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Farming in cities and small spaces is becoming increasingly popular, but it has its challenges. City Farming addresses the problems the urban farmer might face and turns them into creative solutions. …

First published in 1998. As beneficiaries of aggressive affirmative action policies, Chicano doctors and lawyers educated in universities during the 1960s and early 1970s now dominate Mexican America …

Every year in the UK over 10, 000 babies die before birth or shortly afterwards. For the parents, the grief is hard to bear. In this book, parents who have lost a baby tell their stories. They speak …

Mourning the Dreams is an accessible and moving account of parents’ experiences of grief and recovery after losing an infant during pregnancy, childbirth, or within the first month of life. Drawing f …

When first released much praise was given to this book: ‚An outstanding book on urban geography. . . representative of the best on this subject.‘–Higher Education Journal ‚The book ought to be requi …

Based on ethnographic research conducted in “Starlets“, a lap-dancing club in the North of England, this book delves into what is often seen as the “deviant“, and “stigmatized“ world of lap-dan …

Intellectual property laws have become intricately entwined with discussions about globalization. This volume deals with the politics, economics and effects of global intellectual propertization. It …

Originally published in 1998, Dynamics of the Pictured Page provides a critical study of the world“s first regularly illustrated newspaper, the Illustrated London News, founded by Herbert Ingram in …

This book examines gang rape, clitoridectomy, abduction of women, ritual belittling of men, modern feminist criticism, and the ‚war between the sexes‘. It deals with the politics of large state-sized …

Readers come to the topic of leadership development with multiple interests—intellectual, professional, and personal—and with curiosity about how to apply concepts and tools to themselves and to supp …