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A behind-the-scenes look at women's magazines for the millions of women who read them

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In this work of narrative sociology, Zajdow (sociology, Deakin U., Australia) presents the stories that Australian women involved with alcoholic men tell, both in the contexts of interviews with the Zajdow and in the self-help group Al-Anon. She argues that the narratives reveal the cultural context

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'Al-Qaida's Jihad in Europe' unveils a new angle to the deadly international terrorist organization and includes recently declassified American and European intelligence reports, secret Al- Qaida records and international documents and interviews with figures such as Bin Laden recruiter Abu Hamza Al-Masri.

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'Al-Qaida's Jihad in Europe' unveils a new angle to the deadly international terrorist organization and includes recently declassified American and European intelligence reports, secret Al- Qaida records and international documents and interviews with figures such as Bin Laden recruiter Abu Hamza Al-Masri.

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This text provides up-to-date, comprehensive, and accessible information about alcohol use in western society and other cultures.

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This book interrogates new contexts of the alcohol and violence relationship: victimization and injury, Mexican-American youth, elementary school children, advertising, and cross national comparisons. The authors examine real-world environmental prevention strategies are deployed towards harm reduction in the alcohol and violence framework.

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This encyclopedia presents the many sides of America's ongoing relationship with alcohol, examining the political history, pivotal events, popular culture, and advances in technology that have affected its consumption.

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A survey of recent work, both scholarly and practical, on the relationship between alcohol and the workplace, examining the problems, the research and the possible solutions. It provides a range of data and ideas, and offers suggestions and implications for the practitioner in the workplace.

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Based on long-term observation of Alcoholics Anonymous, the author focuses on cultural rather than personal causes of drug dependence. Through the shared linguistic and cultural interaction of AA, the U.S. cultural ideology that emphasizes individualism, personal achievement, self-control, and self-reliance is shown to result in conflict;

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Experts in gerontology, clinical psychology, and geriatric medicine provide an analytical survey and abstracts of the significant literature and research dealing with alcoholism and aging over the last 30 years.

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Focusing on strategic intervention designed to help employees with personal problems that interfere with job performance, Walter Scanlon describes the functions and benefits of employee assistance programs (EAPs), discusses their training and consultation objectives, and shows how EAPs effectively identify and address such problems.

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This book explores the complex ways in which algorithms and big data are reshaping everyday culture, while at the same time perpetuating inequality and intersectional discrimination. It situates issues of humanity, identity, and culture in relation to free will, surveillance, capitalism, neoliberalism, consumerism, solipsism, and creativity.

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The contributors to this volume collectively seek a concept of alienation that will be a useful tool in social diagnosis - a key to identifying causes of undesirable social conditions. The result is a collection of essays in policy-orientated social theory, keyed to problems of modern living.

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The essays in this volume offer the reader a broad, interdisciplinary perspective on the ways in which theories of alienation are influencing current debates in psychology, psychiatry, sociology, and social philosophy.