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Confronting Religious Violence begins with the premise that violence committed in God's name is always an act of desecration. A range of contributors come together to consider how a re-reading of the hallowed texts of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam might mitigate the militancy whereby group identity can lead to deadly conflict.

Front Cover -- Unhealthy Housing -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part One: The Parameters of Health and Housing Research -- 1. Understanding the problems of health and housing research: David Mant -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Spot the method -- 1.3 Methods and their problems: descriptive studies -- 1.4 Case Control Studies -- 1.5 Longitudinal studies -- 1.6 Intervention studies -- 1.7 Extrapolative studies -- 1.8 Practising appraisal -- 1.9 Avoiding problems -- 1.10 Further reading -- Bibliography -- 2. Using published data to assess health risks: Colin Thunhurst -- 2.1 Social scientific investigation and the use of secondary data -- 2.2 The rediscovery of inequalities in health -- 2.3 Programmes of action -- 2.4 Secondary studies: housing as an explanatory variable -- 2.5 Alternative views of the process of research -- 2.6 Strengthening the use of secondary sources -- Bibliography -- 3. Housing and the health of the community: David Byrne and Jane Keithley -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Relationships between housing and health: the recent evidence -- 3.3 Health and illness: individual or collective attributes? -- 3.4 'Aggregate health' and housing -- 3.5 The ecological and atomist fallacies -- 3.6 The causes of health and illness -- 3.7 Identifying community health and doing something about it -- Bibliography -- Part Two: The Identification and Evaluation of Hazards -- 4. Damp and mouldy housing: a holistic approach: Sonja Hunt -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Housing as a health hazard -- 4.3 Dampness, mould growth and health status -- 4.4 Longitudinal studies -- 4.5 Long-term effects -- Bibliography -- 5. Dampness, mould growth and respiratory disease in children: Peter Strachan -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The scope of epidemiological research.

As the way academics work becomes increasingly specified and regulated, the role of the public intellectual, as championed by Burawoy and exemplified by Jakubowicz, is changing. Engagement with the professions and industry is being proposed as a requirement for a research-active academic. Prescriptions for the way this might happen have the potential to remove the sense of responsibility inherent in Burawoy's notion of the public intellectual and the suggested use of social media to promote new knowledge potentially dilutes the notion of 'publics' which is fundamental to the notion of the public intellectual, substituting the individual for the collective. This in turn has an impact on the kind of informed debate that can influence policy development. This paper explores the narratives of new academics as they seek to answer the questions Giddens asserted were fundamental to the creation of identity in late modernity – What to do? How to act? Who to be? It positions these narratives of identify in a broader discourse of the role of the academic in the creation of new knowledge, perceptions of the role of the university in contemporary Australian culture and the constraints of work planning and performance management.

Subaru and Jaguar provide an outstanding example of what can be achieved when brand development and relationship marketing are combined to create a world class brand. This book looks at the partnership between the two companies that culminated in their victory at the World Rally Championship

Examination of the negotiated relationships between feminist social movements and state institutions controlled by the leftist Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front political party in El Salvador based on ethnographic research in the semiurban municipality of Suchitoto shows that "critical collaboration" characterizes the local feminist movement's efforts to work alongside state actors in the formulation, implementation, and oversight of public policies addressing women's rights, violence against women, and gender-equitable community development. Theoretically, critical collaboration shows that civil society actors interested in deepening emancipatory processes under moderate leftist governments need not be subordinated to constituted state power or contentiously confront it. Rather, by pursuing their agendas through critical and autonomous engagement with ostensibly sympathetic state institutions, feminist movements may engender practices and demands for flexible and responsive "cogovernance" that radically transforms elements of the state and society in the long run.A partir de una investigación etnográfica en el municipio semiurbano de Suchitoto se hace un análisis de las relaciones negociadas entre los movimientos sociales feministas y las instituciones estatales controladas por el partido político de izquierda Frente Farabundo Martí de Liberación Nacional en El Salvador. Se muestra cómo la "colaboración crítica" ha sido la característica de los esfuerzos del movimiento feminista local para trabajar junto con los actores estatales en la formulación, implementación y supervisión de políticas públicas relacionadas con los derechos de las mujeres, la violencia contra las mujeres y un desarrollo comunitario equitativo en materia de género. Teóricamente, la colaboración crítica muestra que los actores de la sociedad civil interesados en profundizar los procesos emancipatorios bajo gobiernos de izquierda moderados no necesitan estar subordinados al poder estatal ni tampoco confrontarlo. Más bien, al promover sus agendas a través de un compromiso crítico y autónomo con instituciones estatales aparentemente comprensivas, los movimientos feministas pueden generar prácticas y demandas de "cogobierno" flexible y receptivo que, a largo plazo, transformen radicalmente elementos tanto del Estado como la sociedad.