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This practical and accessible book focuses on the Written Exercise, which forms a key part of the Police Recruit Assessment Process. The book starts with an overview of the principles of completing a written exercise. It gives clear information on issues of grammar,...
Editeur :
Learning Matters
Parution :
2009-03-18
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The Civil War put an end to slavery, and the civil rights movement put an end to legalized segregation. Crimes motivated by racism are punished with particular severity, and Americans are more sensitive than ever about the words they choose when talking about race. And...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2009-03-12
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Living Memory investigates the complex question of language and its place at the heart of Bergamasco culture in northern Italy. • Integrates extensive participant observation with sociolinguistic data collection • Reveals the political and social dynamics of a national...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-03-12
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture
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In Anthropology off the Shelf, leading anthropologists reflect on the craft of writing and the passions that fuel their desire to write books. First of its kind volume in anthropology in which prominent anthropologists and 3 respected professionals outside the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-03-12
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Living Memory investigates the complex question of language and its place at the heart of Bergamasco culture in northern Italy. • Integrates extensive participant observation with sociolinguistic data collection • Reveals the political and social dynamics of a...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-03-12
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture
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In Anthropology off the Shelf, leading anthropologists reflect on the craft of writing and the passions that fuel their desire to write books. First of its kind volume in anthropology in which prominent anthropologists and 3 respected professionals outside the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-03-12
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88,95€
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AIDS, Sex, and Culture is a revealing examination of the impact the AIDS epidemic in Africa has had on women, based on the author’s own extensive ethnographic research. based on the author's own story growing up in South Africa looks at the impact of social...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-03-09
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An understanding of the uniquely human behavior of stone tool making tackles questions about hominins’ ability to culturally transmit and expand their base of social and practical knowledge and their cognitive capacities for advanced planning. The appearance of stone...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2009-03-08
Collection :
Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology
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In recent decades the pendulum is swinging away from the idea and ideals of public education, and a new ethos increasingly takes over the shrinking public space of education.In the 1980s markets were elevated to social and economic icons, becoming a new secular faith....
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2009-03-07
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Angry debate over gay marriage has divided the nation as no other issue since the Vietnam War. Why has marriage suddenly emerged as the most explosive issue in the gay struggle for equality? At times it seems to have come out of nowhere-but in fact it has a history....
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2009-03-06
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What is dementia? How should we organize dementia care? This comprehensive book critically examines the main approaches to understanding dementia (bio-medical, social-psychological and socio-gerontological) and the main principles and ideologies of care.
The book:
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Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2009-03-05
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In A Kind of Genius, Sam Roberts offers a window onto Herb Sturz's extraordinary life's work. Sturz began his long career in social entrepreneurship by reforming the bail system and founding the Vera Institute of Justice. He served as New York City's Deputy Mayor for...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2009-03-03
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They work at some of America’s most hazardous jobs, have few protections, and receive some of the lowest wages. Latino Farmworkers in the Eastern United States describes this understudied and underserved population. Taking a social justice stance, this volume examines...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2009-02-27
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Reviewers have characterized Paul Naour's A Dialogue Between Sociobiology and Radical Behaviorism, which includes brief introductions by E.O. Wilson and B.F. Skinner's elder daughter, Julie Vargus, as an idea book. The work will undoubtedly have a significant academic...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2009-02-27
Collection :
Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects
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"A spectacular collection of essays by the most noted theorists of identity. The book well frames the issues around identity that presently are defining living in the early 21st century … A must read."
- Patricia Ticineto Clough, City University, New York
"A...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2009-02-27
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Novelist Ngugi wa Thiong'o has been a force in African literature for decades: Since the 1970s, when he gave up the English language to commit himself to writing in African languages, his foremost concern has been the critical importance of language to culture. In...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2009-02-24
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This book gathers together several essays by historians of economics who express varying reactions to the Peart-Levy thesis. Contains several essays by historians of economics who express varying reactions to the thesis expressed in Professors Sandra J. Peart’s and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-02-23
Collection :
AJES - Studies in Economic Reform and Social Justice
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This volume considers the implications of national and international social, political, and economic realities for health and health care provision to minority ethnic groups. Addresses continuity and change in debates on ethnicity, health, and health care Considers...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-02-23
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The story of foster care in the United States is the story of the failure of the social safety net to aid poor, largely black, parents in their attempt to make a home for their children. Shattered Bonds tells this story as no other book has before -- from the...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2009-02-23
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Globalization, security infrastructure and energy sustainability can be designed based on a scientific principle. In this book, these objectives are approached based on constructal theory, which means to design such projects as global ‘flow’ architectures that are...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2009-02-15
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