A comprehensive history of the landmark New York Botanical Garden in the heart of New York City explores the institution's extraordinary collections of plants in three hundred illustrations, including
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Latin America's Multicultural Movements is a collection of empirically-based chapters that advance debates over the struggle between communitarianism, autonomy, and human rights. Assembling some of t
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When can contexts and diversity be resources, rather than risks, for children's developmental pathways? Scholars, policy makers, and practitioners increasingly realize that middle childhood matters as
Thoroughly illustrated, this second edition reference provides the primary care physician with detailed information on the most commonly encountered clinical situations and the most frequently asked
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