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Provides an overview of out-of-wedlock births in the United States from a comparative and historical perspective.

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Outcomes Assessment in Higher Education focuses on assessing institutional quality and effectiveness, and responds to the increasing demand for greater accountability at all levels of institutional activity.

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During the years that the German Social Democratic party organization was legally suppressed by the Socialist Law, the movement underwent a fundamental transformation in its relationship to the traditions of political democracy and socialist theory with which it began in the 1860's. This history shows how, gradually adopting Marxian economic and po

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This book addresses identity-formation as it relates to social inclusivity. The stigmatized Other have long been marginalized in their social relations with the mainstream. This book reconstitutes the thinking which displaces social exclusiveness, replacing it with new ideas promoting social cohesiveness, reciprocity, and social inclusivity.

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This work includes a description of an intensive outpatient therapy programme that is designed to treat the sexually addicted patient. It contains psycho-educational groups, same-sex group psychotherapy and 12-step meetings, covering such issues as shame, depression and cross addiction.

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This work seeks to clarify why and when interest group leaders in Washigton, USA seek to mobilize the public order to influence policy decisions in Congress. It grants a more important role to the need for interest group leaders to demonstrate popular support on particular issues.

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Mr. Apraku gives the reader an outsider's analysis of the good and bad elements that make up the U.S. The author, a Ghanian who has spent the last 18 years studying and teaching in the U.S., brings his personal experiences as an emigr to this examination of American capitalism and democracy.

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This concise, educational, and thorough reference will educate women who are contemplating, undergoing, or recovering from plastic surgery.

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They show that in order to protect the country from terrorists, security forces must do what the terrorists do: identify vulnerable targets, analyze their specific weaknesses, consider the tools and weapons needed to attack, and assess access to the targets.

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O'Looney's book provides the guidance that state and local managers need to decide to outsource, and then advice on how to proceed.

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Military robots are already being used in conflicts around the globe and are affecting both the decision to go to war and the means by which wars are conducted. This book covers the history of military robotics, analyzes their current employment, and examines the ramifications of their future utilization.

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Supported by the Nebraska Council of School Administrators and the U.S. Department of Education, the authors investigated the successful strategies and attitudes of hundreds of individuals nominated as outstanding administrators by state departments of education, professional associations, university professors, and peers.

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On the moral decay surrounding the collapse of the modern worldview with its isolated and competitive individualism, abstraction and mechanism. Also on the dynamics of emerging, relational worldview and vision of human development/maturity necessary to the human future beyond the societal upheaval and reorder caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Traditionally, psychology has concentrated on factors that contribute to individuals becoming unhealthy and has paid very little attention to those individuals who become healthy when all indications would predict the opposite.

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One of the world's leading experts on reading and dyslexia delivers this comprehensive, up-to-date book to help readers understand, identify, and overcome reading problems. Dr. Shaywitz translates cutting-edge research into an easy-to-follow plan of action offering help and hope. High school & older.

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J. Dawson Williams writes with both authority and compassion - a unique combination. He emphasizes that the only way to move past discrimination and prejudice is through positivity and optimism, rather than anger and frustration. Readers are reminded that it is through ethics that we achieve a more productive system.

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The ideas outlined in this book for fixing flaws in federal governance come from the more than century of collective experience of its expert authors. The book represents a burst of sunshine after a very dark period in the nations history.

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This series of essays explores the impact of information on the quality of life in modern society. Addressing the significance of boredom as an indicator of overloads of information, Klapp argues that the information society has become boring in spite of itself.

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Synthesizes an array of research from both the physical and social sciences and shows how these insights can contribute to a better understanding of human learning, especially as this relates to adolescence. This book provides information about the need for transformational change in education.

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Answers the question of whether black and Latino legislators better represent minority interests in Congress than white legislators. This book argues that minority members of Congress act on behalf of broad minority interests - inside and outside their districts - because of a shared bond of experience and a sense of linked fate.