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The story of how a painful and traumatic childhood nearly ended in tragedy, the adult years of knowing he was different but unable to articulate the cause, even to himself, that he really was she, trapped inside the body of a man, the final cataclysmic disclosure to himself and then to his closest family, and finally the truly happy ending as he, now she, finds peace, happiness and contentment surrounded by family and friends who held her all through the desperate and traumatic process of transition from him to Her. A true story of enduring love between two people

In Java, Indonesia, only about one-third of land title certificates reflect ownership by women. This lack of registered land ownership can potentially harm women by depriving them of influence within the household and leaving them vulnerable in cases of divorce or a spouse's death. This Article argues that effective land registration mechanisms and legal and social recognition of women's property rights all play a critical role in protecting women's ownership interests. Interviews with landowners and government officials in Java reveal that Indonesia's land registration processes do not effectively advance ownership rights granted under the nation's family law. Despite the government's efforts to educate the public about land registration, few women are aware of the registration procedures. Field studies also indicate that confusion regarding co-ownership rights exists even among government officials. Despite the fact that Indonesia's land registration processes do not reinforce the nation's family law, Indonesian women's property interests are not compromised. First, formal procedures for the transfer of land protect women when land is sold or divided. Second, customary Javanese practices recognize and protect the concept of marital community property. This Article concludes, however, that in other developing countries, incongruence between legal property rights and land registration systems may effectively weaken women's land ownership interests.

Plato's Republic is a document of considerable interest for the student of enculturation processes. From Plato's proposals for educational change and for a new curriculum, and from his reactions against the arts and poetry of traditional Greek culture, we gain perspectives on the nature, strains, and implications of a transition from dominantly oral poetic to literate prose forms of symbolic transmission and education.

This paper suggests that, contrary to a view recently expressed, the usual treatment of windigo psychosis is not nutritional in nature. When ingestion is involved (which is rare), its sequel (vomiting to expell the windigo heart of ice) is given more curative importance, challenging the view that the northern Algonquians somehow "grasped" the idea of a nutritive cure for windigos. Nor is evidence, at this point, clear on nutritional causes of windigo.

The police service in England and Wales is facing major challenges in its financing, political oversight and reorganisation of its structures. Current economic conditions have created a wholly new environment whereby cost saving is permitting hitherto unthinkable changes in the style and means of delivery of policing services. In the context of these proposed changes Lord Stevens, formerly Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service was asked to chair an Independent Commission looking into the future of policing. The Commission has a wide ranging remit and the papers in this book offer