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This book is designed to examine issues related to schools, violence, and society. The prevalence of crime and violence occurring in our nation's schools has become the concern of policymakers on the national and state levels. This edited volume reviews violence in society, school violence, and crime.

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This book examines representative works of science fiction, children's literature, and popular culture to show how these works reflect the process of growing up in a technological world.

The volume looks at the simple picture books and comic books that appeal to small children;

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From Tolkien to Star Trek and from Game of Thrones to The Walking Dead, imaginary worlds in fantastic genres offer highly detailed political worlds beyond capitalism. This book examines the complex ways in which these popular storyworlds offer valuable conceptual tools for anti-capitalist participatory politics.

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This volume examines scouting-the largest voluntary movement for girls-in its first century of existence, seeking to understand how the organization has lasted and how it has changed.

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The relationship between U.S. masculinity and American feminist movements of the twentieth century is complex. The essays collected in Screening Images of American Masculinity in the Age of Postfeminism engage prominent film and television texts that directly interrogate image...

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The relationship between U.S. masculinity and American feminist movements of the twentieth century is complex. This collection engages with prominent film and television texts that directly interrogate images of U.S. masculinity that have appeared since second-wave feminism, acknowledging the limits of their negotiations and self-actualization.

Soviet expedition films from between 1925-1940 are examined as early forms of documentaries with both ideological and educational agendas

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Takes readers into the ritualized world of mainstream American addiction treatment. This book explores the puzzling question: why do addiction counselors dedicate themselves to reconciling drug users' relationship to language in order to reconfigure their relationship to drugs

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Second-Generation Korean Americans and Transnational Media: Diasporic Identifications looks at the relationship between second-generation Korean Americans and their uses and interpretations of Korean films and popular culture.

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Pyong Gap Min and Samuel Noh compile a comprehensive examination of 1.5- and second-generation Korean experiences in the United States and Canada with contributor chapters focusing on important topics related to younger-generation Koreans. The volume provides insight for studies of minorities, migration, ethnicity and race, and identity formation.

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The first comprehensive account of women's participation in the Israeli labor force, Kraus's book analyzes the trends in the status of women in paid employment since the 1960s.

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The efforts of Washington's Negro community to establish unity within itself, and to win recognition from white Washingtonians- and conversely, the efforts of a minority of white Washingtonians to effect an understanding with the Negroes-make this a fascinating story. Originally published in 1967. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest prin

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More scotch and cigarettes than tea and sympathy, this frank and funny collection puts in print what you might only hear among girlfriends behind closed doors.

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Harbin in north China was once a vibrant Russian community. But by the mid-1930s, the Japanese occupation of Manchuria drove many Russians to seek refuge elsewhere. Those who fled back to Russia became victims of the Stalinist purges, accused of being Japanese spies. The author was determined to trace the scattered community.

An expose of one of the world's most secretive and feared organisations: Yale University's almost 200-year old secret society Skull and Bones.

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Fully updated, innovative textbook on the relationship between popular culture and religion, exploring secularization in America and the way religion functions in postmodern society.

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This book examines the thought of Abdennour Bidar, MalekChebel, Leila Babes, AbdelwahabMeddeb and Dounia Bouzar. In doing so it investigates how these five figures allcontribute in their diverse and varying ways to broader understandings of therelationship between Islam and secularism in contemporary French society. -- .

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This book examines the thought of Abdennour Bidar, MalekChebel, Leila Babes, AbdelwahabMeddeb and Dounia Bouzar. In doing so it investigates how these five figures allcontribute in their diverse and varying ways to broader understandings of therelationship between Islam and secularism in contemporary French society. -- .

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This important book focuses on North Korean refugee human rights issues-a topic largely ignored in favor of addressing North Korea's domestic politics and deterrence of Pyongyang's nuclear threat.