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With hundreds of books dedicated to conventional sports and activities, this encyclopedia on the weirdest and wackiest games offers a fresh and entertaining read for any audience.

Weird Sports and Wacky Games around the World: From Buzkashi to Zorbing focuses on what many would consider abnormal activities from across the globe.

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"Welcome New Life" is a Baptism preparation course, in four meetings, for new parents. Each session ends with a prayer service which reflects an aspect of the Rite. This is the parents' book which is designed to enable parents to record their thoughts and keep a reminder of their experience.

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Captures the theory and the often humorous reality of living as a Muslim in England: as a convert, a working woman, a mother, and an active member of Muslim and 'typically English' communities.

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Welcome to Poetryland: Teaching Poetry Writing to Young Children draws from Shelley Savren's forty years of teaching poetry writing in grades pre-K-6 and to focus populations, including gifted and special education students, students in after school programs, and homeless, abu...

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An innovative approach to ethics, showing that welcoming other persons is the primary moral act. The use of stories and cases make the book an ideal text for students to explore ethical questions in the classroom and in their lives. The book also describes a variety of practices that help shape us into more welcoming persons.

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This collection of essays examines the efforts of philosophers, artists, caretakers, andperhaps most importantlyteachers to establish a sense of community and interpersonal responsibility in the postmodern world.

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"Weldon Rising" is Nagy's debut which takes a surreal look at the soulless poverty of urban life. "Disappeared" won the 1992 Mobil Playwriting competition.

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A pioneering contribution to the literature, this book studies welfare dependence among families eligible for assistance under Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), the most controversial income-maintenance program in the nation.

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Introduces those with relatively little mathematical training and only an intermediate economic theory course to the important economic issues of collective choice and public welfare.

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Employing the conceptual framework elaborated by Pierre Bourdieu, this text provides a discussion of social welfare institutions and practices in Ireland. It examines the actions and approaches taken by various "actors" involved in policy-making, including the Catholic Church.

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The best way of handling the question of how much to give the poor, politicians have discovered, is to avoid doing anything about it at all, note Paul Peterson and Mark Rom.

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The Brookings Institution's Welfare Reform & Beyond Initiative was created to inform the critical policy debates surrounding the upcoming congressional reauthorization of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program and a number of related programs that were created or dramatically altered by the 1996 landmark welfare reform legislation.

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In this collection of essays by experts on welfare policy, the major issues of personal responsibility versus dependence, child development, and federal versus state, local, and private responsibility are examined in the light of the 1996 Act.

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Welfare Reform presents the contemporary debate about welfare reform in the United States with an unbiased, objective point of view.

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Schorr provides an informed examination of the sources of welfare reform, its successes and considerable failures, and the economic and social forces that shaped the 1996 welfare reform. In the process, Schorr underscores why welfare recipients are not a population distinct from the working poor population;

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Schorr provides an informed examination of the sources of welfare reform, its successes and considerable failures, and the economic and social forces that shaped the 1996 welfare reform. In the process, Schorr underscores why welfare recipients are not a population distinct from the working poor population;

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The book provides specific analyses of the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills program under the Family Support Act, job training and employment programs under the Job Training Partnership Act, programs for youth-at-risk, and particular efforts to integrate the delivery of services to public assistance recipients.

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Each section provides an overview of common dysfunctions and illnesses and, through numerous examples from the author's own practice as an acupuncturist and herbalist, specific remedies that have proven effective for ordinary women.

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Well-Being as a Multidimensional Concept contributes to our understanding of the ways that culture and community influence concepts of wellness, the experience of well-being, and health outcomes. This book includes both theoretical conceptualizations and practice-based explorations.

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