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Inside Doctoring provides a behind-the-scenes look at what it is like to become and be a physician. From pre-med to resident, the effective doctor to the incompetent one, Inside Doctoring presents autobiographical accounts and real-life case studies in insightful and fascinating detail.

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Our primal tendencies have been forged by a legacy of millions of years of evolutionary biology as well as a legacy of ancestral lineage. This book explores the origins of our tribalistic and racist inclinations, their resilience in our collective ethos, as well as its permeation in our modern society and our everyday interactions with others.

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This collection of essays investigates the historical genealogy of our contemporary ideas of intellectual or learning disability. The essays engage with literary, educational, cultural, legal, religious, psychiatric and philosophical histories to track how and why these precursor ideas arose and explore how they helped shape current concepts.

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This collection of essays investigates the historical genealogy of our contemporary ideas of intellectual or learning disability. The essays engage with literary, educational, cultural, legal, religious, psychiatric and philosophical histories to track how and why these precursor ideas arose and explore how they helped shape current concepts.

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Agency sponsored intercountry adoption (ICA) first began with the end of World War II when European orphans were adopted by American families. It discusses each country's formal statutes on transracial and intercountry adoption, and describes the organizations and/or social movements advocating such adoptions as well as those opposing them.

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To understand why people migrate during periods of modernization, Barbara Anderson contends that one must study the place of origin, since the persons at the origin are the potential migrant population. Using data from the 1897 Imperial Russian Census, the author examines two types of migration: that to an already settled, relatively modern area, s

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Using illustrations from past and current internal wars, thirteen social scientists here apply their many perspectives--derived from the fields of sociology, political science, and economics--to a variety of aspects of internal wars.

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Homelessness and attitudes toward homelessness take different forms in developed and developing countries and from nation to nation, but the global dimensions of homelessness are accentuated by the economic and political disparities among nations.

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This handbook discusses 33 nations in terms of abortion's legal status, development of the policy, availability of contraception and abortion services, abortion rates, fertility trends, and the demographic/socioeconomic profiles of affected women.

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Social and economic change can often be traced through the movement of population at the national level. This compilation of 21 case studies, each focusing on a different country, looks at the question of internal migration within countries such as Botswana, Guatemala and the Netherlands.

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Although race relations in countries such as the United States and South Africa have been extensively investigated, the growing importance of the issue worldwide is not generally appreciated, and no workable framework for research on the subject has been available to scholars.

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Students can use this ready reference to compare and contrast homelessness populations, analyze the ways in which various countries approach this issue, and to evaluate what is precluding and encouraging this reaching issue.

The problem of homelessness is clearly defined here from a global perspective.

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Adler, Denmark, and their contributors examine the similarities and differences in violence in various countries around the world.

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Equal opportunity in the workplace is thought to be the direct legacy of the civil rights and feminist movements and the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964. This book reveals how the personnel profession devised - and transformed - our understanding of discrimination.

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He lays out the long term aspirations of the immigrants within the context of the geo-political, economic, and social conditions in Africa.

Ultimately, Arthur explains why people leave Africa, what they encounter, their interactions with the host society, and their attitudes about American social institutions.

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The only study that deals specifically with the impact of affirmative action on white males, this book will appeal to academic and general readers with an interest in public policy, law, political science, sociology, and social psychology.

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This is the first field study of the kind of lives that the most recent Irish immigrants have in New York City today. Teachers, and students, readers interested in issues of identity and ethnicity, immigration trends and problems, and the history of the Irish in the United States will enjoy this easy-to-read, first-hand account.

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A provocative look at the violent content of 'sacred scripture' and what Jews, Christians, and Muslims must do to re-vision their faiths away from justifying violence. Post 9/11 attention focused on Islam as a violent religion, but this work shows that the Bible and the Quran both have violence-justifying content to support "holy" and other wars.

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Breaking the wall of silence that deference has imposed on their experiences, here are the siblings of the child with autism, the child injured at birth, the child institutionalized after many years at home.

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Breaking the wall of silence that deference has imposed on their experiences, here are the siblings of the child with autism, the child injured at birth, the child institutionalized after many years at home.