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A 'Haven Of Benignity': Conflict And Cooperation Between Eighteenth-Century Savannah Jews, Mark I. Greenberg
A 'Haven Of Benignity': Conflict And Cooperation Between Eighteenth-Century Savannah Jews, Mark I. Greenberg
Mark I. Greenberg
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University Of South Florida: The First Fifty Years, 1956-2006, Mark I. Greenberg
University Of South Florida: The First Fifty Years, 1956-2006, Mark I. Greenberg
Mark I. Greenberg
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Mongolia At 800: The State And Nation Since Chinggis Khan, Henry G. Schwarz
Mongolia At 800: The State And Nation Since Chinggis Khan, Henry G. Schwarz
Henry G. Schwarz
As we are commemorating the 800th anniversary of Temüjin’s ascent to power, we are being told that that event marked the birth of the Mongolian state, the Yeke Monggol Ulus. There can, of course, be no question that this event happened and that it marked, like the Otrar Incident a dozen years later, a major qualitative change in the history of Mongolia and indeed of most of northern Asia. What is of equal importance but has been neglected or entirely ignored was the birth of a Mongolian nation, or perhaps more precisely speaking, a new Mongolian nation. The relative neglect …
The Impact Of Sports On Female Adolescent Development: The Importance Of Title Ix, Dana C. Jack
The Impact Of Sports On Female Adolescent Development: The Importance Of Title Ix, Dana C. Jack
Dana C. Jack
Adolescence is a time of crisis for girls, a time when girls become psychologically vulnerable. While boys are at risk in childhood, girls undergo a sudden drop in resiliency at age 11 (Block, 1990). Not only girls with family problems, but a wide range of lively, outspoken, and intelligent girls face marked increases in depression, poor body images, eating disorders, and a fall in self-esteem significantly more often than do boys. Seligman (1991) finds that “girls, at least up to puberty, are more noticeably optimistic than boys, (p.125) and concludes that “whatever causes the huge difference in depression in adulthood, …