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Explores various cultural issues worldwide that affect aging issues, from perception and valuation of the elderly to aspects including homelessness, care-giving, assisted suicide, psychological support and responses to those with dementia. This book includes special student resources, data from studies, and a bibliography of related readings.

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This work examines the relationship between religion and technology, their contadictions, and contrasting ideas of progress. The author explores the possibility that religion may be a form of technology, or both may be the same as culture itself.

The author gives a firsthand account of the Afghan War set against a wider background of political history. He sees the war growing from angry tension over modernisation in Afghanistan, and gives it context as an expression of Islamism, the most modern and dynamic version of Islamic fundamentalism.

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Borowiec surveys North African history and current efforts to halt the movement of the Sahara into surrounding countries. He shows how efforts in Tunisia are making headway against this ecological disaster, which confronts not only North Africa but Southern Europe and possibly the world in general.

How did the intense partisan polarization in Congress come to be? This book explains how today's Congressional polarization is the result of long-term political and social trends that have driven us, the citizens-and those who represent us-far apart.

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Intended for the general reader, this masterful compilation probes the psychology of suicide, revealing the latest research and spotlighting global efforts to reduce the million suicide deaths each year.

From first arrivals through present-day controversies, this text uses story telling and a powerful narrative to bring historical figures to life.

?Millett has written an exceptionally able biography of General Robert L. Bullard, the First World War commander whose military career spans a crucial time in army development in the U.S. The demanding research that is necessary for thorough treatment has been done, and this raw material has been put together in a clearly written study that is rich in detail and sound in analysis.?-Choice

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This narrative chronicles Libya's, and to a vast extent Muammar Gaddafi's, remarkable past, meteoric rise to prominence, and convoluted reign, and introduces potential scenarios that may play out in the near term.