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The result is a volume that covers such topics as the quality of child rearing, how cultural differences affect childhood, and patterns of both continuity and change that characterize childhood throughout the world.

After the editors' introductory overview, the book's attention turns to childhood in the premodern world.

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In 1948, with Palestine in flames, the Aburish family scattered. Whilst some of them began a new life across the world, others stayed in Bethany and watched as their life was destroyed by events in the outside world. This is the history of the family written by the grandson of the headman.

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Judy Sierra and Robert Kaminski, renowned storytellers and folklorists, describe popular games from 137 countries and cultures, including over 20 games from Native American groups. Clear instructions are given for all games, and simple diagrams are included where applicable.

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Explores how China's youth will influence the country's future. Focusing on millennials - those born between the early 1980s and the mid-1990s - the book examines the status, lifestyles, attitudes, values, and behaviours of this key segment of the country's population.

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Every country must make choices about foreign policy and national security. Sometimes those choices turn out to have been the correct ones, other times not. In this insider's account, Shivshankar Menon describes some of the most crucial decisions India has faced during his long career in government - and how key personalities often had to make choices based on incomplete information.

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This outstanding volume brings together major arguments on what constitutes the best electoral system, particulary on the relative merits of plurality and proportional representation.

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For the first time the history of the psychological and psychiatric evaluation of astronaut and cosmonaut candidates is detailed. This book, however, documents how NASA underutilized, downplayed, then ultimately ignored psychiatric and psychological characteristics in selecting astronauts, until very recently.

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This book explores the limits of Christian acceptance for minority rights campaigns by highlighting the ways Christian people may adopt tolerance for some groups while maintaining marginalization of others.

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The New York Times bestselling coauthor of Sex at Dawn explores the ways in which "progress" has perverted the way people live: how they eat, learn, feel, mate, parent, communicate, work, and die.

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This is the first major study of the Communist Party of Great Britain between the wars when it adopted the militant strategy of 'class against class, in its struggle to be the effective alternative to both the Labour Party and TUC.

An A-to-Z encyclopedia that focuses on class in the United States and surveys the breadth of class strata throughout its history. It provides information on class using approximately 300 essay entries on significant people, terms, theories, programs, institutions, eras, ethnic groups, places, and more.

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In this riotously entertaining collection of true stories from Westminster and beyond are tales of such political ineptitude, scandal, blunder and impropriety to make even the most gaffe-prone minister blush.

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One of the world's leading anthropologists assesses the work of the founder of structural anthropology

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A volume of stunning shipyard plate photos, most previously unpublished. Devoted to the most popular ship type of the Great War. Top of the range production combined with affordable price.

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Co-sleeping examines how parents and children really sleep in America. Drawing on original research and extensive interviews, author Susan Stewart goes beyond the fads and vehement arguments for or against co-sleeping to look at what actually happens, and the impact of co-sleeping on familiesfor better or worse.

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Examining the role of implicit, unconscious thinking on reasoning, decision making, problem solving, creativity, and its neurocognitive basis, for a genuinely psychological conception of rationality.

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College 101: A Girl's Guide to Freshman Year is a comprehensive and authentic guide for girls to everything college. Unlike other college guides, College 101 is written from the honest, humorous, and relatable first-person perspective of a young woman who recently experienced her freshman year, while also offering the advice of expert

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The full visual history of the Special Forces combat diver from World War II to the present day.

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This book tells the history of gay liberation and offers guidance and practical advice for building organizations and taking concrete action to eradicate homophobia. Come Out and Win explains how to organize and become politically engaged in a clear and user-friendly manner.

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