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Consumption in Cold War Eastern EuropeCommunism Unwrapped reveals the complex world of consumption in Cold War Eastern Europe, exploring the ways people shopped, ate, drank, smoked, cooked, acquired, assessed and exchanged goods....

This book provides practicing clinicians with an update on treatments found to be effective in pediatric psychology. It includes details on a number of treatment techniques for different pediatric problems. In addition, its companion website contains entire treatment manuals written by leading researchers in pediatric psychology....

Temperature impacts the behaviour, physiology and ecology of all organisms more than any other abiotic variable. In this book, the author draws on theory from the more general discipline of evolutionary ecology to foster a fresh approach toward a theory of thermal adaptation....

God and Gangs in Central AmericaUsing the tools of sociological theory, Robert Brenneman seeks to discover why a        pot-smoking, gun-wielding "e;homie"e; gang member would want to trade in la vida loca        for a Bible and the buttoned-down lifestyle of an evangelical hermano (brother in        Christ) - and to what extent this...

The night can sweat with terror as beforeWe pieced our thoughts into        philosophy,And planned to bring the world under a rule,Who are but weasels fighting        in a hole.W.B. Yeats, 'Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen'This is a book about how        poetry, seen through the instance of a single poem, seeks to make sense of a        turbulent and...