After twenty-five years of independence, there is little doubt that the five Central Asian states will persist as sovereign, independent states. They increasingly differ from each other, and are making their way in global politics. No longer connected only to Russia, they are now connected in important ways to Afghanistan, South Asia, China, Iran, and each other. This volume covers a wide range of issues and presents the work of emerging scholars authors well-known for their expertise in t...

Este livro é, ao mesmo tempo, um esforço de introdução a pressupostos teóricos que adotamos como referencial, mas pretende ser, também, um exercício de aplicação dessas ideias em situações concretas vivenciadas pelo país, seja recentemente, seja no seu passado. O formato adotado, então, foi o de convidar juristas e economistas para escreverem, principalmente em parceria, sobre temas de grande repercussão e que foram submetidos aos tribunais superiores. O propósito era o de promover uma col...

Assesses performance of conventional techniques such as backcross and hybrid breeding in introducing new traitsMaps current progress in methods to identify quantitative trait loci (QTL) linking phenotypic traits with genetic information for selectionShows comparative strengths and weaknesses of marker-assisted selection (MAS) techniques such as genome wide association studies (GWAS) and nested association mapping (NAM)

Across the U.S. immigrants, laborers, domestic workers, low-income tenants, indigenous communities, and people experiencing homelessness are conducting research to fight for justice. Collaborating for Change: A Participatory Action Research Casebook documents the stories of a dozen community-based research projects. Academics and their partners share authorship about the importance of gathering credible evidence, both for organizing and persuading. The emphasis is on community org...

Discover the chilling untold story of sexual forced labor in Nazi concentration campsIn his seminal work, The Concentration Camp Brothel, Robert Sommer reveals the hidden horrors of sexual forced labor within the SS camp system, a subject long overshadowed and seldom acknowledged in the discourse on the Holocaust.Through his rigorous examination of over seventy archives and poignant interviews with more than thirty survivors, including former visit...

For some children secure accommodation seems to be the only way to control their disparate number of "problems". But why is this so, and from what criteria do social work professionals decide that a child should be put into secure accommodation? In Secure Accommodation in Child Care the authors use an empirical study of secure accommodation as a basis for an analysis of the relations between the state, the family and the "difficult" child. By looking at court procedures, social wo...

Orwells Neusprech ist längst in Politik und Wirtschaft angekommen. "Alexa" hat für alles und jeden ein offenes Ohr. Satire darf alles – aber muss sie das auch? Wer das Wort führt, führt auch Menschen, übt Macht aus. Das Verhältnis von Sprache und Macht ist unabhängig voneinander nicht zu denken. Die Sprache bestimmt unser Denken, und gleichzeitig sind wir es, die unsere Sprache bestimmen. Das wirft Fragen auf. Wer hat in Zukunft das Sagen? Und mit welchen Mitteln werden sich diejenigen aus...

Wasserstoff jetzt! Der Schlüssel zur Evolution des Menschen – vom Homo Erectus bis zum Homo Handy – heißt Energie. Die Welt von morgen könnte eine Welt sein, in der durch Feuer Wasser entsteht. Anschaulich und faktengesättigt wirft Timm Koch einen hochaktuellen Blick in die WasserstoffGesellschaft der Zukunft und deckt jene LobbyInteressen auf, die sie ausbremsen wollen. Das Buch liest sich ... wie eine Hommage an ein Molekül.“Deutschlandfunk „Andruck“„Koch gelingt es wunderbar, auch kompl...

A fun-filled eco picture book based on the classic Christmas song!On the first day of Christmas, what did Santa see?A star that had broken in three!Christmas spirit is in the air and all the animals are feeling the cheer. But in the excitement, what has happened to the forest? There is litter EVERYWHERE!Appalled by what he sees, Santa writes a letter to his animal friends asking them to cle...