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epub |eng | 2017-04-07 | Author:Ross Benes

HONG KONG’S MAN SHORTAGE While mainland China has a shortage of women, Hong Kong actually has a female surplus, with roughly 855 men for every 1,000 women.84 The gap is ...
( Category: Commentary & Opinion April 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-06 | Author:Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick

ADAPTATION: LAND ATTACHMENT Land attachment is similar to sharecropping in that it draws on many of the same raw resources—labor and land—yet it is a solid step closer to extractive ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism April 6,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-21 | Author:Sara Khan & Tony McMahon [Khan, Sara]

The gender jihad Today many Muslim men and women true to their faith are engaging in a ‘gender jihad’,78 a struggle for reclaiming women’s rights guaranteed by Islam. Using the ...
( Category: European April 5,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-29 | Author:Thomas, Gordon; Lewis, Greg

After a five-day voyage across the Atlantic, the OSS women disembarked at Southampton in their Women’s Army Corps uniforms and had the first sight of bomb damage as they were ...
( Category: Intelligence & Espionage March 30,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-19 | Author:Andrew Gamble

International competitiveness The second key challenge facing contemporary welfare states and governments seeking to manage them is how to maintain a welfare state in an open economy. After several decades ...
( Category: Political Economy March 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-18 | Author:Hamid Dabashi [Dabashi, Hamid]

Ibn Warraq: Exactly, and that’s why, as I’ve said over and over again, it is illogical, totally illogical, for the Western media, there’s an editorial practically every month now in ...
( Category: Colonialism & Post-Colonialism March 22,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2017-07-02 | Author:Bruce Cannon Gibney

Antisocial Security All OAB programs struggle for the simple reason that they never received enough funding in the first place. FDR may have hoped Social Security would be self-sustaining and ...
( Category: Commentary & Opinion March 22,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-10-05 | Author:Christopher Davidson [Davidson, Christopher]

SYRIA – THE MEDIA WAR In parallel to the increased funding and weapons supplies for Syrian rebel militias and jihadist organizations, since 2013 there were also renewed and substantial efforts ...
( Category: African March 22,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-01-04 | Author:Newton-Small, Jay [Newton-Small, Jay]

There’s a good deal of evidence that women are inherently risk-averse. Almost all—97 percent—of microlending is done to women in the developing world. Microcredit started in Bangladesh in 1983 and ...
( Category: Leadership March 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-21 | Author:Jesse Ventura

• In 2014, the drug overdose death rate for whites aged twenty-five to thirty-four was five times what it was in 1999. • The overdose rate for thirty-five-to-forty-four-year-old whites tripled ...
( Category: Social Policy March 22,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Iceland, John

A fair reckoning of these two arguments—one economic and one cultural—is that both have elements of truth to them. Below I draw extensively from an excellent review of the social ...
( Category: Labor & Industrial Relations March 22,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-06-08 | Author:Ham, Mary Katharine & Benson, Guy [Ham, Mary Katharine]

* * * 1 Disabled. 2 Guy’s score: 25. Ruling: “Advantaged.” Also, we are 95 percent sure this website is satire. 3 You, dear reader, are almost guaranteed to be ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism March 22,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-03 | Author:Paul Marshall & Nina Shea [Marshall, Paul]

Cartoons Denmark While verbal criticism or vitriol has regularly drawn the attention of Muslim activists and Western legal authorities, it is cartoons that have been at the center of most ...
( Category: Religion, Politics & State March 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-30 | Author:Sybrina Fulton

“You all have to hold him accountable,” Crump told the commissioners. “Nobody else can do it here this evening. You all have to ask these questions, take the names, and ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism March 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-19 | Author:James Bloodworth [James Bloodworth]

The strength of weak ties in contemporary Britain was reiterated in an analysis at the LSE of the recent Great British Class Survey. Those who worked in professional occupations were ...
( Category: Commentary & Opinion March 20,2017 )