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Jody Heymann takes on the American belief that creating a better life for your children is simply a matter of working hard. She argues that poor parents don't have a fair chance. Because our nation fails to provide essential supports, it is virtually impossible for these individuals to succeed at work while caring well for their children. Because of the twin demands of work and family that poor parents face, the health and education of their c...

This eagerly awaited second edition of Heinz Heisler's Advanced Vehicle Technology is a comprehensive and thorough description of vehice bodies and components. The second edition has been rigorously updated to provide additional material on subjects such as antilock braking, vehicle aerodynamics, tire tread design advances, electronically controlled anti-vibration engine mountings and transport refrigeration. Around 100 new diagrams have been ...

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It's the late 21st Century, and little Alice lives next door to the Space Zoo, where everything is soooo interesting... Really, there's no way she can help herself... Whether it's raising a newly-hatched Brontosaur... Discovering an ancient civilization on Mars... Traveling into the past... Joining her father on a short jaunt around the Galaxy to collect rare animals... Fighting off walking bushes with an unearthly taste for fruit juice... Out...

It's the late 21st Century, and little Alice lives next door to the Space Zoo, where everything is soooo interesting... Really, there's no way she can help herself... Whether it's raising a newly-hatched Brontosaur... Discovering an ancient civilization on Mars... Traveling into the past... Joining her father on a short jaunt around the Galaxy to collect rare animals... Fighting off walking bushes with an unearthly taste for fruit juice... Out...

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This reference provides the groundwork, tools, and terminology required when conducting specialized searches for information and resources pertaining to traditional and emerging fields of agriculture. The editors present 16 contributions from librarians and other information workers that offer information on research resources across the academic agricultural disciplines. They offer information on library catalog search strategies, abstracts a...

An empirical study of how conflicts of interest arise in the private practice of law and how law firms respond

Emmeline Pankhurst was perhaps the most influential woman of the 20th century. This account of her life both before and after the campaign for women's suffrage documents her early political work, her active role within the suffrage movement and her role as a wife and mother within her family.

Poetry and Contemporary Culture: The Question of Value addresses the place of poetry through the cultural institutions and practices which mediate our sense of its value, from anthologies and academia to film and the Internet. Attention is also given to the role of political ideologies and local, national and ethnic identities in the formation of poetic values.With chapters by distinguished critics from both sides of the Atlantic, the book ran...

Contemporary western philosophy divides into three broad traditions: the analytical, the continental, and the historical. In the latter half of the twentieth century, analytical philosophy was dominant in the English-speaking world and tended to ignore the other two traditions. Now, however, analytical philosophy is less isolationist. It has come to appreciate the vitality of historical philosophy.Given their commonality of interests and share...

Religion in Late Modernity runs against the grain of common suppositions of contemporary theology and philosophy of religion. Against the common supposition that basic religious terms have no real reference but are mere functions of human need, the book presents a pragmatic theory of religious symbolism in terms of which the cognitive engagement of the Ultimate is of a piece with the cognitive engagement of nature and persons. Throughout this ...

The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740, combines historical analysis and readings of extraordinarily diverse texts to reconceive the foundations of the dominant genre of the modern era. Now, on the fifteenth anniversary of its initial publication, The Origins of the English Novel stands as essential reading. The anniversary edition features a new introduction in which the author reflects on the considerable response and commentary the boo...

An empirical study of how conflicts of interest arise in the private practice of law and how law firms respond

The essays in Globalization on the Line criticize the almost exclusive emphasis on the ethnically constituted trans-nation, whose function as an instrument of de-nationalization has become signified in the metaphorical use of 'the border.' Contributors focus on the surge of a more diverse variety of cultural forms of citizenship in response to the dramatic change that the geographies of U.S. border areas have undergone and simultaneously held ...

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In the latest contribution to the acclaimed Columbia Contemporary American Religion Series, one of the premier authorities on the subject focuses on America's most mainstream religion. 30 photos.