when many subprime mortgage borrowers in the United States of America (U.S.) were no longer able to make their loan payments, and securities linked to those mortgages, that had been sold all over the world, turned out to be often worth quite less and in general substantially more risky than market participants had expected. The crisis caused several major financial institutions and mortgage lenders to face substantial liquidity problems or even to file for bankruptcy, and Governments to provide funding in order to limit further damage to the economy. As the market tried to figure out the problems underlying the crisis, financial reporting, especially regarding derecognition of financial assets, special purpose entities and fair value measurement, became a matter of public concern. Consequently, the purpose of this work is to discuss these concerns in order to estimate whether and to what extend financial reporting might have contributed to the crisis and to present and assess the usefulness of actions taken by the U.S. Financial Reporting System in response to the crisis. In order to meet this objective, the second main chapter provides a brief description of how the housing boom and the subsequent crisis evolved. The information provided therein shall contribute to the reader s understanding with respect to the following passages and especially judgements made by the author regarding the role of financial reporting in the crisis. The third main chapter will describe the U.S. Financial Reporting System, by providing basic information about U.S. institutions that authoritatively deal with the elements of the system, including their aims, basics about their work and how they interact. The fourth main section of the paper will examine the relevant reporting concepts and disclosure requirements, provide suggestions for improvements, and assess concerns voiced by market participants with respect to financial reporting. Subsequently, the thesis will analyze and judge actions taken by authoritative institutions of the U.S. Financial Reporting Sytems in response to the crisis. This thesis considered publications issued until December 10, 2008. Inhaltsverzeichnis:Table of Contents: Table of ContentsI List of Abbreviations.III List of SymbolsV 1.Introduction1 2.History of the Subprime Crisis2 2.1The Term Subprime in Context of the Crisis2 2.2Key Causes [...]

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diplom.de

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3836632012

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The Encyclopedia of Heaven

By: Miriam Van Scott

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The Encyclopedia of Heaven

By: Miriam Van Scott

The Encyclopedia of Heaven is an extensive study of paradise, gathering diverse interpretations of the glorious afterlife from around the world and across the ages. Covering everything from ancient mythic images of splendid ethereal kingdoms to modern "near death experience" apparitions of luminous tunnels, this volume offers hundreds of fascinating depictions of the great beyond. Sources include religious texts, works of art and literature, television and film productions, epic poems, opera and stage plays, reincarnation concepts, African legends, and Native American beliefs. The Encyclopedia of Heaven also looks at how the glories of paradise have been incorporated into contemporary pop culture, figuring into Rap music, merchandising fads, comic books, and more. From the Elysian Fields to Avalon; Dante's Paradiso to the African paradise Asamando, take a look at the thrilling, compelling, sometimes startling depictions of the sweet hereafter that have emerged over the ages. The perfect companion guide to Encyclopedia of Hell, the Encyclopedia of Heaven invites you to join the legions of souls who have pondered over the millennia what ultimate reward awaits the chosen in some unseen great beyond.

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Macmillan

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1466891181

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9781466891180

Hurt

Chronicles of the Drug War Generation

By: Miriam Boeri

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Chronicles of the Drug War Generation

By: Miriam Boeri

The historical and social context -- The life course of baby boomers -- Relationships -- The war on drugs and mass incarceration -- The racial landscape of the drug war -- Women doing drugs -- Aging in drug use -- The culture of control expands -- Social reconstruction and social recovery -- Appendix : the older drug user study methodology

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Univ of California Press

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0520293479

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9780520293472

Mary Wollstonecraft

Mother of Women's Rights

By: Miriam Brody

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Mary Wollstonecraft

Mother of Women's Rights

By: Miriam Brody

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was the first champion of women's rights in the modern Western world. Wollstonecraft's experience teaching young women in London led her to write her first book, in which she argued for equal education for girls and boys. The moderate success of her autobiographical novel Mary, A Fiction convinced her to start writing full-time. Under the tutelage of her publisher and mentor Joseph Johnson, she joined a circle of liberal intellectuals which included poet and artist William Blake, chemist Joseph Priestley, and political thinker William Godwin.In 1790 Wollstonecraft penned A Vindication of the Rights of Men, an impassioned reply to conservative criticism of the French Revolution and a call for social equality. She developed her ideas further in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, which extended the notion of natural rights to include women's rights as well. Going so far as to suggest that women should be allowed to vote, Wollstonecraft's revolutionary ideas garnered her overnight fame--and notoriety. She traveled to Paris, lived through the Reign of Terror, fell in love with an American, and gave birth to her first daughter. Though the love affair ended tragically, resulting in her thwarted suicide attempt, she happily wed William Godwin in 1797. That year she gave birth to her second child (the future author of Frankenstein Mary Shelley). She died a few days later from complications of childbirth.Wollstonecraft's writing inspired leaders of the American woman suffrage movement, such as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and moved one admirer to call her a "pioneer of modern womanhood.

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Oxford University Press

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0195119681

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9780195119688

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Daughter of the Town

By: Miriam C. Crouch

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Daughter of the Town

By: Miriam C. Crouch

Claire Chastain reflects on her life from childhood as the adopted daughter of the towns leading citizen, a hard-working country lawyer and his wife. She shares the joys and challenges of growing up with her lifetime best friend Libby Callaghan. Libby comes to town as a ragged, poverty-stricken ten-year-old whose tough outer shell disguises her broken spirit and emotionally-scarred core. After Libby is adopted by a local rancher, the girls share the adventure of living on a ranch the size of a small state in a heart-warming story of overcoming bitter family loss. The girls struggle to find their place in the world as they confront shattered dreams and fallen heroes and make forever decisions. Claire copes with devastating family illness and is forced to face her demons when she is blindsided by loss and betrayal by the one person she idolizes. With her traditional values destroyed and her world in shambles, she searches her soul for redemption. The ultimate power of love and forgiveness triumphs in Claires reflections of coming of age.

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Balboa Press

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1504368177

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9781504368179

Crime, Bodies and Space

Towards an Ethical Approach to Urban Policies in the Information Age

By: Miriam Tedeschi

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Crime, Bodies and Space

Towards an Ethical Approach to Urban Policies in the Information Age

By: Miriam Tedeschi

With cities increasingly following rigid rules for designing out crime and producing spaces under surveillance, this book asks how information shapes bodies, space, and, ultimately, policymaking. In recent years, public spaces have changed in Western countries, with the urban realm becoming an ever-more monitored, privatised, homogeneous, and aseptic space that has lost its character, uniqueness, and diversity in the name of ‘security’. This underpins precise moral and political choices in terms of what a space should be, how it can be used, and by whom. These choices generate material consequences concerning urban inequality and freedom, or otherwise, of movement. Based on ethnographic and autoethnographic explorations in London’s ‘criminal’ spaces, this book illustrates how rules, policies, and moral values, far from being abstract concepts, are in fact material. Outlining the basis of a new urban information ethics, the book both exposes and challenges how moral values and predefined categories are applied to, and materially shape, the movement of bodies in urban space with regard to crime and security policies. Drawing on Gilbert Simondon’s information theory and a wide range of work in urban studies, geography, and planning, as well as in surveillance studies, object-oriented ontology, and contemporary theoretical work on both materiality and affect, the book provides a radically new perspective on urban space in general, and crime and security in particular. This book uses a balanced mix of theoretical concepts and empirical study to bring theory and practice together in an intertwining of ethnography and autoethnography. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in the fields of urban studies, urban geography, sociology, surveillance studies, legal theory, socio-legal studies, planning law, environmental law, and land law.

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0429664532

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9780429664533

Contemporary Rewritings of Liminal Women

Echoes of the Past

By: Miriam Borham-Puyal

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Contemporary Rewritings of Liminal Women

Echoes of the Past

By: Miriam Borham-Puyal

This book explores the concept of liminality in the representation of women in eighteenth and nineteenth century literature, as well as in contemporary rewritings, such as novels, films, television shows, videogames, and graphic novels. In particular, the volume focuses on vampires, prostitutes, quixotes, and detectives as examples of new women who inhabit the margins of society and populate its narratives. Therefore, it places together for the first time four important liminal identities, while it explores a relevant corpus that comprises four centuries and several countries. Its diachronic, transnational, and comparative approach emphasizes the representation across time and space of female sexuality, gender violence, and women’s rights, also employing a liminal stance in its literary analysis: facing the past in order to understand the present. By underlining the dialogue between past and present this monograph contributes to contemporary debates on the representation of women and the construction of femininity as opposed to hegemonic masculinity, for it exposes the line of thought that has brought us to the present moment, hence, challenging assumed stereotypes and narratives. In addition, by using popular narratives and media, the present work highlights the value of literature, films, or alternative forms of storytelling to understand how women’s place in society, their voice, and their presence have been and are still negotiated in spaces of visibility, agency, and power.

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1000029638

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9781000029635

An Impossible Distance to Fall

By: Miriam McNamara

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An Impossible Distance to Fall

By: Miriam McNamara

I imagine wing-walking and reading An Impossible Distance to Fall feel a great deal the same: heart-stopping, thrill-seeking and addictive. A book to be re-read over, and over, and over again." —Katherine Locke, award-winning author of The Girl with the Red Balloon Here is a story about falling—falling from grace, falling in love—as well as soaring to heights you wouldn’t know were possible if you never stepped out into thin air. It’s 1930, and Birdie William’s life has crashed along with the stock market. Her father’s bank has failed, and worse, he’s disappeared along with his Jenny biplane. When Birdie sees a leaflet for a barnstorming circus with a picture of Dad’s plane on it, she goes to Coney Island in search of answers. The barnstorming circus has lady pilots, daredevil stuntmen, fire-spinners, and wing walkers, and Birdie is instantly enchanted—especially with a girl pilot named June. Birdie doesn’t find her father, but after stumbling across clues that suggest he’s gone to Chicago, she figures she’ll hitch a ride with the traveling circus doing what she does best: putting on a convincing act and insisting on being star of the show. But the overconfidence that made her belle of the ball during her enchanted youth turns out to be far too reckless without the safety net of her charmed childhood, and a couple of impulsive missteps sends her and her newfound community spinning into freefall.

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Simon and Schuster

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1510735461

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9781510735460

Light and Dark: Poems and Stories

By: Miriam Brown

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Light and Dark: Poems and Stories

By: Miriam Brown

Indulge in a captivating journey of poetry and short stories that will evoke a range of emotions from charm and sadness to shock and horror. This collection promises to keep you engaged, page after page. But it’s not just about the serious stuff; there are plenty of witty moments that will make you chuckle and have you reaching to share with friends. Do you crave a spine-tingling ghost story? Look no further. Or perhaps you’re in the mood for some romance or political satire? This book has got you covered. The beauty of nature is also celebrated within these pages, providing a welcome respite from the chaos of everyday life. Whether you’re seeking thrills or just a moment of tranquility, this book offers a little bit of everything. So settle in and get ready to be transported to new worlds of wonder and intrigue.

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Austin Macauley Publishers

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1035811634

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9781035811632

The Encyclopedia of Hell

By: Miriam Van Scott

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The Encyclopedia of Hell

By: Miriam Van Scott

The Encyclopedia of Hell is a comprehensive survey of the underworld, drawing information from cultures around the globe and eras throughout history. Organized in a simple-to-use alphabetic format, entries cover representations of the dark realm of the dead in mythology, religion, works of art, opera, literature, theater, music, film, and television. Sources include African legends, Native American stories, Asian folktales, and other more obscure references, in addition to familiar infernal chronicles from Western lore. The result is a catalog of underworld data, with entries running the gamut from descriptions of grisly pits of torture to humorous cartoons lampooning the everlasting abyss. Its extensive cross-referencing also supplies links between various concepts and characters from the netherworld and provides further information on particular theories. Peruse these pages and find out for yourself what history's greatest imaginations have envisioned awaiting the wicked on the other side of the grave.

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Macmillan

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146689119X

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9781466891197

Studio Craft & Technique for Architects Second Edition

By: Anne Gorman,Miriam Delaney

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Studio Craft & Technique for Architects Second Edition

By: Anne Gorman,Miriam Delaney

This is an excellent, clear and comprehensive book for Year 1 architecture students, which will continue to be useful throughout their course and into practice. - Laura Evans, Kingston University, UK This one-stop handbook for architecture students provides step-by-step techniques for perfecting the vital skills of drawing, model making and surveying. It is a primer on the conventions of architectural representation and the use of materials. It also explains the primary elements of construction and structure from first principles, using clear diagrams and drawings. Recommended in the first year at numerous architecture schools, this second edition has been updated to include a new section on sustainability, more on types of drawing and when to use them, and more on structural principles and materials.

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Laurence King Publishing

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1529421047

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9781529421040

Books and Social Media

How the Digital Age is Shaping the Printed Word

By: Miriam J. Johnson

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Books and Social Media

How the Digital Age is Shaping the Printed Word

By: Miriam J. Johnson

Social media and digital technologies are transforming what and how we read. Books and Social Media considers the way in which readers and writers come together in digital communities to discover and create new works of fiction. This new way of engaging with fiction stretches the boundaries of what has been considered a book in the past by moving beyond the physical or even digitally bound object to the consideration of content, containers, and the ability to share. Using empirical data and up-to-date research methods, Miriam Johnson introduces the ways in which digitally social platforms give rise to a new type of citizen author who chooses to sidestep the industry’s gatekeepers and share their works directly with interested readers on social platforms. Gender and genre, especially, play a key role in developing the communities in which these authors write. The use of surveys, interviews, and data mining brings to the fore issues of gender, genre, community, and power, which highlight the push and pull between these writers and the industry. Questioning what we always thought we knew about what makes a book and traditional publishing channels, this book will be of interest to anyone studying or researching publishing, book history, print cultures, and digital and contemporary literatures.

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Routledge

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1000415562

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9781000415568

Studio Craft & Technique for Architects Second Edition

By: Anne Gorman,Miriam Delaney

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Studio Craft & Technique for Architects Second Edition

By: Anne Gorman,Miriam Delaney

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Cottons and Casuals: The Gendered Organisation of Labour in Time and Space

Cottons and Casuals: The Gendered Organisation of Labour in Time and Space

Polygamy

Polygamy

Effects of the Subprime Crisis on the U.S. American Financial Reporting System

Effects of the Subprime Crisis on the U.S. American Financial Reporting System

The Encyclopedia of Heaven

The Encyclopedia of Heaven

Hurt

Hurt

Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft

Pop. 1274

Pop. 1274

Crime, Bodies and Space

Crime, Bodies and Space

Contemporary Rewritings of Liminal Women

Contemporary Rewritings of Liminal Women

An Impossible Distance to Fall

An Impossible Distance to Fall

Light and Dark: Poems and Stories

Light and Dark: Poems and Stories

The Encyclopedia of Hell

The Encyclopedia of Hell

Studio Craft & Technique for Architects Second Edition

Studio Craft & Technique for Architects Second Edition

Books and Social Media

Books and Social Media

Studio Craft & Technique for Architects Second Edition

Studio Craft & Technique for Architects Second Edition

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