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Offers the comprehensive history of Australian medical and scientific ideas about race and place. This work examines the notion of 'whiteness' as a flexible category in scientific and public debates. It also provides an account of experimentation in the 1920s and 1930s on Aboriginal people in the central deserts.

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The winner of the first Basic Prize in History of Science is a controversial study of the rise of medicine in Australia and its relation to racial thinking

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This innovative and interdisciplinary collection of essays considers examples of monstrous children since the 16th century to the present, spanning real-life and popular culture, to exhibit the manifestation of the Western cultural anxiety around the problematic, anomalous child as naughty, dangerous, or just plain evil.

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A cross-cultural approach to urban space. This is a collection of essays providing a range of case studies which aim to address important questions about space and power, processes of change, aesthetics and attitudes towards space, and social divisions expressed through urban life.

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A cross-cultural approach to urban space. This is a collection of essays providing a range of case studies which aim to address important questions about space and power, processes of change, aesthetics and attitudes towards space, and social divisions expressed through urban life.

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The author of the "New York Times" bestseller "Odd Girl Out" delivers lessons in breaking the curse of the good girl, and raising authentic girls with courage and confidence.

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A remarkable and rich exploration of what it means to be a Muslim in contemporary Europe.

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It provides a framework for understanding the ideas that collectively comprise postmodern self theory and presents empirical data concerning its historical validity.

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Adopting a symbolic interactionist perspective and building extensively on the ethnographic research tradition, this book analyzes the mystique that often accompanies deviance by examining deviance as an ongoing feature of community life.

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This detailed study of Dutch gentry families affords many valuable historical insights and challenges current assumptions about the nature of family life during the early modern period.

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The author examines classic American community studies written during the past fifty years, such as Robert Park on Chicago, the Lynds on Muncie (Middletown), Lloyd Warner on Newburyport, to formulate a theory of American community development. Originally published in 1960. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to

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Other topics added to this edition include the proposed new way of measuring poverty, new economic implications of demographic aging, the concept of `productive aging', an update on reverse annuity mortgages, hybrid pension plans and pension privatization, and current information on Social Security.

(Hardback, 7th Revised edition)

Other topics added to this edition include the proposed new way of measuring poverty, new economic implications of demographic aging, the concept of `productive aging', an update on reverse annuity mortgages, hybrid pension plans and pension privatization, and current information on Social Security.

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They need not be mutually exclusive, but neither is it assumed that they are necessarily consonant.

The various essays offer answers to such vital questions as What does it mean to become a 'global citizen'

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A ground-breaking book on how women have been shortchanged by the Howard Government - one of the hottest and most contentious issues the nation faces in the first decade of the 21st century.

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Their relations with the Gentile community in which they lived are described, not as is conventionally imagined, but as these relations are disclosed on a dispassionate examination of surviving documents--for example, the close association of Jews and monasteries, of nearly every religious order, in the acquisition of landed estates.

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The definitive anthology of feminist writing, this collection presents the true history of feminism within both global and historical frameworks, and provides a vital addition to the field.

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Explores the ethical implications behind the issues related to metropolitan growth and environmental change. This book describes the decisions people make that shape the built environment, from the everyday concerns of homeowners and commuters to grand gestures of national policy.

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Explores the ethical implications behind the issues related to metropolitan growth and environmental change. This book describes the decisions people make that shape the built environment, from the everyday concerns of homeowners and commuters to grand gestures of national policy.

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An astonishing look at the tenuous state of women's rights and issues in America, and a call to action for the young women who have the power to change their situation.

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