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This book provides an overview of forensic child and adolescent mental health, and how these factors relate to offending behaviour. Written for practitioners and policymakers, it will help professionals across health, education, social care and juvenile justice to understand the needs of young offenders and how to effectively intervene.

A fascinating portrait of Beryl Bainbridge and a brilliant evocation of life in London in the 1960s and beyond.

Within forty years of the end of the Second World War, Japan was transformed from a nation in defeat to one of the most successful economic forces in the world. In this book, Paul Bailey draws on the most recent research to analyse the significance of the American Occupation (1945-52) as well as the later political, social and economic factors that contributed to postwar recovery.

This overview of twentieth-century history in China tells the story of a fascinating country undergoing political revolutions and social and cultural upheaval.

Written with a gentle, effortless generosity, full of delicate observation, "Chapman's Odyssey" is the work of a master, a superbly rendered act of storytelling and ventriloquism that is stinging, witty, deeply moving, and explores the nature of love.

This unique reader examines a broad sample of campaigns and gives students a real flavor of campaign politics by including some of the most interesting, colorful, and surprising races. Combining on-the-ground accounts with links to scholarship, the nineteen case studies drawn from Campaigns and Elections magazine take students behind the scenes to unveil the strategies, techniques, and personalities that drive contemporary campaigns. National,...

Paul J. Bailey provides the first analytical study in English of Chinese women's experiences during China's turbulent twentieth century. Incorporating the very latest specialized research, and drawing upon Chinese cinema and autobiographical memoirs, this fascinating narrative account:• explores the impact of political, social and cultural change on women's lives, and how Chinese women responded to such developments• charts the evolution of ge...

Excerpt from The Control of Floods by Reservoirs Bul.17 - The Coordinated Plan of Water Development in Southern California. Other bulletins pertaining to these investigations published prior to the 1927 report are: Bul. 4 - Water Resources of California. (a report to the Legislature of 1923 on the first two years of investiga tion.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ...

In May 1927, nineteen-year-old Dinu Grigorescu, a skinny boy with literary ambitions, is newly arrived in Paris. He has been sent from Bucharest, the city of his childhood, by his wealthy father to embark upon a bohemian adventure and relish the unique pleasures of Parisian life. An innocent in a new city, still grieving the sudden loss of his beloved mother Elena seven years earlier, Dinu is encouraged to enjoy la vie de Bohème by his distant...

Creative Thinking: Relationship Advice" is a book that focuses on innovative ways to foster positive relationships with persons. It is not a text that focuses on the intimate relationship but has a more general take on things and focuses on working with a team. The book highlights how a negative attitude can lead to others having a negative attitude as well. In the long run it take an adjustment of the thought process and a more positive o...

Creative Thinking: How to Come Up With Unique Activities" gives the reader the opportunity to learn all that they need to with regards to learning how to do things in new and innovative ways that are not only unique but quite effective as well. In a society where the competition is rather intense, the most creative individual will tend to be noticed much more quickly. The book takes a look at the spiritual side of things as well. It shows ...

A lot of persons are stuck in a specific method of thinking. As a result of this, they are not able to think creatively and find new and innovative ways to do things or to present certain ideas. "Creative Thinking: Finding Solutions "Out Of the Box" allows the reader to learn how to break out of that mould and to wake up that creative side of their mind. Nowadays the individual that is the most creative tends to get the job or promotion that e...

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Excerpt from The Development of the Upper Sacramento River: An Appendix to the Summary Report to the Legislature of 1927 on the Water Resources of California and a Coordinated Plan for Their Development This bulletin is one of a series appended to the "Summary Report on the Water Resources of California and a Coordinated Plan for their Development" that was presented to the Legislature of 1927. It is part of the investigation of the water res...

U.S. aid to the Palestinians is intended to forward at least three major U.S. policy priorities of interest to Congress: 1) combating, neutralising, and preventing terrorism against Israel from the Islamist group Hamas and other militant organisations, 2) creating a virtuous cycle of stability and prosperity in the West Bank that inclines Palestinians, including those in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, towards peaceful coexistence with Israel...

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A masterful new novel from the author of Peter Smart's Confessions and Gabriel's Lament, both shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction.

This collection of essays by Ma Jianzhong, a close adviser to the powerful Qing government official Li Hong-zhang between 1878 and 1890, add to the late nineteenth-century Chinese discourse on the state and the economy, and provides a deeper understanding of the origins and circulation of reform ideas in the late Qing.

Excerpt from Summary Report on the Water Resources of California and a Coordinated Plan for Their Development: A Report to the Legislature of 1927The first appropriation for these investigations was made by the Legislature of 1921, Chapter 889 of the 1921 Statutes, in the amount of This resulted in the publication of bulletins Nos. 4, 5, and 6. These contain a complete inventory of all the waters within the state's boundaries, an estimate of t...