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  • Men as Women, Women as Men

    Changing Gender in Native American Cultures

    by Sabine Lang ...
    Translated by John L. Vantine ...
    As contemporary Native and non-Native Americans explore various forms of "gender bending" and gay and lesbian identities, interest has grown in "berdaches," the womanly men and manly women who existed in many Native American tribal cultures. Yet attempts to find current role models in these historical figures sometimes distort and oversimplify the historical realities.This book provides an ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • NGOs, Civil Society, and the Public Sphere

    by Sabine Lang ...
    Nongovernmental organizations act on behalf of citizens in politics and society. Yet many question their legitimacy and ask who they speak for. This book investigates how NGOs can become stronger advocates for citizens and better representatives of their interests. Sabine Lang analyzes the choices that NGOs face in their work for policy change between working in institutional settings and ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Leading from Behind

    Gender Equality in Germany During the Merkel Era

    Edited by Petra Ahrens, Phillip M. Ayoub, Sabine Lang ...
    This book takes stock of German gender equality in several policy fields after 16 years of governments led by Angela Merkel and her conservative Christian Democratic Party (CDU). While maintaining its status as an economic engine in Europe, Germany has historically been a laggard in adopting gender equality measures. The European Gender Equality Index, however, now ranks Germany relatively high ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Party Politics and the Implementation of Gender Quotas

    Resisting Institutions

    Edited by Sabine Lang, Petra Meier, Birgit Sauer ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This edited collection explores how party politics impacts the implementation of gender quotas in political representation across Europe. Contributors identify actors, institutions, and cultural legacies shape how quotas are put into practice. The volume’s subtitle, Resisting Institutions, points to the myriad ways in which parties and other institutions in Europe over time have resisted the ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • The Making of European Security Policy

    Between Institutional Dynamics and Global Challenges

    Edited by Roberta Haar, Thomas Christiansen, Sabina Lange, Sophie Vanhoonacker ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in European Security and Strategy
    This volume addresses how and in what capacity the European Union and its member states are able to respond to fundamental shifts occurring in global politics and remain relevant for the future.The changing nature of the international system is subject to considerable contestation among scholars, with many claiming that the fundamentals of the post-war international system are being rewritten. ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Gender Equality in Politics

    Implementing Party Quotas in Germany and Austria

    by Petra Ahrens, Katja Chmilewski, Sabine Lang, Birgit Sauer ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book provides a timely and unique contribution to current debates on how effectively voluntary party quotas address the persistent underrepresentation of women in legislatures. Using a most similar case design and a mixed-methods approach, the authors draw attention to the ways in which electoral systems and party regulations interface with voluntary party quotas in Germany and Austria. All ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

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    Stranger than Fiction

    by Sabine Baring-Gould, Andrew Lang, J. G. Lockhart ...
    Narrated by Cathy Dobson ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 17 min

    A riveting collection of true stories which are so strange as to be almost unbelievable.The Terrible Story of the “Mary Russell”The Murder of the Countess GörlitzThe Great Bank ForgeryMoonlight SonataGretna Green MarriagesCount BorulawskiJen Grenier, the French WerewolfI will Pay you all TomorrowThe Telephone at the OratoryThe Ghostly PassengerThe DiverThe Bloody HandThe Story of Kaspar ... Read more

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  • Renegotiating the Welfare State

    Flexible Adjustment through Corporatist Concertation

    Edited by Gerhard Lehmbruch, Frans van Waarden ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Political Economy of the Welfare State
    Why have some countries have been more successful in welfare state reform than others? This book examines the experiences of various countries in reforming their welfare states through renegotiations between the state and peak associations of employers and employees. This corporatist concertation has been blamed for bringing about all the ills of the welfare state, but lately corporate ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Transatlantic Trade Negotiations

    TTIP in a Globalized World

    by Jean-Frederic Morin, Tereza Novotná, Frederik Ponjaert, Mario Telò ...
    Series series Globalisation, Europe, and Multilateralism
    By focusing on the wider process of negotiations, this novel volume presents the first systematic analysis of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). The authors include outstanding scholars and relevant practitioners from across disciplines and various academic institutions around Europe and North America, but also from outside of the transatlantic basin. While presenting a ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy

    Edited by Andrew F. Cooper, Jorge Heine, Ramesh Thakur ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    At a time when diplomatic practices and the demands imposed on diplomats are changing quite radically, and many foreign ministries feel they are being left behind, there is a need to understand the various forces that are affecting the profession. Diplomacy remains a salient activity in today's world in which the basic authoritative actor is still the state. At the same time, in some respects the ... Read more

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  • Why Indigenous Literatures Matter

    by Daniel Heath Justice ...
    Series series Indigenous Studies
    Part survey of the field of Indigenous literary studies, part cultural history, and part literary polemic, Why Indigenous Literatures Matter asserts the vital significance of literary expression to the political, creative, and intellectual efforts of Indigenous peoples today.In considering the connections between literature and lived experience, this book contemplates four key questions at the ... Read more

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