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This textbook introduces readers to the academic scholarship on the history of childhood and youth in sub-Saharan Africa, with a particular focus on the colonial and postcolonial eras. In a series of seven chapters, it addresses key themes in the historical scholarship, arguing that age serves as a useful category for historical analysis in African history. Just as race, class, and gender can be used to understand how African societies have been structured over time, so too age is a powerful tool for thinking about how power, youth, and seniority intersect and change over time. This is, then, a work of synthesis rather than of new research based on primary sources. This book will therefore introduce mainstream scholars of the history of childhood and youth to the literature on Africa, and scholars of youth in Africa to debates within the wider field of the history of children and youth.
The United States today suffers from too much criminal law and too much punishment. Husak describes the phenomena in some detail and explores their relation, and why these trends produce massive injustice. His primary goal is to defend a set of constraints that limit the authority of states to enact and enforce penal offenses. The book urges the weight and relevance of this topic in the real world, and notes that most Anglo-American legal philosophers have neglected it. Husak's secondary goal is to situate this endeavor in criminal theory as traditionally construed. He argues that many of the resources to reduce the size and scope of the criminal law can be derived from within the criminal law itself-even though these resources have not been used explicitly for this purpose. Additional constraints emerge from a political view about the conditions under which important rights such as the right implicated by punishment-may be infringed. When conjoined, these constraints produce what Husak calls a minimalist theory of criminal liability. Husak applies these constraints to a handful of examples-most notably, to the justifiability of drug proscriptions.
Com humor e personagens surpreendentes, Kody Keplinger aborda, em seu primeiro romance, questões como amizade, autoestima e competição feminina Em um grupo de amigas, a DUFF - sigla para Designated Ugly Fat Friend - é aquela que não se destaca, a menos atraente da turma. Ela não se enquadra nos padrões de beleza tradicionais, ou se preocupa menos com o visual, mas nem por isso deixa de ter seus encantos. Bianca Piper é esse tipo de garota. E estava muito bem, até que Wesley Rush, o pegador da escola, veio puxar conversa dizendo que ser legal com a DUFF o ajudaria a se dar bem com suas amigas Casey e Jessica. A partir de então, Bianca começa a se questionar: ela seria a amiga feia?...
Com humor e personagens surpreendentes, Kody Keplinger aborda, em seu primeiro romance, questões como amizade, autoestima e competição feminina Em um grupo de amigas, a DUFF - sigla para Designated Ugly Fat Friend - é aquela que não se destaca, a menos atraente da turma. Ela não se enquadra nos padrões de beleza tradicionais, ou se preocupa menos com o visual, mas nem por isso deixa de ter seus encantos. Bianca Piper é esse tipo de garota. E estava muito bem, até que Wesley Rush, o pegador da escola, veio puxar conversa dizendo que ser legal com a DUFF o ajudaria a se dar bem com suas amigas Casey e Jessica. A partir de então, Bianca começa a se questionar: ela seria a amiga feia?...