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The Bulletin of the John Rylands Library is a long-running journal that publishes research complementary to the John Rylands Library's extensive special collections.

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When Oscar Booze entered West Point in 1898, the older cadets decided that he did not conform to their image of what a cadet should be.

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Bully-Proofing Children is a comprehensive guide for parents, teachers, and all caretakers on the often overlooked but pervasive issue of bullying in our culture. Parents and teachers will be able to use the questioning techniques, scripts, tips and stories for dealin...

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This important text presents bullying as a health issue and proposes effective strategies for diagnosis, treatment, and prevention based on current scientific research of aggressive behaviors.

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Numerous books have been written about bullying, but most of them only deal with external interventions_those that suggest teaching students more appropriate social skills. Here, Gary Plaford examines internal interventions; external interventions; monitoring and controlling b...

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The book is written in response to the growing problem of bullying both inside and outside of schools. The problem is evolving and currently absorbs an ever-increasing range of identities including, cyberbullying, adult bullying, family and spousal bullying, workplace bullying, and student and teacher forms.

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The book is written in response to the growing problem of bullying both inside and outside of schools. The problem is evolving and currently absorbs an ever-increasing range of identities including, cyberbullying, adult bullying, family and spousal bullying, workplace bullying, and student and teacher forms.

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Drawing upon research conducted in the United States, United Kingdom, Scandinavia, and Canada, this work offers insights into the short and long-term impact bullying can have upon the lives of students, their families, and teachers. It also highlights questions that parents and educators should consider when working to stop bullying in schools.

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In this title contemporary black American culture is chronicled through essays on music, film, sports, publishing, politics and city life, both uptown and down. This edition includes essays on the Hughes brothers, Tupac Shakur, the business of hip-hop and Latrell Sprewell.

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Provides with chapters specifically devoted to how bureaucrats interpret their role in the policy process, how the organizational environment influences their ability to play that role, and to the interactions between bureaucrats and the institutions of what we call the Constitutional government the President, the Congress, and the Courts.

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In Bureaucracys Masters and Minions the author argues that political control of the bureaucracy from the president and the Congress is largely contingent on an agencys internal characteristics of workforce composition, workforce responsibilities, and workforce organization.

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In Bureaucracys Masters and Minions the author argues that political control of the bureaucracy from the president and the Congress is largely contingent on an agencys internal characteristics of workforce composition, workforce responsibilities, and workforce organization.

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The first edition of Bureaucratic Politics and Foreign Policy is one of the most successful Brookings titles of all time. This thoroughly revised version updates that classic analysis of the role played by the federal bureaucracy civilian career officials, political appointees, and military officers and Congress in formulating U.

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When Edward's father goes missing in a remote region of Uganda while investigating rumors of a massacre, President Idi Amin's corrupt, dictatorial regime is exposed to the world in all its brutality.Nearly three decades later, Edward, now a world-renowned American forensics expert, returns to Uganda to solve the mystery surrounding his father's life and murder.

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For more than 50 years, Burma has been ruled by a succession of military regimes which rank among the most oppressive dictatorships in the world. Accused of crimes against humanity, they have brutally mistreated their people. This book explains the country's conflicted history, as well as its contemporary struggle for justice.

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This book examines the origins and consequences of Burma's current policies from military, political, social, and economic perspectives. It analyzes the Asian decision to ""constructively engage"" Burma, especially in economic affairs, versus the position of the United States and many other Western countries to treat Burma as a pariah.

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Part III examines the fate of libraries when there is war and a resulting power vacuum.

The book concludes with a discussion of the events in Iraq in 2003, and the responsibility of American war strategists for the widespread pillaging that ensued after the toppling of Saddam Hussein.

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By reliably quantifying the nature of student engagement at the classroom level, teachers and administrators are supplied a powerfully telling barometer by which to gauge educational quality. Also left at educational leaders' disposal are data-informed guideposts that illumin...

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No other book has studied the phenomenon of burnout among child- and youth-care workers across so many cultures using a standard measure to pinpoint the dimensions of culture that increase or decrease burnout.

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The study also includes a qualitative analysis of worker comments on the factors contributing to burnout, a comparison of correctional officer versus probation officer burnout, and a comparison of male and female probation officer burnout.

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Centers the voices of transgender, queer, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming peer support workers to address burnout within a helping profession