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This useful and clearly written book provides a discussionof the major issues involved in dealing with the homeless, summarizes information available from a number of studies, and draws conclusions about current public policy and future policy alternatives.

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Home-grown terrorism was responsible for the 7/7 London bombings and a number of subsequent plots. Using empirical evidence, this book highlights the misguided and ineffective efforts of the UK government to prevent violent extremism', particularly amongst young Muslims, and proposes alternative policy approaches to combat terrorism.

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In this book philosophers, scholars of religion, and activists address the theme of responsibility. Barbara Darling-Smith brings together an enlightening collection of essays that analyze the ethics of responsibility, its relational nature, and its global struggle.

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This compelling book explores the explosive pace of change in China and how its citizens are grappling with a dramatically new world, both in the public and private spheres. There is enormous popular pride in the ascension of China to the rank of global superpower and general ...

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This is the story of Kentucky, the nation's restless heart, and of its people's ongoing search for home and freedom, as seen through multiple prisms of irony and paradox.

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This book is an ethnographic, First Amendment critique of the state's privacy and anti-harassment laws. It provides the reader with a firsthand look at whether paparazzi comply with the laws and how these restrictions have impacted the celebrity photography industry.

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German Jews represent the fastest growing Jewish community in the contemporary world. Charlotte Kahn explores the development of relations between Jews and non-Jewish Germans, drawing on 70 interviews with people from all age groups and many different walks of life.

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Mark Graber looks at the history of abortion law in action to argue that the only defensible, constitutional approach to the issue is to afford all women equal choice - abortion should remain legal or bans should be strictly enforced.

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Looks at the way we approach the complex the relationship between childhood, families and the state, and explores the contested nature of the terms 'childhood', 'family' and 'state'. This book discusses theoretical and practice-based perspectives within the context of key developments.

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Explores the victimization of children as well as children who use violence towards others and presents an overview of key developments in research, policy and practice on children and violence in the context of the recent major shift in thinking from 'child protection' towards 'safeguarding' and evidencing better outcomes.

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Explores the victimization of children as well as children who use violence towards others and presents an overview of key developments in research, policy and practice on children and violence in the context of the recent major shift in thinking from 'child protection' towards 'safeguarding' and evidencing better outcomes.

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Written by scholars who experienced Hurricane Katrina first-hand, this book analyzes issues that are still impacting residents a decade later such as discrimination, gentrification, mass privatization of public institutions, street harassment, and domestic violence.

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Written by scholars who experienced Hurricane Katrina first-hand, this book analyzes issues that are still impacting residents a decade later such as discrimination, gentrification, mass privatization of public institutions, street harassment, and domestic violence.

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"The first edited volume to present decolonial critiques of fashion and globalization and explore the dynamics of 'de-globalization' to propose more diverse fashion definitions, practices and aesthetics"--

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What is a "de facto" feminist What might the phenomenon of de facto feminism have to say about social and political change in the U.S. The work employs an interdisciplinary approach to this question and draws arguments from philosophy, history, and American politics to underscore the non-ideological character of feminism.

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Though widely discussed by scholars, critics, and educators alike, empirically, we know little about the individual reception of Holocaust films by actual cinemagoers. Taking Britain as a case study, this book foregrounds the analysis of audience responses to select films and explores the relationship between history, film, and memory.

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This text revisits the main arguments and explanatory frameworks that have been used since the 1970s to understand Islamic activism, moderate as well as militant and violent, and proposes a rethinking of Islamist politics.

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A collection of essays examining the development and commodification of prostheses in Britain and America that occurred during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, due to the shift to standardized industrial manufacturing and associated market growth. -- .

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This insightful re-examination of the nature of old age presents a unique theoretical account of the fourth age as the embodiment of the most feared and marginalized aspects of old age, addressing contemporary society's anxieties and offering opportunities for re-framing conceptions of old age.

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Questioning the Western stereotype about the women of the Muslim harem, the author argues that, whilst Orientalist thinking has been challenged, the Western understanding of Middle Eastern culture remains limited.