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For centuries, India has been known for its politico-religious structures, which have developed casteism and discrimination. Gender-based oppressions have been prominent features of the patriarchal culture in India - both obvious and subtle forms of gender inequity. Multiple rites, customs, traditions and protocols reflect gender discrimination, and in most cases show gender oppression. The subordination of women visible in Indian context can be referred in historic shift from matrilineal str

The juxtaposition of biopolitical critique and animal studiestwo subjects seldom theorized togethersignals the double-edged intervention of Animal Capital. Nicole Shukin pursues a resolutely materialist engagement with the "question of the animal," challenging the philosophical idealism that has dogged the question by tracing how the politics of capital and of animal life impinge on one another in market cultures of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries

The ambivalence of Americans abroad -- The rise and fall of the 1848 revolutions in American public culture -- The presidential campaign of 1848 : competing rhetorics of revolution -- American reform : transatlantic inspiration -- The conservative Christian alliance -- Secession or revolution? : the south and the crisis of 1850 -- Louis Kossuth and the campaign of 1852 -- The antislavery movement as a crisis of American exceptionalism -- Epilogue : from 1848 to 1863

This book describes the personal and spiritual benefits of living life in a way that matters, with an awareness that one&srquo;s life can reflect a sense of higher purpose no matter what the circumstances. The book draws upon religious, philosophical, and literary writings to show how humans in many cultures and historical epochs have pursued noble purposes by answering God's call as each hears it

This thought-provoking volume seeks to answer some of the ultimate economic questions in terms of a theory that emerged with Adam Smith and is now come to full fruition; the principle of circular and cumulative causation (CCC) This full-fledged theoretical framework explains the whole interplay of technology, firms, resources, culture, institutions and economic policy to understand the basic drives behind modern day economic dynamics

The political functions of knowledge -- The puzzle : explaning the uses of knowledge -- Instrumental knowledge and organizational legitimacy -- The symbolic functions of knowledge -- The use of knowledge in public policy debates -- The case of immigration policy -- The politics of immigration in germany and the uk -- The British Home Office -- The German Federal Office for Migration -- The European Commission -- organizations and cultures of expertise -- Extending the theory -- Knowledge and policy

Darwin goes to the mall -- The genius of marketing -- Why marketing is central to culture -- This is your brain on money -- The fundamental consumerist delusion -- Flaunting fitness -- Conspicuous waste, precision, and reputation -- Self-branding bodies, self-marketing minds -- The central six -- Traits that consumers flaunt and marketers ignore -- General intelligence -- Openness -- Conscientiousness -- Agreeableness -- The centrifugal soul -- The will to display -- Legalizing freedom -- Exercises for the reader

Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction ""Multiculturalism"": An Identity for Europe? -- The Question of Multiculturalism -- The European Political Project -- A European Public Space -- Toward a European ""Multiculturalism""? -- Part 1 Cultural Production of European Multiculturalism -- One: The Practitioners of Europe -- A Homogeneous Culture? -- The Plurality of Languages -- Harmony and Differences -- Anthropological Perspectives -- Two: Communication and Europe: From Multiculturalism to Cultural Cohabitation -- Europe and Communication at the Confluence of Three Different Problems

What does the World Bank do and how does it do it? -- The emerging critique -- Fifty years of bank reforms -- The 1990s--reengineering the organization -- Changing culture and changing people -- Reforming the bank's assistance product -- Changing the quality of development assistance -- Financing the reorganization -- Why did the reforms fail -- The governors and the directors -- The leadership -- Looking back and looking forward : what is to be done?

Globalization -- National differences in political economy -- Differences in culture -- Ethics in international business -- Cross-border trade and investment -- International trade theory -- The political economy of international trade -- Foreign director investment -- Regional economic integration -- Global money system -- The foreign exchange market -- The international monetary system -- The strategy of international business -- Entering foreign markets -- Exporting, importing, and countertrade -- Global production, outsourcing, and logistics -- Global marketing and R&D -- Global human resource management

The expressions of American hostility toward France after 9/11 are not new - Franco-American relations in the early twentieth century were also difficult, characterized by the same antagonistic depictions of the other's culture. Ambassador Jules Jusserand's years in Washington (1903-24) were defined by efforts to correct such misconceptions, whether they came from the venomous pens of French extremists or from members of William Randolph Hearst's press empire.

Cross-country comparisons are critical to a nuanced understanding of society and are central to the social sciences. For 25 years the International Social Survey Programme has profoundly influenced the development of mass comparative surveys. Now, original analyses of the findings by 35 leading academics illuminate similarities and contrasts between the attributes, attitudes and values of people living within markedly different cultures and political systems.

"A great deal of enterprise, and a great deal of dirt" : the rise of a southern industrial town -- "All of one family, like brethren" : the Petersburg Benevolent Mechanic Association -- Artisans caught in the middle : White workers in Petersburg -- The paradox of freedom : Black artisans in Petersburg -- Tobacco and iron : the foundations of industrial slavery -- Between class and caste : the culture of southern antebellum artisans -- Epilogue : and then the war came

Single moms are not just a product of our modern culture. There have been single mothers throughout history, women who have raised not only their children but also nations with a higher vision for life. Holding Her Head Highrecounts stories of twelve such women from the third to the twenty-first centuries, women who found ways to twist their fates to represent God's destiny for their lives.

Permissive Residents -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary -- A note on transcription and terms -- Prologue -- Speaking historically about West Papua -- Culture as the conscious object of performance -- A flight path -- Sensing displacement -- Refugee settlements as social spaces -- Inscribing the empty rainforest with our history -- Unsated sago appetites -- Becoming translokal -- Permissive residents -- Relocation to connected places -- Being 'indigenous' in the Indonesian province of Papua -- Coda