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This book explores culture, development, and spirituality from a social work perspective using case studies from around the world. It serves as a guide for those who want to better understand and incorporate spirituality into successful social work interventions, practice, and research.

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This book explores culture, development, and spirituality from a social work perspective using case studies from around the world. It serves as a guide for those who want to better understand and incorporate spirituality into successful social work interventions, practice, and research.

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The arrival of the Spitfire in Burma came at a crucial time as the RAF struggled against the Japanese to support the Chindit operation on the ground. It played a large part in defeating the enemy. This book tells the stories of the 54 aces who flew against the Japanese, and also those who fought in India and Australia.

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The RAF's first aces of World War II achieved impressive scores during the Battles of France and Britain, despite the aircraft's short range, light armament and overheating engines. This work examines both the history of these early Spitfires and the aces who flew them.

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This volume completes the "Aircraft of the Aces" trilogy on the elite pilots that flew the Spitfire in World War II. The Mk V was the workhorse of the wartime marks, being built in sufficient numbers to serve in the Far East, Australia, North Africa and Russia.

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The story of the unsung heroines who flew the newest, fastest, aeroplanes in World War II mostly in southern England where the RAF was desperately short of pilots.

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Reassesses the place of feminism in the law and politics of sexuality. This book argues that sexuality involves deeply contested and clashing realities and interests, and that feminism helps us understand only some of them.

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Spokes 7: The Pathos of Politics is a discourse on politics: its history, theories, ideological bents, and political structures, with the shabbiness and corruption of modern governance exposed. Go to IshiNobu.com for more information.

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Spokes 5-1: The Echoes of the Mind Mentation explains the mind and its machinations (psychology), mathematics, and aesthetics. Spokes 5 concludes with 5-2, on the social lives of people (sociology). Go to IshiNobu.com for more information.

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Spokes 5-2: The Echoes of the Mind People pivots on how people behave. Continuing from Spokes 5-1, 5-2 explores the mechanics and manner of how the human world works (sociology). Go to IshiNobu.com for more information.

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Using shaggy dog stories based on classic literature, the Polettes address common spelling and grammatical errors and the ways in which children can be taught to read critically to recognize them.

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Explores the localized logics and practices underlying the marketing initiatives of major conglomerates and their increasing influence on the shaping and experiencing of national cultures. This book provides an analysis of the growing evolution of marketing strategies in the world of sport.

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Explores the localized logics and practices underlying the marketing initiatives of major conglomerates and their increasing influence on the shaping and experiencing of national cultures. This book provides an analysis of the growing evolution of marketing strategies in the world of sport.

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The book critically addresses the relationship between sport and diplomacy posing new questions of these two enduring features of global society. -- .

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The book critically addresses the relationship between sport and diplomacy posing new questions of these two enduring features of global society. -- .

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This book examines the relationship between sport and religion with regard to twenty-first century topics such as race, fandom, education, and culture. The contributors provide new insights into the people, movements, and events that define the complex relationship between sport and religion around the world.

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This book examines the relationship between sport and religion with regard to twenty-first century topics such as race, fandom, education, and culture. The contributors provide new insights into the people, movements, and events that define the complex relationship between sport and religion around the world.

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The first study of its kind, Sport and Society in Latin America vividly demonstrates the ways in which sport can be used to study various historical and social processes and expands our understanding of sport as a major form of social behavior in Latin America.

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This interdisciplinary study analyzes the role of sport during the American occupation of the Philippines and how it related to race, religion, government, and more. It examines how sport was used by colonial authorities to achieve occupation aims and argues that similar strategies continue to be prominent factors in U.S. foreign policy.

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This study is an interdisciplinary examination of the role of sport in the formation of urban identity in Chicago. The author employs historical and sociological methodologies and analyzes how the city became a hub for immigration, transportation, and entertainment.

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A unique and timely exploration of the cultural impact of sport on American society, including lifestyles, language, and thinking.