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This study traces the development of women's sports from antiquity to the present day, focusing on the role of women's athletics in a cultural and social context. It investigates various contemporary issues, such as sexual exploitation and the feasibility of competition between men and women.

Describes modern American society, examines America's domestic and foreign policy, and identifies trends in government.

Provides information on the music, libretto, and major roles of operas and music theater works by more that one hundred modern American composers, and includes selections from reviews of each work.

Using the ethnographic methods of anthropology in conjunction with the clinical techniques of psychoanalysis, this study explore the culture and erotic experiences of the Sambia, a tribe of Papua, New Guinea, and the role of subjectivity in ethnographic research.

Through the lens of Chinese food, the authors address recent theories in social science concerning cultural identity, ethnicity, boundary formation, consumerism and globalization, and the invention of local cuisine in the context of rapid culture change in East and Southeast Asia.

Describes how plants and animals made the transition from water to land, presenting integrated summaries of the evidence from both fossils and living organisms. The authors consider when various transitions took place and which groups of organisms were involved.

An analysis of immigrant life in the USA which focuses on the habits of consumption. The author describes how Jews responded to the prospect of mass consumption, familiarizing themselves with such activities as installment buying, advertising and vacationing.

This overview of major issues in the study and treatment of depression covers all of the major theoretical and assessment issues. It offers explanations of the psychological, biological and cultural aspects of depression, and indicates treatment techniques, including medication.

Sarah Moore Grimke and Angelina Emily Grimke were the first women in America coming from a southern slave-holding family to speak publicly on behalf of the abolition of slavery. This book contains a collection of eloquent political writings. It includes a introduction situating the Grimkes' in an historical and political context.

Introduces a wide range of general physical and applied mathematical techniques and shows how these techniques can be applied to answering specific questions about the earth. The techniques include geodesy, geomagnetism, and paleomagnetism, hydrology, planetology, tectonophysics, seismology, physical volcanology, and petrology.

Focuses on evaporites such as limestone, gypsum, and halite, found in the rift and foreland basins of eastern France and northern Spain. By showing that the early environment of the region encouraged the growth of many forms of life, the text challenges traditional assessments of these areas.

This now classic work is the only definitive collection available of interviews with leading French women intellectuals.

This now classic work is the only definitive collection available of interviews with leading French women intellectuals.