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  • Shame and the Church Shame and the Church
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    Shame and the Church

    Shame is a much misunderstood and often misdiagnosed problem that can cause significant issues in the church as in wider society. Indeed, there have been times when the church has even been the cause of shame. How, then, do we create a less shaming...
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  • Nearsighted White Kids Nearsighted White Kids
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    Nearsighted White Kids

    This book is born out of a need in the child development community for essential understanding of human vision beyond the basic eye chart. As a rule, the people who teach our children, assess them, treat them, and make lifelong decisions for them are...
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  • The Power of Race in Cuba The Power of Race in Cuba
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    The Power of Race in Cuba

    In The Power of Race in Cuba, Danielle Pilar Clealand analyzes racial ideologies that negate the existence of racism and their effect on racial progress and activism through the lens of Cuba. Since 1959, Fidel Castro and the Cuban government have married...
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  • Glimpses of Hell Glimpses of Hell
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    Glimpses of Hell

    My first book "Snippets of Heaven" was a joyful retelling of stories on my grandparents' farm. We were loved, protected and encouraged by our grandparents and their faithful teachings of God. When I was a child under the "care" of my parents, my sister...
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  • In My Mother's Shadow In My Mother's Shadow
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    In My Mother's Shadow

    In My Mother's Shadow is a reflection on a childhood overshadowed by a mentally ill parent, in a strictly Brethren home in 1960s―70s Dunedin, New Zealand. Not shared till now, Debby's story is one of loss, suffering, abuse and ultimately,...
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    Unsafe for Democracy

    Things No Longer There is a lovingly crafted collection of personal stories about the author's struggle toward enlightenment while losing her eyesight. It is also, more broadly, about invisible landscapes places of the heart that linger long after they...
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  • Echoes of the Nokota® Echoes of the Nokota®
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    Echoes of the Nokota®

    How has one man's life mission to make an unjust thing right - save North Dakota's native horses - changed history?Growing up in small-town North Dakota, Frank Kuntz led a typical, country life with lots of brothers and sisters, hard-working...
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  • To Be Brave To Be Brave
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    To Be Brave

    Three women, two generations, one family-a story of trauma, resistance, healing, and loveIn 1959, in Garrison, Minnesota, a twenty-six-year-old woman shot and killed her abusive husband. A few years earlier, her sister had fled with her young daughter...
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  • Press Pause Press Pause
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    Press Pause

    Maureen Spataro's smile was the one to light up every room. She was the parent running into the classroom with cupcakes, the friend who you could lean on, the "Team Mom" for her daughter's softball team. What no one knew, was behind...
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  • Healing Broken Souls Healing Broken Souls
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    Healing Broken Souls

    This book is designed to help guide women with a step by step process of holistic healing after leaving a domestically abusive relationship. The author uses personal anecdotes with vivid details of how she escaped domestic violence and explains her...
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  • Rebuild & Thrive Rebuild & Thrive
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    Rebuild & Thrive

    A book by survivors, for survivorsRebuild and Thrive is a peer-created guide written to assist survivors of sexual exploitation in their first steps toward physical, financial, and emotional independence.Maximum practicality and zero...
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  • Running Through Darkness Running Through Darkness
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    Running Through Darkness

    Running Through Darkness: Memoir of a Spiritual Warrior is the life story and testimony of spiritual teacher, healer, author and renown therapist, Santa Molina-Marshall. From the rich, beautiful culture of her Caribbean ancestors to the pain and trauma...
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  • The Intersections of Family Violence and Sexual Offending The Intersections of Family Violence and Sexual Offending
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    The Intersections of Family Violence and Sexual Offending

    Often examined separately, this timely volume provides a detailed exploration of the nexus between family violence and sexual offending. Recognising family and sexual violence as highly interrelated issues, it uncovers the challenges and paradoxes of...
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  • Priorities for Health Promotion and Public Health Priorities for Health Promotion and Public Health
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    Priorities for Health Promotion and Public Health

    Priorities for Health Promotion and Public Health brings together the evidence behind the UK's public health priorities into one comprehensible textbook. Taking one theme per chapter, the book examines the social and environmental influences that shape...
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  • Statelessness and Contemporary Enslavement Statelessness and Contemporary Enslavement
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    Statelessness and Contemporary Enslavement

    Why have statelessness and contemporary enslavement become endemic since the 1990s? What is it about global political economic policies, protracted warfare, and migration rules and patterns that have so systemically increased these extreme forms of...
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  • Humanitarianism and the Quantification of Human Needs Humanitarianism and the Quantification of Human Needs
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    Humanitarianism and the Quantification of Human Needs

    This book provides a historical inquiry into the quantification of needs in humanitarian assistance. Needs are increasingly seen as the lowest common denominator of humanity. Standard definitions of basic needs, however, set a minimalist version of...
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  • Routledge Handbook on Middle Eastern Diasporas Routledge Handbook on Middle Eastern Diasporas
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    Routledge Handbook on Middle Eastern Diasporas

    Bringing together different strands of research on Middle Eastern diasporas, the Routledge Handbook on Middle Eastern Diasporas sheds light on diverse approaches to investigating diaspora groups in different national contexts.Asking how diasporans forge...
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  • Diasporic Citizenship Diasporic Citizenship
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    Diasporic Citizenship

    This book delineates the history of the Haitian diaspora in the United States in the nineteenth century, but it primarily concerns itself with the contemporary period and more specifically with the diasporic enclave in New York City. It uses a critical...
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  • Homeless Come Home Homeless Come Home
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    Homeless Come Home

    Benedict Giamo has published widely on the condition of historical and contemporary homelessness in America. In Homeless Come Home: An Advocate, the Riverbank, and Murder in Topeka, Kansas, Giamo offers a deeply sympathetic yet critical look at the life...
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  • Oxford Handbook of American Immigration and Ethnicity Oxford Handbook of American Immigration and Ethnicity
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    Oxford Handbook of American Immigration and Ethnicity

    Scholarship on immigration to America is a coin with two sides: it asks both how America changed immigrants, and how they changed America. Were the immigrants uprooted from their ancestral homes, leaving everything behind, or were they transplanted,...
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  • Duty to Resist Duty to Resist
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    Duty to Resist

    What are our responsibilities in the face of injustice? How far should we go to fight it? Many would argue that as long as a state is nearly just, citizens have a moral duty to obey the law. Proponents of civil disobedience generally hold that, given...
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  • Book of Rosy, The \ El libro de Rosy (Spanish edition) Book of Rosy, The \ El libro de Rosy (Spanish edition)
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    Book of Rosy, The \ El libro de Rosy (Spanish edition)

    "From a mother whose children were taken from her at the U.S. border by the American government in 2018 and another mother who helped reunite the family, a ... story about the immigration odyssey, family separation and reunification, and the power of...
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    Goodbye, Sweet Girl Goodbye, Sweet Girl
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    Goodbye, Sweet Girl

    "Reading Kelly Sundberg's writing--fresh, luminous, spirited--is a pleasure second only to witnessing her decision to survive. Goodbye Sweet Girl is a meditation on what it takes to save your own life." --Ariel Levy
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  • Dear America LP Dear America LP
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    Dear America LP

    "The movement of people--what Americans call 'immigration' and the rest of the world calls 'migration'--is among the defining issues of our time. Technology and information crosses countries and continents at blistering speed. Corporations thrive on...
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  • Literature, Speech Disorders, and Disability Literature, Speech Disorders, and Disability
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    Literature, Speech Disorders, and Disability

    Examining representations of speech disorders in works of literature, this first collection of its kind founds a new multidisciplinary subfield related but not limited to the emerging fields of disability studies and medical humanities. The scope is...
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  • Black Youth in Crisis (Routledge Revivals) Black Youth in Crisis (Routledge Revivals)
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    Black Youth in Crisis (Routledge Revivals)

    First published in 1982, this book considers the position of young Afro-Caribbean people in Britain, in the 1980s. It looks at how, at the time, this group of young people were disproportionately hit by growing unemployment, seemed to be over-represented...
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  • The Subject of Race in American Science Fiction The Subject of Race in American Science Fiction
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    The Subject of Race in American Science Fiction

    While the connections between science fiction and race have largely been neglected by scholars, racial identity is a key element of the subjectivity constructed in American SF. In his Mars series, Edgar Rice Burroughs primarily supported essentialist...
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  • Men Who Sell Sex Men Who Sell Sex
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    Men Who Sell Sex

    All over the world, men as well as women exchange sex for money and other forms of reward, sometimes with other men and sometimes with women. In contrast to female prostitution, however, relatively little is known about male sex work, leaving questions...
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  • A Sociolinguistics of Diaspora A Sociolinguistics of Diaspora
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    A Sociolinguistics of Diaspora

    This volume brings together scholars in sociolinguistics and the sociology of new media and mobile technologies who are working on different social and communicative aspects of the Latino diaspora. There is new interest in the ways in which migrants...
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  • Resilience, Development and Global Change Resilience, Development and Global Change
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    Resilience, Development and Global Change

    Resilience is currently infusing policy debates and public discourses, widely promoted as a normative goal in fields as diverse as the economy, national security, personal development and well-being. Resilience thinking provides a framework for...
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  • Migration in Comparative Perspective Migration in Comparative Perspective
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    Migration in Comparative Perspective

    This book presents a comparative perspective on post-war Caribbean migration to Britain and France. Both migrations were responses to the link between former colonies and colonial powers. However, the movements of labor occurred within separately and...
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  • The New Sociology of the Health Service The New Sociology of the Health Service
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    The New Sociology of the Health Service

    Health service policy and health policy have changed considerably over the past fifteen years and there is a pressing need for an up-to-date sociological analysis of health policy. Not only have policies themselves changed but new policy themes - such as...
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  • What It Feels Like What It Feels Like
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    What It Feels Like

    Investigates contemporary and historical rhetorics of rape culture within institutional, legal, cultural, and medical discourses. Examines how discourses about rape rely on strategies of containment and deny the felt experiences of victims, ultimately...
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  • Learning Mechanisms in Smoking Learning Mechanisms in Smoking
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    Learning Mechanisms in Smoking

    Psychologists have spent years studying the learning processes of the white rat, yet until recently they have neglected the laboratory of everyday social behavior for studying learning in man. In this book the leading experts in learning theory and...
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  • Never Again? Never Again?
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    Never Again?

    Anti-Semitism remains a pernicious form of ethnic and religious intolerance and an assault on the fundamentals of human dignity and human rights. Exploring the history of anti-Semitism and providing the first comprehensive examination of the new rampant...
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  • Climate Change, Vulnerability and Migration Climate Change, Vulnerability and Migration
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    Climate Change, Vulnerability and Migration

    This book highlights how climate change has affected migration in the Indian subcontinent. Drawing on field research, it argues that extreme weather events such as floods, droughts, cyclones, cloudbursts as well as sea-level rise, desertification and...
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  • Designing To Avoid Disaster Designing To Avoid Disaster
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    Designing To Avoid Disaster

    Recent catastrophic events, such as the I-35W bridge collapse, New Orleans flooding, the BP oil spill, Port au Prince's destruction by earthquake, Fukushima nuclear plant's devastation by tsunami, the Wall Street investment bank failures, and the housing...
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  • The Cultural Politics of the Paralympic Movement The Cultural Politics of the Paralympic Movement
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    The Cultural Politics of the Paralympic Movement

    Do the Paralympic Games empower the disability sport community? Like many other contemporary sporting institutions, the Paralympic Games have made the transition from pastime to spectacle, and the profile of athletes with disabilities has been increased...
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  • Lyric Eye Lyric Eye
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    Lyric Eye

    Lyric Eye: The Poetics of Twentieth-Century Surveillance presents the first detailed study of the relationship between poetry and surveillance. It critically examines the close connection between American lyric poetry and a burgeoning US state...
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  • Immigration and School Safety Immigration and School Safety
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    Immigration and School Safety

    Immigration and School Safety utilizes a multidisciplinary approach to expose the complex relationship between immigration and school safety in the United States. It addresses not only individual, intrapersonal, and environmental factors but also...
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  • Sikh Diaspora in Japan Sikh Diaspora in Japan
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    Sikh Diaspora in Japan

    The Sikh community is one of the largest groups of Indians abroad and many studies of these migrants have been conducted. The Sikh temples which are called gurdwaras are seen at all the places where Sikh migrants have settled. As other Indian migrants,...
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