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Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Family autonomy and its limits -- 2 Parents, love and duty -- 3 Dilemmas of care -- 4 Identity, the past and the future -- 5 The meaning of biology -- 6 Adoption, surrogacy and assisted reproduction -- 7 Family history and fertility fraud: A case study -- 8 Marriage and commitment -- 9 Domestic abuse -- Closing remarks -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The Turkish-Kurdish conflict and the PKK -- Existing research on women fighters in general -- Existing research on Kurdish women fighters -- Designing the project behind the book -- Chapter 1: Women's childhood experiences of double otherness -- 1.1. The significance of mother tongue and school life -- 1.2. The becoming of otherness -- 1.3. The effect of the ongoing liberation struggle -- 1.4. Diversity in the relationship with parents: The formation of gender identity -- 1.5. Gender-based upbringing and the importance of honour -- 1.6. The PKK's takeover of the honour discourse -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Detachments and reorientations in a three-generational perspective -- 2.1. The meaning of 'waking up' -- 2.1.1. Admission to university as a springboard to an independent life outside the family -- 2.1.2. University studies as a springboard to the PKK -- 2.1.3. The PKK's struggle as a factor in the awakening -- 2.1.4. The awakening in the diaspora and the creation of belonging in the light of martyrs -- 2.2. Other contributing factors for going to the mountains -- 2.2.1. From the meaningless to the meaningful life -- 2.2.2. From 'the lowlands' to the mountains -- 2.2.3. Role models inspire a move to the mountains -- 2.3. The importance of gender for participation in the movement across generations -- 2.3.1. The three generations -- 2.3.2. The first generation: Women in the PKK -- 2.3.3. The second generation: From being ordinary members to becoming women fighters -- 2.3.4. The third generation: From women fighters to women cadres implementing new ideals -- 2.3.5. The generational conflict and differences between women fighters -- Summary.

Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Global Entanglements of Language and Social Justice -- Part I: Challenging Linguistic Ideologies and Exclusions -- Chapter 1: A Language Socialization Approach to Humanizing Ethnographic Methods in Latinx Families' Homes -- Chapter 2: Language Access and Deaf Activism in Mexico and Nepal -- Chapter 3: Multilingual Activism as Acts of Linguistic Citizenship in South Africa -- Chapter 4: Colonialism and Language Politics in Puerto Rico -- Chapter 5: Labels, Codes, and Language Sovereignty in the Pacific -- Commentary to Part I -- Part II: Confronting Hate and Violence -- Chapter 6: The Humpty Dumpty Mistranslation and Misrepresentation Deployed in the British Colonization of Aotearoa/New Zealand -- Chapter 7: The Linguistic Defense of White Comfort in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil -- Chapter 8: (Con)sensual Sexual and Reproductive Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls through Beadwork and Burlesque -- Chapter 9: Telling Truths, Keeping Silence in the Aftermath of War in Sarajevo -- Chapter 10: Arabic and the Discursive Contours of Islamo-Linguistic-Phobia in Spain and France -- Commentary to Part II -- Part III: Decoding Globalized Interactions -- Chapter 11: Seafarers' Talk about the "Good Ship" -- Chapter 12: Barcelona Street Vendors' Voice and the Crossing of Narrative (B)Orders -- Chapter 13: Interdiscursive Dimensions of Mobility and Precarity for Guatemalan Indigenous Youth -- Chapter 14: Regimes of Organization in Danish Legal Interpreting -- Chapter 15: Keywords Decolonized? The Social Lives of Wenhua/Culture and the Specter of Symbolic Violence in Chinese-English Dialogues -- Commentary to Part III -- Part IV: Negotiating Resources in the Anthropocene.

This volume is a collection of essays on the role of religion in American politics (both domestic and international). It presents an international and interdisciplinary perspective, introducing also a theoretical debate concerning the conceptualization of political science of religion.

Love and the Working Class is a unique look at the emotions of hard-living, racially diverse nineteenth-century Americans who were often on the cusp of literacy. Wrongly assumed to be inarticulate on paper, these laboring folk highly valued letters and, however difficult it was, wrote to stay connected to those they loved.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Notes to the Reader -- Introduction -- 1 A Single Sail -- 2 The Palace of Minos -- 3 The Amber Routes -- 4 The Erupting Sea -- 5 Band of Brothers -- 6 Alphabet City -- 7 Regime Change -- 8 I Am Not Your Servant -- 9 Through the Pillars -- 10 The Invention of Greece -- 11 The Assyrian Mediterranean -- 12 He Who Saw the Deep -- 13 The Bitter River -- 14 The King of Kings -- 15 The Persian Version -- 16 Continental Thinking -- 17 Of Elephants and Kings -- 18 Clouds in the West -- 19 Fighting for Freedom -- 20 Rome, Open City -- 21 Trade Winds -- 22 Salt Roads -- 23 The Rise of the Barbarians -- 24 Kings of the World -- 25 The Father of Europe -- 26 The Translation Movement -- 27 The Sign of the Cross -- 28 Kalila wa-Dimna -- 29 The Land of Darkness -- 30 A New World -- Notes -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 A Single Sail -- 2 The Palace of Minos -- 3 The Amber Routes -- 4 The Erupting Sea -- 5 Band of Brothers -- 6 Alphabet City -- 7 Regime Change -- 8 I Am Not Your Servant -- 9 Through the Pillars -- 10 The Invention of Greece -- 11 The Assyrian Mediterranean -- 12 He Who Saw the Deep -- 13 The Bitter River -- 14 The King of Kings -- 15 The Persian Version -- 16 Continental Thinking -- 17 Of Elephants and Kings -- 18 Clouds in the West -- 19 Fighting for Freedom -- 20 Rome, Open City -- 21 Trade Winds -- 22 Salt Roads -- 23 The Rise of the Barbarians -- 24 Kings of the World -- 25 The Father of Europe -- 26 The Translation Movement -- 27 The Sign of the Cross -- 28 Kalila wa-Dimna -- 29 The Land of Darkness -- 30 A New World -- Picture Credits -- Index -- Acknowledgements.

Front Cover -- Sustainable Agricultural Practices -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of contributors -- 1 Multifactorial stress combination, plant microbiome recruitment, and reactive oxygen species/antioxidant feedbacks for pl... -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Plant responses to multifactorial stress combination -- 1.3 Plant stress and abscisic acid crosstalk -- 1.4 Abscisic acid signaling and reactive oxygen species connection to cope with plant stress -- 1.5 Plant microbiome: the invisible life that helps plants against stress -- 1.6 Endophyte recruitment (cry for help strategy) under stress: from transitory altered state to plant resilience -- 1.7 Reactive oxygen species/antioxidants feedback for microbiome modulation, symbiosis, plant stress mitigation, and more: ... -- 1.8 Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 2 Impact of COVID-19 on global agriculture and food sector -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Background -- 2.3 Control measures -- 2.3.1 Travel restriction -- 2.3.2 Border closure -- 2.3.3 Social distancing -- 2.4 Immediate impacts -- 2.4.1 Food production -- 2.4.2 Food processing -- 2.4.3 Connectivity: transport and distribution -- 2.4.4 Labor availability -- 2.4.5 Impairment of farm systems -- 2.4.6 Market and retailer -- 2.4.7 Consumer -- 2.5 Conclusions and future perspectives -- Acknowledgment -- References -- 3 State of the soil health before maize intercropped with Eucalyptus grandis under agroforestry environment in Limpopo Prov... -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Materials and methods -- 3.2.1 Nitrogen determination -- 3.2.2 Determination of functional diversity -- 3.2.3 Determination of soil microbial enzymatic activity -- 3.2.4 Statistical analyses -- 3.3 Results and discussion -- 3.3.1 Carbon source utilization profiles -- 3.3.2 Soil microbial enzymatic activity, viz. microbial activity -- 3.4 Conclusions -- References.

Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Understanding Where We Are Now -- Chapter 1: Setting the Scene: Stories That Have Formed Us Culturally and Personally -- Chapter 2: Our Connection with the Earth and Love for Nonhumans -- Chapter 3: The Western Cultural Imaginary: Stories That Taught Us to Value the Mind Over the Body -- Part II: Envisioning and Preparing for the Journey Ahead -- Chapter 4: Inspiration: Stories of Vision and Change -- Chapter 5: Preparation: Tools for Accessing Inner Wisdom and Love -- Interlude: Two Stories -- Part III: From Root to Branch: Consider the Myriad Ways We Learn to Be -- Chapter 6: Three Influences on Children Today: Family, Environment, and Screens -- Chapter 7: Stories from Traditional Education -- Chapter 8: Education as a Playground for Change: Three Inspirational Stories -- Part IV: "Restorying" for Change: What Does It Mean and How Does It Work? (A BEGINNER'S GUIDE) -- Chapter 9: The Power of Story: Toward an Understanding of Its Role in Our Lives -- Chapter 10: A New Narrative Beginning: Storying Yourself into a Courageous Force for Change -- Notes -- Index.