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Adam

Adam

Ariel Schrag

When Adam Freedman — a skinny, awkward, inexperienced teenager from Piedmont, California — goes to stay with his older sister Casey in New York City, he is hopeful that his life is about to change.
Adam

Adam

Ariel Schrag

During the summer of 2006, California high school student Adam Freedman is sent to stay with his older sister Casey in New York City where she introduces him to a wild, lesbian subculture complete with underground clubs, drinking and a new ...
Final Test: The Battle for Adequacy in America's Schools

Final Test: The Battle for Adequacy in America's Schools

Peter Schrag

While Schrag explains the legal and legislative battles for reform with great insight and clarity, he also never loses sight of the human side of the story, "describing in poignant detail the impact of funding inequities on individual ...
Ariel

Ariel

Steven R. Boyett

Steven R. Boyett. My eyes snapped open. The lopsided waning moon shone down on Ariel, from whom I'd rolled a few feet during the night. The lumpy shape of George in his sleeping bag snored lightly six feet away, on the other side of Ariel.
Not Fit for Our Society: Nativism and Immigration

Not Fit for Our Society: Nativism and Immigration

Peter Schrag

It is the right book at the right time."-Mark Paul, New America Foundation "History's lessons come through loud and clear as Peter Schrag vividly recounts the characters and the ideas behind that side of America that rejects immigration.
It Could Be Worse, You Could Be Me: The Cassandra Chronicles

It Could Be Worse, You Could Be Me: The Cassandra Chronicles

Ariel Levy

Hypochondriac, neurotic and a habitual worrier, Ariel Leve has always looked on the blighted side of life.
Ariel

Ariel

Lawrence Block

And her adopted daughter, Ariel, leaves her cold. Now that she has given birth to a son she feels even more alienated from the girl. Is her imagination getting the best of her, or does the strange child know more than she lets on?
Virtual Competition

Virtual Competition

Ariel Ezrachi

Ariel Ezrachi and Maurice Stucke take a hard look at today’s app-assisted paradise of digital shopping.
Virtual Competition

Virtual Competition

Ariel Ezrachi

Ariel Ezrachi and Maurice Stucke take a hard look at today’s app-assisted paradise of digital shopping.
Elliptic Partial Differential Equations with Almost-Real ...

Elliptic Partial Differential Equations with Almost-Real ...

Ariel Barton

Number 1051 Elliptic Partial Differential Equations with Almost-Real Coefficients Ariel Barton May 2013 • Volume 223 • Number 1051 (fifth of 5 numbers) • ISSN 0065-9266 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Barton, Ariel, ...
Do Workers in the Informal Sector Benefit from Cuts in the ...

Do Workers in the Informal Sector Benefit from Cuts in the ...

Ariel Fiszbein

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Knowing Southeast Asian Subjects

Knowing Southeast Asian Subjects

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Two scholars who eventually relocated to Australia, for similar reasons, are Arief Budiman and Ariel Heryanto. See Ariel Heryanto, “Public Intellectuals, Media, and Democratization: Cultural Politics of the Middle Classes in Indonesia,” in ...
Female Chauvinist Pigs: Woman and the Rise of Raunch Culture

Female Chauvinist Pigs: Woman and the Rise of Raunch Culture

Ariel Levy

This is a world where simulating sex for baying crowds of men on shows like Girls Gone Wild and going to lapdancing clubs - as patrons - is seen as a short cut to cool. Ariel Levy says the joke's on the women if they think this is progress.
Ariel

Ariel

José Enrique Rodó

"May the genius of Uruguay which produced Ariel guide our thoughts." Thus spoke President Otto Arosemena of Ecuador in his keynote address to the Conference of American Presidents in Punta del Este, Uruguay, in April 1967. As U.S. chief ...
Water Pricing Experiences and Innovations

Water Pricing Experiences and Innovations

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Ariel Dinar, Víctor Pochat, José Albiac-Murillo. Volume 9 Editor-in-chief Ariel Dinar Series editors José Albiac-Murillo Stefano Farolfi Rathinasamy Maria Saleth José Albiac-Murillo Editors Water Pricing Experiences and Innovations Ariel Dinar ...
Test of Loyalty

Test of Loyalty

Peter Schrag

Contains primary source material.
Water Allocation Mechanisms: Principles and Examples

Water Allocation Mechanisms: Principles and Examples

Ariel Dinar

Principles and Examples Ariel Dinar, Mark W. Rosegrant, Ruth Suseela Meinzen- Dick. Furthermore, most implementing agencies dealing with water resources have only sectoral responsibility (e.g. to deal with irrigation or drinking water or ...
Bridges Over Water: Understanding Transboundary Water ...

Bridges Over Water: Understanding Transboundary Water ...

Ariel Dinar

Understanding Transboundary Water Conflict, Negotiation and Cooperation Second Ariel Dinar, Shlomi Dinar, Stephen McCaffrey, Daene McKinney. World Scientific Series on Energy and Resource Economics (ISSN: 1793-4184) Published ...
The World Bank Research Program 2004: Abstracts of Current ...

The World Bank Research Program 2004: Abstracts of Current ...

World Bank

Fiszbein, Ariel, and Paula Ines Giovagnoli. 2004. “Hambre en la Argentina.” Desarrollo Económico 43(172): 637–56. Fiszbein, Ariel, Paula Ines Giovagnoli, and Isidro Aduriz. 2003. “The Argentine Crisis and Its Impact on Household Welfare.
World Bank Research Program: abstracts of current studies

World Bank Research Program: abstracts of current studies

World Bank

Fiszbein, Ariel, and Paula Ines Giovagnoli. 2004. "Hambre en la Argentina." Desarrollo Econdmico 43(172): 637-56. Fiszbein, Ariel, Paula Ines Giovagnoli, and Isidro Aduriz. 2003. "The Argentine Crisis and Its Impact on Household Welfare.
California: America's High-stakes Experiment

California: America's High-stakes Experiment

Peter Schrag

This book analyzes a variety of possible state and federal policy alternatives to restore accountable government.
The World Bank Research Program 2004: Abstracts of Current ...

The World Bank Research Program 2004: Abstracts of Current ...

World Bank

Fiszbein, Ariel, and Paula Ines Giovagnoli. 2004. "Hambre en la Argentina." Desarrollo Econdmico 43(172): 637-56. Fiszbein, Ariel, Paula Ines Giovagnoli, and Isidro Aduriz. 2003. "The Argentine Crisis and Its Impact on Household Welfare.
The Suppressed History of America: The Murder of Meriwether ...

The Suppressed History of America: The Murder of Meriwether ...

Paul Schrag

An investigation into the discoveries of Lewis and Clark and other early explorers of America and the terrible acts committed to suppress them • Provides archaeological proof of giants, the fountain of youth, and descriptions from ...
California: America's High-Stakes Experiment

California: America's High-Stakes Experiment

Peter Schrag

1 THE NEW CALIFORNIA No one will ever know what particular event did it — maybe the birth of a Latino boy or a Korean girl or the arrival of an immigrant — but sometime in the fall of 1 999 the statistical counter clicked and forever changed ...
Essays on Labor Markets and Income Inequality in Less ...

Essays on Labor Markets and Income Inequality in Less ...

Ariel Fiszbein

Ariel Fiszbein. (a4! (.6% //AIN ESSAYS ON LABOR MARKETS AND INCOME INEQUALITY ESSAYS ON LABOR MARKETS AND INCOME INEQUALITY IN LESS DEVELOPED. IN LESS DEVELOPED COUNTRIES COPYRIGHT © 1991 by ...

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