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In recent years, the field of psychology has seen an increasing interest in the aftereffects of psychological trauma. In sharing the intimate details of this process, the hostage survivors have allowed us to be close observers in their efforts to redefine their world and themselves.

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When looking for exciting, quality literature to use in the middle school classroom, reach for this book.

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Pinpoints and explains the history, the conditions, and future of hot button topics in various politically and culturally charged areas of North America and Europe.

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Professor Kent is concerned with one of the major questions posed by historical research on the later Middle Ages and the Renaissance: did these periods witness the nuclearization of the aristocratic family Considering three celebrated and representative Florentine ottimati lineages, the author reconstructs the histories and activities of scores o

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This book explores the Arab Uprisings and the instability that engulfed the region in the following years. It argues that to understand the events of the uprisings we must look at relations between rulers and ruled along with the strategies used by regimes to exert sovereign power. -- .

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This book is a selection of edited papers, most of which were initially presented at an international conference held under the auspices of the Ad Hoc Committee on Housing and the Built Environment of the International Sociological Association.

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The author draws on socio-legal, economic and broader housing research in this critique of the development of housing law and housing policy. He discusses the regulatory crisis affecting each housing tenure, access to housing, and finally individual housing rights in the context of a shift towards individual responsibility.

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This work focuses on housing in Eastern Europe following the political changes of the early 1990s. The book analyses the fundamental changes taking place as the housing systems, together with their supporting financial institutions and building industries are privatised.

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This book starts with a historical description of the economic development of the various regions within the United States from 1870 together with an analytical discussion of the broad factors affecting the location of economic activity.

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Conflicts range from the War of 1812 to the Mexican and Civil Wars, the two World Wars, conflicts in Southeast Asia, and recent wars in the Middle East.

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A detailed examination of social enterprise development under New Labour, which, though rarely reported elsewhere, represented a major and deliberate political rupture with the wider Cooperative Movement, of the same order of political magnitude as Blairs earlier repudiation of Clause Four of its Constitution.

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Explores the scope for informal learning within children's everyday lives. This book examines the informal acquisition of literacy and numeracy and the role of parents and others in informal learning. It shows how children proactively develop their own learning agendas. It is suitable for education practitioners, researchers and parents.

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Explores the scope for informal learning within children's everyday lives. This book examines the informal acquisition of literacy and numeracy and the role of parents and others in informal learning. It shows how children proactively develop their own learning agendas. It is suitable for education practitioners, researchers and parents.

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This gripping book considers the history, techniques, and goals of child-targeted consumer campaigns and examines children's changing perceptions of what commodities they "need" to be valued and value themselves.

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Analysis on terrorism, international security, and global economics from some of the world's leading experts

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The disproportionate effect of Hurricane Katrina on African Americans was an outcome created by law and societal construct, not chance. This book takes a hard look at racial stratification in American today and debunks the myth that segregation is a thing of the past.

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We have heard from scholars, policymakers, and business leaders about how to improve our schools, but those who actually work in K-12 education rarely have a chance to speak out.

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