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This work examines how preschool teachers construct the preschool teacher identity through everyday practices of teaching and caring. Pruits analysis of preschool teachers talk and interaction addresses pertinent sociological and early childhood education themes, including classroom management, social control, emotions, and identity construction.

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Building a bridge between the anthropologies of West and East, the author shows how an intrinsically pathological - marginal - Western culture can be partially reconstructed to go "beyond marginality" by incorporating elements of a more authentic world view.

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Bringing together rhetorical, media studies, organizational communication, ethnographic, pop culture, mass communication, gender studies, and educational technology backgrounds to bear on polymediation, the authors interrogate the language by which we talk about the contemporary media landscape and the impact of the media on peoples lives.

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Despite major advances in medication and treatment, persons with serious mental illness have substantially worse employment outcomes than other disadvantaged groups. This book explains the factors that impact the employment of those with mental illnesses and provides guidance for overcoming obstacles, from both employer and employee perspectives.

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Kalman J. Kaplan and Paul Cantz offer a biblically-based approach to suicide prevention, designed to overcome suicidogenic patterns in fourteen patients fitting into seven Graeco-Roman suicidal syndromes. Kaplan and Cantz use biblical narratives alongside an in-depth positive psychology, aimed at promoting life instead of simply preventing suicide.

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The definitive field guide to the rich avifauna of Ecuador

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The perfect guide to the birds of Melanesia - New Caledonia, the Solomons, the Bismarcks and Vanuatu

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A comprehensive field guide to all of the birds of central and southern Indian (Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Lakshadweep, including Pondicherry and the Maldives). Covers over 600 species.

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The perfect guide for tourists and travelers to Spain.

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The definitive photographic guide to the amazing avifauna of Sri Lanka.

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An exploration of all the species of birds occurring in the areas bordering the Mediterranean. It features photographs of the region's birdlife, with descriptive text on facing pages. Digital manipulation of the photographs has been used to ensure a consistent depiction of light conditions.

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An unparalleled study of the black British experience, unearthing its crucial yet largely forgotten role in shaping British history.

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This book critically situates the figure of the black female vampire within literary studies, cultural studies, gender studies, and critical race studies. It invites readers to take a closer look at the black female vampire figure and how that figure shapes and is shaped by cultural narratives about African American womanhood.

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Black Male Violence in Perspective examines the psychosocial dynamic of violence relative to African-American men, as it is inextricably tied to the history of violence in America including colonialism, expansionism, and concepts of manifest destiny. Tony Jackson articulates the need for intervention models based in African cultural paradigms.

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This book provides insight into why Black Mirror has garnered so much attention. Featuring international scholars, the book reverse-engineers Black Mirror episodes and invites readers to consider their own relationships with digital technology through the work of theorists including Foucault, Baudrillard, Debord, McLuhan, and Virilio.

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This book investigates the chaotic end of the Bronze Age in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean through the lens of Homeric poetry, with an emphasis on the description of piratical activities described in the Odysseys Second Cretan Lie, and on the impact of revolutionary seafaring technology in this watershed period in Mediterranean history.

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This book critically analyzes how the perpetuation of negative racial and gender stereotypes in reality television influences how the U.S. views black women.

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A standalone gangland thriller from the author of the Working Girls series. Years after surviving a vicious attack, Beth is plotting revenge on the man who tried to ruin her... Will her plan come together Or, this time, will she lose everything for good

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So many families are considered blended these days, and yet many parenting books dont consider the roles and responsibilities of step-parents and step-parenting. While this book looks at the common parenting issues, it pays special attention to the needs of a new marriage and the centrality of that relationship in making the family unit work.

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Standing on opposite sides of a looming civil war, two siblings discover that not even ties of blood will keep them from splitting the world in two in the second instalment in Django Wexler's epic new fantasy series.

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