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Understanding Hate Crimes: Acts, Motives, Offender...
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Hate crimes and lesser acts of bigotry and intolerance are seen to be constants in today’s world. Since 1990, the federal government has published annual reports on hate crime incidents in the United States. While the reported numbers are disturbing, even more devastating is the impact of these crim..
Understanding Human Evolution
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For the one-term course in human evolution, paleoanthropology, or fossil hominins taught at the junior/senior level in departments of anthropology or biology.This new edition provides a comprehensive overview to the field of paleoanthropology-the study of human evolution by analyzing fossil remains...
Understanding International Art Markets and Manage...
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This groundbreaking text brings together experts in the field of visual art markets to answer some fundamental questions: Is art a good investment Why is the art market dominated by America and Western Europe Where are the key emerging markets and what are the next good buys in art Providing reade..
Understanding Language in Diverse Classrooms: A Pr...
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With the increasing linguistic and cultural diversity of students in U. S. schools, all teachers, regardless of the content area or grade they teach, need research-based strategies for assisting all students to gain English proficiency. This practical, concise guide shows teachers what they need to ..
Understanding Multivariate Research: A Primer for ...
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Although nearly all major social science departments offer graduate students training in quantitative methods, the typical sequencing of topics generally delays training in regression analysis and other multivariate techniques until a student's second year. William Berry and Mitchell Sanders's Under..
Understanding Reading: A Psycholinguistic Analysis...
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Understanding Reading revolutionized reading research and theory when the first edition appeared in 1971 and continues to be a leader in the field. In the sixth edition of this classic text, Smith's purpose remains the same: to shed light on fundamental aspects of the complex human act of reading--l..
Understanding Religion and Popular Culture: Theori...
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This introductory text provides students with a 'toolbox' of approaches for analyzing religion and popular culture. It encourages readers to think critically about the ways in which popular cultural practices and products, especially those considered as forms of entertainment, are laden with religio..
Understanding Sports Coaching: The Social, Cultura...
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Successful sports coaching is as dependent on utilising good teaching and social practices as it is about expertise in sport skills and tactics. Understanding Sports Coaching offers an innovative introduction to the theory and practice of sports coaching, highlighting the social, cultural and pedago..
Understanding Storytelling Among African American ...
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Understanding Storytelling Among African American Children: A Journey From Africa to America reports research on narrative production among African American children for the purpose of extending previous inquiry and discussion of narrative structure. Some researchers have focused on the influence of..
Understanding Supreme Court Opinions
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Going beyond the standard interpretation of Supreme Court opinions, this practical text delves into the legal reasoning behind the written opinions - the modes of persuasion and justification used by Supreme Court justices - to give readers a deeper understanding of how to read and interpret the dec..
Understanding Terrorism in America: From the Klan ...
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Christopher Hewitt's comprehensive book surveys the characteristics and causes of terrorism and governmental responses to it. He also examines the organizational structure of terrorist networks, how they are financed and their ideological agendas. Groups covered include: Islamic fundamentalists, whi..
Understanding the Global Experience: Becoming a Re...
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First Published in 2016. In this anthology of essays for Global Studies students, the editors hope to encourage readers to live intelligent and thoughtful lives, not only as citizens of their native countries, but also as citizens of the world. Author: Arcaro, Thomas Publisher: Routledge Binding: Pa..
Understanding the Islamic Scripture: A Study of Se...
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This book makes the Qur'an accessible to the English-speaking student who lacks the linguistic background to read it in the original Arabic by offering accessible translations of, and commentary on, a series of selected passages that are representative of the Islamic scripture. Mustanstir Mir, Direc..
Understanding U.S. Human Rights Policy: A Paradoxi...
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Product DescriptionThis book provides a comprehensive historical overview and analysis of the complex and often vexing problem of understanding the formation of US human rights policy over the past thirty-five years, a period during which concern for human rights became a major factor in foreign pol..
Understanding White Privilege: Creating Pathways t...
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Racial privilege is hard to see for those who were born with access to power and resources. Yet it is very visible for those to whom it was not granted. Understanding White Privilege is written for individuals and those in organizations who grapple with race every day, as well as for those who belie..
Une Mort Tres Douce (Twentieth Century Texts)
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Includes the full French text, accompanied by French-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context. Author: Beauvoir, Simone de Publisher: Routledge Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 042350990X ISBN-13: 9780423509908..
Unediting the Renaissance: Shakespeare, Marlowe an...
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Unediting the Renaissance is a path-breaking and timely look at the issues of the textual editing of Renaissance works. Both erudite and accessible, it will be a fascinating and provocative read for any Renaissance student or scholar.Leah Marcus argues that `bad' versions of Renaissance texts such a..
Unequal By Design: High-Stakes Testing and the Sta...
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Unequal By Design critically examines high-stakes standardized testing in order to illuminate what is really at stake for students, teachers, and communities negatively affected by such testing. This thoughtful analysis traces standardized testing’s origins in the Eugenics and Social Efficiency move..
Unequal Sisters: An Inclusive Reader in U.S. Women...
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Unequal Sisters has become a beloved and classic reader in American Women’s History. It provides an unparalleled resource for understanding women’s history in the United States today. When it was first published in 1990, it revolutionized the field with its broad multicultural approach, and continue..
Unhealthy Places: The Ecology of Risk in the Urban...
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Unhealthy Places focuses on issues of health in today's cities. By arguing that place matters in relation to the population's health, Kevin Fitzpatrick and Mark LaGory make a convincing argument about the general unhealthiness of urban environments and, thus, of the urban dweller. The authors offer ..
Unlikely Allies in the Academy: Women of Color and...
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A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2012!Unlikely Allies in the Academy brings the voices of women of Color and White women together for much-overdue conversations about race. These well-known contributors use narrative to expose their stories, which are at times messy and always candid. However, th..
Unmaking Goliath: Community Control in the Face of...
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Arguing against those who say that our communities are powerless in the face of footloose corporations, DeFilippis considers what localities can do in the face of heightened capital mobility in order to retain an autonomy that furthers egalitarian social justice, and explores how we go about accompl..
Unruly Cities?: Order/Disorder (Understanding Citi...
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The text argues that cities are open to many forms of order and disorder both from within the city and outside. They represent cities potentials as well as their problems. It challenges the assumption that cities are threatened by disorder from below and that they might be ruled by 'order' imposed f..
Unsettling the City: Urban Land and the Politics o...
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Short and accessible, this book interweaves a discussion of the geography of property in one global city, Vancouver, with a more general analysis of property, politics, and the city. Author: Blomley, Nicholas Publisher: Routledge Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0415933161 ISBN-13: 9780..
Unspeakable Truths: Confronting State Terror and A...
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This book is a profound exploration of truth commissions around the world, and the anguish, injustice, and the legacy of hate they are meant to absolve. Hayner examines twenty major truth commissions established around the world paying special attention to South Africa, El Salvador, Argentina, Chile..