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View book details for Protecting Children
A Social Model
Policy Press
The state is increasingly experienced as both intrusive and neglectful, particularly by those living in poverty, leading to loss of trust and widespread feelings of alienation and disconnection. Against this tense background, this innovative book argues that child protection policies …
View book details for Racial Reconciliation and the Healing of a Nation
Beyond Law and Rights
NYU Press
The work at hand for bridging the racial divide in the United States From Baltimore and Ferguson to Flint and Charleston, the dream of a post-racial era in America has run up against the continuing reality of racial antagonism. Current …
View book details for Final Night
Short Stories
The American University in Cairo Press
Love and death and the passage between entry into the world and exit from it are the focus of this collection of short stories. Buthaina Al Nasiri is an Iraqi author who has lived in Cairo since 1979. Despite this …
Packt Publishing
Optimize and boost your Linux-based system with Yocto Project and increase its reliability and robustness efficiently and cost-effectively. About This Book Optimize your Yocto Project tools to develop efficient Linux-based projects Practical approach to learning Linux development using Yocto Project …
University of California Press
One of the most important hotspots of herpetological biodiversity in the United States, California is home to many endemic amphibians and reptiles found nowhere else on earth. Many of these taxa have unique ecological and morphological specializations, and their management …
Orbit
A band of fabled mercenaries tour a wild fantasy landscape, battling monsters in arenas in front of thousands of adoring fans. But, a secret and dangerous gig ushers them to the frozen north, and the band is never one to …
View book details for Victorian Ecocriticism
The Politics of Place and Early Environmental Justice
Lexington Books
Victorian Ecocriticism: The Politics of Place and Early Environmental Justice aims to take up the challenge that Lawrence Buell lays out in The Future of Environmental Criticism: Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination (2005). Buell decries: For in order to bring …
View book details for These Are Our Bodies, Middle School Leader Guide
Talking Faith & Sexuality at Church & Home
Church Publishing Inc.
Our inherent value and worth comes from God's love for us, but our modern world is filled with sexual expression that too often leads us away from the life of Christ. As Christians seeking to live a life worthy of …
View book details for The Magic of Turquoise
A Modern Arabic Novel
The American University in Cairo Press
Was Nirvana's near-fatal accident at sea simply a case of bad timing, or was it attempted suicide? And what was so important about an unread email that made her jump recklessly into the Mediterranean? As Leila tries to make sense …
Church Publishing Inc.
The life and ministry of a priest are two aspects of the same journey, and beloved author and priest Barbara Cawthorne Crafton approaches this journey in four sections, envisioned as embracing a clerical life. The first, The Dream, contains the …
Policy Press
The rapid economic growth of the past few decades has radically transformed Indias labour market, bringing millions of former agricultural workers into manufacturing industries, and, more recently, the expanding service industries, such as call centres and IT companies. Alongside this …
View book details for Vulnerability and Young People
Care and Social Control in Policy and Practice
Policy Press
The notion of 'vulnerability' is now a prominent motif in social policy in the UK and beyond, with important implications for those deemed 'vulnerable'. Yet the effects of recalibrating welfare and criminal justice processes on the basis of vulnerability often …
View book details for Brain Culture
Shaping Policy Through Neuroscience
Policy Press
This unique book offers a timely analysis of the impact of rapidly advancing knowledge about the brain, mind and behaviour on contemporary public policy and practice. Examining developments in behaviour change policies, neuroscience, architecture and urban design, education, and workplace …
Policy Press
Since the early 1990s, long-term care policies have undergone significant transformations across OECD countries. In some countries these changes have responded to the introduction of major policy reforms while in others, significant transformations have come about through the accumulation of …
View book details for Miscarriages of Justice
Causes, Consequences and Remedies
Policy Press
Miscarriages of justice occur far more frequently than we realise and have the power to ruin peoples lives. It is crucial for criminal justice practitioners to understand them, given significant developments in recent years in law and police codes of …
View book details for Research and Policy in Ethnic Relations
Compromised Dynamics in a Neoliberal Era
Policy Press
In the field of ethnic relations the complex, often tortuous, interactions among academic researchers, research funders and those who use the research often result in social policy interventions that are poorly conceived and flawed in their implementation. In this unique …
Policy Press
Indigenous Criminology is the first book to comprehensively explore Indigenous peoples contact with criminal justice systems in a contemporary and historical context. Drawing on comparative Indigenous material from North America, Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, it addresses both the theoretical …
View book details for Microeconomics
A Fresh Start
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
The world has changed dramatically in recent years and so has the field of economics, but many introductory economics textbooks have remained stuck in the past. This book provides a new beginning for the study of microeconomics, emphasizing current debates …
B&H Publishing Group
The pro-life movement didnt begin in the 1960s, but in the Garden. Abortion has been a divisive issue in American culture since the sexual revolution. Yet the Bible is an unapologetic defender of human dignity. Moreover, Christians have always cared …
View book details for Navigating Post-Truth and Alternative Facts
Religion and Science as Political Theology
Lexington Books
Navigating Post-Truth and Alternative Facts: Religion and Science as Political Theology is an edited volume that explores the critical intersection of religion-and-science and our contemporary political and social landscape with a tailored eye towards the epistemological and hermeneutical impact of …
David C. Cook
Imagine a stormy day at sea, your ship yielding to a relentless wind, pummeled by crashing waves, subject to the awesome force of nature. A force that is both fierce and majestic. A power that is nothing short of furious.Such …
View book details for Funny Pictures
Animation and Comedy in Studio-Era Hollywood
University of California Press
This collection of essays explores the link between comedy and animation in studio-era cartoons, from filmdoms earliest days through the twentieth century. Written by a whos who of animation authorities, Funny Pictures offers a stimulating range of views on why …
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Technology and Temporality in Modern Egypt
University of California Press
In this pioneering history of transportation and communication in the modern Middle East, On Barak argues that contrary to accepted wisdom technological modernity in Egypt did not drive a sense of time focused on standardization only. Surprisingly, the introduction of …
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Boxers, Bluesmen, and Other Characters from the Rust Belt
University of California Press
This eloquent, streetwise book is a paean to America's Rust Belt and a compelling exploration of four milieus caught up in a great transformation of city life. With loving attention to detail and a fine sense of historical context, Carlo …
View book details for Inventing the Needy
Gender and the Politics of Welfare in Hungary
University of California Press
Inventing the Needy offers a powerful, innovative analysis of welfare policies and practices in Hungary from 1948 to the last decade of the twentieth century. Using a compelling mix of archival, interview, and ethnographic data, Lynne Haney shows that three …
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