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Happiness in America: A Cultural History is a cultural history of happiness in the United States. The book charts the role of happiness in everyday life over the past century and concludes that Americans have never been a particularly happy people. Samuel suggests readers abandon their pursuit of happiness and instead seek out greater joy in life.

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Is a survey of the changing pattern of violent behaviour, public and private, in England over two hundred and fifty years. It gives an account of the different types of violence: gang; criminal; sexual; ethnic; official; political and police, perpetrated since 1750.

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Two leading experts on hate crime reassess the threat of violence based on difference--whether in sexual orientation, race, gender, ethnicity, or citizenship-- to help us better understand and ultimately prevent such acts from occurring in the future

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Offers an account of the city and its cultural development, focusing on the role played by the city's cultural communities in the search for national identity. This book looks at the often creative tensions between external influences (especially Spain, France and the United States) and indigenous cultural pressures.

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Offers an account of the city and its cultural development, focusing on the role played by the city's cultural communities in the search for national identity. This book looks at the often creative tensions between external influences (especially Spain, France and the United States) and indigenous cultural pressures.

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The traumatic affects of childhood sexual abuse can remain and recur throughout life for women who have not healed emotionally. This book by a family therapist shares stories from 18 women abused as children, explaining that healing can occur at any stage of life, and that healing, itself, occurs in stages.

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Recent scandals of clergy sexual abuse have brought attention to the victims and their responses to and recovery from their abuse. Healing the Soul after Religious Abuse, offers a unique perspective of recovery and restoration of the soul after religious abuse.

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Obesity among children is a national and international concern. The focus of this book is to provide evidence-based strategies to assist parents and educators to foster healthy weight gain in children. This book will empower children to be active agents of their own health behavior change.

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Heart of the Nation is a book about the golden thread of American democracyvolunteeringand how Presidents since the founding of our nation have worked to enlist more Americans to serve their neighbors and nation. In the process, the book shows how each individual can find his or her own service calling and his or her own happiness.

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From the world's foremost intellectual activist, an irrefutable analysis of America's pursuit of total world domination and the catastrophic consequences that are sure to follow - now with a new afterword.

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Brings parents and carers with new developments on the thinking and provision for gifted children. This book advises how to provide able children with the very best opportunities by working in partnership with schools and specialist organizations. It includes imaginative activities to challenge and stimulate able and talented children.

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There are two universally known truths: 1) Smart kids work well. 2) You can't change people. The first one is incorrect. It isn't the smart kids who work well, it is the kids who work well who are smart. Intelligence and diligence are not quantities fixed at birth. They can both be very considerably enhanced.

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The first practical guide for people who want to assist a friend or loved on in her struggle to escape an abusive relationship