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Linguists and anthropologists explore the intriguing variety of possessive phrases denoting ownership of property, whole-part relations (such as body and plant parts), and blood and affinal kinship relations across a wide range of languages. Like others in the series this pioneering book will equally valued in linguistics and anthropology....

In   Growing Gaps, Paul Attewell and Katherine S. Newman bring together an impressive group of scholars to closely examine the relationship between inequality and education. Covering almost every continent,   Growing Gaps provides an overarching and essential examination of who is actually able to benefit from economic growth and who, because of...

The Sick Child in Early Modern England is a powerful exploration of the treatment,        perception, and experience of illness in childhood, from the late sixteenth to the        early eighteenth century. At this time, the sickness or death of a child was a        common occurrence - over a quarter of young people died before the age of fifteen...

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Revisioning macro-democratic processes in light of the processes and promise of micro-deliberation,  Innovating Democracy provides an integrated perspective on democratic theory and practice after the deliberative turn....