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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. The Emerging Nonstate Sector and Its Importance -- 2. Self-Employed Workers -- 3. Usufruct Farmers -- 4. Members of Nonagricultural and Service Cooperatives -- 5. Buying and Selling Dwellings -- 6. Comparisons, Conclusions, and Suggestions -- Notes -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- About the Authors -- Index

Intro -- Dedication -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1: Life Without Satellites -- Introduction -- A Fictional Timeline of Satellite Disruption -- Noon: Any Day in the Future -- 4:00 pm -- GPS and Time Signals -- 8:00 pm -- 10:00 pm -- Midnight -- Space Warfare: Timing Is Everything -- Global Networks -- How GPS Could Be Disrupted -- Reflections -- 2: Space as the Next Theater of War -- Introduction -- Outer Space as a Possible Theater of War -- China -- Russia -- The United States -- Reflections -- 3: The Environment of Space as a Theater of War -- Introduction -- The Outer Space Environment -- The Costs and Challenges of Accessing Outer Space -- The Effects of the Outer Space Environment on Spacecraft -- Near-Vacuum Effects -- Atomic Oxygen Erosion -- Radiation -- Plasma -- Temperature Extremes -- Reflections -- 4: Space Debris as a Weapon -- Introduction -- The Dynamics of Orbital Debris Collisions -- Enter the CubeSats and Small Sats -- Constellations of Satellites -- Space Bounty -- Reflections -- 5: A Summary of the US Space Program and Its Relationship to the Military -- Introduction -- The Space Race: The Early History of Military Use of Space -- Post-Apollo Space Efforts -- Space Stations -- The US Air Force vs. NASA -- Skylab -- The Space Shuttle -- The Spacelab Module -- The Military Influence on Space Shuttle Operations -- The International Space Station -- Reflections -- 6: Who Controls Space and How -- Introduction -- The History of Space Law -- Commercial Human Spaceflight -- Space Debris -- Mining Rights -- Reflections -- 7: The Cold War and Missile Defense -- Introduction -- The Concept of Anti-Missile Defense -- Cold War and DSP Missile Defense Technology -- The Strategic Defense Initiative -- SDI Scientific Concepts -- A Timeline of Missile Defense Through SDI -- 1957 -- 1961 -- 1972 -- 1983 -- 1986 -- 1989 -- 1991.

Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgement; Preface; Chapter 1 -- Historical Backdrop; Assessing the Colonial Relationship Between Africa and Europe; Assessing the Claim that Africa Cannot Govern Itself; The Paradox of Poverty in Wealth; Sharing the Blame; Chapter 2 -- Understanding Africa from a Comparative Perspective; The Serendipitous Discovery of Africa and the Americas; Shared Colonial Experiences -- Africa and the United States; The Task of Nation Building; Legitimacy and the Task of Nation Building in Africa; Africa's Long Walk with Globalization

This book is the first systematic exposition of advances in Kaiyu studies carried out by the author and his colleagues in Japan and other parts of Asia. Consumer shop-around behavior is referred to as Kaiyu in Japanese, a term widely used in several fields such as city planning, marketing, real estate, tourism, and regional policy. The book demonstrates how Kaiyu research has evolved from the original idea to the present state and envisages prospective Kaiyu studies in the age of big data and the Internet of Things (IoT). The distinguishing feature of their research is that Kaiyu is regarded as consumers' simultaneous decisions sequentially made while undertaking their shop-arounds as to which shops they visit, for what purpose, and how much they spend there. This is a sharp contrast to much research on trip chains, which only deal with spatial movements. As a result, their studies first succeeded in empirically exploring the relationships between consumer shop-around movements and money flows among shopping sites within a city center retail environment. As a result, the author and his coworkers uncovered the roles of many urban policies and facilities inexplicit so far by revealing how they contribute to the turnover of the whole town through stimulating Kaiyu. This gives a universal means of evaluation for urban development policy. Thus they have refreshed the scope of consumer shop-around studies from shop-around movements in the context of city planning, shopping marketing, and evaluation of urban revitalization policy, to town equity researches. This book presents step by step these conceptual developments by showing concrete research examples from their vast Kaiyu studies based on numerous empirical interview surveys at real retail environments

Foreword /Jeannine Carriere --From the editors /Dorothy Badry, H. Monty Montgomery, Daniel Kikulwe, Marlyn Bennett, and Don Fuchs --Acknowledgements /Dorothy Badry --Introduction /Don Fuchs --Exploring human rights approaches to kinship care provision in the Prairie provinces: implications for social work practice /Daniel Kikulwe and Julie Mann-Johnson --Working with First Nations child welfare to build professionalism /Shelley Thomas Prokop, Laura Hicks, and Rachel Melymick --Exploring decolonization through kinship care home assessments /Julie Mann-Johnson and Daniel Kikulwe --Aging out of care: the rural experience /Anne Marie McLaughlin, Richard Enns, and Deena Seaward --Inappropriate application of parenting capacity assessments in the child protection system /Peter Choate and Gabrielle Lindstrom --Listening in a settler state: (birth) mothers as paraprofessionals in response to FASD /Michelle Stewart, Lisa Lawley, Rachel Tambour, and Alexandra Johnson --A summary: on the edge between two worlds: community narratives on the vulnerability of marginalized Indigenous girls /Marlyn Bennett and Ainsley Krone --Factors associated with the child welfare placement decision in Alberta /Bruce MacLaurin, Hee-Jeong Yoo, and Morgan DeMone --A strained relationship: Southern Sudanese communities and child welfare systems in two urban centres in Western Candada /David Este and Christa Sato --The linkage between FASD and homelessness for individuals with a history of child welfare care /Dorothy Badry, Christine Walsh, Meaghan Bell, and Kaylee Ramage --The development of a training video: demonstrating essential skills for child welfare practice /Cathy Rocke and Judy Hughes --Transforming the classroom: supporting critical change in social work education in the spirit of reconciliation for child welfare /Jennifer Hedges --Epilogue /H. Monty Montgomery.

Nadia Jamal takes us inside the lives of ordinary Muslim women from around Australia, showing how they find ways to stay true to their faith, and to themselves as well. These candid and moving stories reveal a side to Australian life that is little known and often misunderstood

CHAPTER 18: To War with the ArmyCHAPTER 19: High Wycombe; CHAPTER 20: Gulf War I; CHAPTER 21: On the Move; CHAPTER 22: Strike Command; CHAPTER 23: Allied Forces North-West Europe; CHAPTER 24: Recollections and Reflections; CHAPTER 25: Attitudes and Prejudices; CHAPTER 26: Chief of the Air Staff; CHAPTER 27: Operations; CHAPTER 28: RAF Strategic Plan; CHAPTER 29: Flying Visits; CHAPTER 30: Departure; EPILOGUE; APPENDIX 1: Eyeballing Ratko; ABBREVIATIONS; INDEX

"In The Cold War at Home and Abroad, editors Andrew L. Johns and Mitchell B. Lerner bring together eleven essays that reflect the growing methodological diversity that has transformed the field over the past twenty years. The contributors examine a spectrum of diverse domestic factors and their influence on the history of US foreign relations since 1945, ranging from elections and Congress's influence on policy to the role of religion and regionalism"...

Marriage at twenty to an older man takes Amy Redmore from the cool green fields of Somerset to Japan, where Reggie is to take up the post of Secretary for the Yokohama United Club. Already she has learned some disturbing things about her new husband. He has a mistress by the name of Annie Luke, and a child from that liaison. Secondly he is an arsenic addict and habitually takes massive doses - more than enough to kill a normal man. But the real trouble begins with their new life on the Bluff, where the British all live in segregated splendour. Reggie is out all day with his work at the Club and at night he is lost to Yokohama's social whirl and the temptations of the town's notorious pleasure quarter. Amy, with her freshly awakened sense of independence finds new friends, and, more significantly, enemies - people who when the time comes will brand her publicly as an adulteress and a murderess