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A Comprehensive Approach to Caring for Mother and ChildThis book provides a first in-depth, comprehensive, and evidenced-based overview of the treatment of substance use disorders in the pregnant patient. It provides readers with materials that will not only aid them in identifying, assessing, and understanding the issues involved in treating these...

The fifth edition of Ewan McKendrick's Contract Law: Text, Cases, and Materials provides a complete guide to the subject in a single volume, containing everything needed for the study of contract law at undergraduate level. Written by an experienced author and leading authority in the field, this is a popular text with students and lecturers...

The Justification and Enforcement of Socio-economic RightsThis book addresses the pressing issue of severe poverty and inequality, and asks why violations of socio-economic rights are treated with less urgency than civil and political rights? It provides a sustained argument for placing renewed focus on socio-economic rights as a method of ensuring...

Continuity and Change in the Vocabulary of Feeling 1700-2000Emotions are as old as humankind. But what do we know about them and what importance do we assign to them? Emotional Lexicons is the first cultural history of terms of emotion found in German, French, and English language encyclopaedias since the late seventeenth century. Insofar as these...

North Carolina&'s state constitution charts the evolution over two centuries of a modern representative democracy. In The North Carolina State Constitution, John V. Orth provides an outstanding constitutional and historical account of the state&'s governing charter. In addition to an overview of North Carolina&'s constitutional history, it provides...

The Perils of FlexibilityFlexibility is usually seen as a virtue in today&'s world. Even the dictionary seems to dislike those who stick too hard to their own positions. The thesaurus links "e;intransigence"e; to a whole host of words signifying a distaste for loyalty to fixed positions: intractable, stubborn, Pharisaic, close-minded, and...