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From Seattle anarchist punks to UK Asian underground music, Canadian female "X-Files" fans to Australian dance cultures, this book draws on a variety of international case studies to investigate the relationships among youth subcultural music, politics and taste. It also questions the relevance of what might be termed post-subcultural studies.

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Based on a five-step approach to developing an "appreciative mindset, " this guide to postive thinking shows readers how to achieve this elusive state using scientific references, real life examples, worksheets, and quizzes to introduce readers the concept and incorporate it into their lives. Origina

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Committed to participative research, Concha Delgado-Gaitan collaborated with the community to connect family, school, and community, giving birth to the ComitZ de Padres Latinos. This work shows how communities that pull together and offer caring ears, eyes, and hands, can ensure that their children thrive - academically, socially, and personally.

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This study is a strategic assessment of the power of nations in the world of the 1990s and recommendations as to the U.S. strategic role appropriate to that world.

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Continuing the case for free voluntary reading set out in the book's 1993 first edition, this new, updated, and much-looked-for second edition explores new research done on the topic in the last ten years as well as looking anew at some of the original research reviewed.

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The "Power of the Pen" is a powerful civics and historical document used as a framework for leaders. It captures a time in the history of America from reconstruction to present on how leaders must do courageous penmanship in writing new laws of change that will benefit the people. This book shows that the bridge toward relationships is important and how to utilize them to be an agent of change.

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Too often, editors Bandana Purkayastha and Mangala Subramaniam have found, marginalized groups in rural or impoverished areas are overlooked by the international economy of knowledge. The Power of Women's Informal Networks describes and evaluates social organization among poor...

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Untangles the jargon, and provides you with the knowledge to participate in the production of practical media products. This work is a guide to understanding how the media works and how people in the media talk to each other about their industry. It also includes specialist jargon found in a TV studio, and on location.

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The difficulty for students and new entrants to the industry is that the day-to-day working language, the customised roles and the specific deployment of skills and specialist activities can seem at first daunting and inpenetrable. The Practical Media Dictionary' is an essential guide to understanding how the media works and how people in the media talk to each other about their industry.

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This volume shows how we play at various ages and stages, and why play is so vital to our wellbeing.

Most American adults have little respect for play, for themselves or, increasingly, for their children.

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Introduces readers to the transsexual mindset, explaining how the identity discord develops, and to research that suggests a biological, and not purely psychological, basis for transsexuality. This book also details the psychological, social, family and legal issues transsexuals face.

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Drawing on ideas from Charles Sander Pierce, George Herbert Mead, Kenneth Burke and Mikhail Bakhtin, this work focuses on the centrality of the social act in describing and understanding the beingness of the human individual, situating such acts in dialogic and rhetorical processes.

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Media coverage and popular interpretations of American government typically concentrate on the presidency. Observers often attribute the fortunes of an entire government to one person or his small circle of advisers.

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How has the doctrine of separation of powers evolved How does scandal-driven press coverage of the post-Vietnam and post-Watergate presidency compare with the partisan press of the early republic This volume addresses these and other questions.

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This unique book systematically examines the interplay among foreign policymakers, the press, and public opinion in the process of China policy decision making from 1950 to 1984. The comprehensive analysis allows readers to understand hoe the press shapes and is shaped by foreign policy decisions.

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When Fine Gael and Labour swept into government, in February 2011 they knew they were facing the greatest crisis in the history of the state. What confronted them was beyond their direst imaginings. This title tells the story of how they have led - and misled - Ireland.

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Desmond Harney, a former British diplomat, was living in Tehran during the build-up to the Iranian Revolution and kept a day-to-day account of the events he witnessed. The author reflects with remarkable accuracy the spirit in Iran as the country careered from a docile Western-orientated ally to an unpredictable, brooding revolutionary state.

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The Principal's Office is a practical book. It is simple, easy-to-read, and packed with straightforward, personal advice gleaned from years of real experience. The current or future principal will receive words of wisdom from an author who knows what it is like to serve in the...