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This volume traces the normative, legal, institutional, and political responses to the challenges of assisting and protecting internally displaced persons (IDPs).

Presents a photographic tour of San Francisco. This work captures perspectives of the city's most famous landmarks such as the Golden Gate Bridge, Coit Tower, Lombard Street, and the cable cars vistas like China Basin, the dwellings of Nob Hill, and the cottages of the Sunset and Richmond districts.

This book addresses the connection between religion and the phenomenon of suicide terrorism using a socio-political perspective.

PRELUDE[Long Description]Beyond the endless chain of the Appalachian Mountains the initial settlement of Moon Township began in the spring of 1773. Who were these pioneers? Where did they come from and what possessed them to leave the security of their homes to settle in a dangerous wilderness? The settlement pattern in Moon Township, often complicated by a three-stage process, was composed of not only permanent settlers but also squatters who...

In the dark nights of the Cold War, and two years after Soviet tanks rumbled into Prague, a group of American undergraduates is allowed to study at Leningrad State University. Soviet students, not used to seeing foreigners, fear, admire, love, or despise them. This story has enough heroes, villains, victims, romances, subplots, and symbols to qualify as a Russian-style novel.

Natasha was always the more intelligent and Sophie the more beautiful, but it never came between them until now. Suddenly the tiny, niggling, inescapable fact of their envy for each other's life is trying to surface and a number of casualties are getting caught in the crossfire. Is a fading love worth clinging to at all costs?

Billie Melman takes us on a panoramic voyage of the 'culture of history' which developed in England after the French Revolution. She vividly recovers unexplored aspects of popular history, and unpicks notions of the uncosy past, a place of pleasurable horror and sensationalism, which survived into the 1950s.

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Putting the American model in perspective for academics around the world, this book establishes the historical, theoretical, analytical, practical and future foundations for the comparative study of public management.

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Intended for young children, this book presents opposites in a simple way, making the most of the old truth that one picture can tell a thousand words.

Traces how 19th-century debates about the human and animal intersected with the venerable genre of the animal story written for children. This work raises questions about the construction of the child reader, the qualifications of the implied author, and the possibilities of children's literature compared with literature written for adults.

Providing an analysis of the relationship between people, ICT, society and the environment, this book examines the impact on change in organizations and individuals, both in the workplace and in the home. It looks to the future as ICT transforms and impacts on our lives, and explores issues including stress, power, and psychosocial communication.

Written by the co-editor of the best-seller Cultural Criminology Unleashed, this contemporary book explores the topics of colonialism, post-colonialism, genocide, state control, the impact of September 11th and the post-9/11 world in a global context.

Concerned with the borders and boundaries, constraints and limits on accepting, acknowledging and celebrating difference in public, this book interrogates how difference is negotiated and performed. It helps us re-imagine urban public space as a site of potentiality, difference, and enchanted encounters.

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Das Fest der Liebe und der Familie? Wie in jedem Jahr verbringt die Familie Stone die Feiertage wieder gemeinsam bei den Eltern in Neuengland. Aber diesmal verlaufen die Feiertage nicht so harmonisch wie sonst: Der älteste Sohn Everett (DERMOT MULRONEY) will seine zukünftige Gattin Meredith (SARAH JESSICA PARKER) seinen Eltern und Geschwistern vorstellen. Doch die perfekt manikürte, leicht verklemmte New Yorkerin kann sich auf den Kopf stellen...