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Policing Futures - The Police, Law Enforcement And The Twenty-First Century

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 Thought-provoking and incisive, Policing Futures is an invaluable source of information, and will be essential reading for students, lecturers, researchers and practitioners in the fields of police studies, criminology, socio-legal studies, law, sociology, social policy, social work and related disciplines.
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Expanding The Boundaries Of Transformative Learning - Essays On Theory And Praxis

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 The editors of this collection make several challenges to the existing field of transformative learning - the first is to theoreticians, who have attempted to describe the nature of transformative learning without regard to the content of transformative learning.
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Explanation And Social Theory

by Alexander Stewart e John Holmwood

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 The book ranges widely over modern social theory, giving detailed treatments of major sources to identify common themes and deficiencies in apparently disparate schools of thought. The object is to lay bare negative assumptions forming methodologies in modern social theory in order to redirect the social sciences towards real problems and the progressive consequences of their solution. Examples are given and, throughout, the continuity of particular and general concerns is demonstrated.
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Homeschool - An American History

by M. Gaither

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 This is a lively account of one of the most important and overlooked themes in American education. Beginning in the colonial period and working to the present, Gaither describes in rich detail how the home has been used as the base for education of all kinds. The last five chapters focus especially on the modern homeschooling movement and offer the most comprehensive and authoritative account of it ever written. Readers will learn how and why homeschooling emerged when it did, where it has been, and where it may be going. Please visit Gaither''s blog here: http://gaither.wordpress.com/homeschool-an-american-history/
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Art And Disability - The Social And Political Struggles Facing Education

by A. Wexler

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 Wexler argues that the arts are most effective when they are in service of social growth, critical to identity formation. This book balances theory with practical knowledge and offers critical research that challenges the biases regarding the nature of art and education.
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Narratives On Teaching And Teacher Education - An International Perspective

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 This book brings in an international perspective on a much debated area, namely teacher education. Through narrative research, the chapters in this collection provide a wide variety of stories of discovery, transformation and hope in teaching and learning to teach.
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Global Perspectives On Adult Education

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 This book demonstrates how processes of globalization (economic, cultural, socio-political) are creating new possibilities and inequities and are thereby creating corresponding roles for adult education and learning in the South (Africa, Asia, South America) that are embedded in multiple political, economic and cultural projects for social change.
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Narrating Transformative Learning In Education

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 This collection highlights the experiences of an international group of educators as they explore the art of teaching, the philosophy of learning, and the tensions of working across socially constructed borders.
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In Search Of Wholeness - African American Teachers And Their Culturally Specific Classroom Practices

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 In Search of Wholeness: African American Teachers and their Culturally Specific Classroom Practices is a theoretical and practice-oriented treatment of how culture and race influence African American teachers. This collection of essays, edited by Jacqueline Jordan Irvine, assumes that teachers cannot become fully functional persons and competent professionals if their cultural selves remain denied, hidden, and unexplored. Part one reviews the literature related to teachers'' race and culture. Part two includes research studies about teachers confronting issues of culture and race in their personal and professional lives. The final chapter focuses on the responses of three of the teachers whose stories are portrayed in the book. In addition to the compelling case studies, other topics explored include: multicultural professional development for African American teachers, African American teachers'' perceptions of their professional roles and practices, a comparison of effective black and white teachers of African American students, the development of teacher efficacy of an African American middle school teacher, the professional development journey of an effective African American elementary school teacher, seizing hope through culturally responsive praxis, collective stories on culturally specific pedagogy. In Search of Wholeness is an indispensable and groundbreaking collection that administrators, students, and educators of all ages will not want to be without.
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Community Colleges And Their Students - Co-Construction And Organizational Identity

by J. Levin

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 This book employs a socio-cultural approach to study the organizational dynamics and experiences of self-formation that shape community college life. The authors acknowledge both the collective and individual efforts of community college personnel to create caring community colleges that support nontraditional students.
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History Of The British Presence In Chile - From Bloody Mary To Charles Darwin And The Decline Of British Influence

by W. Edmundson

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 This book sets out to narrate the contributions to and influence on the history of Chile that British visitors and immigrants have had, not as bystanders but as key players, starting in 1554 with the English Queen 'Bloody Mary' becoming Queen of Chile, and ending with the decline of British influence following the Second World War.
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Contemporary Criminology And Criminal Justice Theory - Evaluating Justice Systems In Capitalist Societies

by G. Skoll

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 This book casts a critical eye on scholarship in the field of criminal justice, and offers some new orientations to help develop explanations for twenty-first century criminology and criminal justice studies.
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Youth In A Suspect Society - Democracy Or Disposability?

by H. Giroux

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 Through the lens of education, this book attempts to situate young people within a number of theoretical and political considerations that offer up a new ''analytic of youth'', one that posits not only the emergence of a new way to talk about youth but also a new language for understanding the politics that increasing frame their lives.
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Studies In Islamic Social Sciences

by Masudul Alam Choudhury

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 This book is a project toward the continuing theme of the Islamic worldview of economy-society-institution interactions in national and international forums, wherein individual and group preferences are created and sustained by the regeneration of knowledge into higher levels of realising truth. Truth and the medium of knowledge for realising higher levels of truth, are argued to be the only most immutable character of all systems.
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Beyond The Home Front - Women''S Autobiographical Writing Of The Two World Wars

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 Drawing on a broad variety of sources, this anthology brings together the autobiographical accounts of both famous and ordinary women to provide a view of the changing role of women as they experienced war in the 20th century.
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Subjugated Knowledges - Journalism, Gender And Literature, In The Nineteenth Century

by Laurel Brake

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 Examining the relation of print and culture in the 19th century, this book scrutinizes the cultural politics and production of Victorian magazines. A high degree of interdependence among literature, history and journalism is alleged, and ways in which space is designated male or female is explored.
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Leisure For Leisure - Critical Essays

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 A collection of critical essays which reject the assumptions that leisure relations are relations of freedom, self determination, life satisfaction and growth. The essays look at power and policy issues in leisure relations and attempt to produce a critical sociology of the subject.
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Revolutionary Hebrew, Empire And Crisis - Four Peaks In Hebrew Literature And Jewish Survival

by David Aberbach

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 Until 1948, Hebrew literature was created mostly under the rule of empires, notably those of ancient Mesopotamia, Rome, medieval Islam, and Tsarist Russia. Aberbach argues in this controversial book that several of the most original periods in the history of Hebrew coincided with - and resulted partly from - imperial crisis, involving violence against the Jews and radical shifts in Jewish demography and in the global balance of power. Jewish assimilation in the cultures of the empires was arrested, causing a psychological turn inward and the creation of revolutionary Hebrew literature.
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Australia Towards 2000

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 This book sets out to explore contemporary life in Australia, looking also at the future of the continent, and covering topics ranging from its history, culture, religion, values and ecological perspectives to its economy and politics.
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Cultural Climate And Linguistic Style - Change In English Fictional Prose From The Late Victorian To The Early Modern Period

by Gillian Cawthra

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 A book exploring the relation between culture and syntax at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. The analysis of particular syntactic features in novels of the time shows clear differences of usage which may be seen to reflect current social upheaval.
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And The Mirror Cracked - Feminist Cinema And Film Theory

by A. Smelik

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 Tracing the highly productive ways in which feminist directors create alternative film forms, Anneke Smelik highlights cinematic issues which are central to feminist films: authorship, point of view, metaphor, montage and the excessive image. Among the films considered are A Question of Silence , Bagdad Cafe , Sweetie and The Virgin Machine .
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Concepts Of Social Stratification

by A. Hess

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 This book looks at how sociological concepts that were first ''invented'' and applied to describe social inequality in Europe were also used to understand and explain inequality in the United States. However, under very different circumstances and conditions the concepts needed to be adjusted - either through changing their precise meaning or by using related concepts. In Concepts of Social Stratification the author tries to analyse this change by looking at how some of the most prominent American sociologists have tried to conceptualise their own society while at the same time addressing the complex relationship between an assumed political equality and de facto social inequality.
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Public Emotions

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 Emotions are central to our practices and understanding of public life. This book examines the political, social and personal consequences of public emotions in relation to conflict, ritual, social classification, collective life, identity, memory and power and is a multidisciplinary collaboration showing the emotional character of public life.
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British Film Music And Film Musicals

by K. Donnelly

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 In the first book-length consideration of the topic for sixty years, Kevin Donnelly examines the importance of music in British film, concentrating both on musical scores, such as William Walton''s score for Henry V (1944) and Malcolm Arnold''s music for The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), and on the phenomenon of the British film musical.
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