Author: Judith Lorber
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Keywords: gender, lens, illness, construction, social
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2002-08-15
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0759102384
ISBN-13: 9780759102385
"Judith Lorber and Lisa Jean Moore consider the interface between the social institutions of gender and Western medicine in this brief, lively textbook.They offer a distinct feminist viewpoint to analyze issues of power and politics concerning physical illness. SIGNS labeled the first edition ’a rich and imaginative work.’ In the extensively revised second edition of this successful text, the authors add chapters on disability and genital surgeries. They also update and expand their discussions of social epidemiology, AIDS, the health professions, PMS, menopause, and feminist healt
Author: Dennis Laney
Publisher: Hove Books
Keywords: leica, lenses, using, practice, lens, choosing
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1993-09-20
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1897802013
ISBN-13: 9781897802014
Leica lens designs, selecting the most appropriate R or M lens, planning an outfit, handling lenses and close-up with Leica. Directory to current lenses.
Author: Michele Adams
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: gender, rowman, paperback, lens, families
Number of Pages: 410
Published: 2008-05-21
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0742561526
ISBN-13: 9780742561526
Gender and Families uses cultural events from our everyday lives to explore how families and gender are mutually produced and inseparably linked. In this updated second edition, Coltrane and Adams continue to demystify the complexities of gender and family with discussions of racial difference, ethnicity, and social class.
Author: M. Bahati Kuumba
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Keywords: gender, lens, social, movements
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2001-09-05
List price: $33.95
ISBN-10: 0759101884
ISBN-13: 9780759101883
Do men and women experience participation in social movements differently? Are gender roles reproduced or undermined during a struggle for liberation? In this brief text examining gender roles in social movements, M. Bahati Kuumba shows how liberation struggles are viewed through women’s eyes and how gender affects women’s mobilization, strategies, and outcomes in social movement organizations. Using two well-known examples, the American civil rights movement and the South African national liberation movement, Kuumba documents the circumscribed roles of women, the unheralded role o
Author: Lens
Publisher: Other
Keywords: environmental, integrated, technology, pollution, sulfur, technologies, treat
Number of Pages: 550
Published: 2000-01-01
List price: $136.00
ISBN-10: 1900222094
ISBN-13: 9781900222099
A definitive and detailed discussion of state-of-the-art environmental technologies to treat pollution by sulfurous compounds of wastewater, off-gases, solid waste, soils and sediments. Special attention is given to novel bioremediation techniques that have been developed over the past 10 years. The information density is unique owing to the many figures and graphs (150), tables (over 80) and most important, over 1500 cited literature references. A detailed subject index helps the reader to find their way through the different technological applications, making it the perfect reference work fo
Author: Bryan Peterson
Publisher: Amphoto Books
Keywords: close, macro, lens, encounters, creative, photography, understanding
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2009-03-31
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0817427198
ISBN-13: 9780817427191
In Understanding Close-up Photography Bryan Peterson turns his attention to a topic that is an ongoing favorite with photographers. But where most macro photography books focus on capuring subjects in nature, Peterson promises to go beyond, teaching you to photograph a range of subjects from animals and plants from the garden, beach, or mountains to objects found in the kitchen, supermarket, even the junkyard. In addition to information on equipment, exposure, light, and composition, his book will feature elements of technique that go beyond the norm, teaching you to shoot not just what is gen
Author: Committee on Authentication Technologies and Their
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: privacy, lens, authentication
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2003-09-22
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0309088968
ISBN-13: 9780309088961
"Who Goes There?: Authentication Through the Lens of Privacy" explores authentication technologies (passwords, PKI, biometrics, etc.) and their implications for the privacy of the individuals being authenticated. As authentication becomes ever more ubiquitous, understanding its interplay with privacy is vital. The report examines numerous concepts, including authentication, authorization, identification, privacy, and security. It provides a framework to guide thinking about these issues when deciding whether and how to use authentication in a particular context. The book explains how privacy i
