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A classic in the field of political economy, reissued here with a new, incisive introduction. The global financial crisis that Strange predicted in her work has now taken place, and to a large extent is still happening. -- .

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This dictionary has been compiled to meet the needs of local government and business. It contains nearly 3500 terms, in alphabetical sequence.

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This work focuses on the highly controversial Project 100,000 which was initiated in the midst of the Vietnam War and the War on Poverty during the Johnson administration.

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This book explores representations of masculinity in Spanish film from the early Franco dictatorship through the present. It describes the rise of consumerism in Spain and, through an analysis of over 60 films, and shows how the hegemonic masculine models presented reflect and promote particular social, political, and economic exigencies.

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This edited volume applies rhetorical methodologies to dramatic literature and performative text, exploring a wide range of themes, including musical theater, revivals, childrens theater, disabilities, democracy, architecture, space, theosophy, and interfaith communication.

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Fidel Castro's triumphant march into Havana on January 8, 1959 signaled the end to Cuba's old order and the beginning of a new era. This one-stop guide to the Cuban revolution analyzes Castro's drive to oust Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista.

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Catalyst for Change contains reflections of veteran educators who write about the evolution, successes and challenges, and lessons theyve faced for current educators to tackle current educational challenges.

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Catalyst for Change contains reflections of veteran educators who write about the evolution, successes and challenges, and lessons theyve faced for current educators to tackle current educational challenges.

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Examines the strengths and weaknesses of one of the UNs most important human rights mechanisms - the collection of independent experts known as special procedures - as they negotiate the rocky terrain where rights meet reality. This book provides concrete evidence of why the system works and ways it can be improved.

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Some may dispute the effectiveness of aid. But few would disagree that aid delivered to the right source and in the right way can help poor and fragile countries develop.

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This book delves deep into school culture and the school shooter. The authors generate a more comprehensive picture of school violence including the personal, interpersonal, and environmental factors that help to generate a school serial killer.

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This book delves deep into school culture and the school shooter. The authors generate a more comprehensive picture of school violence including the personal, interpersonal, and environmental factors that help to generate a school serial killer.

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Plantation membership, an important association that continues to carry meaning in today's African-American communities on the Sea Islands, depends on one's residence between the ages of two and 12.

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Explores historically the problematic relationship between Catholics and the police in Northern Ireland. Using strong, empirical evidence from the frank, personal stories of Catholic police officers the study questions whether the PSNI is likely to succeed where the RUC failed in delivering policing by consent in a deeply divided society.

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This collection analyzes the rhetoric used by American Catholic Women of various periods, races, ethnicities, sexualities, and classes. Taken together, the essays reveal a shared ethos of resisting a powerful institutions efforts to silence the women.

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This book provides a vivid account of how the indigenous communities of Cauca in southwestern Colombia engaged with the Colombian central state. Troyan examines the state initiatives in the 1930s, '50s, '60s, and '70s toward indigenous communities in Cauca, which sheds light on the political and social construction of Colombian indigenous identity.

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The authors' conclusion, is that upward social mobility is never complete and that these upwardly mobile professionals appear to be caught in the middle between the world of their childhoods and the very different world that they must confront daily as members of the academy.

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Through interviews with homeless people, Bulman provides readers with a unique perspective on homelessness. Addicts are interviewed in chapter five, and chapter six covers those who have been homeless for some time.