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Trauma-informed approaches are increasingly common in psychological services for survivors of intimate partner violence, but Taft, Murphy, and Creech here present evidence indicating that trauma-infor
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Focusing on news stories in the Nigerian press from 1996 to 2002--years in which the military dictatorship was at its height and a democratic government began--this study uses pragmatics and critical
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Expanding on and integrating his previous writings on the Russian-German composer and folklorist Georg von Albrecht (1891-1976) Antokoletz (musicology, U. of Texas at Austin) offers musical analysis a
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