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This book brings Theodor Herzl's The Jewish State into dialogue with Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams in order to shed light on and offer an explanation for Israels troubled and uncertain position in current international relations.

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Discusses the role of empathy in learning throughout all levels of education and its crucial relationship to motivation, values development and achievement, impacting from the micro to the macro levels of society. The author considers the intrinsic nature of affect and empathic human relationships in learning.

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This book highlights the urgent need to expand conceptions of leadership in early childhood to emphasize postmodern epistemology, a belief that equity starts by acknowledging and making diversities visible, and to unite leadership in a commitment to work for social justice.

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The book outlines the sociological arguments and political activities of the US pragmatist sociologist, Herbert Adolphus Miller, part of the milieu of Chicago sociology and involved in its studies of race and immigration.

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In Empire Lite, Michael Ignatieff explores both sides of what he sees as a new global empire - the imperial and the humanitarian - and argues that the international community has failed to engage intelligently with the problems of nation building in the aftermath of apocalyptic events.

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Does America face the same destiny endured by ancient Rome Beginning with a Roman story strikingly parallel to the American Abu Ghraib scandal, Madden provides a much-needed historical context to this burning contemporary debate. Photos throughout.

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This research guide provides a comprehensive summary of all quantitative research in the World Politics field published in scholarly journals between 1970 and 1991.

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Harnessing the empowering ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche to read the human condition of modern existence through a sociological lens, this book confronts the realities of how modern social structures, ideologies, and utopianisms affect ones ability to purpose existence with self-authored meaning.

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Harnessing the empowering ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche to read the human condition of modern existence through a sociological lens, this book confronts the realities of how modern social structures, ideologies, and utopianisms affect ones ability to purpose existence with self-authored meaning.

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A powerful plea for a solution to the Israel/Palestine conflict that provides dignity and rights for all.

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A powerful plea for a solution to the Israel/Palestine conflict that provides dignity and rights for all.

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This annotated bibliography surveys the significant research from the last 20 years about the legal, medical, psychological, social, and economic aspects of the employment of the elderly.

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Employment security is under pressure in public and private sectors because of fluctuating economic conditions and unstable markets.

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Offers a comprehensive empirical analysis of the ways in which participatory democracy can be used to effect social change. Using city-wide data and six neighborhood case studies, this book explores how determined Chicago residents, police officers, teachers, and community groups worked to banish crime.

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Pressure on schools to develop has never been greater, and this series brings to the attention of teachers, heads, policy makers and researchers the latest knowledge in the fields of school improvement and school effectiveness. Teachers are provided with practical knowledge whilts the ideas presented will also stimulate debate.

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Educators struggle with how to develop agency, ownership, curiosity, and persistence in learners. This book offers practical ideas and examples of how to do this.

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Teachers, administrators, and education professors will find ideas that will transform classrooms into places where students are filled with confidence and empowered to strive for excellence.

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An analysis of provider-, environment-, client- and societal-based obstacles to the empowerment of frail elderly persons in a philosophical framework of social values. It features international case studies which provide examples of the feasibility of achieving real empowerment.

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