Abortion in Asia

Abortion in AsiaThe issue of abortion forces a confrontation with the effects of poverty and economic inequalities, local moral worlds, and the cultural and social perceptions of the female body, gender, and reproduction. Based on extensive original field research, this provocative collection presents case studies from Thailand, Cambodia, Burma, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and India. It includes powerful insight into the conditions and hard choices faced by women

who serves as a medium and supplement for their critiques of modern culture

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Anthropology thus reaches the Levinasian challenge of defining itself as a humanistic science as well as a humanistic documentation of social life

Moses –among the most significant leaders in Western civilization – is arguably the quintessential example of leadership from whom much can be learned by people entering and occupying leadership positions

Incorporating original and extensive archival research

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Even though classical wheat breeding has been successful in producing pest resistant wheat varieties that express agronomically valued traits

Overseas Doctoral Fellowship by Government of India and Several Merit Scholarships

Numerous experiments carried out in the last decades show that compost has well-known short- and long-term

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This lavishly illustrated book is the culmination of a project to document and conserve the tomb of Menna

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