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The last part of this book, "Refugees, Asylum, Humanitarianism", presents a fair and accurate representation of refugee populations in the field of critical geographies of migration. In this section of the book, the authors provide an essential insight into the politics of asylum and refugees. Yolan Weima and Jennifer Hyndman's contribution (Chapter 2) raises the issue of the traditional refugee management regime, which characterizes refugees as passive and apolitical. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the book "Paper Trails: True Stories of Confusion, Mindless Violence, and Forbidden Desires, a Surprising Number of Which Are Not About Marriage," edited by Pete Dexter.

The article reviews the book "The Paper Garden: An Artist (Begins Her Life's Work) at 72," by Molly Peacock.

Reviews the book 'Improving Quality of Life in Rural Areas in Asia and the Pacific: Policies and Programme.'

Research on the confluence of culture and mental health has grown dramatically in the past three decades. However, this line of research has focused almost entirely on western populations and largely neglected people from other regions. Western conceptualizations of positive functioning cannot be generalized to the Muslim populations before indigenous investigations are undertaken. This paper looks at the Muslim understanding of a good life. A brief review of the conceptualizations of happiness in the West is presented first. Next, a selection of Islamic teachings relevant to the concept of happiness is compared and contrasted with scholarship originating from the West. It is hoped that this theoretical analysis will stimulate more informed empirical research among Muslim psychologists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents reply to a correspondence discussing the functional outcome after restorative panproctolectomy for ulcerative colitis. Differentiation of function from quality of life measures.

A review of: sustainable island tourism: competitiveness and quality of life, edited by Patrizia Modica and Muzaffer Uysal: CABI, 2016, 212 pp., £76.50, (hardcover), ISBN: 9781780645421 A review of: sustainable island tourism: competitiveness and quality of life, edited by The editors of the volume, in turn, explicitly emphasize that natural and cultural assets are equally important for both the quality of life of local communities and the attractiveness of islands as tourism destinations. [Extracted from the article]

Reviews the book "The Power of Geography; How Territory Shapes Social Life," edited by J. Wolch and M. Dear.

Reviews the book "Interpersonal Comparisons of Well-Being," edited by Jon Elster and John E. Roemer.

Reviews the book "Quality of Life: Perspectives and Policies," edited by Sally Baldwin, Christine Godfrey and Carol Propper.

Reviews the book "The Quality of Life in the German Democratic Republic: Changes and Developments in a State Socialist Society," by Marilyn Rueschemeyer and Christiane Lemke.

The book ends with an evaluation of human culture and the development of our ability to communicate by language, writing, printing, and now electronically. This is a fascinating, authoritative, challenging, and beautifully illustrated book about how adaptive evolution has produced the diversity of life on Earth from the first biologically mediated chemical reactions to the functioning of human societies. They argue that as the technologies of communication improved, the rate of cultural evolution increased allowing - they assert - humans to "take over the planet" (p. 187). [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the book "Sex Workers of India: Diversity in Practice of Prostitution and Ways of Life," by Moni Nag.

Reviews the book "Public Economics and the Quality of Life," edited by Lowdon Wingo and Alan Evans.

Reviews the book "The Well-Being of the Elderly in Asia: A Four-Country Comparative Study," by Albert I. Hermalin.

The state of integration has allowed member nations autonomy over particular interests, while still affording the EU an opportunity to expand its reach, within EU borders and internationally; an EU identity has taken hold and strengthened (McCrea, [10]). The EU has many member nations and a sense of value in membership appears to hold commonly for those remaining; however, even with the existence of a distinctly EU identity, polarization across the continent has been noted. Having noted this, Frontex may be boxed-in by EU norms, from addressing needs the way it might consider most appropriate, and differ considerably from both EU-level rhetoric and the needs and positions of individual states. Chapter 11 on interaction between third countries and the EU brings the book to a close, helping to delineate various categories of third countries and objectives of the EU in these areas; third countries are found to have a limited role in EU agencies. [Extracted from the article]

Reviews the book "The Quality of Life: Comparative Studies," edited by Alexander Szalai and Frank M. Andrews.

Reviews the book "The Growth Dilemma: Residents' Views and Local Population Change in the United States," by Mark Baldassare.

Reviews the book 'The Quality of Life: Comparative Studies,' edited by Alexander Szalai and Frank M. Andrews.

The article reviews the book "Interpersonal Comparisons of Well-Being," edited by Jon Elster and John E. Roemer.

Reviews the book "The Changing Face of Home: The Transnational Lives of the Second Generation," edited by Levitt Peggy and Merry C. Waters.

The article reviews the book "The Quality of Life," edited by Martha Nussbaum and Amartya Sen.

Reviews the book 'Assessing Quality of Life,' edited by S. Bjork and J. Vang.

A review of the book "Paradox & Perception: Measuring Quality of Life in Latin America," by Carol Graham is presented.

The article reviews the book "Little Things: A Memoir in Slices," by Jeffrey Brown.

Reviews the book "Making History: Alutiiq: Sugpiaq Life on the Alaska Peninsula," by Patricia H. Partnow.

Changing Urban Renewal Policies in China: Policy Transfer and Policy Learning under Multiple Hierarchies: Author: Giulia C. Romano (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Fourth, policy transfer and policy learning under multiple hierarchies are the results of the specific focus on examining what produces certain policy outcomes and what the characteristics of this process are. In I Changing Urban Renewal Policies in China: Policy Transfer and Policy Learning under Multiple Hierarchies i , Giulia Romano makes a fresh and compelling case for increasing the use of policy transfer and policy learning in facilitating a policy instrument that she calls "Urban Renewal Policies" that affects urban planning in China. [Extracted from the article]

Casimir suggests that the Haitian people understood that imperialist powers preferred property rights and extractive relationships with local oligarchs. Absent international partners, this Haitian public order had to placate communal life, as Casimir presents it, because the populace could overturn their internal stability. The more Haitian administrations tried to reconcile economically, diplomatically, or culturally with the West, the more they subjugated the state. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the book "The Good Life: Personal and Public Choices," by David Louzecky and Richard Flannery.

The article reviews the book "The Day of the Locust," by Guorbergur Bergsson.

The article reviews the book "Restored! Back to God's Original Plan," by Dan Schaeffer.

The article reviews the book "Riding Dirty on 1-95," by Nikki Turner.

The article reviews the book "Quality of Life, Concept, Policy and Practice," by David Phillips.

The article reviews the book "Living Standards in the Past: New Perspectives on Well-being in Asia and Europe," edited by Robert C. Allen, Tommy Bengtsson and Martin Dribe.

The article reviews the book "The Reasons of Love," by Harry G. Frankfurt.

The article reviews the book "Sexuality Repositioned: Diversity and the Law," edited by B. Brooks-Gordon, L. Gelsthorpe, M. Johnson, and A. Bainham.