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What do you call a lesbian couple who chooses to conceive and raise a child together?-A Planned Two-Mother Family. This book focuses on six lesbian couples who have grown a family by having a child...

In South-Africa many articles in magazines and newspapers indicate that aggression has found a place in society and is experienced daily by educators in the schools, examples are provided by...

Climate change is increasingly recognised as the greatest threat to human and ecological sustainability in the 21st Century. Governments, businesses, non-government organisations and concerned...

This short book outlines the current activities of the largest transnational trade union organizations, and offers an explanation as to why they are not succeeding in their efforts to curtail the...

The profit rate has long been understood to be a crucial indicator of the health of a capitalist economy. Empirical studies traditionally looked at the manufacturing sector because of lack of data...

This study illustrates the generic development of the family novel in the second half of the twentieth century. It is a microscopic approach to novels featuring the American family and its...

The Feminisation of Clerical Work in Britain 1870-1914Author: Steve McKennaPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jul 09, 2008Number of Pages: 168 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

UN peace operations represent intermediate international public goods that yield a number of positive externalities - such as peace and security, enhanced international stability and respect for...

The reflection group H_4 encodes the symmetries of the regular poly-tope called the 600-cell, which is a four-dimensional analogue of the icosahedron. The structure of H_4 has many interesting...

Constitutional development in the United States Supreme Court is commonly held to have begun with Chief Justice John Marshall. It is rare to find a study devoted exclusively to the pre-John Marshall...

The Flow of AbsenceAuthor: Adrianne HuffPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jun 27, 2008Number of Pages: 116 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 3639048423ISBN-13:...

Understanding forces in the context of biology is essential as all cells in the human body are constantly subjected to mechanical forces and are often presented with situations where adaptations are...

Throughout the Atlantic trade in human cargoe, children were cap-tured, purchased, transported, and later born into the institution of enslavement. At various times young girls and boys formed a...

Few philosophers of the twentieth century have influenced the sciences as much as Frank Plumpton Ramsey (1903- 1930). He did pioneering work in pure mathematics, logic, economics, statistics,...

The fractal dimension of the spatial distribution of galaxies can be characterized by various statistical and topological methods, such as the Two-point Correlation Function, Perimeter-Area, Box...

Kedrowicz explores the communicative accomplishment of social support in a volunteer organization. Specifically, she uncovers how meanings of support are negotiated through interactions between...

The Future of MedicareAuthor: Jonathan T. SwansonPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Apr 16, 2008Number of Pages: 132 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

The exchange of goods between human beings is one of the most natural things which dates back long before the beginning of recorded history. As trade became more frequent and complex, abstract...

The growing number of publicly available information sources makes it impossible for individuals to keep track of all the various opinions on one topic. The goal of our artificial believer system...

The Genetics of Familial Hydatidiform MolesAuthor: Sharlene MurdochPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jun 25, 2008Number of Pages: 76 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

While the overall annual incidence of tuberculosis (TB) on the Island of Montreal has been stable at 10 per 100,000 in recent years, incidence varies tremendously by country of birth and by...

This book should be considered as a geological field guide with main focus on the area around V?stervik in southeast Sweden. The V?stervik Area mainly consists of early Proterozoic rocks...

The German banking sector is in a transition phase that it has never faced before. It was settled and the market was divided under the different institutes. The German banking system is still based...

This book deals with the economic impact of several legal regulations on the German film industry, focusing in particular on the effects of three pieces of legislation central to Germany s public...

Following Erik Erikson's contributions concerning the centrality of inter-generational relations in adult development, this book proposes that the emergence in adulthood of the capacity to give is...

The gift represents one of the most complex issues in cultural relations. It defines and pervades individual and social interaction; it forms the basis of our everyday life; it is embedded in power,...

The horse is an essential component of New Zealand's social, environmental, economic and military history. Yet despite this obvious truth, it is a topic which was been overlooked by New Zealand...

The Great Deficit DebacleAuthor: Jo?le LeClairePublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: May 30, 2008Number of Pages: 128 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 363903077XISBN-13:...

Trade negotiations are a topic of growing importance, and the popularity of bilateral and regional trade deals as an alternative to slow negotiations at the World Trade Organization (WTO) is growing...

The Grounds for Citizen Engagement and the Roles of PlannersAuthor: Mac HickleyPublisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publication Date: Jun 04, 2008Number of Pages: 144 pagesBinding: Paperback or...