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A resource guide by and about elders and the process of aging. This volume provides a list of over 1,500 references, all annotated, covering a wide range of subject areas.

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An ethnographic study of the folksongs and local people from the Boir Ahmad in the Zagros Mountains of West Iran

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Traditional pourquoi tales (how-and-why stories) offer many opportunities for learning. This book helps educators design story times and extend and explore tales with students.

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The appeal of tales about such popular tricksters as Coyote, Brer Rabbit, Raven, and Turtle and the magic of fairy tales can be used to attract students into a variety of related learning experiences.

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The Folktales and Storytellers of Iran explores the key ideas of cultural identity, self-knowledge and understanding, and how these are represented and developed through a rich literary tradition of folklore and storytelling in what was for a long time an oral-based culture.

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In this book, Robert Hess promotes teacher leadership as the critical component to achieving breakthrough results in school improvement.

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Based on personal interviews with military spouses, as well as current articles and statistics and studies from the Department of Defense and Rand National Defense Research Institute, this book provides an objective look at America's military family in the 21st century, and explains how the military is attempting to improve family life.

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This work is a historical, multidisciplinary explanation of the complexities of the food system in the United States and around the world, spanning the beginning of the modern era to today's globalized, interconnected market.

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Featuring a range of innovative case studies, this book provides in-depth analysis of farm animal welfare and its implications for the food industry.

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Featuring a range of innovative case studies, this book provides in-depth analysis of farm animal welfare and its implications for the food industry.

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This book is a qualitative, interpretive, phenomenological, and interdisciplinary, examination of food and food practices and their meanings in the modern world. Each chapter thematically focuses upon a particular food practice and on some key details of the examined practice, or on the practices social and cultural impact.

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This book examines the social relations surrounding foodways on the island of Nayau in Fiji. Offering a comprehensive and rigorous example of ethnoarchaeology at work, Jones' book has major implications for archaeological interpretations of foodways, gender, identity, and social organization in the Pacific Islands and beyond.

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Offers an overview of the relationship between food and globalization in the modern world. This book provides a perspective on both global history and food studies. It is intended for students and scholars of history, food studies, sociology, anthropology and globalization.

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Food has a special significance in the expanding field of global history. This work provides an historical overview of the relationship between food and globalization in the modern world. It offers a fresh perspective on both global history and food studies.

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This collection of original essays explores food and identity in the Caribbean, as contemporary political and economic changes impact upon culinary identities. Through rich ethnographies, the volume reveals how connections between food and identity persist and evolve against the odds.

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This collection of original essays explores food and identity in the Caribbean, as contemporary political and economic changes impact upon culinary identities. Through rich ethnographies, the volume reveals how connections between food and identity persist and evolve against the odds.

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Is any food safe Will Mad Cow Disease kill us all How many calories are really in your restaurant Caesar salad Modern consumers are besieged with conflicting messages about food and nutrition, making it difficult for the lay person to know what to believe. This book explores the controversies in the field of food and nutrition.