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Nearly five million Muslims call France home, the vast majority from former French colonies in North Africa. While France has successfully integrated waves of immigrants in the past, this new influx poses a new variety of challenges—much as it does in neighboring European countries. Alarmists view the growing role of Muslims in French society as a form of "reverse colonization"; they believe Muslim political and religious networks seek to undermine European rule of law or that fundamentalists are creating a society entirely separate from the mainstream. Integrating Islam portrays the more complex reality of integration's successes and failures in French politics and society. From intermarr...
A multi-faceted look at what global central bank cooperation has - and has not - achieved over the past half century.
Of Living Stone: Perspectives on Continuous Knowledge and the Work of Vine Deloria, Jr. is a collection of new essays on the legacy of Vine Deloria, Jr., one of the most influential thinkers of our time. This insightful collection features more than thirty original pieces, bringing together Tribal leaders, artists, scientists, activists, scholars, legal experts, and humorists. A group of French scholars offers surprising perspectives on Deloria's continuing global influence. Readers will find thoughtful and creative views on his wide-ranging and world-changing body of work. Some build upon his ideas while others offer important criticisms. In addition to its content, this volume is unique in...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Power and Timing Modeling, Optimization and Simulation, PATMOS 2006. The book presents 41 revised full papers and 23 revised poster papers together with 4 key notes and 3 industrial abstracts. Topical sections include high-level design, power estimation and modeling memory and register files, low-power digital circuits, busses and interconnects, low-power techniques, applications and SoC design, modeling, and more.
Cet ouvrage propose une synthèse des pratiques actuelles en France et dans le monde, à la fois pour les stérilisations volontaires des hommes et des femmes comme moyen de contraception et pour les stérilisations sur des populations vulnérables, en particulier les personnes handicapées mentales.
Quali sono i rischi nell'uso prolungato della "pillola"? Che cosa succede all'organismo (femminile e maschile) quando si entra nella pubertà? Come vivere la maternità? Come e dove si effeffua l'interruzione volontaria della gravidanza? Quali sono e come si usano i metodi di contraccezione? Come è possibile prevenire e curare le malattie veneree? Sono questi alcuni dei problemi che ciascuno di noi, donna o uomo, giunge prima o poi a porsi. Concepito per rispondere alle esigenze di un vasto pubblico, scrittocon un linguaggio estremamente semplice ed accessibile a tutti, con un testo spesso elaborato sotto forma di domanda/risposta, corredato da un'ampia serie di illustrazioni esemplificativ...
En matière de grossesse, d’accouchement et de maternage, les mères doivent composer avec des spécialistes qui tentent de leur imposer leur point de vue au moyen de « conseils pratiques ». Or, qu’il s’agisse de l’allaitement, de l’habillement, de la sucette, de la présence de la mère, du père, ou du rôle du puériculteur, il apparaît que, d’une génération à l’autre, ces spécialistes ne craignent pas de se contredire. Comment s’y retrouver ? Qui croire ? Quels conseils suivre ?Geneviève Delaisi de Parseval, psychanalyste, est spécialiste des questions de fertilité et de filiation. Suzanne Lallemand, ethnologue, directeur de recherche au CNRS, s’intéresse aux mêmes thèmes hors société industrielle.