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This book seeks to produce a more specific description of Sub-Saharan African immigration in the US by recording our reflections, experiences, and strategies of coping, as well as those of the participants.

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In this book, Wanning Sun illuminates the harsh reality of inequality and discrimination that China's rural migrant workers face every day, and how these workers use available media to negotiate these injustices. This book is essential reading for all concerned with the growing use of media in the cultural politics of our highly digitalized world.

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Revised and updated, this compendium helps readers identify and understand the scope of key government reference sources-traditional books (including publications catalogs and telephone directories);

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Teachers' knowledge of the subjects they teach has been of enduring interest to governments, the profession and the wider society. This book traces the development of three beginning teachers' thinking about their subject knowledge in the context of the teaching standards and the practice of 'auditing' student teachers' subject knowledge.

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Teachers' knowledge of the subjects they teach has been of enduring interest to governments, the profession and the wider society. This book traces the development of three beginning teachers' thinking about their subject knowledge in the context of the teaching standards and the practice of 'auditing' student teachers' subject knowledge.

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Subjects of Modernity brings together the past and the present as well as theory and narrative, sowing the historical, the ethnographic, and the methodological deep into its critical procedures. -- .

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Subjects of Modernity brings together the past and the present as well as theory and narrative, sowing the historical, the ethnographic, and the methodological deep into its critical procedures. -- .

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From the steam-powered models introduced in World War I to today's nuclear-powered, multiweaponed technological wonders, submarines have revolutionized warfare on the world's seas. This volume follows the extraordinary development of this key component of the world's navies.

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The economic performance of African countries south of the Sahara generally has been poor during the past two decades. This volume surveys the major political, economic, social, ecological, and gender related aspects of Subsaharan Africa's struggle toward democracy.

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This book provides a comprehensive overview of drug policy in the United States from the early 1900s through the present day, providing historical and social context through the telling of the colorful and often tragic stories of the events and individuals throughout this period.

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Substance abuse is one of higher education's worst problems not only in terms of financial but also human cost. This handbook will help college and university personnel deal effectively with the problem.

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Applying the major sociological theories of anomie, career, conflict, functionalist, rational choice, social control, social disorganization, social learning, social reaction and subculture perspectives, Shaw provides an overview of the issues involved with substance use and abuse.

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Bad architecture. Soulless. Destructive of communities. The suburbs are much-maligned places. We see this time and again in films like "American Beauty" and novels like "The Ice Storm". This comparative study of England and the United States, offers fresh interpretations on suburbia.

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Bad architecture. Soulless. Destructive of communities. The suburbs are much-maligned places. We see this time and again in films like "American Beauty" and novels like "The Ice Storm". This comparative study of England and the United States, offers fresh interpretations on suburbia.

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In fear of becoming havens for illegal immigrants, numerous local communities adopted and implemented their own immigration laws during the 2000s. Suburban Crossroads chronicles the debates and policy responses that emerged over laws like the Illegal Immigration Relief Act, and then evaluates the future prospects for suburban growth and decline.

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This study traces the Romanian communist regimes attempts to extinguish private property in housing. The author analyzes the homeowners resistance through law, the subsequent remaking of private property, and the hybrid legal culture of property in early communist Romania.

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Succeeding as a Political Executive: Fifty Insights from Experience is based on the real-life experience of 64 high-level executives who served in the Obama Administration. Most were at the agency head level. From 2009 to 2015, the authors conducted a series of interviews with...

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Succeeding as a Political Executive: Fifty Insights from Experience is based on the real-life experience of 64 high-level executives who served in the Obama Administration. Most were at the agency head level. From 2009 to 2015, the authors conducted a series of interviews with...

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Examines the factors that contribute to the success of small businesses in four African countries, and how this knowledge can be generalized to enhance understanding of similar businesses elsewhere.

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A companion to the author's Success Factors of Young African American Males (1998), this study examines the historical, sociological, and psychological adversity that African American women have had to transcend.