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    Series series Interdisciplinary Disability Studies
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  • The Logic of Care

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  • Nature is Awesome

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    One Tiny Vermont Town's Secret to Happiness and Excellence

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    International Research, Policy and Practice

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    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book challenges and revises existing ways of thinking about leaving care policy, practice and research at regional, national and international levels. Bringing together contributors from fifteen countries, it covers a range of topical policy and practice issues within national, international or comparative contexts. These include youth justice, disability, access to higher education, the role ... Leer más

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  • American Child Bride

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