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Examines some of the most important performance in Britain and Northern Ireland from the mid-1980s into the new millennium. In a timely new critical approach, it considers contemporary British theatre in relation to national and supranational identities, concepts such as globalistion and diaspora, New Labour, devolution and European unification.

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From the early 1970s, working class writing and publishing in local communities rapidly proliferated into a national movement. This book is the first full evaluation of these developments and opens up new perspectives on literature, culture, class and identity over the past 50 years. -- .

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Throughout the 1980s, the issue of substance abuse testing became increasingly important to employers. The first addresses the intricacies of substance abuse and testing, presenting six chapters that survey substance abuse in the workplace; The second section covers the issue of AIDS and AIDS testing through four chapters: AIDS in the workplace;

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World Poverty provides an authoritative and balanced examination of the many facets of world poverty and the policy issues surrounding it.

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This is the first comprehensive, worldwide bibliography of racism. The work concludes with an author index and a subject index.

Due to the many ways racism manifests itself, this bibliography will be of great value to scholars and students from a variety of disciplines from economics and education to sociology and history.

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Part IV of Nelson's 'Handbook of Gender in Archaeology' (2006). Examines the archaeology of women's lives and activities around the globe.

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This book investigates how different cultures of fear manifest in South African social and mainstream media, arguing that fear and other emotions are a critical lens for understanding contemporary life. It discusses the myth of white genocide; so-called Satanist murders; township urban legends; and white suburban anxieties.

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This book investigates how different cultures of fear manifest in South African social and mainstream media, arguing that fear and other emotions are a critical lens for understanding contemporary life. It discusses the myth of white genocide; so-called Satanist murders; township urban legends; and white suburban anxieties.

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Violence of any kind is hard for most people to understand, but crimes against children and crimes committed by children are perhaps the most difficult to comprehend.

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A human story of the rise of the antiabortion movement, its role in the creation of the Religious Right, and the movement's descent into violence.

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Poverty is not a state of nature, but, as Stepanek shows, can be ascribed to manmade institutions that reflect self-serving and self-indulgent ideologies, poorly tested theories and policies, weak governments, and poverty alleviation programs that are questionably designed and poorly administered.

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An enlivening exploration of the links between literature, popular culture and theories of gender in African literature.

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An enlivening exploration of the links between literature, popular culture and theories of gender in African literature.

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This book examines the contribution of food history to the development of food studies, exploring the ways multidisciplinary research has advanced food history. Written by prominent scholars, tackling ancient to modern food history writing across the globe, this is a unique addition to the growing literature on food history.

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This book examines the contribution of food history to the development of food studies, exploring the ways multidisciplinary research has advanced food history. Written by prominent scholars, tackling ancient to modern food history writing across the globe, this is a unique addition to the growing literature on food history.

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This book identifies, through an interdisciplinary lens, literary works that treat the theme of the journey from multiple angles: religious, psychological, psychoanalytical, philosophical, educational, and historical.

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First monograph on Abdellah Taa, leading Moroccan novelist and LGBT activist

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Brings together various W B Yeats' published prose writings on Irish folklore, legend and myth, with pieces on subjects including ghosts, kidnappers, fairies, ancient tribes, precious stones and Gaelic love songs.

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The rules for living in families and raising children have changed dramatically in the last decade. Michael Grose helps readers understand how each generation thinks and functions and presents ideas to help us live with each other in harmony.

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Gathers more than one hundred and seventy folktales about demons, princesses, fools, dybbuks, golems, and rabbis.

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The Artef (1925-1940) began as a radical Yiddish workers' theatre and developed into a major American Yiddish theatre company. It was among the acknowledged pillars of the Theatre of Social Consciousness, a movement that redefined the course for the American stage during the half century that followed.

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