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A World Without Words - The Social Construction Of Children Born Deaf And Blind

by David Goode

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 During the Rubella Syndrome epidemic of the 1960s, many children were born deaf, blind, and mentally disabled. David Goode has devoted his life and career to understanding such people's world, a world without words. This book is the result of his studies of two children with congenital deaf-blindness and mental retardation.
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Dangerous Passage - The Social Control Of Sexuality In Women'S Adolescence

by Constance A. Nathanson

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 Based on the premise that sexuality is molded by history and culture, this book analyzes the emergence of adolescent pregnancy as a public policy issue. It examines how Americans think about and handle deviant behavior and social change. It also investigates the processes of social control as they are applied to women's private sexual behavior.
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Medical Malpractice - Law, Tactics And Ethics

by Frank M. Mcclellan

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 From practical to philosophical considerations, this presentation of medical malpractice issues serves as a useful resource for the classroom and the reference shelf. It illustrates the multitude of considerations that impact the merit of each case, never losing sight of the importance of preserving human dignity in malpractice lawsuits.
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Tough Choices - In Vitro Fertilization And The Reproductive Technologies

by Marsden G. Wagner e Patricia Stephenson

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 Presents a forum of international voices posing critical questions: What are the medical and social options for couples facing infertility? What is known about the safety, costs, and benefits of reproductive technologies? What is to be done about the diversion of resources away from pressing community health needs?
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Cultural Connections - Museums And Libraries Of The Delaware Valley

by Morris Vogel

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 The Philadelphia area is rich in cultural capital; its assemblage of museums, historic sites, and libraries is unsurpassed in this nation. This book explores the holdings of these numerous institutions and the reasons our society has come to treasure certain works of art and artifice, and particular books, manuscripts, and natural specimens.
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The Urgings Of Conscience - A Theory Of Punishment

by Jacob Adler

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 After examining punishment from two points of view that of the punisher and that of the offender who is to be punished this work proposes the Paradigm of the Conscientious Punishee: a repentant wrongdoer who views punishment as not necessarily unpleasant, but as something it is morally incumbent upon one to undertake.
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Dangerous Passage - The Social Control Of Sexuality In Women'S Adolescence

by Constance A. Nathanson

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 Basing her work on the premise that sexuality is molded by both history and culture, the author analyzes the emergence of adolescent pregnancy as a public policy issue. She examines how Americans think about and handle deviant behavior and social change.
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Let'S Rock - Rock Painting For Kids

by Linda Kranz

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We Are Bears

by Molly Grooms; Illustration: Lucia Guarnotta

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Basho - The Complete Haiku

by Jane Reichhold e Matsuo Bashô; Illustration: Shiro Tsujimura

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Sword Techniques Of Musashi And The Other Samurai Masters

by Fumon Tanaka

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 Uses the life and accomplishments of sword master Miyamoto Musashi to explore the history of swords and sword fighting and show the key role they played in the development of the traditional Japanese martial arts systems. This book opens with an introduction to Musashi as a real-life figure, not just the legend we've come to know.
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Southeast Asia Over Three Generations - Essays Presented To Benedict R. O'G. Anderson

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 In honor of Benedict Anderson's many years as a teacher and his profound contributions to the field of Southeast Asian studies, the editors have collected essays from a number of the many scholars who studied with him. These articles deal with the...
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Accent On Privilege - English Identities And Anglophilia In The U.S.

by Katharine W. Jones

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 Looks at the complexities of immigration, asking how native and immigrant construct race, gender, class and national identity. This book investigates how white English immigrants live in the United States and how they use their status as privileged foreigners to gain the upper hand with Americans.
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Critique Of Applied Ethics - Reflections And Recommendations

by Abraham Edel, Elizabeth Flower e Finbarr W O'Connor

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 Over the decades, applied ethics has turned increasingly toward theories that explore ethical questions faced by a variety of professions and away from classic moral concerns. This title discusses the emergence of applied ethics and how it functions within a philosophical tradition.
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Reshaping Ethnic Relations - Immigrants In A Divided City

by Judith Goode

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 What happens when people from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds come together to live and work in the same neighborhood? This book looks at the interaction of immigrant populations in three Philadelphia neighborhoods. It considers five primary groups - whites, African Americans, Puerto Ricans, Koreans, and Eastern Europeans.
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Sexual Cultures And The Construction Of Adolescent Identities

by Janice Irvine

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 Presents new vision of adolescent sexuality shaped by a variety of social factors: race and ethnicity, gender, sexual identity, physical ability, and cultural messages propagated in films, books, and within families. This collection of essays considers a range of cultural influences that form a teenager's sexual identity.
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The Sixties Experience - Hard Lessons About Modern America

by Edward Morgan

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 The 1960s have yet to be adequately explained. After a decade of "Sixties -bashing" and mass media romanticizing, after a host of "second wave" books reexamining portions of the 1960s, there is a need to integrate the experience of those years into a larger framework of understanding. This book deals with this topic.
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Schooling Without Labels - Parents, Educators, And Inclusive Education

by Douglas Biklen

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 Examines the experiences of six families in which children with disabilities are full participants in family life in order to understand how people who have been labeled disabled might become full participants in the other areas of society as well.
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Wash And Be Healed - The Water-Cure Movement And Women'S Health

by Susan Cayleff

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 Hydropathy advocates the reformation of such personal habits as diet, exercise, dress, and way of life. This book investigates the theories, practices, medical and social philosophies, institutions, and the most prominent proponents of the water-cure movement and studies them in relation to the diverse reform networks of the nineteenth century.
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Women With Disabilities Â€“ Essays In Psychology, Culture, And Politics

by Michelle Fine

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 Women with disabilities are women first, sharing the dreams and disappointments common to women in a male-dominated society. This book represents the intersection of the feminist and disability rights perspectives. It analyzes the forces that push disabled women towards the margins of social life.
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Ideology, Culture And The Process Of Schooling

by Henry Giroux

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 Lays bare the ideological and political character of the positivist rationality that has been the primary theoretical underpinning of educational research in the United States. The author is the co-editor of "Curriculum and Instruction: Alternatives in Education" and "The Hidden Curriculum and Moral Education".
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Women Resisting Aids - Feminist Strategies Of Empowerment

by Beth Schneider

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 Features essays which discuss the rapid spread of AIDS among women, including the responses of women of color, lesbians, and low-income women.

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