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Identifies two aspects of open adoption that have received little attention in previous research: public openness, and the practices involved in configuring adoptive kinship
Seeks to ameliorate the stigma of open adoption and re-assess its cultural value and impact
Includes original interviews which share parents’ personal experiences of open adoption.

After decades of stable and seemingly semi-permanent single-party dominance, Japanese politics have gone through fundamental changes since the early 1990s. Government ministries have been reorganised, prime ministerial powers strengthened, and rules for electing the lower house of parliament overhauled. Furthermore, frequent formation, merger, splintering and disappearance of new parties have continued for more than two decades.

Proven to be an excellent course-text over many years
Combines theory with practical applications
Avoids lengthy mathematical descriptions.

This book offers critical reflections on the intersections between criminology and queer scholarship, and charts future directions for this field. Since their development over twenty-five years ago, queer scholarship and politics have been hotly contested fields, equally embraced and dismissed. Amid calls for criminology and criminal justice institutions to respond more effectively to the injustices faced by LGBTIQ people, criminologists have recently developed a Queer Criminology and turned to queer scholarship in the process.

Presents a unique insight into the Bayesian calculation of the search zone for MH370
Written by members of the MH370 search team
Contains a tutorial description of available data allowing readers to work out their own solutions.

Provides a variety of analytical solutions to problems in used by cruise control devices.
the probe vehicles equipped with GPS to the traffic regulator
Written by an expert in the field.

This book gathers the voices of four local Hong Kong theologians to reflect on the 2014 democracy protests in the city from the perspectives of Catholic social teaching, feminist and queer intersectionality, Protestant liberation, and textual exegesis. The volume also includes an extended primer on Hong Kong politics to aid readers as they reflect on the theology underlying the democracy protests..

Publication in the field of economic sciences.

Disaster Risk Reduction and the Global System: Ruminations on a Way Forward by Gordy, Michael (Author)
71 pages | Springer (August 12, 2016) | 3319416669 | PDF | 985 Kb[/center]
Locates disaster risk reduction within a wider context than the technical parameters that usually shape the discussion
Written for educated readers who do not necessarily possess the technical background of practitioners in the area of disaster risk reduction
Articulates principles for practical action based on the analysis.