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From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Arab and Jew" comes a new book that presents a searing, intimate portrait of working American families struggling against insurmountable odds to escape poverty.

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This volume was prepared under the impetus of desperate need in academic institutions and clinical and social services for a comprehensive introduction to the diverse theories about child abuse and neglect etiologies.

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He shows that it is not possible to critique any theory using the assumptions of another theory, arguing that theories can be internally critiqued based on the relationship between their adequacy as theories and the framework they offer for making normative choices.

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Dr Alex Richardson, the UK's leading authority on how nutrition affects behaviour and learning, exposes the truth behind the foods we are feeding our children and offers simple, practical solutions all parents can use. An empowering, cutting-edge book that will transform the lives of children and help them reach their full potential.

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Revealing, moving and confronting accounts of the reality of life in mandatory detention by those who've experienced it.

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One doctor's raw and riveting memoir, contrasting the headline-grabbing political rhetoric with the contours of her life, and the lives of her patients

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Presents an examination of the effects of hyperconsumerism on contemporary life that provides a comprehensive look at how choices affect the balance between work and life in society. Using past experiences, the author explores issues that concern many and asks the question, Is it possible to have too much choice

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This book explores racism in American schools and provides possible solutions to this widespread problem. The students most often perceive racism as a problem caused by adults, and Donaldson shows that multicultural arts can empower students to stand against this racism.

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This book explores racism in American schools and provides possible solutions to this widespread problem. The students most often perceive racism as a problem caused by adults, and Donaldson shows that multicultural arts can empower students to stand against this racism.

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Rodney Syme has been an advocate for medically assisted dying for more than twenty years. In Time to Die he reflects on those living and dying in pain and shares their stories. Syme makes a powerful case for extending the right to die to those whose suffering is unbearable.

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This insightful and balanced chronicle of the author's education at Yale Medical School provides a personal, yet universal, portrait of the unique passage from student to healer.

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Cathy and John married 20 years ago. Over the years, angry fights developed, followed by verbal and gestured threats of violence, followed by actual physical attacks and injuries. This work introduces us to the incidence of "intimate partner violence," abuse that takes place behind closed doors inside marriages and other "loving" relationships.

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Their research spotlights neighborhood-based child protection systems and provides a comprehensive approach for creating procedures that meaningfully address child maltreatment.

The volume discusses the challenges of moving toward such a system within the current legal, political, and cross-cultural contexts of child protection.

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This text moves the controversy over multiculturalism in higher education from primarily an ideological debate to practical and concrete considerations. It outlines the demographic and historic realities that will make some form of multicultural education necessary in the coming century.

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The extraordinary story of the cyclone that destroyed Darwin on Christmas Eve 1974 - in the words the people who survived.

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In dozens of categories, 'new luxury' brands sell at huge premiums over conventional goods, and in much larger volumes than traditional 'old luxury' goods. Trading Up is the definitive book on this growing trend.

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Focuses upon how learning communities are transforming schools and communities throughout the world. This monograph analyses the organising principles of this cultural transformation and considers how it will shape learning in schools and communities throughout the world.

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A new monograph that focuses upon how learning communities are transforming schools and communities throughout the world.

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Return has long been considered the end of a migration cycle. Today, returnees' continued transnational ties, practices and resources have become increasingly visible. 'Transnational Return and Social Change' pays tribute to the meso-level impacts that follow the practices and resources migrant returnees mobilize across borders, influencing communities, organizations, social networks and groups.