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In conflicts around the world, there is an increasingly popular weapon system that needs negligible technology. What are these cheap, renewable, plentiful, sophisticated, and expendable weapons Children. This book provides an introduction to the child soldier phenomenon, as well as concrete solutions for its total eradication.

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A shocking expose of the process by which the mental-health elite judge us all.

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They're Playing Our Songs offers a unique and fascinating vehicle for women's voices to be heard on the subject of women's music and how it affects their lives.

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This work describes the increase in management layers of the US government over the past 50 years and its paralyzing effect on reform efforts. The author shows how the "thickening" of government bureaucracy has come about, and how it diminishes direct presidential control over what happens below.

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Examines how civil wars - including those in Lebanon, Chechnya and Kosovo - have affected other nations. This book draws from these lessons to produce recommendations for US policy, should a full-scale civil war break out in Iraq.

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Presenting an original global theory of culture, Girard explores the social function of violence and the mechanism of the social scapegoat. His vision is a challenge to conventional views of literature, anthropology, religion and psychoanalysis.

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An award-winning memoir that describes the childhood of Kwan, a young boy living in Beijing in the 1930s. Abandoned by his Swiss mother and overwhelmed by his father, Kwan's life is thrown into turmoil when the Japanese invade.

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Depression is being experienced in epidemic proportions in many Western societies, and there is great concern over the number of young people who are suffering, sometimes to the extent of committing suicide. This book aims to help prevent stress and depression by taking a positive approach to the promotion of health and well being in young people.

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Transform your library into a "think tank" by helping teachers create an active learning environment in which students question, investigate, synthesize, conclude, and present information based on Common Core standards.

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Transform your library into a "think tank" by helping teachers create an active learning environment in which students question, investigate, synthesize, conclude, and present information based on Common Core standards.

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As think tank numbers explode, they have become an integral part of political life. Political leaders, corporations and non-governmental organisations draw upon their expert advice to advance their causes in the battle of ideas. -- .

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Think tanks have become important in many Asian nations over the past decade, coinciding with their new prominence in international affairs. This book traces the growing influence of these policy, places the trend in historical context, and explores how the region's countries have fostered the growth of think tanks with Asian characteristics.

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In this classic bestseller, Dr. Joseph Murphy, one of the world's best-known authorities on the power of the subconscious mind, shows readers not only how to unleash this power, but how to harness it and effectively use it to change their lives.

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Thinking about Animals in the Age of the Anthropocene makes connections between the Anthropocene discourse and human-animal studies, thus facilitating further interdisciplinary work on the topic of animals in the Anthropocene.

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This book illustrates the centrality of technological thought and action to todays world and offers a critique of technology as its dominant organizing principle. Germain exposes the flaw in the technological vision while suggesting ways to inhabit the technological landscape that befit our humanity.

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This book illustrates the centrality of technological thought and action to todays world and offers a critique of technology as its dominant organizing principle. Germain exposes the flaw in the technological vision while suggesting ways to inhabit the technological landscape that befit our humanity.

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The authors show how such postmodernist thinkers as Derrida, Foucault, and Lyotard illuminate puzzling aspects of education. They argue that educational theory is currently at an impasse, and that we need these new and disturbing ideas in order to "think again", fruitfully and creatively about education.

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The authors show how such postmodernist thinkers as Derrida, Foucault, and Lyotard illuminate puzzling aspects of education. They argue that educational theory is currently at an impasse, and that we need these new and disturbing ideas in order to "think again", fruitfully and creatively about education.

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Thinking Dead: What the Zombie Apocalypse Means, edited by Murali Balaji, examines various aspects of the zombie apocalypse scenario from the perspective of a variety of theoretical frameworks. Essays in the collection shed light on why we are so obsessed with the undead. This is a cutting-edge volume for the growing scholarship on media representations of zombies.

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This is the first book to address head-on the issue of the appalling mismatch between what our economy needs and what our educational institutions actually provide.

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