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The Seven Cries of Today's Teens : Hearing Their Hearts; Making the Connection.
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ISBN: 1418573876 9781418573874 Year: 2003 Publisher: Nashville : Thomas Nelson Incorporated,

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Extensive Gallup research offers a unique glimpse inside the heads and hearts of today's teens. A must-have for parents, youth workers, and teachers.


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Simple Solutions for Families in the Fast Lane
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ISBN: 144121223X Year: 2010 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] Revell

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This book offers helpful solutions to families that are missing out on togetherness because of overscheduling.

France in crisis : welfare, inequality, and globalization since 1980
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ISBN: 0521605202 0521844142 110716382X 0511265476 0511266197 051131776X 0511617585 1280750200 0511263945 0511264771 9780511617584 9780511266195 9780511263941 9780511264771 9780511265471 9780521844147 9781280750205 9780521605205 Year: 2004 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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France is in crisis. In this provocative account, Timothy Smith argues that the French economic and social model is collapsing inward on itself, the result of good intentions, bad policies, and vested interests who employ the rhetoric of 'solidarity' to prevent change. French social policy is not redistributive; indeed, Smith argues, the majority of 'social' spending serves to strengthen existing inequalities. He shows how politicians, intellectuals and labor leaders have invoked the specter of 'globalization' to explain homegrown problems and delay reform. Professor Smith makes frequent comparisons with the USA, UK, Canada, Scandinavia, Germany and the Netherlands and argues that change need not follow the inegalitarian US or British paths but instead can lead to a more equal society. Written in a lively style, this is an unusual blend of history, policy analysis, economics and political commentary and will be indispensable reading for anyone seeking to understand France's malaise.

Creating the welfare state in France, 1880-1940
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ISBN: 128286064X 9786612860645 0773570438 9780773570436 0773524096 9780773524095 6612860642 Year: 2003 Publisher: Montreal, Que. McGill-Queen's University Press

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Smith shows that France's most important social legislation to date - providing medical insurance, maternity benefits, modest pensions, and disability benefits to millions of people - was passed in 1928 (and amended and put into practice in 1930). This law, misrepresented in textbooks as being an utter failure, covered over 50 percent of the population by 1940. Few other nations could have claimed this sort of social insurance success. As well, by 1937 the centuries-old public assistance residency requirements had been transferred from the local to the departmental (regional) level. France's success in introducing important social reforms may require us to rethink - or at least modify - the common view of interwar France as a time of utter political, economic, and social failure.


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How big is big and how small is small
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ISBN: 0191503185 9780191503184 9780199681198 1299833012 9781299833012 0191503193 Year: 2013 Publisher: Oxford, United Kingdom

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This book is about how big is the universe and how small are quarks, and what are the sizes of dozens of things between these two extremes. It describes the sizes of atoms and planets, quarks and galaxies, cells and sequoias. It is a romp through forty-five orders of magnitude from the smallest sub-nuclear particles we have measured, to the edge of the observed universe. It also looks at time, from the epic age of the cosmos to the fleeting lifetimes of ethereal particles. It is a narrative that trips its way from stellar magnitudes to the clocks on GPS satellites, from the nearly logarithmic scales of a piano keyboard through a system of numbers invented by Archimedes and on to the measurement of the size of an atom --

Napoleon and his artists
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ISBN: 0094761108 Year: 1996 Publisher: London Constable

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Caravaggio
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ISBN: 0714834858 Year: 2005 Publisher: London Phaidon

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Painting --- schilderkunst --- Caravaggio


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Revivalism and social reform in mid-nineteenth-century America. : Chapters I-XI and XIV comprise the Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer prize essay for 1955, the American Society of Church History
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Year: 1957 Publisher: New York : Abingdon Press,

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The decision was always my own
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ISBN: 0809336677 9780809336678 9780809336661 0809336669 Year: 2018 Publisher: Carbondale

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