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A wonderful resource for clinical students, new lawyers, and anyone else who needs to gain a quick but thorough understanding of Social Security law. It gives a clear, concise, and well organised explanation of the law along with easy citations to it. It anticipates problem areas students are likely to encounter and explains and gives students ideas how to handle them.

By using children's books to pique students interest, you can combine science teaching with reading instruction in an engaging and effective way. In this volume, authors Christine Royce, Karen Ansberry, and Emily Morgan selected 50 of their favourites, updated the lessons, and added student activity pages, making it easier than ever to teach fundamental science concepts through high-quality fiction and nonfiction children s books.

This publication is a collection of professional landscape architecture projects which have received awards of merit from the Institute for Landscape Architecture in South Africa. This represents some of the most significant landscape interventions the profession has produced over more than 25 years. Over the last three decades only five publications on South African landscape architecture are available in print. These form the only source of ...

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This book is the first English translation of the classic philosophical treatise Kantadarsaner Tatparyya. It discusses tenets of Kant's philosophy and other Western ideas through Indian philosophical traditions. The introduction by J.N. Mohanty locates Bhattacharyya's writings in the context of developments in modern Indian philosophy.

Archaeology is a way of acting and thinkingaabout what is left of the past, about the temporality of what remains, about material and temporal processes to which people and their goods are subject, about the processes of order and entropy, of making, consuming and discarding at the heart of human experience. These elements, and the practices that archaeologists follow to uncover them, is the essence of the archaeological imagination.

This is research work on South Africans fleeing the country in the 1990s to live in the UK. The author conducted qualitative interviews with them to get underlying motives of their decision to leave South Africa.

Syria's neoliberal public policies have encouraged stark inequalities between the privileged centres and deprived peripheries of its cities. The authors compare and contrast the settlements around Syria's largest city, Aleppo, with the newly developed chic neighbourhoods in the old city of Damascus.

What was the role of the Federal Reserve System in the 2008 financial crisis - as a cause of the crisis, as the most important government agency to respond, and as the centre of federal efforts to prevent another crisis? This book provides an incisive account of the Fed choices that contributed to the crash of 2008.

Do human rights inform the nature of politics in the Muslim world today? If so, how? And perhaps more fundamentally, why? Linking these questions in a provocative way, Anthony Tirado Chase persuasively rejects popular arguments that there is an incompatibility between human rights and Islam.

No longer passive spectators of images, these days we are more likely to be active participants in their production, distribution, and consumption--which raises important questions about the consequences of widespread user interaction on meaning, communicative effectiveness, and society at large. In this groundbreaking book, communication expert Audrey Grace Bennett argues that engendering interaction with images actually improves their effect...

Tracing a child's life from the earliest years through adolescence, Christopher Mallett investigates the processes by which mental health disorders, learning disabilities, experiences of abuse, and combinations of these factors may increase the likelihood of delinquency. He also finds unexpected lessons in resilience. Throughout, he draws on these insights to suggest valuable new ways of responding to issues in vulnerable populations.

Why do some 30 million people in the United States give money to political candidates and causes - even though most individual contributions are irrational from the perspective of a strict cost-benefit analysis? How do campaign fundraisers tap into potential donors' motivations? Bertram Johnson makes sense of why people give and considers what this means for the campaign finance system, and the quality of representation, in the United States.

The long awaited third edition of this well-known textbook continues to be the go-to text and reference for anyone interested in Southwestern archaeology, including the latest in current research, debates, and topical syntheses as well as increased coverage of Paleoindian and Archaic periods and the Casas Grandes phenomenon.

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As comrades fell wounded and dead around them on the frozen slopes above Korea's infamous Chosin Reservoir, Baker-One-Seven's Marines triumphed against the relentless human-wave assaults of Chinese regulars and took part in the breakout that destroyed six to eight divisions of Chinese regulars. Colder Than Hell paints a vivid, frightening portrait of one of the most horrific infantry battles ever waged.

Through the perspectives of several women whose lives intertwine over a generation, Raminder Sidhu deftly exposes the shrouded violence within Canada's Punjabi community, a difficult and often dissembled subject. Sidhu's characters are women caught between two cultures, struggling to understand the traditions they are obliged to follow while still embracing and often welcoming the fundamentally different values of the West.

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This pioneering anthology of memoirs and autobiographical writings lets the people of Africa speak for themselves - telling stories of struggle and achievement that have the authenticity of lived experience. The anthology presents selections from the work of many of Africa's finest writers and most significant personalities from across the continent and spanning several centuries.

In recent years Syria has transferred many responsibilities for welfare functions to private charities and NGOs, while at the same time attempting to control those organizations. In this context, the authors of this book focus both on Christian charities and on the regime-sponsored NGOs that are attracting secular, urban Syrians.