This research looks at the process of women's empowerment in post-1994 Rwanda, with special focus on twelve cooperatives working in Mayaga region and the way these cooperatives empower women, their...
Women are among the most prominent actors of social change and transformation and comprise the mainstay of the 'modernization project', one that raises societies to greater efficacy to the highest ...
Usually, like her mother, because she is a girl, the girl has no voice, deprived of access to school, inheritance, resources and opportunities. Because sexuality is considered taboo, she cannot tal...
Despite women's presence in migration streams since the mid-nineteenth century, research on Mexican women's migration has a significantly shorter history than that which focuses on Mexic...
This study explored seven Canadian women's journeys of healing from problematic substance use in relation to their experiences of social, political, economic and health inequities. Critical feminis...
Where are the women of India poised in their country's economy? Are they a part of its economic engine and prepared to reap its windfall? Pundits call India: 'the second largest emerging economy in...
A unique study of 26 rare wooden mosques from Samsun, in the Central Black Sea Region, and as much a travel account of the author's personal ambition to record these vanishing structures as ...
Word and Story has broken new ground by enlisting well-known scholars in the examination of Lewis's ideas about language and narrative, both as stated in theory and as exemplified in practice. Neve...
If I could fall into a time warp and be sixteen again, I would rewrite my stories. To myself I would stay true and I would know better than to fall in love with you. Not you who I longed for but yo...
The durability of Japan's industrial products now holds world acclaim. But the durability of jobs in Japan—despite misleading Western images of lifetime employment—is no better than in other indust...
The concept of Work-life balance is an important aspect in human resources management in both professional business practice and academic research. It is a central issue affecting well being, as fa...
This book is about the WLB/family-friendly policies of women working in the banking sector in Mozambique, therefore, it will provide a review of the existing literature on the subject. It will star...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLERThe Globe and Mail Top Leadership and Management BookForbes Top Creative Leadership BookFrom the visionary head of Google's innova...
Attention to workers' health at the organisational level has become increasingly frequent in recent years, as the health of the professional has a significant influence on their quality of life and...
Today's world is marked with number of challenges to meet. With every passing moment it is getting difficult for a common man to survive and combat with these competitive challenges. It is observed...
This workbook that we have developed is made up of five chapters and each contains twenty exercises ranging from recognition, classification and application of discursive connectors in the construc...
Winner of the Thomas McGann Award from the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies
Combining theories from the anthropology of consumption, cultural studies, and gender studies with the ...