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The main theme of this volume is the problem of obtaining and interpreting accurate statistical data relating to homelessness and the homeless in the USA. The essays focus on such particular facets of the problem as drug abuse, homeless children, food supply, housing policies and employment.

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The main theme of this volume is the problem of obtaining and interpreting accurate statistical data relating to homelessness and the homeless in the USA. The essays focus on such particular facets of the problem as drug abuse, homeless children, food supply, housing policies and employment.

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This book presents an unflinching investigation of homelessness in the United Statesa problem that has been with us since the arrival of the first English settlers nearly 400 years ago.

The terms historically used to describe them include "bums," "hoboes," "migrants," "street people," "transients," "tramps," and "vagrants."

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Ten years after he first brought us the book Homophobia, which laid bare the harsh realities and harmful effects of this sexual bigotry, psychiatrist Martin Kantor delves again into prejudice and discriminationeven flat-out acts of absolute hatredagainst gays in the United States.

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This comprehensive resource explores the role of science and scientific discovery in the nature versus pathology debate surrounding homosexuality.

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This reference work provides important information about the role academic research has played in the ever-evolving laws covering homosexuality.

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Horrific Humor and the Moment ofDroll Grimness in Cinema explores the moment in audience reception where screams and laughter collide. Essays examinine the aesthetics and mechanics of the sLaughter moment, the impact of its frission of humor and horror on the viewer, and sLaughters implications for the human condition more generally.

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A conceptual and cultural history of horror as effect, concept, experience and emotion in Graeco-Roman antiquity and beyond.

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Professor Kent is concerned with one of the major questions posed by historical research on the later Middle Ages and the Renaissance: did these periods witness the nuclearization of the aristocratic family Considering three celebrated and representative Florentine ottimati lineages, the author reconstructs the histories and activities of scores o

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This study examines mobility and migration patterns in early nineteenth-century Guadalajara, Mexico. Using data from censuses, notarial records, wills, and other sources, it reveals a high level of mobility that was short term and often cyclical and argues that mobility affected the vast majority of the citys residents.

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This book examines representations of housework and gender in popular television shows of the 1950s through the 1980s. It challenges the notion that housework is a mechanism through which female characters are marginalized, instead arguing that it highlights strength that is inherent in the loving, sacrificial, and active qualities of housework.

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This book starts with a historical description of the economic development of the various regions within the United States from 1870 together with an analytical discussion of the broad factors affecting the location of economic activity.

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This book explores the ways celebrities affect culture and their audience. It covers celebrity suicide, postfeminism, health advice, advocacy, philanthropy, social media use, and Hollywood influence on Broadway. It also analyzes laws created to protect celebrities, even at the risk of infringing on their audience's First Amendment rights.

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This gripping book considers the history, techniques, and goals of child-targeted consumer campaigns and examines children's changing perceptions of what commodities they "need" to be valued and value themselves.

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The disproportionate effect of Hurricane Katrina on African Americans was an outcome created by law and societal construct, not chance. This book takes a hard look at racial stratification in American today and debunks the myth that segregation is a thing of the past.

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This book explores modern Islamic terrorism in the context of globalization and cultural evolution.

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In this lively, witty and important book, Julian Lee takes the ethical temperature of Australia. Along the way he takes us on a whistle-stop tour of the main stakeholders in the drive for better living in this country, from organic farmers and fast-food franchises to ethical investors and fair-trade gurus.

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Based on interviews and workshops with refugees in both countries, the book develops the concept of "migrantification" - in which people are made into migrants by the state, the media and members of society. -- .

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An entertaining, impassioned polemic on the retreat of reason in the late 20th century. An intellectual call to arms, Francis Wheens Sunday Times bestseller is one of 2004s most talked about books.