Growing Up in New Guinea

Growing Up in New Guinea
By:"Margaret Mead"
Published on 2001-02-20 by Harper Collins

Following the sensational success of her first book, Coming of Age in Samoa, Margaret Mead continued her brilliant work in Growing Up in New Guinea, detailing her study of the Manus, a New Guinea people still untouched by the outside world when she visited them in 1928. She lived in their noisy fishing village at a pivotal time -- after warfare had vanished but before missions and global commerce had begun to change their lives. She developed fascinating insights into their family lives, exploring their attitudes toward sex, marriage, the rearing of children, and the supernatural, which led her to see intriguing parallels with modern Western society. Reissued for the centennial of her birth and featuring introductions by Howard Gardner and Mead's daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson, this book offers important anthropological insights into human societies and vividly captures a vanished way of life.

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Hobbies

Hobbies
By:"Steven M. Gelber"
Published on 2013-08-13 by Columbia University Press

Why do we fill our leisure time with the activities we do? And what do our hobbies say about our culture? Gelber traces the history of hobbies from the mid-nineteenth century through the 1950s, demonstrating that, although they are touted as a break from work, hobbies actually reflect the values of the workplace.

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Comic Book Culture

Comic Book Culture
By:"Ron Goulart"
Published on 2000 by Collectors Press, Inc.

Provides a concise history of the comic book business from its shaky beginnings in the early 1930s to its multimillion-dollar success during World War II, and includes cover illustrations from the middle 1930s to the late 1940s.

This Book was ranked 29 by Google Books for keyword comic.

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Governmental Illegitimacy in International Law

Governmental Illegitimacy in International Law
By:"Brad R. Roth"
Published on 2000 by Oxford University Press on Demand

When is a de facto authority not entitled to be considered a 'government' for the purposes of International Law? In this book, Brad Roth offers a detailed examination of collective non-recognition of governments.

This Book was ranked 17 by Google Books for keyword law.

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Writing Women's Literary History

Writing Women's Literary History
By:"Margaret J. M. Ezell"
Published on 1996-10-16 by JHU Press

By championing the recovery of \

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The Law Book

The Law Book
By:"Michael H. Roffer"
Published on 2015-10-06 by Sterling

Justice may be blind, but this comprehensive collection of 250 fundamental and far-reaching cases, statutes, and trials brings the law to light. From the code of Babylonian king Hammurabi to civil rights, censorship, and the fight for marriage equality, \

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Bonus-Malus Systems in Automobile Insurance

Bonus-Malus Systems in Automobile Insurance
By:"Jean Lemaire"
Published on 1995-04-30 by Springer Science & Business Media

Most insurers around the world have introduced some form of merit-rating in automobile third party liability insurance. Such systems, penalizing at-fault accidents by premium surcharges and rewarding claim-free years by discounts, are called bonus-malus systems (BMS) in Europe and Asia. With the current deregulation trends that concern most insurance markets around the world, many companies will need to develop their own BMS. The main objective of the book is to provide them models to design BMS that meet their objectives. Part I of the book contains an overall presentation of the pros and cons of merit-rating, a case study and a review of the different probability distributions that can be used to model the number of claims in an automobile portfolio. In Part II, 30 systems from 22 different countries, are evaluated and ranked according to their `toughness' towards policyholders. Four tools are created to evaluate that toughness and provide a tentative classification of all systems. Then, factor analysis is used to aggregate and summarize the data, and provide a final ranking of all systems. Part III is an up-to-date review of all the probability models that have been proposed for the design of an optimal BMS. The application of these models would enable the reader to devise the system that is ideally suited to the behavior of the policyholders of his own insurance company. Finally, Part IV analyses an alternative to BMS; the introduction of a policy with a deductible.

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