Compromised bodies

This ethnography unravels the continuing political tensions surrounding Senegal’s 1999 national ban on “female genital mutilation”The Senegalese parliament authorized a national ban on “Female Genital Mutilation” in 1999. Because only a third of the Senegalese population practiced female genital ...

Comptia linux+ study guide

While most operating systems come and go, Linux has steadily become the backbone of modern computing. The CompTIA Linux+ certification is the industry's most respected vendor-neutral credential, and the XK0-005 exam is your gateway to earning it. This study guide is a comprehensive learning solut...

Computational organizational cognition

Computational Organizational Cognition presents simulations to clearly assess the advantages of agent-based computational organizational cognition (AOC) for both theory and practice, demonstrating how AOC is an essential instrument to explore, understand and analyze the inner complexities of orga...

Computing for seniors in easy steps

Computing for Seniors in easy steps is a leading computer guide for senior users, updated to cover today's computing-on-the-go lifestyle. This book demystifies the world of Tablet PCs, touchscreens, apps, internet, email, Skype, digital photography, online shopping and more. Written in the famil...

Computing in the age of decolonization

How Cold War geopolitics and domestic capitalism changed the trajectory of India’s computing industryIndia today is widely recognized for producing world-class tech talent and Silicon Valley leaders, yet captures only a fraction of the global tech industry’s profits, primarily providing skilled b...

Computing the news

Sylvain Parasie examines how data journalists and news organizations have navigated the tensions between traditional journalistic values and new technologies. Offering an in-depth analysis of how computing has become part of the daily practices of journalists, this book proposes ways for journali...

Comrade haldane is too busy to go on holiday

John Burdon Sanderson Haldane F.R.S. (1892–1964) was one of the leading scientists of the twentieth century, renowned for helping, through statistical wizardry, to reconcile Darwin’s theory of natural selection with Mendel’s discovery of genes. The product of a distinguished family of scientists ...

Comrades and enemies

In Comrades and Enemies Zachary Lockman explores the mutually formative interactions between the Arab and Jewish working classes, labor movements, and worker-oriented political parties in Palestine just before and during the period of British colonial rule. Unlike most of the historical and socio...

Comrades in arms

Comrades of color

Combination of primary and secondary sources. Global range of perspectives from Cuba to South Africa to North Korea. Gives attention to question of race and racism in the Soviet bloc. Transnational study that puts East Germany into a global context beyond Europe.

Conceivable

A practical guide to navigating the politics, challenges, choices and opportunities in 2SLGBTQ+ fertility, conception and family building in Canada.

Conceiving the new world order

This groundbreaking volume provides a dramatic investigation of the dynamics of reproduction. In an unusually broad spectrum of essays, a distinguished group of international feminist scholars and activists explores the complexity of contemporary sexual politics around the globe. Using reproducti...

Concept-based language instruction and genre-based second language writing pedagogy

This book presents an interdisciplinary, flexible and comprehensive framework for teaching second language (L2) and multilingual writing that integrates Concept-Based Language Instruction and Genre-Based Writing Pedagogy. The authors show how L2 writing instructors can empower student writers to ...

Concepts

Drawing on the work of renowned psychological theorist Lev Vygotsky, Blunden extends his work begun with Interdisciplinary Theory of Activity

Concepts and categories

A team of sociologists presents a groundbreaking model of concepts and categorization that can guide sociological and cultural analysis of a wide variety of social situations. Using this model, important yet commonplace phenomena such as routine buying decisions can be quantified in terms of the ...

Concepts and design thinking innovation addressing the global financial needs

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. In this first part of the INFINITECH book series, the principles of the modern economy that lead to make the modern financial sector and the FinTech's the most disruptive areas in today's global economy are discus...

Concepts in action

Concepts in Action follows on the earlier Theory in Action (2016) as part of a three volume project broadening our understanding of the interplay of theory and methods.

Concepts of urban-environmental history

In history, cities and nature are often treated as two separate fields of research. Concepts of Urban-Environmental History aims to bridge this gap. The contributions to this volume survey major concepts and key issues that have shaped recent debates in the field.

Conceptual history in the european space

The volume is the first comprehensive revisiting of conceptual history on a European scale It is also the first volume to consider the spatial and temporal dimensions of making comparisons of concepts across the whole of Europe. The volume also brings to bear diverse methods of analy...

Conceptual structural design

Conceptual Structural Design engineers addresses a topic that lies on the intersection of architecture and structural engineering. Within a building project, conceptual structural design and how successfully it has been dealt with, impacts both building performance as well as building appearance.

Conceptualising china through translation

This book provides an innovative methodology for investigating how China has been conceptualised historically, tracing the development of four key concepts (filial piety, face, fengshui, and guanxi) in English and Chinese. It explores how specific ideas about the uniqueness of Chinese culture inf...

Conceptualising risk assessment and management across the public sector

Conceptualising Risk Assessment and Management across the Public Sector explores concepts and applications of risk across the public sector to aid risk professionals in establishing a clearer understanding of what risk assessment and management is, how it might be unified across sectors, and how ...

Conceptualizing and modeling relational processes in sociology

With broad appeal across scholars and graduate students in the social and behavioral sciences, Joslyn presents new ideas for expanding relationship modeling methods in a way that unites relationship scholars and extends relational theory.

Conceptualizing and researching governance in public and non-profit organizations

The first volume of the series aims to give an outline of the state of the art and the most recent research being done on public and non profit governance at the international level (with particular emphasis in Europe).

Conceptualizing the world

This innovative and interdisciplinary volume explores the central paradox of globalization and illuminates historical moments that range from antiquity to the era of Google Earth through contributions that trace the emergence of the world in multitudinous representations, practices, and human e...

Conceptualizing truth

Society has shifted away from viewing truth as an objective virtue, with post-truth becoming prominent. This book explores various conceptions of truth and their educational implications, examining truth's role in teaching, curriculum, and classroom priorities.

Concerning my daughter

Prize-winning Korean author Kim Hye-Jin’s debut confronts familial love, duty, mortality, and generational schism through the incendiary gaze of a tradition-bound mother faced with her daughter’s queer relationship. When a widowed, aging mother allows Green, her thirty-something daughter, to move...

Concerning the spiritual—and the concrete—in kandinsky’s art

A radical reassessment of the art and writings of Wassily Kandinsky, this book contests the traditional understanding that he was motivated by mystical concerns and sees his work instead as an extended philosophical "conversation" on the nature of art with German philosopher Hegel, and the Kandin...

Concerning violence

A beautiful photographic exploration of the revolutionary movements in Africa in the '60s and 70's.

Concise dictionary of modern japanese history

This is a concise, reliable guide to the people, places, events, and ideas of significance from the Meiji Restoration to the present.

Concise guide to reinforced concrete design to eurocode 2

Concise Guide to Reinforced Concrete Design to Eurocode 2 explains the principles of limit state design in Eurocode 2 by means of simple worked examples of reinforced concrete design.

Concordance of the qur'an

Concrete cities

This accessible critique of urban construction reimagines city development and life in an era of unprecedented building. Exploring the proliferation of building and construction, Imrie sets out its many degrading impacts on both people and the environment. Using examples from around the world, he...

Concrete economics

“an excellent new book” — Paul Krugman, The New York TimesHistory, not ideology, holds the key to growth.Brilliantly written and argued, Concrete Economics shows how government has repeatedly reshaped the American economy ever since Alexander Hamilton’s first, foundational redesign.This book doe...

Concrete jungle

If they are to survive, cities need healthy chunks of the world’s ecosystems to persist; yet cities, like parasites, grow and prosper by local destruction of these very ecosystems. In this absorbing and wide-ranging book, Eldredge and Horenstein use New York City as a microcosm to explore both t...

Concrete toronto

Toronto is a concrete city. From international landmarks to civic buildings to cultural institutions to metropolitan infrastructure and the single-family home, reminders of the era of 'brutalist' architecture surround Torontonians. But for how long? As architectural fashion has shifted to the gl...

Concrete utopianism

Through a critique of Left realism, culturalism, and pessimism from the standpoint of heterodox Marxism and Black radicalism, Gary Wilder insists that we place questions of solidarity and temporality at the center of Left political thinking. He makes a bold case for embracing a concrete utopian p...

Concreteness in generative phonology

Concreteness in Generative Phonology presents major topics in French phonology and morphology within the theoretical framework of generative grammar. The concrete analyses advocated in Bernard Tranel’s study constitute a radical departure from the abstract solutions proposed in previous generati...

Concurrences in postcolonial research

The concept of concurrences is a blanket term for challenging dominating statements of the past and present. Concurrent stories have varying claims to reality and fiction, as well as different, diverging, and at times competing claims to society, culture, identity, and historical past. Dominant ...