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Examining issues as diverse as work and employment, family, cities, policy, and technology, this journal aims to understand the similarities and differences between the forms taken by gender relations, both between one society and another and between one period in history and another. It favors a multidisciplinary approach that includes international comparisons.

Division of labor --- Sexual division of labor --- Division du travail --- Division sexuelle du travail --- Division of labor by sex --- Sex role --- Sex discrimination in employment --- Labor, Division of --- Labor --- Economic specialization --- Business, Economy and Management --- Economics --- Business Management

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Littoz-Monnet provides a fresh analysis of the enmeshment of expert knowledge with politics in global governance, through a unique investigation of bioethical expertise, an intriguing form of 'expert knowledge' which claims authority in the ethical analysis of issues that arise in relation to biomedicine, the life sciences and new fields of technological innovation. She makes the case that the mobilisation of ethics experts does not always arise from a motivation to rationalise governance. Instead, mobilising ethics experts - who are endowed with a unique double-edged authority, both 'democratic' and 'epistemic' - can help policy-makers manoeuvre policy conflicts on scientific and technological innovations and make their pro-science and innovation agendas possible. Bioethical expertise is indeed shaped in a political and iterative space between experts and those who do policy. The book reveals the mechanisms through which certain global governance narratives, as well as the types of expertise they rely on, remain stable even when they are contested.

Bioethics --- Specialists. --- Science and state. --- Ethics committees. --- Expertise --- Specialization --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Ability --- Committees --- Science --- Science policy --- State and science --- State, The --- Authorities (Persons) --- Experts --- Persons --- Intellectuals --- Biology --- Biomedical ethics --- Life sciences --- Life sciences ethics --- Government policy. --- Political aspects. --- Government policy --- Moral and ethical aspects

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A vivid, eye-opening view of why birds behave the way they do Birds are intelligent, sociable creatures that exhibit a wide array of behaviors-from mobbing and mimicking to mating and joint nesting. Why do they behave as they do? Bringing to light the remarkable actions of birds through examples from species around the world, Understanding Bird Behavior presents engaging vignettes about the private lives of birds, all explained in an evolutionary context. We discover how birds find food, relying on foraging techniques, tools, and thievery. We learn about the courtship rituals through which birds choose, compete for, woo, and win mates; the familial conflicts that crop up among parents, offspring, and siblings; and the stresses and strains of nesting, including territory defense, nepotism, and relationship sabotage. We see how birds respond to threats and danger-through such unique practices as murmurations, specific alarm calls, distraction displays, and antipredator nest design. We also read about how birds change certain behaviors-preening, migration, breeding, and huddling-based on climate. Richly illustrated, this book explores the increasing focus on how individual birds differ in personality and how big data and citizen scientists are helping to add to what we know about them. Drawing on classic examples and the latest research, Understanding Bird Behavior offers a close-up look at the many ways birds conduct themselves in the wild.--

Birds --- Natural history, --- History, Natural --- Natural science --- Physiophilosophy --- Biology --- Science --- Aves --- Avian fauna --- Avifauna --- Wild birds --- Amniotes --- Vertebrates --- Ornithology --- Behavior. --- Anatomy and physiology. --- Californian junco. --- Chatham Island robins. --- Egyptian vultures. --- New Caledonian crows. --- alternative mating strategies. --- anis. --- ant birds. --- bishops. --- black coucals. --- blackcap migration. --- bowerbird. --- brood divisions. --- buffalo weaver. --- burrow nests. --- caching. --- camouflaged eggs. --- carrion crows. --- chick mimicry. --- circadian rhythms. --- circannual rhythms. --- colored leg bands. --- communal larders. --- coot chicks. --- crested auklet. --- crossbills. --- crows. --- cuckoos. --- deception. --- delayed dispersal. --- eavesdropping. --- economics of feeding. --- egg and chick recognition. --- extra-pair copulations. --- fairywrens. --- female blue tits. --- flamingo. --- forced copulation. --- fork-tailed drongos. --- great tits. --- habitat specialization. --- heritable egg placement. --- hoatzins. --- house husbands. --- hummingbird battles. --- inbreeding avoidance. --- infanticide. --- kakapo. --- leks. --- long tails. --- long-tailed tits. --- male-male competition. --- mating systems. --- mental time travel. --- mixed flocks. --- mobbing. --- mutual mate choice. --- new world warblers. --- oxpeckers. --- parasitism. --- parrot communication. --- passerines. --- passwords. --- polygynous male pied flycatchers. --- quails. --- raptors. --- red collars. --- red-backed fairywren. --- red-winged blackbird. --- risk-taking behavior. --- sandgrouse feathers. --- selfish begging. --- sentinel behavior. --- sex differences in migration. --- siblicide. --- spatial memory. --- speciation. --- temperate birds. --- thermoregulation. --- tropical birds. --- turkey courting coalitions. --- widowbirds. --- willow ptarmigan. --- winter flocks.