Basic Income on the Agenda: Policy Objectives and Political Chances

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Persisting unemployment, poverty and social exclusion, labour market flexibility, job insecurity and higher wage inequality, changing patters of work and family life are among the factors that exert pressure on welfare states in Europe. This book explores the potential of an unconditional basic income, without means test or work requirement, to meet the challenges posed by the new social question, compared to policies of subsidized insertion in work. It also assesses the political chances of basic income in various European countries. These themes are highly relevant to policy-makers in the field of labour markets and social security, economists, political philosophers, and a social science audience in general.

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The Greatest Ever Bank Robbery - The Collapse of the Savings and Loan Industry
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THE GREATEST-EVER BANK ROBBERY THE COLLAPSE OF THE SAVINGS AND LOAN INDUSTRY
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Policy Guidance about Surrogacy.......2003-08-14

This is by far the best book on the subject of surrogate motherhood. It explains why it should not be criminal to enter into a contract for a woman to bear a child for a couple, but that the birth mother can keep the child if she wishes, as with adoption. Most states and countries follow this approach in practice, but they often describe it differently from Field,as she illustrates in her appendix in the 2d edition.
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Surrogate Motherhood: The Legal and Human Issues. (book reviews): An article from: The Hastings Center Report

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Surrogate Motherhood: The Legal and Human Issues. (book reviews): An article from: The Hastings Center Report
Judith Wilson Ross
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This digital document is an article from The Hastings Center Report, published by Hastings Center on September 1, 1990. The length of the article is 1477 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Surrogate Motherhood: The Legal and Human Issues. (book reviews)
Author: Judith Wilson Ross
Publication: The Hastings Center Report (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 1990
Publisher: Hastings Center
Volume: v20 Issue: n5 Page: p46(3)

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Analysis of legal and constitutional issues involved in surrogate motherhood (CRS report for Congress)
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^ICambridge Coordinated Science^R is a comprehensive two-year science program for students at the senior high school level. The books are fully illustrated in color, with accurate pictures drawn by a scientist. Each topic is covered in a two-page spread, with additional text and questions for more advanced students.

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The relation between mathematics and physics has a long history, in which the role of number theory and of other more abstract parts of mathematics has recently become more prominent.

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In This Is Not It, Lynne Tillman's collection of 20 years' worth of important and compelling short stories and novellas, the protagonists seduce you into their lives and thoughts. Engaging, funny, elegant, and ironic, Tillman takes the reader to new heights of wit and meaning through staccato phrases, grammatical twists, and sensuous language. Familiar worlds of honesty, deceit, dark humor, pleasure, pain, confusion, dependence, love, and lust each play decisive roles in her believable fictions. In "Come and Go," three characters and an author collide. In "Pleasure Isn't A Pretty Picture," the reader is treated to a he/she meditation on the one-night stand. And "Dead Sleep" is truly an insomniac's worst nightmare. A twin act on a double bill, This Is Not It is a collection of innovative and stand-alone writing that also engages and matches wits with the some of the best contemporary art: work by Kiki Smith, Jane Dickson, Jessica Stockholder, Diller & Scofidio, Laura Letinsky, Peter Dreher, Roni Horn, Stephen Ellis, Juan Munoz, Vik Muniz, Silvia Kolbowski, Jeff Koons, James Welling, Aura Rosenberg, Barbara Ess, Barbara Kruger, Dolores Marat, Haim Steinbach, Gary Schneider, Marco Breuer, Stephen Prina, and Linder Sterling. Since 1982, acclaimed novelist Tillman has created these unique narratives that are a parallel universe to the contemporary art world. Maybe they're analogues or dialogues, maybe fictions inspired by art, maybe reflections, or meditations--but whatever they're called, like Borges's fictions, they are their own worlds, too. Tillman has marked out terrain of her own, which this collection celebrates. Full of life and art, This Is Not It is illuminating, bold, subtle, and riotous.

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Joyride.......2003-04-12

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In more than ninety novels and novellas, Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) created a universe teeming with over two thousand characters. The Misfit of the Family reveals how Balzac, in imagining the dense, vividly rendered social world of his novels, used his writing as a powerful means to understand and analyze—as well as represent—a range of forms of sexuality. Moving away from the many psychoanalytic approaches to the novelist's work, Michael Lucey contends that in order to grasp the full complexity with which sexuality was understood by Balzac, it is necessary to appreciate how he conceived of its relation to family, history, economics, law, and all the many structures within which sexualities take form.

The Misfit of the Family is a compelling argument that Balzac must be taken seriously as a major inventor and purveyor of new tools for analyzing connections between the sexual and the social. Lucey’s account of the novelist’s deployment of "sexual misfits" to impel a wide range of his most canonical works—Cousin Pons, Cousin Bette, Eugenie Grandet, Lost Illusions, The Girl with the Golden Eyes—demonstrates how even the flexible umbrella term "queer" barely covers the enormous diversity of erotic and social behaviors of his characters. Lucey draws on the thinking of Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu and engages the work of critics of nineteenth-century French fiction, including Naomi Schor, D. A. Miller, Franco Moretti, and others. His reflections on Proust as Balzac’s most cannily attentive reader suggest how the lines of social and erotic force he locates in Balzac’s work continued to manifest themselves in twentieth-century writing and society.

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Gay families weren't born yesterday........2005-07-07

If your'e interested in French literature or Balzac, you'll like this book -- it's clearly written and offers a fascinating account of Balzac as a sociological novelist who was interested in how new forms of family took shape in the 19th century. But this is also required reading for anyone interested in the history of marriage and kinship, because Lucey shows that in the 1830s and 1840s, France was already debating what forms of the family were legitimate and what role same-sex relations would have to the relatively new Civil Code. A learned, gracefully written book that will teach you something genuinely new!

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Family and Sexuality in French History

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Toward an Anthropology of Graphing: Semiotic and Activity-Theoretic Perspectives presents the results of several studies involving scientists and technicians. In Part One of the book, "Graphing in Captivity", the author describes and analyses the interpretation scientists volunteered given graphs that had been culled from an introductory course and textbook in ecology. Surprisingly, the scientists were not the experts that the author expected them to be on the basis of the existing expert-novice literature. The section ends with the analysis of graphs that the scientists had culled from their own work. Here, they articulated a tremendous amount of background understanding before talking about the content of their graphs. In Part Two, "Graphing in the Wild", the author reports on graph usage in three different workplaces based on his ethnographic research among scientists and technicians. Based on these data, the author concludes that graphs and graphing are meaningful to the extent that they are deeply embedded in and connected to the familiarity with the workplace.

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