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...