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Poverty

By: Tina Kafka

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Organizations like Feeding America and Poverty USA confirm that 43.1 million total people were living in poverty in 2015. Of that total, 24.4 million were between the ages of 18 to 64. This compelling volume examines issues surrounding poverty and provides readers with an balanced overview of the topic. Chapters explore issues such as the poverty line, the relationship between poverty and the environment, and technological solutions.

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Greenhaven Publishing LLC

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1420505440

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Cloning

By: Tina Kafka

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Cloning

By: Tina Kafka

In nature clones occur naturally in plants, but not in animals. According to the National Human Genome Research Institute, animals must be scientifically manipulated through different processes to create an identical copy of the genetic material, known as cloning. This thought-provoking volume explores the history of cloning, the ethical issues it raises, where research may lead it in the future, and cloning's role in curing diseases, creating custom organs, improving food, and saving animals.

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Greenhaven Publishing LLC

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1420502522

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9781420502527

Genetic Engineering

By: Tina Kafka

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Genetic Engineering

By: Tina Kafka

Genetic engineering refers to the many different manipulative processes regarding genetic modification, such as deleting portions of DNA sequence or splicing together DNA from more than one individual. This process can be applied to any organism like viruses, animals, or humans. The use of technical equipment and scientific understanding to manipulate DNA overrides the natural process of evolution, making this scientific advancement controversial. This informative volume explores what genetic engineering consists of and provides a balanced overview about the controversies that surround the practice.

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Greenhaven Publishing LLC

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1420501488

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9781420501483

Gay Rights

By: Tina Kafka

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Gay Rights

By: Tina Kafka

Gay rights promote equality in all areas of life, including marriage and protection in the workplace. According to Gallup, 4.1 percent of Americans identify as LGBT, with growth highest in women, millennial, Hispanic, and Asian populations. Nearly 71,000 LGBT people currently serve in the armed forces, and 6 percent of children in foster care are being raised by LGBT people. This book provides thorough and balanced information on the topic of gay rights. Its visually appealing presentation and compelling examples provide context. Readers will be inspired to think critically about gay rights and the ways in which current legislation and debate impact their peers and community.

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106

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Greenhaven Publishing LLC

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1590186370

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America's Darwin

Darwinian Theory and U.S. Literary Culture

By: Tina Gianquitto

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America's Darwin

Darwinian Theory and U.S. Literary Culture

By: Tina Gianquitto

While much has been written about the impact of Darwin's theories on U.S. culture, and countless scholarly collections have been devoted to the science of evolution, few have addressed the specific details of Darwin's theories as a cultural force affecting U.S. writers. America's Darwin fills this gap and features a range of critical approaches that examine U.S. textual responses to Darwin's works. The scholars in this collection represent a range of disciplines--literature, history of science, women's studies, geology, biology, entomology, and anthropology. All pay close attention to the specific forms that Darwinian evolution took in the United States, engaging not only with Darwin's most famous works, such as On the Origin of Species, but also with less familiar works, such as The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. Each contributor considers distinctive social, cultural, and intellectual conditions that affected the reception and dissemination of evolutionary thought, from before the publication of On the Origin of Species to the early years of the twenty-first century. These essays engage with the specific details and language of a wide selection of Darwin's texts, treating his writings as primary sources essential to comprehending the impact of Darwinian language on American writers and thinkers. This careful engagement with the texts of evolution enables us to see the broad points of its acceptance and adoption in the American scene; this approach also highlights the ways in which writers, reformers, and others reconfigured Darwinian language to suit their individual purposes. America's Darwin demonstrates the many ways in which writers and others fit themselves to a narrative of evolution whose dominant motifs are contingency and uncertainty. Collectively, the authors make the compelling case that the interpretation of evolutionary theory in the U.S. has always shifted in relation to prevailing cultural anxieties.

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408

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University of Georgia Press

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082034690X

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9780820346908

Ethics of Eros

Irigaray's Re-writing of the Philosophers

By: Tina Chanter

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Ethics of Eros

Irigaray's Re-writing of the Philosophers

By: Tina Chanter

Ethics of Eros sheds light on contemporary feminist discourse by questioning the basic distinctions and categories in feminist theory. Tina Chanter uses the work of Luce Irigaray as the focus for a critique of French and Anglo-American feminism as it is articulated in the debate over essentialism. While these two branches of feminism represent opposing views, Chanter advocates a productive exchange between the two.

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374

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Routledge

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1134712251

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9781134712250

Transcending Dystopia

Music, Mobility, and the Jewish Community in Germany, 1945-1989

By: Tina Frühauf

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Transcending Dystopia

Music, Mobility, and the Jewish Community in Germany, 1945-1989

By: Tina Frühauf

Transcending Dystopia features pioneering research on the role music played in its various connections to and contexts of Jewish communal life and cultural activity in Germany from 1945 to 1989. As the first history of the Jewish communities' musical practices during the postwar and Cold War eras, it tells the story of how the traumatic experience of the Holocaust led to transitions and transformations, and the significance of music in these processes. As such, it relies on music to draw together three areas of inquiry: the Jewish community, the postwar Germanys and their politics after the Holocaust (occupied Germany, the Federal Republic, the Democratic Republic, and divided Berlin), and on the concept of cultural mobility. Indeed, the musical practices of the Jewish communities in the postwar Germanys cannot be divorced from politics as can be observed in their relations to Israel and United States. On the grounds of these conceptual concerns, selective communities serve as case studies to provide a kaleidoscopic panorama of musical practices in worship and in social life. Within these pillars, the chapters in this volume cover a wide spectrum of topics from music during commemorations, on the radio and in Jewish newspapers to synagogue concerts and community events; from the absence and presence of cantor and organ to the resurgence of choral music. What binds these topics tightly together is the specific theoretical inquiry of mobility. Interdisciplinary in scope and method, the book builds on recent scholarship in Cold War studies, cultural history, German studies, Holocaust studies, and Jewish studies"--

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645

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Oxford University Press

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0197532977

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9780197532973

Looking Together at Student Work, Third Edition

By: Tina Blythe,David Allen,Barbara Schieffelin Powell

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Looking Together at Student Work, Third Edition

By: Tina Blythe,David Allen,Barbara Schieffelin Powell

This bestseller provides teachers and administrators with strategies for examining and discussing student work, such as essays, math problems, projects, artwork, and more. New for the Third Edition: The Microlab Protocol, a relatively quick and easy way to introduce groups to protocol-guided conversation; a new case focused on understanding the Common Core; and more detailed notes and strategies for facilitators. Tina Blythe develops and facilitates online professional development courses for Harvard Project Zero and consults for schools, districts, and organizations both nationally and internationally. David Allen is an assistant professor at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York. Barbara Schieffelin Powell is a national and international educational consultant in curriculum development, teacher education, and evaluation.

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Teachers College Press

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0807756466

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9780807756461

Translated People,Translated Texts

By: Tina Steiner

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Translated People,Translated Texts

By: Tina Steiner

Translated People, Translated Texts examines contemporary migration narratives by four African writers who live in the diaspora and write in English: Leila Aboulela and Jamal Mahjoub from the Sudan, now living in Scotland and Spain respectively, and Abdulrazak Gurnah and Moyez G. Vassanji from Tanzania, now residing in the UK and Canada. Focusing on how language operates in relation to both culture and identity, Steiner foregrounds the complexities of migration as cultural translation. Cultural translation is a concept which locates itself in postcolonial literary theory as well as translation studies. The manipulation of English in such a way as to signify translated experience is crucial in this regard. The study focuses on a particular angle on cultural translation for each writer under discussion: translation of Islam and the strategic use of nostalgia in Leila Aboulela's texts; translation and the production of scholarly knowledge in Jamal Mahjoub's novels; translation and storytelling in Abdulrazak Gurnah's fiction; and translation between the individual and old and new communities in Vassanji's work. Translated People, Translated Texts makes a significant contribution to our understanding of migration as a common condition of the postcolonial world and offers a welcome insight into particular travellers and their unique translations.

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189

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Routledge

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1317641523

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9781317641520

The Haunted Land

Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

By: Tina Rosenberg

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The Haunted Land

Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

By: Tina Rosenberg

The Pulitzer Prize-winning look at the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe

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465

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Vintage

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0307773582

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9780307773586

Community Courts and Postcolonial Legal Pluralism

Criminal Justice in Mozambique

By: Tina Lorizzo

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Community Courts and Postcolonial Legal Pluralism

Criminal Justice in Mozambique

By: Tina Lorizzo

By focusing on the role of community courts in Mozambique, this book offers a postcolonial perspective on legal pluralism. In Mozambique, judicial courts are distant and expensive, and legal terminology is incomprehensible to the majority of people. As such, Mozambicans continue to rely on different normative systems to resolve their disputes – systems that have always been considered to be closer, cheaper and faster than judicial courts. This book analyses the functioning of community courts in the Mozambican capital city of Maputo. As it considers how the past shapes the relationship of the state with community courts, the book uncovers the Eurocentrism of mainstream discourses and practices of criminal justice. In response, it develops a postcolonial account of legal pluralism. By arguing that community courts can therefore be seen as the form of an otherwise neglected local knowledge, the book discusses their overlooked importance in improving widespread access to criminal justice. This book will be of value to scholars working in the areas of legal pluralism and postcolonialism and others with interest in criminal justice.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040011063

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9781040011065

Modems for Dummies

By: Tina Rathbone

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Modems for Dummies

By: Tina Rathbone

Beginning to intermediate users. Shows DOS, Windows and Macintosh users how to choose, install and use modems and modem software.

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For Dummies

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1568840012

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9781568840017

The Meaning of Life

According to the Great and the Good

By: Richard Kinnier,Jerry Kernes,Nancy Tribbensee,Tina Van Puymbroeck

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The Meaning of Life

According to the Great and the Good

By: Richard Kinnier,Jerry Kernes,Nancy Tribbensee,Tina Van Puymbroeck

Since ancient times people have questioned the meaning of life. It has been a source of inspiration and motivation, frustration and puzzlement. Some have dedicated their lives to seeking an answer, others have dismissed it as an impossible quest. Some look inwards, believing that the meaning of life is to seek happiness, self-fulfilment or wisdom. Others look beyond themselves, hoping to contribute to society and help others. Some believe life is about serving God, others think it is just a joke. A few conclude that life has no meaning at all. Profound and thought-provoking, light-hearted and witty, here are 250 quotations from eminent people, expressing their thoughts on the eternal question.

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Palazzo

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0954510372

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9780954510374

Poverty

By: Tina Kafka

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Poverty

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Cloning

By: Tina Kafka

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Cloning

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1420502522

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Charting Your Course

By: Franz Kafka,Tina Kafka

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Charting Your Course

By: Franz Kafka,Tina Kafka

Charting Your Course is an Instruction text covering Geography, Science, and Design and Technology themes for Year 4. It is part of Four Corners, the most visually compelling series of cross-curricular books to motivate all readers from 4 to 11.

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Poverty

Poverty

Cloning

Cloning

Genetic Engineering

Genetic Engineering

Gay Rights

Gay Rights

America's Darwin

America's Darwin

Ethics of Eros

Ethics of Eros

Transcending Dystopia

Transcending Dystopia

Looking Together at Student Work, Third Edition

Looking Together at Student Work, Third Edition

Translated People,Translated Texts

Translated People,Translated Texts

The Haunted Land

The Haunted Land

Community Courts and Postcolonial Legal Pluralism

Community Courts and Postcolonial Legal Pluralism

Modems for Dummies

Modems for Dummies

The Meaning of Life

The Meaning of Life

Poverty

Poverty

Cloning

Cloning

Charting Your Course

Charting Your Course

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