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Award-winning author and former New York Times reporter reveals the link between teenage marijuana use and mental illness, and a hidden epidemic of violence caused by the drug.

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You can shop anywhere you like - as long as it's Tesco. The inexorable rise of supermarkets is big news, but have we really taken on board what this means for our daily lives, and of our children This book analyses this subject. It states how the supermarkets (Tesco in particular) have brought: Banality; Ghost towns; and, a Supermarket State.

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A collection of the best entries in the inaugural Voiceless Writing Prize, designed to recognise the best Australian short fiction and non-fiction that has at its heart the place of animals in the world we have made.

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The ABC of the projectariat contributes new thinking and practical responses to the widespread problem of precarious labour in the field of contemporary art. It works as both a critical analysis and a practical handbook, speaking to and about the vast cohort of artistic freelancers worldwide.

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A collection of 92 documents from congressional hearings, US Supreme Court decisions, government reports, biographical accounts and news stories which illustrate the controversial history of abortion in the US. The text focuses on Roe v. Wade in 1973, but also includes cases before and since.

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A collection of 92 documents from congressional hearings, US Supreme Court decisions, government reports, biographical accounts and news stories which illustrate the controversial history of abortion in the US. The text focuses on Roe v. Wade in 1973, but also includes cases before and since.

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During the 1950s and 1960s increasing numbers of American citizens were stationed in foreign countries, and a generation of American children grew up abroad. This book examines the impact of overseas living on Americans who spent at least some of their formative years outside the USA.

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Combat the effects of ageing and live a fuller, healthier life. Getting older may be inevitable, but your body doesn't have to show the signs of age. This health book reveals how you can slow - or even reverse - the process of ageing. It helps you to improve your health and reduce requirement for medication.

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This study describes how leading magazines and the "New York Times" covered and interpreted US immigration policy, and public attitudes about the impact of immigrants on the American economy and social fabric. Print media coverage of the issue (mainly adverse) is examined from 1880 onwards.

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As Jeff Singleton shows, the rapid expansion of unemployment relief in the early 1930s generated pressures which led to the first federal welfare programs.

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^IThe Assault on Equality^R critiques the social theory underpinning the social policies of the new political right. From a multi-disciplinary perspective, the authors take issue with the social policy positions of the new right concerning affirmative action, education, family, race, social class, and welfare.

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^IThe Assault on Equality^R critiques the social theory underpinning the social policies of the new political right. From a multi-disciplinary perspective, the authors take issue with the social policy positions of the new right concerning affirmative action, education, family, race, social class, and welfare.

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The aWAKE Project, Second Editionis an updated collection of stories and essays geared toward educating and mobilizing Americans to help with the AIDS crisis in Africa.

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We are in deep trouble.
Climate change, income inequality, unregulated technological innovations, systemic corruption. For decades, we have allowed political and business leaders to create, facilitate then ignore these serious threats. Some are existential. the time to act is now. This book tells why and how.

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"Using the true story of a murdered child as a point of departure, a leading expert on family violence argues that society's first priority must be protecting children rather than preserving families."

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A study of how lifestyle choices intersect with migration, and how this relationship frames and shapes post-migration lives. -- .