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After the Martian Apocalypse: Extraterrestrial Artifacts and the Case for Mars Exploration

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American Superrealism: Nathanael West And The Politics Of Representation

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By Awosan, Joshua

Currents of Thought in African Sociology and the Global Community focuses on research findings further enriched in the realm of the emergent, indigenous African sociology within a global context. An authentic guide, it has potential to expose readers to the intricacy of rese ...

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BOOK OF NEW RULES: For Teens, Singles, Husbands & Wives!

By De Mente, Boye Lafayette

This manual provides teenagers, singles, husbands and wives with rules that, if followed, will dramatically improve the quality of life-not only of those who adhered to them but also of others whose lives they touch. It covers specific aspects of male-female relations among ...

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American Mythos: Why Our Best Efforts to Be a Better Nation Fall Short

By Wuthnow, Robert

America was built on stories: tales of grateful immigrants arriving at ellis Island, Horatio Alger-style transformations, self-made men, and the Protestant work ethic. In this new book, renowned sociologist Robert Wuthnow examines these most American of stories--narratives a ...

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Concrete Reveries: Consciousness and the City

By Kingwell, Mark

An exploration of urbanism, personal identity, and how the space we live in shapes us According to philosopher and cultural critic Mark Kingwell, the transnational global city-New York and Shanghai-is the most significant machine our species has ever produced. And yet, he sa ...

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Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District

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Chron Care, Healt Care Sys Rshc V22

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The theme of this volume is chronic care, health care systems and services integration. The volume is divided into three sections. The first section focuses on issues that relate to health care providers. The second section contains papers that deal with ...

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Maximum City

By Mehta, Suketu

Suketu Mehta is a fiction writer and journalist based in New York. He has won the Whiting Writers Award, the O. Henry Prize, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for his fiction. Mehta’s other work has been published in the< ...

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Currents of Thought in African Sociology and the Global Community: How to Understand Research Findings in the Context of Sociological Perspectives

By Awosan, Joshua

Currents of Thought in African Sociology and the Global Community focuses on research findings further enriched in the realm of the emergent, indigenous African sociology within a global context. An authentic guide, it has potential to expose readers to the intricacy of rese ...

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Dutch

By Woods, Teri

James Bernard Jr., a.k.a. Dutch, has become the most dangerous criminal in New Jersey. From his early skill as a car thief, Dutch recognized the opportunity to rule the streets and he seized it. Feared by all, and completely fearless, Dutch and his dangerous clique take over ...

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Our Overweight Children: What Parents, Schools, and Communities Can Do to Control the Fatness Epidemic

By Dalton, Sharron

The United States is facing a health crisis of epidemic proportions: children are gaining weight younger and faster than ever before. With the prospect of becoming the most obese generation of adults in history, they are already turning up with an alarming assortment of "gro ...

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More Damned Lies and Statistics: How Numbers Confuse Public Issues

By Best, Joel

In this sequel to the acclaimed Damned Lies and Statistics, which the Boston Globe said "deserves a place next to the dictionary on every school, media, and home-office desk," Joel Best continues his straightforward, lively, and humorous account of how statistics are produce ...

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Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics: The Practice and Promise of the Real-Time City

By Foth, Marcus

Alive with movement and excitement, cities transmit a rapid flow of exchange facilitated by a meshwork of infrastructure connections. In this environment, the Internet has advanced to become the prime communication medium, creating a vibrant and increasingly researched fiel ...

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American Superrealism: Nathanael West And The Politics Of Representation In The 1930S

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Health Systems Policy, Finance, and Organization

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What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us: Why Happiness Eludes the Modern Woman

By Crittenden, Danielle

Talk to women under forty today, and you will hear that in spite of the fact that they have achieved goals previous generations of women could only dream of, they nonetheless feel more confused and insecure than ever. What has gone wrong? What can be done to set it right?
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Between XX and XY: Intersexuality and the Myth of Two Sexes

By Callanhan, Gerald N

Providing a fascinating look at the science of sex and what makes people male or female, this book explains dozens of intersex conditions-such as hermaphroditism, Klinefelter syndrome, and androgen insensitivity syndrome-and includes personal interviews with people living wi ...

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Changing the Trajectory: Education and Training for Youth in Democratic

By Bashir, Sajitha

This study analyzes the current educational attainment and school enrollment status of youth, as well as the formal and informal post-secondary educational and training opportunities available to them. The study uses the results of a simulation model that incorporates enroll ...

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Becoming a Visible Man

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Reinventing the Sexes

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The Sexual Demon of Colonial Power

By Thomas, Greg

Interrogates the language of body politics in the context of neo-colonialist domination ...

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Living Gender after Communism

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Highlights postcommunist opportunities for renegotiating gender roles in Central and eastern europe ...

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Sex and Character

By Weininger, Otto

Otto Weininger's controversial book Sex and Character, first published in Vienna in 1903, is a prime example of the conflicting discourses central to its time: antisemitism, scientific racism and biologism, misogyny, the cult and crisis of masculinity, psychological introspe ...

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Women and Gender in Jewish Philosophy

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A groundbreaking collection of essays that mutually engage Jewish and feminist philosophy. ...

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Gender Aspects of the Trade and Poverty Nexus: A Macro-Micro Approach

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This volume introduces the gender dimension in the empirical analyses on the links between trade and poverty. Gender disparities, an important component of overall inequality, may limit the gains from trade and the potential benefits to poor people. This view is supported by ...

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The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Changes Everything

By Shriver, Maria

When we look back over the 20th century and try to understand what's happened to workers and their families and the challenges they now face, the movement of women out of the home and into paid employment stands out as a unique and powerful transformation. At one level, ever ...

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Sexism in America: Alive, Well, and Ruining Our Future

By Berg, Barbara J., Ph.D.

Debunking the many myths about how far women have come and the pervasive belief that American society is postfeminist, this account traces women's status and the assault on their rights from the 1950s-when Newsweek declared, "for the American girl, books and babies don't mix ...

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Changing the Trajectory: Education and Training for Youth in Democratic Republic of Congo

By Bashir, Sajitha

This study analyzes the current educational attainment and school enrollment status of youth, as well as the formal and informal post-secondary educational and training opportunities available to them. The study uses the results of a simulation model that incorporates enroll ...

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The Riddle of Gender

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Becoming a Visible Man

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SelfMade Men: Identity and Embodiment among Transsexual Men

By Rubin, Henry

SelfMade Men: Identity and embodiment among Transsexual Men ...

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Sexual Metamorphosis

By Ames, Jonathan

But who could describe my fright when, on the next morning, I awoke and found myself feeling as if completely changed into a woman. -- Case 129, Autobiography, from Psychopathia Sexualis, a Medico-Forensic Study by Richard Von Krafft-ebing At the time the passage above was w ...

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Between XX and XY: Intersexuality and the Myth of Two Sexes

By Callanhan, Gerald N

Providing a fascinating look at the science of sex and what makes people male or female, this book explains dozens of intersex conditions-such as hermaphroditism, Klinefelter syndrome, and androgen insensitivity syndrome-and includes personal interviews with people living wi ...

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Gender Aspects of the Trade and Poverty Nexus: A Macro-Micro Approach

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This volume introduces the gender dimension in the empirical analyses on the links between trade and poverty. Gender disparities, an important component of overall inequality, may limit the gains from trade and the potential benefits to poor people. This view is supported by ...

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Women in Vanuatu: Analyzing Challenges to Economic Participation

By Ellis, Amanda / Manuel, Clare / Cutura, Jozefina

Vanuatu is a traditionally male dominated and largely patriarchal society. Women have extremely low representation in parliament and in other decision making bodies. Despite this, women are increasingly involved in private sector development and in the market economy. Availa ...

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Charter Schools in Eight States: Effects on Achievement, Attainment, Int

By Zimmer, Ron / Gill, Brian / Booker, Kevin

The Implementing Standards-Based Accountability (ISBA) study was designed to examine the strategies that states, districts, and schools are using to implement standards-based accountability under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). This monograph present ...

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An Outcome Evaluation of the Spirituality for Kids Program

By Maestas, Nicole / Gaillot, Sarah

Description of a methodology and a prototype tool, Building Blocks To Composite Options Tool (BCOT), for identifying investment options for defense capability areas. It ensures that a broad range of options is considered initially, then uses a screening t ...

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Assessing the Validity of the Qualistar Early Learning Quality Rating an

By Zellman, Gail L. / Perlman, Michal / Le, Vi-Nhuan

What are the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act's effects on the market for terrorism insurance? What would be the effect of enhancing provisions for nuclear, biological, chemical, and radiological (NBCR) attacks? The authors conclude that the program yields po ...

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Cross Cultural Perspectives in Child Advocacy: Research in Global Child

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Children at the Millennium: Where Have We Come From? Where Are We Going?

By Owens, T. J.

Produced under the auspices of the "Section on the Sociology of Children and Youth of the American Sociological Association", this volume provides a cohesive, wide-ranging source of information on the life courses of children and youths. Contributions ref ...

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Childhood in South Asia: A Critical Look at Issues, Policies, and Progra

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Harm and Offence in Media Content: A Review of the Evidence

By Hargrave, Andrea Millwood / Livingstone, Sonia

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School-Based Drug Prevention: What Kind of Drug Use Does It Prevent?

By Caulkins, Jonathan P. / Pacula, Rosalie Liccardo / Paddock, Susan M.

This survey defies the idea that Americans have lost interest in foreign affairs. It reveals that support for international economic assistance is at its highest since the 1970s and that the majority of Americans favour US funding for family planning prog ...

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Examining Gaps in Mathematics Achievement Among Racial-Ethnic Groups, 19

By Berends, Mark / Lucas, Samuel R. / Sullivan, Thomas

Summarizes likely challenges to US interests in the Persian Gulf and highlights the implications of trends in the region for the United States. ...

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Pain and Gain: Implementing No Child Left Behind in Three States, 2004-2

By Stecher, Brian M. / Epstein, Scott / Hamilton, Laura S.

Decisionmaking within the Future Battle Command structure will demand an increasing ability to comprehend and structure information on the battlefield. Decision aids must be modified accordingly. Using information about friendly and enemy forces and the t ...

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Reparable Harm: Assessing and Addressing Disparities Faced by Boys and Men of Color in California

By Davis, Lois M. / Kilburn, M. Rebecca / Schultz, Dana

The summary discusses some of the greatest disparities for boys and men of color relative to their white counterparts across specific socioeconomic, health, safety, and school readiness indicators in California and provides information about different str ...

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Assessing the Validity of the Qualistar Early Learning Quality Rating and Improvement System as a Tool for Improving Child-Care Quality

By Zellman, Gail L. / Perlman, Michal / Le, Vi-Nhuan

What are the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act's effects on the market for terrorism insurance? What would be the effect of enhancing provisions for nuclear, biological, chemical, and radiological (NBCR) attacks? The authors conclude that the program yields po ...

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Reparable Harm: Assessing and Addressing Disparities Faced by Boys and Men of Color in California, Executive Summary

By Davis, Lois M. / Kilburn, M. Rebecca / Schultz, Dana

Kefaya was an indigenous movement for political reform organized in late 2004 in opposition to the regime of egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. This examination of Kefaya's birth, accomplishments, and decline is based on an analysis of the work of egyptian ...

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An Outcome Evaluation of the Spirituality for Kids Program

By Maestas, Nicole / Gaillot, Sarah

Description of a methodology and a prototype tool, Building Blocks To Composite Options Tool (BCOT), for identifying investment options for defense capability areas. It ensures that a broad range of options is considered initially, then uses a screening t ...

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Pain and Gain: Implementing No Child Left Behind in Three States, 2004-2006

By Stecher, Brian M. / Epstein, Scott / Hamilton, Laura S.

Decisionmaking within the Future Battle Command structure will demand an increasing ability to comprehend and structure information on the battlefield. Decision aids must be modified accordingly. Using information about friendly and enemy forces and the t ...

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Charter Schools in Eight States: Effects on Achievement, Attainment, Integration, and Competition

By Zimmer, Ron / Gill, Brian / Booker, Kevin

The Implementing Standards-Based Accountability (ISBA) study was designed to examine the strategies that states, districts, and schools are using to implement standards-based accountability under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). This monograph present ...

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Examining Gaps in Mathematics Achievement Among Racial-Ethnic Groups, 1972-1992

By Berends, Mark / Lucas, Samuel R. / Sullivan, Thomas

Summarizes likely challenges to US interests in the Persian Gulf and highlights the implications of trends in the region for the United States. ...

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School-Based Drug Prevention: What Kind of Drug Use Does It Prevent?

By Caulkins, Jonathan P. / Pacula, Rosalie Liccardo / Paddock, Susan M.

This survey defies the idea that Americans have lost interest in foreign affairs. It reveals that support for international economic assistance is at its highest since the 1970s and that the majority of Americans favour US funding for family planning prog ...

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Children at the Millennium: Where Have We Come From? Where Are We Going?

By Owens, T. J.

Produced under the auspices of the "Section on the Sociology of Children and Youth of the American Sociological Association", this volume provides a cohesive, wide-ranging source of information on the life courses of children and youths. Contributions ref ...

Best price: $108.00
Harm and Offence in Media Content: A Review of the Evidence

By Hargrave, Andrea Millwood / Livingstone, Sonia

Harm and Offence in Media Content: A Review of the evidence ...

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> Pate, Shana

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CliffsTestPrep Praxis II: Social Studies Content Knowledge Test (0081)

By Pate, Shana

Currently, 33 states require aspiring social studies teachers to pass this test, and almost 29,000 took the exam between September 2001 and July 2004. This book includes subject review chapters covering required knowledge in all subject areas tested as well as two full-l...more ...

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> Girod Sr., . Robert Dr. J.

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Profiling The Criminal Mind

By Girod Sr., . Robert Dr. J.

Profiling the Criminal Mind is, as the subtitle indicates, is a text and reference on behavioral science and criminal investigative analysis for investigators, forensic scientists, prosecutors, behavioral scientists, and academics. This compilation combines crime scen...more ...

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> Woolf, Victor, Vernon

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The Dance of Life: Transform your world NOW!

By Woolf, Victor, Vernon

Multiple dimensions of reality were used as a framework in the exploration of consciousness and then applied to finding solutions to complex problems facing humanity. After more than three decades of research, the author reports for the first time, on how extra-ordinary resu...more ...

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> Tapscott, Don

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The Digital Economy: Promise and Peril in the Age of Networked Intellige

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Cyberguru and bestselling author Don Tapscott is a pioneer on the frontlines of the information superhighway...more ...

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> Wolf, Naomi

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Misconceptions: Truth, Lies, and the Unexpected on the Journey to Mother

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> Sowell, Thomas

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The Quest for Cosmic Justice

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In a book that is essential reading for people who want to think beyond rhetoric, Sowell exposes the disturbing issues that are urgently important today and enduringly critical for the future...more ...

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> Klosterman, Chuck

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Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

By Klosterman, Chuck

"From the kid who brought you Fargo Rock City -- the first book in history to garner the praise of Stephen King, David Byrne, Donna Gaines, Sebastian Bach, Jonathan Lethem, and Rivers Cuomo -- comes Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs -- the first book in history to examine breakfas...more ...

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> Mernissi, Fatima

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Scheherazade Goes West: Different Cultures, Different Harems

By Mernissi, Fatima

A vital fusion of memory and feminist thought finds the bestselling author of "Beyond the Veil" provocatively sifting through her experiences as a liberated Moroccan woman faced with the unexpected encroachments of Western culture...more ...

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