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Taylor & Francis Ltd Measure for Measure Manifesto A Manifesto for Empirical Sociology International Library of Sociology Paperback
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Taylor & Francis Ltd North Korean Reform
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Taylor & Francis Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reforms
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Society and Trade in South Arabia Variorum Collected Studies
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Cambridge University Press Climate Variability Climate Change and Social Vulnerability in the SemiArid Tropics
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Cambridge University Press Corporations Crime and Accountability
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Cambridge University Press Bioethics in a Liberal Society
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Cambridge University Press Corporations Crime and Accountability Theories of Institutional Design
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Cambridge University Press Philosophy of the Social Sciences Philosophical Theory and Scientific Practice
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Cambridge University Press A Concise Introduction to Econometrics
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Rawls
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Cambridge University Press Philosophy of the Social Sciences Philosophical Theory and Scientific Practice
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Cambridge University Press Child Murder and British Culture 17201900
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Cambridge University Press Approaches and Methodologies in the Social Sciences A Pluralist Perspective
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Cambridge University Press Apocalypse without God
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Cambridge University Press Machine Learning for Experiments in the Social Sciences
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Cambridge University Press Making Democracy Safe for Business
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Cambridge University Press Enhancing Public Innovation by Transforming Public Governance
Book SynopsisRising and changing citizen expectations, dire fiscal constraints, unfulfilled political aspirations, high professional ambitions, and a growing number of stubborn societal problems have generated an increasing demand for innovation of public policies and services. Drawing on the latest research, this book examines how current systems of public governance can be transformed in order to enhance public innovation. It scrutinizes the need for new roles and public sector reforms, and analyzes how the gradual transition towards New Public Governance can stimulate the exploration and exploitation of new and bold ideas in the public sector. It argues that the key to public innovation lies in combining and balancing elements from Classic Public Administration, New Public Management and New Public Governance, and theorizes how it can be enhanced by multi-actor collaboration for the benefit of public officials, private stakeholders, citizens, and society at large.Table of Contents1. Enhancing public innovation by transforming public governance? Jacob Torfing and Peter Triantafillou; 2. Collaborative governance as creative problem-solving Chris Ansell; 3. The New Public Governance and innovation in public services: a public service-dominant approach Stephen P. Osborne and Zoe Radnor; 4. Public innovations around the world Jacob Torfing and Peter Triantafillou; 5. Organizational and governance aspects of diffusing public innovation Jean Hartley; 6. Collaborative innovation in the public sector Eva Sørensen and Jacob Torfing; 7. Public managers and professionals in collaborative innovation Victor Bekkers and Mirko Noordegraaf; 8. Bringing the resources of citizens into public governance: innovation through co-production to improve public services and outcomes Tony Bovaird and Elke Loeffler; 9. The role of elected politicians in collaborative policy innovation Eva Sørensen; 10. The role of private actors in public sector innovation Ole Helby Petersen, Veiko Lember, Walter Scherrer and Robert Ågren; 11. Public innovation and organizational structure: searching in vain for the optimal design Mads Leth Felsager Jakobsen and Claus Thrane; 12. Can command and incentive systems enhance motivation and public innovation? Lotte Bøgh Andersen; 13. Administrative leadership for innovation Montgomery Van Wart; 14. Thinking allowed: reforming indicator-based accountability to enhance innovation Wouter Van Dooren and Tom Willems; 15. Organizational innovations and multiple forms of accountability in the post-New Public Management era Tom Christensen and Per Lægreid; 16. Can public governance be changed to enhance innovation? B. Guy Peters; 17. Conclusion: governing innovation and innovating governance Jacob Torfing and Peter Triantafillou.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Freud Inventor of the Modern Mind
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc High Price
Book SynopsisHigh Price is the harrowing and inspiring memoir of neuroscientist Carl Hart, a leading researcher in the field of drug addiction, who grew up in one of Miami’s toughest neighborhoods and, determined to make a difference as an adult, tirelessly applies his scientific training to help save real lives.WINNER OF THE PEN/E. O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD Young Carl didn''t see the value of school, studying just enough to keep him on the basketball team. Today, he is a cutting-edge neuroscientist—Columbia University’s first tenured African American professor in the sciences—whose landmark, controversial research is redefining our understanding of addiction.In this provocative and eye-opening memoir, Dr. Carl Hart recalls his journey of self-discovery, how he escaped a life of crime and drugs and avoided becoming one of the crack addicts he now studies. Interweaving past and present, Hart goes be
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Labyrinths
Book Synopsis A sensational, eye-opening account of Emma Jung’s complex marriage to Carl Gustav Jung and the hitherto unknown role she played in the early years of the psychoanalytic movement.Clever and ambitious, Emma Jung yearned to study the natural sciences at the University of Zurich. But the strict rules of proper Swiss society at the beginning of the twentieth century dictated that a woman of Emma’s stature—one of the richest heiresses in Switzerland—travel to Paris to finish her education, to prepare for marriage to a suitable man. Engaged to the son of one of her father’s wealthy business colleagues, Emma’s conventional and predictable life was upended when she met Carl Jung. The son of a penniless pastor working as an assistant physician in an insane asylum, Jung dazzled Emma with his intelligence, confidence, and good looks. More important, he offered her freedom from the confines of a traditional haute-bourgeois life. But Emma di
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Our Tarot
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Power Moms How Executive Mothers Navigate Work
Book SynopsisTrade Review”Power Moms releases us working mothers from the guilt of outdated roles and unrealistic expectations. Most important, Lublin empowers us with the stories of incredible female leaders.” — Sarah Alter, CEO and president of Network of Executive Women ”Joann Lublin helps unravel the myth of having it all and reminds working moms to embrace the messy realities of work/life balance. It’s a fantastic case study of working women.” — Meg Whitman, former CEO of Quibi, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Hewlett-Packard ”Powerful women aren’t yet powerful enough because they still face obstacles their male counterparts don’t, such as the motherhood pay gap and unequal division of labor in the home. That’s both unfair and costly, not only to the individual women who suffer unjustly but also to families, communities, businesses, and society. Thanks to Joann Lublin for her gripping account of the real lives of today’s executive mothers and her practical recommendations for our movement to an egalitarian world.” — Stewart D. Friedman, Professor Emeritus of Management Practice, University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, and author of the bestsellers Total Leadership and Leading the Life You Want and co-author of Parents Who Lead “Power Moms is a must read for the next generation of business leaders and working moms and moms-to-be. Yes, the world has changed for young women balancing motherhood and business. But Power Moms illustrates how much further we have to go so that women and men can raise their children well while carving out successful careers.” — Abbe Raven, former CEO and acting chairman, A+E Networks “There is no person better qualified to opine on this subject than Joann Lublin. Through her career at the Wall Street Journal, she has developed an unparalleled understanding of the world of work as seen through the eyes of highly successful women. As a devoted journalist, wife, and mother, she has a deep and visceral understanding of the dance required to raise a family and navigate one’s career journey through that world of work. As a society, we can do better, and Joann helps us see how.” — Doug Conant, founder, ConantLeadership; former CEO, Campbell Soup Company; New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author
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Cengage Learning, Inc Marriage in Culture
Book SynopsisMARRIAGE IN CULTURE is an innovative text that makes accessible to a broad audience the rich insights anthropology provides into the meaning of marriage in different cultures. Marriage practices in the four societies discussed contrast with each other in dramatic ways-from number of spouses to the meaning of postmarital residence arrangements.The author provides compelling ethnographic accounts of the !Kung San (Bushman), Chinese, Iroquois, and Tibetan societies to familiarize students with anthropologists' unique perspective on marriage in culture. Each chapter places marriage within the context of the whole culture, exploring the ways in which different economic, political, family, and gender systems shape the practice and meaning of marriage. The author makes an original contribution by highlighting the importance of postmarital residence in defining different experiences of marriage for husbands and wives in each society.Trade Review1. Marriage as a Cultural Practice. 2. Marriage Among the !Kung San of Southern Africa. 3. Marriage in Traditional Chinese Society. 4. Marriage Among the Historical Iroquois. 5. Marriage Among Tibetans: The Nyinba of Nepal. 6. Epilogue.Table of Contents1. Marriage as a Cultural Practice. 2. Marriage Among the !Kung San of Southern Africa. 3. Marriage in Traditional Chinese Society. 4. Marriage Among the Historical Iroquois. 5. Marriage Among Tibetans: The Nyinba of Nepal. 6. Epilogue.
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University of Chicago Press General Education in the Social Sciences
Book SynopsisHigher education's most vibrant and contentious issues--common and specialized learning in the curriculum, conceptions of general and liberal education, the design of common core sequences, the merits of classic texts and contemporary research, Western and non-Western course materials, the place of undergraduate teaching in scholarly careers--have for decades been debated by the faculty of the College of the University of Chicago. At the College, they have become embodied in educational programs of sufficient historical depth to reveal patterns of intellectual and pedagogical continuity amidst changing social and institutional circumstances. Social Science 2 holds the place of honor among these educational projects. For more than half a century, Soc 2 has been one of the most influential courses in American undergraduate education. This unique, year-long course, the oldest and most distinguished of its kind at any American university, has served as an ongoing experiment in how the social sciences can be taught and learned in the general education context. In this collection John MacAloon has gathered essays by fourteen eminent social scientists--such as David Riesman, Michael Schudson, and F. Champion Ward--who as either teachers or students were profoundly shaped by Soc 2. Their multifarious and selective memories--full of dissonances and harmonies of recollection, judgment, and voice--create a compelling biography of a course and a college that have survived tumultous change through sustained and committed argument. This book will be of great interest to anyone interested not only in the theory but the practice of higher education.
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University of Chicago Press General Education in the Social Sciences
Book SynopsisHigher education's most vibrant and contentious issuescommon and specialized learning in the curriculum, conceptions of general and liberal education, the design of common core sequences, the merits of classic texts and contemporary research, Western and non-Western course materials, the place of undergraduate teaching in scholarly careershave for decades been debated by the faculty of the College of the University of Chicago. At the College, they have become embodied in educational programs of sufficient historical depth to reveal patterns of intellectual and pedagogical continuity amidst changing social and institutional circumstances. Social Science 2 holds the place of honor among these educational projects. For more than half a century, Soc 2 has been one of the most influential courses in American undergraduate education. This unique, year-long course, the oldest and most distinguished of its kind at any American university, has served as an ongoing experiment in how the social sciences can be taught and learned in the general education context. In this collection John MacAloon has gathered essays by fourteen eminent social scientistssuch as David Riesman, Michael Schudson, and F. Champion Wardwho as either teachers or students were profoundly shaped by Soc 2. Their multifarious and selective memoriesfull of dissonances and harmonies of recollection, judgment, and voicecreate a compelling biography of a course and a college that have survived tumultous change through sustained and committed argument. This book will be of great interest to anyone interested not only in the theory but the practice of higher education.
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Random House USA Inc Active Liberty
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Random House USA Inc The Knot Bridesmaid Handbook Help the Bride Shine
Book SynopsisWill you be my bridesmaid?Now that you've said Yes!, a whole world of joys--and jobs--awaits. The Knot, the #1 source for wedding information, has created this book to help you become a brilliant bridesmaid—which also means a brilliant therapist, communications coordinator, stylist, and bodyguard to the bride.You'll get the real deal on:The duties: What you need to do in the months leading up to the big celebration, and on the big dayThe parties: How to throw a fab bachelorette and a shower the bride will always rememberThe dress: How to magically ensure you'll love it as much as the bride doesThe other gals: How to deal with the best and worst from your fellow maidsSprinkled throughout are tons of bonus pointers on how not to break the bank and the lowdown from real-life bridesmaids before you, and their hilarious or horrifying anecdotes of brazen brides and bridesmaids behaving badly.
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Random House USA Inc Brooklyn Zoo
Book SynopsisIn her eye-opening, ruthlessly honest account, Darcy Lockman shares the stress, frustratation, and exhilaration of her clinical training as a psychologist in the midst of institutional dysfunction at Brooklyn’s Kings County Hospital. After leaving her career in magazine journalism to become a psychotherapist, Darcy Lockman confronted a slew of challenges including numerous troubling cases, struggles to provide the poor and chronically ill with adequate care, and the general and sometimes humorous indignities of being a trainee in any field. This compelling memoir will by turns deeply move, shock, and enrage you. Hope is not lost though, and Brooklyn Zoo introduces us to the many smart people currently trying to fix the mental health-care system, enhancing our understanding of what psychologists can make possible through their work.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Sins of Fathers
Book Synopsis‘Michael is living proof that love always has the power to bring you home.’ Charlie Mackesy‘A cracking read. Really gets to the bottom of the madness of a man fighting his demons.’ Ray Winstone‘His life may have had its ups and downs, but it is wonderful example of God’s transforming power.’ Nicky Gumbel, Vicar of HTB & pioneer of ALPHA‘Take it from me, Michael got up to some mischief. And to find some peace at the end of it all! You really need to hear this story.’ Former London Crime Boss Growing up, Michael wanted nothing more than to follow in his dad’s footsteps and join the family business. Aged 18, he did just that and entered into the glamourous, dangerous world of organised crime.Michael’s father, a career criminal and contemporary of the infamous Krays, was a wayward role model. Soon Michael&rsqTrade Review'A cracking read. Really gets to the bottom of the madness of a man fighting his demons.' * Ray Winstone *'Having been on the journey with him since he left prison, I can honestly say he is the real deal and I am in awe of his desire to be a better man.' * Paul Cowley MBE *'His life may have had its ups and downs, but it is wonderful example of God's transforming power.' * Nicky Gumbel, Vicar of HTB & pioneer of ALPHA *'Michael has battled the darkest nights and the fiercest storms. Somehow he has come through it with strength and kindness and humility. What a journey. What a story.' * Jaime Haith *'Michael is living proof that love always has the power to bring you home.' * Charlie Macksey *'Owen Sins of the Fathers' is both gut-wrenching and heart-warming. Michael Emmett is searingly honest and incredibly vulnerable in telling his story.' * Rev. Canon Mike Pilavachi MBE *'Owen uses his years of experience as a therapist to help us look at our lives and happiness in a clear and practical way. A brilliant book of intelligent advice and detailed case studies that encourages reflection and positive change.' * Paul Anderson, Actor Peaky Blinders and The Revenant *'Take it from me, Michael got up to some mischief. And to find some peace at the end of it all! You really need to hear this story.' * Former London Crime Boss *
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Diversified Publishing Chicago Tribune Daily Crossword Omnibus 300
Book SynopsisLook what just blew in from Chicago! It's 300 daily-size puzzles from the pages of the Chicago Tribune, edited by Wayne Robert Williams. These manageable daily-size puzzles are easy to enjoy anywhere, whether commuting to work or waiting for an appointment. • 300 puzzles for the same $12.95 as our 200-puzzle omnibus editions• Not too easy, but not too hard• Wayne Robert Williams expertly edits all the Chicago Tribune puzzles
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Basic Books Spheres Of Justice A Defense of Pluralism and
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Cultural Conservatism Political Liberalism
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis well-wrought, well-researched book tackles one of the major academic battles of our times, the culture wars. . . . It endorses a tradition going back to Samuel Johnson and Matthew Arnold. It denounces, or at least criticizes, 'contemporary cultural leftists' such as Richard Rorty, Fredric Jameson, Edward Said, and Stanley Fish--all of whom agree that the past is not a corrective to the present but a source of error. The error, Seaton argues, is theirs. . . . Seaton's book . . . argues well for that 'sense of wonder' which is, by anyone's measurement, our priceless heritage and hope."--Roanoke Times & World News"This wonderful book defends a tradition of American cultural self-criticism that includes Irving Babbitt, H. L. Mencken, Dwight McDonald, the Trillings, Edmund Wilson, and Ralph Ellison from famous and formidable contemporary opponents. Seaton takes on Richard Rorty's pragmatism, the cultural radicalism of Leslie Fielder and Susan Sontag, the trendy academic cultural studies movement of Frederic Jameson, Edward Said, and Stanley Fish, and the cultural conservatism of E. D. Hirsch and Allan Bloom. . . . This book, above all, is a criticism of the pretensions of American romantic idealism, the desire to liberate the self from all constraints for its natural innocence. Because such liberation is really impossible, all that disappears is what is required for genuine self-scrutiny and self-restraint. The pursuit of the innocent self produces the imperial self and the deranged self. . . . Seaton is a most reasonable, sensible, courageous, instructive, and witty liberal, and we should count him among our most helpful friends."--University Bookman
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Arcadia Books Mooresville Images of America
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Johns Hopkins University Press John Nolen and Mariemont Building a New Town in
Book SynopsisRegarded in the 1920s as an exemplar of planned communities, Mariemont remains one of America's most livable suburbs and has drawn great interest from the New Urbanism movement.Trade ReviewObligatory reading for residents past and present. -- Rob Stout Cincinnati Enquirer Rogers delved into the rich cache of materials found in the John Nolen Papers to produce the definitive history of an American new town... An exemplary book that will appeal to practictioners as well as historians. -- Bruce Stephenson H-Urban, H-Net Reviews For many practicing planners and academics, planning history may seem distant from current challenges and an unlikely source for workable planning concepts. In fact, we can learn much from studying important exemplars from the past. Nolen's work has been overdue for reexamination. John Nolen and Mariemont deserves a wide audience because it offers insights about the difficulty of creating a well-designed mixed-use community from scratch. -- Cliff Ellis Journal of the American Planning Association I consider Rogers's well-written and usefully illustrated book the best assessment so far of the development of any American planned new town in the twentieth century. Anyone interested in community development will want to read this book. -- John Hancock Business History Review Rogers reconstructs Mariemont's planning and construction from 1920 to 1925... The value of this study to architectural and planning historians lies in the precision of the chronology. -- Mary Corbin Sies Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 2003 Mariemont stands out as a real gem, and this well-written, thoughtful book gives the town and its planners the exposure they deserve. -- Joseph L. Arnold Journal of American History 2004 A strong element of connoisseurship pervades the book, especially in the assessments of Mariemont's architectural and planning elements. With a fluid writing style supported by a considerable number of illustrations, Rogers offers the reader a guided tour of Mariemont's early residential, commercial, and public buildings. -- Bradley Cross Urban History Review / Revue d'histoire urbaine 2004Table of ContentsContents: Preface and Acknowledgments Chapter 1: New Town, New Concept Chapter 2: Nolen's Town Plan Unfolds Chapter 3: This Is to Be a Model Town Chapter 4: Work Begins Chapter 5: Architects and Buildings Chapter 6: Year of Progress Chapter 7: The Curtain Drops Chapter 8: Emery, Nolen, and Livingood Chapter 9: Was Mariemont the National Exemplar? Appendix: Mariemont Site Landowners and Acreage in 1924 Notes Bibliography Photograph Credits Index
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Hoover Institution Press,U.S. Eyes Ears and Daggers Special Operations Forces
Book SynopsisBoth the Special Operations Forces (SOF) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have served as the nation's eyes, ears, and daggers, often in close cooperation but occasionally at cross-purposes. In this book, Thomas H. Henriksen examines the warrior-spy connection both before and after the formation of the SOF and the CIA.Trade ReviewEyes, Ears, and Daggers is arguably the best book on the relationship of the modern Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Special Operations Forces (SOF). From the American Revolution to the Office of Strategic Services and the subsequent birth of the CIA and the SOF, the relationship among intelligence, paramilitary, psychological operations, the SOF, and the broader Special Operations community can be summed up as yin and yang, constantly adjusting, rebalancing, and ebbing and flowing with the good and the bad. When it has counted, the CIA's resources, relationships, and authorities, combined with the SOF capabilities and capacity, have provided our nation with exquisite tactical actions that have achieved decisive and often strategic effects. Thomas Henriksen's well-researched work, using analyses based on open-source and published works, will serve students, researchers, and the public, providing an understanding of the unique and incredible relationship between two of our nation's most important organizations: the CIA and the SOF." — David S. Maxwell (colonel, ret., US Army Special Forces), associate director, Center for Security Studies, Georgetown University "This clearly written account of the evolution of the working relationship between irregular US military units and the paramilitary activities of the Central Intelligence Agency(CIA) is exciting and important. Henriksen's compelling analysis is that cooperation between Special Operation forces and the CIA is necessary in today's struggle against the large terrorist organizations, Al Qaeda and ISIS, that are operating in many countries of the Islamic world." — John Deutch, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency and deputy secretary of defense "Eyes, Ears, and Daggers is a primer on what makes our Special Operations Forces so special. Henriksen shows how the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)'s inability to provide the intelligence essential to the military forces' operation has caused the Pentagon to develop its own intelligence, how the CIA pushed back, and how battlefield necessity has been key to mastering bureaucratic rivalries. This book teaches the cautionary lesson that the skills and bravery of frontline operators are hostage to high officials' proper focus on the mission to be accomplished. It should be read by all who count on our special forces in the fight against terrorism." — Angelo Codevilla, professor emeritus of international relations at Boston University
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Cengage Learning, Inc Family Assessment Handbook
Book SynopsisFAMILY ASSESSMENT HANDBOOK: AN INTRODUCTION AND PRACTICAL GUIDE TO FAMILY ASSESSMENT, Fourth Edition, is a helpful book for readers preparing for a career working with families or who want to increase their knowledge of family sociology. With a focus on how to conduct a family assessment for case intervention, this practical guide offers a step-by-step approach to family practice. Fascinating family case studies demonstrate the process of assessment and selected interventions for working with diverse families. The Fourth Edition includes numerous resources to help readers develop evidence-based practice competencies, attitudes, and skills that support assessment of diverse family systems.Table of ContentsPart I: INTRODUCING FAMILY ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION. 1. Family Contexts. 2. A Framework for Understanding Families. 3. The Family System. 4. Core Tasks of Family Assessment. 5. Setting Goals and Selecting Family Interventions. Part II: EFFECTIVE FAMILY STRENGTHENING INTERVENTIONS: FAMILIES COPING WITH DIFFICULT LIFE STRESSORS. ????? 6. Standardized Measures. 7. Common Practice Approaches to Family Practice. 8. Families, Life Stressors, and Older Adults. 9. Evidence-Based Interventions for Strong Families. Part III: THE ROLE OF REFLECTIONS AND DISCLOSURE WRITING SKILLS FOR ENGAGING WITH FAMILIES. 10. Reflective Thinking and Reflective Writing. 11. Getting Connected With Your Own Family Systems.��� Part IV: PRACTICING FAMILY ASSESSMENT THROUGH CASE STUDIES. 12. Sharon and Her Family. 13. The Foxx Family: Physical Abuse, Aggression, and Parent/Child Management. 14. The Fernandez Family: Supporting an Older Adult.��� 15. The Del Sol Family: Marital Conflict and Parenting Concerns. 16. The McCoy Family: Coping with Role Change after a Mother's Death. 17. The Jacques Family: Assessment and Intervention in Intimate Partner Violence. 18. Brief Case Studies: Brittany and Her Family, Melissa and Her Family, Jeanine and Her Family. Appendix A: Checklist of Ethical Concerns. Appendix B: Contract for Goals and Service. Or, Sample Assessment and Plan for Service ?? noted in manuscript of final preface, dated 8-11-14? Appendix C: Assessment Report. Or, ���Sample Assessment Reports��� as noted in final preface (manuscript)? References.��� Index.
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Cengage Learning, Inc Promoting Community Change Making It Happen in
Book SynopsisPROMOTING COMMUNITY CHANGE, 6th Edition addresses the real-world issues facing professionals in social work, human services, and community health--and gives readers the skills and information they need to be effective agents of change at the community level. By emphasizing the role a strengthened community can play in preventing and solving the problems commonly experienced by individuals and families, the author gives readers the tools they need to improve the lives of individual clients as well as entire communities.Table of ContentsPreface. Part I: RESPONDING TO THE NEED FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE. 1. Understanding the Challenge to Change. 2. Theoretical Frameworks for Community Change. 3. Relating Community Change to Professional Practice. 4. Putting Yourself in the Picture. Part II: PUTTING THE PIECES TOGETHER. 5. Knowing Your Community. 6. People--The Most Valuable Resource. 7. Power. 8. Powerful Planning. 9. Raising Other Resources. 10. Getting the Word Out. 11. Building the Organized Effort. 12. Taking Action-Strategies and Tactics. Part III: A CLOSER LOOK AT TYPICAL CHANGE CONTEXTS. 13. Enhancing the Quality of Neighborhoods. 14. Increasing the Effectiveness of Health and Human Services Organizations. 15. Lobbying for Change. References. Index.
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Cengage Learning, Inc Archaeology
Book SynopsisThe seventh edition of ARCHAEOLOGY reflects the most recent research and changes in the field, while making core concepts easy to understand through an engaging writing style, personalized examples, and high-interest topics. This text pairs two of archaeology's most recognized names, Robert L. Kelly and David Hurst Thomas, who together have over 75 years of experience leading excavations.Table of Contents1. Meet Some Real Archaeologists. 2. The Structure of Archaeological Inquiry. 3. Doing Fieldwork: Surveying for Archaeological Sites. 4. Doing Fieldwork: Why Archaeologists Dig Square Holes. 5. Geoarchaeology and Site Formation Processes. 6. Chronology Building: How to Get a Date. 7. The Dimensions of Archaeology: Time, Space, and Form. 8. Taphonomy, Experimental Archaeology, and Ethnoarchaeology. 9. People, Plants, and Animals in the Past. 10. Bioarchaeological Approaches to the Past. 11. Reconstructing Social and Political Systems of the Past. 12. The Archaeology of the Mind. 13. Understanding Key Transitions in World Prehistory. 14. Historical Archaeology: Insights on American History. 15. Caring for Our Cultural Heritage. 16. Archaeology's Future. Glossary. Bibliography. Photo Credits. Index.
£187.72
Hampton Press Seductive Aesthetics of Postcolonialism (Critical
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Other Press LLC An Apple A Day: The Myths, Misconceptions, and
Book SynopsisEat salmon. It’s full of good omega-3 fats. Don’t eat salmon. It’s full of PCBs and mercury. Eat more veggies. They’re full of good antioxidants. Don’t eat more veggies. The pesticides will give you cancer. Forget your dinner jacket and put on your lab coat: you have to be a nutritional scientist these days before you sit down to eat—which is why we need Dr. Joe Schwarcz, the expert in connecting chemistry to everyday life. In An Apple a Day, he’s taken his thorough knowledge of food chemistry, applied it to today’s top food fears, trends, and questions, and leavened it with his trademark lighthearted approach. The result is both an entertaining revelation of the miracles of science happening in our bodies every time we bite into a morsel of food, and a telling exploration of the myths, claims, and misconceptions surrounding our obsession with diets, nutrition, and weight.Looking first at how food affects our health, Dr. Joe examines what’s in tomatoes, soy, and broccoli that can keep us healthy and how the hundreds of compounds in a single food react when they hit our bodies. Then he investigates how we manipulate our food supply, delving into the science of food additives and what benefits we might realize from adding bacteria to certain foods. He clears up the confusion about contaminants, examining everything from pesticide residues, remnants of antibiotics, the dreaded trans fats, and chemicals that may leach from cookware. And he takes a studied look at the science of calories and weighs in on popular diets.
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Lantern Books,US An Unnatural Order: The Roots of Our Destruction
Book SynopsisIn 1993, Jim Mason, journalist, advocate, and pioneering figure in the contemporary animal advocacy movement, published An Unnatural Order - a sweeping overview of the origins of our hatred and destruction of the natural world and its creatures, from the dawn of agriculture to the present day. Now fully revised and updated to reflect developments in paleoanthropology and ethology, as well as greater awareness of, and urgency towards, the issue of the climate crisis, AN UNNATURAL ORDER offers an expansive overview of what has changed (both for good and for ill) and what has unfortunately remained the same.His message is clear: until we grapple with the question of the animal, and our relationship with animality and the natural world, we will not be able to face the realities of our perpetuation of environmental destruction, biodiversity collapse, and our alienation from the Earth and one another. As brilliantly polemical and richly descriptive as it was when it was published almost three decades ago, this new version of AN UNNATURAL ORDER is sure to excite a passionate debate about our role in either saving the ecosystems upon which all species (including our own) rely, or bringing it all to an end.
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Pitchstone Publishing Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made
Book SynopsisWall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller!Times, Sunday Times, and Financial Times Book-of-the-Year Selection! Have you heard that language is violence and that science is sexist? Have you read that certain people shouldn't practice yoga or cook Chinese food? Or been told that being obese is healthy, that there is no such thing as biological sex, or that only white people can be racist? Are you confused by these ideas, and do you wonder how they have managed so quickly to challenge the very logic of Western society?In this probing and intrepid volume, Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay document the evolution of the dogma that informs these ideas, from its coarse origins in French postmodernism to its refinement within activist academic fields. Today this dogma is recognizable as much by its effects, such as cancel culture and social-media dogpiles, as by its tenets, which are all too often embraced as axiomatic in mainstream media: knowledge is a social construct; science and reason are tools of oppression; all human interactions are sites of oppressive power play; and language is dangerous. As Pluckrose and Lindsay warn, the unchecked proliferation of these anti-Enlightenment beliefs present a threat not only to liberal democracy but also to modernity itself.While acknowledging the need to challenge the complacency of those who think a just society has been fully achieved, Pluckrose and Lindsay break down how this often-radical activist scholarship does far more harm than good, not least to those marginalized communities it claims to champion. They also detail its alarmingly inconsistent and illiberal ethics. Only through a proper understanding of the evolution of these ideas, they conclude, can those who value science, reason, and consistently liberal ethics successfully challenge this harmful and authoritarian orthodoxy—in the academy, in culture, and beyond.Trade Review"Many people are nonplussed by the surge of wokery, social justice warfare, intersectionality, and identity politics that has spilled out of academia and inundated other spheres of life. Where did it come from? What ideas are behind it? This book exposes the surprisingly shallow intellectual roots of the movements that appear to be engulfing our culture." Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of Enlightenment Now" Cynical Theories is a brilliant book, offering an incisive and much needed critique of the cult of social justice. The authors painstakingly trace its origins in postmodernism and, in doing so, expose the ways in which a once fashionable coterie of theorists infiltrated the mainstream with catastrophic consequences for liberalism, equality, and free speech." Andrew Doyle, creator of Titania McGrath"In this important and timely book, Pluckrose and Lindsay trace the intellectual origins of today's Social Justice crusaders. With clear prose and a fair-minded spirit, they argue forcefully that struggles for social justice are strongest when they are founded on respect for evidence, reason, and free and open debate. They deplore the harm that closed-minded Social Justice ideologues are doing to the cause of social justice (lower-case), and they offer practical strategies for doing better." Alan Sokal, Professor of Mathematics, University College London, and coauthor of Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science
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Canongate Books Ltd When They Call You a Terrorist A Black Lives
Book SynopsisWhen They Call You a Terrorist is the emotional and powerful story of one of the co-founders of Black Lives Matter and how the movement was born
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Spinifex Press The Spinster and Her Enemies: Feminism and
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Bohlau Verlag Gesellschaftspsychologie Einer Revolution: Die
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Verlag Herder Unberechenbar: Das Leben Ist Mehr ALS Eine
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