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Unaccompanied Migrant Children
Social, Legal, and Ethical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2018
Unaccompanied migrant children are the most vulnerable group of migrants and refugees. Their experiences, their contested legal status in the host countries, and their treatment before, during, and after migration call for an ethics of child migration that places unaccompanied migrant children at...
by Márton Veress, Tamás Telbisz, Gábor Tóth
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
This book discusses the theoretical and practical issues of glaciokarsts. After a research history, a general description of glaciokarsts is provided. Thereafter, the glacial erosion on karst, the karstic features of glaciokarsts, the development of these features, the karstic zones of glaciokarsts,...
by L. Symon, L. Calliauw, F. Cohadon
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
As an addition to the European postgraduate training system for young neurosurgeons we began to publish in 1974 this series of Advances and Technical Standards in Neurosurgery which was later sponsored by the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies. This series was first discussed in 1972...
by L. Symon, J. Lobo Antunes, L. Calliauw
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
As an addition to the European postgraduate training system for young neurosurgeons we began to publish in 1974 this series devoted to Advances and Technical Standards in Neurosurgery which was later sponsored by the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies. This series was first discussed...
The Improvement Guide
A Practical Approach to Enhancing Organizational Performance
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
This new edition of this bestselling guide offers an integrated approach to process improvement that delivers quick and substantial results in quality and productivity in diverse settings. The authors explore their Model for Improvement that worked with international improvement efforts at multinational...
Sport and the Neoliberal University
Profit, Politics, and Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
College students are now regarded as consumers, not students, and nowhere is the growth and exploitation of the university more obvious than in the realm of college sports, where the evidence is in the stadiums built with corporate money, and the crowded sporting events sponsored by large conglomerates.
The...
Feminist Activist Ethnography
Counterpoints to Neoliberalism in North America
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Writing in the wake of neoliberalism, where human rights and social justice have increasingly been subordinated to proliferating “consumer choices” and ideals of market justice, contributors to this collection argue that feminist ethnographers are in a key position to reassert the central feminist...
The Taste of American Place
A Reader on Regional and Ethnic Foods
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1999
Tracing the intertwined roles of food, ethnicity, and regionalism in the construction of American identity, this textbook examines the central role food plays in our lives. Drawing on a range of disciplines_including sociology, anthropology, folklore, geography, history, and nutrition_the editors...
by P. M. H. Atwater, L.H.D.
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2003
Presents an in-depth look at children who have experienced the near-death phenomenon and the heightened abilities that these children exhibit
• Provides compelling evidence for the existence of a generation of children who represent the spiritual evolution of the human race
• Includes...
The Women's Haftarah Commentary
New Insights from Women Rabbis on the 54 Weekly Haftarah Portions, the 5 Megillot & Special Shabbatot
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Women rabbis are changing the face of Judaism.
Discover how their interpretations of the Prophets, Writings,
and Megillot can enrich your perspective.
The Haftarah is a potent tool for understanding the values, ethics, and moral lessons contained in the Torah readings. In this first-of-its-kind...
The Simple Book of Profound Truths
A Spiritual Guide for Skeptic and Believer Alike
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
This book is a revolutionary text for revolutionary spiritual times. Facing imminent global financial collapse and great adversity for the foreseeable future, people will need a powerful faith in God just to survive. But who can have great faith if they dont know anything about God and how he works...
by Ronald L. Seigneur, Brenda M. Clarke, Stacey D. Udell
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
“From the first chapter to the last, Ron Seigneur, Stacey Udell, and Brenda Clarke lead the reader through the labyrinth of the cannabis industry. Starting with the fundamentals of the cannabis industry and proceeding through the myriad of state and federal regulations, legal structures, taxes and...
Women in the Academy
Learning From Our Diverse Career Pathways
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
This edited collection examines women’s roles in the academy. Statistics show that women outnumber men in most universities and that women’s pay still lags behind men’s, but the numbers only hint at the broader story. This edited collection fills that gap with the stories of twelve women—from...
by Montserrat Díaz Méndez, Óscar Rodrigo González López
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 17, 2013
No cabe duda de que en la actualidad la comunicación adquiere cada vez mayor relevancia en las distintas esferas de la existencia humana: instituciones públicas y privadas, locales e internacionales, organizaciones mercantiles y sin ánimo de lucro, medios de comunicación, personas públicas del...