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Despite international and national guarantees of equal rights, there remains a great deal to be done to achieve global employment equality for individuals with disabilities. In OECD countries, the employment rate of persons with disabilities was just over 40%, compared to 75% for persons without a disability; in many low- and middle-income...

Secular Activism and Community in AmericaSurveys over the last twenty years have seen an ever-growing number of Americans disclaim religious affiliations and instead check the "e;none"e; box. In the first sociological exploration of organized secularism in America, Richard Cimino and Christopher Smith show how one segment of these...

A Case Study of the Syntax-Semantics InterfaceThis book focuses on the relationship between syntax and meaning. Terje Lohndal's core claim is that it is possible to create a transparent mapping from syntax to logical form such that each syntactic Spell-Out domain directly corresponds to a conjunct at logical form. The argument focuses on two...

Fifteen tales from Russia's mysterious capital city provide an absorbing and many-sided portrait in fiction for readers who love travelling, armchair travellers, lovers of Russian literature, as well as those who love Moscow....

This book provides an accessible guide to price index and hedonic techniques, with a focus on how to best apply these techniques and interpret the resulting measures. One goal of this book is to provide first-hand experience at constructing these measures, with guidance on practical issues such as what the ideal data would look like and how best to...

On Bursting Bubbles, Budgets, and BeliefsThis book offers a critical assessment of the history of the euro, its crisis, and the rescue measures taken by the European Central Bank and the community of states. The euro induced huge capital flows from the northern to the southern countries of the Eurozone that triggered an inflationary credit bubble...