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This book examines Gunnar Myrdal's analysis of poverty in relation to Sweden, the United States, South Asia, and the international economy. The challenge of world poverty, the international dimension of poverty, and the legacy of The American Dilemma and Asian Drama are also discussed.

This book is the first to deal with physical culture in an Irish context, covering educational, martial and recreational histories. Tracing four decades of Irish history, the work also examines the influence of foreign fitness entrepreneurs in Ireland and contrasts them with their Irish counterparts.

Drawing upon law, politics, sociology, and gender studies, this volume explores the ways in which the Muslim body is stereotyped, interrogated, appropriated and demonized in Western societies and subject to counter-terror legislation and the suspension of human rights.

What do we mean when we speak about teacher autonomy? The resulting book examines teacher autonomy theoretically and empirically, comparing teachers' perceptions of their professional autonomy.

This book examines the lives and tenures of the consorts of the Plantagenet dynasty during the later Middle Ages, encompassing two major conflicts¿the Hundred Years¿ War and the Wars of the Roses. The figures in this volume include well-known consorts such as the ¿She Wolves¿ Isabella of France and Margaret of Anjou, as well as queens who are often overlooked, such as Philippa of Hainault and Joan of Navarre. These innovative and authoritative biographies bring a fresh approach to the consorts of this period¿challenging negative perceptions created by complex political circumstances and the narrow expectations of later writers, and demonstrating the breadth of possibilities in later medieval queenship. Their conclusions shed fresh light on both the politics of the day and the wider position of women in this age. This volume and its companions reveal the changing nature of English consortship from the Norman Conquest to today.

The Older Prisoner seeks to situate the older prisoner from both a penological and gerontological perspective, organised around the following broad themes: the construction of the older prisoner, the physical prison world, the social prison world, surviving prison and giving meaning.

This book provides a concise overview of Marx's philosophy and political economy, tracing various changes of his theoretical views over time through his practical and theoretical engagements with contradictions of capitalism from the unique perspective of Japanese Marxism.

This book develops new balance of payments statistics for the United States from 1790 to 1919, before official statistics were kept.

This book explores how culture and tradition have impacted the tendency for African women to opt for entrepreneurship.

This book examines the most significant factors accounting for the decline of union density during the neoliberal period, focusing on the case of Mexico. Union density, which reflects the representation of labor unions in the employed labor force, is one of the main indicators of union strength.

David Bowie and Romanticism evaluates Bowie's music, film, drama, and personae alongside eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poets, novelists, and artists.

This book offers a new theoretical framework within which to understand ¿the mind-body problem¿. The crux of this problem is phenomenal experience, which Thomas Nagel famously described as ¿what it is like¿ to be a certain living creature. David Chalmers refers to the problem of ¿what-it-is-like¿ as ¿the hard problem¿ of consciousness and claims that this problem is so ¿hard¿ that investigators have either just ignored the issue completely, investigated a similar (but distinct) problem, or claimed that there is literally nothing to investigate ¿ that phenomenal experience is illusory. This book contends that phenomenal experience is both very real and very important. Two specific ¿biological naturalist¿ views are considered in depth. One of these two views, in particular, seems to be free from problems; adopting something along the lines of this view might finally allow us to make sense of the mind-body problem.An essential read for anyone who believes that nosatisfactory solution to ¿the mind-body problem¿ has yet been discovered.

This book explores Mexico's foreign policy using the ¿principled pragmatism¿ approach. It describes and explains main external actions from the country¿s independence in the nineteenth century to Andrés Manuel López Obrador¿s administration. The principal argument is that Mexico has resorted to principled pragmatism due to geographic, historical, economic, security, and political reasons. In other words, the nation uses this instrument to deal with the United States, defend national interests, appease domestic groups, and promote economic growth.The key characteristics of Mexicös principled pragmatism in foreign policy are that the nation projects a double-edged diplomacy to cope with external and domestic challenges at the same time. This policy is mainly for domestic consumption, and it is also linked to the type of actors that are involved in the decision-making process and to the kind of topics included in the agenda. This principled pragmatism is related to the nature of theintention: principism is deliberate and pragmatism is forced; and this policy is used to increase Mexicös international bargaining power.