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Controversies in affirmative action
The high school librarian has a unique opportunity and responsibility 1) to serve all the students including the forgotten half, those who if they finish high school, are unlikely to go beyond community college or trade school and 2) to work with the teac.
This handbook focuses on issues related to the gendered experience of students from pre-kindergarten through grade twelve. The content will promote an understanding that issues surrouding gender cannot be reduced to broad generalizations. Krasny seeks to make clear the complex n…
Handbook of Environmental Sociology
Annotation Many problems that plague modern American society, including disappearance of community, decaying inner cities, racial tensions, environmental degradation, declining civic engagement, and the increasing ineffectiveness of government, to name a few, are in many respect…
This is an examination of the relationship between female policymakers and policy outputs. The author's primary concern is whether or not female policymakers are associated with the advancement of "women's issues" in the policy realm.
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A Companion to Old and Middle English Literature
Defines, classifies, and critically studies Old and Middle English literature according to genres. Old and Middle English literature can be obscure and challenging and has elicited a large body of criticism. Readers confronting medieval literature soon note that writers of the e…
The Middle East in the Twentieth Century
Sicker views a century of Middle East history from a perspective that illustrates the interaction of global and regional geopolitics and the effects of Great Power involvement on regional stability. He focuses on "bull in a china shop" interventions that have produced as much ch…