The Gender Division of Welfare: The Impact of the British and German Welfare States

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The Gender Division of Welfare is an ambitious study that raises interesting and important questions concerning the relationship among welfare states, gender differentiation and social inequality. The book traces the consequences of different welfare state and social policy arrangements for women and men and the households in which they live. Mary Daly examines the British and German welfare states showing that both countries differ markedly in the measures they have instituted in various areas.

The Gender Division of Welfare: the Impact of British and German Welfare States. (Book Reviews). (book review): An article from: Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

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The Gender Division of Welfare: the Impact of British and German Welfare States. (Book Reviews). (book review): An article from: Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Rebecca A. Van Voorhis
Manufacturer: Western Michigan University, School of Social Work
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Title: The Gender Division of Welfare: the Impact of British and German Welfare States. (Book Reviews). (book review)
Author: Rebecca A. Van Voorhis
Publication: Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 2001
Publisher: Western Michigan University, School of Social Work
Volume: 28 Issue: 4 Page: 218(4)

Article Type: Book Review

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The essays in this volume represent some of the best writing done about the history, political dynamics, and legal development of the Supreme Court. They remind us that interest in the court as not just a legal but a political and cultural entity has been prodigious. No other court has attracted anything approaching the scholarly attention on the so-called "Marble Palace" in Washington, D.C. Biographers, such as Bernard Schwartz and G. Edward White, remind us that talent on the high bench has made a difference in the growth of judicial power and in adjusting the Constitution to fit emerging social realities.
The essays in this landmark collection deal with the social controversies that have reached the Court and the ways in which the justices attempted to deal with them and the results of their doing so.
The Supreme Court in American Society serves as a powerful reminder of how important the Court has been to American life, how central a role it has played in interpreting the rule of lawagainst a constantly evolving social order, and how much it has mirrored the controversies, debates, and political struggles of American History.

Inside the Judicial Process: A Contemporary Reader in Law, Politics, and the Courts

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Inside the Judicial Process: A Contemporary Reader in Law, Politics, and the Courts
Jennifer A. Segal , and Gregg Ivers
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Nature's Justice: Writings of William O. Douglas (Northwest Readers)

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Champion of liberty and the environment

Nature's Justice: Writings of William O. Douglas (Northwest Readers)
William O. Douglas
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ASIN: 0870714821

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As the longest-serving Justice in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court, William O. Douglas was known for writing a host of dissenting opinions. He was also a prolific writer off the bench, a man whose work was as much concerned with nature as with law. This collection brings together writings that represent the wide range of Douglan's interests. It includes selections from his autobiographical and political books, and opinions from landmark cases--all reflecting not only his love of justice but also his roots in the Northwest and his lifelong commitment to the environment. These writings demonstrate that Douglas never shied from controvery--whether over interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment or the choice between flies and bait for trout fishing--and offer abundant inspiration for both environmentalists and all who yearn for a more just society. Whether extolling the joys of the wild or defending the rights of citizens, Douglas shows in this work that he truly was Nature's Justice--and one of a kind.

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Champion of liberty and the environment .......2006-08-05

Few national leaders have shaped present-day America more positively than Justice William O. Douglas. The force of Douglas's ideas has had a profound influence on our world--from the individual liberties that we enjoy to his attitudes about protecting the natural world from human encroachment. At the core of it all is Douglas's idea of the human person. The advantages Americans enjoy over citizens of other nations, particularly totalitarian regimes " . . . are not in material things such as technology and standards of living. They relate to matters of the mind and the spirit . . . Man's moral and spiritual appetite, as well as his political ideals, demanded that he have freedom. Liberty was to be the way of life--inalienable and safe from the intrusions of government."

James O'Fallon's edited selections provide us with an excellent overview of Douglas's vast experience and the life that underlay his philosophy--from his boyhood days growing up in near poverty in the Yakima foothills, through his great Supreme Court decisions (establishing the right of privacy) and dissents. Here we also get a feel of the great men Douglas knew: Brandeis, President Franklin Roosevelt (with whom he played poker and drank martinis regularly), Hugo Black and many others.

In the tradition of John Muir and Aldo Leopold, Douglas is one of our great nature writers with his descriptions of the experiences and characters of the great wild places of our Pacific Northwest. He has a botanist's feel for the detail of a landscape and paints a vivid picture with all the sights, sounds and smells of the wilderness.

Douglas was the partner of presidents, but he also had a great understanding and sympathy for the poor, for persons such as prostitutes who lived in conditions where criminal conduct was prevalent, and hobos with whom he rode in boxcars in his early days. These are outstanding recollections and ideas--Douglas is one of the greatest thinkers of the last Century.

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Courts and Justice: A Reader

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ASIN: 0881338613

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Despite the high-profile, televised court cases, the reality is that most people understand very little about the courts and cannot articulate the fundamental theories about the role of court personnel, such as lawyers and judges, and about the role of the courts in enhancing the social good. The editors of this collection have brought together twenty-nine illuminating articles that describe the processes of the courts, discuss overlooked areas of study, analyze court functions and problems, and present alternatives for change.

The Holmes reader;: The life, writings, speeches, constitutional decisions, etc. of the late Oliver Wendell Holmes, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court ... eminent authorities (Oceana's docket books)

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The Holmes reader;: The life, writings, speeches, constitutional decisions, etc. of the late Oliver Wendell Holmes, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court ... eminent authorities (Oceana's docket books)
Julius J Marke
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The Holmes reader;: The life, writings, speeches, constitutional decisions, etc., of the late Oliver Wendell Holmes, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court ... the United States, (Oceana's docket books)
Julius J Marke
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Language of Research in Criminal Justice, The: A Reader

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This book fills a void in criminology and criminal justice by providing a set of 34 readings that are a pre-packed selection of classic and contemporary articles. There is a need for those pursuing a career in the criminal justice fields to be exposed to original works that illustrate the methodological issues and techniques. This book does that and more. The articles cover the full range of criminological topics, including such important issues as ethics, drugs, and violent crime. Those pursuing a career in the criminal justice field.

Learn the Law: a Retarded Text for Advanced Readers

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Learn the Law: a Retarded Text for Advanced Readers
NOTABLE
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Release Date: 2006-07-06

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NOTABLE. \'N.O.T.ABLE\' N.(No) O. (Ordinary) T. (Teacher) - (most) ABLE. Call him what you like - but one of England\'s most renowned judges of the twentieth century, Lord Denning, greatly approved of Notable\'s writings on the law. The law is finally done justice with humour\'s help.

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Race, Crime, and Justice: A Reader

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ASIN: 0415947065

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A comprehensive collection of the essential writings on race and crime, this important reader spans more than a century and clearly demonstrates the long-standing difficulties minorities have faced with the justice system. The editors skillfully draw on the classic work of such thinkers as W. E. B. DuBois and Gunnar Myrdal as well as the contemporary work of scholars such as Angela Davis, Joan Petersilia, John Hagen and Robert Sampson. This anthology also covers all of the major topics and issues from policing, courts, drugs and urban violence to inequality, racial profiling and capital punishment. This is required reading for courses in criminology and criminal justice, legal studies, sociology, social work and race.

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This book collects a major part of the contributions to the 23rd European Peptide Symposium, held at the University of Minho at Braga, Portugal. It contains 414 papers, 53 summarizing oral presentations held during the Symposium, and 361 selected from 450 poster presentations.
The contributions are grouped into 18 sections:
Synthesis and Analysis of Amino Acids and Peptides
Isolation, Purification, Conformation and Physical Chemistry of Peptides
Peptide Mimetics, de novo Design and Peptide Libararies
Structure-Activity Relationships, Peptide Vaccines and Immunology of Peptides
Receptors, other Binding Proteins and Biological Aspects of Peptides
Amino Acid and Peptide Synthesis
Synthesis of Biologically Active Peptides
Analytical Methods for Peptides
Isolation and Purification of Peptides
de novo Design and Peptide Libraries
Conformation and Phsyical Chemistry of Peptides
Structure-Activity Relationships
Glyco, Lipo, Phospho and Nucleopeptides
Biology and Mechanisms of Action of Peptides
Receptors and other Binding Immunology
Peptide Pharmacology
Miscellaneous.
This 1000-page compendium includes many enlightening contributions in fields of recent interest, such as peptide libraries and peptide mimetics.

Immunobiology of Proteins and Peptides - Manipulation and Modulation of the Immune Response, Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium Held in Pio Rico, Arizona, November 16-20, 1994

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Immunobiology of Proteins and Peptides - Manipulation and Modulation of the Immune Response, Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium Held in Pio Rico, Arizona, November 16-20, 1994
M. Zouhair;Bixler, Garvin S., Atassi
Manufacturer: Springer
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OSH8XA

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The focus of this book is on the interactions of small particles, in the size range of microns to millimeters, with electric or magnetic fields. This field has particularly useful practical applications, for instance in photocopier technology and lately in the characterization and manipulation of cells and DNA molecules. The author's objective is to bring together diverse examples of field-particle interactions from many areas of science and technology and then to provide a framework for understanding their common electromechanical phenomena. Using examples from dielectrophoresis, magnetic brush xerography, electrorheology, cell electrorotation, and particle chain rotation, Professor Jones introduces a general model--the effective dipole method--to build a set of predictive models for the forces and torques responsible for the important electromechanical effects. In the last part of the book, the author covers the ubiquitous phenomenon of particle chaining. This book will be highly useful to material engineers and scientists, chemists, and biologists who work with particles, powders, or granular materials.

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Behavior of polarizable particles in electric/magnetic field.......2000-05-25

Professor Jones, renowned author of numerous scientific papers on this topic and the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Electrostatics, presents us with the monograph on the interaction of the electric or magnetic field with non-charged small, but nevertheless macroscopic particles. The force or torque exerted on particles by the field can result in migratory movement in a non-homogeneous field (dielectrophoresis), rotation of particles in a rotating electric field, orientational change of non-spherical particles, and formation of aggregates of particles known as pearl chains. The tome is a collection of important results in this field, many of them are direct results of Professor Jones and his coworkers.

Throughout the book, only classical electrostatics and magnetostatics are employed, i.e. particles are modelled as bodies and shells with given (complex) dielectric permittivity (magnetic permeability in the magnetostatic case), immersed in a homogeneous medium with different electric (or magnetic) properties. This is not a particular drawback, since there is an abundance of literature catering for readers interested in mezzoscopic phenomena.

It is clear that Professor Jones' intention was to make the book accessible not only to physicists, but first and foremost to the intended audience of engineers and scienctists from different branches of science. Thus, for instance, Chapter 2 introduces the effective moment model, which is used throughout the book rather than mathematically more complex the Maxwell tensor formalism. Even though the book is a scientific monograph, mathematics used as a rule does not exceed the standard repertoire of any textbook on electromagnetism, such as multipolar expansion. In addition, experimental scientists will probably appreciate numerous results presented as simple formulas, suitable for comparing with experimentally obtained values.

Investigation of the interaction of electric and magnetic field with particles is gaining importance, in particular in biotechnology. As standard textbooks on electromagnetism rarely proceed beyond Clausius-Mossotti law, it is difficult for someone new to this field to find where to start. This monograph could therefore serve as a valuable introduction and reference to this field for a working researcher or a graduate student.

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Electromechanics of Particles
Thomas B./ Jones, Thomas B. Jones
Manufacturer: Cambridge Univ Pr 1/6/1995
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MH7EDC

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Set in an isolated coal-mining town in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, In a Bluebird's Eye is a moving portrayal of the world of a young girl growing up in the 1930s.

Although America is in the midst of the Depression, life in the provincial community of Margate has been unaffected. But suddenly the Black Diamond Coal Company announces its plans to close down, and the town is thrown into a state of panic.

Eleven-year-old Honor Jane Whitfield sees the disintegration of the community as her salvation. A lonely, rebellious child, she hates Margate, where her father's drinking and her mother's petty snobbishness have made outcasts of the Whitfield family. She finds solace only in the private world of her imagination and in her secret friendship with Lola, a black woman who has served time in prison for killing a man. When Honor Jane learns that Lola is in danger of being sent back to prison, she devises a risky plan to save her, not realizing the danger involved.

Drawing on her intimate knowledge of the region, Anita Clay Kornfeld has created a strikingly authentic portrait of life in the rural South during one of the most memorable eras in American life.

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In a Bluebird's Eye Review .......2005-12-12

In a Bluebird's Eye by Anita Clay Kornfeld, is a phenomenal, and suspenseful book taking place in the 1930's. Kornfeld's engraved sensory details strongly pave the way for the reader to place itself within the atmosphere of The Great Depression. A book that not only allow you to escape your own day to day problems, but contains its very own turmoil that so many of us can relate to. With it's historically accurate accounts of events that really did occur, and bring a certain presence along with it that makes you feel a connection with the characters. Just like the real depression the unemployment rate was at an all time high, and with huge manufacturing plants, and mines closing down it was still on the rise. This thus created it harder and harder to find work to support the American family. This is not only a book for all ages, but all levels of knowledge and experience.
What does it mean to be an American? To be an American means to face the struggles of everyday life and bounce back using your faith and the acceptance of others. Resilience is a factor to being an American. The ability to find your inner peace after the storm even if it seems like that is nothing left. The main character, Honor Jane Whitfield searches for her inner peace which happens to be another struggling human being. Lola, an African American woman who was recently released 0after serving time for killing a white man. Just like any girl at Honor's age of 11, she was experiencing the world around her, and learning more and more about herself, and the concept of self doubt. The dynamic of her family which included her drunken father, and her self absorbed mother, didn't make it any simpler for this young grow up. She found comfort in Lola who became her dear and unexpected friend who brought her that peace of mind she desperately needed. Both Lola and Honor Jane found comfort in each other, showing the true meaning of resilience and the meaning of being an American. Not only resilience proves to be the meaning of a true American but a person's faith and how the accept others faith. Americans are known for their wide spread of beliefs, and how they react to others. Honor's family are strong Christian believers, but Honor has a mind of her own. She believes in the great power of the bluebird who lives above the big dipper, and can see anything and anyone, at anytime. This bluebird contains the devil within its feathers, and fly's over the earth. She also believes that there is no one way to interpret something and that it depends on the individual. Lola takes honor under her very own wing, and gave honor what she had been searching for, for a very log time, acceptance. She told her to never stop believing in her own faith no matter where the crowd followed. Lola accepted Honor and Honor accepted Lola. They not only had their individual belief explaining the reasoning of the world but faith in each other as well, to provided each other with the moral support of security. Their ideas of faith made them Americans. Their resilience made them Americans. Their acceptance made them Americans. They showed the meaning of what it means to be an American.

Bluebird of Happiness.......2001-01-28

Honor Jane Whitfield, the pricipal character of Anita Clay Kornfeld's literary novel is wise beyone her years (eleven). She lives in the town of Margate, a coal-mining town in Tennessee in the late 1930's. Her mother, Martha Jane, a transplant from southern gentry, yells at Honor a lot. Her father, a scholar, who also drinks too much with the town's lowlifes, teaches at the local highschool that also doubles as a "Hell and Damnation" church whose foot-stomping minister speaks openly against the two blacks who live in the town. "God didn't intend for races to mix."

This wonderful story unfolds with Honor believing in a magic bluebird who lives high above the Big Dipper, can fly anywhere and see anything with his magic eye. And the Devil is everywhere wrapped up in jaybird beathers. The only person who believes her is a dynamic character called Lola, a black woman who's spent time in prison for killing a white man, now paroled in custody of the town's doctor and his mean-spirited wife as a "free maid." Honor is fascinated by Lola and their secret friendship is at the heart of the story. She plots various escape routes for Lola. The sassy dialogue is southern exposure at its best. When the coal mines shut down, also the pending death of Margate, Honor's father sees a way out, moving the family to Kentucky and, through a college friend, he finds employment in a better town.

Lola tries to escape by means of one of Honor's schemes, and what follows is heart breaking as well as a healing for the Whitfields. Reading this classic work of fiction one is reminded of Tennessee Williams, and Harper Lee's beautiful novel, "To Kill a Mocking Bird." From the very first page of "In a Bluebird's Eye," Anita Clay Kornfeld wraps her magic around you and holds you tight for days after you've savored the last word.

i liked this book.......1999-02-12

I thought this book was very well written. I also really enjoyed the plot and theme of this novel.

a well written book.......1999-02-12

I thought In a Blue Birds Eye was an extrememy well written novel

a well written book.......1999-02-12

I thought In a Blue Birds Eye was an extrememy well written novel

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IN A BLUEBIRD'S EYE
Kornfeld. Anita Clay
Manufacturer: Holt Rinehart & Winston 1975, 3rd Printing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000UBZIU6

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