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Product Description: Abortion is one of the most compelling public policy issues facing government and the public in the United States today. Most societies have enacted laws and statutes regarding abortion, and most societies have strong feelings regarding birth control and abortion...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780275960605 | Praeger Pub Text, September 1, 1998, cover price $72.00

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9780275960612 | Praeger Pub Text, September 30, 1998, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Abortion is one of the most compelling public policy issues facing government and the public in the United States today.

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Product Description: For over thirty years, Rita J. Simon and Howard Altstein have been studying transracial and intercountry adoptions. The families they have studied include white parents; African American, Hispanic, and Korean children; and Jewish Stars of David families, among others...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780847698325 | Univ Pr of Amer, February 1, 2000, cover price $98.00 | About this edition: For over thirty years, Rita J.

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9780847698332 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, February 1, 2000, cover price $36.00 | About this edition: For over thirty years, Rita J.

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Product Description: Adoption, Race, and Identity examines the innovative placement of nonwhite (predominantly black) adoptees with white parents. In addition to reviewing recent court decisions involving race as a factor in child custody, authors Rita Simon and Howard Altstein examine the research to date on this topic, including adoption policy and practice as carried out by some adoption agencies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780275937485 | Praeger Pub Text, January 1, 1992, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: Adoption, Race, and Identity examines the innovative placement of nonwhite (predominantly black) adoptees with white parents.

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8 essays written by leaders of social and political movements such as Earl Browder and Norman Thomas, originally presented as lectures on the campus of the University of Illinois (in 1966) Bibliographical footnotes

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9780252745331 | Univ of Illinois Pr, June 1, 1967, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: 8 essays written by leaders of social and political movements such as Earl Browder and Norman Thomas, originally presented as lectures on the campus of the University of Illinois (in 1966) Bibliographical footnotes

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9780739103821, titled "A Comparative Analysis of Capital Punishment: Statutes, Policies, Frequencies, and Public Attitudes the World over" | Lexington Books, September 1, 2002, cover price $76.00

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9780739120910, titled "A Comparative Analysis of Capital Punishment: Statutes, Policies, Frequencies, and Public Attitudes the World Over" | Reprint edition (Lexington Books, February 28, 2007), cover price $29.99

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Product Description: In this detailed 1978 study, Professor Rita J. Simon examines two significant ethnic communities in Israel: one of ultra-Orthodox Jews, and the other of Israeli Arabs. The Jews form a tiny but cohesive group with a strong sense of pride in their heritage and values...read more

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9780521293181 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 1, 1978, cover price $24.99 | About this edition: In this detailed 1978 study, Professor Rita J.

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Product Description: In the past thirty years, women and crime has become a major intellectual and professional specialty. The Crimes Women Commit: The Punishments They Receive represents the third edition of Women in Crime, a classic in the field by Rita J...read more

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9780739110072, titled "The Crimes Women Commit: The Punishments They Receive" | 3 edition (Lexington Books, March 15, 2005), cover price $92.00 | About this edition: In the past thirty years, women and crime has become a major intellectual and professional specialty.
9780669202366 | Reprint edition (Lexington Books, October 1, 1990), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In the past thirty years, women and crime has become a major intellectual and professional specialty.

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9780739110089, titled "The Crimes Women Commit: The Punishments They Receive" | 3 edition (Lexington Books, March 15, 2005), cover price $32.99 | About this edition: In the past thirty years, women and crime has become a major intellectual and professional specialty.

By Freda Adler (editor) and Rita James Simon (editor)

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9780395267196 | Houghton Mifflin School, January 1, 1979, cover price $17.50

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Product Description: Sensitive and high-profile public policy issues often benefit from being considered in comparative perspective. Here, euthanasia and the right to die are examined in the context of the social, legal, and religious settings of a wide range of countries...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780847691661 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, February 1, 1999, cover price $89.00 | About this edition: Sensitive and high-profile public policy issues often benefit from being considered in comparative perspective.

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9780847691678 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, February 1, 1999, cover price $35.00

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Product Description: In this fresh new look at current public policy issues, the contributors of this volume describe how data used to shape public policy has been ignored, misinterpreted, denied, or made up to suit particular political purposes. These sharply focused essays examine affirmative action, sexual harassment, domestic violence, and welfare, and show how the relevant data has been subject to misuse by policy makers with radical agendas...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780761805250 | Univ Pr of Amer, June 1, 1996, cover price $51.99 | About this edition: In this fresh new look at current public policy issues, the contributors of this volume describe how data used to shape public policy has been ignored, misinterpreted, denied, or made up to suit particular political purposes.

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Product Description: In this fresh new look at current public policy issues, the contributors of this volume describe how data used to shape public policy has been ignored, misinterpreted, denied, or made up to suit particular political purposes. These sharply focused essays examine affirmative action, sexual harassment, domestic violence, and welfare, and show how the relevant data has been subject to misuse by policy makers with radical agendas...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780761805243 | Univ Pr of Amer, November 1, 1996, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: In this fresh new look at current public policy issues, the contributors of this volume describe how data used to shape public policy has been ignored, misinterpreted, denied, or made up to suit particular political purposes.

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Product Description: In Global Perspectives on Social Issues: Education, Rita J. Simon and Lisa Banks provide a broad perspective on education in twenty countries. This work examines and compares the system of education, literacy rates, enrollment rates, types of public and private schools, years of compulsory education, and the amount of money the government allocates to education in the different societies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780739106754 | Lexington Books, December 1, 2003, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: In Global Perspectives on Social Issues: Education, Rita J.

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Product Description: "On November 20, 1959, the United Nations adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child. The Charter was meant to safeguard the rights of children all over the world, and protect the most vulnerable members of society from mistreatment at the hands of their parents, the government, the military, educational institutions, and any establishment capable of exerting power over children...read more

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9780739107300 | Lexington Books, June 1, 2004, cover price $83.00 | About this edition: "On November 20, 1959, the United Nations adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child.

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Product Description: Pornography is a volatile issue in the United States―depending on the source of opinion, it can be viewed as either demeaning or empowering. Global Perspectives on Social Issues: Pornography asks whether the issue is similarly contentious around the world...read more

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9780739105016 | Lexington Books, February 1, 2003, cover price $76.00 | About this edition: Pornography is a volatile issue in the United States_depending on the source of opinion, it can be viewed as either demeaning or empowering.

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9780739120927 | Reprint edition (Lexington Books, February 28, 2007), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Pornography is a volatile issue in the United States―depending on the source of opinion, it can be viewed as either demeaning or empowering.

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9780739109984 | Lexington Books, June 15, 2005, cover price $91.00

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9780739120880 | Reprint edition (Lexington Books, March 30, 2007), cover price $34.99

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Product Description: The obstacles to assimilation and treatment of immigrant women are major issues confronting the leading immigrant-receiving nations today-the United States, Canada, and Australia. This volume provides a range of perspectives on the concerns, the sources of problems, how issues might be addressed, and the future of immigrant women...read more
By Rita James Simon (editor)

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9780765806482 | Transaction Pub, April 1, 2001, cover price $30.95 | About this edition: The obstacles to assimilation and treatment of immigrant women are major issues confronting the leading immigrant-receiving nations today-the United States, Canada, and Australia.

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Product Description: With the opening of borders and the aging of populations in industrialized states immigration takes on new importance. More younger workers are needed to support the social contract established with the baby boom generation, and immigration offers one practical solution...read more

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9780742518773 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, June 1, 2003, cover price $118.00 | About this edition: With the opening of borders and the aging of populations in industrialized states immigration takes on new importance.

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9780742518780 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, June 1, 2003, cover price $49.00

Hardcover:

9780231118286 | Columbia Univ Pr, June 1, 2000, cover price $75.50

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9780231118293 | Columbia Univ Pr, June 1, 2000, cover price $27.95

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Product Description: No area of criminal law has been the subject of more controversy than the insanity defense. The Insanity Defense is a clear assessment of this issue as it exists in the 1980s. It provides the reader with a basis for understanding and evaluating the legislative and judicial responses to the factors that have stirred this controversy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780275928308 | Praeger Pub Text, June 1, 1988, cover price $88.00 | About this edition: No area of criminal law has been the subject of more controversy than the insanity defense.

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9780275928315 | Praeger Pub Text, June 1, 1988, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: No area of criminal law has been the subject of more controversy than the insanity defense.

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9780316791496 | Aspen Pub, June 1, 1967, cover price $16.00 | also contains Xamarin Mobile Application Development for Ios: If You Know C# and Have an Ios Device, Learn to Use One Language for Multiple Devices With Xamarin

Paperback:

9780765804471, titled "The Jury & the Defense of Insanity" | Transaction Pub, March 1, 1999, cover price $30.95

Hardcover:

9780765800732 | Transaction Pub, February 1, 2002, cover price $45.95

Paperback:

9780765805324 | Transaction Pub, November 1, 2003, cover price $35.95

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