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The European Commission is at the very heart of the European integration process and is one of the central institutions of the European Union. Based on extensive new research, this new text provides a comprehensive account of its historical evolution and answers key questions about its structures, composition, functioning and role.

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This major new text by leading authorities takes a broad interdisciplinary approach to the changing relationship between the EU and the US in the 21st century and its historical, global and domestic context. The authors focus on the contrast between the policy convergence and interdependence on the one hand and the intense competition on the other.

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The Evil Twins of American Television examines evil-twin depictions in over fifty years of television. Employing the schizophrenic split theory of Betty Friedan, Humphreys analyzes the ways in which these alter ego characters embody the desire for a separate self and independence.

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In the mid-20th century, integrative efforts began concerning the brain and its social and humanistic functions. As the century ended, however, such efforts were lost in the surge of new effort in brain and genome research.

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In The Fight to Save the Town, Michelle Wilde Anderson excavates the erosion of municipal infrastructure in four disparate placesStockton, California; Josephine County, Oregon; Lawrence, Massachusetts; and Detroit, Michiganto chronicle the human wounds left by decades of deep cuts to local government, and argue for reform and reinvestment in vital local institutions.

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This book examines politics in terms of space fiction, international relations and theory, using the Star Wars and Star Trek television and movie franchises to illustrate these dimensions.

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This landmark book describes the course of religious thinking within Islam from the death of the Prophet Muhammad in 632, to 950.

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A colorful and in-depth cultural history of the beloved nineties sitcom that launched Will Smith to superstardomThe Fresh Prince of Bel-Airin the vein of Seinfeldia and Best Wishes, Warmest Regards.

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This book discusses the rapid erosion of social pluralism and the concomitant religious cleaning of religious minorities in the Middle East. It focuses on five crucial years between the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011 and the U.S. governments genocide determination in 2016 regarding religious minorities in the Middle East.

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A treatment of one of the major constructs of behavioral science - general mental ability - labeled the g factor by its discoverer, Charles Spearman.

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This book presents the reception of Hallyu ("the Korean Wave") and the real and imaginary maps of the export of South Korean cultural products around the world. It is an interdisciplinary and multicultural approach to the impact of Hallyu, including chapters on the effects of South Korean culture on countries in Europe, the Americas, and Asia.

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A series of reflections on gender in the light of the Trinity, beginning with a consideration of key scriptural passages, and extending to careful analysis or such notions as "maleness", "femaleness" and the use of language itself.

Fads and games - chain letters, jigsaw puzzles, marathon dancing, miniature golf, Monopoly - amused some, while musicians often sang the blues.

Nancy and William Young have written a work ideal for college and high school students as well as general readers looking for an overview of the popular culture of the 1930s.

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Designed for teachers, this is a comprehensive book of lesson plans, projects, discussion questions, reproducible worksheets and more.

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The African American struggle for freedom and equality is one of the truly heroic elements of American history. Revising and expanding a highly acclaimed, award-winning encyclopedia published in 1992, this book provides an invaluable resource for anyone wishing to understand the African American struggle for civil rights.

The idea of children's rights as codified by the UN has done much to expand our understanding of what is needed for healthy growth and development of children and youth. This book covers topics including: education, laws and legal status, play and recreation, religious life, child labor, child abuse and neglect, family, and health.

Using humanistic principles to strip away the jargon and narrowness inherent in much of modern-day political scholarship, this historical encyclopedia reclaims the breadth of vision, the privileging of factual evidence over theory, and the moral tenor prevalent in classical political inquiry.

The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Sex, Love, and Culture volumes cover the ancient world, the medieval era, the early modern period, the colonial and revolutionary age, the nineteenth century, and the modern world.