Focusing on cancer of the breasts, ovaries, uterus, cervix, vagina and vulva - provides readers with that critical information to help them manage, cope, and recover through a concise, easy-to-read style and format. Beginning with a view of basic anatomy and an overview of how we view a particular cancer today, chapters flow easily into an explanation of signs, symptoms, diagnosis, scientific information and guidelines, and include a comprehensive survey of treatments and prevention.

The eighteen essays in this collection largely draw on, extend, and often bring together four quit different, but nonetheless interrelated, thrusts of feminist criticism and theory in which representation is an issue.

Capturing a wide spectrum of current thought on the construction of nationhood and national identity, this work explores new ways of thinking about the concept of the nation and suggests possible ways of resisting its totalizing effects.

Analysis of the ethnic problem in Sri Lanka; its origins and implications.

In this volume a group of eminent economists and other social scientists seek to present an innovative new approach to economic development, drawing in part from certain heterodox intellectual traditions within economics as well as from the other social sciences. The intention is to point the way theoretically to a much more sophisticated understanding of economic development. The ultimate prize, they show, by grounding theory in a more accurate analysis of social change, is policies that really will deliver higher economic growth and greater social justice worldwide.

A collection of poems by 23 women poets of the period. Includes introductions to each poet's life and writing, and a general introduction on societal trends and common themes and symbols in women's poetry. Paper edition (unseen), $24.95. Distributed by St. Martin's Press. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR