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This book is about young children and their writing and reading development during their first few years of life. It stops at the point where most books on beginning writing and reading start: when the child is 5-6 years old and is able to write and read in ways recognized as actually being writing and reading.

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A comprehensive presentation of an approach that proposes a new account of cognition at levels from the cellular to the social.

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Exposes current policy myths around entrepreneurs and development in Africa, demonstrating the counterproductive consequences of misguided policy.

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This volume addresses 10 issues pertaining to war and conflict, such as ethics of war, national security, and refugees, and examines how countries around the world are facing these issues.

To truly explore war and conflict, one must consider why the peoples and the leaders of the world behave the way that they do toward one another.

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Families of children with special health needs frequently cite difficulties in their communications with physicians and other medical professionals.

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A collection comprising a wide variety of accounts of native peoples describing their initial encounters with European explorers, conquerors, and settlers.

This extraordinary volume gathers together an astonishing array of voices of those so often overlooked by history.

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Researchers, scholars, and students (graduate and upper level undergraduate classes) of economics, economic and regional development, and economic history should find this book of considerable value.

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This book seeks for straightforward, understandable common-sense explanations to the problems of science. We go from math and topology to Physics and Chemistry directly to biology and Psychology. Math is used to understand the concepts rigorously while imagination helps get rid of the mysticism and there are Layman's sections throughout the book.

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A comprehensive, historical study of one of the world's largest food aid programmes, interrogating the failures of contemporary humanitarianism and the wider crisis in the global food system.

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A comprehensive, historical study of one of the world's largest food aid programmes, interrogating the failures of contemporary humanitarianism and the wider crisis in the global food system.

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Food Insecurity and Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa examines the political economy of agrarian transformation with case studies of Egypt and Tunisia. It critiques the dominant tropes of food security offered by the international financial institutions and promotes the importance of small-scale family farming in developing sustainable food sovereignty.

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Food Insecurity and Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa examines the political economy of agrarian transformation with case studies of Egypt and Tunisia. It critiques the dominant tropes of food security offered by the international financial institutions and promotes the importance of small-scale family farming in developing sustainable food sovereignty.

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This study systematically investigates the degree to which international economic linkages are related to domestic political conflict in developing countries.

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Examines how the media interprets contemporary conflicts and international interventions. It compares British press coverage across six different crises (Somalia, Bosnia, Rwanda, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq), examining how conflict is explained and how far Western military intervention is represented as justifiable and necessary. -- .

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The intifada, which began in December 1987, has become one of the longest running confrontations within the broad context of the Israeli-Arab conflict. Rather, it is about communication and the intifada: what people have been saying, thinking, and writing about the conflict and about the messages being produced by the mass media.

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The bibliography lists close to 4000 titles in chronological order from the beginning of printing until the end of the 19th century and is accompanied by comprehensive author indexes. It is divided into two sections that look at the peace literature from 1480 to 1776 and then from 1776 to 1898.

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From Partition to Brexit provides an authoritative and accessible analysis of how successive Irish governments have tried to overcome the challenges presented by the division of Ireland, including the decades-long conflict that claimed thousands of lives. -- .

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From Partition to Brexit provides an authoritative and accessible analysis of how successive Irish governments have tried to overcome the challenges presented by the division of Ireland, including the decades-long conflict that claimed thousands of lives. -- .

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Empirically-based analyses of the intricate dynamics of the formal and informal institutions influencing womens political representation in Africa.