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Using quality children's literature as a springboard to learning, this guide extends the understanding of science concepts through short activities, longer projects, and adventures.

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Examines the four aspects of Chinese investigative journalism. This title offers a mixture of fieldwork and analysis of internal and public documents and media cases accurately survey the field and put it in context.

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A mixture of fieldwork and analysis of internal and public documents and media cases accurately survey the field and put it in context.

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Presents new research by leading scholars in Australia and the US on economic factors that influence children's development and the respective social policies that the two nations have designed to boost human capital development. The volume is organised around three major issues: parental employment, early childhood education and child care, and postsecondary education.

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The health of democracy ultimately depends on the willingness and ability to work together as citizens and stakeholders. Government policies often fail to promote such collaboration. But if designed properly, they can do much to strengthen civic engagement. That is the central message of Carmen Siriannis eloquent new book.

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Michelle Janning innovatively updates the already-rich body of knowledge on vacation homes and communities by integrating new data gathered from mixed methods research, alongside compelling and complex stories that cleverly elucidate the vacation home story today as it relates directly to changing family patterns.

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Michelle Janning innovatively updates the already-rich body of knowledge on vacation homes and communities by integrating new data gathered from mixed methods research, alongside compelling and complex stories that cleverly elucidate the vacation home story today as it relates directly to changing family patterns.

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This volume critiques current federal and state education reform initiatives, and addresses a number of important questions: What are the major themes of these initiatives

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He lays out the long term aspirations of the immigrants within the context of the geo-political, economic, and social conditions in Africa.

Ultimately, Arthur explains why people leave Africa, what they encounter, their interactions with the host society, and their attitudes about American social institutions.

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The only study that deals specifically with the impact of affirmative action on white males, this book will appeal to academic and general readers with an interest in public policy, law, political science, sociology, and social psychology.

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Lynch condemns the sloppy, fearful thinking that has converted affirmative action into quotas and that has kept social researchers shying away from this explosive topic.

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Invisible Wings is the only reference book on Blacks in aviation. The work covers three quarters of the twentieth century from 1916 to 1993, with one of the earliest articles describing the world's first Black pilot, Eugene J.

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Argues that Western culture appears to feed off a diet of terror and inadvertently offers its enemies an invitation to be terrorised. Starting with the question of 'Why do they hate us', this title helps to find ourselves unsure of who 'they' are. It engages with some of the most fundamental questions confronting society.

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This edited collection examines the means to create, maintain, and enhance positive educational experiences at colleges and universities in the United States and abroad with personal accounts, case studies, models, programs, and other frameworks written by practitioners in higher education.

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This book presents a comprehensive method for the schools to working with hard-to-reach parents. Strategies are present to reach out to the parents and create family/school partnerships. The book provides an array of updated best practices to implement the strategies.

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We are bombarded with images of poverty, terrorism, war and collapsing states. Do we ever question what the root cause of these problems might be Noreena Hertz, one of the world's leading experts on economic globalization, tackles Third World Debt as a situation that must be resolved if we are ever to see global stability.

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An historical and personal account of the "troubles" in Ireland from an IRA perspective.

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This study is a broad analysis of diplomatic, economic, and cultural relations between Iran and China since the 1980s. It provides new perspectives on critical recent developments and outlines a prospective path for the future.

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This study is a broad analysis of diplomatic, economic, and cultural relations between Iran and China since the 1980s. It provides new perspectives on critical recent developments and outlines a prospective path for the future.