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This workexamines how preschool teachers construct the preschool teacher identity through everyday practices of teaching and caring. Pruit's analysis of preschool teachers' talk and interaction addresses pertinent sociological and early childhood education themes, including classroom management, social control, emotions, and identity construction.

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Examines how statutory interpretation has affected the development of three programs: Aid to Families with Dependent Children, education for the handicapped, and food stamps. The book explores how these decisions have changed state and national policies and how other institutionsespecially Congresshave reacted to them.

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Offers students a comparative analytical framework for ways of thinking about fatherhood and new insights into why some welfare states have 'father-friendly' social policies and why others don't. -- .

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This work explores the contributions of Jean Price-Mars to Haitian history and culture and interprets his connections with Black internationalism, Harlem Renaissance, and the Negritude movement. The book also underscores Price-Marss contributions to post colonialism, religious studies, Africana studies, and pan-Africanism.

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Explores the state of contemporary international cultural exchange. The contributors identify the conceptual, methodological and administrative problems involved in cultural exchange, focusing on the issue of US/Japanese exchange in education.

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Women in Victorian England wore jewelry made from each other's hair and wrote poems celebrating decades of friendship. They pored over magazines that described the dangerous pleasures of corporal punishment. This book offers a paradigm for theorizing gender and sexuality - not just in the Victorian period, but in our own.

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Drawing on the experiences of innovative police departments that have tried new approaches to policing in cities as diverse as Los Angeles, Newport News, Virginia, and London, this important book assesses what can be done by enterprising police chiefs and progressive communities to combat the crime and violence that currently engulf our cities.

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Alternative Food Networks is a robust ethnography providing theoretical insight and anecdotal evidence of how alternative economies can become embedded in active citizenship practices, cooperative relationships, and social networks.

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Alternative Food Networks is a robust ethnography providing theoretical insight and anecdotal evidence of how alternative economies can become embedded in active citizenship practices, cooperative relationships, and social networks.

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Does the achievement of economic equality in a multiethnic society require the complete loss of a minority's cultural identity However, Barrera compares the situation of Mexican Americans to that of minority groups in four other countries and concludes that equality does not necessarily require assimilation.

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In addition to lifestyle structure, Walters examines the three factors believed to be responsible for selection of a lifestyle over adaptation and preference for one lifestyle over another: incentive or type of fear experienced, opportunity or specific learning experiences, and choice or decision making apparatus.

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In Beyond Bond: Spies in Film and Fiction, Britton traces the history of espionage in literature, film, and other media, demonstrating how the spy stories of the 1840s began cementing our popular conceptions of what spies do and how they do it.

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What will Brexit mean for Britain's unwritten constitution Constitutional expert Vernon Bogdanor explores the greatest political question of the moment

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In the midst of ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, civil war, and political discord, courageous civilians from both sides are working together toward mutual understanding and peace.

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This book offers a practical guide to the everyday actions and decisions that anyone can take to promote gender equality and social justice in their own life and the world around them.

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Argues that many of the basic concepts that we use to describe and analyze our governmental system are out of date. This work explains the causes and character of this failure, and then proposes a new conceptual framework, which describes our administrative government, and identifies its weaknesses instead of merely bemoaning its modernity.

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A collection of writings developing the ideas of Dr Carl Rogers, originator of the Person-Centred Approach.

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The world has changed, but the pro-choice position hasn't. Now an internationally renowned pro-choice advocate--and grandson of Margaret Sanger--offers a compelling new basis for keeping abortion legal

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The award-winning author of Ishmael argues that if humankind is to survive, it must move beyond an exploitation of the planet and its resources, other species, and other human beings to an enlightened future that emphasizes sustaining rather than consuming the world. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

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For peoples whose legal agreements, treaties, and other accords and conventions with the United States have been violated, multiculturalism as a pedagogical tool often becomes suspect of reinforcing the continued reification and abstraction of their cultures and nations with little if any real meaning for educational and social transformation.

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The author attempts to redefine the problems that the individual in American society is facing. He posits that increasing social complexity through structural differentiation can result in greater mobilization of resources, increased capacity to pursue desirable goals, greater freedom of choice for more individuals.

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This book presents confrontation as the key theme of the post-cold war world. The examples of war, international economics, environmental decay, and racial conflict show that in today's interdependent world, the problems we face are interdependent too.

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This book presents confrontation as the key theme of the post-cold war world. The examples of war, international economics, environmental decay, and racial conflict show that in today's interdependent world, the problems we face are interdependent too.