Social Science

There are three major linguistic families in Uganda and about 50 distinct languagesdivided among them. Languages also tend to define the boundaries of cultural differences.In the late 1980s, Ugandan officials estimated that 66 percent of the population...

Federal funding for sex education programs began in the 1960s and 1970s. Legislative initiatives, including Titles V, XIX, and XX of the Social Security Act and Title X of the Public Health Service Act, were created in part to address poverty caused by...

The book begins with a murder, that of a wife by her husband, a far too frequent act. Throughout the length of the book, many acts of intimate partner violence are highlighted as well as rape, incest and the effects of violence on children. What sets...

Gender Me Tenderly: Why Women Should Run the World explores bold new territory in the search for answers about gender differences. Author Edwin R. Larson, MD, a psychiatrist with a lifelong passion for understanding what makes people tick, moves beyond...

Albert Mackey's Classic Monitorial of the York Rite's Chapter Degrees.Author: Albert G. MackeyPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Aug 01, 2013Number of Pages: 264 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Peace Corps/The Gambia currently works in three development sectors: education, the environment, and health and community development. Regardless of their sector-specific assignments, Volunteers working in The Gambia have ample opportunity to work with...

This is a collection of 77 case studies from life in modern America covering a wide range of human activity in politics, economics, the environment, law enforcement, medicine, and related issues.Author: J. B. CrawfordPublisher: Createspace Independent...

Wherever You Are, You're Always Near Your Car provides a unique perspective for emergency preparedness. When a disaster occurs, your car will likely be nearby and whether you're at home or away it could be a valuable asset - if you've prepared it to be...

This volume contains illustrated research papers including Maya divination practices, Tikal's ballcourt marker, Copan's peccary skull, Copan's second city, and a complete annotated catalog of the 121 Copan Notes.Author: Janice Van ClevePublisher:...

This booklet is designed to help answer the most frequently asked questions from family and friends. It also provides information that can alleviate concerns and facilitate a supporting role in the Volunteer's success. The love and encouragement from...

The U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP), conducted the 2008 Survey of Employer Perspectives on the Employment of People with Disabilities. This survey emphasized current attitudes and practices of employers in 12...

For many years individuals with disabilities have been less likely to be employed than their working age nondisabled peers. The demographic profile for disability cuts across race, gender, age, and geography. Individuals with disabilities are more likely...

Federal agencies need talented workers to meet new challenges and complete new missions in the 21st century. Currently, there is an underutilized community of talented individuals who want to work and specifically want to work for the Federal Government...

This book focused on five Federal systems1 that play key and inter-related roles in preparing youth with disabilities as they transition into adulthood - vocational rehabilitation, social security, juvenile justice, behavioral health, and workforce...

Many Americans are the descendants of people who came to the United States from across the globe to realize opportunity and exercise freedom. Steeped in the spirit of independence, the earliest Americans were self-employed, primarily in agriculture...

The goal of these disability civil rights laws is to provide equal opportunity and fundamental fairness for students with disabilities, including access to special education and related aids and services at public elementary and secondary schools;...

Investigating allegations of sexual abuse of children is very difficult for law enforcement. Successful resolution of these cases is often hampered by victim reluctance or inability tocommunicate as well as the scarcity of corroborating evidence. While...

Each year since 1997, the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics haspublished a report on the well-being of children and families. Pending data availability, theForum updates all 40 indicators annually on its Web site (http:...

Patriotism is love of country. This love and what one is willing to do to exercise it have caused some to debate the value of the trait. As the world becomes more influenced by the impact of globalization and the demand for tolerance the debate brings to...

The death of any child is tragic, but when a child dies suddenly and unexpectedly, it becomes the responsibility of law enforcement investigators to determine whether any criminal activity may have been involved.Thorough, professional investigations of...

The United States has seen rapid proliferation of youth gangs since 1980. During this period, the number of cities with gang problems increased from an estimated 286 jurisdictions with more than 2,000 gangs and nearly 100,000 gang members in 1980...

The United States has seen rapid proliferation of youth gangs since 1980. During this period, the number of cities with gang problems increased from an estimated 286 jurisdictions with more than 2,000 gangs and nearly 100,000 gang members in 1980...

Veel onderzoekers en wetenschappers het erover eens dat de oorzaak van de problemen van de mensheid is het menselijke ego. Toch baanbrekende nieuwe boek Laitman's toont niet alleen aan dat ego de basis voor alle leed in de menselijke geschiedenis is...

Interesse Pr?prio vs. Altru?smo na Era Global apresenta uma nova perspectiva sobre os desafios que o mundo enfrenta atualmente. Dr. Laitman mostra ao leitor que os problemas do mundo s?o consequ?ncia do ego?smo crescente da humanidade. Neste esp?rito, o...

'Behind Stone Walls' is a sociological, or more specifically, a social anthropological study of traditional Albanian society. It focuses, in particular, on the formation and evolution of household and family structures among the Kosovo Albanians and was...

How can we make media anti-racist? The rise of the far right, the impacts of Covid-19, and the mediated evidence of racist police violence have challenged the dominant complacency that racism was a thing of the past. We are now witnessing the renewed...

There is a link between finance and paranoia, and that link may well be inescapable. At the core of financial imagination lies a notion of value - of 'value creation' - that is loaded with trouble. This is the trouble of a fragile metaphor: a metaphor of...

This slim volume contains four little-known texts by Pierre Bourdieu on the question of reflexivity, which was a key theme in his work. For Bourdieu, reflexivity was not an exercise in introspection but rather a way of applying the tools of sociology...

Not so long ago, comedy and laughter were a shared experience of relief, as Freud famously argued. At their best, ribbing, roasting, piss-taking and insulting were the foundation of a kind of universal culture from which friendship, camaraderie and...

Nossa sociedade n?o ? como era h? alguns anos atr?s. Temos crescido ? parte, nos tornamos "viciados" em inova??es tecnol?gicas, e muitos dos nossos la?os sociais se resumem em "amizades" on-line. Parece que a preocupa??o m?tua e bondade a estranhos...