This is an innovative text using didactic information and case studies to address those issues that affect most of the worlds women. The first half...

Women make up over half the U.S. population, but historically have been underrepresented in clinical research supported by the National Institutes ...

This book presents materials on issues of particular interest to women including economic, societal, and personal.

This is a homage to women, as well as provides clinical pearls written by psychiatrists for clinicians and non-clinicians alike. Mental health as i...

Elderly women, who comprise a growing portion of the U.S. population, have historically been at greater risk of living in poverty than elderly men....

This is the first anthology in English devoted entirely to contemporary Austrian drama written by women. The selection begins with Clara S. (A Musi...

Afghanistan is regarded as a ‘classical patriarchal' society, where old social tradition, religious doctrine and socio-economic and cultural backwa...

This novel text outlines issues faced by the majority of women living in low and middle income countries. The unique aspect of this book is the num...

This novel text outlines issues faced by the majority of women living in low and middle income countries. The unique aspect of this book is the num...

During the pasts two decades, US policymakers as well as many in the international community have increasingly recognized violence against women as...

The reasons why workers with disabilities continue to face the possibility of losing their jobs or being unable to return to the workforce are many...

Women's participation in labor force activities has greatly expanded since the end of World War II. Immediately following the war, less than one-th...

The small northern Canadian community of Baker Lake has been home to some of the foremost Inuit artists of contemporary times. While recognised wid...

Poverty is a social fact of life for billions of people around the world. The developed countries abhor poverty, or seem to, for several reasons. P...

The contributions of this volume aim at a new, evidence based approach to Jihadism studies. What is the structure of Jihadi online communication an...

Woven Identities presents the finest examples of classic era Native basketry (1870-1930) along with contemporary examples that exemplify the vibran...

This volume features eight articles on writing and vocabulary acquisition -- two crucial areas of study in foreign language learning and teaching.

When the SS Empire Windrush berthed at Tilbury docks in 1948 with 492 ex-servicemen from the Caribbean, it marked the beginning of the post-war mig...

Some of the most intense effects of globalization can be seen in rural communities. Despite a booming world economy, rural communities-and the peop...

In 1940, Rav Yehuda Ashlag published the first, and only copy of the paper, The Nation. After WWII, he wrote The Writings of the Last Generation, c...

Dene Elder George Blondin creates a spiritual guidebook that weaves together oral stories with the recounting of how the Northern Canadian Dene cam...

On 1 February 1940, a thirty-three-year-old Jewish woman arrived alone in New York Harbor bearing, in her womb, the person who would eventually bec...

Ehud Diskin's mother wanted him to play it safe when he was drafted into the Israel Defense Forces. Instead, he volunteered for one of the IDF's mo...

Yiddish literature and culture take a central position in Jewish literatures. They are shaped to a high degree, not least through migration, by enc...

This book examines The National Longitudinal Transition Study-2 (NLTS2) funded by the U.S. Department of Education, which provides a unique source ...

Young People, Leisure and Place reports on cross-cultural research into the personal geographies of young people. It explores young people's leisur...

Youth development represents a complex set of individual transitions embedded in a particular socio-political environment, cultural context, and hi...

Each year, approximately 25,000 youth exit the foster care system before being reunified with their family of origin, being adopted, or achieving a...

The transition to adulthood in the United States has changed in recent decades as many of the traditional milestones that mark adulthood, such as h...

The vast majority of non-biomedical research on HIV/AIDS has been behavioural research, usually by survey methods, counting people's sex acts, part...

This book is based upon experiences from the "Stop Youth Suicide Campaign" (SYS), a community-based youth suicide prevention program, led by the Di...

Youth Transition in a Globalized Marketplace (YTGM) is based on the experiences of youth in a number of countries. The authors of this study are in...

What is happening to the social fabric of America? Children are afraid to go to school for fear that another lunatic will decide to shoot up the st...

Every time a young person is harmed by violence, our nation's future strength and growth are jeopardised. We are losing our next generation of youn...

This important book deals with the problem of youth violence by attacking it at the grass-roots level -- the community.

The National Longitudinal Transition Study-2 (NLTS2), was initiated in 2001 to provide a national picture of the characteristics and experiences of...

This book explores intimacy, immediacy and mobility as the core principles underpinning contemporary everyday life in a central Australian Aborigin...

This book consists of oral, written and observation experience in Zimbabwe where the author has stayed for six months every year to carry out field...

The contributions of the volume focus on the First World War from a gender perspective, whereby the complex relationship between the front and the ...