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Fogel, Kathy, Ashton Hawk, Randall Morck, and Bernard Yeung. Institutional Obstacles to Entrepreneurship. Edited by Anuradha Basu, Mark Casson, Nigel Wadeson, and Bernard Yeung. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199546992.003.0020.

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This article focuses on institutional obstacles to entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurs carry out a highly complicated composite act. They need intelligence to collect and digest information about business opportunities. They need foresight about the possibilities new technologies and other developments create. They need judgement and leadership skills to found a company and guide its growth. They need communication skills to enthuse financiers to back their vision. The number of active entrepreneurs therefore depends on how many individuals possess these skills. But skills are not endowments. Indi

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Fakih, Danny. Hit the Trails: A Beginners Guide to Obstacle Course Racing. Independently Published, 2021.

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Magida, David, and Melissa Rodriguez. The Essentials of Obstacle Race Training. Human Kinetics, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781718225190.

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Scaling walls, crawling through mud, climbing ropes, and sprinting across rugged terrain. Obstacle course racing is one of the fastest-growing sports in the United States, and it’s gaining popularity around the world. The sport is grueling, demanding, and intensely satisfying if you prepare, train, and know what to expect. Only The Essentials of Obstacle Race Training can ensure you will be ready. Authored by David Magida, founder of Elevate Interval Fitness, founding member of the Spartan Race pro team, and host of “Spartan Race” on NBC Sports; and Melissa Rodriguez, former contributing edito

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Rayburn, Carole A., Florence L. Denmark, Mary E. Reuder, and Asuncion Miteria Austria. A Handbook for Women Mentors. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400661129.

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This perceptive and practical guide explores the growing phenomenon of successful women serving as mentors to other women in academia or in professional careers. In this unprecedented handbook, the team of coeditors and contributors show the immeasurable impact of women helping women via a method that has become a ““hot-button”” topic nationwide—mentoring. In A Handbook for Women Mentors: Transcending Barriers of Stereotype, Race, and Ethnicity, an expert author team—all experienced mentors—provide specific strategies for women mentoring women, showing how mentoring relationships benefit indiv

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Brand, Bethany L., Hugo J. Schielke, Francesca Schiavone, and Ruth A. Lanius. Finding Solid Ground: Overcoming Obstacles in Trauma Treatment. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med-psych/9780190636081.001.0001.

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Even seasoned clinicians can feel deskilled when trying to help to highly traumatized and dissociative patients. Together, this book and its accompanying workbook for patients provide an evidence-informed, pragmatic, and compassionate approach to the stabilization and treatment of complex trauma and dissociation. These books will help clinicians immediately implement ways to assess and treat traumatized individuals with a comprehensive therapeutic program that includes session-by-session Information Sheets and Exercises developed through the process of synthesizing decades of clinical experien

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Felchner, Morgan, ed. Voting in America. Praeger, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216991274.

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The three volumes of Voting in America offer the most comprehensive, authoritative, and useful account of all aspects of voting in America ever assembled. This set surveys the legal foundations, historical development, and geographic diversity of voting practices at all levels of government in the United States. It marshals the demographics of voter participation and party affiliation in the 21st century by age, occupation, location, region, class, race, and religion, and parses the roles of interest groups, hot-button issues, and the media in mobilizing voters and shaping their decisions. Fin

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Felchner, Morgan E., ed. Voting in America. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216991298.

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The three volumes of Voting in America offer the most comprehensive, authoritative, and useful account of all aspects of voting in America ever assembled. This set surveys the legal foundations, historical development, and geographic diversity of voting practices at all levels of government in the United States. It marshals the demographics of voter participation and party affiliation in the 21st century by age, occupation, location, region, class, race, and religion, and parses the roles of interest groups, hot-button issues, and the media in mobilizing voters and shaping their decisions. Fin

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Felchner, Morgan E., ed. Voting in America. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216991281.

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The three volumes of Voting in America offer the most comprehensive, authoritative, and useful account of all aspects of voting in America ever assembled. This set surveys the legal foundations, historical development, and geographic diversity of voting practices at all levels of government in the United States. It marshals the demographics of voter participation and party affiliation in the 21st century by age, occupation, location, region, class, race, and religion, and parses the roles of interest groups, hot-button issues, and the media in mobilizing voters and shaping their decisions. Fin

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Sena, Joe De. Spartan Up!: A Take-No-Prisoners Guide to Overcoming Obstacles and Achieving Peak Performance in Life. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2014.

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Sena, Joe De. Spartan Up!: A Take-No-Prisoners Guide to Overcoming Obstacles and Achieving Peak Performance in Life. Simon & Schuster, Limited, 2014.

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Spartan Up!: A Take-No-Prisoners Guide to Overcoming Obstacles and Achieving Peak Performance in Life. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.

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Sena, Joe De. Spartan Up!: A Take-No-Prisoners Guide to Overcoming Obstacles and Achieving Peak Performance in Life. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers, 2014.

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Martin, Jeffrey J. Individual Barriers. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190638054.003.0031.

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Given the low levels of physical activity (PA) among all people it is clear that many individuals are simply uninterested in PA or struggle unsuccessfully to overcome a host of barriers to engaging consistently in PA. People with disabilities face an even greater number of barriers to PA than those encountered by able-bodied individuals. The purpose of this chapter is to document the obstacles faced by people with impairments at an individual level. Often the disability itself can be a barrier. Many disabilities result in chronic pain and produce fatigue; both pain and fatigue can be barriers

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Mengisteab, Kidane, ed. The Crisis of Democratization in the Greater Horn of Africa. Boydell and Brewer Limited, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781787449046.

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Analyses the structural and institutional obstacles to democratization in transitional societies - fractured societies, fragmented economies and institutions of governance, weak or deformed state structures - and how to overcome these.

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Fredman, Sandra, Meghan Campbell, and Helen Taylor, eds. Human Rights and Equality in Education. Policy Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447337638.001.0001.

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Thousands of children from minority and disadvantaged groups will never cross the threshold of a classroom. What can human rights contribute to the struggle to ensure that every learner is able to access high-quality education? This book explores how a human rights perspective offers new insights and tools into the current obstacles to education. It examines the role of private actors, the need to hold states to account for the quality of education, how to strike a balance between religion, culture and education, the innovative responses needed to guarantee girls' right to education and the ro

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Bridging the gaps. ILO, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.54394/gety8843.

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This policy brief summarizes insights from a study conducted across Pakistan for policymakers, practitioners and development partners. It highlights the obstacles encountered by both Afghan refugees and host communities within the construction sector and suggests policy actions aimed at leveraging the sector’s full potential.

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Fabric of empowerment. ILO, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.54394/gcgf5125.

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This policy brief summarizes insights from a study conducted across Pakistan for policymakers, practitioners and development partners. It highlights the obstacles encountered by both Afghan refugees and host communities within the artisanal textile craft sector and suggests policy actions aimed at leveraging the sector’s full potential.

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Cultivating collaborations. ILO, 2024. https://doi.org/10.54394/dsdk2915.

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This policy brief summarizes insights from a study conducted across Pakistan for policymakers, practitioners and development partners. It highlights the obstacles encountered by both Afghan refugees and host communities within the fruit and vegetable farming sector and suggests policy actions aimed at leveraging the sector’s full potential.

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Fredman, Sandra, Meghan Campbell, and Helen Taylor, eds. Human Rights and Equality in Education. Bristol University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.46692/9781447337645.

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This interdisciplinary collection explores how a human rights perspective offers new insights and tools into the current obstacles to education. It examines the role of private actors, the need to hold states to account, the balance between religion, culture and education, girls’ right to education and the role of courts.

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Brodsky, Beth S., and Linda Dimeff. Substance Use Disorder in Borderline Personality Disorder. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199997510.003.0009.

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This chapter presents what is currently known about the comorbidity of substance use disorders (SUDs) and borderline personality disorder (BPD), outlines the ways in which substance use and SUDs have a unique clinical presentation within the context of BPD, and describes how the distinct features of SUDs in BPD inform conceptualization and the treatment approach. The high comorbidity of SUD in individuals diagnosed with BPD adds to the complexity of clinical presentation, symptom severity, and obstacles to treatment engagement and effectiveness. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), when modifie

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Balkan, Erol, and Zümray Kutlu Tonak, eds. Refugees on the Move: Crisis and Response in Turkey and Europe. Berghahn Books, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/9781800733848.

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Refugees on the Move highlights and explores the profound complexities of the current refugee issue by focusing specifically on Syrian refugees in Turkey and other European countries and responses from the host countries involved. It examines the causes of the movement of refugee populations, the difficulties they face during their journeys, the daily challenges and obstacles they experience, and host governments’ attempts to manage and overcome the so-called “refugee crisis.”

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Hintz, Lisel. Stuck Inside. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190655976.003.0005.

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This chapter analyzes the powerful function in practice of the institutions whose origin and nature are explored in the previous chapter. It conceptualizes institutions that are founded to protect principles related to identity, such as secularism, as institutional obstacles to challenges from supporters of competing identity proposals. The chapter examines the attempts of the explicitly Islamist Welfare Party (RP) to spread Ottoman Islamism in Turkey’s public sphere and to shift the country’s foreign policy toward the Middle East. The chapter then demonstrates how military, judicial, and educ

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Chen, Shing-Ling S., Zhuojun Joyce Chen, and Nicole Allaire, eds. Building Sexual Misconduct Cases against Powerful Men. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2019. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781666986112.

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Building Sexual Misconduct Cases Against Powerful Men presents a fine-grained analysis of how the rhetorical and social aspects of rape culture and patriarchy lead to a pattern of sexual misconduct. Contributors discuss the causes of the pattern, the obstacles to overcoming it, and potential solutions through a radical feminist lens. Scholars of media, legal, gender, and women's studies will find this volume particularly useful.

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Bressers, Hans T., and Walter A. Rosenbaum, eds. Achieving Sustainable Development. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400606571.

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Bressers, Rosenbaum, and their contributors analyze what, until recently, has been among the least examined issues implicit in the growing global discourse about sustainable development: the creation of institutions and processes for effective governance of sustainability policies. The creation and endurance of governance institutions capable of implementing sustainability policies is, in fact, fundamental for any viable conception of sustainable development. The analyses focus not only on how societies can organize, but on how they do organize to overcome such daunting obstacles in the Nether

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Freeman, Rhea. You've Got This. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781399416757.

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'A must-read for anyone looking to do big things, and refusing to give up in the face of these obstacles.'SARA DAVIES, Entrepreneur and TV Personality An essential and encouraging guide to growing your small business, achieving your goals and overcoming obstacles along the way. Growing a small business can be tough. Those big shiny goals seem miles away and without a clear strategy on how to get there, those dreams can remain just that. Add a side of imposter syndrome and a lack of resources, and it’s all too easy to remain stagnant, give up, or play small. Rhea Freeman provides a clear bluepr

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Hawley, Katherine. How To Be Trustworthy. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198843900.001.0001.

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The book articulates and defends a core notion of trustworthiness as avoiding unfulfilled commitments. This is motivated via accounts of both trust and distrust in terms of perceived commitment. Avoiding unfufilled commitments is crucial both to practical trustworthiness, and to trustworthiness in speech; on this picture, assertion involves promising to speak truthfully, and simultaneously either keeping that promise or breaking it. Both assertion and the incurring of practical commitments are governed by competence norms, as well as norms of sincerity. So what should we do if we want to be tr

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Hough, Brenda. Crash Course in Time Management for Library Staff. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400633126.

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This book offers time management tools, tips, and techniques for busy librarians, so they can better serve their communities and feel greater satisfaction with work and life. Being short on resources is now "the new normal" for libraries—and having too little money and too few staff members always brings library staff to the same predicament: not enough time. While it is not possible to create more time, by making use of the right time management tools and techniques, it IS possible to make huge improvements in your productivity—and as side benefits, a decrease in job stress and frustration an

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Prevost, Roxane, and Kimberly Francis. Teaching Silence in the Twenty-First Century. Edited by Patricia Hall. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199733163.013.26.

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This article examines the prejudices that women continue to experience in the field of composition in the twenty-first century. More specifically, it analyzes the host of factors that may be responsible for this reality from three perspectives: the notion that the language of modernist music is a gendered discourse, the role of precedent in the acceptance of women composers, and the role of societal stereotypes. The article looks at Catherine Parson Smith’s contention that the use of sexual linguistics has been detrimental to women artists during the modernist era; the various contexts that ga

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Fagan, Abigail A., J. David Hawkins, Richard F. Catalano, and David P. Farrington. The Importance of Readiness and High-Functioning Coalitions in Community-Based Prevention. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190299217.003.0004.

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This chapter describes strategies for assessing community readiness to adopt a community-wide prevention approach. The challenges likely to arise when trying to raise awareness and support for EBIs are reviewed and recommendations for overcoming these obstacles are identified. The chapter also describes methods for establishing broad-based, high-functioning community coalitions, including how communities can structure local coalitions to be high functioning, recruit members, and decide upon the roles and responsibilities of coalition members. The methods used in the CTC system to foster commun

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Heber, Caroline. Enhanced Cooperation and European Tax Law. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192898272.001.0001.

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The enhanced cooperation mechanism allows at least nine Member States to introduce secondary EU law which is only binding among these Member States. From an internal market perspective, enhanced cooperation laws are unique as they lie somewhere between unilateral Member State laws and uniform EU law. The law creates harmonisation and coordination between the participating Member States, but it may introduce trade obstacles in relation to non-participating Member States. This book reveals that the enhanced cooperation mechanism allows Member States to protect their harmonised values and coordin

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Elpidorou, Andreas. Propelled. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190912963.001.0001.

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Weaving together stories from sources as wide-ranging as classical literature, social and cognitive psychology, philosophy, art, and video games, Propelled: How Boredom, Frustration, and Anticipation Lead Us to the Good Life makes a lively case for the value of discontent in our lives. It offers novel, detailed, and scientifically informed characterizations of the nature and outcomes of boredom, frustration, and anticipation. The book demonstrates why these three states should not be viewed as obstacles to our goals but as elements of the good life and explicates how they can illuminate our de

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Olmstead, Joseph. Creating the Functionally Competent Organization. Praeger, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400633331.

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Olmstead writes from an open systems perspective—a viewpoint of organizations that adapt quickly to turbulent, uncertain business environments—offering an integrated, understandable, and highly practical way to analyze, assess, and improve organization performance. He demonstrates how organizations actually function, and shows how they can identify and overcome obstacles by creating organizational competence-the critical elements that give organizations the ability to perform effectively in the modern business world. Upper level students, scholars, and teachers will find Olmstead's book an imp

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Dobson, Andrew. 4. Local and global, North and South. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780199665570.003.0005.

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Environmental problems have an international—even a global—character. Environmental politics is therefore, at least in part, an international politics. ‘Local and global, North and South’ considers how the national and international dimensions work—or not—together highlighting an apparently insurmountable faultline between the global North and the global South. Despite numerous obstacles, multilateral environmental agreements are possible. By comparing and contrasting two cases—the ozone layer and climate change—the factors and conditions that make for successful agreements are analysed. The l

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Popovski, Vesselin. Renovating the Principal Organs of the United Nations. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805373.003.0015.

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This chapter critically examines the process of reform of three principal organs of the United Nations: the General Assembly, the Security Council, and the Secretariat. It discusses the shortcomings and obstacles of the process and recommends how to move forward. The purpose of reform is to enhance both justice and security by forging more equal representation and allowing more efficient responses to threats to the peace. The chapter offers innovative ideas for revitalizing the General Assembly, improving the selection of UN Secretaries-General, and altering the Security Council’s composition

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Mancuso, Salvatore. Legal Integration in Africa and the Approach to Energy Issues. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198819837.003.0007.

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This chapter deals with the issue of energy in the context of legal integration in Africa. It gives a background of the main experiences of legal integration in Africa in the area of commercial law, showing their main characteristics and outcomes so far. Considering the critical importance of energy for national and sustainable development, and how energy issues constitute one of the main subjects of international commercial transactions in Africa, it examines the pros and cons of including energy law in legal integration processes. It further emphasizes the importance of an enabling legal and

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Gardam, Judith. A Gender Aware Approach to Legal and Policy Strategies for Achieving Access to Modern Energy Services in Sub-Saharan Africa. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198819837.003.0010.

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This book chapter first outlines the facts in relation to energy and poverty globally, with a particular emphasis on the sub-Saharan Africa region. Secondly, the impact of gender on how energy poverty is experienced is explained. Then it considers the growing recognition in international, regional, and national initiatives of the link between access to modern energy services, women, and poverty and what legal and policy strategies have been adopted in response. Finally, the chapter provides some thoughts on possible future responses to improving the prevailing situation and the obstacles that

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Edwards, Lisa M., and Jessica B. McClintock. A Cultural Context Lens of Hope. Edited by Matthew W. Gallagher and Shane J. Lopez. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199399314.013.8.

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This chapter explores hope theory, measurement (i.e., Children’s Hope Scale and Adult Dispositional Hope Scale), and research with regard to diverse racial and ethnic groups. Utilizing a cultural context lens, a case study of a Latina adolescent without documentation is used to illustrate how culture influences goals, obstacles, agency, and pathways. Research about the equivalence of hope across groups, including racial and ethnic groups within the United States as well as in other countries, is reviewed. The chapter concludes with a summary of findings regarding hope measurement and hope theo

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Kasperbauer, T. J. Diagnosing Moral Failures. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190695811.003.0005.

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This chapter discusses why people often fail to meet their moral goals and identifies the main obstacles in achieving moral change. It shows how psychological processes specific to animals, as outlined in chapters 2–4, interact with broader components of moral psychology. Three main moral psychological factors are discussed: emotions, situational conditions, and self-control. These factors are used to illustrate the frequent failure of reason and higher-level cognition to modify our moral responses, including our treatment of animals. The discussion draws from a wide range of research within e

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Lambertsson Björk, Eva, Jutta Eschenbach, and Johanna M. Wagner, eds. Women and Fairness. Navigating an Unfair World. Waxmann Verlag GmbH, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31244/9783830993650.

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This collection brings together scholars from various disciplines to ask fundamental questions concerning how women handle the manifold impediments placed before them as they simply attempt to live full human lives. The collection explores narratives of women – real and fictional – who fight against these barriers, who succumb to them, who remain unaware of them, or choose to ignore them. It explores the ways we read women in cultural production, and how women are read in society. We assert the obstacles constructed into the very fabric of societies against fifty percent of the population are

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Nyman, Jonna. Conclusion. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198820444.003.0007.

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Chapter 7 begins to reimagine energy security. It returns to the bigger question of what energy security can and should mean, relating the empirical discussion back to the broader context and discussion of what it means to be secure in the contemporary world. It draws together the range of notions of energy security presented in the previous four chapters, and relates these to the debate over the value of security, to theorize the value of energy security based on the analysis undertaken. The book ends by using this to consider how we might reimagine energy security. It explores how change cou

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Polletta, Francesca, and Pang Ching Bobby Chen. Narrative and Social Movements. Edited by Jeffrey C. Alexander, Ronald N. Jacobs, and Philip Smith. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195377767.013.18.

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This article focuses on the use of narrative to understand the dynamics of social movements. More specifically, it examines how the strategic use of storytelling can shed light on the distinctly cultural obstacles that activists face in effecting change. After discussing the main approach to culture in movements, that of collective action framing, the article considers how a study of storytelling can help to account for the cultural and institutional constraints activists face in trying to develop persuasive messages. It then evaluates activists’ variable success in using stories as a persuasi

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Tiberius, Valerie. Assessing Well-Being. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198809494.003.0004.

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This chapter returns to the practical question of how to help friends attain greater well-being. It starts with a summary of the questions we can ask to ascertain how a friend is doing, and then proceeds to consider some obstacles to helping. There are many challenges to helping well: we don’t know enough, we aren’t skilled enough, our friends aren’t open to the kind of help we can provide, or our friend’s values conflict with our own. Acknowledging these challenges allows us to identify guidance about how to be a more helpful friend, including the norms for when it is permissible to discount

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St John, Taylor. Conclusion. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198789918.003.0010.

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The conclusion identifies how the book’s findings relate to contemporary debates. The terms of today’s debate were set decades ago: all visions of investor–state arbitration’s future define themselves in terms of the clash between public and private paradigms—a clash created by drafters over fifty years ago. In 1962, Broches thought there were insurmountable political obstacles to creating an investment court. He may still be right, and this chapter enumerates issues that governments must grapple with to create a “public” court system. Since governments are unlikely to make the compromises nec

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Yuliani, Dewi. Is Feed-In-Tariff Policy Effective for Increasing Deployment of Renewable Energy in Indonesia? Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198802242.003.0008.

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To achieve the targeted portion of renewable energy and to attract more investment in renewable electricity Indonesia’s government has issued several feed-in-tariff regulation, which is policy instrument successfully applied in many countries. This study is an exploratory research to evaluate how the policy works in Indonesia, especially in the field. The study shows that while the policy triggers investment interests, many obstacles are encountered due to imperfections in the feed-in-tariff policy package, and other non-cost factors. Several unanticipated side effects were also identified as

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Szymanski, Jeff, and Carly Bourne. OCD Advocacy and Addressing Stigma. Edited by Christopher Pittenger. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190228163.003.0066.

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In order to improve outcomes for individuals struggling with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), structural and societal barriers to effective diagnosis and treatment must be addressed. Stigma about mental disorders and a lack of awareness about OCD among the general population, as well as in the mental health community, remain major obstacles to accessing treatment. A variety of awareness-raising campaigns and advocacy initiatives have been created to help overcome those barriers. This chapter reviews the World Health Organization’s guidelines for health advocacy and provides examples of how

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Davidson, Donald. The Perils and Pleasures of Interpretation. Edited by Ernest Lepore and Barry C. Smith. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199552238.003.0041.

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There is a contrast between the difficulties that stand in the way of explaining in detail how we manage to find out what is in other people's minds and the relative ease with which we do it in practice. The first part of the article explores the obstacles that thwart theory, the second part describes features of our minds that work in our favor when it comes to practice. At the end it is suggested that the project of fully naturalizing our understanding of other minds — a project philosophers are bound to find enticing — is doomed. We understand others, but we cannot reduce this understanding

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Bush, Ray. Researching the Countryside. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190882969.003.0008.

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This chapter looks at the challenges and rewards of researching the countryside in the Middle East and North Africa. It explores the obstacles to conduct fieldwork that stem from working within the neoliberal university and in countries where access to knowledge is feared by repressive regimes. The chapter looks at the impact of economic reform upon farming family and how important it is to hear farmers’ voices. It demonstrates the importance of scrutinizing government and international agency policy and to see what impact it has in promoting agricultural modernization. The chapter demonstrate

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Williams, Paul D. Strategic Communications. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198724544.003.0012.

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When AMISOM initially deployed, the AU had almost zero strategic communications capabilities and so the mission began without the ability to wage an effective media campaign. This chapter therefore analyses how AMISOM developed a strategic communications capability. It begins with an analysis of how its principal opponent, al-Shabaab, utilized strategic communications and a brief assessment of its effectiveness. The second section then provides an overview of the AU–UN Information Support Team (IST) and its efforts to promote a particular strategic narrative about AMISOM and Somalia. The third

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Tomlinson, Jim. Austerity to ‘Never had it so Good’. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198786092.003.0002.

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This chapter charts the intricacies of the Attlee government’s austerity strategy, the attempts to shape opinion around this strategy, and the obstacles faced. Central to persuading the public in these years was a notion of ‘fair shares’, a particular version of equity which was crucial to the politics of the 1940s. The chapter then outlines the grounds for success of the alternative, anti-austerity message from the Conservatives, and assesses who responded most strongly to this stance. Third, it analyses how a new politics of ‘affluence’ emerged during the 1950s, and how this related to publi

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Greenawalt, Kent. Text or Intent, or Both. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190882860.003.0002.

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This chapter discusses a wide range of issues concerning how far text and intentions should figure in judicial interpretation of legal standards and what should constitute the relevant understanding of a text and the intentions of those who enact it. The chapter makes two fundamental points. The first is that intrinsically what a communications means is closely interrelated to the perceived intentions of those who make it. Any plausible argument for disregarding intentions must rest on claimed specific obstacles, not ordinary understandings. The second basic point is that how to understand tex

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