After decades of tremendous growth, Kinshasa-capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo-is now the second-largest urban area in sub-Saharan Africa. And as the city has grown-from around 300,000 people in the mid-1950s to more than five million today-it has experienced seismic social, economic, and demographic changes. In this book, David Shapiro and B. Oleko Tambashe trace the impact of these changes on the lives of women, and their findings add dramatically to the field's limited knowledge of African demographic trends. They find that fertility has declined significantly in Kinshasa since the 1970s, and that women's increasing access to secondary education has played a key role in this decline. Better access to education has also given women greater access to employment opportunities. And by examining the impact of such factors as economic well-being and household demographic composition on the schooling of children, Shapiro and Tambashe reveal how one generation's fertility affects the next generation's education. This book will be a valuable guide for anyone who wants to understand the complex and ongoing social, demographic, economic, and developmental changes in contemporary sub-Saharan Africa.

Kinshasa in Transition: Women's Education, Employment, and Fertility (Population and Development)

History

David Shapiro

B. Oleko Tambashe

Africa

University of Chicago Press

John Ashbery: An Introduction to the Poetry (Columbia Introductions to Twentieth-Century American Poetry)

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Columbia University Press

The first and foremost concrete fact which every one will affirm to belong to his inner experience is the fact that consciousness of some sort goes on. I -William James, 1893 We are witnessing today a mounting interest among behavioral and biological scientists in problems long recognized as central to our understanding of human nature, yet until recently considered out of the bounds of scientific psychology and physiology. Sometimes thrown into the heading of "altered states of consciousness," this growing research bears directly upon such time-honored questions as the nature of conscious experience, the mind-body relationship, and volition. If one broadly views this research as encompassing the two interrelated areas of consciousness and self-regulation, one can find many relevant contemporary examples of creative and experimentally sophisticated approaches, including research on the regulation of perception and sensory experience, attention, imagery and thinking, emotion and pain; hypnosis and meditation; biofeedback and volun tary control; hemispheric asymmetry and specialization of brain func tion; drug-induced subjective states; and biological rhythms. Because the material is spread over many different kinds of publications and disciplines, it is difficult for anyone person to keep fully abreast of the significant advances. The overall aim of the new Plenum Series in Consciousness and Self-Regulation: Advances in Research is to provide a scholarly forum for discussing integration of these diverse areas by presenting some of the best current research and theory.

Consciousness and Self-Regulation: Advances in Research and Theory VOLUME 2

Gary E. Schwartz

Parenting & Relationships

Plenum Publishing Corporation

Beginning with a discussion of the problem of autonomy in dynamic psychiatry and a review of its development from infancy to adolescence, the author of Neurotic Styles explores, with numerous clinical examples, the distortion of the development of autonomy in obsessive-compulsive conditions, in sadism and masochism, and, finally, in paranoia.

Autonomy and Rigid Character

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

Basic Books

This new edition of one of the books most closely identified with clinical psychology since 1965 will expose a new generation to Shapiro's stunningly defining conceptualizations of the Obsessive-Compulsive, Paranoid, Hysterical, and Impulsive ways of being.

Neurotic Styles (The Austen Riggs Center Monograph Series, No. 5)

David is a freshly minted NYU grad who’s working a not-quite-entry-level job, falling in love, and telling his parents he’s studying for the LSAT. He starts a Tumblr blog, typing out posts on his BlackBerry under his desk—a blog that becomes wildly popular and brings him to the attention of major media (The New York Times) as well as the White House. But his outward fame doesn’t quell his confusion about the world and his direction in it.This semiautobiographical debut is a coming-of-age story perfect for our time. In A Sense of Direction author Gideon Lewis-Kraus’s words, “If Tao Lin had been born to Gary Shteyngart’s parents and spent his early twenties slaving for pageviews at NewYorker.com, he would have written something like this, the Bright Lights, Big City of the click-here-now generation.”

You're Not Much Use to Anyone: A Novel

Humor & Satire

New Harvest

Distributions from Qualified Plans is a comprehensive yet easy to understand study on the rules  and requirements for taking distributions from qualified employer plans and individual retirement plans.  This guide explains these things with a focus on the opportunity to provide sales and service.  It covers such core issues as premature distributions, required minimum distributions and distributions at death.  Also included is a thorough discussion of the distribution rules as they apply to traditional IRAs and Roth IRAs.  There is additionally a primer on types of qualified plans.  This course offers insights into the retirement planning and senior markets and how the practitioner, with knowledge of distributions, can further serve these clients.      Material has been updated to reflect the changes made by the new distribution rules and the Tax Act of 2001, including:  * Updates to rules governing qualified plans   * catch up contributions   * Simplification of required minimum distribution         rules       These changes are extensive and are reflected throughout the text.  A section on planning opportunities has been added, and facts, figures, illustrations and examples have been updated.      If you are taking this course for CE, the CE exam will automatically be added to your basket when selecting CE credit.  Certain states require that a proctor or monitor supervise the exam taking process.

Distributions from Qualified Plans W/Quick Reference Guide

Thomas F. Streiff

Reference

R & R Newkirk

Annuities

Business & Money

Economics

Kaplan Financial

Social realism: Art as a Weapon (Critical studies in American art)

Frederick Ungar Publishing Co.

Based on an exhibit at the St. Louis Art Museum, this book includes color photos of the five paintings in the narrative cycle with photos of some of the 80 preparatory studies and detailed descriptions and the artist's description of the development of the paintings.

Alfred Leslie: The Killing Cycle

Arts & Photography

Alfred Leslie

Judith Stein

Individual Artists

Distributed Art Pub Inc

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