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The Seattle Longitudinal StudyIn this second edition of Developmental Influences on Adult Intelligence, K. Warner Schaie presents the history, latest data, and results from the Seattle Longitudinal Study (SLS). The purpose of the SLS is to study various aspects of psychological development during the adult years. Virtually all of the content from...

How Health, Family, and Employment Laws Spread Across CountriesBenchmarks from Abroad argues that laws spread around the world not through elite networks of technocrats, but through domestic democracy. It combines public opinion experiments, election campaign data, legislative debates, and policy adoption patterns to document how international...

The Jesus People Movement in AmericaThe Jesus People were an unlikely combination of evangelical Christianity and the hippie counterculture. God&'s Forever Family is the first major examination of this phenomenon in over thirty years. It shows that the Jesus People not only helped create a new, engaged evangelical relationship to youth and popular...

Jews and Christians Who Defied the Nazi TerrorIn this careful study of Jewish and non-Jewish resistance during World War II, Holocaust scholar Tec Nechama argues that Jews were not passive or submissive in the face of German oppression, but that their efforts had different aims and expressions than those of their non-Jewish counterparts....

The true history of a dark fantasyA quirky history that offers a new way of understanding the myth of the mummy's curse. Roger Luckhurst provides a startling path through the cultural history of Victorian England and its colonial possessions....

Practical and portable, this Handbook brings together all relevant legislation, powers, and procedures for those concerned with security and crime prevention at all UK ports and borders. It offers clear and detailed explanations of strategy and operational guidance, as well as the legislation itself, compiled by the PNLD....