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This book offers insight into the ways in which engagement strategies at the school level can be developed and implemented in order to improve student outcomes.

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This book offers insight into the ways in which engagement strategies at the school level can be developed and implemented in order to improve student outcomes.

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What happens when the elitist space of Western classical music seeks to diversify itself And what are the social effects worked through diversity discourses in classical music institutions The sound of difference examines how diversity work takes shape in a cultural sector deeply implicated in hierarchies of class, structures of whiteness, and legacies of imperialism.

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Documents the benefits of affirmative action for minority students, their communities, and the nation at large. This book investigates the roots of minority underperformance in selective colleges and universities. It explains how such factors as neighborhood, family, peer group, and early schooling influence the academic performance of students.

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Intergroup relations is a contentious issue both inside and outside South Africa, where it has dominated political thinking for the past several decades, and affected the day-to-day lives of all the country's inhabitants.

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Stephen Philip Cohen, the scholar who virtually created the field of South Asian security studies, has curated a unique collection of the most interesting and important articles, chapters, and speeches from his fifty-year career. This exceptional collection includes material that have never appeared in book form.

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This work, intended for students, provides an examination of recent South Asian immigrant groups - the fastest growing segment of the US population. Topics include: patterns of immigration; adaptation to US life; women's roles; the family; and the compatibility of US and South Asian values.

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This study provides political and economic analyses of current controversies in the South China Sea. It examines enduring territorial disputes, competing maritime claims, and the historical roots of regional mistrust. It also analyzes how such antagonisms affect the regional security structure and offers solutions to resolve the conflicts.

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This study provides political and economic analyses of current controversies in the South China Sea. It examines enduring territorial disputes, competing maritime claims, and the historical roots of regional mistrust. It also analyzes how such antagonisms affect the regional security structure and offers solutions to resolve the conflicts.

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The South Seas is an innovative work of cultural history, tracing the ways in which the idea of the South Seas has been understood and transmitted through Western culture since the eighteenth century.

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The South Seas is an innovative work of cultural history, tracing the ways in which the idea of the South Seas has been understood and transmitted through Western culture since the eighteenth century.

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A powerful and moving story of the racial transformation of an American neighborhood, told in memoir and oral narrative. It deserves to become a classic....This text needs to be understood and performed at least as regularly as Thornton Wilders Our Town.Sandy Primm, St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

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Examining the competing institutions that arose during the decline of feudalism (among them urban leagues, independent communes, city states, and sovereign monarchies), this book disposes of the familiar claim that the superior size and war-making ability of the sovereign nation-state made it the natural successor to the feudal system.

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As the 2016 election made clear, sovereignty is one of the most frequently invoked, polemical, and misunderstood concepts in politics. This book will help policymakers think clearly about what is at stake in the sovereignty debate and provides criteria for determining when it is appropriate to make bargains over sovereignty - and how to make them.

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The Soviet elite has undergone two major transformations in the twentieth century: Stalin's purges and replacement of old elite by Soviet trained proletarian modernizing managers;

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In Part II, three chapters discuss the U.S. response to the Soviet threat in terms of U.S. strategy for war in Europe, strategic defense policies, and technology and policy choices.

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The recent transformations in the USSR are nowhere more evident than in the Soviet military. Top-level military officers have been relieved of their positions, Gorbachev has warned of lean times for the military, the symbolic role of the armed forces has been downgraded, and the concept of "military sufficiency" points to major modifications in Sov

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This narrative provides an account of the emigration of nearly 500,000 Soviet Jews to the United States between 1967 and 1997.

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Laird accomplishes two major goals: he provides an analytical, blow-by-blow description of the collapse of the Soviet Union under Mikhail Gorbachev's leadership, and he explores the legacy left by the experiment in communism by the Soviet Union.

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The study analyzes Soviet forecasting methodologies, naval developments, views about theater warfare in Europe, developments in C3I, the role of space, the Soviet military economy, mobilization regimes, Soviet views on American military thought, perspectives on the initial period of warfare and changes in operational arts.

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