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Human Rights: A Primer breaks new ground in clarifying for undergraduates the international significance of human rights. This new edition highlights current and recent developments, using themes familiar to undergraduates. For example, Americans are increasingly aware of the growing disparities in economic well-being. It is indeed a crisis that is global and national. Because this book focuses on globalization and human rights as intertwined, readers will gain a comprehensive understanding of the role of neoliberal capitalism in undermining human rights (dignity, security, and...

In the West, news about the Middle East is dominated by an endless stream of reports and commentary about civil war, sectarian violence, religious extremism, and economic stagnation. But do they tell the full story? For instance, who knew that university enrolment in the war-torn Palestinian territories exceeds that of Hong Kong, or that more than a third of Lebanese entrepreneurs are women?

Change is on its way in the Middle East, argues Bessma Momani, and its cause is demographic. Today, one in five Arabs is between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four. Young, optimistic, and...

Human Rights: A Primer breaks new ground in clarifying for undergraduates the international significance of human rights. This new edition highlights current and recent developments, using themes familiar to undergraduates. For example, Americans are increasingly aware of the growing disparities in economic well-being. It is indeed a crisis that is global and national. Because this book focuses on globalization and human rights as intertwined, readers will gain a comprehensive understanding of the role of neoliberal capitalism in undermining human rights (dignity, security, and...

What if there was an all natural substance to be found on our planet that would fix what ails you and not harm what's not broken? Would you be interested? You bet your sweet vitamins you would This age old, natural curative solution is waiting for you.

Welcome to the world of Calcium Bentonite Clay.

""Eat clay? You've got to be kidding "" is the first sentence in Perry A 's book. The last sentence is ""Now, go eat some clay "" Between the pages of the book, you will be convinced that it is time to go ""eat some...

What if there was an all natural substance to be found on our planet that would fix what ails you and not harm what's not broken? Would you be interested? You bet your sweet vitamins you would This age old, natural curative solution is waiting for you.

Welcome to the world of Calcium Bentonite Clay.

""Eat clay? You've got to be kidding "" is the first sentence in Perry A 's book. The last sentence is ""Now, go eat some clay "" Between the pages of the book, you will be convinced that it is time to go ""eat some...

This book studies children's and young adult literature of genocide since 1945, considering issues of representation and using postcolonial theory to provide both literary analysis and implications for educating the young. Many of the authors visited accurately and authentically portray the genocide about which they write; others perpetuate stereotypes or otherwise distort, demean, or oversimplify. In this focus on young people's literature of specific genocides, Gangi profiles and critiques works on the Cambodian genocide (1975-1979); the Iraqi Kurds (1988); the Maya of Guatemala...

This book is an introduction to audiology for those who have little or no knowledge of the subject. It introduces basic aspects of audiology in a clear and accessible way. This initial knowledge is then developed to a depth which allows the reader to access more specialised journals and textbooks.

With the boundaries of place softened and extended by digital communications technologies, learning in a networked society necessitates new distributions of activity across time, space, media, and people; and this development is no longer exclusive to formally designated spaces such as school classrooms, lecture halls, or research laboratories. "Place-based Spaces for Networked Learning" explores how qualities of physical places make both formal and informal education in a networked society possible. Through a series of investigations and case studies, it illuminates the structural...

Using case studies from around the country, Clif Stratton deftly shows that public schooling and...

Using case studies from around the country, Clif Stratton deftly shows that public schooling and...