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Satisfaction with Life and Service Delivery in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union: Some Insights from the 2006 Life in Transition Survey
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-20%The past two decades in eastern europe and the former soviet union have been times of tremendous change, with countries undergoing rapid transformation from centrally-planned to market-oriented economies.
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Healthy Development: The World Bank Strategy for Health, Nutrition and Population Results
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-20%This paper spells out the vision of the world bank on how to strenghten worldwide health systems and ensure better responses to key challenges such as combating the hiv/aids pandemic, repositioning nutrition on the development agenda, and renewing commitment on population policy.
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Private Voluntary Health Insurance in Development: Friend or Foe?
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-20%Private voluntary health insurance already plays an important role in the health sector of many low and middle income countries.
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Working in Health: Financing and Managing the Public Sector Health Workforce
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-20%Working in health focuses on two key human resources for health policy questions: what is the impact of government fiscal policy on health worker staffing levels, and how effectively do governments manage health wage bill resources in the public sector?
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Are You Being Served?: New Tools for Measuring Service Delivery
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-20%This publication presents tools and techniques for measuring service delivery in health and education and people's experiences from the field in deploying these methods.
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Establishing Private Health Care Facilities in Developing Countries: A Guide for Medical Entrepreneurs
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-20%This book is a practical guide for medical professionals with little or no business experience who are interested in establishing health care facilities in developing countries.
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Hospital Performance in Brazil: The Search for Excellence
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-20%Drawing on an eclectic array of research and evaluative studies culled from a mix of sources, this volume analyzes brazilian hospital performance along several policy dimensions including resource allocation and use within hospitals, hospital payment mechanisms, organizational and governance arrangements, management practices, and regulation and quality.
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Forests Sourcebook: Practical Guidance for Sustaining Forests in Development Cooperation
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-20%The forests source book provides practical operations-oriented guidance for forest sector engagement toward the goals of poverty reduction, conservation and economic development.
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Violence against Women and Girls: Lessons from South Asia
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-28%This report documents the dynamics of violence against women in south asia across the life cycle, from early childhood to old age.
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Rapunzel's Daughters: What Women's Hair Tells Us About Women's Lives
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The first book to explore the role of hair in women's lives and what it reveals about their identities, intimate relationships, and work liveshair is one of the first things other people notice about us-and is one of the.
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Fundamental Differences
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-20%Fundamental differences brings together lucid interdisciplinary critiques of social conservative politics and ideas in the areas of welfare, family and school policy, gender representation, and conservative doctrine.
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Confronting Postmaternal Thinking
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-20%Public discourse maintains a deep cultural anxiety around expressions of maternalism and the application of maternal values to the society as a whole.
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Surviving the Silence: Black Women's Stories of Rape
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-28%In this "intelligent", "stunning", and "honest" book, charlotte pierce-baker weaves together the accounts of black women who have been raped and who have felt that they had to remain silent in order to protect themselves and their race..
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Portraits of Change: Unparalleled Freedoms, Unanticipated Consequences
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-10%Portraits of change is a deep, intimate look at the powerful impact of the women's movement and the widespread social upheaval of the 1960s and 1970s on women's lives.
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Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality
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-20%Why do some people prefer heterosexual love while others fancy the same sex?
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Natal Signs: Cultural Representations of Pregnancy, Birth and Parenting
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-20%Natal signs: cultural representations of pregnancy, birth and parenting explores some of the ways in which reproductive experiences are taken up in the rich arena of cultural production.
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Women At War 1914-91: Voices of the Twentieth Century
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Women at war captures the reality of women at war in their own words, examining the enormously important part that women played in the major wars of the twentieth century.
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In Love and Struggle
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-10%Winner of the 2009 feminist and women's studies association book prize do you think i can be a feminist mother?
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The Crisis-Woman: Body Politics and the Modern Woman in Fascist Italy
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-28%Femininity in the form of the donna-crisi, or "crisis-woman," was a fixture of fascist propaganda in the early 1930s.
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Lesbian, Queer, and Bisexual Women in Heterosexual Relationships: Narratives of Sexual Identity
$38.29
-10%This book draws on interviews with women who left relationships with women to begin relationships with men, and uncovers how the women make sense of who they are.
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History of Woman Suffrage, all six volumes
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This file includes all six volumes, told by the heroines who fought for the women's vote.
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Love, InshAllah
$12.79
-20%In this groundbreaking collection, american muslim women writers sweep aside stereotypes to share their real-life tales of flirting, dating, longing, and sex.
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The Last Dance for Grace
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-20%We will never have the answer to many of the questions raised by what has become known as the duke lacrosse case.
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Working Difference: Women's Working Lives in Hungary and Austria, 1945-1995
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-28%Working difference is one of the first comparative, historical studies of women's professional access to public institutions in a state socialist and a capitalist society.
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Le Pouvoir Silencieux et Inconsciente. Des Femmes
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Le livre, sans misogynie et misandrie, est une analyse qui met en évidence les postulats relatifs au libre arbitre que les femmes ont en société dans la gestion de leur image et le pouvoir conséquent qu'il en dérive… enchaîné à influences sociales.
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Women and Sexuality
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Women and sexuality is the fourth volume in the sexuality series.
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Dangerous Women
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-20%Grannies, geishas, warriors, mystics, recluses, and predators these are the dangerous women of traditional china.
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Daisy Bates in the Desert: A Woman's Life Among the Aborigines
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In 1913, at the age of 54, daisy bates went to live in the deserts of south australia.
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Sei frech, wild und wunderbar
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Viele frauen haben eine tiefe sehnsucht nach dem frechen, wilden mädchen, das sie so gerne wären, und nach der wunderbaren frau, die unentdeckt in ihnen schlummert.
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Muddying the Waters
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-20%In muddying the waters, richa nagar uses stories, encounters, and anecdotes as well as methodological reflections, to grapple with the complexity of working through solidarities, responsibility, and ethics while involved in politically engaged scholarship.
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Women in Palestine
$5.99
The empowerment of women - socially, culturally, economically and politically, is one of the fundamental keys to achieving development in addition to education.
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The Case Against Women Raising Children
$8.69
-13%For information about the book go to www.
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Pin-Up Grrrls: Feminism, Sexuality, Popular Culture
$23.09
-28%Subverting stereotypical images of women, a new generation of feminist artists is remaking the pin-up, much as annie sprinkle, cindy sherman, and others did in the 1970s and 1980s.
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