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Analyzes the political experience of a small American ethnic group - American Latvians. This book offers a look into the life of this community of political refugees, and provides a perspective on the Cold War as experienced by certain ethnic groups. It reasserts the need to understand the generalized category of 'white Americans'.

The study of morality is an empirical as well as conceptual task, one that involves data collection, statistical analysis, and the formulation and testing of hypotheses

Describes the early development of social science professions in the US. This book traces the academic process in economics, sociology, and political science. It devotes considerable attention to economics in the 1880s, when first-generation professionals wrestled with the enormously difficult social questions associated with industrialization.

2nd edition. Summarises important current thinking on child development and applies it directly to practice.

Features contributions by leading experts in mental health social work.

This book brings together contributions from international experts in order to define child well-being and to further understand how it can improve children's lives. This edited collection is essential reading for all those involved in understanding children's lives and who have responsibility for improving them.

You've just won the gold medal, what are you going to do? In Ancient Greece, your patron could throw a feast in your honor and have a poet write a hymn of praise to you. The great poet Pindar composed many such odes for victorious athletes. This title presents a fresh translation of Pindar's victory songs.

Although it was 1806 when Lewis and Clark returned to St. Louis after their journey across the country, it was not until 1905 that they were celebrated as national heroes. "In the Footsteps of Lewis and Clark" examines how public attitudes toward their explorations and the means of commemorating them have changed.

An in-depth understanding of the meridians and acupoints lies at the heart of effective practice in traditional Chinese medicine. This book outlines everything that practitioners and students need to know.

This collection of exercises compiled for talented high-school and undergraduate-level students encourages creativity and a deeper understanding of ideas when solving physics problems. This book features almost three hundred problems and solutions worked out in detail, dealing with classical physics topics such as mechanics, thermodynamics, electrodynamics, magnetism and optics. Posed in accessible language and requiring only elementary calcul...

The under-acknowledged yet essential branch of the family tree

This book introduces seventeen photographers and their unconventional photographic views of the world. The projects described cover diverse themes, ranging from experimental focusing and spherical panoramas to unfamiliar viewpoints, creative use of light, unusual print media, and high-speed, remote-controlled photo sequences. All of the autors are motivated by a common desire to break new technical and creative ground, and the results make it ...

This book provides the first genuinely intelligible and reasonably systematic presentation of this perspective and contributed to the restructuring of empirical knowledge upon solid foundations. It remains important to those who would understood these areas of the social sciences and their potential to contribute to understanding of social life.

A collection of illustrated short stories about a brother and sister.

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Building on the success of the author's previous book, Printmaking at the Edge, this new title further explores exciting and innovative printmaking practice around the world. It includes the work of 52 exciting and experimental artists from 28 countries around the world.

This accessible book that addresses what faith is and what it means in our lives can serve as an introduction to the study of theology or religious studies. The five chapters include (1) Misunderstanding Faith, (2) Defining Faith, (3) Expressing Faith, (4) Living Faith, and (5) Justifying Faith. Because most of us live in a world with multiple faith traditions, this books deals broadly with the nature and expression of faith across traditionsi...

Presents a synthesis of the fundamental method and theory of behavioral archaeology, organized in terms of the temporal order in which general topics have been addressed.

Was Frauen wirklich wollen oder was Männer schon immer über Frauen wissen wollten - die bekannte Flirt-Expertin Nina Deißler weiß es: Frauen wollen selbstbewusste, humorvolle Männer mit Stil, die eine eigene Meinung vertreten können und ein Ziel vor Augen haben. Eine Portion Romantik darf natürlich auch nicht fehlen, ebenso wenig wie die richtige Verpackung. Egal ob Mann nur einen kurzen Flirt will oder auf der Suche nach der Richtigen ist - N...

After the Sundial by Vera Nazarian is the author's first short fiction collection that focuses specifically on science fiction works, and can be viewed as a companion volume to her earlier collection, Salt of the Air which focused on fable, myth, and fantasy. Bound by the common theme of time and temporal exploration, the ten selections here range widely from traditional speculative fiction to the surreal literary to poetry to bawdy advent...