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Examines the ties between the United States and the nations of Latin America. This book discusses the participants in shaping and implementation of policies toward Latin America. It shows how the United States makes policy toward Latin America and how the Latin Americans respond to policy initiatives.

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Examines the ties between the United States and the nations of Latin America. This book discusses the participants in shaping and implementation of policies toward Latin America. It shows how the United States makes policy toward Latin America and how the Latin Americans respond to policy initiatives.

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Woven through Perret's exploration of Grant as soldier and president is the author's portrait of the American hero as a person, including his frustrating studies at West Point and his days of poverty.

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Uncommon Sense looks at a range of issues that the United States faces today: gun legislation, abortion, unequal distribution of wealth, the dominance of the military/industrial complex, redistricting, corruption in government, etc. It offers sensible solutions to these problems.

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"A groundbreaking guide to improve teaching based on the latest research in neuroscience, from the bestselling author of A Mind for Numbers"--

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Throwing light on a timely and controversial subject, this volume considers the privacy rights of alleged criminals, convicted criminals, crime victims, and justice personneland the violation of those rightsin light of post-9/11 privacy policy changes.

This revealing book answers many crucial questions.

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Who are those at the bottom of society This book shows that there have always been concerns about an 'underclass', whether constructed as the 'social residuum' of the 1880s, or the 'cycle of deprivation' of the 1970s. It looks at the question, providing insights on contemporary debates about behaviour, poverty and welfare reform.

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This book is a comprehensive, historical bible on the subject of urban street dance and its influence on modern dance, hip hop, and pop culture.

Urban street dancewhich is now referred to across the globe as "break dance" or "hip-hop dance"was born 15 years prior to the hip hop movement.

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Understand Political Philosophy brings key political concepts and theories to life by referring to current political issues and dilemmas.

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Offers advice to campus administrators, parents, students, and employees on how to prevent and manage campus violence. This book provides insights into the reasons behind violent acts, prevention techniques, methods students can use to protect themselves, and therapeutic techniques.

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Worldwide, there are more than 1 million suicides annually. Most of the people were depressed or suffered another mental illness, and many were facing stressful life events with which they could not cope. This book explains how suicidal thought develops, what we can do to change that way of thinking, and how to cope when life is nonetheless lost.

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This volume addresses key issues and assumptions about creativity as a potential discipline, making the progress of creativity studies more explicit and communicable to those within and outside of the field.

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Schaller illuminates the role of the law in bioethics controversies.

Although bioethics as an independent discipline is barely thirty years old, bioethics issues already pervade everyday life and regularly capture the attention of the media.

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US global hegemony looks set to be challenged by the two emerging giants of the 21st century, China and India. Based on interviews with government officials and scholars in Beijing and New Delhi, this book explains that it would be a mistake to view China and India as one Asian polity, because these two countries differ greatly from each other.

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The only handbook of its kind to bring together materials from a wide range of authoritative works, providing the reader with a comprehensive overview of reform in American education.

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Introduces undergraduate students to concepts associated with the study of media fan culture.

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Introduces undergraduate students to concepts associated with the study of media fan culture.

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One in every 100 Americans is born with a serious genetic disorder, and more will face a disease with genetic components in their lifetime. In the past decade, fledgling genetic science has identified more than 4,000 diseases connected to genetic factors.