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From its humble beginnings as a reconnaissance flight, using second-hand aircraft at the very end of the Battle of Britain, Nigeria squadron went on to become one of the most famous units in RAF Fighter Command. This title details the squadron and first-hand accounts of combat.

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Highlights the scholarship of eight doctoral students in curriculum and their professor, who took on the legal, political, philosophical, social, cultural, economic, and curricular assumptions of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). This book offers an examination of the impact of the NCLB on the lives of children, families, and teachers.

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The 2002 No Child Left Behind Act is the most important legislation in American education since the 1960s. The law requires states to put into place a set of standards together with a comprehensive testing plan designed to ensure these standards are met.

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After twenty-seven years in prison, Nelson Mandela finally walked free in February 1990. This book offers a collection of his articles, speeches, letters from underground, and the transcripts from his trials that demonstrates the charisma and determination of a towering figure in the struggle for racial equality in South Africa.

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No Enchanted Palace traces the origins and early development of the United Nations, one of the most influential yet perhaps least understood organizations active in the world today. Acclaimed historian Mark Mazower forces us to set aside the popular myth that the UN miraculously rose from the ashes of World War II as the guardian of a new and peace

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Yossi Alpher explains how Israel entered its current situation of growing international isolation, political stalemate, and gathering messianic political influence. He investigates the inability of Israelis and Palestinians to make peace and end their conflict before suggesting ways to moderate and soften the worst aspects of the situation.

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First, what constitutes terrorism What is new about the 'new' terrorism Why is the Muslim world the most potent breeding ground of this new terrorism To what extent is religion itself a factor Is there a clash of civilizations between the Muslim world and the largely Christian or post-Christian West Is America at fault.

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No Family History presents compelling evidence of environmental links to breast cancer, ranging from everyday cosmetics to industrial waste. Sabrina McCormick weaves the story of one survivor with no family history into a powerful exploration of the big business of breast canc...

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A deep and intimate look at the lives of LGBTQ youth in foster care, vividly chronicling their struggles, fears and hardships, and revealing the force that allows them to carry on: the irrepressible power of hope.

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Humor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity. In this book, Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the genius of spontaneous Jewish joking--as well as the brilliance of comic masterworks by writers like Heinrich Heine, Sholem Aleichem, Isaac Babel, S. Y. Agnon, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Philip Roth. At the same time, Wisse draws atten

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This book profiles the leadership behavior of ten proven leaders from many walks of life whose leadership style included a highly developed sense of humor. The idea, of course, would be to look at the overall leadership behavior of these individuals, but focus especially on t...

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[Mezey] enriches her study with a brief history of federal disability policy and provides a review of contending arguments over public policy and judicial activism. By examining the effects of the courts on social policy, this case study offers new perspectives on the role of the federal courts in the political system.

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This volume looks at both the macro-factors affecting rural schools as well as the specific steps rural schools have taken and can take to improve.

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This volume looks at both the macro-factors affecting rural schools as well as the specific steps rural schools have taken and can take to improve.

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No Longer Homeless is a powerful look at a group of people we rarely hear aboutthose who have formerly been on the streetssharing the details of their lives to help individuals, organizations, and communities learn to better support the ongoing challenges of homelessness.

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Against the backdrop of today's increasingly multicultural society, are America's elite colleges admitting and successfully educating a diverse student body No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal pulls back the curtain on the selective college experience and takes a rigorous and comprehensive look at how race and social class impact each stage--from ap

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What does it mean to be a man in a world where women are almost as likely as men to shoulder the responsibilities of supporting a family Why do some men still choose to be traditional breadwinners wh

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This book argues the Anti-Imperialist movement, led by the Anti-Imperialist League, followed an evolving path of ethical witnessing where leaders empathically considered the perspective of imperialist violence in the Philippines as expressed by marginalized ant-imperialists.

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No More "Us" and "Them" delineates what steps educators can take to create an atmosphere where adolescent students feel accepted, included, and valuable to themselves and to their peers. This book provides ideas for lessons and activities that can be integrated into existing c...

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