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This collection of 18 scholarly works and personal accounts from Canada, the U.S., and Australia explores and analyzes issues of parenting by mothers with a variety of physical and mental disabilities. The book delves into pregnancy, birth, adoption, child custody, …
After crossing the first day, Hu Xiaoxiao beat the Emperor.On the second day of travelling, Hu Xiaoxiao beat up the Imperial Consort.The third day after crossing ..."The empress has left the palace!"However, before he could walk out of the city …
In order to exact her revenge, she had been on guard every step of the way. She hadn't expected that she would make a miscalculation, enter someone else's room, and even offend someone she shouldn't have ... "First... Sir, I …
She was the daughter of a renowned imperial merchant, yet she had failed miserably in the hands of the scum man and the concubine girl. Not only was the whole family executed, they were even burned to death in the …
Once she transmigrated, her father did not love her, but her origin body was still a little fool. She was being bullied everywhere! It didn't matter. She, Jin Weiwei, was smart and had extraordinary strength. She even picked up a …
The blind CEO was actually married. This was big news!The whole company speculated about who the CEO's bride was, and there was a great deal of debate.As a junior employee of the company, she felt a headache coming on. How …
View book details for Constitutional Deliberative Democracy in Europe
How Voters Adapt to Unstable Parties
From small-scale experiments, deliberative mini-publics have recently taken a constitutional turn in Europe. Iceland and Ireland have turned to deliberative democracy to reform their constitutions. Estonia, Luxembourg and Romania have also experienced constitutional process in a deliberative mode. In Belgium …
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Assessing the Multiple-Streams Framework
Policy issues have grown ever more complex and politically more contestable. So governments in advanced democracies often do not understand the problems they have to deal with and do not know how to solve them. Thus, rational problem-solving models are …
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Time, Space and Milieu
Context is crucial to understanding the causes of political violence and the form it takes. This book examines how time, space and supportive milieux decisively shape the pattern and pace of such violence. While much of the work in this …
At one time, Western Pennsylvania was home to dozens of small amusement parks, many of them trolley parks. These parks, originally designed to bolster streetcar business, were a way for workers to seek respite from the crowded, dirty cities. While …
From notorious offenders to great escapes, True Crime Stories takes you behind the headlines of some of the shocking stories that have riveted the nation with investigative reporting from People magazine's crime team. Discover the latest on the investigation of …
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Dan Davins War Stories
Dan Davin was the author of the only substantial body of war fiction written by a New Zealand soldier during any of the wars of the 20th century in which the nation was engaged. The General and the Nightingale brings …
Four years ago, an accident forced Chen Xi to leave home. Four years later, he was actually captured by the man when he returned with the treasure. "Wild man, let go of me." Chen Xi looked at Jiang Mo Chuan, …
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Labor and Leisure
Montague, a picturesque New England town, was once a hub of manufacturing. This uniquely planned community was established in an area that was well suited to both labor and leisure. The Great Falls offered the power to cover the energy …
Minden has transformed quite a bit since Charles Vedeer founded it in 1835. The town has suffered damages of the Civil War and Reconstruction and between 1872 and 1933 the devastation of five fires and a killer tornado. Despite disaster, …
Settled in the early 1800s, Olmsted Falls was originally known as Kingston Township before being named Olmsted Falls, after Aaron Olmstead, first purchaser of the land from the Connecticut Land Company. It merged with the Village of Westview in 1971, …
Milford, Delaware, is a unique town in the heart of southern Delaware with one foot in Kent County and the other in Sussex County. Location is a major thread of success for Milford-it is within 100 miles of Washington, D.C., …
Oxford, North Carolina, is the historic seat of Granville County. The rolling hills of the Piedmont have long been one of the countrys leading tobacco-producing regions. For a number of years during the 1800s, Granville grew more tobacco than any …
Following World War II, many American cities underwent a large-scale modernization to keep up with the changing times in business technology and architecture. With help from federal funding and planning, expansive and low-density modern projects replaced the crowded blocks of …
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The Saga of the Nobel Family and the Russian Oil Industry
The name of Nobel usually calls to mind Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite, and the internationally prestigious prizes that bear his name. But Alfred was only one member of a creative and innovative family who built an industrial empire in …
Here, in stunning images and stirring narrative, is the history of Watertown, a community that lies near the center of western Connecticut. The town was once part of Mattatuck, a tract of land purchased from the Paugasett Indians in 1684. …
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Images of Work and Play
Decades of memories culled from attics, albums, and organizations alike are preserved in this charming collection of photographs chronicling the everyday lives of Tompkins County residents. This book showcases images of activity, such as farmers hard at work and people …
In 1906, the downtown area of Los Angeles was fundamentally a small town when Charles Von der Ahe opened his little Groceteria on the corner of Seventh and Figueroa Streets using $1,200 in savings. It was a neighborhood store that …
The Whitewater Valley Railroad is a historic line in scenic southeastern Indiana. It was completed to Connersville in 1867, linking the towns of the Whitewater Valley to Cincinnati over the former towpath of the Whitewater Canal (18361862). Originally named the …
In the 1960s, Tuscaloosa drew national attention when the University of Alabama was fully integrated. The decade also marked the arrival of Paul "Bear" Bryant as head coach of Alabama's football team and the majority of Frank Anthony Rose's tenure …
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