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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.

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This important new study examines the value of day care in treating problems of teenage drug abuse.

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Treatment of cocaine abuse has traditionally been non-pharmacological, although beginning with the 1980s, various drugs have been used to decrease cocaine craving.

This bibliography contains more than 600 references, spanning a century of research and writing.

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Twelve Step Programs are significant features in the American landscape. Investigating Twelve Step Programs lends further insight into the cultural crisis affecting many Americans as well as the strategies some have found to make sense of their lives.

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These profiles of major non-governmental organisations show how they compete to protect consumer or business interests ranging across all stages of American life, from baby foods to funerals. The analyses of 109 interest groups encompasses public interest, trade and professional associations.

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The theme of this work is America's ambivalence towards its historic lifeline, new immigrants whether legal or undocumented, and how the two central provisions of IRCA produced contradictory legislation towards immigrants which became the seeds of its implementation difficulties.

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The theme of this work is America's ambivalence towards its historic lifeline, new immigrants whether legal or undocumented, and how the two central provisions of IRCA produced contradictory legislation towards immigrants which became the seeds of its implementation difficulties.

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Explains the liberalization of U.S. immigration policy in recent decades.

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Explains the liberalization of U.S. immigration policy in recent decades.

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Using the most current data available, the essays collected here offer a timely assessment of the impact of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA), which constitutes the most significant U.S. immigration policy initiative of recent years.

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This book reveals how giving birth is an inherently safe, relatively painless process that is best performed without the assistance of doctors or midwives, and how confidence and a positive attitude reduces fear-and therefore the pain-of labor.

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Written by authorities on the legal systems of France, Britain, Germany, the United States, Israel, and Canada, this book explores the growing confrontation between democracy and racist incitement.

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A wide variety of medical conditions that qualify as disabilities under the Americans with Disabilities Act are explained in accurate, non-medical terminology.