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Building on the insights of both disability studies and civil rights scholars, Mark C. Weber frames his examination of disability harassment on the premise that disabled people are members of a minority group that must negotiate an artificial yet often...

Ever since George Washington warned against "foreign entanglements" in his 1796 farewell speech, the United States has wrestled with how to act toward other countries. Consequently, the history of anti-Americanism is as long and varied as the history of...

Not Working chronicles the devastating effects of the 1996 welfare reform legislation that ended welfare as we know it. For those who now receive public assistance, "work" means pleading with supervisors for full-time hours, juggling ever-changing work...

Talking at Trena's is an ethnography conducted in a bar in an African American, middle-class neighborhood on Chicago's southside. May's work focuses on how the mostly black, working- and middle-class patrons of Trena's talk about race, work, class,...

The Pacific Northwest is known for its diverse, unusual politics. There are thriving gay and lesbian communities and populations of staunchly conservative Christians. Both groups wield political power out of proportion to their numbers and yet both feel...

Few afflictions are as frightening or as heartbreaking as mental illness. It may be a topic that many would prefer to sweep under the rug, but it is a fact of life that we as a society can and must face. We have come a long way over the past few decades...

People at Work is noted sociologist Marjorie L. DeVault's groundbreaking collection of original essays on the complexities of the modern-day workplace. By focusing on the lived experiences of the worker, not as an automaton on an assembly line, but as an...

How is it possible for an innocent man to come within nine days of execution? An Expendable Man answers that question through detailed analysis of the case of Earl Washington Jr., a mentally retarded, black farm hand who was convicted of the 1983 rape...

The most typical treatment of international relations is to conceive it as a battle between two antagonistic states volleying back and forth. In reality, interstate relations are often at least two-level games in which decision-makers operate not only in...

This book develops a new approach to the analysis of civil-military relations by focusing on the effectiveness of the armed forces in fulfilling roles & missions, and on their efficiency in terms of cost. The approach is applied to the United States...

In exploring the nature of excess relative to a phenomenology of the limit, Testing the Limit claims that phenomenology itself is an exploration of excess. What does it mean that "the self" is "given"? Should we see it as originary; or rather, in what...

Standing at the intersection of immigration and welfare reform, immigrant Latin American women are the target of special scrutiny in the United States. Both the state and the media often present them as scheming "welfare queens" or long-suffering, silent...

The first academic publication to explicitly link capitalism to Japan's particular foreign economic policy choices, this book offers a historically informed account of the nature and evolution of the Japanese challenge to neoliberalism. Central to this...

China's increasing economic and military capabilities have attracted much attention in recent years. How should the world, especially the United States, respond to this emerging great power? A sensible response requires not only figuring out the speed...

This book takes a historical approach to examining Islam's role in globalization. The author identifies complex historical and geopolitical trends in Islamic history, and constructs from these a clear assessment of contemporary Islam. Most important, the...

The administrative state is the nexus of American policy making in the postwar period. The vague and sometimes conflicting policy mandates of Congress, the president, and courts are translated into real public policy in the bureaucracy. As the role of...

Alcohol and drug abuse are among the gravest and most widespread problems clinical psychologists must treat. Though the problems seem perennial, diagnosis and treatment have been steadily refined, allowing professional psychologists to assess more...

The question of whether personal gratification is compatible with social good is one of the fundamental problems of motivation. The family, an institution that has undergone extraordinary change in the last generation, is perhaps the most profound...

Over the past decade, some of the most innovative work in anthropology and related fields has been done in the Native communities of circumpolar North America. Critical Inuit Studies offers an overview of the current state of Inuit studies by bringing...

The prestigious group of scholars assembled for this thirty-ninth volume of the Nebraska Symposium on Motivation address important issues in "Psychology and Aging." In the first chapter, James E. Birren and Laurel M. Fisher consider slowness of behavior...

A little more than one percent of the total AIDS cases in the United States have occurred in children, but, alarmingly, the number is growing. Children, Adolescents, and AIDS is the report of the American Psychological Association task force on pediatric...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780554013688Author Holt McDougalFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Holt McDougalPublisher Holt McDougalWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 269mm * 203mm *...

The AS/A2 History series that everyone's talking about!Book InformationISBN 9780435327156Author Rosemary ReesFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint HeinemannPublisher Pearson Education LimitedWeight(grams) 430gDimensions(mm) 245mm * 175mm * 13mm

What is daily life like for an elderly person whose income barely covers basic needs? How is life constrained if that person is living within the same marginal enclave to which she first migrated decades ago? How does the implementation of national...

As the President of the United States, Donald Trump continually voices admiration for brutal strongmen such as Russia's Vladimir Putin, the Philippines' Roderigo Duterte, Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Egypt's Abedel Fattah el-Sisi. He has threatened...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903275429Author Lynne MurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint CP PublishingPublisher CP Publishing

This book, awash with not only blood, sweat and tears but a great deal of good humour, tells the story not only of the changing seasons in the countryside, but paints an unforgettable portrait of a man in determined pursuit of a dream.In the early 1990s...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780704349667Author Carol DrinkwaterFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Livewire Books for TeenagersPublisher The Women's Press LtdWeight(grams) 100g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780233003238Author Graeme ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Andre Deutsch LtdPublisher Welbeck Publishing Group

A combination of straightforward autobiography - his family background, education and career - and an account of the election campaign of 1989 when Yeltsin stood as a candidate for the Central Moscow Constituency and was elected with an 89 per cent...

Devised for the new Edexcel specification A from 2010, this proven levelled approach offers a unique choice of four student books and software tailored to match, each with access to a grade C, allocating just one single highly focused book to each...

"This is a great guide to the night sky at a great price"Astronomy Now "A handy and straightforward guide ... attractive little booklet" British Astronomical Association's 'Journal' "an ideal Christmas stocking-filler" The...

"OUR IDENTITY IS INTENSITY," declares Liverpool FC assistant-manager Pep Lijnders in this compelling account of the 2021/22 season, and from the very first chapter he takes us on a footballing thrill-ride we will never forget. Liverpool's blistering...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853755927Author Allison ValeFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Prion Books LtdPublisher Welbeck Publishing Group

This book (plus free online edition) provides comprehensive, realistic exam practice in the style of the Higher Level Edexcel A & B GCSE Maths papers. There's a wide range of questions covering the whole course, with grades to indicate the difficulty...

This book (with free Online Edition) is full of clear revision notes and diagrams for Foundation Level AQA A GCSE Core Science. It includes a section on 'How Science Works', loads of exam advice and revision summary questions. Everything's simply...

This book (with free Online Edition) is full of clear revision notes and detailed diagrams for every AQA GCSE Chemistry topic, including a section on 'How Science Works'. It contains loads of tips and quick test questions to test understanding, and...

Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, the chairperson of the Pakistan People's Party, was seen as vital to that country's future. In exile for years, in late 2007 she felt the time had come to actively re-engage and to return to the country she loved...

This established bestseller, newly updated and revised, is based on a new survey by BackCare, the UK's biggest back-pain charity, and offers the best hope of real pain relief and long-term well-being. Using the results of BackCare's survey of more than...

This book (with free Online Edition) is full of clear revision notes and diagrams for Higher Level AQA A GCSE Core Science. It includes a section on 'How Science Works', loads of exam advice and revision summary questions. Everything's explained in...