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View book details for Abetting Batterers
What Police, Prosecutors, and Courts Aren't Doing to Protect America's Women
Whatever the number, domestic violence victims remain far too many for a preventable crime. More and more victims of intimate partner violence are reaching out to police, prosecutors and judges only to be sorely disappointed, even betrayed. While laws and …
The study of Asian culture, media and communications is an area that has developed rapidly over the past two decades. This rapid development has led to the deployment of diverse scholarly approaches while simultaneously raising important questions regarding the extent …
View book details for Steps toward a Philosophy of Engineering
Historico-Philosophical and Critical Essays
The rise of classic Euro-American philosophy of technology in the 1950s originally emphasized the importance of technologies as material entities and their mediating influence within human experience. Recent decades, however, have witnessed a subtle shift toward reflection on the activity …
View book details for Arts Integration and Young Adult Literature
Strategies to Enhance Academic Skills and Student Voice
Arts Integration and Young Adult Literature: Strategies to Enhance Academic Skills and Empower Student Voice combines two research-based concepts, arts integration and the use of young adult literature, to provide activities and instructional strategies to boost students communication, reading, and …
View book details for The Fight for Iran
Opposition Politics, Protest, and the Struggle for the Soul of a Nation
Today, more than four decades after its founding, the Islamic Republic of Iran is arguably at the weakest point in its history. At home, deteriorating domestic conditions, a profoundly disaffected population, and an increasingly unpopular official ideology have helped to …
View book details for Engaging Empathy and Activating Agency
Young Adult Literature as a Catalyst for Action
This book provides a step-by-step guide for teachers to implement an action-based curriculum, using young adult literature to engage students with contemporary issues. In addition to reading, ELA core standards including speaking and writing are addressed within this curriculum. Each …
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Foreign Policy under Donald Trump
This deeply researched book offers a comprehensive analysis of the domestic politics and international consequences of Trumps foreign policy. Mel Gurtov provides detailed case studies of policy toward key countries and regions, including China, Russia, North Korea, Europe, and the …
This book is a comprehensive and easy-to-read guide to pulmonary imaging. Medical Imaging is one of the cornerstones of modern medicine, and nowhere is this more apparent than pulmonary disease. We have come a long way from the days of …
View book details for Structural Transformation
Understanding the New Drivers of Investment, Innovation and Institutions
The book presents a comprehensive and incisive analysis of Structural transformation which is among the most relevant and crucial themes of contemporary economics. Structural transformation is the edifice that is the basis of the next phase of economic transformation. The …
This book is open access and discusses the re-imagining of the higher education sector. It exposes problems that relate to the way that universities have become over-managed business enterprises which may not reflect societal, national, or global educational needs. From …
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Understanding Communication and Moving beyond Blame
Media is usually seen as a feature of the modern world enabled by the latest technologies. Scholars, educators, parents, and politicians often talk about media as something people should be wary of due to its potential negative impact on their …
View book details for Generosity, Stewardship, and Abundance
A Transformational Guide to Church Finance
Gods purpose in calling us to lives of faithful stewardship and generosity isnt merely to sustain the church. Rather, the continued existence of the church is essential to sustain the powerful, transformative message of our faith. Lovett H. Weems Jr. …
View book details for Young People, Citizenship and Political Participation
Combating Civic Deficit?
Prominent studies and opinion polls often claim to show that young people distrust politicians, they are disengaged from political institutions, and are disillusioned about democracy. But academic work conversely shows that young people are engaging with politics, merely in new …
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Beyond Fundraising
The Chief Development Officer: Beyond Fundraising is a guide not only to those preparing for or serving in the role of CDO but also to those charged with selecting, appointing, and supporting CDOs. It includes ten chapters, each presenting a …
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A Practical Career Guide
Welcome to the media and journalism field! If you are interested in a career in media or journalism, youve come to the right book. So what exactly do these people do on the job, day in and day out? What …
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Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Refugees in the Canadian Refugee Apparatus
How do I prove Im gay? This is the central question for many refugee claimants who are claiming asylum on the basis of sexual orientation persecution. But what are the inherent challenges in obtaining this proof? How is the system …
View book details for Public and Political Discourses of Migration
International Perspectives
Popular, political and media discourses frame the issue of migration and shape how and when it enters the public and political consciousness. These discourses are of crucial importance as they influence both the general publics perception of migration and the …
View book details for The Ransom of the Jews
The Story of the Extraordinary Secret Bargain Between Romania and Israel
After 1948, the 370,000 Jews of Romania who survived the Holocaust became one of the main sources of immigration for the new state of Israel as almost all left their homeland to settle in Palestine and Israel. Romania's decision to …
Children born today in the Maldives may someday have to abandon their homeland. Rising seas, caused by climate change, could swallow most of their tiny island nation within their lifetime. Their fate symbolizes the double inequity at the heart of …
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How Teachers Can Model and Motivate
Students will not become enthusiastic readers of literature from a teacher simply assigning reading tasks and assessing the completion of the tasks, especially when the assessment takes the form of threatened quizzes. Instead, as this book shows, teachers have an …
Informal norms and political practices can act to facilitate or block changes to formal rules, with important consequences for efforts to promote gender equality. In this book, leading scholars develop sophisticated analytical frameworks and provide detailed empirical knowledge to further …
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Windows into Canada's Reconciliation Journey
This edited collection provides deep insights and varied perspectives of innovative and courageous efforts to reconcile the conflicts that have characterized the history of Indigenous people, settlers, and their descendants in Canada. From the opening chapter, the volume contextualizes why …
View book details for How to Ask for and Get What You Want
Commonsense Tips That Work
Weve all experienced frustration asking for and getting what we want. It plays out regularly with our partners, children, employers, and businesses we patronize. Sometimes we dont bother to ask for what we want, even when its perfectly reasonable, thinking …
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Toward Public Self-Awareness Regarding Technological Mediation
How has technology changed what it means to be human and to be a member of a human society? How has technology changed the way we acquire knowledge of the world we inhabit? In light of these changes and the …
View book details for Stochastische Szenariosimulation in der Unternehmenspraxis
Risikomodellierung, Fallstudien, Umsetzung in R
Das Buch zeigt, wie Unternehmen durch die Anwendung der stochastischen Szenariosimulation ein wirksames und effizientes Risikomanagement umsetzen konnen. Die einfache Darstellung der Grundbegriffe und Methoden der Stochastik, erganzt um Beispiele und Fallstudien aus der Praxis, geben dem Leser ein praxiserprobtes …
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