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This is the report of a conference called in 1960 to analyze the problem of labor supply in, and its transfer from, the agricultural industry.

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'Land Dispossession and Everyday Politics in Rural Eastern India' analyses the political mobilization of farmers in Singur, West Bengal, in defence of their farmland. By foregrounding the everyday politics of popular mobilization, the book sheds new light on the internal politics of one of India's most talked-about new land wars.

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Based on 25 years of research on and in Sabon Zongo, one of the oldest migrant communities in Accra, Ghana, this book is about the spatial and social production of this community within this urban setting.

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An argument for the right of the terminally ill to a humane and dignified death.

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Based on in-depth interviews by skilled clinicians with husbands and wives who have been married more than 20 years, Mackey and O'Brien explore how spouses adapt to each other from the early years of marriage, through the parenting years, and into the post-parenting or empty-nest years.

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Based on in-depth interviews by skilled clinicians with husbands and wives who have been married more than 20 years, Mackey and O'Brien explore how spouses adapt to each other from the early years of marriage, through the parenting years, and into the post-parenting or empty-nest years.

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This is an examination of the social structures that shape Latin American societies.

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The impact of Latino Americans has begun to be felt, but it is just beginning. Over the next generation they will transform the face of American politics. Now two leading Latino researchers explain what Latino America that transformation means for everyone.

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This volume presents research examining parental beliefs and practices of Latino families from different socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds in the United States.

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Three interrelated objectives provide the subject of this study: to cover a wide range of topics on leaders and leadership; to present up-to-date treatments of those topics; and to offer extensive bibliographies for further study and research.

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Leadership is not something one does alone: it is an expression of collective, community action which achieves goals. The task of creating a culture conducive to interactive trust is the pre-eminent leadership task. This book identifies key strategies leaders can use to create a trust culture.

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Nearly all studies of drug use and abuse approach the questions quantitatively without listening to the experiences of individuals living in cultures where drug use is notoriously problematic.

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A qualitative feminist analysis of college women and how they used drugs and rationalized that use.

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The way we organise our free time can reveal a great deal about our identities and ideology. This book explores what our sports and leisure choices can tell us about the society in which we live. Comprehensive, cutting edge and packed with global examples it covers all the essentials for students of sports and leisure sociology.

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An in-depth look at gay and lesbian parenting in America

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This book offers a source of hope and healing for anyone experiencing grief.

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Letting Go of Perfect gives parents and teachers the guidance and support they need to help children break free of the anxieties and behaviors related to perfectionism.

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This second edition of a classic text provides an introductory and interdisciplinary review of the theories of social and economic development.

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This second edition of a classic text provides an introductory and interdisciplinary review of the theories of social and economic development.

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The Sherpas were dead, two more victims of an attempt to scale Mt. Everest. Members of a French climbing expedition rolled them off a steep mountain face. One body, however, crashed to a stop near Sherpas on a separate expedition far below. They stared at the frozen corpse, stunned. Nobody would throw the body of a white climber off Mt. Everest.

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Life Chances, Education and Social Movements dwells on the necessity of education and social movements for enhancing the life chances of individuals and disadvantaged groups respectively. Ralf Dahrendorfs work on life chances and social conflict is used to support the theoretical and empirical arguments in the book.

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A pioneering work in comparative history and social science that compares population behavior in response to adversity in Europe and Asia.

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A study of health and illness behaviour which demonstrates the various strategies chronically ill people use to manage their symptoms and overcome the consequences of their particular illnesses, to live a relatively normal life and maintain their self-esteem.