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I. Physical Influences -- II. Psychology of Farm Life -- III. The Social Problem -- IV. Structure of Rural Society -- V. Social Role of the Housewife -- VI. Social Role of the Child -- VII. Rural Relations of High Schools -- VIII. Rural Social Centers -- IX. Country Clubs -- X. Country Fetes -- XI. Farmers' Churches -- XII. Timely Surveys -- XIII. Legislation -- XIV. Study Problems. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Pathways through the life course have undergone considerable change in recent years. Compared to previous generations, young adults today have a much wider range of choices and opportunities, as well as constraints, than in the past. Some of these changes are the result of demographic shifts, such as declining fertility rates, declining marriage rates and increased rates of cohabitation and divorce. Others are the result of shifts in the labour market, the expansion of the educational system, globalization and technological change which have opened up new opportunities and constraints that impact the individual life course and patterns of family formation and dissolution. This book presents findings of longitudinal analyses examining these transitions, from leaving home to retirement, the ways in which individuals and couples negotiate and organise the competing demands of paid and unpaid work during their lives, and the consequences of these arrangements for the division of labour, educational attainment and occupational achievements.

Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Introduction: What Is History for? -- Part One: Prehistory -- How Did the Universe Begin? -- How Did the Earth Get Made? -- How Does Evolution Work? -- Your (Enormous) Family Tree -- How Did We Get to Be Human? -- The First Tools -- How Did We Start Speaking? -- Our Missing Cousins -- How Humans Spread Around the World -- How Religion Started -- From Hunter-Gatherers to Farmers -- How Money Was Invented -- Part Two: Angent History -- What the Buddha Thought -- Why the Ancient Greeks Had Lots of Gods -- What Christian Thought Can Teach Us -- Why Do Civilisations Sometimes Go Backwards? -- Part Three: The Middle Ages -- The Islamic Golden Age -- How Short and Hard Life Was (and How Painful As Well) -- What Were Monasteries For? -- What Old Maps Tell You -- Part Four: The Beginnings of The Modern World -- Renaissance Thinking -- Why the Aztecs Were Defeated -- The Native Americans -- A Brief History of Pandemic Diseases -- Why Did Millions of Africans End Up In the Americas? -- When Was Printing Invented? -- How We Invented Science -- Why We Invented Forks and Chopsticks (and the Difference Between a Ladder and a Pendulum) -- The Beginnings of Religious Tolerance -- Part Five: Industraialisation -- The Discovery of Fossil Fuels -- Famine (and the New Problem of Eating Too Much) -- The Conquest of the Night -- The Birth of Travel and Speed -- The Story of Cities -- The Birth of Central Heating (and the Hot Bath) -- The Rise of Shopping -- How Education Changed (and How It Might Change in the Future) -- Why Lots of People Stopped Being Religious -- The Birth of Art Galleries -- Part Six: The Modern World -- How Everyone Got the Vote -- Why It Matters What We Count -- The Rise of the News -- The Increasing Power of Advertising -- The Invention of Childhood -- What Was Communism? -- What Is Capitalism? -- Animals.

Celebrated novelist David Treuer has gained a reputation for writing fiction that expands the horizons of Native American literature. In Rez Life, his first full-length work of nonfiction, Treuer brings a novelist's storytelling skill and an eye for detail to a complex and subtle examination of Native American reservation life, past and present. With authoritative research and reportage, Treuer illuminates misunderstood contemporary issues of sovereignty, treaty rights, and natural-resource conservation. He traces the waves of public policy that have disenfranchised and exploited Native Americans, exposing the tension that has marked the historical relationship between the United States government and the Native American population. Through the eyes of students, teachers, government administrators, lawyers, and tribal court judges, he shows how casinos, tribal government, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs have transformed the landscape of Native American life. A member of the Ojibwe of northern Minnesota, Treuer grew up on Leech Lake Reservation, but was educated in mainstream America. Exploring crime and poverty, casinos and wealth, and the preservation of native language and culture, Rez Life is a strikingly original work of history and reportage, a must read for anyone interested in the Native American story.

Researchers have proposed that life satisfaction may be increased by reduced life involvement (i.e., the scarcity hypothesis) or increased by greater life involvement (i.e., the expansion hypothesis). This study attempted to determine if female and male college students are more satisfied
with their lives if they have more or less active life styles. One hundred and fifty-seven females and eighty-six males were assigned to either a High, Moderate, or Low Life satisfaction group and additional instruments were administered to assess the manner of decision making, the extent
of role demands and time pressures, and the respondents' satisfaction with school performance and their dating and family relationships. Results demonstrated that both male and female college students with high life satisfaction had more demanding life styles than individuals with low
life satisfaction, but they did not suffer greater personal stress. The significant role of fulfilling interpersonal relationships in overall life satisfaction was also evident.

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword to the English Edition -- General Introduction to the French Edition -- Editorial Note -- Translators' Note -- First Session: Programs -- Second Session: Logic of the Living (She the Living) -- Third Session: Transition (Oedipus's Faux Pas) -- Fourth Session: The Logic of the Supplement: The Supplement of the Other, of Death, of Meaning, of Life -- Fifth Session: The Indefatigable -- Sixth Session: The "Limping" Model: The Story of the Colossus -- Seventh Session -- Eighth Session: Cause ("Nietzsche") -- Ninth Session: Of Interpretation -- Tenth Session: Thinking the Division of Labor - and the Contagion of the Proper Name -- Eleventh Session: The Escalade - of the Devil in Person -- Twelfth Session: Freud's Leg(acies) -- Thirteenth Session: Sidestep Detour: Thesis, Hypothesis, Prosthesis -- Fourteenth Session: Tightenings -- Index of Proper Names.

How to survive a range of natural disasters, from extreme weather to earthquakes and tsunamis, to peril from outer space. Find all the lifesaving advice you need to combat all that Mother Nature can throw at you. The perfect size to fit in your home emergency kit (you do have a home emergency kit, right?), in your glove compartment, or your camping kit. The Natural Disaster Survival Handbook is a must-have for anyone concerned about protecting his or her home, family, and own life. The Natural Disaster Survival Handbook is essential no matter what you're doing or where you live.