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This text explains the procedural give-and-take of policy-making for the Medicare and Medicaid programmes and the process in relation to larger political issues. It aims to provide enough information to enable the reader to navigate this policy domain.

Deals with the Reading Research.

Organized around five themes: Multiple Global Issues for Immigrant Children and the Schools They Attend; They Are Here: Newcomers in the Schools; Views and Voices of Immigrant Children; Far from Home With Fluctuating Hopes; and Searching for New Ways to Belong. This work is intended for researchers, students, professionals and policymakers.

Applies evolutionary and cultural theory to the interpretation of prehistoric cultural development in the western hemisphere. This book reviews cultural development in Mesoamerica and the central Andes, and examines adaptation in North and South American regions with similar environments.

How are families the same or different around the world? This book puts the similarities and differences into perspective, presenting an analysis of family life in 17 countries around the world. It describes the types of family patterns within each country's social organization and culture. It is suitable for undergraduate and graduate students.

The disintegration of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s ended the Yugoslavian Federation, which for nearly fifty years had succeeded in preserving a delicate coexistence among the ethnic, religious, and national components contained within it. This book describes and analyzes the growth of radical Islam in the Balkans.

A study of the nomadic peoples of the Mongol Empire from the fifth century BC to the 15th century AD. It covers the early nomadic populations of Eurasia, military fronts of the Altaic Nomads, the nomad conquerors who brought about the Ottoman Empire, and Russia and China after the Mongols.

Presents many topics in the elastin and elastases fields. This work explains elastin, its biosynthesis, physicochemical properties, and alteration in a variety of pathologies and with aging. It also describes elastases, their physiological and pathological roles and their control by natural and synthetic inhibitors.

This is an introduction to the world of plant ecology, aimed primarily at undergrad and graduate students. It includes ideas about plant populations, nutrition and plant community ecology, and has an emphasis on the interactions of plants with animals, fungi and microorganisms. It focuses on the human impact on the world¿s plant species.

In this book Anna Doro-on provides multifaceted components and full practical perspectives of systems engineering and risk management in security and defense operations with a focus on infrastructure and manpower control systems, missile design, space technology, satellites, intercontinental ballistic missile and space security.

As machining processes become more advanced, so does the science behind them. This book emphasizes these scientific developments in addition to the more widely covered technological aspects, providing a full understanding of how machining has adapted to material constraints and moved beyond conventional methods in recent years.

Addresses key issues in electronic materials development and presents practices from academic libraries around the world. This book is helpful to librarians, library administrators, archivists, publishers, and library and information science educators and students. It provides insights on common and special concerns of library administrators.

Covers methodological and statistical issues in designing and analyzing surveys. This handbook provides guidance on collecting survey data and creating meaningful results. It focuses on data collection, from face-to-face interviews, to Internet and interactive voice response, to special challenges involved in mixing these modes within one survey.

This title critically examines Mou Zongsan¿s philosophical system of moral metaphysics on the level of metaphysics and history philosophy, which combines Confucianism and Kantianism philosophy.

The Routledge Handbook of Social Change provides an interdisciplinary primer to the intellectual approaches that hold the key to understanding the complexity of social change in the twenty-first century.

This volume is about the people and the movements which created the Byzantine Revival and shows how they influenced British heritage from architecture to the decorative arts during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.