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Heroin first saw the light of day a century and a quarter ago in a laboratory in Paddington Station, London. Since then it has spread across most parts of the world in fits and starts, temporarily held up here or blocked there, but pushing on with a persistence that has eventually overcome all obstacles. Despite the reach of heroin, the information on which public debate about heroin is based is quite often wrong. Tom Carnwath and Ian Smith ha...

It is estimated that 90% of those who are HIV positive are in employment. However, the significant body of literature into HIV/AIDS to date has primarily focused on the medical aspects of the disease and its implications for health/social policy. There has been little analysis of the employment implications of HIV/AIDS, and what does exist is essentially descriptive and usually limited to legal features of the employment relationship. This tex...

An interdisciplinary, international and critical guide to the study of human rights, comprehensively evaluating the field.

After Adoption is a timely and valuable addition to the literature on adoption, making a substantial contribution to policy and practice.

This accessible book presents research-based strategies for supporting K-8 students with high-incidence disabilities in becoming accomplished learners. The authors clearly describe the core components of effective inclusive instruction, showing how to recognize and respond to individual students' needs quickly and appropriately. Teachers are provided with essential tools for managing inclusive classrooms, planning a curriculum that fosters con...

This accessible book presents research-based strategies for supporting K-8 students with high-incidence disabilities in becoming accomplished learners. The authors clearly describe the core components of effective inclusive instruction, showing how to recognize and respond to individual students' needs quickly and appropriately. Teachers are provided with essential tools for managing inclusive classrooms, planning a curriculum that fosters con...

Provides the background and guidelines needed to leverage the strengths that student veterans bring to educational institutions, to ease the challenges they face in transitioning into higher education, to facilitate their learning, and to ensure their successful graduation. The authors stress collaborative approaches across divisions and functions providing all stakeholders with a comprehensive view of how they can support each to ensure the s...

Provides the background and guidelines needed to leverage the strengths that student veterans bring to educational institutions, to ease the challenges they face in transitioning into higher education, to facilitate their learning, and to ensure their successful graduation. The authors stress collaborative approaches across divisions and functions providing all stakeholders with a comprehensive view of how they can support each to ensure the s...

Introduces archaeologists to the basic principles and applications of DNA research so they can properly collect DNA samples and interpret the laboratory results with greater confidence.

The new edition of this comprehensive and accessible introduction to the field continues to provide an engaging and coherent foundation to the subject. It considers traditional and alternative approaches to IPE, and in doing so elucidates key concepts, assumptions and the intellectual and historical context in which they arose and developed. It includes key coverage of the post-2015 financial crisis and the international government responses t...

The first major study of this unique voice in contemporary drama. Suzan-Lori Parks confirmed herself as one of the most exciting and successful playwrights of her generation when winning the 2002 Pulitzer Prize, making her the only African American woman to win the award.

Diversity and Design explores how design - whether of products, buildings, landscapes, cities, media, or systems - affects diverse members of society. Fifteen case studies in television, marketing, product design, architecture, film, video games, and more, illustrate the profound, though often hidden, consequences design decisions and processes have on the total human experience.

Presents the work of the American Educational Research Association's Panel on Research and Teacher Education. This title examines research about the pool of prospective and entering teachers and about local, institutional, state, and federal preservice teacher education policies and practices.

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Extending the Cure provides an objective evaluation of a number of policies to encourage patients, health care providers, and managed care organizations to make better use of existing antibiotics and to give pharmaceutical firms greater incentives to both develop new antibiotics and care about resistance to existing drugs.

This book examines comparative performance and best practice in tourism, national tourism organisations/administrations. It compares qualitative and quantitative data in order to ascertain best performance. Analysis is contained in detail for nine countries considered of comparable merit: Australia, Canada, France, Ireland, The Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa, Spain and the UK. Each country is examined and analysed in the following key ...

This book presents novel and interesting ways of teaching archaeological concepts and processes to college and university students. Seeking alternatives to the formal lecture format, the various contributions seek better ways of communicating the complexities of human behavior and of engaging students in active learning about the past.

This text provides guidance for building curriculum structures and examines the models that can be used. Options such as accreditation of prior and experiential learning, incompany accreditation, work-based learning,

A step-by-step guide to the basic tests performed in soil mechanics. It presents the information based on American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) standards, and US Army Corps of Engineers engineering manuals. It discusses the different methods of in situ field methods and ex situ laboratory methods of soil description and identification.

Health Economics' begins by looking at simple models of supply and demand within health care, before moving on to techniques of cost-benefit analysis and then compares differing health care systems around the world.