With all signs pointing to an increased use of and interest in project-based work in modern organizations, the better scholars are able to make sense of the current state of the field through theory development and empirical investigation, the more successful projects promise to become. This book is a welcome addition to our field and will be, I am sure, an important work and source for future reference well into the future. -Dr. Jeffrey Pinto, Pennsylvania State University The goal of practicing project managers and scholars alike lies in solving the puzzle of how to manage projects toward successful completion. However, understanding what comprises project "success"-seemingly such an innocent question-has come to represent one of the most challenging problems for project managers and scholars. Who determines success? At what point in time is success best measured? How do diverse stakeholders define success? What happens when their perspectives collide? What is the difference between project success and project management success? These are surprisingly complex problems. For every principle or rule posited, a brief investigation reveals that there are numerous exceptions, muddying the waters and making these ideas increasingly opaque. Project Management Methodologies, Governance and Success addresses this challenge head-on, putting into proper context the critical issues that shape our understanding of the project management research process. Employing a concept referred to as "philosophical triangulation," the book shows how to overcome the weaknesses or intrinsic biases that disrupt and minimize the impact of so much organizational research. It places organizational governance and success within their proper context allowing scholars to identify the best methods for investigating project-based work. It links together in a cogent manner the diverse themes of research theory and design, projects and project success, and organizational governance. In effect, this book demonstrates that to fully understand how to undertake research in projects, theory and method are inextricably interwoven.

This highly successful children's Bible provides a story for each day of the year for 7 to 9 year olds. The artwork is truly attractive and of the very highest quality, warm and bright, giving fresh perspectives on the classic stories. Each story has approximately 250 words is complemented by a matching prayer. The Bible features full Bible references on each page as well as a 'story finder' to help the reader choose a story to suit the occasion, making this a complete resource and enable further exploration of the Bible as the child grows up.

Contents:
Volume I: Suffrage
Edited and Introduced by Janet Beer
Janet Beer Introduction: The Woman Suffrage Movement in America - 1848-1920
1. The First Convention: Seneca Falls, including the Declaration of Sentiments [1848]
2. Lucretia Mott Discourse on Woman, Philadelphia [T.B. Peterson, 1850]
3. Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Woman's Rights Conventions at Worcester [1850] and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Woman's Rights Conventions at Syracuse [1852] Woman's Rights Tracts, Syracuse [Master's Print, Malcolm Block, 1852]
4. Matilda Gage to Woman's Rights Conventions at Syracuse, Woman's Rights Tracts, Syracuse [Master's Print, Malcolm Block, 1852]
5. Theodore Parker A Sermon of the Public Function of Women, Women's Rights Tracts, Syracuse [Master's Print, Malcolm Block, 1853]
6. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper The Colored People in America, from The Colored People in America: Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects Philadelphia [1857]
7. Sojourner Truth Address to the American Equal Rights Association [1867]
8. Hamilton Wilcox Women are Voters! New York Suffrage Law [John W. Lovell Co., 1885]
9. Angelina French Newman Woman Suffrage in Utah [Government Print Office, 1886]
10. Henry Blair Woman Suffrage Speech to the Senate [1886]
11. Clara Benwick Colby The Ballot and the Bullet Theory The Woman's Tribune [Editor, 1883-86]
12. Thomas Wentworth Higginson Unsolved Problems in Woman Suffrage, reprinted from The Forum [Forum Publishing Company, 1887]
13. F.G. Adams The Women's Vote in Kansas [American Woman Suffrage Association, 1888]
14. Olympia Brown Woman's Suffrage a Political Necessity, abstract of address before the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives, [January 28, 1889]
15. Lucy Stone Questions for Remonstrants [American Woman Suffrage Association, 1889]
16. Olive Schreiner Three Dreams in a Desert [American Woman Suffrage Association, 1889]
17. Various Authors, The Elective Franchise [American Woman Suffrage Association, 1889]
18. Ednah D. Cheney Municipal Suffrage for Women [American Woman Suffrage Association, 1889]
19. Thomas Wentworth Higginson Straight Lines or Oblique Lines? [American Woman Suffrage Association, 1893]
20. Henry Blackwell Objections to Woman Suffrage Answered [American Woman Suffrage Association, 1896]
21. Katherine A.G. Patterson, Helen G. Ecob et al Colorado Speaks for Herself [American Woman Suffrage Association, 1897]
22. Carrie Chapman Catt, Florence Kelley and Evelyn W. Ordway How the Women of New Orleans Discovered their Wish to Vote [Political Science Study Series, Vol. V. No. 4, 1900]
23. William M. Salter What is the Real Emancipation of Woman? [Woman Suffrage Association, 1902]
24. Marion B. Schlesinger, Mary A.E.M. Buckminster, and Mary Leavens Arguments in Favour of Woman Suffrage [Committee of the College Equal Suffrage Law, 1905]
25. Ida Husted Harper Suffrage a Right [North American Review Publishing Co., 1906]
26. Ida Husted Harper History of the Movement for Women Suffrage [Interurban Woman Suffrage Council, 1907]
27. Martha Carey Thomas New Fashioned Argument for Woman Suffrage [National American Women Suffrage Association, 1908]
28. Julia Ward Howe Woman and the Suffrage The Outlook [1909]
29. Max Eastman Woman's Suffrage and Sentiment [The Equal Franchise Society, 1909]
30. Lucia Ames Mead What Women Might Do with the Ballot [National American Woman Suffrage Association, circa 1910]
31. Amelia MacDonald Cutler Six Reasons Why Farmers' Wives Should Vote [National American Woman Suffrage Publishing Co., Inc., circa 1910]
32. The Truth versus Richard Barry [National American Woman Suffrage Association, circa 1911]
33. Equal Suffrage Meeting [Frank Facey, 1911]
34. Women in the Home [California Equal Suffrage Association, circa 1911]
35. Ida Husted Harper How Six States Won Woman Suffrage [National American Woman's Suffrage Association, 1912]
36. Theodore Roosevelt Speech on Suffrage [Allied Printing, 1912]
37. Ella S. Stewart The Ballot for the Women of the Farm [Chicago, 1913]
38. Official Program, Woman Suffrage Procession [1913]
39. George Creel What Have Women Done with the Vote? [National Woman Suffrage Publishing Company, 1915]
40. Alice Stone Blackwell Jane Addams Testifies Woman's Journal [1915]
41. Alice Stone Blackwell Woman Suffrage [1915]
42. Edith Abbot Are Women a Force for Good Government? National Municipal Review Vo. IV, No.3 July [1915]
43. Mary Beard and Florence Kelley Why Women Demand a Federal Suffrage Amendment [Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, 1916]
44. Mrs. Guilford Dudley The Negro Votes in the South [National Woman Suffrage Publishing Company, 1918]
45. Carrie Chapman Catt An Address to the Legislatures of the United States [National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co., 1919]
Volume II: Work and Education
Edited and introduced by Anne-Marie Ford
Anne-Marie Ford Introduction: The Woman's Place
Part 1: Education
46. C.D.B Colby Concerning Farmers' Wives [New England Publishing Company, 1880]
47. Maria Mitchell The Collegiate Education of Girls [New England Publishing Company, 1881]
48. Kate Morris Cone The Gifts of Women to Educational Institutions [Association of Collegiate Alumnae, 1884]
49. Kate Holladay Claghorn The Problem of Occupation for College Women Educational Review March 1898, pp. 217-230
50. Sui Sin Far and Edith Maude Eaton Its Wavering Image Mrs. Spring Fragrance [1912]
51. Zitkala-Sa and Gertrude Simmons Bonnin 'The Ground Squirrel' and 'The Big Red Apples' from 'Impressions of an Indian Childhood',Atlantic Monthly [1900]
52. Francis Squire Potter Education and Democracy [College Equal Suffrage League, July 1909]
Part 2: Women's Work
53. Caroline Dall The Opening at the Gates The College, the Market and the Court, or Women's Relations to Education, Labor and Law [Boston, Lee and Shepherd, 1867]
54. May Wright Sewall A Report on the Position of Women in Industry and Education in the State of Indiana [Indiana Department of the New Orleans Exposition, 1885]
55. Agnes Nestor The Working Girl's Need of Suffrage [Literature of the Mississippi Valley Suffrage Conference, circa 1910]
56. Wages of Women in the Corset Factories in Massachusetts [Minimum Wage Commission, 1914.]
57. Maggie Hinchey Senators vs. Working Women [Wage Earners' Suffrage League, circa 1918.]
Part 3: The Rights and Wrongs of Women
58. Great Auction Sale of Slaves at Savannah, Georgia Tribune, March 1859, [American Anti-Slavery Society, 1859]
59. Southern Proofs of the 'Chivalrous and High-Minded Character' produced by slavery [American Anti-Slavery Society, 1860]
60. Southern Proofs that Slavery is a 'Parental Relation' [American Anti-Slavery Society, 1860]
Part 4: Angels of Mercy
61. Seventh Report of the Ladies' Aid Society of Philadelphia [1865]
62. C.E. Hopkins and E.C. Hobson A Report Concerning The Coloured Women of the South [Trustees of the John F. Slater Fund, 1896]
63. Anna Julia Cooper The Status of Woman in America A Voice from the South [The Aldine Printing House, 1892, pp.127-145]
64. N. Mosell, The Work of the Afro-American Woman, [G.S. Ferguson, 1894, reprinted 1908.]
65. Elise Johnson McDougald The Task of Negro Womanhood [The New Negro, ed. Alain Locke.]
66. The Fadettes Woman's Orchestra of Boston Boston Evening Transcript [14 August 1906]
67. Women's National Agricultural and Horticultural Association, May 1914
68. Edith Wharton 'Reverence' and 'The New Frenchwoman,' French Ways and Their Meaning New York and London [D. Appleton, 1919.]
Volume III: Health, Birth-Control and Prostitution
Edited and introduced by Katherine Joslin
Katherine Joslin Introduction: The Female Body
69. Victoria Woodhull The Elixir of Life, or Why do We Die? [Woodhull and Clafin, 1873]
70. Mary Putman Jacobi A Question of Rest for Women During Menstruation [1877]
71. John Noyes Male Continence The Oneida Community [Office of the American Socialist, 1877]
72. Dr Elizabeth Blackwell The Human Element in Sex [J.&A. Churchill, 1894]
73. Maria E. Ward Bicycling for Ladies [Brentano's, 1896]
74. Police Records of Prostitution from 1907-1908 in The Records of the Enforcement of the Laws of Prostitution
75. Helen Keller The Modern Woman Metropolitan Magazine, 1912 [Congressional Record, September 17, 1913]
76. Dr. Anna Blount The Woman Voter and the Eugenic Ideal (c.1915) [Research Publications, Inc., 1977]
77. Dr. Marie Carmichael Stopes The Problem of Unrest SNE, volume 31
78. Margaret Sanger Family Limitation [Fifth Edition, 1916]
79. S. Adolphus Knopf Birth Control [A.R. Elliott Publishing Company, 1916]
80. Katharine Bushnell Plain Words to Plain People
81. Virginia Brooks Eliminating Vice from the Small City [Chicago]
82. M.P. Dowling, Paul L. Blakely and Austin O'Malley Race, Suicide, Birth Control [New York Press]
83. Florence Kelley and Alzina Stevens Wage Earning Children in Hull House Maps and Papers [Thomas Y. Crowell, 1895]
84. Caroline Hedger, M.D. The School Children of the Stockyards District, Reprinted from the Transactions of the Fifteenth International Congress on Hygiene and Demography, held at Washington D.D., September 23-28, 1912, [Washington Government Printing Office, 1913]
85. The Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor in Collaboration with the Women's Education and Industrial Union of Boston, 'Household Expenses,' [Wright and Potter Printing Company, 1900]
86. Jane Addams Increased Social Control in a New Conscience and an Ancient Evil [Macmillan, 1912]
87. Emma Goldman The Traffic in Women (1911), Red Emma Speaks edited by Alix Kates Shulman, [Random House, 1972]
88. Frances E. Willard The Beautiful in How to Win: A Book for Girls [Funk & Wagnalls, 1886]
89. Charlotte Perkins Gilman Women and Social Service, Address before the Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government [November 14, 1907]
90. Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Emmeline Pethick Lawrence Does a Man Support his Wife? And Who Supports the Children? [National American Woman Suffrage Association]
Volume IV: Women's Clubs and Settlements
Edited and introduced by Katherine Joslin
Katherine Joslin Introduction: The Gathering of Women
91. Mrs. Percy Pennybacker The Eighth Biennial Convention of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, No. 519 [The American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1906]
92. Sarah S. Platt Decker The Meaning of the Women's Club Movement, No. 513, [The American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1906]
93. Mrs. John Dickinson Sherman The Women's Clubs in the Middle-Western States, No.515 [The American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1906]
94. Mary Alden Ward The Influence of Women's Clubs in New England, and in the Middle-Eastern States, No. 514 [The American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1906]
95. 'Clara de Hirsche Home for Working Girls,' Pamphlet, [Keystone Printery New York, 1905]
96. Elizabeth Lindsay David Chapters 1 and 2 from The Story of the Illinois Federation of Colored Women's Clubs [Pamphlet, 1922]
97. Dorothea Moore The Work of Women's Clubs in California, No. 517, [The American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1906]
98. Mrs A.O Granger The Effect of Club Work in the South, No. 516 [The American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1906]
99. Frances E. Willard The Ballot for the Home, Equal Suffrage Leaflet, Volume VII, Number 2 [March 1898]
100. Eliza Daniel Stewart Memories of the Crusade: A Thrilling Account of the Great Uprising of the Women of Ohio in 1873, Against the Liquor Crime [Columbus: Wm. G. Hubbard and Co., 1888]
101. Alice Stone Blackwell Suffrage and Temperance [Woman Suffrage Association and the Woman's Journal, circa 1912]
102. Elizabeth Tilton Is Beer the Cure for the Drink Evil? The Survey February 24, [1917]
103. Jane Addams Hull House: A Social Settlement at 335 South Halstead Street [Privately Published, 1894]
104. Jane Addams The Subjective Value of Social Settlements Philanthropy and Social Progress [Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, 1893]
105. South End House: Its 18th Year of Cumulative Progress [March 1910]
106. Ellen Gates Starr Art and Labor Hull House Maps and Papers [Thomas Y. Crowell, 1895]
107. Florence Mabel Dedrick Our Sister or the Streets Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls or War on the White Slave Trade [G.S. Ball, 1910]
108. Lillian D. Wald Organizations within the Settlements in The House on Henry Street [Rinehart and Winston, 1915]
109. Jane Addams Women's Memories - Reacting on Life as Illustrated by the Story of the Devil Baby The Long Road of Woman's Memory [Macmillan, 1916]
110. Mary Antin The Law of the Fathers They Who Knock at Our Gates [Houghton Mifflin, 1914]
111. Anna Julia Cooper The Social Settlement: What It Is and What It Does [privately published, Murray Brothers Press, 1913]
112. Ida B. Wells-Barnett A Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynchings in the US, 1892-1893-1894 [Donohue & Henneberry, 1895]
113. Alice Hamilton 'Journey and Impressions of Congress' and 'At the War Capitals' Women at the Hague [Macmillan, 1915]
114. Emily Greene Blach and Mercedes M. Randall Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Appendix in Peace and Bread in Time of War [Macmillan, 1922]
115. Zitkala-Sa and Gertrude Bonnin The Warlike Seven Old Indian Legends [Ginn & Company, 1902]
116. Mary Austin Sex Emancipation through War, Forum 59 [1918]
117. Caroline Bartlett Crane What Every Woman Wants Everyman's House [Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925]

An exploration of Francophone African literary imaginations and expressions through the lens of Afrofuturism Generally attributed to the Western imagination, science fiction is a literary genre that has expressed projected technological progress since the Industrial Revolution. However, certain fantastical elements in African literary expressions lend themselves to science fiction interpretations, both utopian and dystopian. When the concept of science is divorced from its Western, rationalist, materialist, positivist underpinnings, science fiction represents a broad imaginative space that supersedes the limits of this world. Whether it be on the moon, under the sea, or elsewhere within the imaginative universe, Afrofuturist readings of select films, novels, short stories, plays, and poems reveal a similarly emancipatory African future that is firmly rooted in its own cultural mythologies, cosmologies, and philosophies. Isaac Joslin identifies the contours and modalities of a speculative, futurist science fiction rooted in the sociocultural and geopolitical context of continental African imaginaries. Constructing an arc that begins with gender identity and cultural plurality as the bases for an inherently multicultural society, this project traces the essential role of language and narrativity in processing traumas that stem from the violence of colonial and neocolonial interventions in African societies. Joslin then outlines the influential role of discursive media that construct divisions and create illusions about societal success, belonging, and exclusion, while also identifying alternative critical existential mythologies that promote commonality and social solidarity. The trajectory proceeds with a critical analysis of the role of education in affirming collective identity in the era of globalization; the book also assesses the market-driven violence that undermines efforts to instill and promote cultural and social autonomy. Last, this work proposes an egalitarian and ecological ethos of communal engagement with and respect for the diversity of the human and natural worlds.

Once, in Bethlehem, a special gift was given. Share the story at the heart of Christmas in this beautifully illustrated retelling - the story of Mary and Joseph, shepherds and angels, wise men following a star, a humble stable, and a special newborn baby cradled in a manger.

Brings together experiences of teachers of African literature from around the world in the context of technological change. Focuses on theoretical and pedagogical approaches to the teaching of African Literature on both sides of the Atlantic and beyond. The publication of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart in 1958 drew universal attention not only to contemporary African creative imagination, but also established the art of the modern African novel. In 1986, Wole Soyinka became the first African to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, and opened the 'gate' for other African writers. By the close of the 20th century, African Literature had gained world-wide acceptance and legitimacy in the academy and featured on the literature curriculum of schools and colleges across the globe. This specialissue of African Literature Today, examines the diverse experiences of teachers of African Literature across regional, racial, cultural and national boundaries. It explores such issues as student responses, productive pedagogical innovations, the impact of modern technology, case studies of online teaching, teaching Criticism of African Literature, and teaching African Literature in an age of multiculturalism. It is intended as an invaluable teacher's handbook and essential student companion for the effective study of African Literature. Ernest Emenyonu is Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA; the editorial board is composed of scholars from US, UK and African universities Nigeria: HEBN

Once, in Bethlehem, a special gift was given. Share the story at the heart of Christmas in this beautifully illustrated retelling - the story of Mary and Joseph, shepherds and angels, wise men following a star, a humble stable, and a special newborn baby cradled in a manger.

This acclaimed children's Bible employs the successful formula of a story for each day of the year and is aimed at 7 to 12 year olds. The artwork is stunning and of the very highest quality - modern in feel, warm and bright, and giving fresh perspectives on the classic stories. Each story has approximately 250 words, and is complemented by a matching prayer. The Bible features full Bible references on each page as well as a 'story finder' to help the reader choose a story to suit the occasion, making this a complete resource and enable further exploration of the Bible as the child grows up. The Bible features full Bible references on each page as well as a 'story finder' to help the reader choose a story to suit the occasion, making this a complete resource and enable further exploration of the Bible as the child grows up.

Co-published with NACADA. Changes on college and university campuses have echoed changes in U.S. popular culture, politics, and religion since the 1970s through unprecedented visibility of LGBTQA persons and issues. In the face of hostile campus cultures, LGBTQA students rely on knowledgeable academic advisors for support, nurturance, and the resources needed to support their persistence. This edited collection offers theoretical understanding of the literature of the field, practical strategies that can be implemented at different institutions, and best practices that helps students, staff, and faculty members understand more deeply the challenges and rewards of working constructively with LGBTQA students. In addition, allies in the field of academic advising (both straight/cis-identified and queer) reflect on becoming an ally, describe obstacles and challenges they have experienced and offer advice to those seeking to deepen their commitment to ally-hood.

Co-published with NACADA. Changes on college and university campuses have echoed changes in U.S. popular culture, politics, and religion since the 1970s through unprecedented visibility of LGBTQA persons and issues. In the face of hostile campus cultures, LGBTQA students rely on knowledgeable academic advisors for support, nurturance, and the resources needed to support their persistence. This edited collection offers theoretical understanding of the literature of the field, practical strategies that can be implemented at different institutions, and best practices that helps students, staff, and faculty members understand more deeply the challenges and rewards of working constructively with LGBTQA students. In addition, allies in the field of academic advising (both straight/cis-identified and queer) reflect on becoming an ally, describe obstacles and challenges they have experienced and offer advice to those seeking to deepen their commitment to ally-hood.

This beautifully presented volume of classic Christmas stories from around the world is written for children aged 7+ to enjoy reading alone, or for reading aloud in a classroom setting or with family sitting round a log fire! A mixture of stories from the Christian heritage and more secular tales, these retellings all evoke the true spirit of Christmas around the world. Included are Nativity stories from the Gospels of Luke and Matthew, the stories of Baboushka and Papa Panov, Fir Tree and The Nutcracker. The whole collection sparkles with colourful and detailed artwork from Jane Ray. Praise for Jane Ray: "Rich in detail, Jane Ray's stunning illustrations capture the magic of our world" Julia Eccleshare about Stories for a Fragile Planet

The study of hydrodynamic stability is fundamental to many subjects, ranging from geophysics and meteorology through to engineering design. This treatise covers both classical and modern aspects of the subject, systematically developing it from the simplest physical problems, then progressing to the most complex, considering linear and nonlinear situations, and analyzing temporal and spatial stability. The authors examine each problem both analytically and numerically. Many relevant fluid flows are treated, including those where the fluid may be compressible, or those from geophysics, or those that require salient geometries for description. Details of initial-value problems are explored equally with those of stability. The text includes copious illustrations and an extensive bibliography, making it suitable for courses on hydrodynamic stability or as an authoritative reference for researchers. In this second edition the opportunity has been taken to update the text and, most importantly, provide solutions to the numerous extended exercises.

With all signs pointing to an increased use of and interest in project-based work in modern organizations, the better scholars are able to make sense of the current state of the field through theory development and empirical investigation, the more successful projects promise to become. This book is a welcome addition to our field and will be, I am sure, an important work and source for future reference well into the future. -Dr. Jeffrey Pinto, Pennsylvania State University The goal of practicing project managers and scholars alike lies in solving the puzzle of how to manage projects toward successful completion. However, understanding what comprises project "success"-seemingly such an innocent question-has come to represent one of the most challenging problems for project managers and scholars. Who determines success? At what point in time is success best measured? How do diverse stakeholders define success? What happens when their perspectives collide? What is the difference between project success and project management success? These are surprisingly complex problems. For every principle or rule posited, a brief investigation reveals that there are numerous exceptions, muddying the waters and making these ideas increasingly opaque. Project Management Methodologies, Governance and Success addresses this challenge head-on, putting into proper context the critical issues that shape our understanding of the project management research process. Employing a concept referred to as "philosophical triangulation," the book shows how to overcome the weaknesses or intrinsic biases that disrupt and minimize the impact of so much organizational research. It places organizational governance and success within their proper context allowing scholars to identify the best methods for investigating project-based work. It links together in a cogent manner the diverse themes of research theory and design, projects and project success, and organizational governance. In effect, this book demonstrates that to fully understand how to undertake research in projects, theory and method are inextricably interwoven.

In its fourth edition, this fully revised and updated survey covers the rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transgender people under present law, specifically in regard to freedom of speech and association, employment, housing, the military, family and parenting, and HIV disease. Utilizing an accessible question-and-answer format and nontechnical language, The Rights of Lesbians, Gay Men, Bisexuals, and Transgender People provides an overview for understanding both the general themes in legal doctrine and the way in which individuals can begin the process of asserting rights provided by the law.

The volume is a useful starting point for people facing discrimination or legal uncertainty and helps readers navigate the turbulent and constantly changing waters of the laws regarding sexual orientation and gender identity. New to this edition are two appendixes that include contact information for national and regional LGBT legal groups, an overview of the legal system to explain some of the terms and concepts that appear throughout the book, and a summary of highlights of the law state by state.

Investigates social parents – people who function as parents but who may not be recognized as such in the eyes of the law What makes a person a parent? Around the world, same-sex couples are raising children; parents are separating and re-partnering, creating blended families; and children are living with grandparents, family friends, and other caregivers. In these situations, there is often an adult who acts like a parent but who is unconnected to the child through biogenetics, marriage, or adoption—the common paths for establishing legal parenthood. In many countries, this person is called a “social parent.” Psychologically, and especially from a child’s point of view, a social parent is a parent. But the legal status of a social parent is hotly debated. Social Parenthood in Comparative Perspective considers how the law does—and how it should—recognize social parenthood. The book begins with a psychological account of social parenthood, establishing the importance of a relationship between a child and a social parent and the harms of not protecting this relationship. It then turns to social scientists to identify and explore some circumstances when a child may have a social parent. And to compare legal responses to social parenthood, the book draws on the expertise of legal scholars in nine countries in North America and Europe. The legal contributors describe the existing laws governing social parents, critique their efficacy, and offer new insights. Though almost all of the countries analyzed have adapted to the new reality of family life by recognizing social parents in some manner, the nature and extent of the recognition varies widely. The volume concludes by discussing some of the issues flowing from the decision to recognize social parents, including whether social parents should have the same legal rights and responsibilities as other legal parents, whether all social parents must be treated identically, whether the law should limit a child to two parents, and much more. Families are changing, and the law must adapt accordingly. Social Parenthood in Comparative Perspective charts a way forward by offering solutions to help policymakers consider options for addressing social parenthood.

Richard Henry Tawney was a man of deep Christian beliefs and powerful emotions, and nowhere can we gain as full a view of his mind and temperament, of the limitations of his ideas as well as their strengths, as in the Commonplace Book or diary which he kept at Manchester from 1912 to 1914. This document is a unique record of the assumptions which supported Tawney's life long work as a socialist and as a scholar. The pattern of his historical interests and, in embryonic form, the outline of many of the arguments which he later developed in his three most influential books, The Acquisitive Society (1921), Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (1926), and Equality (1931), clearly emerge from the pages of this pre-war diary. He appears therein as a man engaged in the exploration of the internal world of his Christian beliefs; and also vigorously seeking to relate them to social and economic life. Though written sixty years ago, this private diary of a remarkable man of powerful moral convictions is no less pertinent today than it was then.

From the world-renowned Joslin Diabetes Center and the coauthor of the million-copy seller, The Joslin Diabetes Manual, this book is based on the results of the ten-year Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT) from the National Institutes of Health--which proved that intensive control, opposed to standard methods, greatly reduces the effects of diabetes and the risk of long-term complications.

Can Diabetes Complications Be Prevented?

What Is Intensive Management?

Designing Your Own Plan.

Getting Started.

Living with an Intensive Plan.

Planning Your Meals.

Using Multiple Daily Insulin Injections.

Using Insulin Pumps.

Exercise and the Intensive Plan.

Pregnancy and Intensive Diabetes Therapy.

Psychological Concerns.

When Things Go Awry.

Appendices.

The study of hydrodynamic stability is fundamental to many subjects, ranging from geophysics and meteorology through to engineering design. This treatise covers both classical and modern aspects of the subject, systematically developing it from the simplest physical problems, then progressing to the most complex, considering linear and nonlinear situations, and analyzing temporal and spatial stability. The authors examine each problem both analytically and numerically. Many relevant fluid flows are treated, including those where the fluid may be compressible, or those from geophysics, or those that require salient geometries for description. Details of initial-value problems are explored equally with those of stability. The text includes copious illustrations and an extensive bibliography, making it suitable for courses on hydrodynamic stability or as an authoritative reference for researchers. In this second edition the opportunity has been taken to update the text and, most importantly, provide solutions to the numerous extended exercises.

An exploration of Francophone African literary imaginations and expressions through the lens of Afrofuturism Generally attributed to the Western imagination, science fiction is a literary genre that has expressed projected technological progress since the Industrial Revolution. However, certain fantastical elements in African literary expressions lend themselves to science fiction interpretations, both utopian and dystopian. When the concept of science is divorced from its Western, rationalist, materialist, positivist underpinnings, science fiction represents a broad imaginative space that supersedes the limits of this world. Whether it be on the moon, under the sea, or elsewhere within the imaginative universe, Afrofuturist readings of select films, novels, short stories, plays, and poems reveal a similarly emancipatory African future that is firmly rooted in its own cultural mythologies, cosmologies, and philosophies. Isaac Joslin identifies the contours and modalities of a speculative, futurist science fiction rooted in the sociocultural and geopolitical context of continental African imaginaries. Constructing an arc that begins with gender identity and cultural plurality as the bases for an inherently multicultural society, this project traces the essential role of language and narrativity in processing traumas that stem from the violence of colonial and neocolonial interventions in African societies. Joslin then outlines the influential role of discursive media that construct divisions and create illusions about societal success, belonging, and exclusion, while also identifying alternative critical existential mythologies that promote commonality and social solidarity. The trajectory proceeds with a critical analysis of the role of education in affirming collective identity in the era of globalization; the book also assesses the market-driven violence that undermines efforts to instill and promote cultural and social autonomy. Last, this work proposes an egalitarian and ecological ethos of communal engagement with and respect for the diversity of the human and natural worlds.