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During a decade of relative prosperity from the mid-1990s onward, governments across the developed world failed to crack one major issue youth unemployment. Even when economic growth was strong, one young person in 10 in the United Kingdom was neither working nor learning. As the boom ended, the number of young people dropping out after leaving school already acknowledged to be too high - began to rise at an alarming rate. As governments face up to the prospect of a new generation on the dole, this book examines the root causes of the problem.

By holding a light to the lives...

A Gift: The Blessings of St. John can be a very valuable gift for you. Good gifts are those which enlarge and enrich our lives and open opportunities of which we were not previously aware. The blessings of St. John can be a truly good gift which has possibilities to open your mind to views of God, others, and yourself that will bring a positive change to your life. Of course, this will only happen if you use this gift in the ways suggested within this book and use your own imagination and abilities to make what is written into an exciting and rewarding gift for you. As you read, ponder,...

The postwar period in America witnessed a tremendous consumer boom that introduced thousands of new items into the mass market. The contributors to Containing America challenge our conceptions of Cold War culture by examining a range of such products - clothes, food, television, magazines, radio, and other forms of entertainment - in order to shed light on how Cold War discourses actually influenced the practices of ordinary behaviour. Their essays address very different sectors of American society - in terms of race, class, ethnicity, sexuality and gender - thus emphasising the...

The image of the West looms large in the American imagination. Yet the history of American Jewry and particularly of American Jewish women--has been heavily weighted toward the East. Jewish Women Pioneering the Frontier Trail rectifies this omission as the first full book to trace the history and contributions of Jewish women in the American West.

In many ways, the Jewish experience in the West was distinct. Given the still-forming social landscape, beginning with the 1848 Gold Rush, Jews were able to integrate more fully into local communities than they had in the...