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The book opens with a review of Ethiopian prehistory, showing how the Ethiopian section of the African Rift Valley has come to be seen as the "cradle of humanity"..
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Family and religion face a myriad of challenges in the modern age. Although many social theorists think these institutions would be greatly weakened or eliminated in the course of modernization, this book rejects that notion and demonstrates that both family and religionno matter what significant transformations they may be undergoingare nevertheless well rooted in societies throughout the world. The persistence and vitality of these two institutions contradict the secularization thesis or the family decline thesis. Though the importance of religion and family is manifested in different ways and in different contexts, these institutions are important virtually everywhere, in both the public and private spheres.

Family, Religion, and Social Change in Diverse Societies deals with family and religion together, examining their unique relationship as institutions as well as the way in which they interact with other social institutions, including politics and economics. Authored by an international group of scholars in sociology and anthropology, the fourteen essays are complex analyses of social change processes occurring within societies. Taking an inter-institutional perspective, each essay explores the special link between religion and family in a specific society. Together, the introduction and essays in the book cover societies on five continents, examining varying levels of economic development, diverse religious traditions, and differing degrees of cultural homogeneity. Providing informative and compelling studies, Family, Religion, and Social Change in Diverse Societies offers a good mix of both descriptive and statistical information..
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This volume makes a contribution to the growing literature on women, conflict and peacebuilding by focusing on the moments after a peace accord, or some other official ending of a conflict, often denoted as ‘post-conflict’ or ‘post-war’.

Such moments often herald great hope for holding to account those who committed grave wrongs during the conflict, and for a better life in the future. For many women, both of these hopes are often very quickly shattered in starkly different ways to the hopes of men. Such periods are often characterized by violence and insecurities, and the official ending of a war often fails to bring freedom from sexual violence for many women. Within such a context, efforts on the part of women, and those made on their behalf, to hold to account those who commit crimes against them, and to access their rights are difficult to make, are often dangerous, and are also often deployed with little effect. Gendered Peace explores international contexts, and a variety of local ones, in which such struggles take place, and evaluates their progress.

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Eyewitness details of the early women's suffrage movement and their encounters with the politics of Great Britain .
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SchenkerGUIDE introduces students of music theory and composition to the fundamental concepts and methods of this system of musical analysis. For many students, understanding and using this system is a daunting task; not only does the theory present its own special language, it involves learning specific skills, from how to make analytical charts to outlining a composition. This book offers the first clear and simple way to learn this technique. Although aimed at the beginning student, this book does more than just introduce the basics. It takes the student step-by-step from making a basic Schenkerian graph through the more difficult aspects of advanced work. For this reason, it could serve both as a text to be used as part of a broader course on theory as well as for more advanced seminars on Schenkerian technique alone. In short, SchenkerGUIDE sets a new standard for a comprehensive, understandable introduction to this important theory..
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In his account of four globally influential figures (Northcliffe, Balfour, Pankhurst, Baden-Powell), each of them, in their different ways, “monsters”, Piers Brendon writes wittily and succinctly -- and brilliantly illuminates an age..
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This book tells the stories behind the plants, describing them and the many people who live on as plants in our gardens. It is the paperbound, North American edition of the well-known British book. Who Does Your Garden Grow traces the background of over a hundred famous plant cultivars. The book describes the plants, how they came about, and the many talented people they commemorate. How did a French dressmaker's obstinacy bring her immortality? What well-known plant do we owe to a pulled train stop signal? Why should the Bishop of Llandaff be a scarlet dahlia?.
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Emmeline Pankhurst, a middle-class mother of five from Manchester, England, changed history when, in 1903, she formed the Women's Social and Political Union. Under her fiery and unorthodox leadership, this militant group-given to church burning, window smashing, and royal slurs-won the parliamentary vote for women.

Today, Pankhurst is immortalized for the defiance and strength that led the suffrage movement to victory and made her a twentieth-century heroine. Who was she, before and after suffrage, and how did her actions influence the Second Wave of feminists in the 70s?

Historian June Purvis, with vivid language and a storyteller's skill, brings this celebrated leader to life in the context of her times. In the first full-length biography in seventy years, Purvis utilizes a host of original sources to paint the fullest picture yet of Pankhurst: from young womanhood and political awakening to her war work and activism until her death in 1928. Here too is the passion, fear, kindness and invincibility that have made this twentieth-century everywoman one of the most influential people of our time. Emmeline Pankhurst brings a vibrant new understanding to her life..
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Emmeline Pankhurst is considered one of the principal proponents of democracy, the person who did the most to secure women political rights. She is also seen as being responsible for radicalizing the cause of women’s suffrage by taking the Women’s Social and Political Union in the direction of what we today would call terrorism. They started with simple acts of protest like spitting at policemen and breaking windows. They moved on to slashing paintings, to arson, to cutting telegraph wires and ended up bombing places and this campaign of violence is only stopped in the First World War. Pankhurst called off all protest, and women joined in the war effort. And it is actually that work, which secured women the vote, much more than anything to do with the violence or the force-feeding or the bombings or arson that Pankhurst had encouraged previously..
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