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Two plays from one of Britain's most challenging dramatists. Both are set in a late-21st-century post-apocalyptic landscape where human behaviour is monitored, living spaces are designated and any emotional displays are eradicated.

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Between 2002 and 2016, the federal government, state governments, and school districts undertook unprecedented measures to improve the lowest-performing schools. This book draws on dozens of actual examples to illustrate the wide range of interventions adopted over this time ...

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Between 2002 and 2016, the federal government, state governments, and school districts undertook unprecedented measures to improve the lowest-performing schools. This book draws on dozens of actual examples to illustrate the wide range of interventions adopted over this time ...

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Foster care and adoption can be rewarding ways to become parents. But the system itself seems almost rigged for failure, confusion, fraud, and disappointment. This book takes readers on an insiders tour of the system, its successes and failures, and the joys adoption can bring through the real stories of those involved on all sides.

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It was carried out by youth who were painfully and personally aware of the problems of what they called the System, though they did not necessarily understand the underlying causes of their problems. Wangerin studied the Children of God from 1973-1978 in the United States, Mexico, and Italy and has kept in touch with some of them ever since.

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This book offers a meticulously researched, comprehensive chronology of the Congressional Page system, from the late 1700s to modern day.

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Written in a fictocritical style, this book introduces a new 'multi-realist' kind of analysis that focuses on institutions (Indigenous or European), their spheres of influence and long history of struggle for survival, and how they organized to stay alive as alliances shifted and changed.

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Offering future school librarians, teachers, and working librarians an alternative to lengthier textbooks on childrens literature, this engaging book introduces readers to the most important genres and current conversations in the field while leaving them time to read childrens literature directly.

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Should countries in Latin America and Eastern Europe follow the Chilean approach to economic restructuring, market liberalization, and stabilization Following years of hyperinflation and domestic turmoil, Chile undertook a series of dramatic economic reforms.

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Provides a comprehensive study of the underlying economic dynamics that make the China Circle not only possible, but hugely successful. Yun-wing Sung, Barry Naughton, and Kong Yam Tan analyse the macroeconomic issues in each of the political entities that make up the China Circle.

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After assessing the shortcomings of U.S. policy, the book outlines measures that would lead to a stable peace and a new paradigm for U.S.-China relations.

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After assessing the shortcomings of U.S. policy, the book outlines measures that would lead to a stable peace and a new paradigm for U.S.-China relations.

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The China-Burma-India campaign of the Asian/Pacific war of World War II was the most complex of the entire war. The literature is extensive and this book provides an evaluative survey of it. The historiographical narrative covers intelligence matters, and examines memoirs and diaries.

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The volume begins with an overview of China in the Late Qing period, setting the stage for the successive waves of Chinese immigration to the United States.

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This in-depth examination of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 provides a chronological review of the events, ordinances, and pervasive attitudes that preceded, coincided with, and followed its enactment.

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This is the first anthropological study of the contemporary Chinese fashion and textile industries from high-end designer clothing to mass manufacture.

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The major components of the Chinese financial system as it existed by the end of 1990 are identified. The components of the system include the State Council, the People's Bank of China, the Banking Sector, the non-banking sector, and the financial market.

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This collection examines the origins, history, and contemporary nature of Chinese Judaism in the community of Kaifeng. Among other topics, the contributors analyze the communitys unique synthesis between Jewish and Chinese thought, the tenuous nature of its Jewish identity, and the impact of Western Jewish contact.