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Two eight-page B&W and color photo inserts
This two-volume set presents information and images of the varied clothing and textiles of cultures around the world, allowing readers to better appreciate the richness and diversity of human culture and history. The contributors to Encyclopedia of National Dress: Traditional Clothing around the World examine clothing that is symbolic of the people who live in regions all over the world, providing a historical and geographic perspective that illustrates how people dress and explains the reasons behind the material, design, and style. The encyclopedia features a preface and introduction to its contents. Each entry in the encyclopedia includes a short historical and geographical background for the topic before discussing the clothing of people in that country or region of the world. This work will be of great interest to high school students researching fashion, fashion history, or history as well as to undergraduate students and general readers interested in anthropology, textiles, fashion, ethnology, history, or ethnic dress.
This study focuses on the provision and use of mental health care and a variety of support services by people with AIDS (PWAs). Specifically, the author examines the types and quantity of services used, who are the providers of these services, and the cost or dollar value of the care provided. The project is based on face-to-face interviews with sixty-two PWAs. Forty of these are gay men living in the Los Angeles area and the other twenty-two have a history of IV drug-use and reside in the Brooklyn area of New York City. Since the study is not designed to collect a representative sample of PWAs, the results are not perfectly generalizable. The samples reflect utilization among gay men affili...
This is an account of the author’s two-and-a-half year adventure in Equatorial Guinea, and his efforts to get this small bankrupt African nation on the path of structural development.
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